I saw this fun tag over at JennReneeRead who saw it at Read All the Things! and thought it looked like fun! The Nightmare Before Christmas is that fun movie to watch right around Halloween and getting ready for Christmas! I'm borrowing the gifs from Jenn as well!
JACK: a character who longs for more
Scarlett is definitely someone who is looking for something more before she's forced into an arranged marriage.
SALLY: a book character who loves someone and gets them in the end
Ironically, I'm picking a guy for this one. Lol. I feel like Bones fell in love with Cat first but since she was scared because of the whole falling in love with a vampire and she hunts vampires things were complicated. Needless to say, it didn't take long for them to work out their issues!
ZERO: a book with a loyal sidekick
Yelena has the best "partners in crime" I like to call them that instead of sidekicks. Ari and Janco were the best of friends to Yelena and I loved watching them help her through all the chaos. Though, I'd think Janco would call Ari his sidekick though. Lol. These two were a laugh riot, or mostly Janco was and Ari's reactions were just lovable too.
OOGIE BOOGIE: a book with a wicked villain
The Komizar is the first one to come to mind. He was pretty dastardly.
HALLOWEEN TOWN: a creepy book
The Dead House was pretty creeptacular! I loved it!
CHRISTMAS TOWN: a warm, fuzzy book
I don't get too many of those being a paranormal reader. The Best Kind of Magic is the closest I can get off the top of my head. It was a cute read but still paranormaly in nature!
WHAT'S THIS? a book that surprised you
I mean I knew Legendary was going to be amazing but I was still taken by surprise with all the twists and turns the story took!
Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings,
to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet
to read. It's
based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous Jill at Breaking the Spine.
From Danielle Vega,
YA’s answer to Stephen King, comes a new paranormal novel about dark
family secrets, deep-seated vengeance, and the horrifying truth that
evil often lurks in the unlikeliest of places.
Hendricks
Becker-O’Malley is new in town, and she’s bringing baggage with her.
With a dark and wild past, Hendricks doesn’t think the small town her
parents moved her to has much to offer her in terms of excitement. She
plans on laying low, but when she’s suddenly welcomed into the popular
crowd at school, things don’t go as expected.
Hendricks learns
from her new friends that the fixer-upper her parents are so excited
about is notorious in town. Local legend says it’s haunted. Hendricks
doesn’t believe it. Until she’s forced to. Blood-curdling screams erupt
from the basement, her little brother wakes up covered in scratches, and
something, or someone pushes her dad down the stairs. With help from
the mysterious boy next door, Hendricks makes it her mission to take
down the ghosts . . . if they don’t take her first.
I LOOOVE Danielle's horror stories! I still need to read the rest of The Merciless series but I am still super excited for her next new horror read!
I stumbled upon this on Goodreads today after I heard something on twitter! It has me excited and overwhelmed...as I still need to read book 2!! I hope to binge the next two books at some point this year. Yes, I say this a lot, but I do truly mean it every time! Lol. And omg, it's the last book?! I just braved it by reading the opening lines in bold! Holy cow!!!
And it does look like we are sticking with this cover look...for now! But I would honestly find it HILARIOUS if they decided to change it yet again! Lol. The cover has only changed with each previous release!
The breath-taking finale to the epic New York Times bestseller, The Diviners, from Printz winner and beloved author, Libba Bray.
After
the horrifying explosion that claimed one of their own, the Diviners
find themselves wanted by the US government, and on the brink of war
with the King of Crows.
While Memphis and Isaiah run for their
lives from the mysterious Shadow Men, Isaiah receives a startling vision
of a girl, Sarah Beth Olson, who could shift the balance in their
struggle for peace. Sarah Beth says she knows how to stop the King of
Crows-but, she will need the Diviners' help to do it.
Elsewhere,
Jericho has returned after his escape from Jake Marlowe's estate, where
he has learned the shocking truth behind the King of Crow's plans. Now,
the Diviners must travel to Bountiful, Nebraska, in hopes of joining
forces with Sarah Beth and to stop the King of Crows and his army of the
dead forever.
But as rumors of towns becoming ghost towns and
the dead developing unprecedented powers begin to surface, all hope
seems to be lost.
In this sweeping finale, The Diviners will be
forced to confront their greatest fears and learn to rely on one another
if they hope to save the nation, and world from catastrophe...
I had a moment of weirdness last week. I was on twitter and was scrolling through and I flashed past a picture that looked like pickles cut up in different ways. Well, it ended up being avocados in strips then slices and then it got me thinking about pickles. So yup, I'm going to briefly talk about that! Lol! I told you it was a moment of weird!
How Do You Like Your Pickles?
Pickles come in at least three ways, that I'm aware of! You have your spears, chips, and the whole thing! And it got me wondering, what everyone's favorite was? If you're a pickle eater! I find I really like spears myself! When they come with my sandwich at this and that restaurant I always eat it first, usually to let my sandwich cool off for another moment too!
