miércoles, 8 de mayo de 2013

Reseña: The Immortale Rules de Julie Kagawa

 
The Immortal Rules
de Julie Kagawa
Harlequin Teen
464 pg.
Marzo 2013
 
"No hagas duelo por lo perdido, simplemente sigue adelante"-Allie

Decadas después de que el Viros Rojo Pulmonar ha diezmado la población humana, las ciudades han sucumbido y un nuevo orden a tomado el control del mundo, los Vampiros.

Los inmortales, también fueron afectados por la epidemia. Ahora principes vampiros decadentes, gobiernan con puño de hierro las destruidas ciudades, cuidando con recelo sus proveedores de alimento, su ganado de sangre. Los humanos han sido registrados y enlistados para sus donaciones regulares de sangre.

Eta es la realidad de Allison Sekemoto. Los vampiros se han llevado la familia y los sueños de Allie. Sola y sin enlistar, pepena el Fringe para sobrevivir. Anhela escapar de la destruida ciudad, pero nadie sobrevive por mucho tiempo fuera de la muralla. Hay peores pesadillas afuera que adentro.

Pero al enfrentarse a la muerte Allie escoge convertirse en lo que mas odia. Es convertida por Kanin, un enigmatico vampiro que va en contra de la ley, quien le enseña también impresionantes y sorpresivas cosas, como pelear, como alimentarse, como entender sus nuevos sentidos. Ella es un mounstro, pero es ella quien debe decidir que clase de mounstro será.

La última prueba llega cuando Allie conoce a un grupo de humanos que estan en busca de un legendario lugar llamado Eden. Y es el segundo en comando, un joven, de ojos azules quien la desarma. Valiente, noble e inocente Zeke cree que Allie es una buena persona. Persona. Por cuanto tiempo podrà ella oculatr su verdad? Todo se resumira, en cual de sus apetitos sea mayor.
 
Escribir esta reseña no fue fácil, así que empezaré con decir, que me encanta Julie Kagawa, sus historias y su manera de escribir, estoy completamente enamorada de la saga The Iron Fey, así que esperaba bastante de este libro. En alguna ocasión leí un comentario de Julie, diciendo que no estaba interesada en escribir ningun libro de vampiros, pues ya habia mucho material al respecto, y debo decir que tenia razon. A primera vista, o leida, el libro me recordo mucho a libros previamente leidos, como Black City de Elizabeth Richards y a todos los libros de las saga Morganville Vampires. Hay muchos detalles que no son solo parecidos, sino completamente iguales. Afortunadamente este sentimiento fue borrado una vez que la acción empezó, una vez que Allie es convertida en vampiro la situación cambió y pude disfrutar de la lectura, el libro en general es un tanto predecible, pero la historia de suspenso, el terror y un malvado por ahi que anda haciendo de las suyas, hacen que valga la pena leer el libro. Allie es ruda y valiente y eso me gusta en todos los personajes principales femeninos, y Kanin, el vampiro que la convirtio es un tipo fresco que no se involucra mucho, solo busca ayudarla un poco y en el inter tratar de solucionar sus errores del pasado; también me encantó el hecho de que ella no se enamorara de él, eso hubiera sido un patetico cliche. Allie lucha constantemente entre mantener vivos o comerse a los humanos con quien esta. Ella empieza a enamorarse de Zeke, el segundo al mando en este grupo de humanos, pero la relación entre ellos se vuelve confusa y queda inconclusa. Me entusiasma leer que pasará con ellos y si podrán o no estar un juntos en un mundo post apocaliptico en donde o te estas muriendo de hambre, o tu mismo eres la comida.
 
