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Endure (Book One of the Endure Series) Release Date: 07/12/13
Summary from Goodreads: Seventeen-year-old Justin's anemic blood is a blessing. Or a curse. It all depends on who you ask.
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http://www.amazon.com/Endure-ebook/dp/B00DVL1NOW/ref=cm_sw_em_r_dp_K7V3rb0TS53JC_tt AUTHOR BIO Laura Catherine is Young Adult author focusing on Paranormal Romance, Dystopia, and Fantasy. She writes stories full of action, secrets, and magic. She loves creating worlds where anything is possible and everyone has a story to tell. She has an over-active imagination, spends a lot of her time daydreaming, and wishes pokemon were real so she would have one. Laura Catherine lives in Melbourne, Australia. Author links: Website / Goodreads / Facebook / Twitter
Djinn by Laura Catherine Series: Djinn, #1 Publication date: December 2013 Genre: YA Paranormal Romance Synopsis: Kyra’s life is far from normal. She's been on the run for as long she can remember and her father is the only stable thing in her life, but everything changes when the people pursuing them finally catch up. Kyra is abducted by the handsome and mysterious, Will. He takes her to a secret compound where she is told the truth: She's a Djinn, a genie-like creature with super powers and a love of dogs. Kyra has to adjust to the Djinn and their rules, but her new life is far from perfect. Everyone is hiding something and the one person Kyra cares about most is forbidden to her. There are secrets around every corner and more dangers than Kyra could ever imagine as she struggles to find herself and be with the one she loves. Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17909829-djinn?ac=1 OMG! IS THIS NOT ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COVERS YOU'VE EVER SEEN? THE SYNOPSIS SOUNDS AWESOME, I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL THIS BOOK IS AVAILABLE !!
I received a copy of the "Necromancer's Apprentice " by R.M. Prioleau to review. By Mousehead & Tales rating this novella gets a perfect score! 5 $, $, $, $, $,! Or 5 stars! Let me tell you why... This book has a glorious cover. The artist who rendered it is a master. I don't believe a human with a pulse could gaze upon it and not NEED to know more. I read the novella in a few hours and was getting a heavy heart that it was going to end soon. I'm still hoping for another chance to enter Jasmine's hauntingly strange and beautiful p.o.v. So let's get down to the review! THE PLAYERS: 1.Jasmine - beautiful youngest child, snow white hair, slate gray eyes, has never cried in her entire life, willing test subject, slave, and eventually student 2. Master Dagg/ Daggax'iylion - A master of the "Dark Arts" necromancer and an Arcanist. He also can change his form.. But I don't want to spoil that surprise. Savior of Jasmine as well as her owner and eventually teacher 3. Banin - Knight in Shining Armor , leader of the Hemlock Hunters of Lakis 4. Harpy's, Zombies, and other oddities Synopsis: The Crimson Moon has risen over the land of Lakis. Along with the odd sight of a blood red moon, there are droughts and no crops. The land is barren and the people of Lakis think that the Goddess Celestra is punishing them for not being devout enough in their prayer's to her. We see the story through the p.o.v. of Jasmine . Right from the start you can tell she's a unique girl. Jasmine is content living in a manor with a farm that her Grandfather had built. Due to the lack of harvest her family has had to abandon their home and seek out a healer. Jasmine's mother is in a comatose state and nothing has improved her condition. The family takes what little they have and leave for the city to find a Dr. Suffice to say that none of Jasmine's family survives the journey. Oddly this doesn't really seem to traumatize Jasmine. She has never cried in her entire life, and always felt people wasted far to much energy on feelings. Jasmine survived due to Master Dagg helping her. Not out of kindness . Dagg needed a new "test subject" as his last had died. As Master Dagg experimented on Jasmine she suffered but she also was interested in learning the dark arts. A strange partnership came out of the situation. Though Jasmine was his slave, did his bidding, let him experiment on her with painful and garish outcomes, she never once tried to flee or seek help. She was content living in the swampy cave with the moody necromancer. After enough trust was built between them Master Dagg would leave all day every day never telling Jasmine what he did all day. She studied his notebooks of past and future experiments and became his apprentice in all things, even if that meant they experimented on her! One day while Master Dagg was off doing his daily errands Jasmine left the cave to go hunt down some lunch from the swamps. That's when Banin the Knight in shining armor appears to save the damsel in distress. Things don't turn out as the Knight expects... So... My first thought was that I wished the book had been longer. I wasn't ready to leave the caves yet. Jasmine was a very different character. She didn't fit into any of the usual categories that beautiful females usually do. I also found it refreshing that there was no love interest or period of hating her Master. This was in all ways one of the most original novella's I've ever read. I would recommend this book to people who aren't squeamish , enjoy tense, suspenseful , writing. Fans of gothic horror would enjoy this book. Fans of Holly Black, Poppy Z. Brite and authors of that ilk would gobble this up! I'm certainly going to read anything else I can find by this author. I thought this was a beautiful bit of writing, it may be a partial spoiler but I just can't help myself...sorry! "He let out a terrifying howl as he broke free of his tattered overcoat, and his body molded into the shape of a Dragon once more. The once beautiful, majestic ebony scales had rotted away to scraps of flesh. His age yellowed bones poked through the scraps of skin. Much of his face was but a skull,where the scaly skin was torn and barely clung to the bone. Two green, glowing orbs had replaced his dragon eyes, and they pulsated with a magic unfamiliar to me. His wings were reduced to bony frames, the webbed membranes replaced by rotting pieces of torn, hanging flesh. I gazed at him in awe. How hauntingly beautiful he is..."-Jasmine That is the kind of descriptive and lovely, yet disturbing writing this novella is FULL of, and I loved it! Like I said, this earned a perfect score. From the cover to the very last word. Review by Clare / Mousehead & Tales For more reviews check back later!
