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Friday, April 11, 2014

Goddess Offerings #32 (Stacking the Shelves , In My Mailbox) " Black Ice Edition"

For Review

Regine's Book: A Teen Girl's Last Words by Regine Stokke, Henriette Larsen

Black Ice by Becca Fitzpatrick

-Dannielle

"Got two copies from Zest books and One will be up for grabs"

"Totally excited to read this! Thank you Becca, Simon & Schuster and National Book Store"

Becca's Signing Event at Power Books Store

"Signing my books! hihi"

"It was cool seeing her in person"

-Dannielle

"Pinoy Book Tours members' group shot with her"

"Special thanks to Becca Fitzatrick, Zest Books, National Book Store and Simon & Schuster"

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Friday, March 28, 2014

Red Rising (Red Rising Triology #1) by Pierce Brown

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Title: Red Rising (Red Rising Triology #1)

Author: Pierce Brown

Publication: Jan 28th 201 by Del Rey (Random House)
Book Description:

The war begins...

Darrow is a Helldiver, one of a thousand men and women who live in the vast caves beneath the surface of Mars. Generations of Helldivers have spent their lives toiling to mine the precious elements that will allow the planet to be terraformed. Just knowing that one day people will be able to walk the surface of the planet is enough to justify their sacrifice. The Earth is dying, and Darrow and his people are the only hope humanity has left.

Until the day Darrow learns that it is all a lie. Mars is habitable - and indeed has been inhabited for generations by a class of people calling themselves the Golds. The Golds regard Darrow and his fellows as slave labour, to be exploited and worked to death without a second thought.

With the help of a mysterious group of rebels, Darrow disguises himself as a Gold and infiltrates their command school, intent on taking down his oppressors from the inside.

But the command school is a battlefield. And Darrow isn't the only student with an agenda...

Review: The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

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Title: The 5th Wave

Author: Rick Yancey

Publication: May 7th 2013 by Putnam Juvenile
Book Description:

After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.

Now, it’s the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth’s last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie’s only hope for rescuing her brother—or even saving herself. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. To give up or to get up.