Merry Christmas!

Just wanted to say Merry Christmas everyone!

Finally Winter Break

It's FINALLY WINTER BREAK! I know I haven't been blogging much.....or none? But I will be blogging more often then before. I was just really distracted with school work and I had no time to read (OMG) I know what a big SHOCK, but now it's Winter Break I will be reading double the times before so that means I could review books and post them right here on THE FOREST OF BOOKS. These are the books I will be reviewing.....

• Wither- Lauren Destefano
• The Gathering- Kelly Armstrong
• Shattered Souls- Mary Lindsey
• After Obsession- Carrie Jones & Steven E. Wedel
• The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer- Michelle Hodkin
• Sweet Evil- Wendy Higgins
• Unearthly- Cythia Hand
• The Iron Thorn- Caitlin Kittredge
• The Nightmare Garden- Caitlin Kittredge 

 WINTER BREAK

Enjoy!

 

- Leaf

Books To.... Graphic Novels (2)

Title: Twilight: The Graphic Novel Vol.1 ( Twilight: The Graphic Novel #1)

Author: Stephenie Meyer (Author) and Young Kim ( Art/Adaption)

Genre: YA, Graphic Novel, Paranormal, Vampires, Romance and Fantasy.

Release: March 16th 2010

 Pages: 224 pages

 

(summary from goodreads)

 

When Isabella Swan moves to the gloomy town of Forks and meets the mysterious, alluring Edward Cullen, her life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. With his porcelain skin, golden eyes, mesmerizing voice, and supernatural gifts, Edward is both irresistible and impenetrable. Up until now, he has managed to keep his true identity hidden, but Bella is determined to uncover his dark secret...

 Beautifully rendered, this first installment of Twilight: The Graphic Novel

 

Books to...Graphic Novels (1)

Title: Hush, Hush (Hush, Hush: The Graphic Novel #1)

Author: Becca Fitzpatrick (Author) and Jennyson Rosero (Illustrator)

Genre: YA, Graphic Novel, Paranormal, Fantasy, Romance.

Release: March 20th 2012

Pages: 120 pages

 

(summary from goodreads)

 

For Nora Grey, romance was not part of the plan. She''s never been particularly attracted to the boys at her school, no matter how much her best friend, Vee, pushes them at her. Not until Patch came along. With his easy smile and eyes that seem to see inside her, Nora is drawn to him against her better judgment. But after a series of terrifying encounters, Nora''s not sure who to trust. Patch seems to be everywhere she is, and to know more about her than her closest friends. She can''t decide whether she should fall into his arms or run and hide. And when she tries to seek some answers, she finds herself near a truth that is way more unsettling than anything Patch makes her feel. For Nora is right in the middle of an ancient battle between the immortal and those that have fallen - and, when it comes to choosing sides, the wrong choice will cost her life This title also contains an exclusive, original story written especially for this book by the author. This bonus story tells what happens to the characters between Book 1 and Book 2 of this series and will only be available in this book.

Why Haven't I NoticedThese New Cover Reveals Before

I can't believe these book cover reveals are revealed... I'm lost for words for the first time.... I'm dreaming right? But if I'm dreaming then I wouldn't be writing this. Make sure you check out the covers. I can't believe I didn't even know about the covers of 2013.

 

 

 

 

(NO DESCRIPTION FOR AWAKEN YET)

Since arriving in Enchantment, New Mexico, everything in Daire Santos life has changed. And not all for the better. While she’s come to accept and embrace her new powers as a Soul Seeker, Daire struggles with the responsibility she holds navigating between the worlds of the living and the dead. And with the fate of her boyfriend Dace in the balance, Daire must put aside her personal feelings and focus on defeating Cade, whose evil plans threaten everyone she loves and the world as she knows it.

Don’t miss book three in Alyson Noël’s pulse-pounding Soul Seekers series!

Combining breathless romance, dark family secrets, and cinematic action, After Daybreak will keep readers turning pages late into the night. The Darkness Before Dawn series is a unique blend of paranormal and dystopian fiction that is perfect for fans of Christopher Pike’s Thirst novels and the House of Night series.

Dawn returns from L.A. with terrifying news: In his greed for power, the maniacal Day Walker Sin is raising an army and infecting his followers with the Thirst—a rabieslike disease that will turn them into mindless killers. To stop him, Dawn and Victor will have to convince humans and vampires to work together before it’s too late.

Life for Megan Rosenberg just got a lot more complicated.

While she evoked the air element, and her feelings for Adam intensified, a web of lies, deceit, and betrayal was spun around her. With the Order tightening its hold, and the reinstatement of the Mark Knights, Megan has more questions than answers as the Marked Ones grow in strength.