THIS IS THE CHOICES THAT STILL REMAIN FOR BOOKNUT'S TOURNEY... Even if your fave is gone we all knew only one could win:( Round 6: Who is your pick for the YA Feisty Female of 2013? Ruby Moore (Guardian Angel series by Skyla Madi) 75% Maggie Masters (Significance series by Shelly Crane) 5% Rose Hathaway (Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead) 15% Katniss Everdeen (Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins) 5% Alexandria (Alex) Andros (Covenant series by Jennifer L Armentrout) 0% Total votes: 20 Let's get the word out & see this event through! Anyone who votes is welcome to add their name in comments to be entered into a raffle for an ebook in your choice of 1. Mobi 2.epub 3. Pdf Best of luck to all! My thanks to everyone from Team Alyssa:) I'm sure A.G. Howard was touched by your efforts. I appreciate your help, I salute you as we disband.
I'M SURE YOU CAN SEE HOW THIS COVER MIGHT CATCH MY EYE? I GAVE IT A $ JUST FOR HOW THE COVERS OF ALL THREE BOOKS IN THIS TRILOGY HAVE PRINT WORTHY COVERS. THE STORY ON THE OTHER HAND EARNED 3 $ $ $ and $0.50 or 3 1/2 $'s by the MOUSEHEAD scale. Now... Onto the review! I read the book "Switchers" by Kate Thompson for an honest review. I wanted to give it 3 1/2 stars but the rating system didn't allow for that. By Mousehead standards this book received 4 $ $ $ $ and $0.50 ( 4 1/2 ). Just for the cover alone this book earned points. It caught my eye immediately. It's defiantly a head turner IMO. The book itself is another matter. It was put in the genre YA/ fantasy/sci-fi. I'm a fan of all those categories so I jumped at the chance to read it. It is defiantly meant for the younger side of the young adult category, 12/14 yr. olds max. In my estimation . That didn't stop me from getting wrapped up in the story anyways. It has some great character's & was very different from most supernatural shape-shifter themed books. One of the major differences was the types of animals the main characters in the story changed into. From rats,deer,goats,polar bears, dragons, dolphins, whales and more! With each switch you were also given insight into each creatures way of communication , travel, fears, and instincts. It was educational as well as entertaining . This can be a rarity in literature lately. There was no swearing, love triangles, steamy sex scenes. Just friendship. This was a change of pace from the current popularity of love between humans & "other" that is strictly against the rules. This was the first of a trilogy and ended with a little teaser into the next book. It snagged me. I'll be reading book 2 after I get through a heaping stack of tbr books I've made commitments to. In all this talking about the beautiful cover and age appropriate readers I haven't given you much of a review. Here's the synopsis ... Tess a 13 yr. old has the ability to "Switch" into whatever type of animal , alive, fabled, or extinct. The only catch being that she loses the ability at the age of 15 & can choose to turn into anything she wants at that point, but no longer can switch back. A boy named Kevin has spotted Tess as a fellow "Switcher" and asks her to help him on a monumental task that he's not even sure what it is. Tess is the main pov in the story and as an only child in a very well to do family, what Kevin; a scrubby, loner, with seemingly no family is a puzzle to Tess. Kevin is a year and a bit more than a half older than Tess. The streets & Switching lifestyle has made him older than his years, but not to old to be nervous to make the journey alone. Meanwhile the world is facing very unusual weather that has everyone from the government to the local meteorologist baffled. Most people & animals are heading for warmer climates that are becoming nearly impossible to find. This is where Tess & Kevin come into play. With their "Switcher" abilities they might be able to succeed where everyone else has failed. Through a network of rodents, cat collecting lonely old spinsters and each other Tess and Kevin head directly into the storm to find out what is causing what might be an ice age. The book "Switchers" had it's high points as well as a few low points that I honestly think were not flawed writing but more a bit to clean cut for my personal taste. It would be a great book for that in between age bracket that is still innocent to the more suggestive and less clean cut books I'm used to reading. It's a quick fun read meant for tweens. Look to your local book store for this trilogy and more by Kate Thompson. You'll defiantly notice them because even outside this trilogy the covers of her novels are pure art! Keep turning those pages! I'm going to include a photo of all 3 books so you can choose for yourself if the cover would grab your attention :)
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