27. Enders (#2)- Lissa Price

Title: Enders (Starters #2)

Author: Lissa Price

Rating: ★★

On the Shelves: Young Adult> Dystopian/Post-Apocalyptic> Sci-Fi

With the Prime Destinations body bank destroyed, Callie no longer has to rent herself out to creepy Enders. But Enders can still get inside her mind and make her do things she doesn’t want to do. Like hurt someone she loves. Having the chip removed could save Callie’s life – but it could also silence the voice in her head that might belong to her father. Callie has flashes of her ex-renter Helena’s memories, too …and the Old Man is back, filling her with fear. Who is real and who is masquerading in a teen body? This is the thrilling sequel to “Starters” (Goodreads 2014)

26. Starters (#1)- Lissa Price

Title: Starters (#1)

Author: Lissa Price

Rating: ★★★

On the Shelves: Young Adult> Dystopian/Post-Apocalyptic> Sci-Fi

Callie lost her parents when the Spore Wars wiped out everyone between the ages of twenty and sixty. She and her little brother, Tyler, go on the run, living as squatters with their friend Michael and fighting off renegades who would kill them for a cookie. Callie’s only hope is Prime Destinations, a disturbing place in Beverly Hills run by a mysterious figure known as the Old Man.

He hires teens to rent their bodies to Enders—seniors who want to be young again. Callie, desperate for the money that will keep her, Tyler, and Michael alive, agrees to be a donor. But the neurochip they place in Callie’s head malfunctions and she wakes up in the life of her renter, living in her mansion, driving her cars, and going out with a senator’s grandson. It feels almost like a fairy tale, until Callie discovers that her renter intends to do more than party—and that Prime Destinations’ plans are more evil than Callie could ever have imagined. . .(Goodreads 2014)

Waiting on Wednesday 2

Waiting on Wednesday is a meme hosted weekly by Breaking the Spine , which allows readers put the upcoming new releases they’re excited for into the spotlight!

 

It is the 29th January, which means a hell of a lot of the popular WW books got published yesterday! So today I’m jumping ahead to a book being published in March, which I’ve not seen appear much on wordpress book blogs yet, and that is

Title: Nearly Gone

Author: Elle Cosimano

Release Date: 25/03/2014

Monthly Round Up: January Wrap Up and February TBR!

I was going to do the Top Ten Tuesday, which this week is “Which 10 worlds would you never want to exist in?” and I got stuck. I’ve been hella busy over the weekend so I thought I’d take this opportunity to post my first Monthly Wrap up instead. These wrap ups will include what I read in the current month and their ratings, and what is on the reading horizons for the next month.

I somehow managed to read 9 books in January (10 if I finish the one I’m currently reading by Saturday, which I think I will, so I’ll include it as if I’ve finished it ;3)- so what did I read in January 2014, and what will I be reading in february?

Weekend Book Tag: Cover Love!

Firstly, I’ve decided to change the “sunday book tag” to the “weekend book tag”, just to give myself a little more flexibility for when I’m bored!

This weeks tag I will be showing the TOP TEN COVERS which made me pick up the book and read it- this isn’t really a meme by any specific journal, it’s just something I want to do! So without further delay: which ten covers made me think “oh my god I have to read this!!”

25. Stardust- Neil Gaiman

Title: Stardust

Author: Neil Gaiman

Rating: ★★★★

On the Shelves: Fiction> Fantasy

Hopelessly crossed in love, a boy of half-fairy parentage leaves his mundane Victorian-English village on a quest for a fallen star in the magical realm. The star proves to be an attractive woman with a hot temper, who plunges with our hero into adventures featuring witches, the lion and the unicorn, plotting elf-lords, ships that sail the sky, magical transformations, curses whose effects rebound, binding conditions with hidden loopholes and all the rest (Goodreads 2014)

24. Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles #1)- Marissa Meyer

Title: Cinder (TLC #1)

Author: Marissa Meyer

Rating: ★★★★★

On the Shelves: Young Adult> Fantasy> Retellings

Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl. 

Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future (Goodreads 2014)

23. More Than This- Patrick Ness

Title: More Than This

Author: Patrick Ness

Rating: ★★★★★

On the Shelves: Young Adult> Fiction> Fantasy

From two-time Carnegie Medal winner Patrick Ness comes an enthralling and provocative new novel chronicling the life — or perhaps afterlife — of a teen trapped in a crumbling, abandoned world.

A boy named Seth drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments, losing his life as the pounding sea claims him. But then he wakes. He is naked, thirsty, starving. But alive. How is that possible? He remembers dying, his bones breaking, his skull dashed upon the rocks. So how is he here? And where is this place? It looks like the suburban English town where he lived as a child, before an unthinkable tragedy happened and his family moved to America. But the neighborhood around his old house is overgrown, covered in dust, and completely abandoned. What’s going on? And why is it that whenever he closes his eyes, he falls prey to vivid, agonizing memories that seem more real than the world around him? Seth begins a search for answers, hoping that he might not be alone, that this might not be the hell he fears it to be, that there might be more than just this. . .. (Goodreads 2014)

Waiting on Wednesday 1

Waiting on Wednesday is a meme hosted weekly by Breaking the Spine , which allows readers put the upcoming new releases they’re excited for into the spotlight!

A lot of people have used this for “Cruel Beauty” which comes out next week (and I am also waiting on because IT SOUNDS SO GOOD and I’ve pre-ordered it) so instead I’m going to use my first WOW  for

Title: Red Rising (Red Rising Trilogy#1)

Author: Pierce Brown

Release Date: 28/01/2014

Top Ten Tuesday 1

Today’s topic: Top Ten Things On My Reading Wishlist (if you could make authors write about these things you would. Could be a specific type of character, an issue tackled, a time period, a certain plot, etc.)  (brokeandthebookish)

So this is my first time particpating in Top Ten Tuesday…but what 10 things do I want to see on my shelves this year?