tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58386694998876722302024-03-16T02:08:38.448-05:00Blood,Sweat and Books<b><i><center>Slaying books like they're Zombies one page at a time.</center></i></b>Kristin A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15763712406760271208noreply@blogger.comBlogger1349125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5838669499887672230.post-20154203180766252742021-01-21T06:49:00.001-06:002021-01-21T06:49:30.856-06:00Cover Reveal: Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff<p> Honestly I had no intention of posting today but I came across this beauty on Facebook while scrolling and I just had to share it. Seriously, it is one of the best covers I have come across in a long time. Also I'm really rusty at this so if I forgot to add anything below I apologize. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1611224461l/43728380._SY475_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="311" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1611224461l/43728380._SY475_.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Cover Designer: Micaela Alcaino</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">Author: <a href="https://www.jaykristoff.com/" target="_blank">Jay Kristoff</a></span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">Release Date: September 7th 2021</span></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">Publisher:Harper Voyager UK</span></i></p>Kristin A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15763712406760271208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5838669499887672230.post-81409756645177124732020-07-04T02:47:00.000-05:002020-07-04T02:47:09.458-05:00Happy 4th of July and a life update of sorts.Oh dear, I hadn't realized it has been nearly a year since my last post. I'm not sure what I want to do with my blog atm. I'm still not reading as much as I used to. I suppose I could write some reviews on older books that I've read during quarantine if you'd want to see my thoughts on them. I do know at some point I'm going to have to go through all my photos and replace broken tags. That's an undertaking I'm dreading. Hmm, what else? Ah, Covid. How is everyone handling things? I've been working this entire time and my city has been reopening since May but I can tell you we really shouldn't be. Cases are spiking wildly still and people just won't wear masks. It's frustrating. Every time I do go out I just have to scoff at all the people crowding restaurants and the mall. Like c'mon people is it so hard to curbside and go?? Anyway besides that life trudges on. I don't want to give false hope and say I'll post again soon but I'm going to try really, really, hard to at least come once a month and share something be it a review, a movie I've watched, something I've sewed. I just don't want to like poof away entirely. Anyway, I hope ya'll (who celebrate) have a safe and Happy 4th of July. Wear a mask and I'll see you when I see you. <div><br /></div><div>Kristin</div>Kristin A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15763712406760271208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5838669499887672230.post-50338265910727447282019-08-06T06:00:00.000-05:002019-08-06T06:00:06.315-05:00Cover Reveal: Avenged by an Angel by Felicity Heaton<strong></strong><br />
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New York Times best-selling paranormal romance author Felicity Heaton is set to release book 16 in her epic Eternal Mates series on August 20<sup>th</sup>, and today we re getting the first look at the cover of <strong>Avenged by an Angel</strong>. Delve back into this compulsive and addictive paranormal romance series with not one, but two novels coming in the next two months, plus you can get <strong>book one, Kissed by a Dark Prince, for FREE</strong> right now at your favourite retailers, and book two and three are on offer at an incredible price.<br />
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Series: Eternal Mates #16<br />
Expected Publication: <b>August 20, 2019</b></td></tr>
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Duty should mean everything to the Fourth Commander of the Echelon angels. It did before he met her. Now, the only demon he wants to slay is the one that haunts the enchanting mortal huntress, and the temptation to hunt him in Hell, a realm that might kill him, is becoming impossible to resist.<br />
Held captive by a dragon shifter in Hell, Emelia survived a torment that changed her in ways she hates. She wants her strength back. Her life back. To dothat, she needs closure. To get that, she might have to trust not only a man again, but an immortal.<br />
But when the price of vengeance is the soul of the angel bringing her back tolife, will Emelia be willing to pay it?<br />
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<a href="http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/kissed-by-a-dark-prince-paranormal-romance-novel.php">Book 1: Kissed by a Dark Prince</a> <strong>(FREE AT SELECTEDRETAILERS!)</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/claimed-by-a-demon-king-paranormal-romance-novel.php">Book 2: Claimed by a Demon King</a> <strong>(Just 99c right now!)</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/tempted-by-a-rogue-prince-paranormal-romance-novel.php">Book 3: Tempted by a Rogue Prince</a> <strong>(Discounted to $2.99 right now!)</strong><br />
<a href="http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/hunted-by-a-jaguar-paranormal-romance-novel.php">Book 4: Hunted by a Jaguar</a><br />
<a href="http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/craved-by-an-alpha-paranormal-romance-novel.php">Book 5: Craved by an Alpha</a><br />
<a href="http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/bitten-by-a-hellcat-paranormal-romance-novel.php">Book 6: Bitten by a Hellcat</a><br />
<a href="http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/taken-by-a-dragon-paranormal-romance-novel.php">Book 7: Taken by a Dragon</a><br />
<a href="http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/marked-by-an-assassin-paranormal-romance-novel.php">Book 8: Marked by an Assassin</a><br />
<a href="http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/possessed-by-a-dark-warrior-paranormal-romance-novel.php">Book 9: Possessed by a Dark Warrior</a><br />
<a href="http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/awakened-by-a-demoness-paranormal-romance-book.php">Book 10: Awakened by a Demoness</a><br />
<a href="http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/haunted-by-the-king-of-death-paranormal-romance-novel.php">Book 11: Haunted by the King of Death</a><br />
<a href="http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/turned-by-a-tiger-shapeshifter-romance-book.php">Book 12: Turned by a Tiger</a><br />
<a href="http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/tamed-by-a-tiger-shapeshifter-romance-book.php">Book 13: Tamed by a Tiger</a><br />
<a href="http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/treasured-by-a-tiger-shapeshifter-romance-book.php">Book 14: Treasured by a Tiger</a><br />
<a href="http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/unchained-by-a-forbidden-love-paranormal-romance-novel.php">Book 15: Unchained by a Forbidden Love</a><br />
<a href="http://www.felicityheaton.com/avenged-by-an-angel-paranormal-romance-book.php">Book 16: Avenged by an Angel Coming August 20<sup>th</sup> 2019</a><br />
<a href="http://www.felicityheaton.com/seduced-by-a-demon-king-paranormal-romance-book.php">Book 17: Seduced by a Demon King Coming September 24<sup>th</sup> 2019</a><br />
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Felicity Heaton is a New York Times and USA Today international best-selling author writing passionate paranormal romance books. In her books, she creates detailed worlds, twisting plots, mind-blowing action, intense emotion and heart-stopping romances with leading men that vary from dark deadly vampires to sexy shape-shifters and wicked werewolves, to sinful angels and hot demons! If you’re a fan of paranormal romance authors Lara Adrian, J R Ward, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Gena Showalter and Christine Feehan then you will enjoy her books too.<br />
If you love your angels a little dark and wicked, the best-selling Her Angel series is for you. If you like strong, powerful, and dark vampires then try the Vampires Realm series or any of her stand-alone vampire romance books. If you relooking for vampire romances that are sinful, passionate and erotic then try thebest-selling London Vampires series. Seven sexy and sinful Greek god brothers can be your new addiction in the Guardians of Hades series. Or how about four hot alpha shifter brothers in her Cougar Creek Mates series? Or if you prefer huge detailed worlds filled with hot-blooded alpha males in every species, from elves to demons to dragons to shifters and angels, then take a look at the Eternal Mates series.<br />
If you want to know more about Felicity, or want to get in touch, you can find her at the following places:<br />
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Publication Date: August 13, 2019<br />
Publisher: Apex Book Company</td></tr>
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</span> <span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">When Cynthia is wrongly accused of eating an “A” ration which leads to the death of another girl, her peers punish her harshly. In seeking revenge, she is forced from the only home she has ever known, out into the broader world with one of the Women—Ms. Glennoc—who has tormented her for years. Hunger mixes with politics, intrigue, and social status, and Cynthia needs to figure it out quickly if she’s going to survive and make it back to the Apartments to save Imeld.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">Ration is a book I found on Netgalley from one of those Read It Now Emails. The premise of the story jumped out at me straight away and I knew it was something I just had to get my hands on. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Now this story isn't exactly unique. My first thought upon starting it was wow this reminds me a bit of Snow Piercer. If you haven't seen it I highly check out the film <b>AFTER</b> reading this story. It's good. In fact I could not stop imagining Ms. Tuttle as Minister Mason. Tilda Swinton's character just fit the image of Ms. Tuttle being portrayed in my head and I couldn't shake it once it was set. Now does this detract from the story? No. I was still able to enjoy Ration as its own entity. I just borrowed the visuals from something else to help me set the scenes. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">One thing I really enjoyed about this story were the Ration packs. On the farm it seems girls are either fed A,B or C rations. Choose a B or C and you're good to live another day but choose an A and well, let's just say unpleasant things happen. After being mistakenly accused of taking an A ration the main character Cynthia sets in motion the chain of events that happen throughout the rest of the story.<br />
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As for the story. In the beginning it was pretty clear cut. Live on the farm, die on the farm. How quickly that happens is entirely your choice because chances of you living long enough to see the outside is very, very, slim. However, that would make for a pretty short story so off farm we must go. I was excited to see life "outside" but quickly became confused as it seemed there was more to the world but we were only being shown the poorest part of it. It would of been so cool if Cynthia was able to see that the farm was just a dog and pony show for a much brighter, glitzier, world outside but it still seemed pretty miserable and thus I felt it wasn't enough to make Cynthia do what she does in the rest of the story. Maybe I just expected more and maybe that was my problem. I'm so used to the smoke and mirrors dystopian setting that one just being built upon a world that was just actually that of a true Dystopian well, it took me by surprise.<br />
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Now I will say that I did enjoy the slight twist at the end when Cynthia learns the "truth" about the farms. Obviously these places have been problematic for a few years now but of course the girls at the farm aren't told that. I did expected the conclusion to be a bit more explosive than it was. If I was one of those girls I'd have banded together and force fed Ms. Tuttle and Ms. Glennoc parts of each other so they could truly witness the horrors they had inflicted on them through the years before dying inevitably of blood loss and or shock. That may seem gruesome but it would of been a fitting ending for those characters and I could rest my head knowing they weren't around to do that to others in the future. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
