"Waiting On" Wednesday- Incarceron

"Waiting on" Wednesday is hosted by Jill @ Breaking the Spine. This is a time when bloggers can share which YA books they cannot wait to be released!




Incarceron -- a futuristic prison, sealed from view, where the descendants of the original prisoners live in a dark world torn by rivalry and savagery. It is a terrifying mix of high technology -- a living building which pervades the novel as an ever-watchful, ever-vengeful character, and a typical medieval torture chamber -- chains, great halls, dungeons. A young prisoner, Finn, has haunting visions of an earlier life, and cannot believe he was born here and has always been here. In the outer world, Claudia, daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, is trapped in her own form of prison -- a futuristic world constructed beautifully to look like a past era, an imminent marriage she dreads. She knows nothing of Incarceron, except that it exists. But there comes a moment when Finn, inside Incarceron, and Claudia, outside, simultaneously find a device -- a crystal key, through which they can talk to each other. And so the plan for Finn's escape is born ...



This book is set to be released around February of 2010!

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesdays is hosted by Should be Reading

Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

**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!

Teaser:

"Expansive, he was, and expensive, a Hogarth cartoon of a man, enormous of girth, many-chinned and broad-stomached. He was over sixty; his hair was gray and silver, and it was cut too long in the back, because it made people uncomfortable that his hair was too long, and Mr. Stockton liked making people uncomfortable."

pg. 172 Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

In My Mailbox

The weekly edition of In My Mailbox is hosted by the Story Siren.

***Due to the controversy of the postings of In My Mailbox, I thought it important that I make this statement. All books that I have received for this post, I checked out at the library. As I am a university student, my school participates in what is known as the Inter Library Loan system. Most of these books I found through World Cat, which finds a school library that participates in the loaning system. The library loans and mails the book to my school library and my school library loans the book to me. Because I read so many books, it would be too expensive to buy them. ***

Here is what I am hoping to read within the next week.



Richard Mayhew is a young man with a good heart and an ordinarylife, which is changed forever when he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. His small act of kindness propels him into a world he never dreamed existed. There are people who fall through the cracks, and Richard has become one of them. And he must learn to survive in this city of shadows and darkness, monsters and saints, murderers and angels, if he is ever to return to the London that he knew.

This book is the much anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestselling book, Stargirl and centers around "the world's longest letter" in diary form. It picks up where the previous novel left off after Stargirl left Mica High and describes her bittersweet memories in the town of Mica, Arizona along with the involvements of new people in her life. In Love, Stargirl, we hear the voice of Stargirl as she reflects on time, life, Leo, and - of course - love.









Rule #3: Don't stare at invisible faeries. Aislinn has always seen faeries. Powerful and dangerous, they walk hidden in the mortal world. Aislinn fears their cruelty-especially if they learn of her Sight-and wishes she were as blind to their presence as other teens. Rule #2: Don't speak to invisible faeries. Now faeries are stalking her. One of them, Keenan, who is equal parts terrifying and alluring, is trying to talk to her, asking questions Aislinn is afraid to answer. Rule #1: Don't ever attract their attention. But it's too late. Keenan is the Summer King, who has sought his queen for nine centuries. Without her, summer itself will perish. His is determined that Aislinn will become the Summer Queen at any cost-regardless of her plans or desires. Suddenly none of the rules that have kept Aislinn safe are working anymore, and everything is on the line: her freedom; her best friend, Seth; everything. Faery intrigue, mortal love, and the clash of ancient rules and modern expectations swirl together in Melissa Marr's stunning twenty-first-century faery tale.




Half-human, half-angel, Meridian Sozu has a dark responsibility. Sixteen-year-old Meridian has been surrounded by death ever since she can remember. As a child, insects, mice, and salamanders would burrow into her bedclothes and die. At her elementary school, she was blamed for a classmate’s tragic accident. And on her sixteenth birthday, a car crashes in front of her family home—and Meridian’s body explodes in pain. Before she can fully recover, Meridian is told that she’s a danger to her family and hustled off to her great-aunt’s house in Revelation, Colorado. It’s there that she learns that she is a Fenestra—the half-angel, half-human link between the living and the dead. But Meridian and her sworn protector and love, Tens, face great danger from the Aternocti, a band of dark forces who capture vulnerable souls on the brink of death and cause chaos.

