The results of my book hoarding addiction!
Those of you who know me know that I am a huge book hoarder! I love reading and if I see a book that appeals to me I must have it! So here are just a couple books that I got within the past two weeks!
The Shadow by A.G. Porter
Synopsis:
Rayna Stone is an eighteen-year-old girl from a small Alabama town that just wants to save a little money for college. In order to do that she has to find a summer job. The problem with that, the only place that is willing to take her is the upscale golf resort of The Landing. This was not her idea of a summer job, being around snobby, rich folks, but when she meets eyes with the owner’s son, Liam, she starts to see the brighter side of things. That is until she’s seeing things that she can’t quite explain and having dreams that are haunted by a being she calls The Shadow.
The Shadow begins to show her things about a few missing girls, that she wished she had never seen. Another chilling fact, her dreams seem to be coming true. As if that isn’t enough, she learns that this ability of hers gives her an insight into what others around her are feeling. Soon after this, Rayna learns that Liam does feel something for her, but even though she wants to tell him she feels the same, something is warning her to stay away. Not because he is dangerous, but because she is.
The Shadow begins to show her things about a few missing girls, that she wished she had never seen. Another chilling fact, her dreams seem to be coming true. As if that isn’t enough, she learns that this ability of hers gives her an insight into what others around her are feeling. Soon after this, Rayna learns that Liam does feel something for her, but even though she wants to tell him she feels the same, something is warning her to stay away. Not because he is dangerous, but because she is.
Risen by Christine James
Synopsis:
A fun night in a small town carnival will change Erin’s life forever with a simple visit to a bizarre and mysterious fortune teller. Scared to death by what the haggard woman reveals, Erin quickly flees and quite literally collides with Angelo, a mysterious, captivating carnival worker. Later that night, he appears in her dreams but he’s not the only one visiting her slumber. Evil is lurking on the edge of the shadows and it’s coming for her. Loyalties are tested and the lines of friendship begin to blur as long hidden truths come to light and fate bears down upon them all. Everyone has secrets but when some turn out to be more than heart wrenching, Erin has to decide who she can trust.
Angelo is not what he seems but then again no one ever is. Not even Erin. Can Erin deal with the harsh past that Angelo has been harboring or will it prevent her from doing what she's been chosen to do?
Angelo is not what he seems but then again no one ever is. Not even Erin. Can Erin deal with the harsh past that Angelo has been harboring or will it prevent her from doing what she's been chosen to do?
By the way I read and reviewed this! 5 stars definitely!
Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi
Synopsis:
Since she’d been on the
outside, she’d survived an Aether storm, she’d had a knife held to her throat,
and she’d seen men murdered. This was worse.
Exiled from her home, the
enclosed city of Reverie, Aria knows her chances of surviving in the outer
wasteland—known as The Death Shop—are slim. If the cannibals don’t get her, the
violent, electrified energy storms will. She’s been taught that the very air
she breathes can kill her. Then Aria meets an Outsider named Perry. He’s wild—a
savage—and her only hope of staying alive.
A hunter for his tribe in a
merciless landscape, Perry views Aria as sheltered and fragile—everything he
would expect from a Dweller. But he needs Aria’s help too; she alone holds the
key to his redemption. Opposites in nearly every way, Aria and Perry must
accept each other to survive. Their unlikely alliance forges a bond that will
determine the fate of all who live under the never sky.
In her enthralling debut,
Veronica Rossi sends readers on an unforgettable adventure set in a world
brimming with harshness and beauty.
Through
the Ever Night by Veronica Rossi
Synopsis:
A world-defying love is put
to the ultimate test in the New York Times and USA
Today bestselling sequel to Veronica Rossi's
"masterpiece," Under the Never Sky (Examiner.com ). In this
second book in her spellbinding Under the Never Sky trilogy, bestselling author
Veronica Rossi combines fantasy and dystopian elements to create a love story
as perilous as it is unforgettable.
It's been months since Aria
last saw Perry. Months since Perry was named Blood Lord of the Tides, and Aria
was charged with an impossible mission. Now, finally, they are about to be
reunited. But their reunion is far from perfect. The Tides don't take kindly to
Aria, a former Dweller. And with the worsening Aether storms threatening the
tribe's precarious existence, Aria begins to fear that leaving Perry behind
might be the only way to save them both.
Threatened by false friends
and powerful temptations, Aria and Perry wonder, Can their love survive through
the ever night?
Panic
by Sharon Draper
Synopsis:
Diamond knows
not to get into a car with a stranger.
But what if the stranger is
well-dressed and handsome? On his way to meet his wife and daughter? And
casting a movie that very night—a movie in need of a star dancer? What then?
Then
Diamond might make the wrong decision.
It’s a nightmare come true: Diamond
Landers has been kidnapped. She was at the mall with a friend, alone for only a
few brief minutes—and now she’s being held captive, forced to endure horrors
beyond what she ever could have dreamed, while her family and friends
experience their own torments and wait desperately for any bit of news.
From New
York Times bestselling author Sharon Draper, this is a riveting
exploration of power: how quickly we can lose it—and how we can take it back.
The Weight of
Souls by Bryony Pearce
Synopsis:
16 year old Taylor Oh is
cursed: if she is touched by the ghost of a murder victim then they pass a mark
beneath her skin. She has three weeks to find their murderer and pass the mark
to them - letting justice take place and sending them into the Darkness. And if
she doesn't make it in time? The Darkness will come for her... She spends her
life trying to avoid ghosts, make it through school where she's bullied by
popular Justin and his cronies, keep her one remaining friend, and persuade her
father that this is real and that she's not going crazy.
And then Justin is
murdered and everything gets a whole lot worse. Justin doesn't know who killed
him, so there's no obvious person for Taylor to go after. The clues she has
lead her to the V Club, a vicious secret-society at her school where no one is
allowed to leave... And where Justin was dared to do the stunt which led to his
death. Can she find out who was responsible for his murder before the Darkness
comes for her? Can she put aside her hatred for her former bully to truly help
him? And what happens if she starts to fall for him?
This is W.A.R.
by Lisa Roecker & Laura Roecker
Synopsis:
The mystery of
their best friend's murder drives four girls to destroy the Gregory family.
Emily Thorne would be proud.
Everyone at Hawthorne Lake Country Club saw Willa
Ames-Rowan climb into a boat with James Gregory, the Club’s heir apparent. And
everyone at Hawthorne Lake Country Club watched him return.
Alone.
They
all know he killed her. But none of them will say a word. The Gregory family is
very, very good at making problems go away.
Enter the W.A.R.— the war to
avenge Willa Ames-Rowan. Four girls. Four very different motives for justice
and revenge, and only one rule: destroy the Gregory family at any cost.
Crush,
Candy, Corpse by Sylvia McNicoll
Synopsis:
Paradise Manor is depressing -- the smells are bad and the
residents are old. Sunny would much rather be doing her volunteer hours at
Salon Teo, but her teacher won't let her. Who says volunteering at a hair salon
doesn't benefit the community?
But working with the Alzheimer's patients has a surprising
effect on Sunny. Along with Cole, the grandson of one of the residents, she
begins to see that the residents don't have much more choice about their lives
than she does: what they eat, how they are treated by staff, even what they
watch on television. So Sunny does what she can to make the residents happy --
even if she has to sometimes break the rules to do it.
When tragedy
strikes at Paradise, Sunny's left to make the decision about whether or not to
honour a promise that Cole made to his grandmother about her life...and her
death.
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