Nick's Book Blog Backup

Want to see more of Dante ? Click the 'Read More' button ! Eeeep !! You guys I'm so excited to reveal to you the gorgeous cover of The Collector by the wonderful Victoria Scott ! :) Here we go ... So, what do you guys think ? Gorgeous right ? I'm kind of drooling all over my laptop right now. :P I can't wait to read this one ! The wait is going to be excruciatingly long though, since the book comes out in the Spring of 2013! Summary Dante Walker is flippin’ awesome, and he knows it. His good looks, killer charm, and stellar confidence have made him one of hell’s best—a soul collector. His job is simple, weed through humanity and label those round rears with a big red good or bad stamp. Old Saint Nick gets the good guys, and he gets the fun ones. Bag-and-tag. Sealing souls is nothing personal. Dante’s an equal opportunity collector and doesn’t want it any other way. But he’ll have to adjust, because Boss Man has given him a new assignment: Collect Charlie C...

Summary (from Goodreads) Plymouth Rock is bleeding. Day has turned to night. Hundred-pound hailstones level buildings. The small town of Clement seems cursed, and the residents know who's to blame: the new kid, Tony Marino. After losing his family and his home, 14-year-old Tony is forced to move from Florida to Massachusetts to attend Kalos Academy, an unconventional school for gifted children. Strange things begin to happen the day he arrives, and soon stories of plagues, monsters, and mystical objects surround him. Refusing to believe superstitions, Tony struggles to explain the occurrences logically, until he comes face to face with a satanic cult determined to bring about the end of the world. Personal Thoughts I honestly didn't know what to expect when I went into The Faustian Host. I think the fact that I went into the book without any expectations really contributed to my enjoyment of the book, since I found myself being truly immersed in the story. When Tony...

Summary (from Goodreads) In the Community, there is no more pain or war. Implanted computer chips have wiped humanity clean of destructive emotions, and thoughts are replaced by a feed from the Link network. When Zoe starts to malfunction (or “glitch”), she suddenly begins having her own thoughts, feelings, and identity. Any anomalies must be immediately reported and repaired, but Zoe has a secret so dark it will mean certain deactivation if she is caught: her glitches have given her uncontrollable telekinetic powers. As Zoe struggles to control her abilities and stay hidden, she meets other glitchers including Max, who can disguise his appearance, and Adrien, who has visions of the future. Both boys introduce Zoe to feelings that are entirely new. Together, this growing band of glitchers must find a way to free themselves from the controlling hands of the Community before they’re caught and deactivated, or worse. In this action-packed debut, Glitch begins an exciting new...

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event that is hosted by Jill at   Breaking the Spine  and spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. Small Damages by Beth Kephart Publication Date : July 19th 2012 Publisher : Philomel Summary (from Goodreads) It’s senior year, and while Kenzie should be looking forward to prom and starting college in the fall, she is mourning the loss of her father. She finds solace in the one person she trusts, her boyfriend, and she soon finds herself pregnant. Kenzie’s boyfriend and mother do not understand her determination to keep the baby. She is sent to southern Spain for the summer, where she will live out her pregnancy as a cook’s assistant on a bull ranch, and her baby will be adopted by a Spanish couple. Alone and resentful in a foreign country, Kenzie is at first sullen and difficult. She begins to open her eyes and her heart to the beauty that is all around her and inside of her. I haven't read too many books ...

Summary (from Goodreads) When Jacqueline follows her longtime boyfriend to the college of his choice, the last thing she expects is a breakup. After two weeks in shock, she wakes up to her new reality: she’s single, attending a state university instead of a music conservatory, ignored by her former circle of friends, stalked by her ex’s frat brother, and failing a class for the first time in her life. Her econ professor gives her an email address for Landon, the class tutor, who shows her that she’s still the same intelligent girl she’s always been. As Jacqueline becomes interested in more from her tutor than a better grade, his teasing responses make the feeling seem mutual. There’s just one problem—their only interactions are through email. Meanwhile, a guy in her econ class proves his worth the first night she meets him. Nothing like her popular ex or her brainy tutor, Lucas sits on the back row, sketching in a notebook and staring at her. At a downtown club, he disapp...