The bread and butter spears are really good! But then I like the traditional dill too! Around my area grocery stores there's this Vlasic one that is a sweet and spicy chipotle and omg that one is sooo good! I love eating those as a random snack!
The traditional chips are my next favorite I guess! I would buy the bread and butter chips to literally just snack on them straight from the jar! I'd grab a fork and eat em! And oddly, I never like having pickles on my actual sandwich! I consider them a side!
Whole pickles are probably my least favorite. I don't eat them as much but would if that was what was offered. But yeah...I like pickle spears best! This weirdo post was brought to you by twitter, mistakes, and boredom! Lol.
Teaser Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by Purple Princess of The Purple Booker.
Here are the rules:
1. Grab your current read
2. Open to a page
3. Pick out 2 lines that are SPOILER FREE
4. Name the title, author, etc.
"An amused smile pulled at his mouth, as if it hadn't occurred to him and he was intrigued by the thought. 'We will, Kazi. You and I. We'll write our own story. And it will take a thousand volumes. We have a lifetime ahead of us.'"*
*This quote comes from the eARC, therefore it and its location are not final.
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish
in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of
2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to
bring bookish friends together.
**I've never really been a seasonal/holiday/related or whatever kind of reader but I suspect if I could be home for a rainy day these creepy/mystery/random reads would be my ideal choice...if I was needing to START a new read that is! LOL!
10. MEDDLING KIDS by Edgar Cantero--a book that's Scooby Doo inspired? Yes please!
9. SHADOW AND ICE by Gena Showalter--this one just because it's longish and would be a good read to start on a nice rainy day!
8. CONTAGION by Erin Bowman--pending that it was a rainy day in July after the sequel/finale's release date! Lol!
7. NEVERWORLD WAKE by Marisha Pessl--hello creepy rainy day read!
6. THE LONELY DEAD by April Henry--a nice creepy read and it's fairly short so it could even be a one-day read!
5. THE BROKEN GIRLS by Simone St. James--an eerie mystery that would be ideal to read with a thunderstorm!
4. 72 HOURS by Bella Jewel--this one sounds like a read to be read in the dark! Don't ask me why...I'm really not sure! Lol.
3. THE MERCILESS II by Danielle Vega--because I NEED to continue this series already!
2. THE MADMAN'S DAUGHTER by Megan Shepherd--because I need to read this series already! Lol.
1. OUR DARK DUET by Victoria Schwab--because I need to finish this duology! Yeesh, I really need to stop starting duologies without the entire series in front of me!
Today
Gabrielle Prendergast and Rockstar Book Tours are revealing the cover for COLD
FALLING WHITE, the sequel to her Sci-Fi Book ZERO REPEAT FOREVER which releases
November 19, 2019! Check out the awesome cover and enter the giveaway!
The 5th Wave meets Beauty and the
Beast in this fast-paced and heart-stopping follow-up to Zero Repeat Forever,
which VOYA called “an edge-of-your-seat page-turner.”
Xander Liu survived the end of the world—just barely. For more than a year he
has outsmarted, hidden from, and otherwise avoided the ruthless alien invaders,
the Nahx, dodging the deadly darts that have claimed so many of his friends.
When the murder of his friend Raven leaves him in the protective company of
August, a rebellious Nahx soldier, Xander is finally able to make his way back
to human controlled territory and relative safety.
But safety amongst the humans is not what it seems. Nothing is anymore.
Raven remembers dying in the arms of August. She remembers the pain, and the
way he cried as she faded away. But months later when she wakes up on a wide
expanse of snowy sand dunes, shackled to a boy she thought was dead too, she
has a lot of questions. What has happened to her and the other reanimated
humans gathered on the dunes? What is the meaning of the Nahx ships that hover
ominously above them? And most pressing of all, where is August, who promised
to keep her safe?
In the shadow of an unforgiving Canadian winter, Xander and Raven find
themselves on opposite sides of an alien war neither of them signed up for.
Left with little choice about their roles in the great battle that now seems
inevitable, they search for answers and allies, all while feeling inexorably
drawn back the place it seems their respective fates were determined, and to
the one who determined them: August.
Title: ZERO
REPEAT FOREVER (The Nahx Invasions #2)
Author: G.S.
Prendergast
Pub. Date: August
29, 2017
Publisher: Simon &
Schuster Books for Young Readers
The
5th Wave meets Beauty
and the Beast in this fast-paced and heart-stopping novel about an
invasion of murderous creatures and one girl fighting for her life at the end
of the world.
He has no voice, or name, only a rank, Eighth. He doesn’t know the
details of the mission, only the directives that hum in his mind.
Dart the humans. Leave them where they fall.
His job is to protect his Offside. Let her do the shooting.
Until a human kills her…
Sixteen year-old Raven is at summer camp when the terrifying armored Nahx
invade, annihilating entire cities, taking control of the Earth. Isolated in
the wilderness, Raven and her friends have only a fragment of instruction from
the human resistance.
