Fated (Books from A to Z)

Could you imagine finding out that you are a Demon Slayer?  And - that you fall in love with someone who you find out later was hired to kill you?  How powerful is that?  I know it's something I want to read!


When investigating this book further, I found a great list on GoodReads in which this book appears.  The list is titled:  best "eye" on the cover.  It has tons of books that feature "eyes" on the cover.  I thought this was very neat.  I have found that these books are very "eye" catching - pun intended!!!

What happens when you discover you aren't who you thought you were? And that the person you love is the person who will betray you? If your fate is already determined, can you fight it?


When Evie Tremain discovers that she’s the last in a long line of Demon slayers and that she’s being hunted by an elite band of assassins –Shapeshifters, Vampires and Mixen demons amongst them – she knows she can’t run. They’ll find her wherever she goes. Instead she must learn to stand and fight.


But when the half-human, half-Shadow Warrior Lucas Gray - is sent to spy on Evie and then ordered to kill her before she can fulfil a dangerous prophecy, their fates become inextricably linked. The war that has raged for one thousand years between humans and demons is about to reach a devastating and inevitable conclusion. Either one or both of them will die before this war ends.


If your life becomes bound to another’s, what will it take to sever it?

About the Author:  Having spent most of her life in London, Sarah quit her job in the non profit sector in 2009 and took off on a round the world trip with her husband and princess obsessed daughter on a mission to find a new place to call home. After several months in India, Singapore, Australia and the US, they settled in Bali where Sarah now spends her days writing by the pool. 


She finished her first novel just before they left the UK, wrote the sequel on the beach in India and had signed a two book deal with Simon & Schuster by the time they had reached Bali. 


A third book, Fated, about a teenage demon slayer, will be published in January 2012. 


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Cursed (Books from A to Z)

In looking through my to-read list on Goodreads - while I was organizing things during Bloggiesta - I ran across this book. As I read the blurb, I was asking myself whey I hadn't read it yet - well duh!  It has not been released yet!!  Good reason, huh?  Cursed by Jennifer L. Armentrout is expected to be released September 18, 2012.  


***In creating this post, I found out that Jennifer Armentrout is from West Virginia!  Small world!!!!

Cursed is in my to-read list as a book I selected for the Standalone Reading Challenge.   It sort of puts me in the mind of King Midas and his golden touch, but in an eery sort of way!  I can't wait until it comes out!  Could you imagine every thing that you touched, dying?  I've heard people say that about plants, but I can't say that I have ever heard of anyone worrying about killing a person by touching them!  Creepy!!!

Blurb:  Dying sucks--and high school senior Ember McWilliams knows firsthand. After a fatal car accident, her gifted little sister brought her back. Now anything Ember touches dies. And that, well, really blows. 


Ember operates on a no-touch policy with all living things--including boys. When Hayden Cromwell shows up, quoting Oscar Wilde and claiming her curse is a gift, she thinks he’s a crazed cutie. But when he tells her he can help control it, she’s more than interested. There’s just one catch: Ember has to trust Hayden's adopted father, a man she's sure has sinister reasons for collecting children whose abilities even weird her out. However, she’s willing to do anything to hold her sister's hand again. And hell, she'd also like to be able to kiss Hayden. Who wouldn't? 


But when Ember learns the accident that turned her into a freak may not've been an accident at all, she’s not sure who to trust. Someone wanted her dead, and the closer she gets to the truth, the closer she is to losing not only her heart, but her life. For real this time.

About the Author:  Jennifer lives in Martinsburg, West Virginia. All the rumors you've heard about her state aren't true. When she's not hard at work writing. she spends her time reading, working out, watching really bad zombie movies, pretending to write, and hanging out with her husband and her Jack Russel Loki. Her dreams of becoming an author started in algebra class, where she spent most of her time writing short stories....which explains her dismal grades in math. Jennifer writes young adult paranormal, science fiction, fantasy, and contemporary romance. She also writes adult romance under the name J. Lynn. She is the author of the COVENANT Series (Spencer Hill Press), the LUX Series (Entangled Publishing), and the upcoming YA contemporary mystery/thrillers DON'T LOOK BACK (Disney/Hyperion Fall 2013) and yet untitled book (Disney/Hyperion tentative Fall 2014).


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Blue Sky Days (Books from A to Z)

I am still remembering the announcement of the release party for this book. It was all over the place. I had to find out what all the hype was about, and in reading the book blurb, I can see why it is getting such attention. Again, I purchased it, and had every intention of reading it, but have not gotten to it. I guess this is another one that needs to be part of my TBR Challenge, and I have to make time for. You know, you’d think it was such an awful task to “get to” books the way I make it sound. I just need to get my butt in gear!!!!

