Waiting on Wednesday

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine, that showcases upcoming release we cant wait to get our hands on.

This week i'm dreaming about.....
Acid by Emma Pass.


2113. In Jenna Strong’s world, ACID – the most brutal, controlling police force in history – rule supreme. No throwaway comment or muttered dissent goes unnoticed – or unpunished. And it was ACID agents who locked Jenna away for life, for a bloody crime she struggles to remember.

The only female inmate in a violent high-security prison, Jenna has learned to survive by any means necessary. And when a mysterious rebel group breaks her out, she must use her strength, speed and skill to stay one step ahead of ACID – and to uncover the truth about what really happened on that dark night two years ago.
Expected publication date: April 25th 2013 

Review: Girl In The Arena by Lise Haines

Girl In The Arena by Lise Haines

3.5/5 stars

I was a little disappointed by this book. It had such a promising premise but in reality it was lacking. For a book entitled girl in the arena i would of liked to of seen more of the girl in the arena, 324 pages and only 6 were about Lyn - the main character- actually in the arena. I was expecting more of a hunger games-esque book but the majority of the book is her making the decision to go into the arena. It felt as though it was building to something that never came. The story didn't seem to end as such it just ceased. Like the author got bored and decided to wrap it up in the epilogue, but that could be a fault of over editing. Although i enjoyed reading the book I'm not in a huge hurry to re-read it. Lise Haines did a great job of creating the characters they were all well thought out and well portrayed but i just wished she'd spent half that effort on the ending. It seemed as though she had an ending planned, built on it and then changed her mind which definitely left the book lacking the spectacular ending it deserved. The girl in the arena would of easily been a 5 star book if the end had been more fulfilling, it didn't live up to its potential.











Dystopia challenge books read count: 2 <3

Waiting on Wednesday #2

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the spine, in which we spotlight upcoming new release we can't wait to add to our shelves.

The book I'm excited about this week is........

When We Wake by Karen Healey


My name is Tegan Oglietti, and on the last day of my first lifetime, I was so, so happy. 
Sixteen-year-old Tegan is just like every other girl living in 2027--she's happiest when playing the guitar, she's falling in love for the first time, and she's joining her friends to protest the wrongs of the world: environmental collapse, social discrimination, and political injustice.
But on what should have been the best day of Tegan's life, she dies--and wakes up a hundred years in the future, locked in a government facility with no idea what happened.
Tegan is the first government guinea pig to be cryogenically frozen and successfully revived, which makes her an instant celebrity--even though all she wants to do is try to rebuild some semblance of a normal life. But the future isn't all she hoped it would be, and when appalling secrets come to light, Tegan must make a choice: Does she keep her head down and survive, or fight for a better future?
Expected publication date: March 5th 2013

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Review: The Twelve by Justin Cronin

The Twelve by Justin Cronin
5/5 stars

 I always find reviewing my favorite books hard because i tend to come across like a star struck teenager so i apologize in advance. I absolutely loved The Passage, it was the book that made me fall in love with reading and will always have a place in my heart. Although sequels are rarely as good as their predecessors this book was an epic in its own right. The Twelve was suspenseful and very well crafted, Cronins writing completely captured me and I adored this book.

The Twelve is manly events in differing time periods and jumps back and forth, like pieces of a puzzle building to the final picture and the great climax. This book is over 500 pages and full of exciting moments like "The Field" which was one of my favorite parts along with the "Year Zero" chapters. The only problem with the time hoping, much like in The Passage, is that Cronin builds the characters up to a point where you become attached to them and then the book changes and in the case of "Year Zero" your left without a definitive end to there story, hopefully he will pick up with the survivors on the bus in the next book. 

Cronins beautiful writing skills kept me enchanted by the book throughout the slow parts, and for a book of such length it didn't seem to drag or lack in any aspect. I loved the poetry of the sentence "And in this manner they passed an infinity of hours, the barest blink of an eye, until the darkness, a blanket in its own right, settled down upon them." the descriptive nature of which every sentence is written, even in the seemingly insignificant moments, is partly why I found myself falling so deeply into both The Passage and The Twelve.

 That is not to say I didn't have my issues with the book, after all nothings perfect but the issues i have seem almost trivial in the longevity of the book. My first problem with The Twelve is simply that i don't understand how Amy roamed the country for a hundred years and eventually comes across First Colony, which apparently only ever housed around 100 people at a time, yet on her travels she never came across any of the bigger settlements like the place in Las Vegas in The Passage, any of The Military bases housing thousands or The Homeland where 70 thousand people are kept.  My second issue is how much of the books rely on coincidences, hinting a god is one thing but i cant help but feel he takes it a little to far, if god could align all these coincidences to stop the twelve couldn't he have done it 100 years before to stop the death of millions? It was just a little too unbelievable to me which brings me to the Lila and Grey story line, which don't get me wrong i thoroughly enjoyed and was glad to see more of Grey, but of all the people in america Grey finds Wolgast ex wife again I felt it pushed it a little to far.

 Well I would hate to finish a review of a new favorite on a critique so more on the plus side - of which there's a lot- I found the carter story line in the passage really riveting and i was sad when he was sent to the compound and became one of the twelve, so his reappearance was a great moment in the book to me especially as he stayed one of the good guys - despite the whole being one of the twelve, eating and turning people thing.  His story line really pulls at the heart string and really adds to the underlying tones of melancholy in the book. I cried a couple of times while reading The Twelve mostly during the Amy/Wolgast parts despite the fact Peter and Alicia are my favorite characters.The films would sell millions and no doubt so will the last book. In my eyes these books are one of a kind and so is Justin Cronin. I'm already craving the next book! I know its going to be a long wait but writing epics takes time I suppose. 


Dystopia challenge read count: 1

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesday is a bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. 

My teasers:

"The virals were everywhere now. In blind panic, people were dashing for the tent, a pointless gesture; it could offer no safety at all."

The Twelve by Justin Cronin. 

I don't want The Twelve to end!

Seems like I waited forever for the twelve to be released after I read the passage in 2011 and now I've nearly finished it I don't know what to do. I've slowed down my reading pace, actually I haven't read at all today. Only about 100 pages left of my book and I don't want it to end.  The next book in the series has an expected publication date of 2014, I don't know how I'm going to cope without the characters for a year!!! So It looks like I'm going to be reading the last 100 pages super slowly!!!!