In the Society, Officials decide. Who you love. Where you work. When you die.
Cassia has always trusted their choices. It’s barely any price to pay for a long life, the perfect job, the ideal mate. So when her best friend appears on the Matching screen, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is the one . . . until she sees another face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. Now Cassia is faced with impossible choices: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she’s known and a path no one else has ever dared follow—between perfection and passion.
This seems pretty intense. Kinda like the Pretties series or The Hunger Games trilogy (wasn't the trilogy amazing?? luved it!), in a sense that it seems to be based in the future – a post apocalyptic book. It sound interesting and again, with my cover thing, it makes me wanna read it even more.
Ash by Malinda Lo
Cinderella retold In the wake of her father's death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. Consumed with grief, her only joy comes by the light of the dying hearth fire, rereading the fairy tales her mother once told her. In her dreams, someday the fairies will steal her away, as they are said to do. When she meets the dark and dangerous fairy Sidhean, she believes that her wish may be granted. The day that Ash meets Kaisa, the King's Huntress, her heart begins to change. Instead of chasing fairies, Ash learns to hunt with Kaisa. Though their friendship is as delicate as a new bloom, it reawakens Ash's capacity for love-and her desire to live. But Sidhean has already claimed Ash for his own, and she must make a choice between fairy tale dreams and true love. Entrancing, empowering, and romantic, Ash is about the connection between life and love, and solitude and death, where transformation can come from even the deepest grief.
I love fairy retellings. It's amazing how so many different variations can come from one simple story...and one that's read to children to night! There are so many different variations I've read, like The Poison Apples by Lily Archer which can kinda be based on Cinderella as well, and Snow White. One of the best authors who has done several fairy tale retellings would be Gail Carson Levine, best known for Ella Enchanted. Her book Fairest is an AMAZING retelling of Snow White and it was sooo good. READ IT!
Only the Good Spy Young by Ally Carter
When Cammie Morgan enrolled at the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women, she knew she was preparing for the dangerous life of a spy. She just didn’t know that life would start during her junior year of high school. But that’s exactly what happened two months ago when Cammie faced off against a mysterious organization called the Circle of Cavan. Now, even Cammie “The Chameleon” can’t hide. Danger has followed her to London where she discovers a trusted ally has been labeled a rogue operative. The Gallagher Girls quickly realize that the Circle’s agents are closer than they’d ever feared—maybe even within Gallagher Academy’s own walls. History of Espionage takes on an entirely new meaning as Cammie and her friends go looking for answers, recognizing that the key to Cammie’s future may lie deep in the past.
I know, I know, I KNOW. I've been wanting to get this book for ages, but IT'S NEVER THERE. I can never seem to read it :( sad rite?? well, anyway, you can read a review on Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover here.
Nightshade by Andrea Cremer
While other teenage girls daydream about boys, Calla Tor imagines ripping out her enemies’ throats. And she wouldn’t have it any other way. Calla was born a warrior and on her eighteenth-birthday she’ll become the alpha female of the next generation of Guardian wolves. But Calla’s predestined path veers off course the moment she saves the life of a wayward hiker, a boy her own age. This human boy’s secret will turn the young pack's world upside down and forever alter the outcome of the centuries-old Witches' War that surrounds them all.
You know the drill. COVER. IS. FANTASTIC and SOOOOOO EYE CATCHING! I swear, I think I'll jude books by their covers for the rest of my life, and that mean that I'll be reading non-stop cause there are SO MANY GOOD COVERS!!! sigh..what happened to the good old days, where covers were simple and people read them and judged them by the text not the cover? Anyway, this seems like another really interesting and possibly-fantastic paranormal/supernatural romance (was it a romance? cause it seemed like a romance by the blurb) and it's definitely one of the tops of my wishlist...which I should ask someone *ehem* dad to buy for me when he goes on another trip.
The Eternal Ones by Kristen Miller
Haven Moore can't control her visions of a past with a boy called Ethan, and a life in New York that ended in fiery tragedy. In our present, she designs beautiful dresses for her classmates with her best friend Beau. Dressmaking keeps her sane, since she lives with her widowed and heartbroken mother in her tyrannical grandmother's house in Snope City, a tiny town in Tennessee. Then an impossible group of coincidences conspire to force her to flee to New York, to discover who she is, and who she was.
In New York, Haven meets Iain Morrow and is swept into an epic love affair that feels both deeply fated and terribly dangerous. Iain is suspected of murdering a rock star and Haven wonders, could he have murdered her in a past life? She visits the Ouroboros Society and discovers a murky world of reincarnation that stretches across millennia. Haven must discover the secrets hidden in her past lives, and loves – before all is lost and the cycle begins again.
This book seems very suspenseful. Seems like an interesting read and goes onto the concepts of afterlife...in a sense. It just seems like a maddening question; who is this guy and did he or did he NOT kill her?? I hope it's like cliff-hangy and stuff. That just makes me even more eager to read the book.
I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
Nine of us came here. We look like you. We talk like you. We live among you. But we are not you. We can do things you dream of doing. We have powers you dream of having. We are stronger and faster than anything you have ever seen. We are the superheroes you worship in movies and comic books—but we are real.
Our plan was to grow, and train, and become strong, and become one, and fight them. But they found us and started hunting us first. Now all of us are running. Spending our lives in shadows, in places where no one would look, blending in. we have lived among you without you knowing.
But they know.
They caught Number One in Malaysia.
Number Two in England.
And Number Three in Kenya.
They killed them all.
I am Number Four.
I am next.
I will admit, the blurb DID scare me. It seems well, like something's out to get you if you don't read the book. It seems amazing though. And they're making a movie out of it! when I found out about the movie, I was like "WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME?? WHY HAVEN'T I READ THIS BOOK YET?!?" I will get my hands on this book.
You'll see.
The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson
Seventeen-year-old Lennie Walker, bookworm and band geek, plays second clarinet and spends her time tucked safely and happily in the shadow of her fiery older sister, Bailey. But when Bailey dies abruptly, Lennie is catapulted to center stage of her own life--and, despite her nonexistent history with boys, suddenly finds herself struggling to balance two. Toby was Bailey's boyfriend; his grief mirrors Lennie's own. Joe is the new boy in town, a transplant from Paris whose nearly magical grin is matched only by his musical talent. For Lennie, they're the sun and the moon; one boy takes her out of her sorrow, the other comforts her in it. But just like their celestial counterparts, they can't collide without the whole wide world exploding.
This seems kinda sweet and simple, not a book involving Vampires, Werewolves and Witches OH MY!. It seems like a book that I would really dig into and find easy to flow and understand, not something heavy where every character dies (except the main one of course) and then they have to bring back everyone and blah blah blah blah BLAH. I mean, seriously, I think I deserve a break people. That's probably why I wanna read this book so bad.
WELL! Finally I finished...it took a whole lotta finding covers and blurbs and basing my opinions and things but I made it through! now the main question is, what books are you waiting for and can't wait to get your fleshy paws onto?? Reply in the Comments and I'll Maybe try out your wishlist as well!
❘Goodreads). AMAZING! Can't wait to get my hands on the second one :D.
❘Goodreads).
❘Goodreads), City of Bones (Amazon
❘Goodreads), City of Glass ([Really Short] Review❘Amazon
❘Goodreads) by Cassandra Clare. Can't wait for City of Fallen Angels (Amazon
❘Goodreads)!
❘Goodreads) by Becca Fitzpatrick.
❘Goodreads). It's the latest House of Night book, and even though the last one was erm, okay, I still wanna give it a try!
