{Review} Wolfsbane by Andrea Cremer

Publication date: July 26, 2011

Publisher: Philomel

ISBN-13: 9780399254833

Synopsis

Last time we saw Calla she had found out the life she had always lead was all based in lies, searchers, guardians and keepers don’t really play the parts she’s been told. Now captured by the enemy Calla starts learning who is playing which part.

It is time to own up to the consequences of leaving her pack, starting to trust the enemy and deciding the leave everything to protect the boy she loves.

Review

Calla left everything for Shay, the guy that the keepers want dead and the searchers need. The ending in the first book was so good, the cliffhanger was killing me so let’s just say that I entered Wolfsbane the bar was really really high.

The beginning of the book was interesting the tension between the new environment, Calla must learn if she can trust the searchers now that the guardians and the keepers are after her for ditching in an attempt to save Shay.

The main issue with this book is that it tried to get the reader to know everything this world was hiding from us now that Calla decided to open her eyes to the truth.  There are three main subjects in this book and only 390 pages to let us know all of them.

All those main subjects in hand plus character development, the expansion of the Nightshade world and all those past and possible future outcomes that call for your attention become a bit of distraction and I couldn’t really get lost on the story.

By the end of the book I couldn’t believe this was the book I had been waiting for a whole year!!! (Yes this book came out on 2011 but it was one of those book that you buy and then suddenly you get scared because they might not be as good as you expected) I am unsure if I’ll be reading Bloodrose, there are many missions ahead and just one book to go, I don’t know if all those stories will have space to breath and let the reader enjoy the story.

Have you read the Nightshade story?? What do you think about it??

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{Cover Wars} Cover Loving week 13-15

Come one come all to hear what the awesome readers of Forget About TV, Grab a Book like. Today we keep on revealing the winners of Cover Wars a place where covers from the same book get launched into the ring and you guys decide who you like best. Think of it as a sort of bookish cover dance of ;)

Until we finish the winners count down we will be revealing 3 winning covers at a time, so please bear with me a little longer until all the winners are revealed. Once your cover favorites are announced we will return to our regular programming.

From a top secret life to being part of a group of runaways is how Anna’s life changed, from living on a lab watching her dad’s research to escaping and hiding with the altered boys. If you thought this Lil Berry is talking about Altered by Jennifer Rush, then you are 100% CORRECT. So let’s stop messing around and go look at Altered’s cover winner a.k.a. your favorite shirtless guy:

THE FINAL COVER!!!!!

From hot altered boys we moved on to a world of magic and shifters, a girl that was content with her life and destiny until the night she messed up big time by letting a normal buy know her true identity. In Nightshade by Andrea Cremer we have a whole new world of magic unlocking before us, now let’s see which cover you guys feel is the one that describes this book best:

THE GIRL THAT ISN’T AFRAID TO SHOW HER WILD SIDE!!!

The next week we went a little more contemporary with The Vincent Boys by Abbi Glines, where black and white battled it out in order to see which cover represented better the love stories between Ashton and Beau (in The Vincent Boys) and Lana and Sawyer (in The Vincent Brothers). Before we dig more into this love stories let’s take a look at what you guys liked best:

THE SEXY BLACK AND WHITE COVERS win this round!!!!!!!!

If you want to get to see more covers getting some loving come join us this Saturday as we get closer into revealing all your Cover Wars favorites.

{Cover Wars} Nightshade by Andrea Cremer

This week we are connecting more with our wild side to decide who is the winner of this weeks Cover Wars, as you can see by the title today's contestant is Andrea Cremer's very own Nightshade. Shall we take a pick at the book blurb??

Since Calla was a child she knew her destiny, she is expected to become Ren's mate, follow the orders of the Keepers, be an exemplary female alpha and follow the rules that her people have for several years. That is until one night she decides to save a boys life and starts to breake her masters rules.

Problems start to grow when the mysterious boy appears at her school and starts to look for answers, answers she cannot give him. After failing to avoid him Calla is asked by a Keeper to protect this boy who's thirst for knowledge will take Calla down the dangerous path of truth.

If you want to know more about this book check out My Nightshade Review

Now that we are all acquainted to some extent with the book, lets take a look at our contestants:
First we have the wild woman, the girl with the catch me if you can look:

On the other corner waiting for us is the girl that isn't afraid to show us she is both sides of the coin:

From the first cover we see this secure girl, the one that is almost smirking at us, hiding from us something we can't quiet understand, I guess that what she really is smirking about is that this girl in the cover may not make a lot of sense until you get to a certain part of the book and suddenly it all adds up.
Her lovely rival is more how I picture Calla, there is a confidence in her eyes and it feels like we are looking at a girl that feels comfortable in her own skin. By the blurb you can see that this is a girl that her world is about to be shaken around somewhere around an 8.0 in the Richter Scale.
What do you think guys? Which one has your heart and which one should just hit the bench?

{Review} Nightshade by Andrea Cremer

Series: Nightshade #1

Publication Date: June 28th, 2011

Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group

ISBN-13: 9780399254826

Synopsis

Since Calla was a child she knew her destiny, she is expected to become Ren's mate, follow the orders of the Keepers, be an exemplary female alpha and follow the rules that her people have for several years. That is until one night she decides to save a boys life and starts to breake her masters rules.

Problems start to grow when the mysterious boy appears at her school and starts to look for answers, answers she cannot give him. After failing to avoid him Calla is asked by a Keeper to protect this boy who's thirst for knowledge will take Calla down the dangerous path of truth.