Digesting the Words

Goodreads Rating:  I feel like short e-novellas should have their own rating system, because sure they aren't the complete story but they bring something to the table. This story for example brought a LOT to the table when it comes to hundreds of beating hearts who lovingly wait for any mention of Four in Divergent. Free Four is a short re telling of Divergent through Four's eyes, and not just on any part but the knife throwing scene!! Let's just say it's incredibly nice to be inside Four's head at a time when you didn't know what the hell was going on through those parts. The e-novella is less than 15 pages, sad to say, but it will be a nice fix for those who have just finished Insurgent, or even Divergent, and need a bit more. I give this E-novella a 5/5! Getting to look at some things through Four's eyes is amazing, in fact the only thing I am disappointed about is that we don't get the whole NOVEL through Four's eyes. What do you say guys? Let Ve...

T itle: The Dream Thieves A uthor: Maggie Stiefvater S eries: The Raven Cycle B ook #: 2 P ages: 416 R eading  L evel: YA B ook  R ating:  G oodreads  R ating: 4.26 P ublished: Sept. 17th, 2013 Now that the ley lines around Cabeswater have been woken, nothing for Ronan, Gansey, Blue, and Adam will be the same. Ronan, for one, is falling more and more deeply into his dreams, and his dreams are intruding more and more into waking life. Meanwhile, some very sinister people are looking for some of the same pieces of the Cabeswater puzzle that Gansey is after... T aschima's  POV : Dream Thieves , the continuation to The Raven Boys , is captivating, weird, and magical. It is essentially the story of four boys, and a 5th wheel girl, in their quest to find a centuries dead Welch king--Glendower. In the last installment Adam had gone off on his own and sacrificed a part of himself in order to get them all closer to finding Glendower's grave by waking the ley line (a powe...

T itle: As Long as You Love Me A uthor: Ann Aguirre S eries: 2B Trilogy B ook #: 2 P ages: 352 R eading  L evel: NA B ook  R ating:  G oodreads  R ating: 3.71 P ublished: Sept. 30th, 2014 Most people dream about getting out of Sharon, Nebraska, but after three years away, Lauren Barrett is coming home. She has her reasons: missing her family, losing her college scholarship. But then there's the reason Lauren can't admit to anyone: Rob Conrad, her best friend's older brother. Football prowess and jaw-dropping good looks made Rob a star in high school. Out in the real world, his job and his relationships are going nowhere. He's the guy who women love and leave, not the one who makes them think of forever... until Lauren comes back to town, bringing old feelings and new dreams with her. Because the only thing more important than figuring out where you truly belong is finding the person you were meant to be with. T aschima's  POV : As Long as You Love Me is full of ...

  "Egmont Publishing, which put its U.S. division up for sale in October, has announced plans to close the unit . The move, the Danish publisher said in a release, comes after the division failed to establish a "market leading position" in the States, and attempts to sell the unit failed." - Publisher's Weekly Article Egmont USA is throwing in the towel. For real. They are fleeing the states because it seems they aren't doing good enough to justify staying. They aren't a big enough name in the states so they say fuck it. If they are not making enough money to justify staying I understand but... This sucks, majorly, for all the employees currently working for Egmont but specially for the authors who had titles being released under Egmont. Now everybody is going to be hunting for a new job... and a new publisher. So I've compiled below a list of Egmont's top hits, misses, and the titles I really want to get before they close up shop. Every title i...

T itle: The Shape of My Heart A uthor: Ann Aguirre S eries: 2B Trilogy B ook #: 3 P ages: 352 R eading  L evel: NA B ook  R ating:  G oodreads  R ating: 3.72 P ublished: Nov. 25th, 2014 Some people wait decades to meet their soul mate. Courtney Kaufman suspects she met hers in high school only to lose him at seventeen. Since then, Courtney's social life has been a series of meaningless encounters, though she's made a few close friends along the way. Especially her roommate Max Cooper, who oozes damaged bad-boy vibes from every pore.  Max knows about feeling lost and trying to move beyond the pain he's been on his own since he was sixteen. Now it's time to find out if he can ever go home again, and Courtney's the only one he trusts to go with him. But the trip to Providence could change everything because the more time he spends with Courtney, the harder it is to reconcile what he wants and what he thinks he deserves. It started out so simple. One misfit helping ...

T itle: Etiquette & Espionage A uthor: Gail Carriger S eries: Finishing School B ook #: 1 P ages: 307 R eading  L evel: YA B ook  R ating:  G oodreads  R ating: 3.77 P ublished: February 5th, 2013, 2014 It's one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It's quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to Finishing School. Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper manners--and the family can only hope that company never sees her atrocious curtsy. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. So she enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality. But Sophronia soon realizes the school is not quite what her mother might have hoped. At Mademoiselle Geraldine's, young ladies learn to finish...everything. Certainly, they learn the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette,...

T itle: Golden Son A uthor: Pierce Brown S eries: Red Rising B ook #: 2 P ages: 464 R eading  L evel: YA B ook  R ating:  G oodreads  R ating: 4.65 P ublished: January 6th, 2014 With shades of The Hunger Games, Ender’s Game, and Game of Thrones, debut author Pierce Brown’s genre-defying epic Red Rising hit the ground running and wasted no time becoming a sensation.  Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom from the overlords of a brutal elitist future built on lies. Now fully embedded among the Gold ruling class, Darrow continues his work to bring down Society from within. A life-or-death tale of vengeance with an unforgettable hero at its heart, Golden Son guarantees Pierce Brown’s continuing status as one of fiction’s most exciting new voices. T aschima's  POV : I am not going to lie, I am kind of devastated. Reading the Golden Son was the wildest ride of my young life. I...

T itle: Princess of Thorns A uthor: Stacey Jay S eries: n/a B ook #: 1 P ages: 400 R eading  L evel: YA B ook  R ating:  G oodreads  R ating: 3.88 P ublished: Dec. 9th, 2014 Game of Thrones meets the Grimm's fairy tales in this twisted, fast-paced romantic fantasy-adventure about Sleeping Beauty's daughter, a warrior princess who must fight to reclaim her throne. Though she looks like a mere mortal, Princess Aurora is a fairy blessed with enhanced strength, bravery, and mercy yet cursed to destroy the free will of any male who kisses her. Disguised as a boy, she enlists the help of the handsome but also cursed Prince Niklaas to fight legions of evil and free her brother from the ogre queen who stole Aurora's throne ten years ago. Will Aurora triumph over evil and reach her brother before it's too late? Can Aurora and Niklaas break the curses that will otherwise forever keep them from finding their one true love? T aschima's  POV : A combination of Game of Throne...

Get ready for a visit to your closest book store because here is a list of books that shall be published this upcoming Tuesday: Goodreads "To fight her destiny as the missing heir to a powerful and dangerous secret society, sixteen-year-old Avery West must solve an ancient puzzle in a deadly race across Europe. Forbidden love and code-breaking, masked balls and explosions, destiny and dark secrets collide in this romantic thriller, in the vein of a YA DaVinci Code." Deadly races, puzzles, powerful families and powerful foes. It seems like the entire novel is going to be a non stop race to solve the puzzle! The hardcover price is the same on both retailers right now, so it all just depends if you want it delivered to your door, or if you want it right now. Amazon price for Hardcover: $15.22 Barnes and Noble: $15.22      Goodreads "Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill a monster and feel quite proud of themselves. A girl can look at her br...