Yay for Cherie Priest! Not Flesh Nor Feathers was excellent, as expected (since I read the first 50 pages before putting it down in favor of reading book 2 first.)
I love Eden. She’s a great character. I love her supporting characters, too. I was shocked by the ending of this one. And a wee bit sad too. But, it was a nice way to handle a situation… errr I’d say more but I don’t want to spoil it for y’all. Just read the series.
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I found myself with the third book in the Eden Moore series by @CMPriest and realized I had not read the second one. So I took book three back and grabbed Wings to the Kingdom (Which is when I discovered these are shelved as YA. I don’t understand why they are YA. Wierd.)
Wings to the Kingdom was just as good as Four and Twenty Blackbirds. I’m a “battlefield” fan, particularly when I’m not being dragged to them and can just read about other people being dragged to them. I didn’t see enough ghosts during all of my visits to battlefields and I certainly never saw Green Eyes. Had I seen more ghosts or Green Eyes, I’d probably enjoy battlefield visits a wee bit more. Maybe.
Looking forward to grabbing Not Flesh Nor Feathers this week.
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I almost forgot to read Castle Waiting! Liz took it up to her room and never brought it back again… until I asked her where it was because it was due back to the library in three days…
Unfortunately, it’s taken more more than three days to read it due to the crazy that is my life. So, I owe a 10 cent fine on an excellent graphic novel. I can live with that.
Did I mention this is an excellent graphic novel.
Liz really liked it. She read it in the car. She read it in the living room, while the TV was on, she read it and read it.
I understand why. I did want to keep reading it and reading it. But I also enjoyed putting it down because of the nice ribbon bookmark built into the book. I really liked that. Nice touch for that book.
Fairy tales with a lot of odd twists.
Look! Another Cybil! Airman is the book I was least interested in reading from that category. It turned out to be a pretty darn good book. No way it could beat out most of the books in its category but I can see this one being a favorite among the kids it was written for.
Good, solid hero. Bad guys who were just bad enough to hate. A princess who wasn’t stupid. And just enough adventure to keep a kid reading and reading and reading.
Lamplighter is a Cybil. We first got it on audio but after a few minutes gave up on it – we realized that without reading book one, we were completely clueless about what was happening. There are a lot of made up words that make absolutely no sense on audio.
So, I grabbed the first book (Monster Blood Tattoo) and read it awhile back. It was good. Prince J liked it too. TW didn’t read it then, but I grabbed it again and she read it earlier this week.
I knew what was “different” about Rossamund in book one. But TW and Prince J seem unaware.
Book two, Lamplighter… it all comes out. Well not all of it, but there are clues and clues all the way through, leading up to Rossamund (and others) figuring it out. (I’m trying to avoid spoilers here folks – sorry!)
Anyway, the only problem with book two is that book three appears to have not been published yet. And I really want to know what the heck is going to happen NOW.
Of the four Cybils I read yesterday, there was only one that was a yawn. Fabulous Fishes, a nonfiction picture book, was just a wee bit boring – especially when you look at the other books in the category. It’s not a bad book, nice photos, nice rhymes but that’s just not enough in this category. I’m not a Nic Bishop fan but even his Frogs book was better. His photos just rock. I wouldn’t have chosen it to win the category but I do understand why others would have selected it.
Moving into middle grade fiction, I loved Shooting the Moon. Maybe it’s the military brat in me. Or the mom of military brats. But I just loved the book. If pushed, I’d say this was my favorite in that category.
Last, Sweethearts, from the YA fiction category. Another good book. A problem book that is just a little different from other problem books. A teen girl who recreates herself, never feels quite right in her new skin and then has to face the past. Really nicely written without a clear, clean, happy ending.
When I saw The London Eye Mystery on the Cybils list, I knew it would be good but I didn’t expect it to be quite this good. Even after reading the reviews and seeing it win. I just didn’t expect this.
Actually, I didn’t know what to expect.
I had no idea “Ted” had been diagnosed with a “syndrome” or that it would be a book about a kid who it appears has Asperger’s. It was a brilliant book, with brilliant characters… even if I knew almost immediately where Salim was.
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I’ve heard an awful lot about The Hunger Games. I’ve seen blogs recommend it. I’ve had people I know recommend it. Sassymonkey has been bugging me to read it for ages and she hasn’t even read it yet (though she’d better have started it by now.)
Finally – got it from the library. TW read it and found it “oddly compelling” and could not put it down. She even stopped reading the second book she was reading so she could focus just on it.
I picked it up right after she finished it and oddly compelling doesn’t even come close to describing it.
Kids. Horrible controlling government. Survivor but for reals. Crazyness.
Sequel in September and I cannot WAIT.
What a way to finish a set of books! Life Sucks and Kin: Good Neighbors were excellent.
Vampires and Fairies. Fabulous. Liz and RJ agree with me about Life Sucks and I’m betting they’ll both love Good Neighbors as well. Holly Black rocks fairy stories. Twiddling my thumbs til the library database comes back online tonight so I can work on reserving more graphic novels in these series’ – there are more available, right? Kin’s ending, in particular, leaves us begging for volume two.
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Tender Morsels scared me. Which might be why it took me so long to read a relatively short YA fantasy novel.
The first 50 pages were violent, ugly, depressing as anything I’ve ever read and not at all compelling. They just made me ill. Snow White and Rose Red my butt…
TW had really liked the book, even with the incest and the rapes and the forced abortions. So I kept reading… a few pages a night.
Until finally, the world shifted and everything was nice. Except when the world would shift just a little bit and the ugliness would wander in.
The ending… excellent. It wasn’t a happy ending at all, well not to me. But it was a satisfying ending. Unfortunately I finished it at 11pm last night and proceeded to have horrible nightmares about the book.
This is not YA fantasy for the faint of heart.