BOOK REVIEW: A Court of Thorns and Roses By Sarah J. Maas

Name: A Court of Thorns and Roses (#1)
Author: Sarah J. Maas
Number of Pages: 419
Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's
Date Published: May 5th, 2015
Source: Bought
Rate: ALL THE STARS IN THE WORLD

When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand retribution for it. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin—one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled their world.

As she dwells on his estate, her feelings for Tamlin transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every lie and warning she's been told about the beautiful, dangerous world of the Fae. But an ancient, wicked shadow grows over the faerie lands, and Feyre must find a way to stop it . . . or doom Tamlin—and his world—forever.
Perfect for fans of Kristin Cashore and George R. R. Martin, this first book in a sexy and action-packed new series is impossible to put down!

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BOOK REVIEW : Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson

Name: Kiss of Deception (The Remnant Chronicles #1)
Author: Mary E. Pearson
Number of Pages: 492
Publisher: Henry Holt
Date Published: July 8th, 2014
Source: Bought
Rate: ALL THE STARS IN THE WORLD

A princess must find her place in a reborn world.

She flees on her wedding day.

She steals ancient documents from the Chancellor's secret collection.

She is pursued by bounty hunters sent by her own father.

She is Princess Lia, seventeen, First Daughter of the House of Morrighan.

The Kingdom of Morrighan is steeped in tradition and the stories of a bygone world, but some traditions Lia can't abide. Like having to marry someone she's never met to secure a political alliance.

Fed up and ready for a new life, Lia flees to a distant village on the morning of her wedding. She settles in among the common folk, intrigued when two mysterious and handsome strangers arrive—and unaware that one is the jilted prince and the other an assassin sent to kill her. Deceptions swirl and Lia finds herself on the brink of unlocking perilous secrets—secrets that may unravel her world—even as she feels herself falling in love.

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BOOK REVIEW: The Queen of Zombie Hearts

Name: The Queen of Zombie Hearts
Author: Gena Showalter
Number of Pages: 464
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
Date Published: September 30th, 2014
Source: Gift
Rate: 5/5

We'll either destroy them for good, or they'll destroy us.

Either way, only one of us is walking away.

In the stunning conclusion to the wildly popular White Rabbit Chronicles, Alice "Ali" Bell thinks the worst is behind her. She's ready to take the next step with boyfriend Cole Holland, the leader of the zombie slayers…until Anima Industries, the agency controlling the zombies, launches a sneak attack, killing four of her friends. It's then she realizes that humans can be more dangerous than monsters…and the worst has only begun.

As the surviving slayers prepare for war, Ali discovers she, too, can control the zombies…and she isn't the girl she thought she was. She's connected to the woman responsible for killing—and turning—Cole's mother. How can their relationship endure? As secrets come to light, and more slayers are taken or killed, Ali will fight harder than ever to bring down Anima—even sacrificing her own life for those she loves.

* If you have not read Alice in Zombieland or Through the Zombie Glass yet, I would suggest reading those reviews first before entering this one, as it will contain spoilers to the first two! *

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BOOK REVIEW: Through the Zombie Glass by Gena Showalter

Name: Through the Zombie Glass (The White Rabbit Chronicles #2)
Author: Gena Showalter
Number of Pages: 480
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
Date Published: September 24th, 2013
Source: Bought
Rate: 5/5

Zombies stalk the night. Forget blood and brains. These monsters hunger for human souls. Sadly, they've got mine...
Alice Bell has lost so much. Family. Friends. A home. She thought she had nothing else to give. She was wrong.
After a new zombie attack, strange things begin to happen to her. Mirrors come to life, and the whispers of the dead assault her ears. But the worst? A terrible darkness blooms inside her, urging her to do very wicked things.
She's never needed her team of zombie slayers more, but ultra bad-boy Cole Holland, the leader and her boyfriend, suddenly withdraws from her...from everyone. Now, with her best friend Kat at her side, Ali must kill the zombies, uncover Cole's secret and learn to fight the darkness.
But the clock is ticking...and if she fails at a single task, they're all doomed.
* This will contain spoilers from the first book Alice in Zombieland: Check out my review here*
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BOOK REVIEW: Alice in Zombieland by Gena Showalter

Name: Alice in Zombieland (The White Rabbit Chronicles #1)
Author: Gena Showalter
Number of Pages: 404
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
Date Published: September 25th, 2012
Source: Bought
Rate: 5/5

She won't rest until she's sent every walking corpse back to its grave. Forever.

Had anyone told Alice Bell that her entire life would change course between one heartbeat and the next, she would have laughed. But that's all it takes. One heartbeat. A blink, a breath, a second, and everything she knew and loved was gone.

Her father was right. The monsters are real.

To avenge her family, Ali must learn to fight the undead. To survive, she must learn to trust the baddest of the bad boys, Cole Holland. But Cole has secrets of his own, and if Ali isn't careful, those secrets might just prove to be more dangerous than the zombies.

