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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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The Immortal Rules


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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.

Four Crazy book Cats, to this page turner book!!

 
 
 
 
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About the Author:
 
 
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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The Immortal Rules


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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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viernes, 9 de noviembre de 2012

Review: Undeadly by Michele Vail


So I really liked this book, I'm excited about the sequels...

Full of adventure and mystery, an awesome new saga is comming to life!!

I love main character Molly, she is not stupid, lol, like many other main characters in YA, she is selfish sometimes, which is refreshing too.

The story is very very good, but must important it can  develop into so many more books, we can be reading about Molly adventures for a while, which is awesome.

I was barely at the middle of the book and I was already hoping for a sequel, which is actually going to happen but until 2013.

Rath, a very very hot guy, is so cool, he has his own issues, and he's not like with Molly all the time, and this is great because we get to discover how Molly can come out of her own troubles.

Very good use of Egytian mitology, although I don't know much about it, I think I will go and check some facts.

In resume a very very recommended book, I hope you can read it soon and share your thougths.

Undeadly is comming out on November the 20th, you can pre-order it now.

I give to it, 5 Crazy Book Cats




martes, 6 de noviembre de 2012

Teaser Tuesday: Undeadly by Michele Vail

 
 
UNDEADLY
By Michele Vail
Harlequin Teen
To be released : November 20, 2012
 
The day I turned 16, my boyfriend-to-be died. I brought him back to life. Then things got a little weird...

Molly Bartolucci wants to blend in, date hottie Rick and keep her zombie-raising abilities on the down-low. Then the god Anubis chooses her to become a reaper-and she accidentally undoes the work of another reaper, Rath. Within days, she’s shipped off to the Nekyia Academy, an elite school that trains the best necromancers in the world. And her personal reaping tutor? Rath. Who seems to hate her guts.

Rath will be watching closely to be sure she completes her first assignment-reaping Rick, the boy who should have died. The boy she still wants to be with. To make matters worse, students at the academy start turning up catatonic, and accusations fly-against Molly. The only way out of this mess? To go through hell. Literally.
 
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A zombie bite was nothing to blow off. I'd just have to figure out a way around the stink. I looked toward the barred door and saw the shadow of Mortimer flickering against the frosted glass. "What are you going to do with him?"
"Put him to rest child. Like he wants."
I frowned. "He is a zombie, Dem. How can you know what he wants?"
 
 

lunes, 15 de octubre de 2012

Lunes de Reseña: The Lost Prince de Julie Kagawa

 
 
The Lost Prince
Julie Kagawa
Harlequin Teens
A la venta: 23 de Octubre, 2012
 
Un libro que no podras soltar!!
 
Una lectura increible, la historia de Ethan va mas alla de lo que podemos imaginar..
 
Regresan nuestros queridos personajes, aunque no como principales, pero tenemos a Grimalkin, algo de Puck y un poquitin de Ash y Megan.
 
Es obvio que este no sera el final, seguramente veremos muchas mas historias de Ethan y Keirran, que quien es Kierran??? pues anda a leer el libro!!!
 
Ame este libro, porque muy similar a The Iron Knight, este es un viaje, donde vemos a Ethan madurar, y lo vemos pelear contra todos los conflictos internos, los resentimientos y traumas generados cuando era un niño.
 
La autora creo un mundo, obscuro y aterrador, magico y misterioso. Un mundo donde todos tus temores y sueños pueden hacerse realidad.
 
La historia del romance, es encantadora, dulce e inocente, y el amor entre esta pareja, crece tan lentamente que es entrañable. Lo que me gusto es que fue un romance que se dio poco a poco, no como generalmente sucede en los YA.
 
Definitivamente debes leer este libro, una historia increible, de amor, temores, crecimiento y nuevas amistades!!!
 
Te encantara!!
 
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 Acerca de la autora...
 
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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RoseCBR

Monday Review: The Lost Prince by Julie Kagawa

 
 
The Lost Prince
Julie Kagawa
Harlequin Teens
Release Date: October 23, 2012
 
A non-putting down book!!
 
This was an amazing reading, Ethan's story goes beyond we can imagine.
 
Our beloved characters are there though not as main characters, but we have Grimalkin, some of Puck and a bit of Ash and Megan.
 
It is obvious that this is not going to be the end, we are going to see a lot more of Ethan and Keirran.
 
I loved this book because very much like Iron Knight, this is like a journey, where we see Ethan mature, we see how he has to fight his internal conflicts, all the resentments and traumas caused when he was a little boy.
The world the author create, is dark and scaring, magic and mysterious. A place where all your fears and dreams can come true.
 
The romance story is lovely, so sweet and innocent, and the love between "a couple" grows so slowly that it is endearing.
You definitely must read this book, is and awesome story, of love, fears, growth and new friendships!!
 
You will love it!!
 
I give it 5 Crazy Book Cats...
 
 
 
About the author...
 
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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RoseCBR

martes, 9 de octubre de 2012

Teaser Tuesday: The Lost Prince, by Julie Kagawa

 
 
 
The Lost Prince
Julie Kagawa
Harlequin Teens
Release Date: October 23, 2012
 

 Kenzie took advantage of my surprise and stepped closer. I swallowed and resisted the urge to step back. Kenzie was shorter than me by several inches, but that fact seemed completely lost on her. "Don't worry tough guy. I don't have a boyfriend waiting to slug you in the bathrooms." Her eyes sparkled. "If it comes to that I'll slug you myself."  

 

 
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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TWITTER  +  WEB  +  FACEBOOK  +  BLOG
 
 
 
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Love,
RoseCBR