Summary (from Goodreads) It isn't easy being the rather overlooked and unhappy youngest sibling to sisters named for the other six days of the week. Sunday’s only comfort is writing stories, although what she writes has a terrible tendency to come true. When Sunday meets an enchanted frog who asks about her stories, the two become friends. Soon that friendship deepens into something magical. One night Sunday kisses her frog goodbye and leaves, not realizing that her love has transformed him back into Rumbold, the crown prince of Arilland—and a man Sunday’s family despises. The prince returns to his castle, intent on making Sunday fall in love with him as the man he is, not the frog he was. But Sunday is not so easy to woo. How can she feel such a strange, strong attraction for this prince she barely knows? And what twisted secrets lie hidden in his past - and hers? Personal Thoughts I think I can safely say that most of us have loved reading fairy tales when we were you...

Stacking The Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga's Reviews. Of Poseidon by Anna Banks Enchanted by Alethea Kontis Easy by Tammara Webber Shade by Jerri Smith Ready Hi guys ! :) I hope everyone had a great week. This week I didn't get too many books because I wanted to catch up with all my reading first. I got Of Poseidon by Anna Banks. That was one book that I was highly anticipating. I already read it, but ended up really disliking it. I gave it only 1 star, so I decided to post the review on Goodreads only. Next, I got Enchanted. I'm currently reading it and so far, I'm really impressed. It's a mixture of fairy tales, so it's very interesting. I also got Easy by Tammara Webber. It sounds very exciting and I can't wait to read it. Finally, I got Shade since Natalia at Dazzling Reads recommended it. Here's what was on the blog this week : Review of Sixteenth Summer by Michelle Dalton Review of The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting Review of Stru...

Hi Guys ! :) I'm sure most of you must have noticed that Daemon has been invading the blogosphere these past few days ! Well, today the 30 Days Of Daemon Tour has a stop at Nick's Book Blog ! :D How exciting right ? Anyways, some of my bloggy friends and I have put up our lists of why we love Daemon. Without further ado ... He's all about his family. He's a tease. His eyes. (green eyes = <3) He's the Luxen all Arum fear. His weakness for Katy. He's hot.. (seriously, he's hot!!) He's a jerk *smiles* (but that makes him even more interesting) He's protective and possessive. (The way he loves his family and his sister warms my heart. We would do anything, and I mean anything to protect the ones he loves) He's bad-ass (Yep, I admit I love bad-assery male characters) He's hot!! (did I mention that already?! Seriously, ...he is ... incredibly -drool-worthy personified hotness!!) He is an Alien! How cool is this right?! There are har...

Summary (from Goodreads) Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules. Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone-one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship-tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn't do something soon, her parents will be next. Now Amy must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there's only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the love she could never have seen coming. Personal Thoughts Science-fiction is a genre that is very rare in YA books, so when I read the premise of Across The Universe, I was intrigued and fascinated. I couldn...

Summary (from Goodreads) Mia Price is a lightning addict. She's survived countless strikes, but her craving to connect to the energy in storms endangers her life and the lives of those around her. Los Angeles, where lightning rarely strikes, is one of the few places Mia feels safe from her addiction. But when an earthquake devastates the city, her haven is transformed into a minefield of chaos and danger. The beaches become massive tent cities. Downtown is a crumbling wasteland, where a traveling party moves to a different empty building each night, the revelers drawn to the destruction by a force they cannot deny. Two warring cults rise to power, and both see Mia as the key to their opposing doomsday prophecies. They believe she has a connection to the freak electrical storm that caused the quake, and to the far more devastating storm that is yet to come. Mia wants to trust the enigmatic and alluring Jeremy when he promises to protect her, but she fears he isn't ...

