On My Wishlist #10

I've always wanted to read books by Lisa Schroeder. I was lucky enough to win I Heart You, You Haunt Me in a contest recently and I seriously love what I've read so far! It's surprising to see how much little words (it was written in verse) can make a person truly feel emotions the author trying to convey. For this week, I am craving for another books by the same author, Chasing Brooklyn and Far From You.

Title: Chasing Brooklyn
Author: Lisa Schroeder
Series: Stand Alone
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Links: Amazon | Book Depository

Synopsis (from Goodreads):

Brooklyn can’t sleep. Her boyfriend, Lucca died a year ago, and now their friend Gabe has died of an overdose. Every time she closes her eyes, Gabe's ghost is there, waiting for her. She has no idea what he wants or why it isn't Lucca chasing her through her dreams. Nico can’t stop. He’s always running, trying so hard not to feel the pain of missing Lucca. But when he begins receiving messages from his dead brother, telling him to help Brooklyn, emotions come crashing to the surface. As the nightmares escalate and the messages become relentless, Nico reaches out to Brooklyn. But neither of them can admit that they're being haunted. Until they learn to let each other in, not one soul will be able to rest

Title: Far From You

Author: Lisa Schroeder

Series: Stand Alone

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Links: Amazon | Book Depository

Synopsis (from Goodreads):

Lost and alone...down the rabbit hole. Years have passed since Alice lost her mother to cancer, but time hasn't quite healed the wound. Alice copes the best she can, by writing her music, losing herself in the love of her boyfriend, and distancing herself from her father and his new wife. But when a deadly snowstorm traps Alice with her stepmother and newborn half-sister, she'll face issues she's been avoiding for too long. As Alice looks to the heavens for guidance, she discovers something wonderful. Perhaps she's not so alone after all..

My wishlist surely gets longer and longer everyday it seems! If you're participating in this meme too, please leave me a link so I can check what books you hope to get your hands on to this week. Have a great weekend everyone =)

On My Wishlist #9

Every once in awhile, I do enjoy reading books that have more contemporary or realistic tones. Most of the time, the heaviness of the subject matter totally pique my interest while the emotions trapped within the pages are able to absorb me into that dark, hollow world, in which my own shelter life hardly knew exist.

I've had people told me before that life is hard enough, so why must ones read something that's emotionally draining? To me, this is the wonder of reading. It lends us a pair of special shoes that let us walk through another people's life, see the world through their eyes and there are always some lessons to be learnt in the end. Yes, it is draining but the pieces that you pick here and there make it totally worth it. So for this week, I feature couple of realistic books that I really hope I get the chance to read.

Title: Impulse
Author: Ellen Hopkins
Series: Stand Alone
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Links: Amazon | Book Depository

Synopsis (from B&N):

Three teens who have attempted suicide meet in a psychiatric hospital, battle their demons, and begin to heal. The handsome son of wealthy parents, Connor has everything anyone could want—except his family’s love and affection. Jailed for years after killing his mother’s child-molesting boyfriend, Tony is confused about his sexuality. Manic-depressive Vanessa cuts herself. All three stories intertwine in a brutally honest story about pain and resilience.

Title: Tricks

Author: Ellen Hopkins

Series: Stand Alone

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Links: Amazon | Book Depository

Synopsis (from B&N):

Five teenagers from different parts of the country. Three girls. Two guys. Four straight. One gay. Some rich. Some poor. Some from great families. Some with no one at all. All living their lives as best they can, but all searching...for freedom, safety, community, family, love. What they don't expect, though, is all that can happen when those powerful little words "I love you" are said for all the wrong reasons. Five moving stories remain separate at first, then interweave to tell a larger, powerful story — a story about making choices, taking leaps of faith, falling down, and growing up. A story about kids figuring out what sex and love are all about, at all costs, while asking themselves, "Can I ever feel okay about myself?"