I also really enjoyed the character Imeld. In the beginning you expect her to just be a one off character to get the ball rolling but she actually plays a pretty important role. Without her I don't think Cynthia would of taken the actions she did. Imeld was her hope and knowing she was alive and stuck under the tutelage of Ms. Tuttle spurred her to act in ways she probably wouldn't have based on her very sheltered upbringing at the farm.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Overall, Ration was a book I enjoyed and sped through really quickly. Therefore I feel my rating is justified despite the problems I experienced with the pacing and narrative in the back half. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">With that being said, I'll be rating Ration by Cody T. Luff ★★★★.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">*Copy reviewed received from Netgalley. All opinions are my own and I was not compensated in an which for providing them.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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Genre: YA Fantasy</div>
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Release Date: November 1st 2019</div>
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<span style="background-color: #f4cccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Under her dreams’ guidance, Rose lands in the fantasy realm of Lotheria–with a tagalong. Tyson, her best friend since childhood, winds up there with her, just as confused and a hell of a lot more vulnerable. In Lotheria, Rose is welcomed and celebrated as a fire mage at the Academy, while the very un-magical Tyson is forced into hiding under threat of death from the masters of Rose’s new school.</span></div>
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<br />Kristin A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15763712406760271208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5838669499887672230.post-43603304081793911242019-03-23T05:00:00.000-05:002019-08-03T23:52:52.662-05:00Review: Passenger (Passenger #1) by Alexandra Bracken<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Publication Date: January 05,2016<br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Publisher: Disney Hyperion</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Genre: Science Fiction, Young Adult</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">i. A brief section of music composed of a series of notes and flourishes.</span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">ii. A journey by water; a voyage.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">In one devastating night, violin prodigy Etta Spencer loses everything she knows and loves. Thrust into an unfamiliar world by a stranger with a dangerous agenda, Etta is certain of only one thing: she has traveled not just miles but years from home. And she’s inherited a legacy she knows nothing about from a family whose existence she’s never heard of. Until now.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Nicholas Carter is content with his life at sea, free from the Ironwoods—a powerful family in the colonies—and the servitude he’s known at their hands. But with the arrival of an unusual passenger on his ship comes the insistent pull of the past that he can’t escape and the family that won’t let him go so easily. Now the Ironwoods are searching for a stolen object of untold value, one they believe only Etta, Nicholas’ passenger, can find. In order to protect her, he must ensure she brings it back to them—whether she wants to or not.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Together, Etta and Nicholas embark on a perilous journey across centuries and continents, piecing together clues left behind by the traveler who will do anything to keep the object out of the Ironwoods’ grasp. But as they get closer to the truth of their search, and the deadly game the Ironwoods are playing, treacherous forces threaten to separate Etta not only from Nicholas but from her path home... forever.</span></div></blockquote><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">Passengers is a book I received during its original publishing launch for review. For whatever reason I just never quite was in the mood to pick it up to read despite the interesting premise. Fast forward two years and a TBR that is judging me endlessly for not reading and so here we are. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Unfortunately while the premise to Passenger is stellar it's execution left little to be desired. One of my biggest issues with Passenger is the pacing. This book is slow. Not a slow burn mind you, just slow. You have a fantastic time travel plot and then kill it by describing every single insignificant detail about the characters personality, the music they listen to, the clothing they wear and on and on. I love world building but not when it kills the story from moving forward. Case in point. You have the London Blitz shown in one of the scenes and instead of giving a very fast paced action scene with the characters in danger you have them sitting underground listening to a violinist play to keep people calm. It could have been a moving moment after describing the devastation left in the bombings wake but instead I was left just bored by it all. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Another issue I had with the story is the forced relationship between Etta and Nicholas. I get they are both on the journey together and roughly (Nicholas is considerably "older") the same age but they have zero chemistry together and the whole thing feels forced. I've said it time and time again and I'll say it until I'm blue in the face but not all relationships in YA novels (or any really) need to be romantic. Platonic love and friendship are just as worthy. Of course I don't even really consider Etta and Nicholas friends because like I mentioned before they have no chemistry. Colleagues would be the closest I'd call them and that feels generous to me.<br />
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Lastly, I really did not like Etta. She was a very bland protagonist who lived inside her own head way too much. We did see a few moments of the person I'm assuming she will become (feisty, strong willed) but waiting for that moment too happen and hoping she'd crawl out of her head left me wanting to throttle the character more often than not. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Now one thing I did enjoy about the story were the moments of actual time travel. Alexandra Bracken could have easily just dumped her modern thinking characters into whatever society they travel to but she took care to make sure they didn't stick out too much providing them with a bit of insight before the actual travel happened. Most books focus on time travel as an after thought and while this story at times did feel that way (hello first half of the book) once Etta and Nicholas actually started moving around and going to explore worlds (I say worlds but really I mean points in time) it was enjoyable (minus the Blitz cause she could of done way more with that).</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Overall, Passengers provided me with a relatively decent story and kept me curious enough to continue reading until books end. I'd recommend picking this one up only if you're A. An Alexandra Bracken Fan. B. You don't mind a story with a very slow build up and also one filled with sometimes boring introspective conversations. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">With that being said, I'll be rating Passenger (Passenger #1) by Alexandra Bracken ★★★.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">*Copy reviewed received from publisher during original launch promotions. All opinions are my own and I was not compensated in an which for providing them.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #2c1515; color: #c6c6c6; font-family: "coming soon"; font-size: 15.84px; font-style: italic; line-height: 22.176px;">Want to learn more about this book or Author? Click the links below!</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #c6c6c6; font-family: "coming soon";"><span style="background-color: #2c1515; line-height: 22.176px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15.84px;"><i>Alexandra Bracken</i></span><i style="font-size: 15.84px;">:</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Alexandra-Bracken/e/B002JVAEM2/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1">Amazon Page</a><br />
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2973783.Alexandra_Bracken">Goodreads</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://alexandrabracken.com/">www.alexandrabracken.com/</a></div></div>Kristin A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15763712406760271208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5838669499887672230.post-34561836920045819112019-02-13T05:00:00.000-06:002019-02-13T05:00:07.141-06:00Cover Love (1): New Year, New Covers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hello All, It has been awhile. Lately I've been trying to become passionate about Books again and while I'm not quite reading more I have found myself drawn to some really fantastic book covers. Hence the idea for Cover Love was born. I'm not sure if I'll make this a weekly thing or just random when I find inspiring covers but I'm happy to find something to rekindle my passions so let's hope for the best shall we?? Also I'm sure somebody, somewhere has a concept just like this so please don't fill my comments saying I ripped this off from x, y, z. I assure you I just want to share all the pretty covers with you. I'm not even sure myself how I'm going to do so in the long run so please be patient with me.<br />
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Anywho, this whole concept came about after receiving an email with some covers for upcoming 2019 books in them. I was blown away by some of the artwork and it sent me scrounging the internet for more. Somehow I made my way to pinterest and that opened up a world of covers and books I had missed while on my very extended vacation from blogging. Naturally I could share them all one at a time as I came across them but what's the fun in that? I will try my best to link the artists for the covers as I share them. If I can't find them and you happen to know who it is please drop a comment so I can edit and give credit where it is due. All covers linked to Goodreads for your convenience. Now onto the books!<br />
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Authors: Shelby Mahurin</div>
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Authors: Margaret Owen</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">*The Author has many conceptual pieces for this cover on her blog that she herself designed but as of this posting I do not know who the actual artist is. </span></div>
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Author: Jacqueline West</div>
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Genre: Paranormal Thriller, Young Adult</div>
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Publisher: Green Willow</div>
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Publication Date: May 07, 2019</div>
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Author: Leigh Bardugo</div>
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Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult</div>
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Publisher: MacMillan</div>
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Publication Date: January 29, 2019</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Authors: Jessica Brody & Joanne Rendell<br />
Genre: Science Fiction, Young Adult<br />
Publisher: Simon Pulse<br />
Publication Date: March 26, 2019<br />
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Author: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13442212.Pintip_Dunn">Pintip Dunn</a></div>
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Genre: YA Sci-fi/Paranormal/Mystery & Suspense</div>
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Release Date: March 5th 2019</div>
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<b>What I know:</b> a boy in my class will one day wipe out two-thirds of the population with a virus.</div>
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<b>What I don’t know:</b> who he is.</div>
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In a race against the clock, I not only have to figure out his identity, but I'll have to outwit a voice from the future telling me to kill him. Because I'm starting to realize no one is telling the truth. But how can I play chess with someone who already knows the outcome of my every move? Someone so filled with malice they've lost all hope in humanity? Well, I'll just have to find a way—because now they've drawn a target on the only boy I've ever loved...</div>
