WoW : firelight

Waiting on wedsday : firelight by Sophie Jordan



Summary:
With her rare ability to breathe fire, Jacinda is special even among the draki—the descendants of dragons who can shift between human and dragon forms. But when Jacinda’s rebelliousness leads her family to flee into the human world, she struggles to adapt, even as her draki spirit fades. The one thing that revives it is Will, whose family hunts her kind. Jacinda can’t resist getting closer to him, even though she knows she’s risking not only her life but the draki’s most closely guarded secret



I can't wait till this book it looks great!! And the cover is beautiful ... What book are looking forward too.
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The Prongs-Risque challenge

now what is this Prongs - Risque challange? Prongs is my bestie and a new member of the blog community. She is a very smart and funny girl who loves to read just as much as we do!!!. So I want her to get many followers on her blog and why not award you guys for following her?

Wicked Lovely is another one of those books that Prongs and I bond over, and I just happen to have an extra ARC of Radiant Shadows by Melissa Marr.

This contest is US only- sorry I'm broke :( - but if you are international please do follow prongs anyways

to win Follow Prongs here: http://risque-ybusiness.blogspot.com/

and then fill out this form: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dEt6VWFUcEFPdVk1N3ZrQ3U2U0xhWVE6MQ

Contest will end Aug 31

Review: Soulstice Simon Holt

From GoodReads

It's been six months since Reggie first discovered and fought against the Vours, malicious and demonic beings that inhabit human bodies on the eve of the Winter Solstice.

The Vours still haunt Reggie, but only in her dreams-until one night, when an unexpected visitor turns her nightmares into reality.

The battle against evil continues in Soulstice, the second book in the thrilling The Devouring series, which School Library Journal called, "Comparable to books by R. L. Stine and Stephen King....A must-have for horror fans."

Soulstice was a great book, it was just the right blend of fear, suspense, and mystery. Reggie is still recovering from her time in Henry's , her brother, fearscape and the Vours are now out to get her. Her best friend Aaron is tortured by the Vours as well his fears taking over his mind. As these two friends become deeper and deeper into the Vour's world they find that they might loose everything they hold dear, even their sanity. What I love about these books is that they are so different from most YA lit. This story isn't about true love or boy loves girl, which isn't bad but sometimes change is good. I love this series because it has something to it that make you feel fear, you fear the Vours, and hope that on Sorry Night you aren't alone and scared incase they trap you in your fears.

Teaser Tuesday; Soulstice by Simon Holt

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading!

Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

-Grab your current read
-Open to a random page
-Share two “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page

BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)

Share the title and author, too, so that other Teaser Tuesday participants can add the book to their TBR lists if they like your teasers!

Soulstice:

He shrieked until the flood reached his mouth, the water rank with his own blood, drowning him in a sea of hell...
- page 37

In my mail box

Won:
Along for the ride arc by Sarah Dessen



Won:
Claire de lune
Leaving paradise
Shade
Radiant shadows arc
Chance fortune: in the shadow zone
Wish you were dead arc



Won:
Arc of nightshade
Arc of ascendant ( from aine)
Truancy and truancy origins(arc)
Girl in the arena arc
I am a genius of unspeakable evil and I want to be your class president arc

So what's in your mail box?

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Got Books? Event: A very Faery give away winner!!

I have had a blast doing Got Books? Event, watching my followers on here and on Twitter go. Reading what books you all are excited for, and entering into the hundreds of other contest !!! This has been a great experience and I hope to do it again next year.
Now for the winners!!!!!!!!
(whom I will also @ on twitter)

In 3rd place winning swag of Faerie Rebels and Wayfarer by R.J. Anderson is...
STELLA!!!!!!!!!!!

In Second place winning Kin by Holly Black is...
CHRISTINA BEAN!!!!

and FIRST place winning a signed copy of Faerie Rebels by R.J. Anderson and swag is... Drum roll please....
CHRISTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CONGRATULATIONS !!! I will be emailing you shortly for your adresses so I can ship your prizes out to you ASAP!! and for everyone else THANK YOU for joining my blog! Stay tuned for reviews, and more give aways coming soon!!

A very faerie give away!!!

So thanks to those amazing comments I am apart of Got Books Event .. Couldn't find my name last night.... But anywho so a few changes: just the date is all. ( look bellow)
Right, good answer: I shouldn't
So I have a three winner contest for you all.
Third place will get Faerie Rebels and Wayfarer swag















Second place will win Kin by Holly Black















And First Place gets a sighed copy of Faery Rebels by R.J. Anderson and swag!!!















