Most Anticipated (33)

This week My Most Anticipated Release of the Week is, Dance of the Red Death. I have been dying to read the first book, Masque of the Red Death, and I finally got the chance to buy it. It sounds great and I am already eagerly awaiting the sequel. So hopefully it will be as good as I imagine. 

Summary:
In Dance of the Red Death, Araby’s world is in shambles—betrayal, death, disease, and evil forces surround her. She has no one to trust. But she finds herself and discovers that she will fight for the people she loves, and for her city.

Her revenge will take place at the menacing masked ball, though it could destroy her and everyone she loves…or it could turn her into a hero.

With a nod to Edgar Allan Poe, Bethany Griffin concludes her tragic and mysterious Red Death series with a heroine that young adult readers will never forget.

Dance of the Red Death (Masque of the Red Death #2), Bethany Griffin. Expected Publication: June 11, 2013; Greenwillow Books. Hardcover, 336 pgs.

That's what I'm looking forward to this week. How about you? What books do you want to get this week?

Lack of Posting

     I just wanted to give a quick update to let everyone know that no I haven't stopped blogging. You may have noticed that I haven't posted anything since last week, or maybe you didn't. My internet has been crazy spotty since then and it seems every time I get on to do some blog stuff it decides it's time to go out. I'm hoping that it will at least allow me to do a post for Thursday and hopefully I'll get some reviews done in the meantime.

     What have I been doing instead? Reading, reading and you guessed it, more reading. I have done a ton of reading but I have been crazy lazy and have yet to do reviews for all the books I have read this year. I want to catch up but I probably won't be able to review every book that I have read. Maybe I'll do shortened reviews and post on the weekends, which I don't normally do. We'll see.

     Just wanted to let you know why I have been so absent lately. And hopefully my internet will stop sucking and I'll be able to post more regularly.

Review: Blood Prophecy by Alyxandra Harvey

Blood Prophecy (Drake Chronicles #6)

Alyxandra Harvey

Publication Date: January 8, 2013

Publisher: Walker Childrens 

Paperback: 496 pgs

~YA~

Summary:
Solange Drake has been officially crowned Queen of the Vampires, fulfilling the centuries old prophecy that foretold the rise to power of a daughter born to an ancient vampire line. Except Solange's thoughts and actions are no longer her own-she's been slowly being possessed by the spirit of Viola, the first daughter born into the Drake line, since her bloodchange. And instead of uniting the vampire tribes under the rule of an ancient daughter as the prophecy predicted, Viola would rather destroy them all and enslave humans in a personal vendetta for the devastation both wrought to her life centuries ago. Can Solange break her hold in time to save everyone she loves from a vampire civil war, hunter attack, and each other? Not everyone will survive the prophecy . . . perhaps not even her.(Goodreads)

Review:
     Blood Prophecy is the last book in the Drake Chronicles, I've been dying to see how this series concludes but sad that the series would be over. This book is told mostly from Lucy and Solange's POV with a few other POV's thrown in.

 

     I've mentioned before that in the last couple of books I was completely annoyed by Solange. But I have to say knowing she is possessed alleviated my feelings, especially when we are able to see the real Solange again. Through Solange we see why she was possessed as she fights to get her body and mind back under her control. I loved that even though Lucy and Solange haven't been close lately Lucy is sill determined to figure out what is going on with her best friend. Lucy refuses to believe that her best friend could be so evil. Since most of the books are told from Lucy and Solange's POV we get to find out what is going on with the other Drakes including my favorite Drake, Quinn.

     There were a few moments where I was a little confused as to whose POV I was reading. The two voices were a little too similar at times which was a little annoying. This book also seemed to be in two parts; the fight to save Solange and the fight to save the vampires from an attack by the Hunter's. One thing I loved about this book was all the twists and turns that had me going, WHAT!! I couldn't believe some of the things that happened, as I never saw certain things coming.

     I was completely satisfied with how this series ended. Though I am super sad that I won't get to read any more new adventures about the Drakes. I'm just glad that the final book was so good and I wasn't at all disappointed as I have been with other series ending books. I don't feel like I was left with a ton of unanswered questions.

Cover:
I like this cover though I do think this couple has been on too many covers so I don't think it's highly original. But it's not horrible.

Teaser Tuesday (61)

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB at Should be Reading. Anyone can join in. Here's what you need to do.

♥Grab your current read.

♥Open to a random page.

♥Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page.

♥Be careful not to include spoilers! (make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away. You don’t want to ruin the book for others.)

♥Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

This week I'm reading Of Triton. Luckily the bookstore that I went to over the weekend had it out early so I had to get myself a copy. And I have to say I am really liking it. Who doesn't enjoy mer-people?

"I could use my Gift to send the fish away from her, or I could just bust all her teeth out. Maturity seems to be evaporating into the air. I wonder if her Gift includes pushing all my buttons in rapid-point five seconds."

Of Triton (Of Poseidon #2), Anna Banks pg 201.

That's my teaser for the week! What book(s) are you teasing?