Title: The Piper's Son
Author: Melina Marchetta
Series: Stand Alone
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
Links: Book Depository

Synopsis (from Goodreads):

Thomas Mackee wants oblivion. Wants to forget parents who leave and friends he used to care about and a string of one-night stands, and favourite uncles being blown to smithereens on their way to work on the other side of the world. But when his flatmates turn him out of the house, Tom moves in with his single, pregnant aunt, Georgie. And starts working at the Union pub with his former friends. And winds up living with his grieving father again. And remembers how he abandoned Tara Finke two years ago, after his uncle's death. And in a year when everything's broken, Tom realises that his family and friends need him to help put the pieces back together as much as he needs them.

Title: Forbidden

Author: Tabitha Suzuma

Series: Stand Alone

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Links: Amazon | Book Depository

Synopsis (from Goodreads):

Sixteen-year-old Maya and seventeen-year-old Lochan have never had the chance to be 'normal' teenagers. Having pulled together for years to take care of their younger siblings while their wayward, drunken mother leaves them to fend alone, they have become much more than brother and sister. And now, they have fallen in love. But this is a love that can never be allowed, a love that will have devastating consequences... How can something so wrong feel so right?

Now I have a question for you: Do you read book that boggles your mind, makes you cry and breaks your heart? If you do, which books are your favourites? And if you don't, why?

That's all from me for this week "On My Wishlist". Hope that you have a great weekend everyone. 

On My Wishlist #8

I've come across quite a lot of great books recently but these two are among those that I'm looking forward to. The Edgar Allan Poe references in Nevermore really pique my interest to read more on this book. Though I believe that it is the cover that caught my interest at first. Just look at the way the guy stares at us? Looks creepy!

Title: Nevermore
Author: Kelly Creagh
Series: Not Sure
Genre: Speculative Fiction - Fantasy
Links: Amazon | Book Depository

Synopsis (from Goodreads):

Cheerleader Isobel Lanley is horrified when she is paired with Varen Nethers for an English project, which is due—so unfair—on the day of the rival game. Cold and aloof, sardonic and sharp-tongued, Varen makes it clear he’d rather not have anything to do with her either. But when Isobel discovers strange writing in his journal, she can’t help but give this enigmatic boy with the piercing eyes another look. As her world begins to unravel around her, Isobel discovers that dreams, like words, hold more power than she ever imagined, and that the most frightening realities are those of the mind. Now she must find a way to reach Varen before he is consumed by the shadows of his own nightmares. His life depends on it.

I've never really heard of Patrick Rothfuss before. Yes, it's my lost right? I came across this book when I was browsing Goodreads the other day and the description totally blow me away. The second installment of this series will be published soon, if I'm not mistaken, so I really have to get to this one as soon as possible! Have you read this book before? If so, what do you think about it?

Title: The Name of the Wind

Author: Patrick Rothfuss

Series: Kingkiller Chronicle Series

Genre: Speculative Fiction - Fantasy

Links: Amazon | Book Depository

Synopsis (from B&N):

Told in Kvothe's own voice, this is the tale of the magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen. The intimate narrative of his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime ridden city, his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, and his life as a fugitive after the murder of a king form a gripping coming-of-age story unrivaled in recent literature. A high-action story written with a poet's hand, The Name of the Wind is a masterpiece that will transport readers into the body and mind of a wizard.

That's all I've for this week! Do you participate in this meme also? If so, don't forget to leave me your links. Have a great weekend =)

On My Wishlist #7

It has been a long time since my last "On My Wishlist" post. Today, I would like to introduce two books that I've been craving for ever since I saw them featured and reviewed in some other blogs.

The first book I've on my wishlist this week is The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff. I heard that it is a book about fey though the thing that attract me most is its cover (Yes, I've to admit I get *easily* attracted to pretty covers). I think it is somewhat gruesome but attractive all the same. Have a look!

