New Releases (5)

Every month I will make a post of books that will be coming out later this month.

New Releases for June 2010:


My Soul to Keep by Rachel Vincent (06/01/10)
Forgive my Fins by Tera Lynn Childs (06/01/10)



The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer (06/05/10)
Raised by Wolves by Jennifer Lynn Barnes (06/08/10)



The Forbidden Game: The Hunter/ The Chase/ The Kill by L.J. Smith (06/08/10)
Siren by Tricia Rayburn (06/08/10)



The Evil Within by Nancy Holder (06/10/10)
13 to Life by Shannon Delaney (06/22/10)



Blood Feud by Alyxandra Harvey (06/22/10)
Dark Flame by Alyson Noël (06/22/10)



Keys to Repository by Melissa de la Cruz (06/27/10)

If you don't see a book on this list that you know will come out later this month, please feel free to contact me at EternalNight06@gmail.com with the day the book will be released and i will add it to the list.

~Kassandra

In My Mailbox (5)

(This post was inspired by Kristi at The Story Siren.)

For those of you who don't know what In My Mailbox is, it's when each week you write what new books you have gotten/read from the Library, Bookstore, Etc. Most Book Blogs post Their In My Mailbox every week on Sunday but on the Eternal Night Blog, instead of doing it each week, I will be posting it at the end of the month.

This Month for In My Mailbox:

Bought:


Burned by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
My Soul to Save by Rachel Vincent

Okay, this month was not a great month. I only got two books only. I've been busy with so much school work and homework that I don't even have time to read or get books. I hope all that changes once school is over. So that's what I got in my mailbox this month.

What's in your mailbox?

~Kassandra

Review: Being Nikki by Meg Cabot

About~ Things aren't pretty for Emerson Watts.

Em was sure there couldn't be anything worse that being a brainic in the body of a supermodel. But is turned out she was wrong.

It turns out she has a mother who's gone mysteriously missing, a brother who's show up on her doorstep demanding answers, and a former best friend who's intent on destroying Stark Enterprises.

How can Em balance all that with school and runway shows- especially when she's got ex-boyfriends crawling out of the woodwork who want more than just a photo op- and a company she represents that seems to be turning to the dark side....

Not to mention trying to convince the love of her life that models aren't really airheads after all...especially one model in particular.


Nobody said it was going to be easy being Nikki.


My Review~ First off, I want to apologize for taking so long for me to read this book and write this review. I have been busy studying for final exams and doing many projects and H.W. for school. The only time I do get to read is when I have finished all my H.W. and projects for the day and that does not happen until late at night around 1:00AM and by that time I am tired as hell. I can't wait till school ends.

Anyway, back to the review.

This is one of the best chick-lit books I have ever read. I don't think any chick-lit book can top Meg Cabot's Airhead Series. I have nothing bad to say about this book.

I love how Meg Cabot writes the funny and quirky thoughts of Em Watts. I love all the new characters and their personality's. I love the plot of the story and all the problems Em has to deal with. At times I felt like there were more problems than answers. But a lot of the issues were answered at the end of the book. Which brings me to say the ending of the book was a big surprise. I was so not expecting what happened to happen. All in all, I recommend you read this book and put it in your TBR pile. I can't wait till I get to read the read the squeal in the Airhead series Runaway.

Plot: 5/5
Characters: 5/5
Ending: 5/5
Cover Art: 5/5
Pages in Novel: 336
ISBN: 978-0-545-04058-7
Link to buy Book: Borders, Amazon, Barnes & Noble
Other book in the Series: Airhead, & Runaway

~Kassandra

Infinity Released Today

About~ At fourteen, Nick Gautier thinks he knows everything about the world around him. Streetwise, tough and savvy, his quick sarcasm is the stuff of legends. . .until the night when his best friends try to kill him. Saved by a mysterious warrior who has more fighting skills than Chuck Norris, Nick is sucked into the realm of the Dark-Hunters: immortal vampire slayers who risk everything to save humanity.

Nick quickly learns that the human world is only a veil for a much larger and more dangerous one: a world where the captain of the football team is a werewolf and the girl he has a crush on goes out at night to stake the undead.

But before he can even learn the rules of this new world, his fellow students are turning into flesh eating zombies. And he’s next on the menu.

As if starting high school isn’t hard enough…now Nick has to hide his new friends from his mom, his chainsaw from the principal, and keep the zombies and the demon Simi from eating his brains, all without getting grounded or suspended. How in the world is he supposed to do that?


Doesn't this book sound great? I plan to get this book soon but not this month. But I can't wait. Click HERE to read an excerpt and more from the author. Plus here is the book trailer:

I'm an Aunt!!!!!!!!

I know this is non-book related but I want to share my good news!! OMG!!! Can you believe it?!?! I'm an aunt!!! On sunday around 3:45pm, I got a call from my big brother to tell me that my niece was born. I jumped in joy as soon as I found out. She's a healthy baby girl and her name is Keiran. Still to this minute I am doing a happy dance. Yesterday I went to the hospiatl to see her and she is so tiny and cute. This is this first time there is someone in the family who is younger than me (I am the last born kid). Sadly I don't have a picture of her yet, but I don't care. I'm just happy that she's healthy and born.