 
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Julie Kagawa


Julie Kagawa nacio en Sacramento, California. Pero ahi no le paso nada emocionante. Asi a la edad de 9 años, su familia se mudo a Hawai, la cual, la pronto, estaba habitada por grandes colonias de insectos carnivoros y colonias de geckos, y frecuentes huracanes. Paso mucho de su tiempo en el oceano, cuandono estaba siendo perseguida, por tiburones, medusas o extrañas anguilas.
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Book Review: Dare You To by Katie McGarry

 
Dare You To
by Katie McGarry
Harlequin Teen
480 pg.
May 2013
 
"I dare you…"
If anyone knew the truth about Beth Risk's home life, they'd send her mother to jail and seventeen-year-old Beth who knows where. So she protects her mom at all costs. Until the day her uncle swoops in and forces Beth to choose between her mom's freedom and her own happiness. That's how Beth finds herself living with an aunt who doesn't want her and going to a school that doesn't understand her. At all. Except for the one guy who shouldn't get her, but does….
Ryan Stone is the town golden boy, a popular baseball star jock—with secrets he can't tell anyone. Not even the friends he shares everything with, including the constant dares to do crazy things. The craziest? Asking out the Skater girl who couldn't be less interested in him.
But what begins as a dare becomes an intense attraction neither Ryan nor Beth expected. Suddenly, the boy with the flawless image risks his dreams—and his life—for the girl he loves, and the girl who won't let anyone get too close is daring herself to want it all….



Ok, this was definitely a page turning, Once I started it I couldn't stop, I barely did anything else, I read it in just one day, I'm used to paranormal and fantasy, so reading someting different was refreshing.

This book is amazing, the love story ,yes it is so great, but beyond it, Beth story, all her tragedy, the world she lives in, it is so well written, disturbing but at the same time, you can totally understand her and the way she acts.

There is so much to like about Ryan, he is cute, handsome. athletic, smart, a gentleman and also his life is not a piece of cake.

It is a really good book, it is enterteining, different, it portraits really well real life.

But over all in Dare You To, we can see that there is no need of paranormal, to read about real disturbing monsters, because the monsters are within ourselfes, and McGarry makes such an amazing job, by telling us about monsters in such a dramatic way but still she does it so soft that you don't want to cry out all the way.

With this book I laughed, I cried and I hoped.

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KATIE MCGARRY was a teenager during the age of grunge and boy bands and remembers those years as the best and worst of her life. She is a lover of music, happy endings, and reality television, and is a secret University of Kentucky basketball fan.

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martes, 7 de mayo de 2013

Book Review: The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa

 
The Immortal Rules
By Julie Kagawa
Harlequin Teen
464 pg.
March 2013
 
 
Writting this review for me is not easy, so first I will start with what I loved about this book. First, I love Julie Kagawa and her work, I'm in love with The Iron Fey series, also of Julie Kagawa, so I expected a lot of this book. I read a comment that once Julie said that she didn't want to write a vampire book, because there were so many of them already, and I agree, although she manage to make a different story, it still remind me about some books previously read, including Black City of Elizabeth Richards, and  Morganville Vampires Series of Rachel Caine. This feeling was soon washed out when the action started, Allie is such an unexpected character, I mean she is rude and brave, someting different in a main character, and Kanin OMG, he is awesome, I like that he is not the cool guy with all the anwers he is just a vampire trying to get on with his life and fix some of his biggest mistakes, I loooved that fact that they two weren't and issue, that have been such a cliche.
This book tells us the story of Allie's journey, between being a human starving to death all time, and worrying of being eaten, to being a newborn vampire not wanting to turn into a monster but realizing this is maybe her only choice.
 
Discovering her alternatives, Allie decides to help a group of humans she met, and the adventures begin. Allie struggles between trying to keep them alive and not to eat them, and also with the feelings she is having for this sweet and noble guy Zeke, who will give his live for the other humans with him. The story between Zeke and Allie is not concluded, although it is obvious they like each other, we still need to see what will happen next. I'm excited about seeing them together, but will that  be possible in a post apocaliptic world, in which you are either food or starving?
 
