Cover Reveal: Infatuate - Aimee Agresti

Infatuate (Gilded Wings #2)

by Aimee Agresti

Expected publication: March 5th 2013 by Harcourt Children's Books 

Mailbox Wednesday.

Wednesday's Mailbox.
I've decided that I will stop participating in In My Mailbox, the reason being I seem to get a lot of books every week and it takes me forever to put them all together in one post and link them up.
So I will be doing Mailbox Mon-Fri every week.   

Brought...

Innocent Darkness (The Aether Chronicles #1) - Suzanne Lazear
I read an e-galley of this and loved it so much I wanted a physical copy.

Silver (Bandia #1) - Talia Vance

Book Review (132): The Assassin And The Desert - Sarah J. Maas

The Assassin and the Desert (Throne of Glass 0.2)

by Sarah J. Maas 

Publication: 30th March 2012

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children's

Pages: 86

Genre: Fantasy

Age Appropriate: Young Adult

*Warning Contains Spoilers From Previous Books In The Series*

The Silent Assassins of the Red Desert aren’t much for conversation, and Celaena Sardothien wouldn’t have it any other way. She’s not there to chatter, she’s there to hone her craft as the world’s most feared killer for hire. When the quiet is shattered by forces who want to destroy the Silent Assassins, Celaena must find a way to stop them, or she’ll be lucky to leave the desert alive.

My Thoughts...

I am so impressed with these novellas, not only are they fantastic stories but they are packed full of excitement and adventure.

This novella takes place a few months after the first one, Celaena has been admonished and beaten for her disobedience over letting the slaves go by her master, as further punishment she is sent to the Red Desert, specifically to the group of the Silent Assassins to train, she is told by her master that she is to return bearing a letter written by the leader of the Silent Assassins, a recommendation of her abilities, as it were.

Learning to train as they do and making a new friend in Ansel her roommate, she finds herself really liking where she is and would love to stay but she still has a debt to pay to her master.

There is a plot to overthrow the leader of the Silent Assassins, and what's worse is it's someone who is a member of the Silent Assassins, but will Celaena find out who it is in time?

I'm really loving these novellas and it's getting me really excited to get around to reading Throne Of Glass.

I give this 5/5.

Mailbox Tuesday.

Tuesday's Mailbox.
I've decided that I will stop participating in In My Mailbox, the reason being I seem to get a lot of books every week and it takes me forever to put them all together in one post and link them up.
So I will be doing Mailbox Mon-Fri every week.  

Brought...

Foretold Anthology
I Mainly Brought This For The Rose & Dimitri Short Story - Richelle Mead

Every Day - David Levithan

The Lost Girl - Sangu Mandanna

The Blood Keeper (The Blood Journals #2) - Tessa Gratton

Starling (Starling #1) - Lesley Livingston

The Dark Light - Sara Walsh

Book Review (131): The Assassin And The Pirate Lord - Sarah J. Maas

The Assassin and the Pirate Lord (Throne of Glass 0.1)

by Sarah J. Maas 

Publication: 13th January 2012

Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's

Pages: 63

Genre: Fantasy

Age Appropriate: Young Adult

A Throne of Glass novella.

On a remote island in a tropical sea, Celaena Sardothien, feared assassin, has come for retribution. She’s been sent by the Assassin’s Guild to collect on a debt they are owed by the Lord of the Pirates. But when Celaena learns that the agreed payment is not in money, but in slaves, her mission suddenly changes—and she will risk everything to right the wrong she’s been sent to bring about.

My Thoughts...

I initially ummed and aahed over whether or not to read the prequel novella's before reading Throne Of Glass, or read the novella's after the book, but I ended up on deciding that I'd like to know Celaena's back-story so I'd be better acquainted  when I do finally get around to the book, and I'm glad that I did.

Celaena is a sixteen-year old, tough kick-ass heroine whom I 

loved, she's an assassin, the best there is, she's sent to an island to collect a debt from an infamous pirate lord, she is accompanied by Sam, another assassin her age, they have an antagonistic relationship and mostly do nothing but fight.

But when Celaena finds out that the reason for being there is to transport slaves back home she knows that there is no way that she can let that happen, and so hatches a plan to free them.

This story was full of action and adventure, and being a novella it's only sixty pages give or take but there is so much story packed into those pages and there's never a dull momemt.

I can't wait to get to the other three and the book, I highly recommend these.

I give it 5/5.

Mailbox Monday.

Monday's Mailbox.
I've decided that I will stop participating in In My Mailbox, the reason being I seem to get a lot of books every week and it takes me forever to put them all together in one post and link them up.
So I will be doing Mailbox Mon-Fri every week. 

Review...

(ARC) Poison Princess (The Arcana Chronicles #1) - Kresley Cole
(Simon And Schuster Australia)
Extremely excited for this one!

The Spindlers - Lauren Oliver
(Hachette Australia)

(ARC) Book Review (130): Amarok - Angela J. Townsend

Amarok

by Angela J. Townsend

Publication: 20th November 2012

Publisher: Spencer Hill Press

Pages: 181

Genre: Fantasy/Paranormal

Age Appropriate: Young Adult

Life has been hell for seventeen-year-old Emma since she moved from sunny California to a remote Alaskan town. Rejected by her father and living with the guilt of causing her mother's death, she makes a desperate dash for freedom from her abusive stepfather. But when her car skids off the icy road, her escape only leads to further captivity in a world beyond her imagining. Dragged across the tundra by a crazed mountain man and his enormous black wolf, she finds that her gentle touch and kind heart earn her the wolf's friendship, and she names him Amarok, not knowing he was once a young man. When a vicious madman--trapped in bear form by an ancient Shaman--attacks the travelers and injures Amarok, Emma must find the strength to confront her fears and free the wolf she's come to love. But there's a catch--she must face down the evil shaman, a powerful Siberian mammoth hunter from the ice age, and he has no intention of giving up his power to her.

My Thoughts...

I really wanted to like this book more than I actually did, that's not to say it's bad but quite often I'd be reading it and my mind would go a-wandering onto something totally unrelated to the story, I found the constant walking throughout the book to be tedious, a little less of that and a bit more action and I definitely would have liked it a lot better.

Emma flees the home that she shares with her abusive stepfather into a snowy, dark night, trying to avoid hitting an animal on the road she swerves and ends up crashing her car, she is found by a man and a wolf,  the man Weasel Tail is crazy and evil, she's not the first female he's dragged to his cabin to torture and abuse, the wolf whom Emma comes to call Amarok is a seventeen year old boy turned into a wolf centuries ago by an evil shaman, and unwillingly tethered to Weasel Tail and his previous descendants, he is also a victim of abuse from Weasel Tail and his previous owners.

Amarok can be changed back, Weasel Tail keeps a totem around his neck to keep Amarok in line but there is an identical totem which when put together will turn Amarok back into the boy he used to be, the only problem is that the shaman who first cursed Amarok has the second totem but getting it from him will be the problem.

The ending of this book left an opening for another book, I'd be interested to see what would occur in another book.

I give this 3/5.

A Big Thanks To Spencer Hill Press.