Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead, Review and Critique.

Vampire Academy
by Richelle Mead
Razorbill
2007
336 p.


Rose and Lissa, the Dragomir Princess, have been living, running and hiding for the last two years. They run away from the maximum security and private institute where they studied, this just for the well-being of the princess, Rose will never allow that anything happen to the Princess, she is after all her best friend. But there are catch by one of the best Guards, Dimitri, and they are forced to return.

After getting back, they will have to catch on with the classes, they will have to face high school intrigues, forbidden romances, but specially Rose will have to fight back to protect her best friend from the Strigoi, un-dead and evil vampires that want Moroi´s blood, alive and good vampires; and yes, by the way Lissa, she is a Moroi.

Until now, one of the best books I have read. Rose as main character is great. She is strong, intelligent, fun, aggressive, and clever. She breaks the rules even the ones that are specially made for her, she is always into trouble but only to get a higher good. Lissa, on her side, she is tender and sweet and nice, she is exactly the opposite of Rose, she is a weak character, but only physically, because she possesses a great love capacity, and she only wants to help others. Sometimes you can love her, but some other times you can really get desperate because her innocence. This book of course has guys, and wow the guys, they are pretty handsome. Dimitri as a Guard, he is smart, intelligent, strong, and responsible and serious, but sometimes he can do some crazy things but just because of the attraction he feels for Rose, but he will always protect Rose and Lissa; and Christian, a rejected Moroi, he will make Lissa feel that she is not alone when she feels different or depressed and that he can be her companion, even something more.

In a contemporary environment, surrounded by the vampire myths, mixed with institutes that look like old palaces, royalty vampire conducts and ceremonies placed all in the Montana woods; the trees and mountains in the background, make this book an extraordinary experience, you feel transported to the mystery that offers the shadows and the mist of the woods.

Full of romance, action, mystery and a lot of vampires, this is a book that, without doubt, will catch you.

Vampire Academy de Richelle Mead, Reseña y Critica.

Vampire Acamdemy
by Richelle Mead
Razorbill
336 p.
2007

Rose y Lissa, la Princesa Dragomir, han vivido huyendo durante los últimos dos años, escaparon del instituto privado y de máxima seguridad donde estudiaban; esto por el bien de la Princesa, Rose nunca permitiría que nada le pasara a la princesa pues ella era su mejor amiga. Pero son atrapadas por uno de los mejores guardias, Dimitri, y deben regresar.

Al regresar al colegio tendrán que recuperar las clases perdidas; deberán enfrentarse a intrigas estudiantiles, a romances prohibidos, pero sobre todo Rose deberá luchar para proteger a su amiga de los Strigoi, vampiros muertos y malvados que desean la sangre de los Moroi, vampiros vivos y buenos; y si por cierto Lissa es un Moroi.

Hasta ahora uno de los mejores libros que he leído. Rose como personaje principal esta genial es fuerte, inteligente, astuta y divertida, siempre metiéndose en problemas pero solo para alcanzar un bien mayor. Rose rompe las reglas incluso las que son hechas solo para ella. Lissa por su lado es dulce y tierna, la contraparte de Rose, es un personaje débil, aunque solo físicamente, ya que posee una capacidad de amor tan grande que solo quiere ayudar a los demás, puedes amarla, y a veces también puede llegar a desesperarte que sea tan ingenua. Los galanes no se dejan esperar y son de lo mejor, Dimitri como Guardián, es fuerte, e inteligente, responsable y serio pero su atracción por Rose lo hace cometer algunas locuras pero siempre buscara lo mejor para ella y para Lissa; y Christian, un Moroi rechazado por los demás, le hará sentir a Lissa que no esta sola cuando se siente distinta o deprimida y que el puede ser su compañía incluso algo mas.

En un ambiente moderno se encuentran mezclados los elementos de los mitos vampiricos, institutos parecidos a palacios antiguos, ceremonias y conductas que tienen que ver con la realeza vampirica, ubicado todo en un bosque de Montana, con árboles, y montañas de fondo, hacen de este libro una experiencia extraordinaria, te sientes transportado al misterio de las sombras y bruma que ofrecen los bosques.

Lleno de acción, romance, misterio, y muchos vampiros es un libro que sin duda te atrapara.

Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, Review and Critique.

Beautiful Creatures (Hermosas Creaturas)
De Kami García y Margaret Stohl
Little Brown
576 p.
2009

Ethan Wate, gasps to go out of the village in which he has lived always, with the lack of his mother and his father always locked up, he is alone; and having a few very strange dreams. A new and mysterious girl comes to his school, and being this in a village the
gossip starts, especially for the dread that causes that she is relative to the hermit of the village. Ethan far from rejecting her or to be afraid of her as the others, feels immediately attracted towards her and with the strange need to protect her. Ethan has no idea of what this mysterious girl would bring to his life and the extraordinary world that was on the verge of discovering.



