Tuesday, January 31, 2012

NEW RELEASES FOR TODAY!!! (1/31/12)

More books to read!


Another dystopian novel.

TITLE: Article 5
AUTHOR: Kristen Simmons

Synopsis:
New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., have been abandoned.

The Bill of Rights has been revoked, and replaced with the Moral Statutes.

There are no more police—instead, there are soldiers. There are no more fines for bad behavior—instead, there are arrests, trials, and maybe worse. People who get arrested usually don't come back.

Seventeen-year-old Ember Miller is old enough to remember that things weren’t always this way. Living with her rebellious single mother, it’s hard for her to forget that people weren’t always arrested for reading the wrong books or staying out after dark. It’s hard to forget that life in the United States used to be different.

Ember has perfected the art of keeping a low profile. She knows how to get the things she needs, like food stamps and hand-me-down clothes, and how to pass the random home inspections by the military. Her life is as close to peaceful as circumstances allow.

That is, until her mother is arrested for noncompliance with Article 5 of the Moral Statutes. And one of the arresting officers is none other than Chase Jennings…the only boy Ember has ever loved.



I just love this cover!

TITLE: Incarnate (Newsoul #1)
AUTHOR: Jodie Meadows

Synopsis:
NEWSOUL
Ana is new. For thousands of years in Range, a million souls have been reincarnated over and over, keeping their memories and experiences from previous lifetimes. When Ana was born, another soul vanished, and no one knows why.

NOSOUL
Even Ana’s own mother thinks she’s a nosoul, an omen of worse things to come, and has kept her away from society. To escape her seclusion and learn whether she’ll be reincarnated, Ana travels to the city of Heart, but its citizens are suspicious and afraid of what her presence means. When dragons and sylph attack the city, is Ana to blame?

HEART
Sam believes Ana’s new soul is good and worthwhile. When he stands up for her, their relationship blooms. But can he love someone who may live only once, and will Ana’s enemies—human and creature alike—let them be together? Ana needs to uncover the mistake that gave her someone else’s life, but will her quest threaten the peace of Heart and destroy the promise of reincarnation for all?

Jodi Meadows expertly weaves soul-deep romance, fantasy, and danger into an extraordinary tale of new life.




TITLE: Wings of the Wicked (ANGELFIRE # 2)
AUTHOR: Courtney Allison Moulton


Synopsis:
Life as the Preliator is harder than Ellie ever imagined.
Balancing real life with the responsibility of being Heaven’s warrior is a challenge for Ellie. Her relationship with Will has become all business, though they both long for each other. And now that the secret of who she really is has come out, so have Hell’s strongest reapers. Grown bold and more vicious, the demonic threaten her in the light of day and stalk her in the night.

She’s been warned.
Cadan, a demonic reaper, comes to her with information about Bastian’s new plan to destroy Ellie’s soul and use an ancient relic to wake all the souls of the damned and unleash them upon humanity. As she fights to stay ahead of Bastian’s schemes , the revelations about those closest to her awaken a dark power within Ellie that threatens to destroy everything—including herself.

She’ll be betrayed.
Treachery comes even from those whom she loves, and Ellie is broken by the deaths of those who stood beside her in this Heavenly war. Still, she must find a way to save the world, herself, and her love for Will. If she fails, there will be hell to pay.




Friday, January 27, 2012

Music Friday


Have i mentioned how much i love bands with female lead vocals before?
The song for today's Music Friday comes from  The Dutch band EPICA
I love  Simone Simons' voice and she has the one of  most beautiful face I've seen! 





I'am inlove with her! 



Whenever i look at her, she reminds me of Cat Crawfield of Night Huntress by Jeaniene Frost. She can actually be in a book cover!

                                                What do you think?
This song reminds me when Sookie's grandma died in the 1st season of TRUE BLOOD.
And when Buffy's mom died!

Song Title: Memory

Lyrics:
Midnight, not a sound from the pavement
Has the moon lost her memory?
She is smiling alone
In the lamplight
The withered leaves collect at my feet
And the wind begins to moan

Memory, all alone in the moonlight
I can smile at the old days
Life was beautiful then
I remember
The time I knew what happiness is
Let the memory live again

Every street lamp
Seems to beat
A fatalistic warning
Someone mutters
And a street lamp gutters
And soon it will be morning

Daylight, I must wait for the sunrise
I must think of a new life
And I mustn't give in
When the dawn comes
Tonight will be a memory too
And a new day will begin

Burnt out ends of smokey days
The stale cold smell of morning
The street lamp dies
Another night is over
Another day is dawning

Touch me, it's so easy to leave me
All alone with my memory
Of my days in the sun
If you touch me
You'll understand what happiness is
Look a new day has begun...


Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Waiting on Wednesday



"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.


TITLE: Insurgent (Divergent # 2)
AUTHOR: Veronica Roth
EXPCTED PUBLICATION: MAY 1st , 2012
SYNOPSIS FROM GOODREADS:

One choice can transform you—or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves—and herself—while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.
Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable—and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships, Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so.


I loved Divergent! So it's no surprise that it's 2nd book is one of my most anticipated books this year!



Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Happy Release day! (1/24/12)

More books to add on my TO-BUY list!
(That's why I can't save!)