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Pintip Dunn is a <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of young adult fiction. She graduated from Harvard University, <em>magna cum laude</em>, with an A.B., and received her J.D. at Yale Law School. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Pintip’s novel FORGET TOMORROW won the 2016 RWA RITA® for Best First Book, and SEIZE TODAY won the 2018 RITA for Best Young Adult Romance. Her books have been translated into four languages, and they have been nominated for the following awards: the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire; the Japanese Sakura Medal; the MASL Truman Award; the Tome Society It list; and the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award. Her other titles include REMEMBER YESTERDAY, THE DARKEST LIE, GIRL ON THE VERGE, and the upcoming STAR-CROSSED and MALICE.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Let us know what you think of the cover for <em>Echoes</em> by Alice Reeds, which releases August 7, 2018!</h3>
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<strong><em>"Fast-paced and thrilling.</em> ECHOES <em>is a heart-pounding and addictive love story."</em> —Mia Siegert, author of <em>Jerkbait</em></strong><br />
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They wake on a deserted island. Fiona and Miles, high school enemies now stranded together. No memory of how they got there. No plan to follow, no hope to hold on to.<br />
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<i>Echoes is a thrilling adventure about confronting the impossible, discovering love in the most unexpected places, and, above all, finding hope in the face of the unknown.</i></blockquote>
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Want to read more? Pre-order your copy of <em>Echoes</em><i> </i>by Alice Reedstoday!</h3>
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Alice Reeds was born in a small town in Germany but spent her first eight years in Florida, USA. Later on, she moved back to Europe, where her family moved around a lot. She was raised trilingual and has a basic understanding of Russian, read and spoken. After getting her International Baccalaureate Diploma, Alice is studying English Language and Literature at University. In her free time Alice mostly writes, reads, figure and/or roller skates, or watches countless let's plays and figure skating videos.</h4>
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Hello Lovelies, I know it's been such a very long time but I couldn't end 2017 without doing a yearly wrap up of sorts. I wish I could say that this year was better than last (reading wise) but, nope,still woefully behind. While I didn't really "read" many novels this year I did still read quite a bit. To bad fanfiction doesn't count on Goodreads because I fell down the rabbit hole of a site called Archive of Our Own and never really crawled back out successfully, lol. Seriously though I read so, so, many fanfictions this year they have to number in the hundreds at least. I also read a couple Graphic Novels. I just bought a new one actually right before Christmas but haven't started it yet. Figure I'll kick off 2018 with it.<br />
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Hmmm what else.... this year the only book turned film I went to theaters to watch was IT and I was so pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it. Let me know if you want me to do a Book to Movie comparison and I'll try and get that up. I also have been trying to get back into Animes. I kind of fell off during the summer for reasons I'll explain below but I am trying to find a balance now to do things I love such as blogging, reading, watching Anime etc.. and working. We'll see how things go by this time next year.<br />
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On a personal note 2017 was both amazing and hard. My father fell ill late April and then sadly passed at the beginning of May. I was able to return home before he passed but my kids and husband couldn't so it was very trying being alone through it all and then have to leave while so many things still needed attending just two weeks later. I'm doing much better though despite this being the first Holiday Season without the presence of my Father. In my heart I know he's in a better place than he was while hooked up to life support and in pain. On the lighter side of things in 2017 I traveled to so much this year and I loved, loved, loved it. On my own I went to both NYC (to see EXO in concert) and L.A. (attended KCON and saw many artists) and man what an amazing experience both of those were. Then in November my husband and I took a trip to Orlando for our anniversary and I'm not lying I cried the moment I walked into Diagon Alley at Universal Orlando. It was just an overwhelming sensation being in Harry Potter's world. Oh and I did buy a bunch of merchandise naturally including a Slytherin Robe, a badass death eater wand (I'm not bad OK but the wand looked really cool) and mugs galore.<br />
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So, hmm, I guess that's really it. I'm looking forward to whatever 2018 has in store and I hope to return to at least semi annual blogging. I love my website and hope to do better next year.<br />
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Take care everyone. Stay safe, happy and healthy! Let's make 2018 awesome!!Kristin A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15763712406760271208noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5838669499887672230.post-78982755780781685512017-06-01T05:00:00.000-05:002017-06-01T05:00:05.441-05:00Cover Reveal: TS901: ANOMALY by Stacey Rourke & Tish Thawer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Authors: Stacey Rourke & Tish Thawer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Expected Release Date: Aug. 1<sup>st</sup>, 2017</span></div>
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</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Tainted water for the good of the people. Fluoride and vitamins to sustain the health of the human race. Added ingredients to extend and elevate the quality of life. All good things, right?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Thia Kelly has been changed by the TS901 chemical in the world’s water supply. Now, forced into hiding with the other inflicted outcasts, she struggles to survive as her powers emerge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Evan Daniels hunted for others like himself, and finding Thia suddenly brought meaning back into his life. Love blossomed between the strange couple while they searched for a way to reverse the effects. Unfortunately, the Government had something else in mind. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Super-soldier creation on a mass scale was their end goal, and thanks to an unfortunate family tie, Evan became Patient #1.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Good-guy? Bad-guy? The world isn’t sure, but Thia is left with only one choice––save the ass of the world’s first Anomaly who just happens to be her boyfriend.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Stacey Rourke is the author of the award winning YA Gryphon Series, the chillingly suspenseful Legends Saga, and the romantic comedy Adapted for Film. She lives in Michigan with her husband, two beautiful daughters, and two giant dogs. She loves to travel, has an unhealthy shoe addiction, and considers herself blessed to make a career out of talking to the imaginary people that live in her head. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Visit her at </span><a href="http://www.staceyrourke.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">www.staceyrourke.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Award Winning Author, Tish Thawer, writes paranormal romances for all ages. From her first paranormal cartoon, Isis, to the Twilight phenomenon, myth, magic, and superpowers have always held a special place in her heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Tish is known for her detailed world-building and magic-laced stories. Her work has been compared to Nora Roberts, Sam Cheever, and Charlaine Harris. She has received nominations for multiple RONE Awards (Reward of Novel Excellence), and Author of the Year (Fantasy, Dystopian, Mystery), as well as nominations and wins for Best Cover, and a Reader’s Choice Award. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Tish has worked as a computer consultant, photographer, and graphic designer, and is a columnist for Gliterary Girl Media and has bylines in RT Magazine and Literary Lunes Magazine. She resides in Colorado with her husband and three wonderful children and is represented by Gandolfo, Helin, and Fountain Literary Management.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Author: Fiona Titchenell<br />
Genre: Young Adult, Horror, Zombies<br />
Publication Date: April 4, 2017<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">The world is Cassie Fremont’s playground. Her face is on the cover of every newspaper. She has no homework, no curfew, and no credit limit, and she spends her days traveling the country with her friends, including a boy who would do the chicken dance with death to make her smile. Life is just about perfect—except that those newspaper headlines are about her bludgeoning her crush to death with a paintball gun, she has to fight ravenous walking corpses every time she steps outside, and one of her friends is still missing, trapped somewhere in the distant, practically impassable wreckage of Manhattan. </span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Still, Cassie’s an optimist, more prone to hysterical laughter than hysterical tears, and she’d rather fight a corpse than be one. She’ll never leave a friend stranded when she can simply take her road trip to impossible new places, even if getting there means admitting to that boy that she might love him as more than her personal jester. Skillfully blending effective horror with unexpected humor, this diary-style novel is a fast-paced and heartwarming read.</span></div>
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“<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Heartbreak, humor, a very large number of crushed skulls and even romance ensue . . . . Readers who don’t mind a little brain spatter on the windshield will be happy they took this particular trip.” —</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Kirkus Reviews</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">.</span></div>
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“<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">You know when you read a book about teens and you think the author just didn’t get it? Well, F.J.R. Titchenell gets video gaming, paintballing, Vespa riding, teenage tomboy angst, true love, the uses of theater paint—oh, and killing zombies.” —Lehua Parker, author of the Nene Award-nominated </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Niuhi Shark Saga</i></span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>This was what you would get if you took one of those mornings, shrank it down, and sprinkled it with monster insect larvae. The whole valley still wriggled, not with normal, productive human activity, but with continuing disaster.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>From the mountain police station’s height, I couldn’t see every detail of the walls and windows and gardens that had been torn apart in the single-minded attempts to reach the live people barricaded beyond. I could see the movement of the bodies that were doing the tearing. It was that same determined, methodical destruction from the broadcasts, heedless of the rule that said bad things were supposed to be gone when the sun came out.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The police presence was still visible too, but it was sort of like a spiderweb in the path of a garden spigot, impressive only in its optimistic persistence. The little clusters of blue lights stood out against the sea of red because, oh yeah, here’s the important part: The streets were completely, bumper-to-bumper, Super Bowl stacked parking lot packed.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I’ve been late for school more than once because just one traffic light was out, or one road was blocked with accident debris, or someone was getting busted on too public a sidewalk, begging everyone to slow down to stare.