From the first page I get glued to this book, to read it from the point of view of a boy was awesome. Ethan Wate is a sincere, honest and very real character has the qualities that almost we would want to see in the boy of the high school that we liked. He is athletic and at the same time with the enough sensibility as to feel love for books. Wow, a dream comes true.

Lena is a mysterious girl isolated of the world for herself but also for the others, to the being and outsider, becomes difficult to adapt, nothing that does not happen with any new girl, who wants to continue being herself, in any institute.

The book is wonderfully redacted, the description, of the smells is so detailed that it makes you feel like being there; sometimes the book can manage to be really dark and is fascinating how it drives you and get frightened.

Written by two excellent authoresses, it is impressive how they connected so well that you can not notice that they are two different persons, it is as if the genius of both had joined in one alone.

The romance is touching and at the same time very sexy, the scenes between Ethan and Lena, they are full of sweetness and at the same time many sexual tension; this without turning into anything in obscene.

The topic, in spite of being inside the already well-known supernatural romances and urban fantasy, has a good quantity of new situations, the casters, the voodoo, everything approached from the personality of the southerners, is a trip to a magic land and unfortunately full of prejudices. All that makes of Beautiful Creatures, a rich book in context, with wonderful very well developed characters and with such a pure and impossible love story as the union of fire and ice.

The end was completely unexpected, and it leaves you wanting more; luckily we will have that already in a few weeks in Beautiful Darkness.

I really recommend it, if you have not read it yet, definitively it has to be on your list of “to be read” for these summer.

Hermosas Creaturas, de Kami Garcia y Margaret Stohl, Reseña y Crítica

Beautiful Creatures (Hermosas Creaturas)
De Kami García y Margaret Stohl
Little Brown
576 p.

Ethan Wate, anhela salir del pueblo en el que ha vivido siempre, con la falta de su madre y su padre siempre encerrado, se encuentra solo; y teniendo unos sueños muy extraños. Una chica nueva y misteriosa llega a su escuela, y al estar esta en un pueblo se vuelve el centro de los cotilleos, sobre todo por el temor que causa al ser familiar del ermitaño del pueblo. Ethan lejos de rechazarla o temerla como los demás, se siente inmediatamente atraído hacia ella y con la extraña necesidad de protegerla. Ethan no tenia idea de lo que esta misteriosa chica traería a su vida y el mundo extraordinario que estaba a punto de descubrir.



Desde la primera pagina quede prendida de este libro, leerlo desde el punto de vista de un chico fue muy agradable. Ethan Wate es un personaje sincero, honesto y muy real, tiene las cualidades que casi desearíamos ver en el chico del highschool que nos gustaba. Deportista y al mismo tiempo con la sensibilidad suficiente como para sentir amor por los libros, wow todo un sueño.

Lena es una chica misteriosa, aislada del mundo por si misma pero también por los demás, al ser una extraña es difícil adaptarse, nada que no suceda con cualquier chica nueva, que quiera seguir siendo ella misma, en cualquier instituto.

El libro esta maravillosamente relatado, la descripción de los lugares, de los olores es tan detallada que te hace sentir estar ahí; a veces el libro puede llegar a ser realmente tenebroso y es fascinante como te lleva a sentir miedo.

Escrito por dos excelentes autoras, es impresionante como se acoplaron tan bien que ni siquiera puedes notar que son dos personas, es como si la genialidad de ambas se hubiera unido en una sola.

El romance es enternecedor y al mismo tiempo muy sexy, las escenas entre Ethan y Lena, están llenas de dulzura y al mismo tiempo mucha tensión sexual; esto sin convertirse en lo absoluto en obsenas.

El tema, a pesar de estar dentro de los ya bien conocidos romances supernaturales y fantasía urbana, tiene una buena cantidad de situaciones nuevas, la hechicería, el vudu, todo abordado desde la personalidad de los sureños, es un viaje a una tierra mágica y desafortunadamente llena de prejuicios. Todo esto hace de Hermosas Creaturas, un libro rico en contexto, con maravillosos personajes muy bien desarrollados y con una historia de amor tan pura e imposible como la unión del fuego y el hielo.

El fin fue completamente inesperado, y te deja con ganas de mucho mas; lo que afortunadamente tendremos ya en unas cuantas semanas en Beautiful Darkness

Lo recomiendo muchísimo, si aun no lo han leído definitivamente tiene que ser uno de los de su lista a leer para estas vacaciones de verano.