TITLE: Fallen In Love
AUTHOR: Lauren Kate
What makes your heart race a little faster? Just in time for Valentine's Day, it's FALLEN IN LOVE, four wholly original new stories collected in a new novel set in the Middle Ages by Lauren Kate. FALLEN IN LOVE gives fans the much-talked about but never-revealed stories of FALLEN characters as they intertwine with the epic love story of Luce and Daniel. The stories include: Love Where You Least Expect It: The Valentine of Shelby and Miles , Love Lessons: The Valentine of Roland; Burning Love: The Valentine of Arriane; and Endless Love: The Valentine of Daniel and Lucinda.

Passion, Fallen's 3rd book is still waiting on my bookshelf to be read. I need inspiration to finish reading it.









TITLE: Everneath
AUTHOR: Brodi Ashton

Synopsis:
Last spring, Nikki Beckett vanished, sucked into an underworld known as the Everneath, where immortals Feed on the emotions of despairing humans. Now she's returned- to her old life, her family, her friends- before being banished back to the underworld... this time forever.

She has six months before the Everneath comes to claim her, six months for good-byes she can't find the words for, six months to find redemption, if it exists.

Nikki longs to spend these months reconnecting with her boyfriend, Jack, the one person she loves more than anything. But there's a problem: Cole, the smoldering immortal who first enticed her to the Everneath, has followed Nikki to the mortal world. And he'll do whatever it takes to bring her back- this time as his queen.

As Nikki's time grows short and her relationships begin slipping from her grasp, she's forced to make the hardest decision of her life: find a way to cheat fate and remain on the Surface with Jack or return to the Everneath and become Cole's...

 Love the cover! I've read a lot of good reviews on this one!










TITLE: Darker After Midnight (Midnight Breed Novel # 10
AUTHOR: Lara Adrian

Synopsis:
In the dark of night, a blood war escalates within the hidden world of the Breed. After existing in secret for many long centuries, maintaining a fragile peace with the humans who walk beside them unaware, a single act of retaliation has put the entire vampire nation at risk of discovery. It falls to the Order—a cadre of Breed warriors pledged to protect their own and humankind alike—to stop Dragos, the power-mad vampire at the center of the conflict, before his push for domination can explode into catastrophe.

At the center of the Order’s quest is Sterling Chase, once a morally rigid enforcer of Breed law, now a warrior fallen from grace, whose biggest battle is the one he wages against his own savage nature. With addiction beckoning him toward eternal darkness, Chase’s path to redemption has never seemed more out of reach. But when his eyes meet those of Tavia Fairchild, a beautiful witness who identifies him at the scene of a mission gone terribly wrong, Chase finds himself drawn to the woman—and convinced she is something much more than she seems.

Pulled into a vortex of intrigue and danger she can neither resist nor understand, Tavia is uncertain whom to trust. And while everything sane and logical warns her against getting close to Chase, she cannot deny that the handsome, deeply haunted male stirs something primal and ravenous within her. But even as she surrenders to her cravings, nothing can prepare her for the shattering truth of who—and what—she truly is.

As the Order’s enemy mobilizes for the battle of the ages, Dragos and his Minions unleashing a hell on Earth like nothing ever seen before, Chase and Tavia are thrust into the heart of the violence. With time running out and the streets running red with the blood of innocent lives, both Breed and human, together Chase and Tavia must find a way to defeat Dragos once and for all—or die trying.

(Just downloaded the sample of this on my Nook)

It's Teaser Tuesday! (01/24/12)

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

My Teaser for today comes from the Witches of East End
Click the image to read the synopsis at Goodreads

They were not alone after all.
Someone had been watching them - someone with the dark hair and glittering, aquamarine eyes of the man who had ravished her only in her mind.

Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

  • Grab your current read
  • Open to a random page
  • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
  • Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
  • BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)



Sunday, January 1, 2012

In My Mailbox #3: December Wrap up edition. A Big Thank you!


In my mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by Kristi at The Story Siren
Each week we share the books that we bought, received, borrowed etc. You can do one week out of the month or every other week it’s up to you.

It has been a busy December for me at work and did some personal stuffs so i haven't read any of these books, haven't stack them properly yet, and i haven't gotten a chance to really say Thank you to the people who sent me some books and stuffs because of busy schedule.
My Bad  T_T 
I'm so sorry!
Here's everything i received this month!
Yeah.. Just stacked them in  box!


I Won:
I won Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins from Mary of  Anxirium


 

I won The Doctor's Mission plus bookmarks by Debbie Kaufman(sent by the Author herself) from I Am A Reader, Not A Writer.

I won the Bridget Liu bookmark made by James Vallesteros from Jean of Jean BookNerd


Gifts Received

from my co-worker
(all hardcovers)
A Beautiful Dark by Jocelyn Davies
Possess by Gretchen McNeil
Witches of East End by Melissa De La Cruz
Always a Witch by Carolyn MacCullough

I also Received as a gift from my boss a Nook Tablet!

(I only use this for watching at Hulu...
Nothing still compares to holding a printed book)


I Bought:

Lord of the Abyss by Nalini Singh
and Covet by J. R. Ward

GC's
And The GC's I've won before (I haven't used them yet!)



I received these GC's prior to blogging!
I also would like to thank  Maven of Darkhaven for the $10.00 GC from B&N.
And Sharonda of Sexxyblogger for the $10.00 GC from B&N and a copy of Monster Story by McCarty Griffin




Thank you to all amazing blogs who keeps participating in the hops! Especially those who makes their giveaways International!!!! 
Looking forward to the year 2012....
More books to read!
I pledge to read the printed words!