~Kassandra

Monthly Quote(3)

This is just a random thing I thought I might do. These quotes does not come from books. During anytime of each month I will post a random quote.


Friendship is born
at the moment when one person
says to another, "What! You too?
I thought I was the only one!"

~C.S Lewis

YA Bloggers Debut Book Battle Round 1: Bracket 3~ Winner

Nominations:


About~ Solange Drake always knew she was destined to become a vampire queen. And as the only female vampire ever born, not made, she is surrounded by danger on all sides- from vampire suitors who want to join with her lineage to bounty hunters are set on destroying her and her family. When she is kidnapped, it’s up to her older brother Nicholas and her human best friend, Lucy, to save her. But can Lucy save herself from Nicholas, who tempts her with every look? And what will be Solange’s own fate if she surrenders her heart to the vampire hunter helping her survive to deadly intrigue at the royal court?


About~ Q: How many zombies does it take to ruin a social life?

A: Not many.

Megan Berry is a zombie settler by birth, which means she’s part-time shrink to a whole bunch of semi-dead people with killer issues. All Megan really wants is to go to homecoming, but when you’re trailed by a bunch of slobbering corpus whenever you leave the house, it’s kind of hard to score a date. Let’s just say Megan’s love life could use some major resuscitation.

Megan’s convinced her life can’t get any worse-until someone in school starts using black magic to turn average, angsty Undead into scary, hardcore flesh-eating Zombies. Now it’s up to Megan to stop the zombie apocalypse. Her life-and more importantly, the homecoming dance-depends on it.


Hearts At Stake and You are so Undead to Me were both fun to read. It was very hard to choose between those two books because they are both very similar. Both the main characters in both books do not want to accept their fate and do what they were destined to do. But one of the many differences is that one of the books is about vamps and the other is about zombies. But I am glad to say, that my partner and I have decided that the winner of Bracket 3, Round 1 for the YA Bloggers Debut Book Battle 2010 is............




Hearts At Stake by Alyxandra Harvey

Want to find out the rest of the winners of round 1? Visit Alyssa at The Shady Glade.


~Kassandra

Review: Hearts At Stake by Alyxandra Harvey

About~ Solange Drake always knew she was destined to become a vampire queen. And as the only female vampire ever born, not made, she is surrounded by danger on all sides- from vampire suitors who want to join with her lineage to bounty hunters are set on destroying her and her family. When she is kidnapped, it’s up to her older brother Nicholas and her human best friend, Lucy, to save her. But can Lucy save herself from Nicholas, who tempts her with every look? And what will be Solange’s own fate if she surrenders her heart to the vampire hunter helping her survive to deadly intrigue at the royal court?

Let the Drake family be your guide into the secret vampire society full of epic battles, gothic seduction, undead drama, and wicked humor.

My Review~ I loved this book; Hearts At Stake is Alyxandra Harvey’s first book, and I have to say, she did a pretty good job writing it.

Hearts At Stake is told from two different point of view. Solange and her best friend Lucy.

Solange is the only female vampire ever born, not made. About 800 years ago there was a prophecy that said that there will be a daughter born into the Drake family and she is destined to become a vampire queen.

Lucy, Solange’s best friend, is a human who’s not afraid to break some noses or speak her mind. I like reading from Lucy’s point of view more than I like reading form Solange. I feel like Lucy has more to say unlike Solange. A lot of the interesting things keep happening from Lucy’s point of view too. Lucy sounds a bit braver and stronger or at least she try’s to act to like it. One thing’s for sure, she never gives up.

Solange does have some interesting things from her point of view but not as much as Lucy. I didn’t enjoy her point of view until the near end of the book. I can’t imagine what it feels like to have 7 over protective older brothers. I only have one older brother and he alone is just too much for me. My sympathy goes to Solange.

I like the author’s wording of the book. The vampire politics and the different types of vamps are very original. The ending was a big surprise too. I do wish the author had focused a bit more on character development, but other than that this book left me wanting more which I think is what the author planned because I’m looking forward to reading the next book Blood Feud.

Plot: 4/5
Characters: 4/5
Ending: 5/5
Cover Art: 4/5
Pages in Novel: 248
ISBN: 978-0-8027-2074-0
Link to buy Book: Borders, Amazon, Barnes & Noble
Other books in the Series: Blood Feud

~Kassandra

Happy Birthday Josefina!!!!

I know this is not book related but I just wanted to give a shout out to one of my best friends ever, Josefina. Josefina is the most kindest loving best friend anyone could ever ask for. She truly is my Best Friend and I wish her the best of luck and I hope she gets everything she wants. Even her trip to Six Flag's. You deserve it. Happy sweet 16 Josey. Love ya. =)

Linger Book Trailer Released

The Linger Book Trailer has released!!! I love the cut out's but I feel like this could have been done better. It really did not give me a hint of what the book might be about besides that fact that it's about werewolf's and that I already know. But the music sounded nice and it made me think of werewolf tribe's.But still I would love to read the book with or without seeing the book trailer.