In order not to spoil more this book, I will stop my review here, in the end it was a good book, I didn't love it, but really liked it, I must read tne next book in the series.
 
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Julie Kagawa
Julie Kagawa was born in Sacramento, California. But nothing exciting really happened to her there. So, at the age of nine she and her family moved to Hawaii, which she soon discovered was inhabited by large carnivorous insects, colonies of house geckos, and frequent hurricanes. She spent much of her time in the ocean, when she wasn't getting chased out of it by reef sharks, jellyfish, and the odd eel.
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jueves, 14 de marzo de 2013

The Bliss Quote Hop


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To be released on March 18, 2013


Like his fallen brother Lucifer, Hadrian has been ordered by his fellow angels into a reflective state know as the Bliss.

Having also grown enamored by the same darkness that inhabits human souls, he feels that Lucifer's banishment was too severe.

Forever influenced by that horrific event, Hadrian vows revenge and ventures to Earth to follow him, unwittingly starting an eternal competition for the control of human and angelic souls alike.

In this Angel Star novella, THE BLISS will show how the battle between dark and light truly began.


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It is almost time for a decision to be made, and it is with deep regret that I fear that my brother will
be the one who will not choose wisely. He must choose wisely.



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About the Author

Jennifer Murgia has been writing since she was nine years old. After receiving recognition for her poetry, she went on to use her talents to bring characters to life in fiction novels that are authentic, intriguing, and personal. She currently resides in Pennsylvania with her husband and two children.


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lunes, 11 de marzo de 2013

Monday Review: Open Heart by Emlyn Chand


OPEN HEART

Simmi Shergill's life is a mess. Her powers of psychic feeling are on the fritz, and Grandon Township's sudden population boom has brought quite a few unsavory characters to town. She also looks like an over-blown balloon in her size 14 pants, but not even starving herself seems to be helping.

At least she has Alex, the boyfriend who loves her so much he'd do anything for her. Last summer, he even risked his life to protect her from the mysterious boy everyone was convinced wanted to kill her.

Just one problem: she's not so sure she feels the same way. Is Alex really the man of her dreams? Why can't she stop fixating on her would-be killer, Dax? Part of her wants to run screaming in the other direction whenever Dax is around, while the other part longs to run into his embrace, no matter whom she'd hurt or what she'd risk.

Simmi's loyalty is on the line. Whom will she choose—the blind seer who loves her, or the charming telekinetic with "bad idea" written all over him? Emotions run high in the tension-packed book two of the Farsighted series.

 
Let me tell you, that this was a very complicated book for me to rate, first I loooved the book, the stories are so real, the characters deal with so many issues that any teenager deals with, and me as a mother was scare about thinking that sooner than I think my kids will be dealing with this kind of stuff.

This is the sequel of Farsighted, awesome is that, in the first book we get into this world through Alex's pov, now we do it through Simi's view, and first you will find Simmi very likeble, but with every page, arggg I wanted to kill her, so insecure and immadure, not seeing what the right decisions were, but then I realize that she is a teenager!! you know and sometimes teenagers are so mean and crazy and confused, and I was amaze by the way Emlyn Chand is able to integrate so very real issues of teenagers life to a magical and mystical world.

If you liked Farsighted you must definitely read this book, also I can't wait for the next books in this series.

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About The Author...

From an early age, Emlyn Chand has counted books among her best friends. She loves to hear and tell stories and emerged from the womb with a fountain pen grasped firmly in her left hand (true story). Her affinity for the written word extends to absolutely every area of her life: she has published three novels and three children’s books with plans for many more of each, leads a classics book group with almost five-hundred members, and, of course, runs the whole shebang at Novel Publicity.

The book that changed Emlyn’s life is Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crocket Johnson. It opened her eyes to the world that could exist if only she was willing to create it—a lesson she has never forgotten. While she enjoys all types of novels, her greatest loves are literary fiction and YA. She’s best known for her Farsighted series and is developing a slow but steady following for the Bird Brain Books. She’s eager to see how her women’s fiction novel, Torn Together, will be received by the reading masses.


