Bookish Musings - Series

Bookish Musings is a feature here at Beautiful Bookish Butterflies that allows one of us to share our thoughts and opinions, talk and discuss things happening in the book and blogging community or share a personal book related issue we have. Today, Stacie is talking about series and how they seem to be taking over there life, why she has an inability to finish any and what she plans to do about it..

Book Review - Graceling

Graceling
Author: Kristin Cashore
Series: Graceling Realm #1
Genres: Fantasy | Young Adult
Release Date: 22nd January 2009
Publishers: Gollancz
No. Pages: 352
Source: Borrowed
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In a world where people born with an exceptional skill, known as a Grace, are both feared and exploited, Katsa carries the burden of a skill even she despises: the Grace of killing. Feared by the court and shunned by those her own age, the darkness of her Grace casts a heavy shadow over Katsa’s life. Yet she remains defiant: when the King of Lienid’s father is kidnapped she investigates, and stumbles across a mystery. Who would want to kidnap the old man, and why? And who was the extraordinary Graced man whose fighting abilities rivaled. The only thing Katsa is sure of is that she no longer wants to kill. The intrigue around this kidnapping offers her a way out – but little does she realise, when she takes it, that something insidious and dark lurks behind the mystery. Something spreading from the shadowy figure of a one-eyed king..

Book Review - The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

 The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

Author: Holly Black

Standalone

Genres: Vampires, Paranormal | Young Adult

Release Date: September 3rd 2013 

Publishers:  Little Brown

No. Pages:  419

Source: Purchased

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Tana lives in a world where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle in a decadently bloody mix of predator and prey. The only problem is, once you pass through Coldtown's gates, you can never leave.

One morning, after a perfectly ordinary party, Tana wakes up surrounded by corpses. The only other survivors of this massacre are her exasperatingly endearing ex-boyfriend, infected and on the edge, and a mysterious boy burdened with a terrible secret. Shaken and determined, Tana enters a race against the clock to save the three of them the only way she knows how: by going straight to the wicked, opulent heart of Coldtown itself.

Book Review - White Cat

White Cat
Author: Holly Black
Series: Curse Workers #1
Genres: Paranormal, Urban Fantasy | Young Adult
Release Date: 4th June 2010
Publishers: Gollancz
No. Pages: 310
Source: Borrowed
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Cassel comes from a family of curse workers - people who have the power to change your emotions, your memories, your luck, all by the slightest touch of their hands. Since curse work is illegal, they're all criminals. But not Cassel. He hasn't got the magic touch, so he's an outsider - the straight kid in a crooked family - as long as you ignore one small detail:
He killed his best friend, Lila.

Now he is sleepwalking, propelled into the night by terrifying dreams about a white cat. He also notices that his brothers are keeping secrets from him. As Cassel begins to suspect he's part of one huge con game, he must unravel his past and his memories. To find out the truth, Cassel will have to outcon the conmen.

Book Review - Cross My Heart and Hope To Spy

Cross My Heart and Hope To Spy
Author: Ally Carter
Series: Gallagher Girls #2
Genre: Mystery, Contemporary | Young Adult
Release Date: May 2007
Publishers: Orchard Books
No. Pages: 264
Source: Purchased
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Cammie Morgan may have a genius IQ and attend the best school in the country, but as she starts the spring semester of her sophomore year there are a lot of things she doesn't know. Like will her ex-boyfriend even remember she exists? And how much trouble did she really get in last semester? And, most of all, exactly why is her mother acting so strangely?

All Cammie wants is a nice, normal semester, but she's about to learn her greatest lesson yet - that when you go to a school for spies, nothing is ever as it seems.

Book Review - Sweet Evil

Sweet Evil

Author: Wendy Higgins

Series: The Sweet Trilogy #1

Genres: Angels, Demons  | Young Adult

Release Date: May 1st 2012 

Publishers: Harper Teen

No. Pages: 447

Source: Borrowed

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Embrace the Forbidden

What if there were teens whose lives literally depended on being bad influences?

This is the reality for sons and daughters of fallen angels.
Tenderhearted Southern girl Anna Whitt was born with the sixth sense to see and feel emotions of other people. She's aware of a struggle within herself, an inexplicable pull toward danger, but it isn't until she turns sixteen and meets the alluring Kaidan Rowe that she discovers her terrifying heritage and her willpower is put to the test. He's the boy your daddy warned you about. If only someone had warned Anna.

Forced to face her destiny, will Anna embrace her halo or her horns?

#PROMOTEYAINSTEAD: Slate, YA and Reading What You Want

Bookish Musings is a feature here at Beautiful Bookish Butterflies that allows one of us to share our thoughts and opinions, talk and discuss things happening in the book and blogging community or share a personal book related issue we have. Today, Amanda is talking about an article was published on Slate about how adults should be 'embarrassed' to read 'young adult' books and it's fair to say that that article irritated, angered and frustrated her beyond recognition, so in a clear retaliation against that article, she's going to both pick apart the article and give an unique angle on the entire situation, the angle from a 19 year old, teenage adult.