The Lost Girl

Author: Sangu Mandanna
Goodreads Rating: 4.3
My Rating: 4 Stars
Pages: 418
Reviewed by: Nicole

Goodreads Synopses:

Eva’s life is not her own. She is a creation, an abomination—an echo. Made by the Weavers as a copy of someone else, she is expected to replace a girl named Amarra, her “other”, if she ever died. Eva studies what Amarra does, what she eats, what it’s like to kiss her boyfriend, Ray. So when Amarra is killed in a car crash, Eva should be ready.

But fifteen years of studying never prepared her for this.

Now she must abandon everything she’s ever known—the guardians who raised her, the boy she’s forbidden to love—to move to India and convince the world that Amarra is still alive.

What Eva finds is a grief-stricken family; parents unsure how to handle this echo they thought they wanted; and Ray, who knew every detail, every contour of Amarra. And when Eva is unexpectedly dealt a fatal blow that will change her existence forever, she is forced to choose: Stay and live out her years as a copy or leave and risk it all for the freedom to be an original. To be Eva.

From debut novelist Sangu Mandanna comes the dazzling story of a girl who was always told what she had to be—until she found the strength to decide for herself.

Waiting on Wednesday # 3

Waiting on Wednesdays is a meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. This meme gives bloggers the chance to talk about a book that may not be coming out for a few months, but that they are still excited about.

The Nightmare Affair
by Mindee Arnett
Release date: March 5, 2013

Goodreads Synopses:

16-year-old Dusty Everhart breaks into houses late at night, but not because she’s a criminal. No, she’s a Nightmare. Literally. Dusty is a magical being who feeds on human dreams.

Being the only Nightmare at Arkwell Academy, a boarding school for magickind, and living in the shadow of her mother’s infamy is hard enough. But when Dusty sneaks into Eli Booker’s house, things get a whole lot more complicated. He’s hot, which means sitting on his chest and invading his dreams couldn’t get much more embarrassing. But it does. Eli is dreaming of a murder. The setting is Arkwell.

And then it comes true.

Now the Dusty has to follow the clues—both within Eli’s dreams and out of them—to stop the killer before more people turn up dead. And before the killer learns what she’s up to and marks her as the next target.

Boy do I want this book. I just want to love this book with all my heart, I loved the idea of a nightmare visiting people, its just too great! I'm also totally in love with Mindee Arnett, so I'm sure this one is going to wow.

The Raven Boys

Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Goodreads Rating: 4.49
My Rating: 4 Stars
Pages: 408
Reviewed By: Nicole

I got this book from BEA because I've heard good things about Stiefvater, and although I never read The Wolves of Mercy Falls, I was excited to read this new series. I had a little trouble getting into it at first, but this four book series is going to be a hit for sure.

Goodreads Synopses:

“There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.”

It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.

Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.

His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.

But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.

For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.

From Maggie Stiefvater, the bestselling and acclaimed author of the Shiver trilogy and The Scorpio Races, comes a spellbinding new series where the inevitability of death and the nature of love lead us to a place we’ve never been before.

Books of Wonder Special Event and Giveaway

A few weeks back I attended a Books of Wonder Event for Maggie Stiefvater and David Levithan. I have not yet read anything by David Levithan, but after listening to the reading of Everyday, I think that I am 100% ready to dive into that book. I did read The Raven Boys by Maggie before I went there, which made the reading really fun, because I opened my book and followed along.

Introduction

The crowd.

David reading.

Reading.

Reading.

Q&A Banter

Maggie answering questions.

Maggie and Me!

So I managed to get an ARC of The Raven Boy's signed for a lucky winner as well as two signed David Levithan books. You can enter both, and there is a chance you could win both. This contest is open to US citizens and I reserve the right to delete fake entries. Below is the Rafflecopter, so go ahead and enter!

NEWS!

I came across a second ARC of The Raven Boys, its not signed, but if I hit 200 GFC followers, I'll throw in the second copy and pick a second winner for The Raven Boys! If I hit 300 GFC followers you ask? I've got an extra copy of Eve and Adam to send to a third person. So spread the news!

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Zomb-tacular Giveaway!

This is the month that just keeps on giving! We've got the Books of Wonder Giveaway, and we've got the Finale T-shirt giveaway, the Back to School Giveaway just ended, later this month we have a giveaway for The Headmasters Wager, hopefully a NYCC Giveaway and an Emmy Laybourne giveaway and in November I've got another Poster Giveaway. Wowsa! Thats nearly 8 giveaways in 3 months!

This giveaway is for two Zom-tacular books! This giveaway will end on October 31, and it is open only to US residents. 

Zom-B
By Darren Shan

Zom-B is a radical new series about a zombie apocalypse, told in the first person by one of its victims. The series combines classic Shan action with a fiendishly twisting plot and hard-hitting and thought-provoking moral questions dealing with racism, abuse of power and more. This is challenging material, which will captivate existing Shan fans and bring in many new ones. As Darren says, "It's a big, sprawling, vicious tale...a grisly piece of escapism, and a barbed look at the world in which we live. Each book in the series is short, fast-paced and bloody. A high body-count is guaranteed!"

The Infects

By Sean Beaduoin

Seventeen-year-old Nero is stuck in the wilderness with a bunch of other juvenile delinquents on an “Inward Trek.” As if that weren’t bad enough, his counselors have turned into flesh-eating maniacs overnight and are now chowing down on his fellow miscreants. As in any classic monster flick worth its salted popcorn, plentiful carnage sends survivors rabbiting into the woods while the mindless horde of “infects” shambles, moans, and drools behind. Of course, these kids have seen zombie movies. They generate “Zombie Rules” almost as quickly as cheeky remarks, but attitude alone can’t keep the biters back.

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