{Book Blast} Moonset by Scott Tracey

With one month to go until MOONEST hits the shelves, we want to make sure you are all ready for it. Be sure to add MOONSET to your TBR piles, and don’t forget to check out the giveaway below for $25.00 gift cards to iTunes and B&N!

 Series: Legacy of Moonset #1
Author: Scott Tracey
Release Date: April 8th 2013
Publisher: Flux

Justin Daggett, his trouble-making sister, and their three orphan-witch friends have gotten themselves kicked out of high school. Again. Now they’ve ended up in Carrow Mills, New York, the town where their parents—members of the terrorist witch organization known as Moonset—began their evil experiments with the dark arts one generation ago.
When the siblings are accused of unleashing black magic on the town, Justin fights to prove their innocence. But tracking down the true culprit leads him to a terrifying discovery about Moonset’s past . . . and its deadly future

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THE AUTHOR

Scott Tracey is a YA author who lived on a Greyhound for a month, wrote his illustrated autobiography at the age of six, and barely survived Catholic school (and definitely not for the reasons you might think).

He is the author of WITCH EYES, chosen as one of Amazon’s Best LGBT Books of 2011, as well as an ALA Popular Paperback in the Forbidden Romance category.  The final book in the WITCH EYES trilogy, PHANTOM EYES, will be released in the fall of 2013.

He is also the author of MOONSET, a new series which will be released April 8, 2013, as well as a contributor to the SHADOWHUNTERS & DOWNWORLDERS anthology, edited by Cassandra Clare.

His career highlights include: accidentally tripping a panic alarm which led to nearly being shot by the police; attacked in a drive-thru window by a woman wielding a baked potato, and once moving cross country for a job only to quit on the second day.

His gifts can be used for good or evil, but rather than picking a side, he strives for BOTH (in alternating capacity) for his own amusement.

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{Review} Burn Mark by Laura Powell

Series: Burn Mark #1

Publication Date: June 19, 2012

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

ISBN-13: 9781599908434

Synopsis

Young Gloriana thinks she has her future figured out, she will grow up and be a witch all the stigma and consequences that comes with it be dammed, and she will follow the steps of her grandmother, one of the famous Starling twins.

Soon enough Glory discover that her life isn't as simple as she wanted it to be and that there are a lot of interest involved that are trying to dictate her future and who she should be.

Lucas comes from a long line of prosecutors for the Inquisition, he is proud of his heritage and to know that even though witches are hunted down and sometimes burned witches have a fair trailed and their faith isn't as barbaric as in Africa. 

But all that comes crashing down when the fae awakens within him and he goes from being the son of a long line of prosecutors to being what they hunt, a witch, now trying to be helpful and find a new purpose for himself he tries joining the WICA, think about it like the FBI for witches where he will try to prove his worth even though he is a witch.

Review

I imagined this book like a modern version of 1920's era of the mobsters, flapper and dolls, well more like a few years latter where its glory was down but people were still trying to bring it back. Especially from Gloriana's side of the story.

It's interesting how Laura Powell shows us how vain and stupid humanity can be by hunting witches and fearing them even though not all witches in this world are bad and most are just fighting to be equals not vile rodents that the "normal ones" are letting stay alive. From an outsider perspective you can see how everyone's life would be better if everyone would just stop being so stubborn and they would work together. 

This story offers a delicious plot that will go deeper than originally presented in the begging of the book, don't worry I won’t say more, I don't want to spoil any of your fun if you decide to read it.

I loved this story, how it is the perfect combination of trying to crack a case, getting to know the world and the characters that live in it and especially what they all hide.

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{Books Into Movies} February 2013

warm Bodies

Author: Isaac Marion 
In theaters: February 1rst
Book Blurb:                         

A zombie who yearns for a better life ends up falling in love—with a human—in this astonishingly original debut novel.

R is a zombie. He has no memories, no identity, and no pulse, but he has dreams. He doesn’t enjoy killing people; he enjoys riding escalators and listening to Frank Sinatra. He is a little different from his fellow Dead.

Not just another zombie novel, Warm Bodies is funny, scary, and deeply moving.

Movie Trailer:  

Want to know more about Warm Bodies the movie? Then check out http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1588173/

Beautiful Creatures

Author: Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl 
In theaters: February 13

Book Blurb:

There were no surprises in Gatlin County.
We were pretty much the epicenter of the middle of nowhere.
At least, that's what I thought.
Turns out, I couldn't have been more wrong.
There was a curse.
There was a girl.
And in the end, there was a grave.

Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.

Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town's oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them.

In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything.

Movie Trailer:  

Want to know more about Beautiful Creatures the movie? Then check out http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1559547/

{Cover Wars} Sophia's Journey by Rebecca Hamilton

Hi guys, I hope you had a really nice time with your friends and family this Christmas and that the excitement and well of this dates spreed for more days and aren't limited to this holiday. That if someone tried to ruin your party they didn't succeed and you had a wonderful time.