Review: The Dark Hills Divide

Title: The Dark Hills Divide- Land of Elyon Book 1

Author: Patrick Carman

Released: 2005

Published by: Thorndike Press

Description courtesy of Amazon:

Elyon is a land of dark hills, enchanted forests, and great walls that connect and encircle the cities of Lathbury, Turlock, Lunenburg, and Bridewell like spokes in a wagon wheel. On her annual summer trips to Bridewell with her father, the mayor of Lathbury, Alexa Daley spends much of her time dreaming of escape. Having lived within the walls all of her 12 years, she wants nothing more than to explore the uncharted wilderness beyond. But, the walls are heavily guarded, and frightening legends suggest that forests and hills are no place for a child--especially a young girl. When a mysterious conversation and an unfortunate accident put Alexa within reach of a way outside the wall, she must decide--heed the warnings of her elders, or satisfy her curiosity and unravel the mysteries of Elyon.

I very much enjoyed reading this book. Although it was a very quick read, there was adventure around every corner. The main character, Alexa, was very smart and cunning for being only twelve years old. She was also extremely trusting of people and taking animals (I don’t care what story you’re in, talking animals are pretty crazy). Towards the end I was actually on the edge of my seat, wondering who the secret evil character was and the author was pretty good at dropping hints making me suspicious of the good characters. As much as I liked the adventure in the book, there was no romance (the main character is only 12 years old) because I picked up the book from the Juvenile fiction section.

My rating for this book is: A

Happy reading and blogging!!!

"Waiting on" Wednesday

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.

On this week’s edition of Waiting on Wednesday is the very exciting third installment of The Immortal Series, Shadowland!! The great this about this book is that we only have to wait about 3 three more weeks before we can started reading it. It’s going to be released in hard cover on November 17!

From Goodreads-

At the start of this breathtaking novel, Damen and Ever travel to Summerland in search of an antidote to reverse a powerful poison. But instead of the cure they seek, they find something far more sinister: the truth about their existence and the fate lying in wait of an immortal’s soul. Now, with Damen fighting to save them from the Shadowland, Ever turns to magick, hoping to break Damen’s curse. Along the way Ever encounters the mysterious Jude, finding herself drawn to him in a way that will test her love for Damen like never before . . .

So excited...I can't wait!!!

New Moon Comic Strip

This month (November) is the highly anticipated release of the second intallment of the Twilight Saga: New Moon. Just for a laugh I found the funniest little comic strip hosted by Pure Imagination and her guest host Smexy Books. If you are a fan of the Twilight Saga then I know you will appreciate this blog. To find it follow the link provided above. It really is the funniest thing I have read in a long time. I hope you enjoy!
Just to get into the swing of things, sometime this week I will be doing a comparison of Twilight the book vs. Twilight the movie. I know the movie came out about a year ago, but since I'm new to the whole blogging thing, it would probably be good to get a few postingings under my belt and what's a better time than the month that New Moon will be released. It will be a nice refresher for the upcoming sequel!

The Immortal Series

When I initially picked up the first book in the Immortal Series, Evermore, it sounded a little corny to me. Another book with another girl with some kind of abnormal talent (reading minds or psychic ability) who meets a boy that makes everything better with some sort of evil that they overcome together. I put off reading it for months and months, thinking that it’s not anything special. But then I started it and my whole thinking changed. It’s dark and mysterious with hints of comedy and deep characters. I couldn’t put it down. When I was not reading it, I was thinking about reading it. And when I finished it, I rushed out to get the next book which was equally as intriguing. The newest book in the series, Shadowland, comes out in only a few short weeks and it’s only a matter of time before I get my hands on a copy.

Just a side note, I was listening to NPR this afternoon and they were interviewing Audrey Niffenegger, the author of the Time Traveler's Wife (one of my all-time favorite book). Unfortunately I had to go to work and was unable to listen to the show in its entirety. I went on the website to find it because I wanted to post a blog about it becasue she was talking about her new novel but I couldn't find it. Hopefully they will post the show sometime this week and there will be a new posting here about it!

Last week I read:

Evermore and Blue Moon by Alyson Noel

Reading right now:

The Dark Hills Divide by Patrick Carman

Reading this week:

Love, Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli

Chosen by Ted Dekker

Peeps by Scott Westerfeld