Book Blogger Hop

I love joining the Book Blogger Hop. It's so much fun and it's a great way to find a bunch of great book blogs and for other book bloggers to find you. I recommend you join to, and since i don't know how to describe it really well, here is Jennifer from Crazy for Books explanation of it:

ABOUT THE HOP:
In the spirit of the Friday Follow, I thought it would be cool to do a Book Blogger Hop to give us all book bloggers and readers a chance to connect and find new blogs that we may be missing out on! So, I created this weekly BOOK PARTY where book bloggers and readers can connect to find new blogs to read, make new friends, support each other, and generally just share our love of books! It will also give blog readers a chance to find other book blogs that they may not know existed! So, grab the logo, post about the Hop on your blog, and start PARTYING!!

The Hop lasts a full week so if you don't have time to Hop today, come back later and join the fun! This is a weekly event!

The Book Blogger Hop is Hosted by Crazy for Books so that readers and bloggers can get to know each other a little better.


~Kassandra

Review: Airhead by Meg Cabot

About~ Emerson Watts is gone.

Emerson Watts didn’t even want to go to the new SoHo Stark Megastore grand opining and had zero interest in meeting the newly appointed face of Stark, teen supermodel sensation Nikki Howard.

But how was Em to know that disaster would strike, changing her- and life as she’d known it- forever? One bizarre accident later, and Em Watts, always the tomboy, never the pretty princess, is no longer herself. Literally.

Now getting her best friend, Christopher, to notice she’s actually a girl is the least of Em’s problems.

But what Em’s pretty sure she’ll never be able to accept might just turn out to be the one thing that’s going to make her dreams come true….

Nikki Howard is here to stay.

My Review~ My mom has always told me to spread my Horizon and to read something that does not have to deal with vampires, demons, werewolf’s, or anything that goes bump in the night.

So for once, I listen to her and I’m so glad I did. Airhead is the first chick-lit novel I have ever read, and I won’t be regretting it any time soon.

I loved the plot of the story. It’s not like any other plot I have ever read. This time it’s not a life or death situation. It’s totally different. This book is about a 16 year old girl who is such a tomboy and after one bad accident she wakes up finding herself in a body of a supermodel. But not just any supermodel, but instead teen supermodel sensation Nikki Howard.

The setting of the story takes place in New York (the fashion state). Emerson/Nikki has boy issues, friend issues, and most important trying to act like a model issues.

This book caught my interest from the first page. I highly recommend this book to be on your TBR pile, if have not read it yet.

Plot: 4/5
Characters: 4/5
Ending: 5/5
Cover Art: 5/5
Pages in Novel: 337
ISBN-13: 978-0-545-04054-9
ISBN-10: 0-545-04054-X
Link to buy Book: Borders, Amazon, Barnes & Noble
Other books in the Series: Being Nikki, Runaway

~Kassandra

New Releases (4)

Every month I will make a post of books that will be coming out later this month.

New Releases for April 2010:



What Curiosity Kills by Helen Ellis(05/01/10)
The Knight Angel Series: Book 1 by Abra Ebner(05/01/10)



A Blue So Dark by Holly Schindler(05/01/10)
Lies: A Gone Novel by Michael Grant(05/04/10)



White Cat by Holly Black (05/04/10)
Claire de Lune by Chistine Johnson (05/18/10)



The Demon's Covenant(The Demon's Lexicon Trilogy) by Sarah Rees Brennan (05/18/10)
Spirt Bound by Richelle Mead (05/18/10)



Vampire Kisses: Love Bites by Ellen Schreiber (05/18/10)
Wolves, Boys, and Other Things That Might Kill Me by Kristen Chandler (05/13/10)



Circus of Sins by Natasha Bhodes (05/25/10)
Demon Princess: Reign Check by Michelle Rowen (05/25/10)

If you don't see a book on this list that you know will come out later this month, please feel free to contact me at EternalNight06@gmail.com with the day the book will be released and i will add it to the list.

~Kassandra

In My Mailbox (4)

(This post was inspired by Kristi at The Story Siren.)

For those of you who don't know what In My Mailbox is, it's when each week you write what new books you have gotten/read from the Library, Bookstore, Etc. Most Book Blogs post Their In My Mailbox every week on Sunday but on the Eternal Night Blog, instead of doing it each week, I will be posting it at the end of the month.

This Month for In My Mailbox:

Won from LibraryThing:



Desent into Dust by Jacqueline Lepore

Bought:



Fallen by Lauren Kate
The Twilight Saga: New Moon DVD (Go Team Edward)



Hearts At Stake by Alyxandra Harvey
Being Nikki by Meg Cabot

Borrowed:



Moon Called by Patricia Briggs
Blood Bound by Patricia Briggs



Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs
Okay, I know the last 3 books are not YA titles but my aunt (being the cool aunt she is) suggested I read these novels and warn me there is no strong sexual content, so I thought I could give it a try. Plus don't you think the girl on the cover tattoos are awesome?

What's In Your Mailbox?

~Kassandra