Title: The Replacement
Author: Brenna Yovanoff
Series: Not Sure
Genre: Speculative Fiction - Fantasy
Links: Amazon | Book Depository

Synopsis (from Goodreads):

Mackie Doyle seems like everyone else in the perfect little town of Gentry, but he is living with a fatal secret - he is a Replacement, left in the crib of a human baby sixteen years ago. Now the creatures under the hill want him back, and Mackie must decide where he really belongs and what he really wants.A month ago, Mackie might have told them to buzz off. But now, with a budding relationship with tough, wounded, beautiful Tate, Mackie has too much to lose. Will love finally make him worthy of the human world?

I've heard a lot of negative reviews on Angelology by Danielle Trussoni but the good ones written by Pam @ Bookalicio.us and Shweta @ The Book Journal totally grab my interest. Click on the links to go to their reviews.

Title: Angelology

Author: Danielle Trussoni

Series: Not Sure

Genre: Speculative Fiction - Fantasy

Links: Amazon | Book Depository

Synopsis (from Goodreads):

Sister Evangeline was just a girl when her father entrusted her to the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration in upstate New York. Now, at twenty-three, her discovery of a 1943 letter from the famous philanthropist Abigail Rockefeller to the late mother superior of Saint Rose Convent plunges Evangeline into a secret history that stretches back a thousand years: an ancient conflict between the Society of Angelologists and the monstrously beautiful descendants of angels and humans, the Nephilim.

That's all I've for this week! Do you participate in this meme also? If so, don't forget to leave me your links. Happy weekend everyone!

On My Wishlist #6

On My Wishlist this week once again features a series that I recently stumble to whilst doing my regular "research" on GoodReads. Alethea rated this book and its sequel 5 stars and she said, "This series, IMHO, Westerfeld at his absolute best". To read Alethea's review on this series, do click here. 

Book Title: The Secret Hour
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Series: Midnighters #1
Pages: 304 pages
Genre: Paranormal

Synopsis (taken from Amazon):
Moving when you're in high school is difficult enough, especially when your parents can't seem to hold their own lives together and your younger sister is being more obnoxious than usual. However, for 15-year-old Jessica Day, these concerns pale when bizarre things start to happen and she discovers that she now has unwanted magical powers. Part science fiction, part horror story, this novel is the first in a series about the midnighters, a select group of individuals whose birth at the stroke of midnight gives them the special ability to move about in a mysterious 25th hour. As Jessica takes her place among these extraordinary teens, she must battle the increasingly dangerous slithers and other darklings that have suddenly become more violent and aggressive.

Other Books in this Series:
(1) Touching Darkness (Midnighters #2)
(2) Blue Noon (Midnighters #3) 

Now let me see what books you've got in your wishlist this week =)

On My Wishlist #5

Today's On My Wishlist features three books from three male authors that I've been dying to read for quite sometime now. I've read crazily good reviews on these books and they seriously intensified the need to own them as soon as possible!

Book Title: The Maze Runner
Author: James Dashner
Series: Maze Runner #1
Pages: 384 pages
Genre: Dystopian Fiction

Book Description (taken from Amazon):
When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his first name. His memory is blank. But he’s not alone. When the lift’s doors open, Thomas finds himself surrounded by kids who welcome him to the Glade—a large, open expanse surrounded by stone walls. Just like Thomas, the Gladers don’t know why or how they got to the Glade. All they know is that every morning the stone doors to the maze that surrounds them have opened. Every night they’ve closed tight. And every 30 days a new boy has been delivered in the lift. Thomas was expected. But the next day, a girl is sent up—the first girl to ever arrive in the Glade. And more surprising yet is the message she delivers. Thomas might be more important than he could ever guess. If only he could unlock the dark secrets buried within his mind.

