Teaser Tuesday 10/12/13

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!

This week my current read is The Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns.

Random page I turned to was 316.

1) ""Excuse me," Alex said to one of the guards.  "Is this where Cinderella's stepmother lives?"

2) "One of the higher windows was open and she saw white drapes flicker inside- someone was watching them from the house."

Buddy Read LIVE DISCUSSION: The 100 by Kass Morgan

November 2013 Reading Wrap Up

Crash into You by Katie McGarry

ARC Received for review                                           

Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: MIRA Ink (20 Dec 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1848452543

From acclaimed author Katie McGarry comes an explosive new tale of a good girl with a reckless streak, a street-smart guy with nothing to lose, and a romance forged in the fast lane

The girl with straight As, designer clothes and the perfect life-that's who people expect Rachel Young to be. So the private-school junior keeps secrets from her wealthy parents and overbearing brothers...and she's just added two more to the list. One involves racing strangers down dark country roads in her Mustang GT. The other? Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Walker-a guy she has no business even talking to. But when the foster kid with the tattoos and intense gray eyes comes to her rescue, she can't get him out of her mind.

Isaiah has secrets, too. About where he lives, and how he really feels about Rachel. The last thing he needs is to get tangled up with a rich girl who wants to slum it on the south side for kicks-no matter how angelic she might look.

But when their shared love of street racing puts both their lives in jeopardy, they have six weeks to come up with a way out. Six weeks to discover just how far they'll go to save each other.

Cover:  When I first saw this cover, I liked it, but I didn't think it matched the image of Isaiah that I had in my head (where's the pierced ears?!?!?!) but it has grown on me.

Where do I start with this one?
Katie McGarry can do nothing wrong.
Pushing The Limits was a highlight of 2012 for me.  I read Dare You To earlier this year, and so was sooo excited to get to read Crash Into You.  As soon as it arrived for review (October) I knew I couldn't wait until December to read it.  So I read it straight away.
I flew through this!  I couldn't put it down. 474 pages went by so fast, and I could have kept turning pages forever.
Oh Isaiah how I love you.  
Isaiah uses his tattoos and piercing to throw out the 'don't mess with me' vibe, after struggling in the foster care system.  I really liked the bond between him, Noah and Beth that we see in the other books, so I was so excited for the focus to be on Isaiah.
Rachel feels smothered by her over protective family and struggles to live up to the example left by her dead sister.
The chemistry between Isaiah and Rachel was amazing.  I totally loved them as a couple.  Their romance was so sweet.  Isaiah's protective streak makes him so adorable.
I really enjoyed the cars element.  How it brought two seemingly opposite people together.
Highly recommend this, as well as the previous books by Katie McGarry- she can do nothing wrong.  One of my favourite authors.
5/5 stars without a doubt!

W...W...W...Wednesdays 04/12/13

To play along, just answer the following 3 questions…

• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?

This week I'm currently reading Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier.

 

I recently finished The Way You Look Tonight by Bella Andre, really enjoyed it.

 

 

I think the book that I will read next will be The Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns by Chris Colfer, because it is the Buddy Read choice for December.

 



Teaser Tuesday 03/12/13

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!

This week my current read is Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier.   

The random page I opened up was 374.

1) But when I limped over to the doorway, he ws standing silent at the foot of the steps, one hand flat against the wall, his forehead on the cold stones next to it, and his other fist pressed against his mouth so hard the knuckles showed white.

 

2)My spirit was heavy and my heart sick.

 

 

Challenging Zed (Benedicts 1.5) by Joss Stirling

Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 169 KB
Print Length: 32 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press (14 Feb 2013)
Benedicts #1.5


 Want to be the first to find out what Zed was thinking when he met Sky? Fancy finding out what Zed was like at nine?

Cover:  Well...there's not really a cover to comment on.


I really enjoyed the book Finding Sky, loved the romace between Sky and Zed, so when I found there was a short story of when Zed found out Sky was his soulfiner, I was so excited.  I fell in love with him in Finding Sky so to get his POV should have been perfect.  And I did like what we got of it- but there just wasn't anything there.  It's only 32 pages- and him finding out about sky was literally the last two pages.  I was looking forward to seeing his reaction, his feelings when he finds out Sky doesn't know about the world of savants and soulfinders or her ability.  But we didn't actually get any of that.
Over all it was just a little something of nothing.  I'd rather we'd seen more of Sky and Zed.
2.5/5 stars.