The Ghost and the Goth

The Ghost and the Goth by Stacey Kade

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


A light and paranormal story that I truly enjoyed reading. It is so easy to read, the characters are good although the story plot is kind of common and predictable I still had fun reading it. I found Alona Dare witty and surprisingly likable despite her status. And Will Killian is amazingly good. Though I like the characters, I’m not obsessed with them, same with the story. I like it, yeah and I will definitely read the second installment in the trilogy, Queen of the Dead (which is already out), but I’m not in a hurry though. Will probably wait for the release of paperback edition of it.



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Waiting on Wednesday (08)

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.

It is about the upcoming releases that we can't wait to read

Lola and the Boy Next Door

Stephanie Perkins

Sept. 29, 2011 (Dutton)

Summary: 

Budding designer Lola Nolan doesn’t believe in fashion . . . she believes in costume. The more expressive the outfit -- more sparkly, more fun, more wild -- the better. But even though Lola’s style is outrageous, she’s a devoted daughter and friend with some big plans for the future. And everything is pretty perfect (right down to her hot rocker boyfriend) until the dreaded Bell twins, Calliope and Cricket, return to the neighborhood.

When Cricket -- a gifted inventor -- steps out from his twin sister’s shadow and back into Lola’s life, she must finally reconcile a lifetime of feelings for the boy next door. 

In My Mailbox (13)

In My Mailbox is a meme hosted by Kristi @ www.thestorysiren.com

Purchased: 

• Forever by Maggie Stiefvater (final book in the series Wolves of Mercy Falls, can't wait to learn what will happen to Sam, Grace and COLE!!!)
• Brightly Woven by Alexandra Bracken (another high fantasy book that I've been wanting to read for quite sometime)
• What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen (its the latest of Sarah Dessen, so excited to read it)

Anna and the French Kiss

Title: Anna and the French Kiss 
Author: Stephanie Perkins
Published: Dec. 2, 2010 by Dutton
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 372
Genre: YA Contemporary/ChickLit


My rating: 
    

Summary:
Anna is looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a great job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. Which is why she is less than thrilled about being shipped off to boarding school in Paris - until she meets Etienne St. Clair: perfect, Parisian (and English and American, which makes for a swoon-worthy accent), and utterly irresistible. The only problem is that he's taken, and Anna might be, too, if anything comes of her almost-relationship back home.

Across the Universe

Title:Across the Universe 
Author: Beth Revis
Series: Across the Universe # 1
Published: Jan. 11, 2011 by Razorbill
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 398
Genre: YA Sci-Fi


My rating:   

Summary:
Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules.
Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone - one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship - tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn't do something soon, her parents will be next.
Now, Amy must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there's only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the love she could never have seen coming.

In My Mailbox (12)

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Purchased:

• Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins (been pining for this book since it was released. But I can’t find a copy in our bookstore here; it is always out-of-stock. Finally after a long wait, I have it! so excited to read it!!!)
• The Summer I turned Pretty by Jenny Han (heard so many good things about this book so I finally decided to give it a shot.)

Entwined

Entwined by Heather Dixon

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Entwined is a dashingly beautiful story. A fairy tale that I enjoyed reading. I felt like I was a kid again. I never expected that I am going to love it but I did, and I am so glad that I read it despite my hesitations.

Entwined is a retelling of The Twelve Dancing Princesses (I think) which I have not read… since I haven’t read that story I cannot make any comparison between the two books. I do like the story plot of this one, the princesses, the dancing, the magic, the evil one. There is a little bit romance involved with the older ones, Azalea, Bramble and Clover, that is just sweet and nicely done. Though I do like the book I have a few minor issues with the characters, particularly the 11 princesses, the youngest Lily is way too young to make an impression. I think the sisters are kind of immature and selfish, their mother just died and they are still in mourning but they can’t give up dancing. They will do anything just to dance. I can’t understand the point of that one, they are so obsessed with dancing that they didn’t care that their mother just died and their father, the King, is at war. It’s freaking unbelievable… I sometimes found Azalea annoying, and she is so stubborn that there are times that I hated her. She actually redeemed herself at the end though. I think the only character that I truly love here is the King. I don’t really know why but I do admire him.

Even though I do have some issues with some of the characters I still love this story. If you are craving for fantasy and magic kind of story, check this one out.




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