New people arouse suspicion, the DeRises start behaving strangely, and Megan begins to unravel a destiny shrouded in mystery. It’s a destiny the Order has struggled to hide, and a destiny someone from the past… far in the past, has already laid claim to.

Alliances will be made, and friends will be lost, as the Order’s dark secrets are revealed by the very thing they sought to destroy.

Anna Whitt, daughter of a guardian angel and a demon, promised herself she’d never do the work of her father—polluting souls. She’d been naive to make such a claim. She’d been naive about a lot of things.

Haunted by demon whisperers, Anna does whatever she can to survive, even if it means embracing her dark side and earning an unwanted reputation as her school’s party girl. Her life has never looked more bleak. And all the while there’s Kaidan Rowe, son of the Duke of Lust, plaguing her heart and mind.

When an unexpected lost message from the angels surfaces, Anna finds herself traveling the globe with Kopano, son of Wrath, in an attempt to gain support of fellow Nephilim and give them hope for the first time. It soon becomes clear that whatever freedoms Anna and the rest of the Neph are hoping to win will not be gained without a fight. Until then, Anna and Kaidan must put aside the issues between them, overcome the steamiest of temptations yet, and face the ultimate question: is loving someone worth risking their life?

Liam MacGregor is cursed. Haunted by the wails of fantastical Bean Sidhes and labeled a demon by the villagers of Dòchas, Liam has accepted that things will never get better for him—until a wealthy heiress named Annabel Leighton arrives on the island and Liam’s fate is changed forever.

With Anna, Liam finally finds the happiness he has always been denied; but, the violent, mythical Otherworlders, who inhabit the island and the sea around it, have other plans. They make a wager on the couple’s love, testing its strength through a series of cruel obstacles. But the tragedies draw Liam and Anna even closer. Frustrated, the creatures put the couple through one last trial—and this time it’s not only their love that’s in danger of being destroyed.

Based on Edgar Allan Poe’s chilling poem Annabel Lee, Mary Lindsey creates a frighteningly beautiful gothic novel that glorifies the power of true love.

Aoife Grayson must face death to win back Dean—the love who was ripped from the Iron Lands of the living when he was shot in the arctic north. But getting to the Deadlands is something that Aoife can't do on her own. And if she can find a way there, Tremaine would surely never allow it. He has sworn to keep her in the Thorn Lands, the fairie home of her mother, Nerissa. But Aoife is determined to find her way out. And she has no trouble if that means she has to kill Tremain and his queen to do it.

Four months after Ben disappeared through the portal to his home universe, Janelle believes she’ll never see him again. Her world is still devastated, but life is finally starting to resume some kind of normalcy. Until Interverse Agent Taylor Barclay shows up. Somebody from an alternate universe is running a human trafficking ring, kidnapping people and selling them on different Earths—and Ben is the prime suspect. Now his family has been imprisoned and will be executed if Ben doesn’t turn himself over within five days.

And when Janelle learns that someone she cares about—someone from her own world—has become one of the missing, she knows that she has to help Barclay, regardless of the danger. Now Janelle has five days to track down the real culprit. Five days to locate the missing people before they’re lost forever. Five days to reunite with the boy who stole her heart. But as the clues begin to add up, Janelle realizes that she’s in way over her head—and that she may not have known Ben as well as she thought. Can she uncover the truth before everyone she cares about is killed?

You stop fearing the devil when you’re holding his hand…

Nothing much exciting rolls through Violet White’s sleepy, seaside town…until River West comes along. River rents the guesthouse behind Violet’s crumbling estate, and as eerie, grim things start to happen, Violet begins to wonder about the boy living in her backyard. Is River just a crooked-smiling liar with pretty eyes and a mysterious past? Or could he be something more? Violet’s grandmother always warned her about the Devil, but she never said he could be a dark-haired boy who takes naps in the sun, who likes coffee, who kisses you in a cemetery...who makes you want to kiss back. Violet’s already so knee-deep in love, she can’t see straight. And that’s just how River likes it.

Blending faded decadence and the thrilling dread of gothic horror, April Genevieve Tucholke weaves a dreamy, twisting contemporary romance, as gorgeously told as it is terrifying—a debut to watch.

After accidentally unleashing the gods from their captivity on Olympus, Helen must find a way to re-imprison them without starting a devastating war. But the gods are angry, and their thirst for blood already has a body count.

