Monthly Recap: June 2013

I didn't have to go to school at all this month, so I was so very excited about all the reading time I would have. What did I do? Read? No. For some reason I was always distracted by something else. I guess when I was in school I read when I was done with my work or something, but at home my work is never done. People always make huge lists of things they want to do over the summer but only about 10% of them actually follow through with it. I still read a good amount of books this month, but not nearly as many as I wanted to. One thing I am happy with is how much I blogged. I think I kept up a pretty nice schedule.

Books Read:

1. Red Glove (Curse Workers #2) - Holly Black
2. The Pledge (The Pledge #1) - Kimberly Derting
3. If I Should Die (Revenants #3) - Amy Plum
4. Fever (Chemical Gardens #2) - Lauren DeStefano
5. Sever (Chemical Gardens #3) - Lauren DeStefano
6. Wicked Lovely (Wicked Lovely #1) - Melissa Marr
7. Reboot (Reboot #1) - Amy Tintera
8. Paranormalcy (Paranormalcy #1) - Kiersten White
9. The Eternity Cure (Blood of Eden #2) - Julie Kagawa
10. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist - Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
11. The Evolution of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer #2) - Michelle Hodkin
12. Black Heart (Curse Workers #3) - Holly Black

Stacking the Shelves: Essence, Evolution, and Eternity

Stacking The Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga's Reviews. It's a great way to show other people the books that you've bought or received for the past week!

Library

Black Water

Pendragon #5

D. J. MacHale

Everbound

Everneath #2

Brodi Ashton

Goddess Boot Camp

Oh. My. Gods. #2

Tera Lynn Childs

Reboot

Reboot #1

Amy Tintera

Siege and Storm

The Grisha #2

Leigh Bardugo

Solitary

Escape From Furnace #2

Alexander Gordon Smith

Supernaturally

Paranormalcy #2

Keirsten White

Sweet Shadows

Medusa Girls #2

Tera Lynn Childs

The Essence

The Pledge #2

Kimberly Derting

The Eternity Cure

Blood of Eden #2

Julie Kagawa

The Evolution of Mara Dyer

Mara Dyer #2

Michelle Hodkin

The Ghosts of Ashbury High

Ashbury/Brookfield #4

Jaclyn Moriarty

UnWholly

Unwind #2

Neal Shusterman

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Review: The Eternity Cure

The Eternity Cure
Blood of Eden #2
Julie Kagawa

Allison Sekemoto has vowed to rescue her creator, Kanin, who is being held hostage and tortured by the psychotic vampire Sarren. The call of blood leads her back to the beginning—New Covington and the Fringe, and a vampire prince who wants her dead yet may become her wary ally.

Even as Allie faces shocking revelations and heartbreak like she’s never known, a new strain of the Red Lung virus that decimated humanity is rising to threaten human and vampire alike.

Quote Unquote: Sever

Quote Unquote is a series of posts of my favorite quotes from certain books. Today I am doing Sever by Lauren DeStefano. This is the last book in the Chemical Garden trilogy. I really liked this book and I thought it had some very quote-able lines.

~“I never wanted to live forever," she says. "I just wanted enough time.”

~“We'll squeeze every second that we can from our lives, because we're young, and we have plenty of years to grow. We'll grow until we're braver. We'll grow until our bones ache and our skin wrinkles and our hair goes white, and until our hearts decide, at last, that it's time to stop.”

~“It isn’t a perfect place. There are no perfect places. But nobody cares about perfection when there are sand castles to build and kites to chase, children that are being born, old hearts that are giving in.”

Waiting on Wednesday: The 100

Waiting on Wednesday's is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

The 100
The Hundred #1
Kass Morgan
September 3, 2013

In the future, humans live in citylike spaceships orbiting far above Earth's toxic atmosphere. No one knows when, or even if, the long-abandoned planet will be habitable again. But faced with dwindling resources and a growing populace, government leaders know they must reclaim their homeland...before it's too late.
Now, one hundred juvenile delinquents are being sent on a high-stakes mission to recolonize Earth. After a brutal crash landing, the teens arrive on a savagely beautiful planet they've only seen from space. Confronting the dangers of this rugged new world, they struggle to form a tentative community. But they're haunted by their past and uncertain about the future. To survive, they must learn to trust-and even love-again.

Top Ten: Books I've Read So Far In 2013

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created by The Broke and Bookish.

These are some of the books I have rated 5/5 this year. It was hard enough to narrow these down, I have no idea how I am supposed to do this again at the end of the year. These are in no particular order.

The Iron Queen - Julie Kagawa

Iron Fey #3 

White Cat - Holly Black

The Curse Workers #1

Unwind - Neil Shusterman

Unwind #1

The Immortal Rules - Julie Kagawa

The Immortal Rules #1

Unravel Me - Tahereh Mafi

Shatter Me #2

Bloodrose- Andrea Cremer

Nightshade #3

Anna and the French Kiss - Stephanie Perkins

Anna and the French Kiss #1

Let it Snow - John Green

Maureen Johnson & Lauren Myracle

Clockwork Princess - Cassandra Clare

The Infernal Devices #3

If I Should Die- Amy Plum

Revenants #3

Series I Have Completed

So recently I have been obsessing about finishing series I have started. I don't know why this has come to bother me so much lately. I just put 14 books on hold at the library in an attempt to finish as many as I could. But first I want to have a tally of all the series I have completed before I start this little project of mine.

Total Completed Series: 18

The Hunger Games Trilogy

The Wolves of Mercy Falls

Matched Trilogy

Delirium Trilogy

Maze Runner Trilogy

Trylle Trilogy

The Body Finder Series

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

The Iron Fey

Hush, Hush Series

The Infernal Devices

Dream Catcher

Hex Hall Trilogy

Revenants 

Vampire Academy

Nightshade Trilogy

Chaos Walking

The Chemical Garden

Review: Reboot

Reboot
Reboot #1
Amy Tintera

Five years ago, Wren Connolly was shot three times in the chest. After 178 minutes she came back as a Reboot: stronger, faster, able to heal, and less emotional. The longer Reboots are dead, the less human they are when they return. Wren 178 is the deadliest Reboot in the Republic of Texas. Now seventeen years old, she serves as a soldier for HARC (Human Advancement and Repopulation Corporation).

Wren’s favorite part of the job is training new Reboots, but her latest newbie is the worst she’s ever seen. As a 22, Callum Reyes is practically human. His reflexes are too slow, he’s always asking questions, and his ever-present smile is freaking her out. Yet there’s something about him she can’t ignore. When Callum refuses to follow an order, Wren is given one last chance to get him in line—or she’ll have to eliminate him. Wren has never disobeyed before and knows if she does, she’ll be eliminated, too. But she has also never felt as alive as she does around Callum.

The perfect soldier is done taking orders.

Stacking the Shelves: Playlists and Kiss Lists

Stacking The Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga's Reviews. It's a great way to show other people the books that you've bought or received for the past week!

I went on vacation last week and on our drive home we saw this book store with a huge "Clearance Sale" sign. So of course I had to go. The store consisted of about 50% Christian books and 25% Southern Living Holiday Recipe books. But there were a few other books there and they were on a great sale. I got all of these books for less than three dollars each and two of them are hardback. Total it was around $12. I love books, but I love good books on sale even more. :)

Confessions of a Serial Kisser

Wendelin Van Draanen

Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

Rachel Cohn & David Levithan

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Rachel Cohn & David Levithan

 

The Maze Runner

James Dashner

The Realm of Possibility 

David Levithan

Wide Awake

David Levithan