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BOOK REVIEW: The Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas (Throne of Glass #3)

Name: Heir of Fire (Throne of Glass #3)
Author: Sarah J. Maas
Number of Pages: 562
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA childrens
Date Published: September 2nd, 2014
Source: Bought
Rate: 5/5

 Lost and broken, Celaena Sardothien’s only thought is to avenge the savage death of her dearest friend: as the King of Adarlan’s Assassin, she is bound to serve this tyrant, but he will pay for what he did. Any hope Celaena has of destroying the king lies in answers to be found in Wendlyn. Sacrificing his future, Chaol, the Captain of the King’s Guard, has sent Celaena there to protect her, but her darkest demons lay in that same place. If she can overcome them, she will be Adarlan’s biggest threat – and his own toughest enemy.

While Celaena learns of her true destiny, and the eyes of Erilea are on Wendlyn, a brutal and beastly force is preparing to take to the skies. Will Celaena find the strength not only to win her own battles, but to fight a war that could pit her loyalties to her own people against those she has grown to love?
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BOOK REVIEW: Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire

Name: Beautiful Disaster
Author: Jamie McGuire
Number of Pages: 319
Date Published: May 26th, 2011
Publisher: Jamie McGuire
Source: Bought
Rate: 5/5

The new Abby Abernathy is a good girl. She doesn’t drink or swear, and she has the appropriate number of cardigans in her wardrobe. Abby believes she has enough distance from the darkness of her past, but when she arrives at college with her best friend, her path to a new beginning is quickly challenged by Eastern University's Walking One-Night Stand.

Travis Maddox, lean, cut, and covered in tattoos, is exactly what Abby needs—and wants—to avoid. He spends his nights winning money in a floating fight ring, and his days as the ultimate college campus charmer. Intrigued by Abby’s resistance to his appeal, Travis tricks her into his daily life with a simple bet. If he loses, he must remain abstinent for a month. If Abby loses, she must live in Travis’s apartment for the same amount of time. Either way, Travis has no idea that he has met his match.
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BOOK REVIEW: Tiger's Quest by Colleen Houck

Name: Tiger's Quest (Tiger's Saga #2)
Author: Colleen Houck
Number of Pages: 479
Publisher: Sterling Publishing
Date Published: June 7th, 2011
Source: Review (Bought)
Rate: 5/5

Back in Oregon, Kelsey tries to pick up the pieces of her life and push aside her feelings for Ren. Kelsey Hayes's eighteenth summer was crazy. The kind of crazy nobody would ever believe.

Aside From battling immortal sea monkeys and trekking the jungles of India, she fell in love with Ren, a 300-year-old prince.

When danger suddenly forces Kelsey on another Indian quest, with Ren's bad-boy brother, Kishan,the unlikely duo begins to question their true destiny. Ren's life hangs in the balance--so does the truth within Kelsey's heart.

Tiger's Quest, the thrilling second volume in the Tiger's Curse series, brings the trio one step closer to breaking the ancient prophecy that binds them.
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BOOK REVIEW: Dearly Departed by Lia Habel

Name: Dearly Departed ( Gone with the Respiration #1)
Author: Lia Habel
Number of Pages: 470
Publisher: Del Rey
Date Published: October 18th, 2011
Source: Review (Bought)
Rate: 5/5

Love conquers all, so they say. But can Cupid’s arrow pierce the hearts of the living and the dead - or rather, the undead? Can a proper young Victorian lady find true love in the arms of a dashing zombie?

The year is 2195. The place is New Victoria - a high-tech nation modeled on the manners, mores, and fashions of an antique era. A teenager in high society, Nora Dearly is far more interested in military history and her country’s political unrest than in tea parties and debutante balls. But after her beloved parents die, Nora is left at the mercy of her domineering aunt, a social-climbing spendthrift who has squandered the family fortune and now plans to marry her niece off for money. For Nora, no fate could be more horrible - until she’s nearly kidnapped by an army of walking corpses.

But fate is just getting started with Nora. Catapulted from her world of drawing-room civility, she’s suddenly gunning down ravenous zombies alongside mysterious black-clad commandos and confronting “The Laz,” a fatal virus that raises the dead - and hell along with them. Hardly ideal circumstances. Then Nora meets Bram Griswold, a young soldier who is brave, handsome, noble . . . and dead. But as is the case with the rest of his special undead unit, luck and modern science have enabled Bram to hold on to his mind, his manners, and his body parts. And when his bond of trust with Nora turns to tenderness, there’s no turning back. Eventually, they know, the disease will win, separating the star-crossed lovers forever. But until then, beating or not, their hearts will have what they desire.

