Showing posts with label historical. Show all posts
Showing posts with label historical. Show all posts

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Review: Grave Mercy

Grave Mercy
(His Fair Assassin #1)
By Robin LaFevers

Published:  April 3rd 2012 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Read from:  May 14-22, 2012
Number of pages: 549
Source:  HS Library
Find it on:
goodreadsindie Bound


Summary: Why be the sheep, when you can be the wolf?

Seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where the sisters still serve the gods of old. Here she learns that the god of Death Himself has blessed her with dangerous gifts—and a violent destiny. If she chooses to stay at the convent, she will be trained as an assassin and serve as a handmaiden to Death. To claim her new life, she must destroy the lives of others.

Ismae’s most important assignment takes her straight into the high court of Brittany—where she finds herself woefully under prepared—not only for the deadly games of intrigue and treason, but for the impossible choices she must make. For how can she deliver Death’s vengeance upon a target who, against her will, has stolen her heart?


Monday, May 14, 2012

Stacking The Shelves #1



Meme hosted and created by Tynga's Reviews

I work in a school library, and one of the best parts of my job is
 collection development.Every month I get to help select new books for
my LMC! As a result I'm always anxiously awaiting the new shipment
 of books. I will be posting a "Stacking the Shelves"post at least once
 a month to showcase the new books that I am most excited to get
 my hands on.  I'll also be sharing books I've gotten through
 other sources such as my public library or my local bookshop.  

I will also use this space to feature the books I am currently reading.
This small sub section of stacking the shelves will be called
"In my Poppy Book Bag"
because the books I'm currently reading are often toted around in my
pretty poppy flower book bag. Since these titles are currently being
read you can expect to see reviews in the following weeks!

Titles are linked to their goodreads listing

 Book List:
* in my poppy book bag featured title

Arcadia Awakens by Kai Meyer,
Belles by Jen Calonita
Cross My Heart by Sasha Gould
Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers *
Out of Sight Out of Time (Gallagher Girls #5) by Ally Carter *
Partials by Dan Wells
Starers by Lissa Price


In My Poppy Bookbag

Armed and Dangerous: Don't mess with these girls
I swear when I pulled these two titles off the new book cart I didn't intend to have a theme for this post, but it kidna worked out that way.

Out of Sight of of Time (Gallagher Girls #5) by Ally Carter 

The Gallagher Girls Books
This book technical isn't in my book bag any longer.  I finished it on Friday,  so you'll likely see a review of this one shortly. I won't go into details about the plot of this particular book, I'll save that for the review, but if you haven't had a chance to pick up this series it's well worth the read.

Cammie and her friends, Bex, Liz and Macey are just like any other group of teenage girls.  They talk about boys, and fashion and worry about getting good grades on their final exams.  Except for the fact that Cammie and her friends are students at the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women which is a top secret school for spies.  So when they are talking about boys it's usually the best way to set up surveillance in his house to discover if he likes you.  Fashion is more likely to be the best outfit to wear when gather intelligence, rather than the latest fashions to grace the runway, and it's not English they are worried about passing it's classes like world languages and covert operations.   These books are filled with fun and espionage and are well worth the read, and the latest installment "Out of Sight, Out of Time" does not disappoint.

Grave Mercy (His Fair Assassin #1) by Robin LaFevers 
Grave Mercy (His Fair Assassin, #1)This one was  book I just knew I had to get my hands on. I'm only about 10 pages in at this point but I can already see Ismae is going to be a very strong character! I dare you to read this synopsis below and not be at least a tiny bit interested in picking this one up!

Synopsis from goodreads:
"Seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where the sisters still serve the gods of old. Here she learns that the god of Death Himself has blessed her with dangerous gifts—and a violent destiny. If she chooses to stay at the convent, she will be trained as an assassin and serve as a handmaiden to Death. To claim her new life, she must destroy the lives of others.

Ismae's most important assignment takes her straight into the high court of Brittany—where she finds herself woefully under prepared—not only for the deadly games of intrigue and treason, but for the impossible choices she must make. For how can she deliver Death’s vengeance upon a target who, against her will, has stolen her heart?
" 



Saturday, March 17, 2012

Review: Past Perfct

Past Perfect
By Leila Sales

Published: October 4th 2011 by Simon Pulse
Read from:  January 09-11, 2012
Number of pages: 306
Source:  HS Library
Find it on:
goodreadsindie Bound


Summary: All Chelsea wants to do this summer is hang out with her best friend, hone her talents as an ice cream connoisseur, and finally get over Ezra, the boy who broke her heart. But when Chelsea shows up for her summer job at Essex Historical Colonial Village (yes, really), it turns out Ezra’s working there too. Which makes moving on and forgetting Ezra a lot more complicated…even when Chelsea starts falling for someone new.

Maybe Chelsea should have known better than to think that a historical reenactment village could help her escape her past. But with Ezra all too present, and her new crush seeming all too off limits, all Chelsea knows is that she’s got a lot to figure out about love. Because those who don’t learn from the past are doomed to repeat it….

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Review: Darker Still

Darker Still
(Magic Most Foul #1)
By Leanna Renee Hiber

Published: November 8th 2011 by Sourcebooks Fire
Read from:  January 3-6, 2012
Number of pages: 317
Source:  HS Library
Find it on:
goodreadsindie Bound
Summary: I was obsessed.

It was as if he called to me, demanding I reach out and touch the brushstrokes of color swirled onto the canvas. It was the most exquisite portrait I'd ever seen--everything about Lord Denbury was unbelievable...utterly breathtaking and eerily lifelike.

There was a reason for that. Because despite what everyone said, Denbury never had committed suicide. He was alive. Trapped within his golden frame.

I've crossed over into his world within the painting, and I've seen what dreams haunt him. They haunt me too. He and I are inextricably linked--bound together to watch the darkness seeping through the gas-lit cobblestone streets of Manhattan. Unless I can free him soon, things will only get Darker Still.