To make matters worse, the Oracle reveals that a diabolical Tyrant is lurking among them, which drives a wedge between the once-solid group of friends. As the gods use the Scions against one another, Lucas’s life hangs in the balance. Still unsure whether she loves him or Orion, Helen is forced to make a terrifying decision, for war is coming to her shores.

In Josephine Angelini’s compelling conclusion to the masterfully woven Starcrossed trilogy, a goddess must rise above it all to change a destiny that’s been written in the stars. With worlds built just as fast as they crumble, love and war collide in an all-out battle that will leave no question unanswered and no heart untouched.

Your heart beats only with their permission.

Everything changed on The Day. The day the windows shattered. The day the power stopped. The day Dol's family dropped dead. The day Earth lost a war it didn't know it was fighting.

Since then, Dol has lived a simple life in the countryside -- safe from the shadow of the Icon and its terrifying power. Hiding from the one truth she can't avoid.

She's different. She survived. Why?

When Dol and her best friend, Ro, are captured and taken to the Embassy, off the coast of the sprawling metropolis once known as the City of Angels, they find only more questions. While Ro and fellow hostage Tima rage against their captors, Dol finds herself drawn to Lucas, the Ambassador's privileged son. But the four teens are more alike than they might think, and the timing of their meeting isn't a coincidence. It's a conspiracy.

Within the Icon's reach, Dol, Ro, Tima, and Lucas discover that their uncontrollable emotions -- which they've always thought to be their greatest weaknesses -- may actually be their greatest strengths.

Bestselling author Margaret Stohl delivers the first book in a heart-pounding series set in a haunting new world where four teens must piece together the mysteries of their pasts -- in order to save the future.

EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE.
Araby Worth’s city is being torn apart by death, disease, and corrupt forces wanting to claim it for their own. She has lost her home. Her best friend is dying. Her mother has been kidnapped. The boy who made her feel something again has betrayed her. And her father may be a murderer.
But Araby has found herself.
Despite the death and destruction all around her, she will fight for herself, for her friends, for her city. Her rebellion will take her, finally, to the mad prince’s palace, for the decadent –and sinister—masked ball. It could be a trap. It could be the end of them all. Or it could be the moment that Araby becomes the kind of hero she never dreamed she could be.
The tragic, dark, and steamy conclusion to Bethany Griffin’s Masque of the Red Death saga.

A stalker ghost, misguided Seers, and spellbinding wraiths—Amelia Ashley has faced them all. Now her greatest hope is to spend the rest of her afterlife with her living boyfriend, Joshua. But the demonic forces return to give her an ultimatum: turn herself over to the darkness or watch them murder one living person per week until she does.

Amelia fears she might really be doomed, until the forces of light give her another option. She can join them in their quest to gather souls, with a catch: Once she joins them, she can never see Joshua again.

Faced with impossible choices, Amelia decides to take her afterlife into her own hands—and fight back.

In Viking times, Norse myths predicted the end of the world, an event called Ragnarok that only the gods can stop. When this apocalypse happens, the gods must battle the monsters—wolves the size of the sun, serpents that span the seabeds—all bent on destroying the world.

The gods died a long time ago.

Matt Thorsen knows every Norse myth, saga, and god as if it was family history—because it is family history. Most people in the modern-day town of Blackwell, South Dakota, in fact, are direct descendants of either Thor or Loki, including Matt’s classmates Fen and Laurie Brekke.

However, knowing the legends and completely believing them are two different things. When the rune readers reveal that Ragnarok is coming and kids—led by Matt—will stand in for the gods in the final battle, he can hardly believe it. Matt, Laurie, and Fen’s lives will never be the same as they race to put together an unstoppable team to prevent the end of the world.                                                                                                     

Alex is now 18... and nothing will ever be the same again. War is coming, and when the gods are involved, no one is safe.

 

Review: The Body Finder

Title: The Body Finder (The Body Finder #1)

Author: Kimberly Derting

Genre: YA, Mystery, Paranormal,                            Romance

Release: March 16th 2010

Pages:  543 pages

Rating: 5/5                                                             abcda

WARNING: This book is pretty awesome,

it has the perfect amount of everything. Definite read.(summary from goodreads)

Violet Ambrose is grappling with two major issues: Jay Heaton and her morbid secret ability. While the sixteen-year-old is confused by her new feelings for her best friend since childhood, she is more disturbed by her "power" to sense dead bodies—or at least those that have been murdered. Since she was a little girl, she has felt the echoes that the dead leave behind in the world... and the imprints that attach to their killers.

Violet has never considered her strange talent to be a gift; it mostly just led her to find the dead birds her cat had tired of playing with. But now that a serial killer has begun terrorizing her small town, and the echoes of the local girls he's claimed haunt her daily, she realizes she might be the only person who can stop him.

