It's Monday! What are you reading? Auguest 30, 2010

Did ya miss me? What started out as my week of summer holiday turned into a month holiday of blogging :o I had a blast with my kids, hope I didn't miss too much here!

It's Monday! What are you reading? is a weekly event to celebrate what we are reading for the week as well as books completed the previous week. Feel free to join in this weekly event if you'd like as well as use the picture above. Thanks Sheila for hosting!

Books read that need reviews:

Shadowed Summer
Reign Check: Demon Princess #2
Stolen (LOVE this one, still think about it!)
Guardian of the Gate (Prophecy of the Sisters, #2)
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella

This week:

I'm hoping to get one review up (any preference?) and started reading The Eternal Ones this morning.

What are you reading?

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? July 26th

It's Monday! What are you reading? is a weekly event to celebrate what we are reading for the week as well as books completed the previous week. Feel free to join in this weekly event if you'd like as well as use the picture above. Thanks Sheila for hosting!

Last week:
I finished The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: An Eclipse Novella by Stephenie Meyer & read Endless Summer by Jennifer Echols (actually two books in one, loved the first book better)

I also posted two contests: Linger & Iron King (+25 Visa GC)

This week:

I just started Stolen by Lucy Christopher - hooked from page one! I'm hoping to squeeze another one in, then I'm on holidays next week :)

What are you reading?

Iron King Giveaway!

In less than twenty-four hours Meghan Chase will be sixteen. Countless stories, songs and poems have been written about this wonderful age, when a girl finds true love and the stars shine for her and the handsome prince carries her off into the sunset.

But Meghan suspects that it won’t be that way for her.

After all, Meghan has a secret destiny—one she could never have imagined….

Something has always felt slightly off in Meghan’s life, ever since her father disappeared before her eyes when she was six. She has never quite fit in at school…or at home.

When a dark stranger begins watching her from afar, and her prankster best friend becomes strangely protective of her, Meghan senses that everything she’s known is about to change.

But she could never have guessed the truth—that she is the daughter of a mythical faery king and a pawn in a deadly war.

Now Meghan will learn just how far she’ll go to save someone she cares about, to stop a mysterious evil no faery creature dare face…and to find love with a young prince who might rather see her dead than let her touch his icy heart.




Stop by http://enterthefaeryworld.com/ironfey/ to find out more and to grab a free download of Winters Passage, a novella (only until July 31st!) The second book in the Iron Fey series, The Iron Daughter, is available August 1st

Thanks to Harlequin Teen, I have a chance to offer a giveaway to one of my readers: Treat the faery creature in you to something magical and mysterious with a $25 Visa Gift Card and a copy of The Iron King!

All you have to do is leave a comment then fill out the form below...good luck!

Giveaway & Interview with Maggie Stiefvater

Happy Friday everyone :) Today, I am so excited to have Maggie Stiefvater visit the blog! Linger, the second book in her Wolves of Mercury Falls trilogy was just released last week...and debuted at number one on the NYT Bestseller List!!! Woot, congrats Maggie! Ok, enough exclamation marks, I hope you enjoy

Hi Maggie, thanks so much for stopping by!

Thanks for having me!

In Linger, I love the contrast between Sam, the romantic, and broken Cole. Who is your favorite to write?

Oh, I don’t know if I can choose. They’re both lovely, broken things and authors love
lovely, broken things, because then you can fix them . . . or not. Both of them (like all my characters) have tiny bits of me put in them to make them run, so I would say that some days Sam is easier, some days, Cole is easier. Just depends on the mood. Some days are definitely Cole days.

Are you a summer or winter person & why?

Neither. I’m a diehard fall person, because I love the edges of things. Fall’s the edge of the year -- where it ends. I love evenings too, because it’s the edge of the day. So it goes to follow that fall evenings are the best.

Isabel orders a cheese & mushroom pizza, what's your fav?

Loads of cheese and some kind of animal that probably had hooves at one point. I’m allergic to preservatives, though, so pizza is hard to come by.

(Yikes, that is a staple in my house!)

We have read your amazing books & seen your amazing doodling, what other talents do you have up your sleeve?

I can also flap my arms and run around screaming when I’m excited. I guess most people know about my music, which is the other part of the Maggie trifecta (there’s songs based on the books available for free download on my websites: www.maggiestiefvater.com and www.shiverseries.com).

Shiver had a blue theme, Linger was green...can you tell us about Forever?

No. Because I’m evil that way.

(darn it!)

You can find Maggie all over the net, including: her website, blog, Twitter and Facebook

And now for the extra fun part, one of my readers has a chance to win their own copy of Linger courtesy of Scholastic Canada! Please leave a comment then fill in the form below.

Review: Linger by Maggie Stiefvater

In Maggie Stiefvater's Shiver, Grace and Sam found each other. Now in Linger, they must fight to be together. For Grace, this means defying her parents and keeping a very dangerous secret about her own well-being. For Sam, this means grappling with his werewolf past…and figuring out a way to survive in the future. Add into the mix a new wolf named Cole, whose own past has the potential to destroy the whole pack. And Isabelle, who already lost her brother to the wolves…and is nonetheless drawn to Cole. At turns harrowing and euphoric, Linger is a spellbinding love story that explores both sides of love-the light and the dark, the warm and the cold-in a way you will never forget.

Publisher: Scholastic

Released: July 13, 2010

My Rating : 4 / 5

Book Two in the Wolves of Mercruy Falls Trilogy introduing a lot of new things. We learn that picking up and moving to warm, sunny Florida isn't the answer to the shifting problem. Linger is told in four voices: Grace, Sam, plus we are introduced to Isabel (whose brother eas killed at the end of Shiver) and Cole (one of the newbies Beck brough back from Canada).

One of the things I loved about Shiver was the love connection of Sam and Grace. As this book brings into focus the "what now" I found this took a backseat...and I instead found a new clone worthy guy in Cole! Cole is a musician (score!) with a dark past (yay for bad boys!) and a tad cocky. Once he starts to open up and let you see who he is deep down inside, you can't help but crave more of him. Isabel is another great addition as she says what's on her mind and is super confident - put her & Cole together and you've got some fun times to be had :)

Maggie's writing is once again beautiful, poetic & flows so smoothly. Reading her books is like endulging on your favorite dessert. Mmmmm, chocolate!

Stop by tomorrow for an interview with Maggie...and a chance to win your very own copy of Linger!