Waiting On Wednesday: Revel by Maurissa Guibord

"Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at “Breaking the Spine”, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

 

My Pick This Week

 

Title: Revel
Author: Maurissa Guibord
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Release Date: February 12, 2013
ISBN-10: 0385741871
ISBN-13: 978-0385741873
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There’s an island off the coast of Maine that’s not on any modern map.

Shrouded in mist and protected by a deadly reef, Trespass Island is home to a community of people who guard the island and its secrets from outsiders. Seventeen-year-old Delia grew up in Kansas, but has come here in search of her family and answers to her questions: Why didn’t her mother ever talk about Trespass Island? Why did she fear the open water? But Delia’s not welcome and soon finds herself enmeshed in a frightening and supernatural world where ancient Greek symbols adorn the buildings and secret ceremonies take place on the beach at night.

Sean Gunn, a handsome young lobsterman, befriends Delia and seems willing to risk his life to protect her. But it’s Jax, the coldly elusive young man she meets at the water’s edge, who finally makes Delia understand the real dangers of life on the island. Delia is going to have to fight to survive. Because there are monsters here. And no one ever leaves Trespass alive.(Goodreads)

Why I’m Waiting

What first caught my attention was Revel’s amazing cover. Then I read the description and I was totally intrigued! Like what kind of supernatural are we talking here? Is the blurb talking about real monsters or just evil people? Why does no one leave Trespass alive? Although with a name like Trespass…

And what the heck is a lobsterman?!?!

*Googles lobsterman*

Wow! a lot of stuff popped up… Still not 100% sure. Now I just want to read it more! 

Other News

Come back tomorrow for my review and giveaway of The Waiting Sky. 

 

Are you excited about Revel?

What are you waiting on?

Are You Buying?!?! (August 21, 2012 Edition)

I love Tuesdays! These are some of the titles releasing today.

 

Robie is an experienced traveller. She’s taken the flight from Honolulu to the Midway Atoll, a group of Pacific islands where her parents live, many times. When she has to get to Midway in a hurry after a visit with her aunt in Hawaii, she gets on the next cargo flight at the last minute. She knows the pilot, but on this flight, there’s a new co-pilot named Max. All systems are go until a storm hits during the flight. The only passenger, Robie doesn’t panic until the engine suddenly cuts out and Max shouts at her to put on a life jacket. They are over miles of Pacific Ocean. She sees Max struggle with a raft.

And then . . . she’s in the water. Fighting for her life. Max pulls her onto the raft, and that’s when the real terror begins. They have no water. Their only food is a bag of Skittles. There are sharks. There is an island. But there’s no sign of help on the way.(Goodreads)

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Devotion turns deadly in this second Gothic thriller from Kenneth Oppel.When does obsession become madness? Tragedy has forced sixteen-year-old Victor Frankenstein to swear off alchemy forever. He burns the Dark Library. He vows he will never dabble in the dark sciences again—just as he vows he will no longer covet Elizabeth, his brother’s betrothed.
  

  If only these things were not so tempting.

When he and Elizabeth discover a portal into the spirit world, they cannot resist. Together with Victor’s twin, Konrad, and their friend Henry, the four venture into a place of infinite possibilities where power and passion reign. But as they search for the knowledge to raise the dead, they unknowingly unlock a darkness from which they may never return.(Goodreads)

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Emmeline Thistle, a dirt-scratcher's daughter, has escaped death twice-first, on the night she was born, and second, on the day her entire village was swept away by flood. Left with nothing and no one, Emmeline discovers her rare and mysterious ability-she can churn milk into chocolate, a delicacy more precious than gold.

Suddenly, the most unwanted girl in Anglund finds herself desired by all. But Emmeline only wants one-Owen Oak, a dairyman's son, whose slow smiles and lingering glances once tempted her to believe she might someday be loved for herself. But others will stop at nothing to use her gift for their own gains-no matter what the cost to Emmeline.