Despite his fierce protectiveness over her, Jay reluctantly agrees to help Violet on her quest to find the murderer—and Violet is unnerved to find herself hoping that Jay's intentions are much more than friendly. But even as she's falling intensely in love, Violet is getting closer and closer to discovering a killer... and becoming his prey herself.

 

Violet...sensing the dead

I absolutely love this book, it was pretty awesome. When I was reading The Body Finder, I was like that's kind of creepy finding dead people, but that's why the book was good because in the book when Violet is struggling with her power and the tension  between her best friend since childhood  (Jay Heaton).

  I liked how the book kept you going, you don't even want to put the book down even for a minute and I liked how the book had a lot of ups and downs in Violets life, cause in reality everyone has ups and downs.

There was some chapters, that were creepy because those chapters were the point of view of the serial killer, so that was weird reading a part of the serial killer point of view.
 

 

When I was Reading The Body Finder, I kept thinking that Violet was going to become a victim and the serial killer was going to find her and then violet hero comes and saves the day (*SPOILER*) and YES, Violet hero comes and saves the day.

 
While I was reading the body finder I was like Jay isn't it obvious that Violet likes you and then there relationship starts becoming more then friends. The ending was a BLAST! it was awesome, when I finished reading the book I just wanted to read it again and again.

Plot

When Violet starts developing feelings for her best friend Jay Heaton and on the other hand she is disturbed from her power to "sense the dead" When a serial killer starts terrorizing her small town and leaving dead girls behind. Violet power is not a total waste when she gets closer and closer to finding out who the serial killer is.

 

I really, really enjoyed this book, so I hope you guys enjoy it too.

 

 Howling In Delight

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- Leaf

 

 

 

 

Divergent Is Going To Be A Movie

Okay, I cannot believe one of my favourite book series is going to become a movie soon, and when I mean soon I mean March 21, 2014. I can't wait to see who plays Tris and Four. OMG who is going to play Four in the movie. If you haven't read this book make sure you read the book Divergent by Veronica Roth.

In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue--Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is--she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.

During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are--and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her.

- Leaf

Cover reveal: If I Should Die (1)

I absolutely love this series and finally there is a book cover for "If I Should Die" Right now I feel like doing the happy dance.

Up coming book reviews

Hey, I know I haven't posted any reviews on books lately, because school started, so here's the up coming reviews I'll be doing for this month and next month.

• Darkness Before Dawn by J.A. London
• Need by Carrie Jones
• Captivate by Carrie Jones
• Entice by Carrie Jones
• Immortal Beloved by Cate Tiernan
• Darkness Falls by Cate Tiernan
• The Girl in the Steel Corset by Kady Cross
• The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan

That's all for today. Soon Leaf.

Review: Dearly, Departed

Title: Dearly, Departed (Gone With the Respiration #1)

Author: Lia Habel

Genre: Science Fiction, Steampunk,

 Horror, YA, Fantasy.

Release: October 18th 2011

Pages:  470 pages

Rating: 2/5

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WARNING: The plot was good,

a little long to get into the really good parts,

but I enjoyed it a lot. A book with lots of style.

 

(summary from goodreads)

Love can never die.

Love conquers all, so they say. But can Cupid’s arrow pierce the hearts of the living and the dead—or rather, the undead? Can a proper young Victorian lady find true love in the arms of a dashing zombie?

The year is 2195. The place is New Victoria—a high-tech nation modeled on the manners, mores, and fashions of an antique era. A teenager in high society, Nora Dearly is far more interested in military history and her country’s political unrest than in tea parties and debutante balls. But after her beloved parents die, Nora is left at the mercy of her domineering aunt, a social-climbing spendthrift who has squandered the family fortune and now plans to marry her niece off for money. For Nora, no fate could be more horrible—until she’s nearly kidnapped by an army of walking corpses.

But fate is just getting started with Nora. Catapulted from her world of drawing-room civility, she’s suddenly gunning down ravenous zombies alongside mysterious black-clad commandos and confronting “The Laz,” a fatal virus that raises the dead—and hell along with them. Hardly ideal circumstances. Then Nora meets Bram Griswold, a young soldier who is brave, handsome, noble . . . and dead. But as is the case with the rest of his special undead unit, luck and modern science have enabled Bram to hold on to his mind, his manners, and his body parts. And when his bond of trust with Nora turns to tenderness, there’s no turning back. Eventually, they know, the disease will win, separating the star-crossed lovers forever. But until then, beating or not, their hearts will have what they desire.