Shelter in place.
Which seems like good advice at first. Stay put. Await rescue. Raven
doesn’t like feeling helpless but what choice does she have?
Then a Nahx kills her boyfriend.
Thrown together in a violent, unfamiliar world, Eighth and Raven should feel
only hate and fear. But when Raven is injured, and Eighth deserts his unit,
their survival comes to depend on trusting each other…
ZERO REPEAT FOREVER Book Trailer:
About Gabrielle:
Gabrielle
is a writer, teacher and designer living in Vancouver, Canada.
In 2014 she
was the Writer in Residence at Vancouver Public Library. In 2015 she was
nominated for the BC Book Prizes and chosen to tour the province to promote BC
Books. In 2017 Gabrielle took part in the TD Canada Children’s Book Week Tour.
She has also been nominated for the White Pine Awardand the CLA Award.
EDIT: I've since learned there will be another installment, so disregard the "final book" comments! ;)
She can’t ignore a cry for help. But in this remote hunting town, it’s open season.
Gwen
Proctor escaped her serial-killer husband and saved her family. What
she can’t seem to outrun is his notoriety. Or the sick internet
vigilantes still seeking to avenge his crimes. For Gwen, hiding isn’t an
option. Not when her only mission is to create a normal life for her
kids.
But now, a threatened woman has reached out. Marlene
Crockett, from the remote town of Wolfhunter, is panicked for herself
and her daughter. When Gwen arrives in the small, isolated rural
community, Marlene is already dead—her own daughter blamed for the
murder. Except that’s not the person Marlene feared at all. And Gwen
isn’t leaving until she finds out who that was.
But it may
already be too late. A trap has been set. And it’s poised to snap shut
on everyone Gwen loves. Her stalkers are closing in. And in a town as
dark as Wolfhunter, it’s so easy for them to hide…
I received this ARC from the publisher in exchange for an honest and voluntary review. I was in no way compensated for this review.
Wolfhunter River is the final installment in Rachel Caine’s Stillhouse Lake trilogy. I had thought the series over with the second book, but Rachel still had another story to tell us with Gwen. It was an amazing and chilling mystery that had me on the edge of my seat the entire time! I love a good mystery and Rachel has proven time and again there’s nothing she can’t master at!
In this one we have Gwen dealing with the aftermath of a bad TV interview. She thought to tell her story about what happened with her ex-husband, Melvin Royal, but it turned into a witch hunt of sorts where she was being attacked by her husband’s crimes. One her biggest haters even comes onto the show with the nastiest surprise of them all.
Throughout this series I’ve had so much sympathy for poor Gwen and her children. They will always be judged by Melvin’s crimes and while I understand where some of the family members were coming from, we’re in Gwen’s perspective, so we can see that some of their actions were just unfounded and cruel.
It’s not long before Gwen receives a strange phone call from a woman she’s never met, Marlene. Marlene is very edgy about something and wants Gwen’s help but Gwen isn’t so quick to jump on thing, her past experiences have warned her against it. But the next thing she knows is that a few days later she gets another call, from a frantic young girl named Vee who says her mother has been murdered and Gwen’s phone number was in her phone’s history and she needs help. Vee is being accused of murdering her mother, but something tells Gwen that there is more to this that what meets the eye, or in this case, ear.
Gwen, Sam, and her kids soon find themselves going to Wolfhunter River, a very small town that has more secrets than you would think possible. As Gwen goes about trying to help Vee out and prove her innocence there are other darker forces at work. Women have gone missing from this little town, reports of a ghost car crash run rampant, and the news is filled with reports of the missing little girl who was kidnapped not too long ago.
My Scooby senses were tingling with all the mysteries in this one! I knew there had to be connections and whatnot but I’d be a terrible sleuth as I never really got the gist of what was going on. Though I was right to suspect one person! Lol. That is without a doubt my favorite part of a mystery read, trying to figure out the whodunit! I might not get the reasoning, but I’m usually pretty good at figuring out who the bad guy/gal is!
The pacing to this one was pretty ideal! It moves along at a nice pace. It starts out a little slow, but once we enter Wolfhunter, things move along at a faster pace. There’s danger at every turn and you truly don’t know who can be trusted in this book. The ending was also very ideal! It ends in a way that all mysteries should and I feel like we leave the characters in a good place. I do believe this is the final installment and I happy with where things were at. It’s right at the perfect place where you know the characters will be moving on towards their happy ever afters. Rachel Caine reigns supreme when it comes to writing fantastic books and I highly recommend checking out this mystery series of hers!
It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is hosted by Sheila at Book Journey. It's a fun meme where we gather to share what we've read last week and our reading plans for this week.
Last Week I Read:
The Evil Queen by Gena Showalter (ARC)--Review to come at a later date
The Beyond by Chloe Neill (ARC)--Review to come at a later date