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>All of those things were happening fifty times over at once in the valley that morning, and that’s why, even though the car’s aging GPS might theoretically have been able to lead me home, I turned back onto the road leading back up the mountain, back in the direction of the campgrounds and resort.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Well, “turn” is actually an excessively graceful word for what I did. It doesn’t quite conjure up the grinding sound of the few seconds between finding the reverse and noticing the parking break, or the screeching flash of sparks when the bumper clipped a metal gate on the way out, but the end result was mostly the same.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>My chosen route wasn’t completely abandoned, but most of the other cars I passed were headed down instead of up, or pulled over to the sides, either with their hoods open or with their occupants simply staring at the bleak scene below. I passed them with the siren on, trying to look taller, wishing I’d taken a uniform shirt to cover my stained, grey tank top, but no one looked at me closely enough for it to matter. A sight that might have raised eyebrows on any other day was just part of the chaotic background noise now, a minute scrap of help already claimed by someone else.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>In a way, my lack of conditioning actually seemed to be an advantage. I’m pretty sure most of the other people out driving had figured out what the zombies were, but some old, irrevocably instilled instinct made it really hard to run them down. One guy coming down the other lane in front of me swerved so hard to avoid one that he drove headlong into the face of the mountain. I didn’t mind accelerating when it ran out in front of me and ripped off one of my windshield wipers, but I couldn’t help muttering under my breath as I did so, “seventeen.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Seventeen murders, if people wouldn’t admit that these things weren’t alive in the first place, or just one instance of manslaughter if they would, I counted off in my head, plus escaping police custody, grand theft auto, driving without a license, oh, and plain old grand theft if you counted Suprbat and the rest of the stuff on the passenger seat. And I was pretty sure that precisely not a single one of those things would end up mattering.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>But like I always do when annoyingly big, smothering thoughts like that one start creeping into my head, I looked extra hard at the moment right in front of me, and I was getting all ready to pat myself on the back for finding the resort safely, with all four tires intact and two hubcaps still in place, angled neatly between the white lines and everything, when I gave the brake an extra tap, only it turned out not to be the brake, and the world disappeared into darkness and stars as the airbag claimed the space I’d been sitting in.</i></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJBK57Jd1cpVb6DcJ3bEiVyD065jf7i-bUSMLyrcCvgCAw3h03MefLMBDAPQG34DPweYMLvYw8qvE4baNOlV-BN2s2JolELT_I2O2V56a8jXEW5-a9qet_gEMm4eFPLsIMYCzJLBuB8U4/s1600/FJR+Titchenell+Headshot+12-16.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJBK57Jd1cpVb6DcJ3bEiVyD065jf7i-bUSMLyrcCvgCAw3h03MefLMBDAPQG34DPweYMLvYw8qvE4baNOlV-BN2s2JolELT_I2O2V56a8jXEW5-a9qet_gEMm4eFPLsIMYCzJLBuB8U4/s200/FJR+Titchenell+Headshot+12-16.jpg" width="150" /></a>F.J.R. Titchenell is an author of young adult, sci-fi, and horror fiction. She graduated with a B.A in English from California State University, Los Angeles, in 2009 at the age of twenty, is represented by Fran Black of Literary Counsel, and currently lives in San Gabriel, California with her husband and fellow author, Matt Carter, and their pet king snake, Mica. The "F" is for Fiona, and on the rare occasions when she can be pried away from her keyboard, her kindle, and the pages of her latest favorite book, Fi can usually be found over-analyzing the inner workings of various TV Sci-Fi universes or testing out some intriguing new recipe, usually chocolate-related.</div>
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</span></b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Carmen Kennedy is a spoiled brat from Beverly Hills with a chip on her shoulder and a cocaine addiction to match. Using drugs to suppress reality, her life is more than she can stomach most days. All she wants is to disappear, and on one fateful night, her wish is granted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">There is a world that exists just beyond the fabric of our own. When Carmen is dragged there against her will, her hopelessness seems to disappear, replaced by a determination to survive. The Keeper of Crows is charged with guarding Carmen, but is safety a possibility in a world so desolate? Can love blossom when danger lies in wait? Together, they fight like hell, seeming to lose more ground than they gain with each battle against the dark enemy threatening to tear them apart. Can love keep her safe? Can it give her the strength she needs?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hey ya'll, I'm back this week with a Movie Review for the Japanese film, Zedd. I came across this film because it stars the group Cross Gene #크로스진 and frankly my curiosity was piqued even further when I saw they had created and starred in a Zombie film.<br />
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6 youngsters have to survive in the world populated with zombies.</div>
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As some of you may know I am a huge Kpop fan. Recently I've been branching out from the big 3 groups (those coming from SM,YG and JYP) and trying to find smaller but still amazingly talented groups to follow as well. Enter: Cross Gene #크로스진. I found them by chance through my subscriptions on Youtube as they had just premiered a video called <i><u><a href="https://youtu.be/cVGIDmKOgOQ">Black or White</a></u></i> (highly recommed checking it out) and its bloody thumbnail piqued my curiosity (naturally). Oh how I didn't realize how far down the rabbit hole that one video would take me. In a little over a month I've become huge fans of this group and really hope they stay together a little while longer so I can continue to enjoy their music. <br />
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On one of my trips down the rabbit hole I came across a trailer for the film Zedd. Only after viewing it a second time did I realize that the guys in the film were none other than Cross Gene. Anyway, that's how I came across this film and I'm excited to now share it with you all as well.<br />
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Zedd might not win any awards for cinematography or acting but this little indie film is a must watch for any Zombie fan. What this film brings to the table is a multinational cast (they frequently switch between speaking Korean, Japanese and English) and decent special effects. This is no B movie though. Zedd is a thought provoking take on the Zombie apocalypse. It poses the question of what truly keeps men and monsters separated. What makes humanity so special? The answer you will find might surprise you but it does make sense.<br />
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One of the things I really enjoyed while watching this film was the delivery of the plot. The run time of this film is pretty short by Horror movie standards and yet it still delivers a compelling story with a noticeable beginning, middle and end.<br />
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Another thing I really liked about Zedd is that the characters actually ran out of bullets. That might sound like a silly thing to focus on but in too many movies of late it's like the survivors have a never ending cache of ammo and that's just not realistic when the world is overrun with dead things.<br />
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Lastly, I really liked the cast. Sure I'm a fan of the guys but if they couldn't act themselves out of a paper bag I'd say so. When one of the guys is bitten I really felt the bond these guys had as friends radiating through the screen and the imagined sadness they'd really feel if one of them were to suffer a less than stellar fate (such as being bitten by a Zombie).<br />
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Now the only downside to the story was the little girl Anna. Her acting felt very stiff compared to the guys or even that of the soldiers in the second half of the film. Maybe it's because she was acting in English or maybe she's just not used to playing a character in need of saving but I sometimes felt pulled out of the scenes whenever she opened her mouth to speak.<br />
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Overall, Zedd was an indie Zombie film worthy of any collection. I'd definitely be happy to see a sequel in the future showing the aftermath of the cure and how it's implemented across the globe.<br />
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Seventeen-year-old Tinley Hall takes a fall down the steep staircase in her family's restored Victorian home. When she becomes aware of her surroundings, she realizes she might be dead and she's not alone as her spirit haunts the old mansion that once was her home.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Will Tinley be able to pull herself through death's door, back into the land of the living? Or, will she even want to?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">After she was married, Tania and her husband moved back to the Chicago area, where she worked briefly as a stringer for a local newspaper. She also became a successful Realtor, and continued to write for online, as well as for print publications.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I didn’t die easily. For me, death was pretty much like everything had been in my life—complicated and ambiguous.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">The day was dragging out like any other day. My little sister had been whining to my mother about summer camp since the night before, so I did my best to avoid them. My best friend was planning to spend the night, and she and her brother had been hanging out in our pool most of the afternoon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">“I really hate him being here.” Ally rolled her eyes as she laid on her beach towel beside me. She nodded vaguely in her brother’s direction.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I looked across the pool at the boy who had just pulled his long, lean body out of the water on the deep end. He shook his head for a second, sending splashes of water everywhere. As he ran his hand through his damp, dark brown hair, I had the slightest urge to go rake my fingers through it too.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">I batted away my thoughts. AJ Stockwell was the last boy I wanted to get mixed up with. Although he was undeniably gorgeous, he had run through a string of four girls during the last school year alone. When he wasn’t loving and leaving his girlfriends, he holed up in his room, building and painting ridiculous model boats. Besides all that, he was my best friend’s brother, so he was sort of off-limits from the get go.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">“It’s fine, Al.” I rolled over on my stomach and straightened the back of my swimsuit bottoms. “He just cut the grass, so my dad invited him to take a swim. No big deal.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">“Ugh. It’s a big deal to me,” Ally complained. “I mean, I can’t talk about anything with him around.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">“Relax. He’ll be out of here soon, I’m sure.” I craned my neck, looking at AJ again. “Besides, he’s not bad to look at.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">“Oh, give me a break, Tinley.” Ally turned over on her belly as well. She leaned her shoulder against mine and brought her voice to a whisper. “Didn’t I tell you he just broke up with Amanda? After he dumped Natalie, and Sarah, and—”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">“Yeah. I get it. You’ve warned me a thousand times about how much of a creep he is to girls. One cheerleader after another. I would never get involved with someone like him, even if he wasn’t related to you.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">“He’s like a psychopath or something. I swear. He dates these girls for, like, a minute, and then he dumps them. It’s like he’s test driving them or something.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">“Well, he’s pretty hot, so I guess he has that option.