In Dearly, Departed, romance meets walking-dead thriller, spawning a madly imaginative novel of rip-roaring adventure, spine-tingling suspense, and macabre comedy that forever redefines the concept of undying love.

 

Review:  

What I Feel.......

Okay, ZOMBIES! Dearly, Departed was very interesting. When I first started reading this book I really enjoyed the beginning, then the book kept going on, in my head I was like when will this book get to the part with zombies. But later when they did get to the part with zombies I was like finally, but it ended quickly when she wouldn't come out of the room, because she was scared to see the zombies, so she had to talk through the door to Bram, that just annoyed me.

 

I also thought, "why the chapters went to the other peoples point of view in the book. I really wanted the chapters to Nora and Bram point of view, because I really didn't get why Wolfe, Pamela and Victor. I really wanted them to focus on Nora and Bram."

 

Nora and Bram

Nora was a little stubborn sometimes, but at least she's not like those girls, who are like "You steped on my dress it cost...BLAH BLAH BLAH!" Nora sometimes annoyed me, like I said before how she wouldn't come out of the room, so she had to talk through the door. It was okay, but then the talking kept going on and on. First I thought was some kind of bad boy zombie, but apparently he was a gentlemen, only when he's not killing other bad zombie. I wish we learned more of Nora's and Bram's past. the book was very interesting.....ZOMBIES......if you like zombies this is a must read.

 

QUOTE- "Nora started to reach for her gun,

and I put my arm fully around her. I lowered

my head at Tom and let a bit of a snarl into

my voice. "Back off." "

 

Broken Seasons

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- Leaf

 

 

 

 

   

Review: Die For Me

 

Title: Die For Me (Revenants #1)

Author: Amy Plum

Genre: YA, Paranormal, Romance, Fantasy.

Release Date: May 10th 2011

Pages:  341 pages

Rating: 5/5 abcda

In the City of Lights, two star-crossed lovers battle a fate that is destined to tear them apart again and again for eternity.

When Kate Mercier's parents die in a tragic car accident, she leaves her life--and memories--behind to live with her grandparents in Paris. For Kate, the only way to survive her pain is escaping into the world of books and Parisian art. Until she meets Vincent.

Mysterious, charming, and devastatingly handsome, Vincent threatens to melt the ice around Kate's guarded heart with just his smile. As she begins to fall in love with Vincent, Kate discovers that he's a revenant--an undead being whose fate forces him to sacrifice himself over and over again to save the lives of others. Vincent and those like him are bound in a centuries-old war against a group of evil revenants who exist only to murder and betray. Kate soon realizes that if she follows her heart, she may never be safe again. (summary from goodreads)

 

Review:

What I Feel.....

First of all I got this book by its cover.

Second of all the Title.

Third of all my older sister said it was a good book.

So when I went home to read Die for Me, I couldn't stop reading it. Because it was so unique and it has supernaturals that I ha never heard of. I thought this book was really epic. Already I have read this book over four times!

 

I totally swooned over this book. Usually you can't fing books that are taken place outside North America. This is a definite read so make sure you read this. It's so cool that this book was taken place in Paris and that there are revenants. This is the first revenant book I ever read or people like to think of it as ZOMBIE'S, but it's REVENANTS. Big difference people.

Kate and Vincent

In the beginning of the book, she was at the cafe where she first saw Vincent. It was kind obvious that Kate will be with Vincent, it's called destiny or fate. But it was different from other books, cause instead of being in the same school together or some guy saying "You remember me?" or some guy at a party saying "Hey, don't you go to the same school as me?" NO! Vincent is way different to strike up a conversation, especially when Kate leaves behind her book bag behind.

 First I thought Vincent knew Kate from somewhere, but he didn't know her, he just had a feeling. There was a part in the book where I went, "Why can't you guys just be together?" But Kate didn't want to lose her heart, especially right after her parent's accident. 

Later in the book when Vincent couldn't stand that Kate couldn't be with him, cause he has to die over and over again. So he starts watching her from a far distant just to see if she's okay. That was kind of creepy. But obviously there's always a happy ending. This book was a fast read. I enjoyed it a lot, and I hope everyone will enjoy it.

Plot

After a tragic accident that leaves Kate and her older sister orphaned, they move to France to live with their grandparents. Kate tries to hide her pain by escaping in the world of art and books. But soon after she meets charming, handsome Vincent. Vincent is not what she expected, he's a revenant who saves people's lives by dying over and over again. Kate scared that if she falls for him, that she will never save her heart again.

This book was awesome it's a definite read. make sure you check out the next review for the second book in the series Until I Die.

Howling in Delight

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5/5