Six days until new release Like Bees to Honey, by Caroline Smailes.

Like Bees to Honey
by Caroline Smailes
The Friday Project
2010
464 p.


Nina, her son Christopher in tow, flies to Malta for one last visit with her aging parents.

Her previous attempt to see them ended in tears. Disowned for falling pregnant while at university in England, she was not allowed into the house.

This will be her final chance to make her peace with them.

But Malta holds more secrets and surprises than Nina could possibly imagine. What she finds is not the land of her youth, a place full of memories and happiness. Instead she meets dead people. Lots of them.

Malta, it transpires, is a transit lounge for recently deceased spirits and somehow Christopher enables her to see them, speak with them and help them.

And, in return, they help Nina come to terms with her own loss. One so great that she has yet to admit it to herself.

Description taken from http://www.carolinesmailes.co.uk/like-bees-to-honey

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Release Today The Demon´s Covenant by Sarah Rees Brennan

The Demon´s Covenant
by Sarah Rees Brennan
Margaret K. McElderry Publisher
440 p.

The Demon's Covenant is the sequel to The Demon's Lexicon. Mae was always in control, but suddenly everyone she trusted is lying--and in danger.


Chapter 1: Magic on Burnt House Lane

“Any minute now,” Rachel said, “something terrible is going to happen to us.”
The area around Burnt House Lane was deserted at this time of night. The cracks in the pavement that Mae hardly noticed by day had turned into shadowy scars along the cement, tracing jagged paths that led into the dark of yet another dead-end alley. They peered down into the alley and made the silent mutual decision to walk on extremely fast. Mae was in the lead.
“Come on, this is an adventure.”
Rachel muttered behind her, “I’m pretty sure that’s what I just said.”Mae had to concede that this might not have been one of her better ideas. She’d just wanted something different now that she was finally able to leave the house, something a little exciting, and a party in an empty warehouse near Burnt House Lane had seemed the perfect plan.
A street lamp above slowly winked its single evil orange eye and night swallowed them at a gulp. The light sputtered back on with a grudging crackle and night spat them up, but by then Rachel and Erica had both walked into Mae’s back and were huddling together.
Rachel was shivering. “I think this may be the worst situation I have ever been in.”
“Don’t be an idiot,” said Mae. “I’ve been in much worse situations than this.”
She shivered and thought of the knife sliding in her sweaty grasp, the terrible resistance as she had sunk it into skin. She remembered the blood on her hands.

Excerpt taken from http://www.sarahreesbrennan.com

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Richelle´s Mead, SPIRIT BOUND, to be release TODAY!

Spirit Bound
Vampire Academy No.5
by Richelle Mead
Peguin/Razorbill Books
2010
496 p.

Dimitri gave Rose the ultimate choice. But she chose wrong…
After a long and heartbreaking journey to Dimitri’s birthplace in Siberia, Rose Hathaway has finally returned to St. Vladimir’s—and to her best friend, Lissa. It is nearly graduation, and the girls can’t wait for their real lives beyond the Academy’s iron gates to begin. But Rose’s heart still aches for Dimitri, and he's out there, somewhere.

She failed to kill him when she had the chance. And now her worst fears are about to come true. Dimitri has tasted her blood, and she knows in her heart that he is hunting her. And if Rose won't join him, he won't rest until he's silenced her...forever

Excerpt taken from http://www.richellemead.com/books/vampireacademy.htm

Congrats to Christine Johnson Claire de Lune, Coming Out Today!!

Claire de Lune
by Chrisitine Johnson
Simon Pulse
336 p.
2010


Hanover Falls hasn’t had a werewolf problem in over one hundred years. Seattle, Copenhagen, Osaka–they’ve had plenty of attacks. But when humans begin dying in Claire Benoit’s town, the panic spreads faster than a rumor at a pep rally. At Claire’s sixteenth birthday party, the gruesome killings are all anyone can talk about. But the big news in Claire’s mind is the fact that Matthew Engle–high-school soccer god and son of a world-renowned lycanthropy expert–notices her. And flirts with her. A lot.

That night, Claire learns that she is the latest in a long line of Benoit werewolves, and that contrary to popular belief, all werewolves are female. Killing humans is forbidden by the code of the pack, but a rogue werewolf has been breaking that law, threatening the existence of Claire’s new pack. As the pack struggles to find and fight the rogue werewolf and Claire struggles with her lupine identity, her heart and her loyalties are torn in two. Claire must keep her new life a secret from even her best friend–and especially from Matthew, whose father is leading the werewolf hunt…and with whom Claire is impossibly and undeniably falling head-over-paws in love.

Descriptión taken from http://www.christinejohnsonbooks.com/books/