Magic and romance entwine in this fantastical world where true love and chocolate conquer all.(Goodreads)

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A field hockey star grapples with addiction in this riveting debut that will appeal to fans of Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak.

Stay out of trouble for one more year, and Katie Martin can leave her small town loneliness behind forever. She is a field hockey star on the fast track to a college scholarship, but her relationship with alcohol has always been a little questionable. Then trouble finds her. Alec is the most popular guy in school, and also the biggest bully—with his sights set firmly on Katie. When Alec turns on the charm, Katie thinks she must have been wrong about him.

Except that she wasn’t. On a rain-soaked, alcohol-drenched night, one impulsive decision leaves Katie indebted to Alec in the worst possible way. This debut novel is a fast-paced and compelling story of addiction, heartbreak, and redemption.(Goodreads)

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After the death of her mother, Wendy learns that she is part of a powerful and ancient family of Reapers. She has only a matter of days to unravel the mysteries her mother left behind and to convince her wary family to accept her as one of their own.(Goodreads)

 

Release Date: August 24, 2012

 

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I used to murder people for money, but lately it’s become more of a survival technique. Once an assassin, always an assassin. So much for being plain old Gin Blanco. With every lowlife in Ashland gunning for me, I don’t need another problem, but a new one has come to town anyway. Salina might seem like a sweet Southern belle, but she’s really a dangerous enemy whose water elemental magic can go head-to-head with my own Ice and Stone power. Salina also has an intimate history with my lover, Owen Grayson, and now that she’s back, she thinks he’s hers for the taking. Salina’s playing a mysterious game that involves a shady local casino owner with a surprising connection to Owen. But they call me the Spider for a reason. I’m going to untangle her deadly scheme, even if it leaves my love affair hanging by a thread.(Goodreads)

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New Hyde Hospital’s psychiatric ward has a new resident. It also has a very, very old one.

Pepper is a rambunctious big man, minor-league troublemaker, working-class hero (in his own mind), and, suddenly, the surprised inmate of a budget-strapped mental institution in Queens, New York. He’s not mentally ill, but that doesn’t seem to matter. He is accused of a crime he can’t quite square with his memory. In the darkness of his room on his first night, he’s visited by a terrifying creature with the body of an old man and the head of a bison who nearly kills him before being hustled away by the hospital staff. It’s no delusion: The other patients confirm that a hungry devil roams the hallways when the sun goes down. Pepper rallies three other inmates in a plot to fight back: Dorry, an octogenarian schizophrenic who’s been on the ward for decades and knows all its secrets; Coffee, an African immigrant with severe OCD, who tries desperately to send alarms to the outside world; and Loochie, a bipolar teenage girl who acts as the group’s enforcer. Battling the pill-pushing staff, one another, and their own minds, they try to kill the monster that’s stalking them. But can the Devil die?(Goodreads)

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So… do you plan on snatching any of these books up today? Is anything new to you?

  Happy Bookday!!!
To all the author that have books out this week.

Review: Jenny Pox by JL Bryan

Eighteen-year-old Jenny Morton has a horrific secret: her touch spreads a deadly supernatural plague, the "Jenny pox." She lives by a single rule: Never touch anyone. A lifetime of avoiding any physical contact with others has made her isolated and painfully lonely in her small rural town.

Then she meets the one boy she can touch. Jenny feels herself falling for Seth...but if she's going to be with him, Jenny must learn to use the deadly pox inside her to confront his ruthless and manipulative girlfriend Ashleigh, who secretly wields the most dangerous power of all.

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Not recommended for readers under eighteen.



Kindle Edition, 312 pages
Published (first published July 22nd 2010)
ASIN: B003X9775G
series: The Paranormals #1
literary awards: Geeks of Doom Top 10 Urban Fantasy and Horror Books of (2010), Red Adept Award: #1 in Horror for (2010)
(Goodreads)

Review

I don’t know that there are words enough to even marginally describe how much I love Jenny Pox.  I would have to describe it in facial expressions and hand motions, which on a blog, would look something like this:



[cue crickets chirping]



So, what you’ll read below is my best effort. [crickets still chirping]


Bryan is a master.  My wife has known this for some time.  I am just coming to this realization.  Now I want to devour this entire series.  Jenny Pox is like nothing that I’ve ever read before.  And it’s set in South Carolina! I’ve been reading this off and on since February on my iPhone’s Kindle app.  I’m glad that I’ve stretched it out, it would be too much to handle in large chunks!


