Wings of the Wicked Fear the Reaper Contest!

It's back ladies and gentlemen! What's back you ask? The Fear the Reaper contest brought to you by author Courtney Allison Moulton! Woot! She's giving away a signed ARC of her second book, Wings of the Wicked (Angelfire #2).

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Review: Eve by Anna Carey

Eve by Anna Carey

The year is 2032, sixteen years after a deadly virus—and the vaccine intended to protect against it—wiped out most of the earth’s population. The night before eighteen-year-old Eve’s graduation from her all-girls school she discovers what really happens to new graduates, and the horrifying fate that awaits her.

Fleeing the only home she’s ever known, Eve sets off on a long, treacherous journey, searching for a place she can survive. Along the way she encounters Caleb, a rough, rebellious boy living in the wild. Separated from men her whole life, Eve has been taught to fear them, but Caleb slowly wins her trust...and her heart. He promises to protect her, but when soldiers begin hunting them, Eve must choose between true love and her life.

My Review:

This book started out amazingly! Carey somehow made this dystopian so similar to the ones you love like the Hunger Games, Matched, Divergent and Delirium, yet she went in a direction that made it entirely different from them as well. From the first chapter I was hooked.

Eve is an innocent girl who thinks that she can grow up and be something in her society. Unfortunately for her, it doesn't happen like that. What happens in the plotline after that is predictable, but totally interesting. I loved the trek through the woods and the mysterious Lost Boys (that's who they remind me of). However once she meets the boys, something weird happened in the book and to me.

I started realizing that the innocence that made Eve so likable and realistic wasn't quite... right. She would constantly do childish and immature things that would risk the lives of her friends. She would never just tell someone what happened, she had to instead think about it, make the wrong assumption in her head, and then tell everyone what her assumption was. So that innocence Eve supposedly had made me wonder if it was instead stupidity she possessed.

Even though Eve got extremely annoying, the plotline and secondary characters were really good. I'll probably still read the second book, I might even buy it... Although Caleb's dreadlocks didn't do anything for me.

*I received a copy of this book from HarperTeen on Netgalley to review.

My Favorite Cover of 2012 (so far)

Guys, I love this cover. It is so beautiful! It makes me want a huge poster of it pinned to my wall so that I can stroke it lovingly (and creepily).

Sweet Evil by Wendy Higgins

What if there were teens whose lives literally depended on being bad influences? This is life for sons and daughters of fallen angels in Sweet Evil.

Anna, a tender-hearted southern girl, was born with the sixth sense to see and feel emotions of other people. She’s aware of a struggle within herself, an inexplicable pull toward danger, but it isn’t until she turns sixteen and meets the alluring Kaidan Rowe that she discovers her terrifying heritage, and her will-power is put to the test. He’s the boy your daddy warned you about. If only someone had warned Anna.

A cross-country trip forces Anna and Kai to face the reality that hope and love are not options for their kind. When it's time for Anna to confront her demons, will she choose to embrace her halo or her horns?

Awesome, right? I can't wait for May 2012!

Attack of the Blues

These books are blue, and not in the sad way. Some may be entirely blue and others just tinted with a blue-ish green or purplish blue. 2012 is going to be a very one color year... Here they are in all their bluish glory:

Underworld by Meg Cabot

Untile I Die by Amy Plum

Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi

The Calling by Kelley Armstrong

Body and Soul by Stacey Kade

Of Poseidon by Anna Banks

Struck by Jennifer Bosworth

Goddess Interrupted by Aimee Carter

A Touch Morbid by Leah Clifford

Wings of the Wicked by Courtney Allison Moulton

White Glove War by Katie Crouch

Jessica Rules the Dark Side by Beth Fantaskey

Hallowed by Cynthia Hand

Timepiece by Myra McEntire

Hemlock by Kathleen Peacock

Undeadly by Michele Vail

Note: All covers may not be final.

Destined -- Book 9 of the House of Night Series

Until I Die UK cover

Until I Die by Amy Plum

This is the UK cover so I'm not sure how different the US one will look, I hope that they're similar because this is gorgeous!