Book Title: Gone
Author: Michael Grant
Series: Gone #1
Pages: 576 pages (Oooh, yummy!!)
Genre: Fantasy

Book Description (taken from Goodreads):
Except for the young. Teens. Middle schoolers. Toddlers. But not one single adult. No teachers, no cops, no doctors, no parents. Just as suddenly, there are no phones, no internet, no television. No way to get help. And no way to figure out what's happened. Hunger threatens. Bullies rule. A sinister creature lurks. Animals are mutating. And the teens themselves are changing, developing new talents—unimaginable, dangerous, deadly powers—that grow stronger by the day. It's a terrifying new world. Sides are being chosen, a fight is shaping up. Townies against rich kids. Bullies against the weak. Powerful against powerless. And time is running out: On your birthday, you disappear just like everyone else...

Other Books in The Series:
Hunger (Gone #2)
Lies (Gone #3)

Book Title: Leviathan
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Series: Stand alone book (Me think!?)
Pages: 440 pages
Genre: Fantasy

Book Description (taken from Goodreads):

Prince Aleksander, would-be heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, is on the run. His own people have turned on him. His title is worthless. All he has is a battletorn war machine and a loyal crew of men. Deryn Sharp is a commoner, disguised as a boy in the British Air Service. She's a brilliant airman. But her secret is in constant danger of being discovered. With World War I brewing, Alek and Deryn's paths cross in the most unexpected way…taking them on a fantastical, around-the-world adventure that will change both their lives forever.

So now you know what is in my wishlist. Let me see what's in yours? Leave me a comment with link to your On My Wishlist post =) Have a great weekend everyone!

On My Wishlist #4

To tell you the truth, I've never really read anything under Young Adult category until the day I came across Twilight. Yes, you didn't hear me wrong there - T.w.i.l.i.g.h.t! So, my interest in this category is fairly new and I am actually amazed as how diverge this category really is. I would seriously missed out a lot if I didn't try any books in it. For this week, I am craving for yet another YA series known as The Drake Chronicles.

Book Title: My Love Lies Bleeding
Author: Alyxandra Harvey
Series: The Drake Chronicles #1
Pages: 256 pages
Genre: Paranormal

Book Description (taken from Book Depository):
The Blakes are rather different to your usual neighbours. They are vampires and some of the members of the family date back to the twelfth century. One of the children, Solange, is the only born female vampire known and, as such, she poses a direct threat to the vampire queen. Her best friend Lucy is human, and when Solange is kidnapped Lucy and Solange's brother, Nicholas, set out to save her. Lucy soon discovers that she would like to be more than just friends with Nicholas. But how does one go about dating a vampire? Meanwhile, Solange finds an unlikely ally in Kieran, a vampire slayer on the hunt for his father's killer.

Other Book in The Series:
Blood Feud (The Drake Chronicles #2) 

Covers Comparison:

(a) My Love Lies Bleeding (UK) vs Heart at Stake (US Title)

 

(b) Blood Feud (UK vs US)

Personally, I love the UK covers for both books but this is most probably because I adore anything with dark colours. Tell me which one is your personal favourite and if you have already read the books, perhaps you could tell me whether these are worth reading or not?

On My Wishlist #3

Without doubt, my wishlist continues to rapidly growing. The book I am craving for this week is (are, to be exact since I *want* each books in the series!) not actually a new book but I only heard of its existence fairly recently and as I read the description of the book, I was completely hooked. The book that I was talking about is:

Book Title: Magyk
Author: Angie Sage
Series: Septimus Heap #1
Pages: 608 pages
Genre: Fantasy

Book Description (taken from Amazon):
A wide cast of characters battle the forces of Darke Magyk in a well-realized world of fantasy. At birth, Septimus Heap is carried away for dead, and his father, Silas Heap, is entrusted with a baby girl. When the villainous Supreme Custodian tries to assassinate the now 10-year-old Jenna, who, it turns out, is the daughter of the murdered queen, the girl flees to the Marram Marshes along with some family members, the ExtraOrdinary Wizard, and a young army guard known only as "Boy 412." Pursued by the servants of the Necromancer DomDaniel, and aided by an engaging array of magical beings, they finally prevail in a satisfying and fairly exciting conclusion. Despite the hefty length, the novel is quite easy to follow. Many creative magical elements, such as the deliciously repulsive Magogs, add to the fun. Frequent point-of-view shifts give a well-rounded picture of the multiple plot threads and add many opportunities for light humor. Overall, this is a fine choice for fantasy readers looking to delve into a new world with lots of magic, plenty of action, and a few neat surprises.

