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Showing posts with label Maggie Stiefvater. Show all posts
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Hi thanks for stopping by!!! And welcome to my Top 10 Tuesday post! Thanks to the lovely ladies at The Broke And The Bookish for creating this weekly meme! Here's this week's topic. July 7: Top Ten Hyped Books I've Never Read These aren't in any particular order but all of these have been fantastic books! Click on the book cover to be taken to the book's goodreads page 1. 50 Shades of Grey. Never wanted to read it and never willl.
2. The Fault in Our Stars (or any other John Green book) lets be honest contemporary isn't my favorite genre and I was just never excited about this book.
3. The last 3 Mortal Instruments books. I was done after the first 3 I never saw the need for 3 more. And now there's more Shadowhunter books coming?? Sorry I'm out.
4. The last Lux book by Jennifer Armentrout. I just never got around to it plus I hate the redesigned covers I like books that match.
5. The Dream Thieves and Blue Lily, Lily Blue. I have them but never got around to reading them. I probably will when the series is finished.
6. A Darker Shade of Magic by Victoria Schwab. I love V and have the book just never got around to reading it.
7. The Infinite Sea by Rick Yancey. I liked the first book but just didn't have the desire to read the second.
8. The Dust Lands series by Moira Young. Another that I have but just never read.
9. The Queen of Tearling. Never had the desire to read it. I don't care if it's turning into a movie.
10. Any hyped eBook novellas that fit in between stories. I get the publishers like to collect that extra $$$ but I just don't see the need for them and I don't like to read eBooks. Put them in paper format and I might read them.
So this is my list. What about you? What have been your favorite books of 2015 so far?
And come back next week for my Last Ten Books That Came Into My Possession (bought, library, review copies)!
Hey y’all thanks for stopping by to see my Dying to Read post and of
course as always I have to give credit to the lovely Jill over at Breaking the Spine for the Waiting
on Wednesday Meme!
This week the book I’m dying to read is The Dream Thieves by Maggie
Steifvater!!!!! I loved The Raven Boys and I have been desperately missing the
characters in this series and Ronan especially! I’m hoping he’ll be the focus
in this one. It looks like it by the description!
The second installment in the all-new
series from the masterful, #1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Maggie
Stiefvater!
Now that the
ley lines around Cabeswater have been woken, nothing for Ronan, Gansey, Blue,
and Adam will be the same. Ronan, for one, is falling more and more deeply into
his dreams, and his dreams are intruding more and more into waking life.
Meanwhile, some very sinister people are looking for some of the same pieces of
the Cabeswater puzzle that Gansey is after...
So what do you think?
Will you be adding this to your pile? What are you dying to read this week?
“There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.” It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.
Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.
His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.
But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.
For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.
From Maggie Stiefvater, the bestselling and acclaimed author of the Shiver trilogy and The Scorpio Races, comes a spellbinding new series where the inevitability of death and the nature of love lead us to a place we’ve never been before.
I
love Maggie’s books! I love her writing style and how she can draw you into a
story with such force you feel as if you’re actually living it! This is how it
was for me with The Raven Boys! I
fell in love with the story from page one. Oh and peeps this is not a love
triangle story! Hell there’s actually not much of a love story either! I mean
the MC Blue? She’s not supposed to fall in love she’s been told all her life
that she’ll kill the boy she loves with a kiss. No we don’t know if it’s the
actual kiss that will kill him but she doesn’t even want to risk that. This
story is one of action and adventure. It’s a quest to find a long lost king and
the ley lines where he has been hidden. It’s also a story about folklore and
psychics and magic. I loved every minute of it!
So
onto the characters Blue rocked she was probably one of my favorites of Maggie’s!
She was smart and she didn’t take crap from anyone. I loved her name too. Oh
the boys I know many of us will disagree whom is our favorite there’s three (I
know it says 4 but when you read the book you’ll understand why I only say 3)
to choose from. Gansey, the very rich, good-looking scholarly boy is definitely
a love of mine but he didn’t steal my heart. Ronan did! Even though he’s a
serious badass with a huge chip on his shoulder I fell hard for him with his
dark hair, tattoo, secrets, and overall bad boy feel. Yep what can I say I’m a
sucker for a bad boy! Oh but there’s this part with a baby bird where he melted
my heart I was a goner after that. Then there’s Adam who I know a lot of people
liked but I couldn’t stand! His pride and stubbornness made me want to smack
the crap out of him! I don’t care how good looking he is he just rubbed me the
wrong way.
Ok
enough about my love or lack of love for the characters time to share an
excerpt. This one is from the beginning of the book and I felt it really
started the story in a great way!
He was so real. When it finally
happened, when she finally saw him, it didn’t feel like magic at all. It felt
like looking into the grave and seeing it look back at her.
“Is that all?” she whispered.
Gansey closed his eyes. “That’s all there
is.”
He fell to his knees—a soundless gesture
for a boy with no real body. One hand splayed in the dirt, fingers pressed to the
ground. Blue saw the blackness of the church more clearly than the curved shape
of his shoulder.
“Neeve,” Blue said “Neeve, he’s—dying.”
Neeve had come to stand just behind her.
She replied, “Not yet.”
Gansey was nearly gone now, fading into
the church, or the church fading into him.
Blue’s voice was breathier than she
would have liked. “Why—why can I see him?”
Neeve glanced over her shoulder; either
because there were more spirits coming or because there weren’t—Blue couldn’t
tell. By the time she looked back, Gansey had vanished entirely. Already Blue
felt warmth returning to her skin, but something behind her lungs felt icy. A
dangerous, sucking sadness seemed to opening up inside her: grief or regret.
“There are only two reasons a non-seer
would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve, Blue. Either you’re his true love,” Neeve
said, “or you killed him.”
Ok
peeps so The Raven Boys is out now go get this one you won’t be disappointed!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh
and check out the trailer! It’s pretty cool Maggie likes her animated trailers J