And just to prove it is signed:

















--- so how can you win?
Your email so I can contact you if you win
Well you must be a follower
+1 for new follower
+2 for old follower
Twitter:@ vacilici
New: +1
Old:+ 2
tweet/ goodreads/ FB/ ectera...
+3 per post

And a question: what book is highest on your TBR list and why?

Well good luck. Contest ends next Thursday: June 24th at 12 am

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My borders Adventure

I went to borders today and got more books to add to my TBR list. Some are old releases and some are new releases. Here they are :

























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Everlasting

Here is the trailer for Everlasting !!!!!! Yay!!!



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Review : Anansi Boys

Anansi Boys is the story of Fat Charlie, a normal man, working a normal job, with a normal girl friend. Fat Charlie's life changes when he finds out that his father was in fact Anansi, a west African spider god, and that he has a brother named Spider. With out realizing it Fat Charlie summons his long lost brother and soon realizes the consequences when everthing starts going so very oddly.

Review: I loved this book. Neil Gaiman is a literary god amongst men. He has this ability to write humor into darkness. To make a reader laugh out loud, gasp, cry ... His ability to envoke an emotion Is amazing. Fat Charlie was funny and spider even funnier. I would recomend this book to any one!!
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WoW: Crescendo

My waiting on Wedsday is Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick

Yes, like most, I have Fallen (no pun intended) for Patch. I cannot wait to read the next in this series
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7791997-crescendo


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Nightshade tshirt contest!!

There is a contest going on to design a tshirt for Andrea Cremer's book Nightshade!! The winner will get an ARC of this beautiful book. To find out more follow this link here:
http://tinyurl.com/255jxsn

Here is my entry:




(I am Photoshop deprived- used pencil and color pencils)
- good luck to all who join

Teaser Tuesday : Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman!

This week's TT is from the literary god: Neil Gaiman. I started reading him with the amazing, American Gods,and this is just as amazing

Now let's get to it

" how do you take your coffee?"
"Dark as night, sweet as sin"
- page 64



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100 books in one year challange

I'm in the process of reading 100 books in one year!! this being hosted by http://j-kaye-book-blog.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-2010-reading-challenge-100-reading.html

my deadline: October 31 2010

my list:

1. Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater-
2. Tempted by P.C. and Kristen Cast-
3. Lament by Maggie Stiefvater
4. Ballad-
5. This is what I want to tell you
6. Wondrous Strange-
7. Radiant Shadows ARC-
8. The Hallow Kingdom
9. Green Angel -
10. Darklight
11. The Iron King
12. the dreaming place
13.Broke Back Mountain (yes it is a short story by Annie Proulux- very sweet but sad)
14. Rebecca
15.The Wild Wood
16.Tithe
17.If there be thorns
18. Hush Hush
19. Living dead girl
20.Coraline
21. Ash
22.Forest of Hands and Teeth
23. Dead Tossed waves
24. Desert tails 2 Challange
25. Gaurdan of the Dead
26. Gentlemen
27. Wicked Lovely
28. Ink exchange
29. The girl with the dragon tattoo
30. Fragile Eternity
31. Radiant Shadows
32. American Gods
33. Invisible monsters
34. spirit bound
35. white cat
36. My Soul to Take
37. The Gardener
38.The Summoning
39. Taken
40. The Awakening
41. the summoning
42.The Reckoning
43. White cat
44. The hunters moon
45. The devouring
46. Faery Rebels
47. The summer king

Blog Hopping and follow friday

HI fellow Book Hoppers!! I'm Loony if you don't know and well books... are my life!!

RIGHT THIS INSTANT, WHAT BOOK ARE YOU DYING TO GET YOUR HANDS ON (PAST, PRESENT, OR FUTURE)?

off the top of my head:
Shadow hills
Red glove
Siren
Nightshade
Darkest Mercy
and much much more but my mind has gone blank

To join the fun and make now book blogger friends, just follow these simple rules:

1.Follow the Follow My Book Blog Friday Host { Parajunkee.com } and any one else you want to follow on the list
2.Follow our Featured Bloggers - www.onceuponachapter.com
3.Put your Blog name & URL in the Linky thing.
4.Grab the button up there and place it in a post, this post is for people to find a place to say hi in your comments
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6.If someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love...and the followers
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Happy Follow Friday!