On this weeks edition of cover wars we are taking a look into the Forever Girl "Sophia's Journey" but first lets take a look of the book blurb shall we. 

Sophia's family has skeletons, but they aren't in their graves.

At twenty-two, practicing Wiccan Sophia Parsons is scratching out a living waiting tables in her Rocky Mountain hometown, a pariah after a string of unsolved murders with only one thing in common: her.

Sophia can imagine lots of ways to improve her life, but she'd settle for just getting rid of the buzzing noise in her head. When the spell she casts goes wrong, the static turns into voices. Her personal demons get company, and the newcomers are dangerous.

One of them is a man named Charles, who Sophia falls for despite her better judgment. He has connections that might help her unveil the mystery surrounding her ancestor's hanging, but she gets more than she bargains for when she finally decides to trust him. 

Survival in his world, she learns, means not asking questions and staying out of the immortal council's way. It's a line she crossed long ago. If Sophia wants to survive the council and save the people she loves, she must accept who she is, perform dark magic, and fight to the death for her freedom.

Now that we are all in the same page and have some knowledge of the book shall we take a look at this weeks contestants:

The first face I ever knew of the Forever Girl series:

Next we have the second look this series has had, the original covers cousin:

In all honesty I like both covers, I could be wrong but it seems they used the same model for both yet I can't get around to why they change the covers. Maybe the original cover didn't translate well in print? I don't know but with these to that look so alike I don't know why not use the newest one to represent the second book in the series that will hopefully reach the ansious hands of the The Forever Girl fans one day.

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WHAT IS THE LAST BOOK THAT MADE YOU CRY? TELL US ABOUT THE SCENE…

Mmmm... that is a really though one guys, I've been trying all week to remember if any book made me cry in 2012 since I saw it in a list in Epic Reads.

After looking at my goodreads 2012 books I remembered, it was Born Wicked by Jessica Spotswood.

SHE MADE ME CRY although I think what describes better this book experience was that the whole book made me extremely emotional it made me angry, giddy, fall in love with Finn Belastra, made my stomach turn and took all my emotions into an extreme roller coaster ride that would be banned in all six flags magic mountain theme parks.

The scene that made me cry is the ending of this book, it's just that not only did this book and I had such a great connection but also Cate the main character in the Cahill Witch Chronicles and everything she felt towards the end of the book hit me so hard I cried while finishing the book and after that I needed a couple of minutes to glue myself back together.

P.S. There where times I just wanted to get into the book and smack Maura until she saw the light.

P.P.S. I am still mad about the change they made to the book cover.

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Cover Wars: Beautiful Creatures

Ok, so if you like to go to the book section of the big stores or you love to walk around a book shop you might of noticed that beautiful creatures got a cover make over to go with the movie that hits theaters in February 13, if not lets have a look shall we.

First we have the original cover for Beautiful Creatures:

Then we have the book cover inspired in the motion picture: 

Now if you let me I will tell you what I think, I love the first cover it is beautiful and haunted at the same time it attracts people to it with a simple and clean design that tries to pull you deeper into the woods where you feel you can unravel its secrets.

I like that the second cover showing respect to the original by trying to blend both concepts into one, the book and the movie, but still it unsettles me, you see for me when they modify book covers like this I feel like they are doing the equivalent to human trafficking or  book whoring. 

I know it's not the fault of the authors but it stills hurts a little, the fact that I understand that it's a marketing strategy doesn't mean I have to like it. 

But as I said I respect this, compared to others that I've seen this one is trying to pay it's respect to the original while trying to attract new people into the series.

What do you think??

Birthright by Willow Cross

Series: The Dark Gifts #1

Publication Date: March 2nd, 2011

Publisher: Dutton Children's Book
ISBN-13: 2940011283611

Synopsis

When Liz and Michael met there was an instant attraction, but where it would all lead to they could have never guessed.

A little time alone with a boy in beach should be safe enough right? Well not so much when that cute boy turns out to be a vampire and you his dinner. Now Liz must be brought into judgement by the council to see if she the victim of a vamp-meal gone wrong is worthy of joining the vampire society,.

The consequences that Michael actions unravel will lead the vampire nation to both its downfall and rebirth, but as they say the journey is the best part of every story.

Cover Wars: Born Wicked by Jessica Spotswood

Hello boys and girls and welcome to another edition of cover wars today we have two contestants fighting for to be the best representation of the book in hand, Born Wicked, for those of you that do not know this story feel free to check out my review of it <Click Here For Born Wicked Review>

In this color enchanting you with her eyes we have the original cover, also known like the Hardcover edition:

In the other corner we have the new edition of the cover which we will refer to as the paperback cover:

Ready or not here I come, all of my cover love goes for the first cover, for someone that has read the book he/she knows that some of the most important parts happen in the garden so that is something that makes me reminisce every time I see this cover. Another thing that I love is the fonts that are used in to spell the name of the series, the book and the authors seem to live symbiotically with all the other elements in the cover. 