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">“Or, maybe, these girls get one look at his toy boat collection and run for the hills screaming.” Ally laughed and moved onto her knees. She stuffed her sunglasses and sunblock into her bag. “I don’t know about you, but I’ve had enough of this sun, and enough of you drooling over my disgusting brother. Let’s go up to your room. I want to check out my Instagram anyway.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">“Drooling? That’s extreme.” I flopped over onto my back again and sat up just as AJ walked by. “Oh. Hey.” I squinted up at him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">“You know I can hear every word you say, Ally? Your voice isn’t exactly the most discreet sound in the neighborhood.” AJ wrapped a towel around his waist as he stood there. “I have my reasons for everything I do, and spreading rumors about me only makes you look like an idiot.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">“It takes one to know one.” Ally jumped to her feet, spewing probably the oldest and dumbest comeback known to man.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">“That’s just about the most juvenile thing I’ve heard you say, like, ever, Al.” AJ pulled on a tight gray t-shirt before he sat in a nearby deck chair. He nodded to me. “Hey, Tinley.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Did he just blush? No, Tinley, that’s a sunburn.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">“Hi.” I quickly threw on my cover-up before I stood up. “Um, thanks for doing the lawn.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">“No problem.” AJ shot me a gorgeous smile. The dimples on his cheeks seemed to ripple as he talked. “I know your dad’s been busy with that new book of his.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">“True.” I nodded. “I hate mowing, so it was either you or call the gardeners back.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">“I’ll see you around then.” AJ winked in my direction as we were leaving.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">“If she sees you first, even from a mile away, I promise you won’t see her around,” she teased her brother.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">“Again with the brilliant one-liners, Al.” AJ wadded up his towel and threw it under his arm. He touched my arm as he stood up. “Tell your folks I said thanks for letting me hang out by your pool.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">“I will.” I stood still, despite Ally yanking on my arm.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">“Later.” AJ nodded to me one more time before he hopped our six-foot gate on his way out of our yard.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Ally and I tossed on our flip flops before we went through the back door. My mom was really fussy about not getting marks on the floors, especially from pool water. My dad had just restored the original hardwood throughout our Victorian-era, five-bedroom house the previous year. Homes like ours dotted the Chicago suburb of Waybridge, and my parents claimed ours was one of the most authentic restorations in the area.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Kristin A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15763712406760271208noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5838669499887672230.post-79528915929712685302017-02-22T05:00:00.000-06:002017-02-22T05:00:37.868-06:00Waiting on Wednesday (143) Ararat by Christopher Golden<div style="text-align: center;">
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Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly blog post hosted by Breaking The Spine where readers share which books they are highly anticipating. This week I want to share Ararat by Christopher Golden<br />
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<span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: large;">Why I'm Waiting</span><b style="font-size: x-large;">: </b><span style="font-size: large;">First off, I love the premise of this story, it sounds really unique. Actually this story reminds me of the Mummy meets say Dracula 2000. I'm not saying the creature inside is a Vampire but it is at least plausible since it was found in a coffin. Either way I think the premise has loads of potential and I know Christopher Golden is an Author who can do Horror well so I'm optimistic. </span><br />
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New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden’s supernatural thriller about a mountain adventure that quickly turns into a horrific nightmare of biblical proportions.<br />
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Fans of Dan Simmons’ The Terror will love Ararat, the thrilling tale of an adventure that goes awry. When a newly engaged couple climbs Mount Ararat in Turkey, an avalanche forces them to seek shelter inside a massive cave uncovered by the snow fall. The cave is actually an ancient, buried ship that many quickly come to believe is really Noah’s Ark. When a team of scholars, archaeologists, and filmmakers make it inside the ark for the first time, they discover an elaborate coffin in its recesses. The artifact tempts their professional curiosity; so they break it open. Inside, they find an ugly, misshapen cadaver—not the holy man that they expected, a hideous creature with horns. A massive blizzard blows in, trapping them in that cave thousands of meters up the side of a remote mountain…but they are not alone.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace; font-size: small;">Since I'm curious, Have you heard of </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Ararat</span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">What will you do when the world ends? That's a question that needs answering quickly when the gates to Hell open up all over Earth. Taking place across the globe is an apocalypse like no other, and humanity will find itself at war against a smart and merciless foe. Follow the struggles to survive with several characters as things go from bad to worse. Humanity is dwindling.</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: helvetica neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Guy Granger is a Coast Guard captain in search of his kids. Mina Magar is a photojournalist taking pictures of horror she could never have imagined. Rick Bastion is a fading pop star with his head in a bottle and no hope for his future. Tony Cross is a soldier stuck on the Iraq-Syria border, but fighting insurgents is no longer a priority as a new threat emerges. Follow them all as they fight to stay alive.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #801900; font-family: andalus, serif;">Iain Rob Wright is an Author whom I've followed for quite a few years now. The Gates is a book I've owned many months now but just couldn't seem to bring myself to read. No, I wasn't worried the book would be awful. I've yet to worry about this Author being enjoyable and The Gates it would turn out would be no exception. No, instead I had been in a massive reading funk and just didn't feel like committing myself to a story several hundred pages long. Lazy? Yes. Do I feel bad about that? You bet. It is, what it is though. Thankfully, I realized I had the Audiobook as well and decided to give it a shot during my many long nights at work and I am so, so, glad that I did. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #801900; font-family: andalus, serif;">Lastly, I really liked the characters. The cast of The Gates spans continents so naturally that means we run across a lot of characters. Normally a story can feel cluttered with a cast so large but because of the situations they find themselves in and the fact we don't have huge chunks of characters all clamoring to be heard at one time it didn't really feel stifling. Plus despite the large ensemble we do have main characters with a plot driving them but that doesn't deflect from all the other stories weaving in and out of them. It's hard to describe without spoiling but it makes sense when you listen to the book. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #c6c6c6; font-family: coming soon; font-size: medium;"><i>Iain Rob Wright is one of the UK's most successful horror and suspense writers, with novels including the critically acclaimed, THE FINAL WINTER; the disturbing bestseller, ASBO; and the wicked screamfest, THE HOUSEMATES.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #c6c6c6; font-family: coming soon; font-size: medium;"><i>His work is currently being adapted for graphic novels, audio books, and foreign audiences. He is an active member of the Horror Writer Association and a massive animal lover.</i></span></div>
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2017 is nearly upon us and that means that it's time to reveal my Top Ten Favorite Books read this year. 2016 was a rough year for books (in this readers opinion). While I met/ slightly exceeded my reading goal I feel a bit bad about not reading all the stories I originally set out to at the end of last year. Although if I'm being entirely honest, I feel many Authors were in a rut as well. I can't tell you how many stories just felt like regurgitated plots of books past. I DNR'd more than a dozen because I just wasn't being engaged by the characters or plot and that's pretty terrible considering the amount of books I actually picked up this year. Thankfully 2017 looks to be a return of originality and I for one cannot wait to see what it brings.<br />
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Anywho back to the post at hand. As I mentioned earlier, I did meet and slightly exceed my reading goal this year and the stories I read were for the most part incredibly good. Unlike past Wrap Up years, 2016 had clear winners and losers and it didn't take me all that long to decide which stories should land on this list. So without further ado, here are my Top Ten Favorite Books of 2016!<br />
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10.) <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13505813-buffy-the-vampire-slayer">Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 8 Vol.1</a> by Joss Whedon, Brian K. Vaughan, Georges Jeanty (Illustrator), Paul Lee (Illustrator), Cliff Richards (Illustrator)<br />
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<i>After the destruction of the Hellmouth, the Slayers--newly legion--have gotten organized, but it's not long before new and old enemies begin popping up. Buffy, Xander, Willow, and a very different Dawn are introduced to the season's big bad, Twilight, and are only beginning to understand the incredible reach of this mysterious threat. Meanwhile, rebel Slayer Faith teams up with Giles to handle a menace on the other side of the Atlantic. It's a dirty job, and Faith is just the girl to do it! </i><br />
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<i>June, Bette, and Gigi have given their all to dance at Manhattan’s most elite ballet school. Now they are competing one final time for a spot at the prestigious American Ballet Company. With the stakes higher than ever, these girls have everything to lose…and no one is playing nice.</i><br />
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<i>June is starting to finally see herself as a prima ballerina. However, getting what she wants might cost her everything—including the only boy she’s ever loved. Legacy dancer Bette is determined to clear her name after she was suspended and accused of hurting her rival, Gigi. Even if she returns, though, will she ever regain the spotlight she craves? And Gigi is not going to let Bette—or the other dancers who bullied her—go unpunished. But as revenge consumes her, Gigi may be the one who pays the price.</i><br />
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<i>After years of grueling auditions, torn ribbons, and broken hearts, it all comes down to this last dance. Who will make the cut? And who will lose her dream forever?</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="http://www.bloodsweatandbooks.com/2016/07/review-charnel-house-by-graham-masterton.html">REVIEW</a><br /></b>8.) <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/363397.Charnel_House">Charnel House</a> by Graham Masterson</td></tr>
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<i>Of course they thought he was crazy . . . . But Seymour Willis insisted his house was breathing and that he heard someone's - or something's - heartbeat pounding within the walls. So the disbelievers investigated, doubting the existence of ghosts or demons - until their reason was shattered by the shrieking unseen creature who threatened to claim their lives. By then it was too late to stop the fiendish force from wreaking vengeance upon those denying its very existence. One by one, they must die - in exchange for its eternally evil soul.</i><br />