Blue Sky Days by Marie Landry sounds like such a heart wrencher!  Could you imagine having never had any friends, boyfriends, and not knowing what your really want in life – to find all those things, be happy, only to discover that the love of your life has cancer? WOW!!!!

I can see my feelings really going for a rollercoaster ride with this one!

Blurb:  A year after graduating from high school, nineteen-year-old Emma Ward feels lost. She has spent most of her life trying to please her frigid, miserable mother - studying hard, getting good grades, avoiding the whole teenage rebellion thing - and now she feels she has no identity beyond that. Because she spent so many years working hard and planning every moment of her life, she doesn't have any friends, has never had a boyfriend, and basically doesn't know who she is or what she really wants from life. Working two part-time jobs to save money for college hasn't helped her make decisions about her future, so she decides it's time for a change. She leaves home to live with her free-spirited, slightly eccentric Aunt Daisy in a small town that makes Emma feel like she's stepped back in time.

When Emma meets Nicholas Shaw, everything changes - he's unlike anyone she's ever met before, the kind of man she didn't even know existed in the 21st century. Carefree and spirited like Daisy, Nicholas teaches Emma to appreciate life, the beauty around her, and to just let go and live. Between Daisy and Nicholas, Emma feels like she belongs somewhere for the first time in her life, and realizes that you don't always need a plan - sometimes life steers you where you're meant to be.

Life is wonderful, an endless string of blue sky days, until Nicholas is diagnosed with cancer, and life changes once again for Emma in ways she never thought possible. Now it's time for her to help Nicholas the way he's helped her. Emma will have to use her new-found strength, and discover along the way if love really is enough to get you through.

About the Author:  Marie Landry has always been a daydreamer. She has created imaginary worlds for as long as she can remember, so it only seemed natural that she would become a writer. With a passion for words that started in early childhood, Marie has written a varied range of works, and has been freelance writing since 2009. She resides in Ontario, Canada, and most days you can find her writing, reading, blogging about writing and reading, listening to U2, or having grand adventures with her two precious nephews.
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Article 5 (Books from A to Z)

In preparing for the Blogging from A to Z Challenge, I was having trouble coming up with a theme that really spoke to me.  I had a few ideas, and even started some posts, but trashed them – I just wasn’t feeling it – and this is to be fun, not a pain in the ……….!
But now I have one – it just hit me!  It's not that much of a stretch even.  One of the challenges that I have taken on in 2012 ABC Reading Challenge.  For this Challenge, the goal is to read a book from each letter of the alphabet.  So, this seems to go hand in hand with this blogging challenge.  I have to find/identify books from each letter anyway, so I thought I would feature books on my TBR list that I would be pulling out for the reading challenge.
Article 5 by Kristen Simmons is a book that caught my eye from the first time I saw it.  The cover, while not beautiful, is just eye-catching to me.  It also helps that I love the dystopian genre.  I was so excited when it was released.  I couldn’t wait to read it.  However, I have been so busy with committed book reviews and book tours that I have put it on the back burner. 

Blurb: 
New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., have been abandoned.

The Bill of Rights has been revoked, and replaced with the Moral Statutes.

There are no more police—instead, there are soldiers. There are no more fines for bad behavior—instead, there are arrests, trials, and maybe worse. People who get arrested usually don't come back.

Seventeen-year-old Ember Miller is old enough to remember that things weren't always this way. Living with her rebellious single mother, it's hard for her to forget that people weren't always arrested for reading the wrong books or staying out after dark. It's hard to forget that life in the United States used to be different.

Ember has perfected the art of keeping a low profile. She knows how to get the things she needs, like food stamps and hand-me-down clothes, and how to pass the random home inspections by the military. Her life is as close to peaceful as circumstances allow.

That is, until her mother is arrested for noncompliance with Article 5 of the Moral Statutes. And one of the arresting officers is none other thanChase Jennings—the only boy Ember has ever loved.

About the author: 
Kristen Simmons has a master’s degree in social work and is an advocate for mental health. She loves Jazzercise, her husband, and her precious greyhound, Rudy. Also chocolate. She currently lives in Tampa, Florida.
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2012 ABC Reading Challenge

What a fun idea!!!!  The ABC Reading Challenge sounds so daring!  You have to read a book that starts with each letter of the alphabet - or at least try to!!!!!!  What a challenge to take on, and yes, I am adding it to my list.  


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C - Cinder by Marissa Meyer
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Q - Queen of Kentucky by Alecia Whitaker
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W -  A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L' Engle & When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
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If you want to try this challenge out for size, head on over to Gripped into Books:


2012 ABC Reading Challenge