In My Mailbox (3)

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Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

Divergent by Veronica Roth

The Splendor Falls by Rosemary Clement-Moore

Hereafter by Tara Hudson

I know I haven't been posting since forever. I'm just going through a reading slump. I am currently reading Anna and the French Kiss. It's helping me to get reading again.

I went to the bookstore and they had Divergent, in paperback! Yay! I love paperbacks. (;

Once Upon a Read-a-Thon

I am reading Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce and am about only halfway through. After I finish this book I will be reading Outside In by Maria V. Snyder.

In My Mailbox (2)

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I bought a pretty good amount of books this week. Most of them were really cheap so I couldn't resist the temptation of buying them. I should really stop buying books, but that's impossible for me to do.

Generation Dead by Daniel Waters

The Luxe by Anna Godbersen

Rumors by Anna Godbersen

Envy by Anna Godbersen

Need by Carrie Jones

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Review: The Dark Divine

A Prodigal Son

A Dangerous Love

A Deadly Secret 

Grace Divine—daughter of the local pastor—always knew something terrible happened the night Daniel Kalbi disappeared and her brother Jude came home covered in his own blood. 

Now that Daniel's returned, Grace must choose between her growing attraction to him and her loyalty to her brother. 

As Grace gets closer to Daniel, she learns the truth about that mysterious night and how to save the ones she loves, but it might cost her the one thing she cherishes most: her soul.




I somewhat enjoyed this book. I found that this was one of those typical YA Paranormal books, e.g. there's a mysterious guy, girl starts to like him, guy tries to push her away saying he's dangerous, girl doesn't care and they eventually fall in love. The beginning didn't keep me very interested. It kept me reading but I didn't really find myself wanting to pick it up again. I think part of the reason why is the writing style. The writing style is more on the juvenile side. I'm not sure if the author did that on purpose since the main character is a teen. 
The character development was good. I know people that have similar traits. I really fell in love with Daniel and his sarcasm. I love sarcastic people. I really loved Daniels last name, Kalbi. Reason why? Kalbi is grilled meat in Korea. I couldn't help giggle when I found out about his last name and it made me crave for kalbi.
Halfway through the book was when it started to pick up a bit. Some strange things started to happen. A lot of things where going on and I couldn't really tell what was going to happen and what was actually going on. The ending left me really curious and wanting to read the next book, The Lost Saint.


Rating: 4/5
Released: December 2009
Publisher: EgmontUSA
Format: Harcover; 372pp

Teaser Tuesday (1)

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. 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
• 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!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Now our hearts only link when we're hunting, when Scarlett looks at me with a sort of beautiful excitement that's more powerful than her scars and then her tears after a Fenris as though her life depends on its death. I follow, always, because it's the only time when our hearts beat in perfect harmony, the only time when I'm certain, beyond a shadow of doubt, that we are one person broken on two.

                 Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce

In My Mailbox (1)

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I bought 3 books this week.

Lost Voices by Sarah Porter

Slice of Cherry by Dia Reeves

Outside In by Maria V. Snyder

Review: Beauty Queens by Libba Bray

The fifty contestants in the Miss Teen Dream pageant thought this was going to be a fun trip to the beach, where they could parade in their state-appropriate costumes and compete in front of the cameras. But sadly, their airplane had another idea crashing on a desert island and leaving the survivors stranded with little food, little water, and practically no eyeliner. 

What's a beauty queen to do? Continue to practice for the talent portion of the program--or wrestle snakes to the ground? Get a perfect tan--or learn to run wild? And what should happen when the sexy pirates show up? 

Welcome to the heart of non-exfoliated darkness. Your tour guide? None other than Libba Bray, the hilarious, sensational, Printz Award-winning author of A Great and Terrible Beauty and Going Bovine. The result is a novel that will make you laugh, make you think, and make you never see beauty the same way again.


I decided to check this book out because of the cover. It interested me since I could already get a sense of what this book was going to be about: beauty queens surviving. It sounded interesting so I bought it. I really enjoyed this book, it was very amusing and cute. The humor in this is very different from what I would normally enjoy. I think it's a very sarcastic type of humor with a bit of mockery. There were a lot of shocking moments and twists. Some people would say it was overdone and that made it  frustrating and annoying. Personally, I think it was purposely done that way to add more to the humor. While I enjoyed this book, there were times when it was slow or the characters annoyed me. It was a very light read and while it wasn't amazing it still kept me interested. 


Rating: 4/5
Released: June 2011
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover; 400 pages