Happy Turkey Day & a winner.

First I want to say Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. I hope you enjoy your day with family and friends.

Also, I have a winner: Inspired Kathy has one the book contest. Please email me your address and I'll send the book out.

I'm off the rest of the week. Enjoy everyone. And be safe on Black Friday. No stampedes this year, please.

I want it Wednesday

My female readers will be all over this one. They have been looking for angsty books and I think this one fills their needs. This one says it is "book 1" so I assume there will be others in the series. But I am not sure how many.

Summary:
With the rent overdue and her bipolar mother missing, seventeen-year-old Adele is forced out of her home and although she tries to maintain the pretense of normality, things rapidly fall apart.

ZZZzzzzzzz! Holy Wordy Batman!

I have never read anything by this author before. I knew she had a trilogy but I didn't want to read it. However, this new trilogy was set during the Victorian Era. I couldn't wait to read it.

The book is as heavy as a doorstop. It comes it at a large 496 pages. Yikes! I hate long books, but it was the summer so I decided to dive into it. Well, I finally finished it. Yes, that's right, finally finished it. I started in August. It is now November.

Tessa is a young American who is kidnapped by two women and forced to use her powers(which she didn't know she had) to take over people's bodies. Her powers will be used for evil, but thankfully she is saved by a group of Shadowhunters and whisked away to a secret undisclosed location. There she meets a merry band of Shadowhunters thus exposing her to their quirky personalities. Tessa, now that she is free, wants to find her brother and she realizes that he has been kidnapped by an evil vampire. They need to get him back.

I would have liked the novel if it hadn't been so wordy. I think this novel could have gone through a good edit. There was a lot of information that didn't need to be in the book. On Amazon some reviewers have said the characters are like those in her previous books. I can't comment on that, but I'm throwing it out there for my readers.

I think I would have enjoyed a smaller book. But plowing through almost 500 pages left me numb.

Students who are fans of Ms. Clare may want to give this one a go. However, I'm not sure who else would enjoy it.

Historical Fiction Friday

A little bit of mystery is in this novel. Ms. Hearn has written six other novels. I really want to read this one.

Summary:
Every family has its secrets. . . .

Hazel Louise Mull-Dare has a good life, if a bit dull. Her adoring father grants her every wish, she attends a prestigious school for the Daughters of Gentlemen, and she receives no pressure to excel in anything whatsoever. But on the day of the Epsom Derby—June 4th, 1913—everything changes. A woman in a dark coat fatally steps in front of the king's horse, protesting the injustice of denying women the vote. Hazel is transfixed. And when her bold American friend, Gloria, convinces her to stage her own protest, Hazel gets a taste of rebellion. But her stunt leads to greater trouble than she could have ever imagined—Hazel is banished from London to her family’s sugar plantation in the Caribbean. There she is forced to confront the dark secrets of her family—secrets that have festered—and a shame that lingers on.

I want it Wednesday

A day late, but here it is. I want it Wednesday.

Summary:
Karl Shoemaker, starting his senior year in Lightsburg, Ohio, in 1973, vows to break out of the therapy group he has been forced to attend during school hours and become "normal."

Book Giveaway ! Gemini Night

I have a book giveaway. I would like to thank the publisher for giving me a copy to pass on to one of my lucky readers.

Here are the rules:

• Contest is open to America and Canada participants only. Sorry.
• New followers will receive 5 entries.
• Everyone else will receive 2 entries.
• Please post a reply to this message to enter the contest.
  
• Contest ends Nov. 16, 2010.

Summary: Starting her junior year, Logan McRae is excited about her internship at CRUSH magazine. But she is not so excited about her new boyfriend Jeremy’s travel abroad in Ireland. Logan’s in over her head trying to balance school, love, and friends, while trying to solve an astrological mystery—the fate of a Gemini is star-crossed.

Will Logan find out who is in danger before the CRUSH Halloween costume party? Can she prove to the publisher she deserves her own astrology column? And will her relationship with Jeremy survive the distance? Only time will tell as Logan continues to reach for the stars!

Upcoming Releases for November

• Prime Evil by Chris Lynch
• The daughters break the rules by Joanna Phibin
  
• The Mockingbirds by Daisy Whitney
• The other side of dark by Sarah Smith
• Virals by Kathy Reichs
• The Devil's Sword by Douglas Richards
• Teenage wasteland by Lynn Biederman
• Five flavors of dumb by Anthony John
• Blank Confessions by Pete Hautman
• Threads and flames by Esther Friesner
• Matched by Ally Condie

I want it Wednesday

Ick. I've been a huge slacker. I dunno what my problem is. I'm gonna have to get on the ball.

For this Wednesday I decided to do a guy book.

Summary:
Although they have never gotten along well, seventeen-year-old Levi follows his older brother Boaz, an ex-Marine, on a walking trip from Boston to Washington, D.C. in hopes of learning why Boaz is completely withdrawn.