Update: Got Books!! and review

I'm a Part of the Event Called Got Books over at: http://gotbooksevent.blogspot.com/

and boy will I be giving one lucky person a real treat :D I have emailed the author of Faery Rebels: Spell Hunter, and she is mailing me a signed book plate for this book. So one lucky person will get this wonderful Faery book (reccomended by the amazing Melissa Marr) signed by the author. So be sure to come back here July 23 and enter into the contest post!!!!!

and now for my review:

Synopsis:

Forget everything you think you know about faeries. . . .

Creatures full of magic and whimsy?

Not in the Oakenwyld. Not anymore.

Deep inside the great Oak lies a dying faery realm, bursting with secrets instead of magic. Long ago the faeries mysteriously lost their magic. Robbed of their powers, they have become selfish and dull-witted. Now their numbers are dwindling and their very survival is at stake.

Only one young faery—Knife—is determined to find out where her people's magic has gone and try to get it back. Unlike her sisters, Knife is fierce and independent. She's not afraid of anything—not the vicious crows, the strict Faery Queen, or the fascinating humans living nearby. But when Knife disobeys the Faery Queen and befriends a human named Paul, her quest becomes more dangerous than she realizes. Can Knife trust Paul to help, or has she brought the faeries even closer to the brink of destruction?

Talented newcomer R. J. Anderson creates an extraordinary new fantasy world and weaves a gripping tale of lost magic, high adventure, and surprising friendship in which the fate of an entire realm rests on the shoulders of one brave faery rebel

I found this to be a great read, the charcter Knife is strong willed and funny. She doesn't go with the norm and becomes a great little fairy. I loved that the fairy's were small and that the romance wasn't cheesy or cliched. It was over all a great book and I reccomend it to all lovers of fantasy, faeries, or well to anyone

review of The Summer King

The Summer King by O.R. Melling

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Synopsis:
This second book in a series "shimmering with magic, myth, and romance" (Booklist), follows sixteen-year-old Laurel as she tries to understand the cause of her twin sister's mysterious death. Honor believed in Faerie, a parallel land of mischievous immortals. Laurel doesn't. That is, until the fairies come and ask her to take up her sister's failed quest to find the Summer King, a lord who can light the midsummer fire that keeps the two worlds, human and Faerie, cleaved. Laurel must decide to help those whose cause killed her sister, and, in the process, come to believe that there is still magic-and love-in the world.


I loved this book, it was beautifully writen as Hunters Moon was.
The character Laurel changes and grows in the story and becomes an extreamly strong and dedicated young woman. Laurel is search through out Ireland to find and save the missing Summer King, and maybe save her sister at the same time. I loved Ian, how his character changes... even when he really changes. I'm so mad that I never bought the Light-Bearer's Daughter but I got it at my Library and I know I will love it.

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WOW: Tempestuous by Lesley Livingston

My Waiting on Wedsday: Tempestous by Lesley Livingston

Release date: January 7th 2011

synopsis on Good Reads: .... well there isn't one... yet. but needless to say I loved the first two in this series.

Wonderous Strange:

17 year-old Kelley Winslow doesn’t believe in Faeries. Not unless they’re the kind that you find in a theatre, spouting Shakespeare—the

kind that Kelley so desperately wishes she could be: onstage, under lights, with a pair of sparkly wings strapped to her shoulders. But as the understudy in a two-bit, hopelessly off-off-Broadway production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, wishing is probably the closest she’s going to get to becoming a Faerie Queen. At least, that’s what she thinks... In this fun, urban fantasy, Kelley's off-stage life suddenly becomes as complicated as one of Shakespeare’s plot twists when a nighttime trip to Central Park holds more than meets the mortal eye.

Darklight:

Much has changed since autumn, when Kelley Winslow learned she was a Faerie princess, fell in love with changeling guard Sonny Flannery, and saved the mortal realm from the ravages of the Wild Hunt.

Now Kelley is stuck in New York City, rehearsing Romeo and Juliet and missing Sonny more with every stage kiss, while Sonny has been forced back to the Otherworld and into a deadly game of cat and mouse with the remaining Hunters and Queen Mabh herself.