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event that is hosted by Jill at   Breaking the Spine  and spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. A Girl Named Digit by Annabel Monaghan Publication Date : June 5th 2012 Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Summary (from Goodreads) Farrah "Digit" Higgins may be going to MIT in the fall, but this L.A. high school genius has left her geek self behind in another school district so she can blend in with the popular crowd at Santa Monica High and actually enjoy her senior year.    But when Farrah, the daughter of a UCLA math professor, unknowingly cracks a terrorist group's number sequence, her laid-back senior year gets a lot more interesting.    Soon she is personally investigating the case, on the run from terrorists, and faking her own kidnapping-- all while trying to convince a young, hot FBI agent to take her seriously.    So much for blending...

Summary (from Goodreads) Violet Ambrose is grappling with two major issues: Jay Heaton and her morbid secret ability. While the sixteen-year-old is confused by her new feelings for her best friend since childhood, she is more disturbed by her "power" to sense dead bodies—or at least those that have been murdered. Since she was a little girl, she has felt the echoes that the dead leave behind in the world... and the imprints that attach to their killers. Violet has never considered her strange talent to be a gift; it mostly just led her to find the dead birds her cat had tired of playing with. But now that a serial killer has begun terrorizing her small town, and the echoes of the local girls he's claimed haunt her daily, she realizes she might be the only person who can stop him. Despite his fierce protectiveness over her, Jay reluctantly agrees to help Violet on her quest to find the murderer—and Violet is unnerved to find herself hoping that Jay's inte...

Summary (from Goodreads) Anna is dreading another tourist-filled summer on Dune Island that follows the same routine; beach, ice cream, friends, repeat.  That is, until she locks eyes with Will, the gorgeous and sweet guy visiting from New York.  Soon, her summer is filled with flirtatious fun as Anna falls head over heels in love. But with every perfect afternoon, sweet kiss, and walk on the beach, Anna can't ignore that the days are quickly growing shorter, and Will has to leave at the end of August. Anna's never felt anything like this before, but when forever isn't even a possibility, one summer doesn't feel worth the promise of her heart breaking. Personal Thoughts When I picked up Sixteenth Summer by Michelle Dalton, I was actually expecting something light, fluffy and romantic. I wanted it to have a cute tone that would have be smiling throughout the book. I mean look at the cover! Instead, the book was a little morose and so, I ended up being slightly d...

Stacking The Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga's Reviews. The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting Desires Of The Dead by Kimberly Derting The Last Echo by Kimberly Derting Rape Girl by Alina Klein (Obtained from NetGalley - Big Thanks To Namelos) I didn't get much books this week, but I'm glad I got The Body Finder series. I've heard really good things about it. I already read the first book and I really enjoyed it. I can't wait to get to the others. Rape Girl sounded like an intense book which is why I requested it from NetGalley. So, overall even if I didn't get tons of books this week, I'm pretty happy with my haul. Also, I'm having my 200 Followers giveaway going on ! Don't forget to check it out for a chance to win 3 eBooks of your choice from a list. :) I hope everyone had a good week in books too. Make sure to leave your links below whatever the meme you're participating in. I'll make sure to return the favor. :) Have a great Su...

Summary (from Goodreads) This was supposed to be the best summer of Maggie’s life. Now it’s the one she’d do anything to forget. Maggie Reynolds remembers hanging out at the gorge with her closest friends after a blowout party the night before. She remembers climbing the trail hand in hand with her perfect boyfriend, Joey. She remembers that last kiss, soft, lingering, and meant to reassure her. So why can’t she remember what happened in the moment before they were supposed to dive? Why was she left cowering at the top of the cliff, while Joey floated in the water below—dead? As Maggie’s memories return in snatches, nothing seems to make sense. Why was Joey acting so strangely at the party? Where did he go after taking her home? And if Joey was keeping these secrets, what else was he hiding? The latest novel from the author of The Tension of Opposites , One Moment is a mysterious, searing look at how an instant can change everything you believe about the world around you. Pe...