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7.) <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28053955-shtf">SHTF Nola Zombie (0.5)</a> by Gillian Zane<br />
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<i>This isn't a romance...there aren't any happily-ever-afters, this is just Romeo's fight for survival and how he became a NOLA Survivor. </i><br />
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6.) <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30830968-monstrum">Monstrum</a> by Ann Christopher<br />
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<i>STAY OUT OF THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE</i><br />
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<i>Few places on earth engender as much primal fear as the mysterious and forbidding Bermuda Triangle. With good reason.</i><br />
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<i>A bizarre plane crash at sea leaves Bria Hunter and her high school classmates trapped in a chilling race for survival.</i><br />
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<i>Will Bria and her friends escape from the evil presence before it’s too late?</i><br />
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<i>Breezy remembers leaving the party: the warm, wet grass under her feet, her cheek still stinging from a slap to her face. But when she wakes up, scared and pulling dirt from her mouth, a year has passed and she can’t explain how.</i><br />
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<i>Nor can she explain the man lying at her grave, dead from her touch, or why her heartbeat comes and goes. She doesn’t remember who killed her or why. All she knows is that she’s somehow conscious—and not only that, she’s able to sense who around her is hiding a murderous past.</i><br />
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<i>Haunted by happy memories from her life, Breezy sets out to find answers in the gritty, threatening world to which she now belongs—where killers hide in plain sight, and a sinister cult is hunting for strange creatures like her. What she discovers is at once empowering, redemptive, and dangerous.</i><br />
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<i>WE ARE NOT ALONE</i><br />
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<i>Five days ago, a massive UFO crashed in the Midwest, killing thousands of people. Since then, nothing–or no one–has come out.</i><br />
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<i>If it were up to Alice, she’d be watching all of this on the news from Miami, Florida. Instead, she’s the newest student at a boarding school not far from the crash site–because her dad is the director of special projects for NASA, and if anything’s a special project, it’s this.</i><br />
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<i>A shell-shocked country is waiting, glued to televisions and computer screens, for a sign of what the future holds. But when the aliens emerge, they’re nothing like what Alice expected. And only one thing is clear: Nothing will ever be the same again.</i><br />
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<i>Humanity is split into the App World and the Real World—an extravagant virtual world for the wealthy and a dying physical world for the poor. Years ago, Skylar Cruz’s family sent her to the App World for a chance at a better life.</i><br />
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<i>Now Skye is a nobody, a virtual sixteen-year-old girl without any glamorous effects or expensive downloads to make her stand out in the App World. Yet none of that matters to Skye. All she wants is a chance to unplug and see her mother and sister again.</i><br />
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<i>But when the borders between worlds suddenly close, Skye loses that chance. Desperate to reach her family, Skye risks everything to get back to the physical world. Once she arrives, however, she discovers a much larger, darker reality than the one she remembers.</i><br />
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2.) <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3710603-y">Y: The Last Man</a> by Brian K. Vaughan<br />
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<i>"Y" is none other than unemployed escape artist Yorick Brown (his father was a Shakespeare buff), and he's seemingly the only male human left alive after a mysterious plague kills all Y-chromosome carriers on earth. But why are he and his faithful companion, the often testy male monkey Ampersand, still alive? He sets out to find the answer (and his girlfriend), while running from angry female Republicans (now running the government), Amazon wannabes that include his own sister (seemingly brainwashed), and other threats. </i><br />
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<span style="color: #ead1dc;">Note: I truly wish I had reviewed this series as I read it. Y: The Last Man was hands down one of the best stories I have ever read not just in a graphic novel form but in general. I cannot recommend reading this enough and the only reason it isn't my #1 pick of 2016 is because the book in that spot was extremely hard to beat. </span><br />
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<i>Deep in the jungle of Peru, where so much remains unknown, a black, skittering mass devours an American tourist whole. Thousands of miles away, an FBI agent investigates a fatal plane crash in Minneapolis and makes a gruesome discovery. Unusual seismic patterns register in a Kanpur, India earthquake lab, confounding the scientists there. During the same week, the Chinese government “accidentally” drops a nuclear bomb in an isolated region of its own country. As these incidents begin to sweep the globe, a mysterious package from South America arrives at a Washington, D.C. laboratory. Something wants out.</i><br />
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<i>The world is on the brink of an apocalyptic disaster. An ancient species, long dormant, is now very much awake. </i><br />
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<span style="color: #ead1dc;">Well there ya have it my Top Ten Favorite Books Of 2016! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #ead1dc;">Leave me comment below telling me which made your list or if you have a link feel free to share it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Every year I feel like I say the same thing, so many books, so little time. 2016 by far was better reading wise for me than 2015. I completed my Goodreads goal, I read a bunch of wicked new Graphic Novels and I even stepped out of my comfort zone and read some books not in my usual preference of genres. So why do I feel like a failure still? Despite my best efforts to read more I still left many books on the shelf unread. The dutiful reader within is screaming with discontent but my heart knows that I tried and sometimes that has to be good enough. The great thing about literature is it is not fleeting. The books will be their waiting for me with open pages when I find time to get around to them. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With that being said and in no particular order (sans my top pick), here are my Top Ten Books I Regret Not Reading In 2016:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">10.) <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22840421-my-lady-jane">My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The comical, fantastical, romantical, (not) entirely true story of Lady Jane Grey. In My Lady Jane, coauthors Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows have created a one-of-a-kind fantasy in the tradition of The Princess Bride, featuring a reluctant king, an even more reluctant queen, a noble steed, and only a passing resemblance to actual history—because sometimes history needs a little help.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At sixteen, Lady Jane Grey is about to be married off to a stranger and caught up in a conspiracy to rob her cousin, King Edward, of his throne. But those trifling problems aren’t for Jane to worry about. Jane is about to become the Queen of England. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eleven years ago, six kindergarteners went missing without a trace. After all that time, the people left behind moved on, or tried to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Until today. Today five of those kids return. They're sixteen, and they are . . . fine. Scarlett comes home and finds a mom she barely recognizes, and doesn't really recognize the person she's supposed to be, either. But she thinks she remembers Lucas. Lucas remembers Scarlett, too, except they're entirely unable to recall where they've been or what happened to them. Neither of them remember the sixth victim, Max. He doesn't come back. Everyone wants answers. Most of all Max's sister Avery, who needs to find her brother--dead or alive--and isn't buying this whole memory-loss story.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">8.) <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26192915-outrun-the-moon?">Outrun the Moon by Stacey Lee</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">San Francisco, 1906: Fifteen-year-old Mercy Wong is determined to break from the poverty in Chinatown, and an education at St. Clare’s School for Girls is her best hope. Although St. Clare’s is off-limits to all but the wealthiest white girls, Mercy gains admittance through a mix of cunning and a little bribery, only to discover that getting in was the easiest part. Not to be undone by a bunch of spoiled heiresses, Mercy stands strong—until disaster strikes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On April 18, a historic earthquake rocks San Francisco, destroying Mercy’s home and school. With martial law in effect, she is forced to wait with her classmates for their families in a temporary park encampment. Though fires might rage, and the city may be in shambles, Mercy can’t sit by while they wait for the army to bring help—she still has the “bossy” cheeks that mark her as someone who gets things done. But what can one teenage girl do to heal so many suffering in her broken city?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7.) <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25614492-salt-to-the-sea?">Salt to the Sea by Ruta Yepetys</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Each one born of a different homeland; each one hunted, and haunted, by tragedy, lies…and war.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As thousands of desperate refugees flock to the coast in the midst of a Soviet advance, four paths converge, vying for passage aboard the Wilhelm Gustloff, a ship that promises safety and freedom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Yet not all promises can be kept.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Inspired by the single greatest tragedy in maritime history, bestselling and award-winning author Ruta Sepetys (Between Shades of Gray) lifts the veil on a shockingly little-known casualty of World War II. An illuminating and life-affirming tale of heart and hope.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6.) <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22020598-on-the-edge-of-gone?ac=1&from_search=true">On the Edge of Gone by Corinne Duyvis</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That’s the day the comet is scheduled to hit—the big one. Denise and her mother and sister, Iris, have been assigned to a temporary shelter near their hometown of Amsterdam to wait out the blast, but Iris is nowhere to be found, and at the rate Denise’s drug-addicted mother is going, they’ll never reach the shelter in time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then a last-minute encounter leads them to something better than a temporary shelter: a generation ship that’s scheduled to leave Earth behind and colonize new worlds after the comet hits. But each passenger must have a practical skill to contribute. Denise is autistic and fears that she’ll never be allowed to stay. Can she obtain a spot before the ship takes flight? What about her mother and sister?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5.) <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28220778-the-rains">The Rains by Gregg Hurwitz</a></span><br />
