Diary of a Bookworm

Book Expo America is just around the corner. BEA is my comic con. It's where a lot of publishers, authors, bloggers, and the like, get together to party!! Or, you know, our version of partying, which is totally geeking out and running around chasing after our favorite authors. That sounds like a party to me! Here are some of the titles I am looking forward to seeing this upcoming Thursday: Good reads 9:30-10:3 Romnina Russell Zodiac Penguin Booth 1521 Goodreads 9:30-10:3 Caragh O'Brien The Vault Dreamers Roaring Books Table 5 Goodreads 10:00-11 Jeaniene Frost The Beautiful Ashes Harlequin Booth 3038 2:00-3:00 Jeaniene Frost The Beautiful Ashes Table 6 Goodreads 10:30-11 Melissa De La Cruz Vampires in Manhattan Hyperion/Hachette Table 19 Goodreads 2:00-3:00 Karen Bao Dove Arising Penguin Booth 1521 Goodreads 3:00-4:00 Josephini Angelini Trial by Fire Feiwel & F Table 07 Goodreads 3:00-4:00 Melissa de la Cruz The Ring and the Crown Disney Table 10 Will we be meeting in line? ...

Title: Hear Author: Jacqueline Abelson Series: N/A Format: Paperback Release Date: May 19, 2012 Genre(s): YA Rating: Summary Lots of people can hear, but how many really listen? At the age of 17, Charlotte Goode has issues. Serious issues. Despite countless surgeries, her parent's panic attacks, and a well-meaning oncologist, a rare genetic disorder means Charlotte must live with recurring tumors. Life isn’t supposed to be this way. And just as Charlotte is learning to cope, she gets some devastating news: Tumors are growing on her auditory nerves. But, the necessary surgery will leave her completely deaf. With the operation scheduled in a month, Charlotte prepares herself for a world without sound. A world without the violin she loves, without her best friend’s laugh, and even without her boss’s irksome tone. Charlotte's on a mission to take it all in, while trying to hire a band to play a benefit concert. Will it be The Bond Boys or Lennox? Counting down the days...

T itle: The Winner's Curse A uthor: Marie Rutkoski S eries: The Winner's Trilogy B ook #: 1 P ages: 355 R eading L evel: YA B ook R ating: G oodreads R ating: 4.09 P ublished: March 4th, 2014 Excerpt Winning what you want may cost you everything you love As a general’s daughter in a vast empire that revels in war and enslaves those it conquers, seventeen-year-old Kestrel has two choices: she can join the military or get married. But Kestrel has other intentions. One day, she is startled to find a kindred spirit in a young slave up for auction. Arin’s eyes seem to defy everything and everyone. Following her instinct, Kestrel buys him—with unexpected consequences. It’s not long before she has to hide her growing love for Arin. But he, too, has a secret, and Kestrel quickly learns that the price she paid for a fellow human is much higher than she ever could have imagined. Set in a richly imagined new world, The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski is a story of deadly games where eve...

So what is the one thing that is better than a cover reveal? A Chapter Reveal. First chapter going online weeks if not months before their release date is crucial to readers like me. It lets me take a sample of the novel, get me familiarized with the world and characters, and more than likely might put me in a state of mind that urges me to "pre-order" the title instead of just waiting for it's release date. Goodreads Excerpt After reading the Atlantia excerpt all I could think was "this sounds SO good". From what I can tell there are people who live in Atlantia. which is a city that is at the bottom of the ocean. They choose to live here because the world Above is polluted and people who live there have shorter live spans, cancer, etc. Basically it sucks to live above. But our protagonist has always wanted to live Above, that is until her mother dies. Rio has a twin sister that has always told her she wanted to live Below, and when their mother dies she begs R...

I like Sci-Fi, you like Sci-fi, we ALL like sci-fi. YA Sci-Fi is my new hot button. There's just something about humans adapting to new unexpected circumstances that makes me giddy. Those big ships are just really confined spaces with no escape and once you get the blood flowing... well there's no turning back. I also like it when their set up is "humans returning to a desolate Earth years after some nuclear war fare" sci-fi with just a nice hint of dystopian. Like I said, it makes me giddy. In this post, every Thursday, I showcase  TWO titles  of my own choosing. One will be a title I read, one will be a title that is currently seating on my TBR pile collecting e-dust. Every week I will have a different theme to this post. Mind you, after a while the themes might just repeat, but who cares as long as the titles stay fresh? These Broken Stars by Kaufman & Spooner Good reads  Rating: 3.96 Published December 10th 2013, by Disney Hyperion It's a night like any ot...

