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I’m So Excited!! 

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This weekend is the weekend that I wait all year for! The Friends of the Library Book Sale starts this Friday, and I can’t wait! This is where I stock up on my hardbacks, especially those that are hard for me to find and complete out my collections with. It’s like Christmas!! I get great discounts, and help out the local library system in the process. Win-Win! I can’t wait to show you guys what I end up with!! Stay tuned!! 

-T

Bloodlines (Boodlines, Book 1)

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bloodlines cover

Author: Richelle Mead

Series: Bloodlines

Genre: Fantasy

Publisher: Razorbill

Pages: 448

Bloodlines is a spinoff series from Mead’s beloved Vampire Academy series. It centers around the same Moroi world, and we see a lot of the same characters that were introduced in the original series, but this time the story is being told from the Alchemist, Sydney’s, point of view. This story picks up almost right where Last Sacrifice left off. Jill is being targeted by rogue Moroi who don’t want Lissa on the throne, so she has to be moved in to hiding at a human private school in Palm Springs. Sydney, still in trouble after her role in helping Rose out of her ordeal, is tapped to play her older sister to help keep her safe. Eddie, Rose’s dhampir friend (whose status is also still in question after the events in Last Sacrifice) is also along to guard Jill. To further complicate Sydney’s world, Adrian is in Palm Springs to “help” and keep an eye on Jill. There are a lot of issues that are uncovered along the way, between Sydney and the Alchemist in charge of the area, Keith. Along with the issue of keeping Jill safe, there are some other odd things happening in the Palm Springs area that Sydney is determined to figure out.

Sydney is a very different type of narrator than Rose was, but that is good because she has a very different view point. I wasn’t too sure about having the VA story told from the Alchemist POV, because I thought that it may be a bit jaded, but Sydney’s feelings kind of caught me off guard. I won’t say that I like it as much as VA, from this first story, but I did enjoy it. I’ll keep reading it to see if it keeps growing on me.

Labor Day!!

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Hi everyone!

I’m sorry that it has been a while between posts, but things have been a bit crazy around here with work and home. I hope that you enjoy the two that I just put up! I’m reading a couple of books right now: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, Unseen, and I’m finally getting around to finishing up Percy Jackson so I’m reading House of Hades right now as well. I should have a couple of more reviews ready for you this week. In the mean time, I hope that you guys have a great Labor Day weekend!!

As always, thanks for reading!

-T

Just A Little August Update

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Hi Everyone!

I just wanted to say hi and give you guys a little update on my reading for the year, so far. I have already exceeded my reading goal for the year, granted a good bit of that was re-reading series that I read again every year (*cough* Harry Potter *cough*), but still! A lot of that has been due to this blog, so I thank you for keeping me going. It has been a bit stressful, with having to change blog sites, and only being able to recover so many reviews, but overall it has been a lot of fun. There are still a lot of books to be read this year, and a lot of reviews to be written, so thanks for hanging with me and making me at least somewhat relevant. 🙂

So far, my best book of the year is still Chemical Burn by Quincy J. Allen. That review was, thankfully, one that I was able to recover, so it is on the site. It was amazing, and I am so glad that I was privileged enough to be chosen to review it for him. If you are a sci-fi fan, you have to read it! I still think about it after all of this time, and I need more of it in my life… I’m looking at you Mr. Allen! Here’s the cover again, so that you can find it:

chemical burn

Thanks again for following the blog! Love you guys!!

-T