When a terrifying encounter sends Kelley tumbling into the Otherworld, her reunion with Sonny is joyful but destined to be cut short. An ancient, hidden magick is stirring, and a dangerous new enemy is willing to risk everything to claim that power.
Caught in a web of Faerie deception and shifting allegiances, Kelley and Sonny must tread carefully, for each next step could topple a kingdom . . . or tear them apart.

With breathtakingly high stakes, the talented Lesley Livingston delivers soaring romance and vividly magical characters in Darklight, the second novel in the trilogy that began with Wondrous Strange.

needless to say I reccomended this Series to anyone who loves Faeries, adventures, love, and a bit of fun!!!!

Read-A-Thon update

So this read A thon is not going as well as I planned... I was supposed to be done with The Summer King last night.... But I got hung up on skype chat with some friends and then i was sooo tired... but I am on page 219 and will finish today and hopefully finish my book for today: Soulstice by Simon Holt

teaser tuesday the summer king

This weeks Teasure Tuesday is from The Summer King by O.R. Melling

"When I was a child, I begged to be taken on my father's ship bound for france. They told me the sea was not for girls. I hacked off my hair with a knife to look like a boy."

-page 190

Win The Dark Divine

Squeaky books is giving away a copy of The Dark Divine over at her blog : http://www.squeakybooks.com/2010/07/bree-despain-giveaway.html I want to read this book so bad !!!
here is the trailer:


Enna Isilee over at Squeaky Books is having a contest giving away Bree Despain's The Dark Divine! Head on over to Ennalee's blog (Click Here) to find out how to win. In the meantime, check out this awesome trailer for the book!





Originally from: http://www.squeakybooks.com/2010/07/bree-despain-giveaway.html#ixzz0tRHvC5gS

my read- A- thon

Here is my list for my read - A - thonJuly 12th: The Summer King by O.R. MellingJuly 13th: Solostice by Simon HoltJuly 14th: Indigo Springs by A.M. Dellamonica are you joining !!!!

Book Challange.. 100 books by Octover 31st

Okay I love books, maybe a bit too much... okay thats not true, you can never love books too much. But I have to many books in my TBR pile so I have decided to Challange myself. Until I have read my 100 books I cannnot buy books... now there are always exception to the rule, I can win books, go to the library, and I'm swapping books On Powell's books
but I want to put up my progress not only on the Rath but here as well. Here is my list so far:

1. Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater-
2. Tempted by P.C. and Kristen Cast-
3. Lament by Maggie Stiefvater
4. Ballad-
5. This is what I want to tell you
6. Wondrous Strange-
7. Radiant Shadows ARC-
8. The Hallow Kingdom
9. Green Angel -
10. Darklight
11. The Iron King
12. the dreaming place
13.Broke Back Mountain (yes it is a short story by Annie Proulux- very sweet but sad)
14. Rebecca
15.The Wild Wood
16.Tithe
17.If there be thorns
18. Hush Hush
19. Living dead girl
20.Coraline
21. Ash
22.Forest of Hands and Teeth
23. Dead Tossed waves
24. Desert tails 2 Challange
25. Gaurdan of the Dead
26. Gentlemen
27. Wicked Lovely
28. Ink exchange
29. The girl with the dragon tattoo
30. Fragile Eternity
31. Radiant Shadows
32. American Gods
33. Invisible monsters
34. spirit bound
35. white cat
36. My Soul to Take
37. The Gardener
38.The Summoning
39. Taken
40. The Awakening
41. the summoning
42.The Reckoning
43. White cat
44. The hunters moon
45. The devouring
46. Feary Rebels

The Devouring

On GoodReads: When Reggie finds an old journal and reads about the Vours, supernatural creatures who feast on fear and attack on the eve of the winter solstice, she assumes they are just the musings of some lunatic author. But soon, they become a terrifying reality when she begins to suspect that her timid younger brother might be one of their victims.

Risking her life and her sanity, Reggie enters a living nightmare to save the people she loves. Can she devour own her fears before they devour her?

Bone-chilling, terrifying, thrilling...what are you waiting for?