And last but not least we have the girl, who I presume is Cate, and I love the effect it has on it, if you see her facing down she looks strong and confident, but if you turn it around you start to see the doubt she was trying to hide and either way you are seeing it her eyes bewitch you and you don't want to avert your eyes from hers. Honestly I don't see the point on changing such a magnificent cover, I think it nails the whole idea behind this one has the book down to a T.

The new cover is beautiful I don't deny it, I just don't see the connection to the story, I think the moon represents the connection with the unknown and the witches, but I don't get the crows, what are they doing there and why is she holding one? If they represent the enemies or evil why is she holding it? the thing I love is the purple background and I admit the crows give it an interesting look. But the thing I just can't stop thinking is "This girl is sooo stuck up she wont even look at me in the eyes". I believe this cover is beautiful and maybe in some other book we could have hit it off, but as a substitute to a cover that I feel could be a work of art it just can't hold a candle to the Hardcover edition.

Now for the most important part, What do you think Hardcover or Paperback? and please tell us why.

White Witch by Trish Milburn

Series: The Coven #1

Publication Date: March 1rst, 2012

Publisher: Bell Bridge Books
ISBN-13: 9780980245349

Synopsis
Born in a family that is worst then the mafia, Jax's has decided that she wants out! Even if her options will shorten between fleeing her family for the rest of her life or being caught and dying a horrible death, she risks it all for a tomorrow that makes more sense to her.
Now Jax's finds herself on the run from the warlocks and witches she left behind and she hopes to find peace and a normal life in a small community of North Carolina, but for that to happen she must learn to blend in which wont be as easy when she shares classes with a young supernatural hunter and must keep herself in check at all times.

Born Wicked by Jessica Spotswood

Series: The Cahill Witch Chronicles #1

Publication Date: February 7th, 2012

Publisher: Putnam Juvenile

ISBN-13: 9780399257452

Synopsis
In a world where women where stripped of their status as equals and fear that one faithful day the brothers will take them away from their friend and family for being suspected to be witches, three sister try to leave they're life's as normal as they can.
In town they are known to be a little eccentric, and reclusive since their mother left this world. The eldest, Cate, was left with the responsibility of taking care of her two little sisters, guide them the best she can and keep the brothers from knowing the truth. All three sisters are witches.
Now with evil lurking everywhere and with no idea with whom they are to trust her mother's diary appears to guide them, but will they be able to locate the evil her mother is warning them from and can they change a future everyone thinks is theirs?  

{Review} Hammered by Kevin Hearne

Series: The Iron Druid Chronicles #3

Publication Date: July 5th, 2011

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

ISBN-13: 9780345522481


Synopsis
Atikus might have gone over his head last time, making promises he doesn't wish to fulfill, but is honored bound too. He promised the Hindu witch Laksha and his vampire attorney Lief to go to Asgard; for the first to get a golden apple that will grant her a really long life, for the second a fight in hopes of getting rid of the big bad bully that is Thor.
But before he can go and fight Thor he has to deal with with stuff he has left unfinished, like the hammers of God and beware of the bacchus, you know the typical trying to get revenge sorta thing.

{Review} Hexed by Kevin Hearne

Series: Iron Druid Chronicles

Publication date: June 7, 2011

Publisher: Del Rey 

ISBN-13: 9780345522498

Synopsis

Apparently Tempe, Arizona is a real-state gem for the paranormals and Atticus finds this out the bad way. A coven of witches is trying to invade so now Atticus will have to learn to trust the local coven, and will have to put to the test their nonaggression treaty, to fight as one for the peace that they love.

Besides the witch invasion Atticus must deal with the sudden fame that his gotten from killing an ambitious Celtic god and the demons he let loose.

{Review} Hounded by Kevin Hearne

Series: Iron Druid Chronicles

Publication date: May 3,  2011

Publisher: Del Rey 

ISBN-13: 9780345522474

Synopsis

Meet Siodhachan Ó Suileabháin, now a days known as Attikus O'Sullivan owner of a small bookstore that sells occult books, dog owner and... oh yeah the last of the druids. Now resides in Tempe Arizona where he lives a peaceful life until his old foe Aenghus Óg celtic god of love finds him. Now he's put a price on Attikus head and if all things fail Aenghus Óg will take care of things himself.

Attikus will not go down with out a fight and for that he will need the help of his vampire and werewolf layers, the Celtic goddes of dead a.k.a. the Morigan and a sexy redhead bar tender with more then meets the eye. Hopefully his friends and his Irish luck will be enough to get him out of this two thousand year old problem.