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Banished Liz de Jager February 27th 2014 Tor UK Sworn to protect, honour and slay. Because chaos won’t banish itself… Kit is proud to be a Blackhart, now she’s encountered her unorthodox cousins and their strange lives. And her home-schooling now includes spells, fighting enemy fae and using ancient weapons. But it’s not until she rescues a rather handsome fae prince, fighting for his life on the edge of Blackhart Manor, that her training really kicks in. With her family away on various missions, Kit must protect Prince Thorn, rely on new friends and use her own unfamiliar magic to stay ahead of Thorn’s enemies. As things go from bad to apocalyptic, fae battle fae in a war that threatens to spill into the human world. Then Kit pits herself against the Elder Gods themselves – it’s that or lose everyone she’s learnt to love. Banished had a lot of things in it which I love. An awesome heroine, blonde fae boys, werewolves, dragons! (well, a dragon, but that's more dragon than most book...

Waiting on Wednesday was started by Jill at  Breaking the Spine . This weekly meme shares the upcoming books that I'm most excited about. Reckoning by Kerry Wilkinson The first book in a new trilogy by UK author Kerry Wilkinson, Reckoning is the story of one girl's determination to survive the whims of a cruel king whom she has been chosen to serve.  One girl. One reckoning. One destiny. In a far-off future, after years of war and famine have eliminated all technological advancement, returning society to a fuedal system, in the village of Martindale, hundreds of miles north of the new English capital of Windsor, sixteen-year-old Silver Blackthorn takes the Reckoning. This coming-of-age test not only decides her place in society – Elite, Member, Inter or Trog – but also determines that Silver is to become an Offering for King Victor. But these are uncertain times and no one really knows what happens to the teenagers who disappear into Windsor Castle. Is bein...

What is teaser tuesday? It's a meme hosted by  Should Be Reading  and here are the rules:  • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “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 & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!  "'Obviously they don't trust us."  'Or it's a new computer and they didn't put anything on it yet.'" -Liv, Forever, Page 43, by Amy Talkington

Spy Society (Also know as Also Known As) Robin Benway June 18th (UK) Simon & Schuster Being a 16-year-old safecracker and active-duty daughter of international spies has its moments, good and bad. Pros: Seeing the world one crime-solving adventure at a time. Having parents with super cool jobs. Cons: Never staying in one place long enough to have friends or a boyfriend. But for Maggie Silver, the biggest perk of all has been avoiding high school and the accompanying cliques, bad lunches, and frustratingly simple locker combinations. Then Maggie and her parents are sent to New York for her first solo assignment, and all of that changes. She'll need to attend a private school, avoid the temptation to hack the school's security system, and befriend one aggravatingly cute Jesse Oliver to gain the essential information she needs to crack the case . . . all while trying not to blow her cover. Ever since the Gallagher Girls series finished, I've been eager to find some other b...

The Winner Is.... Monique M. I've sent a message with the details. Remember, you're automatically entered to win every time you comment on a non-meme post (reviews, cover reveals, etc). You can choose from any book I have reviewed during 2014!  

February started off as a really slow month for me, but in like the past week and a half (coincidentally the same week and a half that I should have been revising for mocks) I read a load of books, so it was surprisingly good! Apart from that, I haven't really done much of anything all month, so I probably won't have a lot to talk about here. Books Read: Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein Flora & Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo Attachments by Rainbow Rowell Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by April G Tucholke Smuggler's Kiss by Marie Louise Jensen Trouble by Non Pratt Spy Society by Robin Benway Banished by Liz De Jager  Cress by Marissa Meyer Total: 9 (which is a lot for me by normal length month standards, so I'm pretty happy!) Books Reviewed: Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein Flora & Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo Attachments by Rainbow Rowell Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by April G Tucholke Trouble by Non Pratt Weird, I felt like I posted more th...

What is teaser tuesday? It's a meme hosted by  Should Be Reading  and here are the rules:  • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “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 & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!   "A dull hum. Bonfires on rafts float beyond the docks."  -The Unseemly Education of Anne Merchant, Page 93 (I think, my cat conveniently walked across the book and lost my page), by Joanna Wiebe