Booking It

It’s official - Becca Fitzpatrick is on crack. “Chilling” my ass. Find out why I loathe Andrew Fukuda’s series opener, The Hunt, beneath the break!

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Zoe Marriott’s Shadows on the Moon is a beautiful, unconventional fairy-tale. Find out why, exactly, I liked it so much under the break!

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This being one of the most highly anticipates series-openers (and YA releases in general) of 2012, I was thrilled to get my hands on a review copy! Check out my thoughts on Julie Kagawa’s The Immortal Rules under the break.

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When I finish the series, I shall do a more formal “wrap up,” but for now, here are my thoughts on Frostbite.

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12 Books to Read in 2012: 2012 YA Releases!

Filmed, edited, and promptly forgotten. I give you a very belated 2012 releases video, filmed, as you can tell, in March. Sorry bout that :/

Book Review: Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers

Must I wait until 2013 for the next one? Must I? Really??

Goal-setting is good. With that in mind, I’ve realized I’m being altogether too optimistic about my reading abilities! Here’s what I plan to crack open in April:

1) Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers: A killer historical fantasy featuring assassin nuns. When I drafted my TBR a couple of days ago, I didn’t realize how quickly I’d blast through it! It’s already been released, and I’ve just finished reading it as of this post - so look for a review sometime in the (hopefully) near future.

2) The Peculiars by Maureen McQuerry: An interesting mix of steampunk and paranormal, this one features a teenager named Lena on the search for her missing father, who disappeared into a mysterious wilderness populated by “Peculiars” many years before. (Potentially disastrous? Potentially awesome?)

3) Shadows on the Moon by Zoe Marriott: With a fairytale-esque premise, and some dark undertones, Shadows is about a young girl named Suzume capable of re-creating her identity through the magic of shadow-weaving. Looks absolutely gorgeous!

4) The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa: Holy freak. Need I even explain? In case I do, this is the delightful Julie Kagawa’s take on vampire mythology. Let’s hope she can infuse some of her magic into this sadly over-worked genre. So very, very excited!

5) The Hunt by Andrew Fukuda: A Hunger Games feel with a vampiric spin, Hunt deals with a human boy forced to run with a pack of vampires, all the while trying to resist the allure of a girl he can’t have.

6) Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco: This one is a thick, journalistic graphic novel about Joe Sacco’s experience talking to the victims of a historically-footnoted incident in the 1950s Gaza Strip, relating to the war between Israel and Palestine.

7) Diamond Grill by Fred Wah: Another prescribed piece of Can Lit, this time a collection of prose-poetry dealing with Wah’s experience as a Chinese-Canadian, seen through the lens of the eponymous Diamond Grill restaurant.

8) The Fox by D. H. Lawrence: Technically a novella, Lawrence’s modernist classic presents two parallel stories (a fox menacing a chicken farm, and a man menacing the two women who own it) in a social commentary.

9) Molloy by Samuel Beckett: I wish I could tell you what this book is about. Kind of an ambitious read for me - the first paragraph is 82 pages long! That’s right… What am I getting myself into?

10) The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah: Sadly all of the images of this one’s cover are extremely tiny, extremely blurry, or both. A piece of African literature dealing with a railway clerk living in modern-day Ghana and dealing with the issues that no doubt arise from such a situation. 

Left unread from my March TBR and thereby transfered over is Froi of the Exiles by Melina Marchetta. There are a couple of reasons I didn’t get to this one in March, and hopefully I’ll be able to shed some light on that in my review! Which should actually be posted this month. Hopefully.

First in a new paranormal mystery series, Jill Hathaway’s Slide was definitely an interesting read! A little out of my usual genre boundary, but a solid book nonetheless.

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Books of the Month(s): February/March 2012

It’s a long video, but that’s because there’s a lot of books! Links to my reviews (well, the ones I’ve written so far) are below.

Northanger Abbey: 
Classic pick video to come.

The Book of Blood & Shadow: 
http://bookingitreviews.tumblr.com/post/20128525740/bloodandshadow

The Way We Fall: 
http://bookingitreviews.tumblr.com/post/19587770310/thewaywefall

Incarnate: 
Review to come.

Cinder: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDqRQMV2rDU

Spellbound: 
http://bookingitreviews.tumblr.com/post/19139250032/spellbound

Spellcaster: 
http://bookingitreviews.tumblr.com/post/19796445194/spellcaster

Croak: 
http://bookingitreviews.tumblr.com/post/19914016179/croak

A Million Suns:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ym9xeXKZTx4

A Temptation of Angels: 
http://bookingitreviews.tumblr.com/post/20020446392/temptationofangels

Sold: 
Review to come.

Is Robin Wasserman’s teen action thriller, rife with comparisons to The DaVinci Code, a standout among the pack of YA paranormal romances and dystopian revolutions? Find out under the break! And yes! I do love writing cheesy openers!

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