Jenny Pox is emotionally charged.  It’s fast paced and easy to read.  It would be no problem for most people to read this in a few days, if that long.  I recommend taking your time, digesting it in manageable pieces.  There’s a lot going on, a lot to fret over, a lot to become enraged about.


Jenny is strong, there is depth and maturity to her character, as well as vulnerability.  Seth is somewhat weak, and I know that part of it was Ashleigh’s doing, but the dude needed to grow a set.  I instantly loved Jenny, Seth took some time.  For me, it was easy to insta-hate Ashleigh, and never stop hating her, only to loath her more.  There’s such a realness in the way Bryan writes his characters, that you believe in them.


There were parts of the story that had me thinking, “This is so unrealistic.”  Or, “That would/could never happen.”  This is a fantasy book at times.  There is a need to suspend some reality when going into this.  Really.  I’m being straight up with you here: this is not contemporary with a little fantasy thrown in, this is full-on fantastical.  Bus it’s not hard to believe the world of Fallen Oak, SC.  It is realistic, and the people are genuine, and react genuinely.  Then the supernatural/paranormal aspects come into play, and you’re sometimes going all “WTF just happened?” But it works, and it works well.

5 Moons: Read it!

Get to reading,

Stacking The Shelves #2

Stacking The Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga's Reviews and is a post for bloggers to share what books they've received to review, bought, won, borrowed or were gifted.

No vlog this week. I am all kinds of sick:( Trust me you don’t want to see.

Library Haul!!!

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I have been wanting to read Kelley Armstrong’s adult series for like ever! Bitten started of a bit slow but I am really enjoying it now.

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It hasn’t been long since I read and really enjoyed Abandon. I am so excited about continuing this series with Underworld.

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Daughter of Smoke and Bone and The Name Of The Star are books I have had my eye on to review for Spookin The Spine this year. I can’t wait to read them!

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Scarlet is one of those books that the minute I read the blurb I was like… I have to read this book!!! I am so happy my library had it.

Have you read any of these???
What is new to your shelf this week?
Happy reading,

I am in love!

I don’t know about the rest of you but this summer I have discovered I really enjoy audio books. However I do not enjoy the price of audio books. So let me tell you what I am in LOVE with…

My library! My library has an awesome selection of audio and eBooks. Here are some of the books I have recently checked out:

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I have been a BDB fan for some time and I actually listened to Lover Unleashed on audio as well. Lover Reborn has not been my favorite but I am still enjoying this series and am very excited about the next in the series.

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As some of you know I have been wanting to get more and more into contemporary. Someone had suggested When You Dare to me. Thanks to that person!!! I enjoyed this a lot. I think if you are a person who loves PNR and have been looking for a contemporary romance to read, you should try When You Dare. I hope to continue reading this series.

 

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I generally steer clear of Christian Fiction at all cost, but when I started Submerged I didn’t know that it was CF. Having said that I found myself enjoying this as I was sucked into the story. Yes, there were some what I like to call after school special moments. But, by the time I was done listening to this I didn’t want to be done with theses characters and I was glad this is a series.

 

 

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I have wanted to read this series since last year when I met Melisa De La Cruz at YallFest. I am now on book three and still enjoying the series as a whole. I really liked Blue Bloods. I think Melissa’s take on vampires is very interesting and Blue Bloods was a great intro into the series. Masquerade I did not enjoy as much. It took me a while to get into it, I think the pacing was a lot different than Blue Bloods, but by the time it ended I was ready to see what was going to happen in the next book.

 

So, are you like me and totally in love with your library right now?

Or have you never even checked to see what your library has to offer online?

Let me know!!!