Feature and Follow Friday #8

Feature and Follow Friday is an awesome blog-hop hosted by Parajunkee's View and Alison Can Read

This week's features are Samantha from Caught in the Pages and Jenni Elyse and the questions is:

 In books like the Sookie Stackhouse (True Blood) series the paranormal creature in question "comes out of the closet" and makes itself known to the world. Which mythical creature do you wish would come out of the closet, for real?

This is a tricky question because some of the mythical creatures from books are quite dangerous.  For example, I would love to meet Ash, from the Iron Fey series, but I wouldn't want to meet a troll, or a redcap. 

I guess that the revenants from Die for Me, some of the creatures from Paranormalcy, angels from Unearthly would be nice and somewhat safer to meet :)

How about you, what creatures do you wish would come our of the closet?

My Bookmark This Week (#8)

I don't know about you but I probably own a good number of bookmarks.  I think this might be the case of all bookish people, but the problem is that I can never find one when I need it.  I end up using whatever I can find - receipts, post-in notes, ribbon, take out menus - because I really don't like to bend the pages of my books (and I often borrow them from the library.)

I though it would be fun to share with you what exactly I am using as a bookmark every Friday.  Today I'm reading 'Spellbound' by Cara Lynn Shultz and my bookmark is a drawing that C made on his first day on 1st grade this week. Nice colorful fish, right?

 What are you using as a bookmark today?

Review: Daimon: A Prequel to Half-Blood (Covenant #0.5) by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Title: Daimon: A Prequel to Half-Blood (Covenant) by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Published: May 10, 2011 (eBook) by Spencer Hill Press
Source: Bought for Kindle (.99 cents) 
Grade rate: B+

For three years, Alexandria has lived among mortals—pretending to be like them and trying to forget the duty she'd been trained to fulfill as a child of a mortal and a demigod. At seventeen, she's pretty much accepted that she's a freak by mortal standards... and that she'll never be prepared for that duty.

According to her mother, that’s a good thing.

But as every descendant of the gods knows, Fate has a way of rearing her ugly head. A horrifying attack forces Alex to flee Miami and try to find her way back to the very place her mother had warned her she should never return—the Covenant. Every step that brings her closer to safety is one more step toward death… because she's being hunted by the very creatures she'd once trained to kill.

The daimons have found her.

My Review

This is a short novella that is a prequel to Half-Blood.  It gives an introduction to Alex's world and her past, but more than anything it wets the appetite and make me crave for more.  This is a short and fast paced story, thus it felt a little rushed to me.  I instantly liked Alex, her nonsense personality and her drive.

I will definitely read Half-Bloods when it come out in October.  Isn't the cover pretty?

For a free download go here 

Waiting on Wednesday: Steampunk! by various authors

Waiting on Wednesday is a meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine

Title: Steampunk! by Kelly Link (editor)

Published by: Candlewick Press

Release date: October 11, 2011

Imagine an alternate universe where romance and technology reign. Where tinkerers and dreamers craft and re-craft a world of automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never were. Where scientists and schoolgirls, fair folk and Romans, intergalactic bandits, utopian revolutionaries, and intrepid orphans solve crimes, escape from monstrous predicaments, consult oracles, and hover over volcanoes in steam-powered airships. Here, fourteen masters of speculative fiction, including two graphic storytellers, embrace the genre’s established themes and refashion them in surprising ways and settings as diverse as Appalachia, ancient Rome, future Australia, and alternate California. Visionaries Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant have invited all-new explorations and expansions, taking a genre already rich, strange, and inventive in the extreme and challenging contributors to remake it from the ground up. The result is an anthology that defies its genre even as it defines it.

Why I want to read it: Big names like Elizabeth Knox, Cassandra Clare, Libba Bray, and Holly Black are sure to make this book one of a kind.  I enjoy steampunk and can't wait to read it!  Isn't the cover kind of crazy-weird?

Top Ten Books I Loved But Never Wrote a Review For

Top 10 Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish

This week's Top Ten Tuesday is about books that we love but never reviewed.  For me this will be the books that I read and didn't review here in the blog (only in existence since May) or in Goodreads.


1. Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling - What else can I say about this wonderful series?  I read these books way before I knew book blogs or even Goodreads existed. 

2. Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer - Reading Twilight was what prompted me to start looking for information on-line and is the reason I found the awesome community of fellow book lovers.

3. Amy and Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan Matson - I loved this novel.  It's full of grief, pain, discovery, adventure and love.

4. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins - This series is probably in everyone of my lists. Yes, I loved it that much!  I think the only book I reviewed was Mockingjay, never the first two installments.

5. Graceling by Kristin Cashore - Another book that I really loved (same as Fire.)  I can't wait for 'Bitterblue' to be published.

6. Going Too Far by Jennifer Echols - I really enjoyed this book, it wasn't what I expected and I was pleasantly surprised.  I loved both the characters and the plot.  Another great read!

7. Wings by Aprilynne Pike - Wings is the first in a series about fairies (not the really mean ones) and I like all the characters and the way that fairies were portrait.  The second book, Spells, was not as good, but I have high hopes for Illusions.

8. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare - City of Bones is the first book in the Mortal Instruments series, wish I adored.  I was very surprised when it turned out that City of Glass was not the last book in the series :)

9. Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater - I reviewed Linger (in Goodreads) and Forever (on the blog,) but never Shiver, the first book in the Wolves of Mercy Falls series.  I fell in love with Ms. Stiefvater's writing instantly, I assure you I will read anything she writes.

10. Leaving Paradise by Simone Elkeles - Loved this duet (Return to Paradise is the second book,) they are full of angst, regret, love, fear, struggle. The writing is wonderful (if you have read Perfect Chemistry you know what I'm talking about) and the plot even better. Love it!

What is on your Top Ten This Week?

In My Mailbox #12

IMM is a weekly meme inspired by Alea at the Pop Culture Junkie and hosted by the wonderful Kristi at The Story Siren.  All links are to Goodreads.

From the Library

Supernaturally by Kiersten White - I read Paranormalcy a few weeks ago and I can't wait to visit with Evie again.

 Bought

The Eternal Ones by Kirsten Miller - I saw the paperback at the bookstore and couldn't resist.

Nightshade by Andrea Cremer - I have heard wonderful things about this series.  I think is about time I start it.

The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter - I love Greek mythology and the cover is so beautiful too!

Bought for Kindle

Waterfall by Lisa T. Bergren - I saw a good review this one in one of the blogs (sorry I don't remember which one.)

Watched by Sharde Richardson - I saw a review in good review at Librarian Mouse and proceded to buy it for my Kindle.  Pretty cover, uh?

All That Matters by Youseph Tanha - I learned about this novella from the author, the sypnosis looks good.