In one terrifying night, the peaceful community of Creek’s Cause turns into a war zone. No one under the age of eighteen is safe. Chance Rain and his older brother, Patrick, have already fended off multiple attacks from infected adults by the time they arrive at the school where other young survivors are hiding. Most of the kids they know have been dragged away by once-trusted adults who are now ferocious, inhuman beings. The parasite that transformed them takes hold after people turn eighteen—and Patrick’s birthday is only a few weeks away.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4.) <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22359662-feedback">Feedback (Newsflesh #4) by Mira Grant</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3.) <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24033058-glitter">Glitter by Aprilynne Pike</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Outside the palace of Versailles, it’s modern day. Inside, the people dress, eat, and act like it’s the eighteenth century—with the added bonus of technology to make court life lavish, privileged, and frivolous. The palace has every indulgence, but for one pretty young thing, it’s about to become a very beautiful prison.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29662066-catalyst---a-rogue-one-novel">Catalyst - A Rogue One Novel by James Luceno</a><br />
<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30553316-rise-of-the-chosen?ac=1&from_search=true">Rise of the Chosen by Anna Kopp</a><br />
<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28448239-bright-smoke-cold-fire?ac=1&from_search=true">Bright Smoke, Cold Fire by Rosamund Hodge</a><br />
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It's the most wonderful time of year again so here I am back with so more Zombie goodies to purchase this Holiday Season whether it be for that special fan in your life or yourself. I'll link everything to the online store I found it in. No this is not sponsored I'm just sharing the products I think are cool. Also these aren't your traditional mugs, socks, & T-shirts mass produced or based around a very popular (and awesome) TV show. Instead I really wanted to share some funky extras to get the person in your life. So let's get started, shall we!<br />
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First up I found some more Zombie Christmas Sweaters! Now this year I won't be rocking Zombies. Nope I found myself a glorious <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Star-AT-AT-Reindeer-Christmas-Sweater/dp/B01LZTF3AW/ref=pd_sbs_193_img_2/151-8200282-1523522?_encoding=UTF8&refRID=FP5MPPG7QXEQ5JBFTKE6">AT-AT Sweater</a> and that baby is going to be worn as much as possible. However, I did find a new and glorious Zombie Christmas Sweater on my daily prowling through the web so I'm gonna share nonetheless.<br />
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Zombie Snowman Sweater via MOB</div>
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Purchase Price: <a href="https://middleofbeyond.com/products/zombie-snowman">$79.99</a></div>
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Next I found some really cool and of course Zombified Kitchen stuff.<br />
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Zombie Pint Glass via Glass With A Twist</div>
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Set of 4- Zombie Shot Glass via BarProducts.com</div>
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Alexander Henry Zombie Drive In Pot Holders via OriginalsbyLauren</div>
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Zombie Plates via Soule</div>
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If Kitchen stuff isn't your thing. How about we moved it to the rest of the house. </div>
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Zombie Swaddle Blanket 36x42 via RockerByeBasics</div>
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Zombie Attack Bed Linens via This Is Why I'm Broke</div>
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Keep Calm Zombie Duvet Set via Designy Land</div>
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Zombie Shower Curtain via Society 6</div>
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Zombie Wall Decals via LKS Trading Post</div>
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Now that you've got yourself a Zombified home why not buy some board games to play inside it? I haven't played any of these but they look incredibly cool and I did check the ratings and these seem to be well liked. </div>
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Dead of Winter via Plaid Hat Games</div>
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Last Night on Earth via Flying Frog Productions</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Author: Mary Ting<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">***2013 InD'Tale RONE Award Finalist for YA**** <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Skylar Rome can’t wait to spend her last summer before college with her cousin, Kayla. Everything changes when they meet the Grand brothers. Skylar is sure she should stay away from Mason Grand, but their attraction is undeniable. Then Skylar’s life erupts into turmoil. She steps into a world where descendants of ancient gods have super powers, evil beings chase her, and questions arise about her own identity. She is running out of time and running for her life, while trying to unravel the mystery of what they want from her. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">From Gods: </span><a href="http://amzn.to/22puV7Q" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">http://amzn.to/22puV7Q</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">“We have no choice. Don’t worry. I got this.” Mason pushed down on the brake forcefully. The car hydroplaned to the right. “Hold on.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">“No. Must be Poseidon’s kids. Where the hell are they?” Mason spread his right arm out in front of Skylar as if to protect her. “Bend down, Sky.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Seconds before impact, Mason’s car flew up into the air and over the trucks. Somehow, as if by magic, the water created a liquid bridge, guiding the car safely over, and then it thumped hard onto the ground on the other side. Without looking back, Mason sped away as the sound of screeching brakes and metal hitting metal blasted behind them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">“What just happened?” Skylar yelped. “Did you do that?” Everything had happened so fast. Adrenaline had rushed through her body so rapidly, she’d had no time for fear. Once it was over, she was amazed and stunned speechless. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">“No, I didn’t. Poseidon’s kids. It’s the only explanation. They can manipulate water. I had it handled. There was no need for them to show off. Lots of civilians are hurt.” Mason sounded irritated, perhaps because he wasn’t the hero this time around or perhaps he truly did care for those people he didn’t know. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Fire and heavy smoke spiraled into the sky behind them. The trucks had mostly slammed against each other, except for one. Guilt consumed her, thinking about the innocent people who’d happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. She couldn’t dwell on her remorse. She saw the same white truck, now joined by a black truck, tailing them. “It’s the white truck again, but there’s another one behind it.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly blog post hosted by Breaking The Spine where readers share which books they are highly anticipating. This week I want to share The Valiant by Leslie Livingston.<br />
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The youngest daughter of a proud Celtic king, Fallon has always lived in the shadow of her older sister Sorcha's legendary reputation as a warrior. But when Fallon was a young child, the armies of Julius Caesar invaded the island of Britain and her beloved older sister was killed in battle.<br />
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Now, Fallon must overcome vicious rivalries, chilling threats and the dangerous attention of Caesar himself to survive the deadly fights that take place both in and out of the arena—and claim her place in history among the Valiant.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Genre: YA Paranormal</span></div>
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This week I have some awesome and best of all Free Zombie E-books to share with you all! All books listed are Kindle Editions unless noted differently. All titles are linked to Goodreads for your convenience.<br />
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Dead Days (Season 1) by Ryan Casey [<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00H4F3NRG/ref=series_dp_rw_ca_1">Purchase</a>]<br />
How would you survive the Dead Days?<br />
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Riley Jameson is a regular guy. A little hard-of-luck and going through a rough time at work, but nothing he can't handle.<br />
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That was before the creatures rose. Feasting on human flesh, their hunger is insatiable. The zombies are unstoppable. The police are gone. The government has collapsed. The world as Riley knew it has changed, forever.<br />
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In this new, terrifying world, Riley is forced to think quick and act fast in order to survive. As he encounters numerous skin-crawling scenarios, his morals are pushed to the very limit, forcing the question: can humanity survive the onslaught of the dead, not only on the outside but on the inside? The answers often prove unsettling in this unique zombie apocalypse series unlike any other.<br />
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There will be blood. There will be tears. In the Dead Days, nobody is safe.<br />
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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22812093-bone-and-cinder">Bone & Cinder</a> by Scott Nicholson & Joshua Simcox [<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bone-Cinder-Post-Apocalyptic-Thriller-Zapheads-ebook/dp/B00M0CL4P6">Purchase]</a><br />
When Mackie Dailey survives a cataclysmic solar storm that wipes out civilization and mutates others into violent killers, he seeks out the one person he cares about most.<br />
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But when he returns to a college campus looking for Allie, he discovers she is a Zaphead—nearly unrecognizable as the human he once loved. Mackie becomes caught in a power struggle among a small group of survivors who turn the campus into a stronghold against the Zaphead threat. His old nemesis, Lucas Krider, has taken charge, but Krider’s vision of a new world is just as horrifying as the extinction they all face.<br />
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Will Mackie sacrifice himself so the group has a chance to survive, or will his demons turn out to be more dangerous than the strange, rampaging creatures that nature has unleashed?<br />
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THE NEW YORK TIMES—A virus is ravaging the country. People are falling over, reanimating, and eating the flesh off anyone they see. There is speculation of a worldwide pandemic. Some experts are suggesting a super bug may have been spawned by the Ebola vaccination.<br />
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THE NEW YORK POST—Hailed as a miracle cure, the vaccine promised to rid humanity of Ebola…early reports suggest that the outbreak originated in Africa where the vaccine was first used.<br />
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REUTERS—The situation is growing worse. Early estimates suggest millions are already infected. The CDC suggests staying home, locking your doors, and watching your television for emergency channel updates.<br />
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THE YOUNG TURKS—If you have been infected or know someone that has been infected, please blow their fucking heads off.<br />
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INFOWARS—The elite create virus that kills off 80 percent of the population.<br />
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THE GUARDIAN: The president is dead, mass sightings of paranormal activity reported.<br />
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There were no more headlines.<br />
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One Year Later.<br />
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29406710-since-the-sirens?ac=1&from_search=true">Since the Sirens</a> by E.E. Isherwood [<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B018H82ZYU">Purchase</a>]<br />
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Banished by bad decisions to spend the summer with his great-grandmother, Liam Peters thinks his life is over. After all, Marty Peters is a tough woman to be around. Maybe she wouldn’t be so bad if she'd just take an interest in the modern technology he loves. Sure, she has some insight to her…but the woman is practically “pushing daisies.” Not surprisingly, as tornado sirens announce a city-wide emergency, Liam discovers why that term should be avoided…well…like the plague.<br />
