Friday 1 February 2013

Teaser Trailer (13): Etiquette & Espionage

Trailer Teaser is a meme that is inspired by Teaser Tuesdays but instead
than teasers from the book, i'm using trailers.


About the book:


Etiquette & Espionage (Finishing School #1)
by Gail Carriger
Pages: 320
Publisher: Brown Books for Young Readers
Publication date: February 5th 2013


Synopsis:

It's one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It's quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to finishing school.

Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is the bane of her mother's existence. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper etiquette at tea--and god forbid anyone see her atrocious curtsy. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. She enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality.

But little do Sophronia or her mother know that this is a school where ingenious young girls learn to finish, all right--but it's a different kind of finishing. Mademoiselle Geraldine's certainly trains young ladies in the finer arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but also in the other kinds of finishing: the fine arts of death, diversion, deceit, espionage, and the modern weaponries. Sophronia and her friends are going to have a rousing first year at school.


Sunday 27 January 2013

Letterbox Love (11)


LETTERBOX LOVE is a meme by Narratively Speaking.
LETTERBOX LOVE is a way for bloggers to share what books or
ebooks they got this week that we: borrowed or begged for.

Wednesday 16 January 2013

Waiting on Wednesday (37): ACID



WAITING ON WEDNESDAY is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking The Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.




ACID by Emma Pass
Pages: 431
Publisher: Corgi Children's Books/Random House Children's Publishing (UK) and Delacorte (US)
Pub date: April 25th 2013 (UK) and out 2014 (US)

Synopsis:

ACID - the most brutal police force in history.
They rule with an iron fist.
They see everything. They know everything.
They locked me away for life.

My crime?
They say I murdered my parents.
I was fifteen years old.

My name is Jenna Strong.



Wednesday 9 January 2013

Review: Wake by Amanda Hocking



Wake (Watersong #1)
by Amanda Hocking
Pages: 309
Publisher: St. Martin's press
Pub date: August 7th 2011

Synopsis:

Beautiful. Fearless. Dangerous.
The kind of girls you envy. The kind you want to hate.

Strangers are in town for summer, Penn, Thea and Lexi have caught everyone's attention, even the eye of practical Harper. But it's her sister, Gemma, they have chosen. Sixteen-year-old. Gemma seems to have it all - carefree, pretty and falling in love with the boy next door. But her greatest passion is the water. She craves solitary late-night swims under the stars, where she can belong to the sea. But lately sshe had company.

Pen, Thea and Lexi spend their nights dancing and partying on the cover, and one night Gemma joins them. She wakes, groggy, on the beach next morning and knows something has changed. Suddenly Gemma is stronger, faster and more beautiful than ever. And as she discovers her new mythical powers, Gemma is forced t choose the between staying with those she loves - or entering a dark world brimming with unimaginable secrets.



Monday 7 January 2013

Manga Mondays (1): SKip Beat


This is a weekly meme hosted by Alison Can Read. Manga is the Japanese comics with a unique story line and style. It has a variety of genres and it is read from left-right.



Skip Beat
Author: Nakamura Yoshiki
Artist:  Nakamura Yoshiki
Year of Release: 2012
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Shoujo, Slice of life
Status: ongoing and it also has a anime adaption that is finished.

Synopsis:

 Kyoko Mogami is the childhood friend of superstar Sho Fuwa. Kyoko was so mindlessly in love with Sho that she followed him to the city on his quest to become a famous singer. But she soon realizes Sho was only using her as his personal maid to take care of household chores and pay the rent. Heartbroken, Kyoko won't suffer in silence--she's going to get her sweet revenge by beating Sho in show biz!

A funny and entertaining romance story of a "diamond in the rough" trying to find her place in showbiz, and the people around her.



Friday 4 January 2013

2013 Reading Challenges

I know i won't read many books so i've decided to participate in some reading challenges and those are: 

2013 Standalone Reading Challenge

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Saturday 22 December 2012

Promo Blitz + Giveaway: Fang Girl Helen Keeble


Today i have another great book to share: Fang Girl by Helen Keeble. It sounds like a really fun and great read. Head below to read a fun guest post by the author herself and don't forget the chance to participate in the giveaway! ;)




Fang Girl by Helen Keeble
Pages: 352
Publisher: HarperTeen
Pub date: September 11th 2012

Synopsis:

You know somethings seriously wrong when you wake up in a coffin...

Things That Are Destroying Jane Greene’s Undead Social Life Before It Can Even Begin:

1) A twelve-year-old brother who’s convinced she’s a zombie.
2) Parents who are begging her to turn them into vampires.
3) The pet goldfish she accidentally turns instead.
4) Weird superpowers that let her rip the heads off of every other vampire she meets.(Sounds cool, but it doesn’t win you many friends.)
5) A psychotic vampire creator who’s using her to carry out a plan for world domination.

And finally:
6) A seriously ripped vampire hunter who either wants to stake her or make out with her. Not sure which.

Being an undead, eternally pasty fifteen-year-old isn’t quite the sexy, brooding, angst-fest Jane always imagined....

Helen Keeble’s riotous debut novel combines the humor of Vladimir Tod with Ally Carter’s spot-on teen voice. With a one-of-a-kind vampire mythology and an irresistibly relatable undead heroine, this uproarious page-turner will leave readers bloodthirsty for more.



Find Fang Girl on: Goodreads I Shelfari I Amazon US I Barnes & Noble 

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