Other Books in the Series:
(1) Flyte
(2) Physik
(3) Queste
(4) Syren  

On My Wishlist #2

Wow, I honestly cannot believe how rapid my wish list is growing in just few weeks time. I've been bloghopping quite a lot and I've seen too many interesting books read by other bloggers. So, the books that I *really* wish to have for this week are as follows:

I first learnt of Sharon Lathan when I read about her book, My Dearest Mr. Darcy, at Alaine's site. The fact that I love Austen's works so much makes me feel that I must read all these sequels that the author had wrote so far. The detail of the book  feature on the left is:

Book Title: Mr & Mrs Fitzwilliam Darcy
Author: Sharon Lathan
Series: Pride and Prejudice Sequel #1
Pages: 320 pages
Genre: Romance

Synopsis:
Beginning on their wedding day, Darcy and Elizabeth are two people who are deeply in love with one another and are excited to begin their marriage. Their courtship was tempestuous; misunderstandings and misgivings nearly tore them apart. But now that they've seen each other without prejudice, their trust, attraction, and delight in each other grows with every passing day. Both are inexperienced and innocent, sharing moments of shyness and boldness as they discover the kinds of intimacies that a newlywed couple shares. As their love story unfolds, they reveal their innermost secrets and feelings, embracing each other in a marriage filled with romance, passion, humor, and drama that will keep you spellbound.

Other Books in This Series:
(1) Loving Mr. Darcy
(2) My Dearest Mr. Darcy

I'm sure that most of you would agree with me when I say that the cover of this book is absolutely stunning. I read a lot of reviews on it and the idea of a tough female protagonist really draw me in. I really hope that I'll get my own copy for this one very soon.

Book Title: Graceling
Author: Kristin Cashore
Series: Graceling #1
Pages: 480 pages
Genre: Fantasy

Synopsis (from Goodreads):
Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eight--she's a Graceling, one of the rare people in her land born with an extreme skill. As niece of the king, she should be able to live a life of privilege, but Graced as she is with killing, she is forced to work as the king's thug. When she first meets Prince Po, Graced with combat skills, Katsa has no hint of how her life is about to change. She never expects to become Po's friend. She never expects to learn a new truth about her own Grace--or about a terrible secret that lies hidden far away... a secret that could destroy all seven kingdoms with words alone.

Other Books in This Series:
(1) Fire

So, what's on your wish list??

On My Wishlist #1

I remember reading about this book for the first time when I was browsing The Book Muncher's page and it was like a love at the first sight. The cover really attracts me and as soon as I read the book description, I know in an instant that I'll love it. Since my birthday will be next month, I'm thinking of buying this and its second installment as a gift for myself! The details of the book is as the following:

Book title: Poison Study (#1)
Author: Maria V. Snyder
Series: Study Series
Format: Paperback
Pages: 416 pages
Genre: Speculative Fiction - Fantasy

Book Description (taken from Amazon):
Choose: A quick death...or a slow poison...About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve. She'll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace - and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia. And so Yelena chooses to become a food taster. But the chief of security, leaving nothing to chance, deliberately feeds her Butterfly's Dust - and only by appearing for her daily antidote will she delay an agonising death from the poison. As Yelena tries to escape her new dilemma, disasters keep mounting. Rebels plot to seize Ixia and Yelena develops magical powers she can't control. Her life is threatened again and choices must be made. But this time the outcomes aren't so clear...

Other Books in This Series:

(1) Magic Study

(2) Fire Study