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viernes, 8 de marzo de 2013

Review: Farsighted by Emlyn Chand



 
 
Alex Kosmitoras's life has never been easy. The only other student who will talk to him is the school bully, his parents are dead broke and insanely overprotective, and... oh yeah, he's blind.
Just when he thinks he'll never have a shot at a normal life, an enticing new girl comes to their small Midwest town all the way from India. Simmi is smart, nice, and actually wants to be friends with Alex. Plus she smells like an Almond Joy bar. Sophomore year might not be so bad after all.

Alex is in store for another new arrival—an unexpected and often embarrassing ability to "see" the future. Try as he may, Alex is unable to ignore his visions, especially when they suggest Simmi is in mortal danger.

With the help of the mysterious psychic next door and friends who come bearing gifts of their own, Alex embarks on his journey to change the future.
 
 
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So, when I start reading this book, it was actually refreshing, reading a book from a teenager boy point of view, was awesome, different, exciting, and as I just say it was refreshing. Alex is a pretty much normal boy, what I loved about him and all the characters in this book is that they are pretty real, they are not perfect, better of all they are not saints, they, as almost all teenagers, are selfish, selfconcern, insecure and immature. That's why sometimes I just wanted to close the book and stop reading it, but the story in itself was so alluring I just couldn't stop.
 
Emlyn Chand is an awesome writer, she use reality, she use fantasy and pulls them together, and she gets great results. I really enjoy this book, because it makes you see reality through the "eyes" of a blind kid, and how this fact doesn't affect the common issues of a teenager, he falls in love, he is jelous, he has fears and over all he has amazing friends. I strongly recommend you to get into the Farsighted world, it is magic, and enchanting. You will totally love some characters, and totally hate another, but you will enjoy it a lot.
 
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miércoles, 27 de febrero de 2013

WoW... The Bliss by Jennifer Murgia



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To be released on March 18, 2013
 
 

Like his fallen brother Lucifer, Hadrian has been ordered by his fellow angels into a reflective state know as the Bliss.

 Having also grown enamored by the same darkness that inhabits human souls, he feels that Lucifer's banishment was too severe.

Forever influenced by that horrific event, Hadrian vows revenge and ventures to Earth to follow him, unwittingly starting an eternal competition for the control of human and angelic souls alike.

In this Angel Star novella, THE BLISS will show how the battle between dark and light truly began.

It's been a long wait for this novella, but every day is getting closer, if you read Angel Star and Lemniscate, you must not miss this prequel, and if you haven't read them I strongly recommend you to do it, you will enjoy and fall in love with them.


About the Author

Jennifer Murgia has been writing since she was nine years old. After receiving recognition for her poetry, she went on to use her talents to bring characters to life in fiction novels that are authentic, intriguing, and personal. She currently resides in Pennsylvania with her husband and two children.


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viernes, 22 de febrero de 2013

Friday Reads: Angel Star by Jennifer Murgia






 

Angel Star
Jennifer Murgia
Lands Atlantic Publishing LLC
2010
256 p.

So today I am re-reading this amazing book!! Just to be in tone because in less than a month The Bliss will be out and about, this is the prequel of this saga, which you will not want to miss. Here I leave you with the blurb of the book.


Seventeen-year-old Teagan McNeel falls for captivating Garreth Adams, her guardian angel come to earth. But where there is light, dark follows, and now she is torn between one angel's sacrifice and another angel's vicious ambition that threatens not only her life, but the lives of everyone she knows.



About the Author
 
 
Jennifer Murgia has been writing since she was nine years old. After receiving recognition for her poetry, she went on to use her talents to bring characters to life in fiction novels that are authentic, intriguing, and personal. She currently resides in Pennsylvania with her husband and two children.
 
 
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