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

YA Historical Fiction Challenge

I was looking for challenges that I could join and happened to come across this one hosted by YA Bliss. I used to love historical fiction last year but for some reason I haven't been reading a lot from this genre recently.


Level 1: 5 YA HF books in 2011


Here is my list:
Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
The Luxe by Anna Godbersen

Review: Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there.

But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to be pretty. She'd rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world -- and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. The choice Tally makes changes her world forever.

 I was always interested in this book but never actually read it for some reason but I finally got around to reading it. Tally, the main character is about to turn sixteen and can't wait to get herself pretty. Her best friend Peris already got his operation done and now lives in Prettyville while Tally is left feeling lonely in Uglyville. She decides to see Peris and sneaks to Prettyville. While there she also meets another Ugly named Shay. The two become friends and coincidentally have the same birthday. Tally is joyed since one of them doesn't have to leave behind the other. A few days before their birthday Shay talks with Tally about running away to the Smoke. Tally refuses to go with her since she wanted to become pretty. The specials notice and gives Tally the option to stay ugly her whole life or betray her friend and bring her back. Of course Tally decides to go to the Smoke and the story picks up from there. 

The story itself was very predictable. I kept reading and waited for a big twist or surprise but sadly there was none. The characters were okay. I didn't love them but I didn't hate them either. They were just....there. At some parts they were really stupid and annoying to the point were I wanted to punch them. There is a bit of romance but I didn't really like it much either. It was very flat and didn't grow in my opinion. It does have a good message and theme. Overall I did like it enough to continue reading the series but I am in no rush to pick up the second book. I give this book a 3 out of 5.