It Means Something to Me...

During my junior year of high school I was assigned a project by my Creative Writing teacher. I seriously dreaded doing this project because it was... a movie. We were supposed to make a ten-minute movie, script and all. Unfortunately, once I wrote the script I realized that we didn't have enough people in our movie group to get things rolling. I was planning on redoing the whole thing.
However, one of my friends generously offered to help us film and even to act in the movie. She didn't have to, but she did. She said it was because she wanted to see one of my movie-buddy's acting skills, but still, she stayed after school every day for almost 2 weeks to help us make this movie.
The final movie was amazing! It was titled How to Kill a Mean Girl and it got a 100%! She really helped our group out and it was unbeliavably generous of her. Thanks for that pal!

This post was brought to you by Brenna Yovanoff's The Space Between Contest here. Just tell about a generous act that you did, or that someone did for you. Make sure to check the post out and get all of the deets.

My Items

I have these things that are extremely important. They're so important that I haven't thrown them away, even though everyone else would view them as a piece of trash to throw away at the first opportunity and these items are ...

4 Prince Caspian Ticket Stubs!

Whenever Prince Caspian came out in theaters in 2008, I couldn't wait to see it! I made my dad and sister go with me to my nearest theater, which isn't as close as it needs to be, and sit through almost 3 hours of awesomeness! Unfortunately, they didn't think so...

Then I went to stay with my sister and her husband for a few days and during that time we went to see it. Then, I begged my sister to go see it again with me and she got so sick of my whining that she agreed (eventually). A few weeks later, I wanted to go see it again. I know, I know. You all think I'm a freak, but who in their right mind wouldn't want to go see William Moseley in all of his Kingly glory?! I ended up seeing the movie for the fourth and final time with my Uncle who went to see it a few weeks ago but was stuck in the front row craning his head up towards the screen which cause him to have a headache and not be able to pay attention to the movie. Lucky me!

These tickets remind me of how totally rockin' my family is! And how HAWT Peter is! The reason for this random post is to spread the word for Brenna Yovanoff's contest involving a change to win an ARC/book jacket of The Space Between. Go here to find out more.

Is change good, or bad?

Recently there have been numerous cover changes like Wolfsbane's cover change from this: To this:

And even more recently, this:

To this:

And even more recently, this:

To this:

What I want to know is what do you guys, as readers, think of these changes? Like, dislike, don't really care...

A Book That Looks HAWT!

I've been coveting a certain book that's been floating around some people's In My Mailbox Posts lately. The book looks seriously tantalizing and I need it like yesterday! It's called Embrace by Jessica Shirvington and it's originally an Australian release.

And those are just the ARC pictures! March 2012 is the tentative release date and I don't think I can wait that long!

Here's the blurb:

I slowly opened my eyes. The sun speared its first bright rays of golden orange into the sky and I leapt from the cliff, with the sorrowful knowledge that no matter what the outcome, at least part of me would die that day...

Violet Eden is dreading her seventeenth birthday dinner. After all, it’s hard to get too excited about the day that marks the anniversary of your mother’s death. The one bright spot is that Lincoln will be there. Sexy, mature and aloof, he is Violet’s idea of perfection. But why does he seem so reluctant to be anything more than a friend?

After he gives her the world’s most incredible kiss – and then abandons her on her front doorstep – Violet is determined to get some answers. But nothing could have prepared her for Lincoln’s explanation: he is Grigori – part angel and part human – and Violet is his eternal partner.

Without warning, Violet’s world is turned upside down. She never believed in God, let alone angels. But there’s no denying the strange changes in her body ... and her feelings for Lincoln. Suddenly, she can’t stand to be around him. Luckily, Phoenix, an exiled angel, has come into her life. He’s intense and enigmatic, but at least he never lied to her.

As Violet gets caught up in an ancient battle between dark and light, she must choose her path. The wrong choice could cost not only her life, but her eternity...

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