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When Grandma Marty tries to send him on his way, refusing to abandon her home, Liam sees his situation in a new light. Something deep inside awakens—and he chafes at the thought of leaving his 104-year-old grandmother to die. Armed with two tiny pistols and an arsenal of knowledge from his overwhelming zombie book collection, Liam realizes he could be the hero and accomplish the impossible: rescue her.<br />
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With the interstate gridlocked, opportunist criminals looking to take what they can get, law enforcement desperate to keep the peace, and the military declaring St. Louis a war-zone, Liam and Marty find themselves wrapped up in a world of chaos and panic. But when the zombies begin to overshadow everything else, Liam comes to appreciate why there are no atheists in foxholes.<br />
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17971591-the-survivors?ac=1&from_search=true">The Survivors: Summer </a>by V.L. Dreyer [<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E9O790W">Purchase</a>]<br />
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"Ten years ago, a deadly plague ravaged humanity. There were seven billion souls on our planet; now, there's just a handful. Our extinction event has come and gone, but a few of us did survive. We're the lucky ones, born with a rare genetic adaptation that gave us immunity to the plague. The intervening decade has been brutal and unforgiving, and many more of us died. First came the riots, then the gangs. Bad people are running wild now, with no one to stop them.<br />
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"I wish I could say that I was the hero this world needs to stop them, but I’m not. I was eighteen years old when I watched my family die one by one, and then I spent the next decade alone, struggling to eke out an existence amongst the ruins of our shattered world. It's a miracle I'm still alive. I am a lone female in a world without rules, and death stalks me at every turn.<br />
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"It turned me hard, made me paranoid and fearful, but now I have a second chance. I've met a group that I know I can trust, a group that I would do anything to protect. I choose to fight for what's important. I can't just stand by waiting for death to claim the people that I care about, one by one. What can one person do to save a world this far gone? I’m no hero, but I can try to bring hope to the people who are left behind. I have to try. We have to try. We have to find some way to move forward, or humanity will be lost forever. Someone must take the first step, and lead the way out of the darkness.<br />
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"My name is Sandy McDermott, and I am a survivor.<br />
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"This is my story."<br />
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8883358-the-living-dead-boy">The Living Dead Boy</a> by Rhiannon Frater [<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Living-Dead-Boy-Rhiannon-Frater-ebook/dp/B004JN04B4">Purchase</a>]<br />
Josh Rondell is twelve years old and known as the "living dead boy" due to his rampant love of all things zombie. As the head of the Zombie Hunters Club, he's obsessed with preparing for the zombocalypse. Though no one around him really believes that zombies will one day rise to devour the living, Josh is convinced it just might happen. When zombies do shamble into his schoolyard, Josh finds himself the leader of the dwindling band of zombie hunters, and he is charged with protecting them all. Josh's baby brother, his closest friends, and the love of his young life try to survive as the undead take over their town. Trapped in his treehouse and surrounded by the dead, will Josh be able to save them all?<br />
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18883037-white-flag-of-the-dead">White Flag of the Dead </a>by Joseph Talluto [<a href="https://www.amazon.com/White-Flag-Dead-Zombie-Novel-ebook/dp/B00F30O0L2/">Purchase</a>]<br />
Millions died when the Enillo Virus swept the earth. Millions more were lost when the victims of the plague refused to stay dead, instead rising to slaughter and feed on those left alive. For survivors like John Talon and his son Jake, they are faced with a choice: Do they submit to the dead, raising the white flag of surrender? Or do they find the will to fight, to try and hang on to the last shreds or humanity?<br />
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13412037-zombie-cinderella">Zombie Fairy Tales: Cinderella</a> by Kevin Richey [<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Zombie-Cinderella-Fairy-Tales-ebook/dp/B006VGZKNY">Purchase</a>]<br />
On the day her father is buried, Cinderella’s stepmother forces her to wait upon her ugly stepsisters as they prepare for a frivolous ball. Poor Cinderella is literally worked to death by her in-laws, and left to die alone in the cinders. But thanks to an infection from a mysterious old woman, Cinderella is granted a chance for revenge. Soon, it will be midnight, and everyone will be washing floors – with blood.<br />
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Kristin A.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15763712406760271208noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5838669499887672230.post-4231336101505470162016-10-17T05:00:00.000-05:002016-10-17T05:00:09.898-05:00Manga Monday (10) : Horror Manga I want to read. <div style="text-align: center;">
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Hey everyone, welcome back to another Manga Monday! Since it's inching ever closer to Halloween I figured now would be the perfect time to share some stories that I've yet to read but sound delightfully disturbing to say the least.<br />
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In no particular order, here are my choices:<br />
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<i><span style="color: #e06666;">1.<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13586065"> Jisatsu Circle by Usamaru Furuya</a></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #e06666;">This series starts with 54 young women gleefully jumping in front of a train together and committing suicide. One girl name Saya Kota survives unharmed and becomes obsessed with death. She forms a Suicide Club and starts recruiting members to join. Her best friend Kyoko tries to stop her and the other members from completing their task of committing suicide. However, Kyoko quickly realizes other forces much stronger than her don't want that to happen. </span></i><br />
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If this plot seems familiar it is. This manga is based on the 2001 Japanese film Suicide Club by Sion Sono. The Manga differentiates from the film by adding a survivor to unravel the very complicated plot and it also simplifies the story some while adding in more back story to the characters not really fleshed out in the film.<br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><i>Can a modern, westernized society stand up to the brutal forces of nature? When an ebola-like virus pops out of nowhere in the middle of Tokyo and begins brutally infecting and leaving behind a field of infectious corpses in its wake, modern Japan does not have the capablities to contain the disease behind bureaucratic red tape and laws. </i></span><i><span style="color: #e06666;">What would it happen if, to Shinjuku, one of the biggest districts of Tokyo, a man came to empty of his blood in the street at broad daylight? How would the political and sanitary authorities manage the drama? Think, please, about the question as long as you still have the possibility of it because for the professors Onodera and Sekiguchi it is already too late! An emergent virus begins to insinuate itself slowly into the arteries of the Japanese capital?</span></i><br />
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Emerging is a Manga after my own heart. I love Plague stories especially those based on very real viruses. For me that just makes them creepier and more intense.<br />
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<i><span style="color: #e06666;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26067688-i-am-a-hero-omnibus-volume-1">3. I am Hero by Hanazawa Kengo</a></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #e06666;">The story revolves around 35 year old Manga artist assistant Hideo Suzuki whose life seems to be stuck around his exhausting but low-paying job, unfulfilled dreams, strange hallucinations and unsatisfying relationships. He sees himself as a supporting character in his own life, has low self-esteem, resulting in frustration.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #e06666;">One day, the world as Hideo knows it is shattered by presences of a disease that turns people into homicidal maniacs, whose first instinct is to attack and devour the nearest human. Armed with only his sporting shotgun, he runs for his life, meeting strangers along the way. All the while, he and his companions struggle to stay alive, while questioning their moral choices.</span></i><br />
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I keep meaning to pick this Manga up but it always seems to slip my mind when I actually mean to. Nonetheless, I am Hero is a zombie tale that I really, really, want to read. I've heard nothing but good things about its story and plus I know a movie was based on it so I'll definitely like being able to compare and contrast the two once I've read it.<br />
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<i><span style="color: #e06666;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17287672-1-apocalypse-no-toride-1?">4. Apocalypse no Toride by Yuu Kuraishi</a></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #e06666;">Framed and convicted of murder, Yoshiaki Maeda has just arrived at Shouran Academy Juvenile Detention Center. He is placed in Cell 4 and is soon greeted by his fellow inmates Gou Iwakura, Masafumi Yoshioka, and Mitsuru Yamanoi, all of whom have been detained on varying charges and sentences. Already believing life to be laden with misfortunes, Yoshiaki finds, to his dismay, that the prison is in the midst of a violent power struggle.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #e06666;">However, things are about to get even worse—little do the inmates and employees know that the outside world has been thrown into chaos by a sudden zombie apocalypse, and a van carrying infected humans has just crashed into the prison, abruptly introducing them to the undead threat.</span></i><br />
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Yup, this is another Zombie Apocalypse Manga. What can I say, I love my zombies. I don't really know much about this Manga but I was drawn to it because of the artwork and also as I mentioned already Zombies. I'm hoping to track down a copy of this soon so I can devour it.<br />
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<i><span style="color: #e06666;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27810658?">5. Hive by Kyusam Kim</a></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #e06666;">This is not your typical invasion story. Gigantic oxygen-doped bees are attempting to dominate the human race by reversing the food chain. Lee is a middle-manager at a large company who has only one thing on his mind: save his family from the bug-apocalypse.</span></i><br />
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Yup, you heard that right this is a bug apocalypse. After reading and devouring The Hatching (not a Manga) earlier this year I've been tracking down a lot of bug related stories. This Manga or Manhwa as it is Korean fits that bill and then some.<br />
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This is a small sampling of a very long list of Manga on my tbr. These choices however are right near the top of that list so that is why they were chosen for this particular post. If you'd like to see more of my choices leave me a comment below and I might just post a pt. 2 in the coming weeks.<br />
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Well I guess that's about it for this week.</div>
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Are you excited for Halloween ?</div>
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Have any spooky reading recommendations you'd like to share?</div>
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Let me know in the comments below what you'd like me to cover in the next couple of weeks and also what you're reading or watching currently (if anything). I could use some recommendations!</div>
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