T itle: Darkworld A uthor: Cara Lynn Shultz S eries: Dark World B ook #: 1 P ages: 384 R eading  L evel: YA B ook  R ating:  G oodreads  R ating: 3.84 P ublished: May 27th, 2014 Paige Kelly is used to weird--in fact, she probably corners the market on weird, considering that her best friend, Dottie, has been dead since the 1950s. But when a fire demon attacks Paige in detention, she has to admit that things have gotten out of her league. Luckily, the cute new boy in school, Logan Bradley, is a practiced demon slayer-and he isn't fazed by Paige's propensity to chat with the dead. Suddenly, Paige is smack in the middle of a centuries-old battle between warlocks and demons, learning to fight with a magic sword so that she can defend herself. And if she makes one wrong move, she'll be pulled into the Dark World, an alternate version of our world that's overrun by demons-and she might never make it home. T aschima's  POV : The Dark World tried to be, and do, so many ...

... and while I may not be a huge fan of the continuation of the cover art ( see original here ) I do have to admit the story line is going fantastically. I enjoyed Gameboard of the Gods a lot and I do beliebe The Immortal Crown is doing a better job of further introducing us to this bizarre new world and all it's limitations. Plus we are getting to see better now the "end game" of these so called gods. Goodreads "What have you done?" he asked. Her answer was preempted by the sound of pounding at the guesthouse's exterior door. "They're looking for me," she blurted out. "But only one actually saw me." Justin sighed and pulled back the covers. "Take off your clothes and get over here." Mae didn't hesitate. She shed everything in the corner and was in bed with him by the time she heard voices just outside their door. To her astonishment, he pulled her down in a kiss, his body covering hers as he rolled her onto her back. A...

T itle: The Mark S eries: I don't know B ook #: 1 A uthor: Jen Nadol P ages: 240 R eading L evel: Young Adult R ating: .7 G ood reads R ating: 3.50 P ublished: Jan. 19, 2009 by Bloomsbury USA Children's Books "If you knew it was someone's last day, would you tell?" Sixteen-year-old Cassandra Renfield has always seen the mark—a light glow reminiscent of candlelight. The only time she pointed it out taught her she shouldn’t do it again. For years, the mark has followed Cassie, its rare appearances odd, but insignificant. Until the day she watches a man die. As she revisits each occurrence of the mark, Cassie realizes she can see a person’s imminent death. Not how or where, only when: today . Now armed with a slight understanding of the mark, Cassie begins to search for it. Even as she hides her secret, Cassie mines her philosophy class, her memories, and even her new boyfriend for answers about the faint glowing mark. But many questions remain. How does it work? Wh...

Holy cow, these covers keep getting better and better every year! I cannot wait for this new Claudia Gray title, A Thousand Pieces of You, and if I am completely honest it is mostly because of it's BEAUTIFUL cover. Sometimes some summaries can sound somewhat similar, and the covers are what make the books really stand out (that is, until the reviews start coming in...) Goodreads "Chasing a killer through different universes." That is basically the gist of this new series. I like the prospect of different universes that make the author come up with a lot of different (perhaps even exciting) settings and characters. I liked Claudia Gray's Evernight series, I just hope this one title fares better than Fateful .  Goodreads "The second installment in our epic Starbound trilogy introduces a new pair of star-crossed lovers on two sides of a bloody war." All I have to say is that I really want to read These Broken Stars, which I currently have but haven't had th...

Title: Firegirl Author: Tony Abbott Series: N/A Format: Paperback Release Date: June 6, 2006 Genre(s): YA, Realistic Fiction Rating: Summary "...there is..." Mrs. Tracy was saying quietly, "there is something we need to know about Jessica..." From this moment on, life is never quite the same for Tom and his seventh-grade classmates. They learn that Jessica has been in a fire and was badly burned, and will be attending St. Catherine's while getting medical treatments. Despite her horrifying appearance and the fear she evokes in him and most of the class, Tom slowly develops a tentative friendship with Jessica that changes his life. Review Plot: Basically it's about this young boy who's perfectly normal for his age. Goes to school, has a crush on the prettiest girl, has a best friend, etc. Then one day this new girl comes into school and shakes everything up because of one detail: she was in a fire. It was to the point where she just barely ma...