Review: DO NOT READ THIS BOOK!!!........... alone ... at night.. on winter sostice. This book was ohhh creepy and scarey. If you want a good and I mean good freak out read the devouring. Luckly for me it wasn't winter solstice when I read this (but it was midnight in a cold basement ) or I would have been scared out of my wits. evil children always creep me out ( I haven't seen the Omen ... children of the corn.) and this was no exception... I can't wait to read Solstice (next in the series)

.... remember show no Fear and beware the Vours

The Hunters Moon

The Hunter's Moon by O.R. Melling

GoodReads:
The Hunter's Moon, follows two cousins, Gwen and Findabhair, as they backpack around Ireland in search of the country's magical past. When she arrives in Ireland to visit her cousin Findabhair, American Gwen expects a fun backpacking trip to sites of the fairy lore they're both fascinated with. What neither cousin knows is that it's the summer of the Hunter's Moon, a dangerous time for mortals to meddle in the kingdom of Faerie. The girls camp out, and deep in the night Finn is kidnapped by the handsome Faerie king! In Gwen's quest to save her cousin, across beautifully evoked settings of modern-day and mystical Ireland, the spunky heroine's biggest challenge may be convincing Finn she needs to be saved!

Review: Some books just stick with you and this will be once of those books. Melling is an amazing writer. Her details of Ireland are beautiful, I can almost see the green hills, smell the Irish sea, taste the faerie foods that would entrap me. I love how faithful she was to celtic Irish lore but that she made it come to life in her own way. Qwen was funny, and very relatable to me... we both love food lol, and I share hers and Finn's love of Faeries and Folklore. The way the book was writen was beautiful and the characters wonderful, this book is one of my all time favorites.

White Cat

Review White Cat by Holly Black



From GoodReads:
Cassel comes from a family of curse workers -- people who have the power to change your emotions, your memories, your luck, by the slightest touch of their hands. And since curse work is illegal, they're all mobsters, or con artists. Except for Cassel. He hasn't got the magic touch, so he's an outsider, the straight kid in a crooked family. You just have to ignore one small detail -- he killed his best friend, Lila, three years ago.
Ever since, Cassel has carefully built up a façade of normalcy, blending into the crowd. But his façade starts crumbling when he starts sleepwalking, propelled into the night by terrifying dreams about a white cat that wants to tell him something. He's noticing other disturbing things, too, including the strange behavior of his two brothers. They are keeping secrets from him, caught up in a mysterious plot. As Cassel begins to suspect he's part of a huge con game, he also wonders what really happened to Lila. Could she still be alive? To find that out, Cassel will have to out-con the conmen.

Holly Black has created a gripping tale of mobsters and dark magic where a single touch can bring love -- or death -- and your dreams might be more real than your memories.


review: I love Holly Black's modern faerie tale series : Tithe, Vialant, and Ironside so when I heard about White Cat I was so excited but also scared. Would I love it as much as the others? Yes, I would. White Cat is fast paced, funny, at times disturbing (this is a good thing lol). Holly Black made me love some one and then later on hate their guts and it was sooo refreshing to have a male point of view. Castle was a great lead, I adored him. I also love that everyone wears gloves: its so mysterious and very sexy ;) This book is so good and I can't wait to read Red Glove (the next in the series)

Review of The Reckoning

From Goodreads:

Only two weeks ago, life was all too predictable. But that was before I saw my first ghost. Now, along with my supernatural friends Tori, Derek, and Simon, I’m on the run from the Edison Group, which genetically altered us as part of their sinister experiment. We’re hiding in a safe house that might not be as safe as it seems. We’ll be gone soon anyway, back to rescue those we’d left behind and to take out the Edison Group . . . or so we hope

review: The conclusion of This series was great. The story came to a great ending and I loved how all the characters have grown and changed since the Summoning. Each one has become their own person with their own powers and abilities. The villians badder and the love was .... lovelyer (couldn't think of a word lol) and Derek was ... even more sexy. I loved that we got to see alot more about the werewolves and about all of their powers. I highly reccomned this series to anyone who loves the supernatural, now I need to read Kelley Armstrongs adult series

Since the winner for a signed Kiss in Time by Alex Flinn has not contacted me yet I have picked a new winner and it's............... Shannon!!

WINNERS!!!!!

Hey!! the winners are here!!!
for the Beastly and A Kiss in Time by Alex Flinn, Signed, contest the winners are:

Angie
and
Donna S

- remember this is a first come first serve basis so which ever of you email me first gets first choosing ;D

and now for my Marr Awards contest.................
the winner of Shiver by Maggie Stievfater is....Lost in Believing!!

please email me your mailing addresses and Names to Loonymoonyy55@gmail.com

and CONGRATULATIONS !!!!!!!!!!!