In Dearly, Departed, romance meets walking-dead thriller, spawning a madly imaginative novel of rip-roaring adventure, spine-tingling suspense, and macabre comedy that forever redefines the concept of undying love.
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BOOK REVIEW: Taste of Darkness by Maria V. Snyder

Name: Taste of Darkness
Author: Maria V. Snyder
Number of Pages: 400
Publisher: Harlequin MIRA
Date Published: December 31st, 2013
Source: Review (Bought)
Rate: 5/5

She's fought death and won. But how can she fight her fears?

Avry knows hardship and trouble. She fought the plague and survived. She took on King Tohon and defeated him. But now her heart-mate, Kerrick, is missing, and Avry fears he's gone forever.

But there's a more immediate threat: The Skeleton King plots to claim the Fifteen Realms for his own. With armies in disarray and the dead not staying down, Avry's healing powers are needed now more than ever.

Torn between love and loyalty, Avry must choose her path carefully. For the future of her world depends on her decision.
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BOOK REVIEW: Scent of Magic (Healer #2) by Maria V. Snyder

Name: Scent of Magic (Healer #2)
Author: Maria V. Snyder
Number of Pages: 414
Publisher: Harlequin MIRA
Date Published: December 18th, 2012
Source: Review (Bought)
Rate: 5/5

 As the last Healer in the Fifteen Realms, Avry of Kazan is in a unique position: in the minds of her friends and foes alike, she no longer exists. Despite her need to prevent the megalomanical King Tohon from winning control of the Realms, Avry is also determined to find her sister and repair their estrangement. And she must do it alone, as Kerrick, her partner and sole confident, returns to Alga to summon his country into battle.

Though she should be in hiding, Avry will do whatever she can to support Tohon’s opponents. Including infiltrating a holy army, evading magic sniffers, teaching forest skills to soldiers and figuring out how to stop Tohon’s most horrible creations yet; an army of the walking dead—human and animal alike and nearly impossible to defeat.

War is coming and Avry is alone. Unless she figures out how to do the impossible ... again.
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BOOK REVIEW: The Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

Name: Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass #1)
Author: Sarah J. Maas
Number of Pages: 404
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children's
Date Published: May 7th, 2013
Source: Review (Bought)
Rate: 5/5

In a land without magic, where the king rules with an iron hand, an assassin is summoned to the castle. She comes not to kill the king, but to win her freedom. If she defeats twenty-three killers, thieves, and warriors in a competition, she is released from prison to serve as the king's champion. Her name is Celaena Sardothien.

The Crown Prince will provoke her. The Captain of the Guard will protect her. But something evil dwells in the castle of glass--and it's there to kill. When her competitors start dying one by one, Celaena's fight for freedom becomes a fight for survival, and a desperate quest to root out the evil before it destroys her world.

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BOOK REVIEW -- Opposition by Jennifer Armentrout

Name: Opposion (Lux #5)
Author: Jennifer Armentrout
Number of Pages: 354 (534 For the Special Edition)
Publisher: Entangled Teen
Date Published: August 5th, 2014
Source: Review (Bought)
Rate: 5/5


Katy knows the world changed the night the Luxen came.

She can't believe Daemon welcomed his race or stood by as his kind threatened to obliterate every last human and hybrid on Earth. But the lines between good and bad have blurred, and love has become an emotion that could destroy her—could destroy them all.

Daemon will do anything to save those he loves, even if it means betrayal.

They must team with an unlikely enemy if there is any chance of surviving the invasion. But when it quickly becomes impossible to tell friend from foe, and the world is crumbling around them, they may lose everything— even what they cherish most—to ensure the survival of their friends…and mankind.

War has come to Earth. And no matter the outcome, the future will never be the same for those left standing.
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BOOK REVIEW: Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder

Name: Poison Study (Study #1)
Author: Maria V. Snyder
Number of Pages: 412
Publisher: Mira
Date Published: March 1st, 2007
Source: Given for Review
Rate: 5/5

About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. She'll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace—and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia.

And so Yelena chooses to become a food taster. But the chief of security, leaving nothing to chance, deliberately feeds her Butterfly's Dust—and only by appearing for her daily antidote will she delay an agonizing death from the poison.

As Yelena tries to escape her new dilemma, disasters keep mounting. Rebels plot to seize Ixia and Yelena develops magical powers she can't control. Her life is threatened again and choices must be made. But this time the outcomes aren't so clear...
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BOOK REVIEW: The Host by Stephanie Meyer

Name: The Host
Author: Stephanie Meyer
Number of Pages: 620
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Date Published: May 6th, 2008
Source: For Review (Bought)
Rating: 5/5

Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of human hosts while leaving their bodies intact. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, didn't expect to find its former tenant refusing to relinquish possession of her mind.

As Melanie fills Wanderer's thoughts with visions of Jared, a human who still lives in hiding, Wanderer begins to yearn for a man she's never met. Reluctant allies, Wanderer and Melanie set off to search for the man they both love.

Featuring one of the most unusual love triangles in literature, THE HOST is a riveting and unforgettable novel about the persistence of love and the essence of what it means to be human. [summary from GoodReads ]