Across the Universe (No, not the Beatles movie) by Beth Revis

paperback cover

Goodreads says:  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. 

Across the Universe is a sci-fi/dystopian that was amazing. It’s about our main girl, Amy, who joins her parents on the ship Godspeed in space to get into the future. They are cryogenically frozen for 300 years to make it to a brand new earth. One day, someone tries to murder Amy and she wakes up before the 300 years are up. Now she is stuck on the Godspeed with no idea of who anyone is, except that they all have given control to Eldest, a dictator and Elder, Eldest's heir. Elder is fascinated with Amy but he can't let that fascination get in his way if he's to become the next Eldest. Amy has to unlock Godspeed’s secrets when she wakes up to prevent more people from dying. I loved it! I do feel bad that it took me so long to get around to reading it. Elder and Amy were wicked cool, and their chemistry started off like this:


Elder: Girl with red hair, totes pretty.
Amy: what the hell is this place am stuck in?


and then it turned into:


Elder: I care for this girl. A Lot.
Amy: Hmm. I like this boy BUT considering what he tried to do... (read it, I won't say). It was pretty awesome. I also liked the whole 'in space' thing; I haven’t read many sci-fi novels in forever and AtU was definitely amazing. One thing I did not like was the very near rape-y scene when everyone was like in heat or mating (that was just... eww *shudders*)


Anyways,pick this one up! You cannot miss this debut novel!


Final Verdict: 8/10 Stars

Sea Change by Aimee Friedman

On the iPod: If You Run - The Boxer Rebellion

Goodreads says: Sixteen-year-old Miranda Merchant is great at science. . .and not so great with boys. After major drama with her boyfriend and (now ex) best friend, she's happy to spend the summer on small, mysterious Selkie Island, helping her mother sort out her late grandmother's estate.

There, Miranda finds new friends and an island with a mysterious, mystical history, presenting her with facts her logical, scientific mind can't make sense of. She also meets Leo, who challenges everything she thought she knew about boys, friendship. . .and reality.

Is Leo hiding something? Or is he something that she never could have imagined?

Sea Change is a mermaid story but with unlikely mermaids. Miranda is a levelhead 16 year old who loves science and cares less about boys and clothes (HOLY CRAP!!! SOMEONE STOP THE PRESSES!). She leaves her home of New York to meet up with her mom on Selkie Island, Georgia to a house her grandmother left to her mom. Selkie Island is a odd island with its old century charm and strange history and Miranda find herself drawn to this place she knows nothing about. Then she meets Leo, a local boy who has Miranda on a string (although he doesn’t know it). Sea Change is so, so good! I loved Miranda and Leo who had that great chemistry as well as sweet moments. Now I tend to steer clear of mermaid stories since one nearly made me want to stick my head underwater and just stay there, but Sea Change grabbed me by the collar and said, "Hey, read me. I'm a mermaid story and I guarantee you'll love me."

Yes, books do talk to me :P. No, I don't need a psychiatrist.

I thought Sea Change was a decent mermaid story, but is it just me ... or are more mermaid stories now involving some incredibly hot boy being a mermaid and a plain girl falling in love with it. (Am I right or insane?). Also the cover. Boy looks like RPattz...

Anywas the verdict: 6/10 stars.

Behind the Bookshelf: Andrea Cremer

YUSSSS!!! Today is my first installment of Behind the Bookshelf. Today we have * DRUM ROLL PLEASE* Andrea Cremer partaking in Behind the Bookshelf.

Andrea Cremer wrote Nightshade (possibly the most Awesomesauce debut book of 2011) with the sequel, Wolfsbane coming out this summer (July 26) and Bloodrose set to come out Spring 2012. Here's my interview with Andrea!

Q: Who’s your favorite team to be in? (Yanno like Team Jace or Team Simon (Mortal Instruments); Peeta or Gale? (Hunger Games) Or my personal favorite; Team Shay or Team Ren?)

Andrea Cremer :That’s tough – there are some great contenders out there! I think my favorite team of the moment is Team Nick vs. Team Alan in Sarah Rees Brennan’s Demon’s Lexicon series. I adore Nick but Alan is so intriguing!

Me: hmm, so I've heard. I guess I should read Demon's Lexicon now...

Q: What would you rather be in your books; A Keeper, A Guardian, or a Searcher?

Andrea: I’d want to be a Guardian. I love wolves and I’d love to have the ability to become one.

Me: If you could spend a day with any one of your characters, who would it be and why?

Andrea : I would spend it with Mason – he’s hilarious and sweet. He’d be a wonderful person to hang out with.

Me: Tru that.

Q: What helps you get into the writer mode? A Cup of Tea? Blasting music? Or just go with the flow on whatever is mixing in that wonderful brain of yours?

Andrea: All I need to write are coffee (black and strong!) and music. I create playlists for all my books. The right songs help transport me into the world I’m writing.

Me: What’s your favorite guilty pleasure (music, television, books, etc…)?

Andrea: Playing World of Warcraft with my husband and watching television – Supernatural, Doctor Who, and Buffy J

Me: Can you say, my new best friend? Andrea's a beast. *drools stares at Sam and Dean*

Q: How’d you get the (insanely wicked and super-schmazing) idea for the Nightshade series?

Andrea : Calla was the inspiration for Nightshade. I knew she was a girl and that she was a wolf. Creating the world of Nightshade meant inventing a wolf mythology that reflected the way I see wolves – as beautiful, intelligent and social rather than the way werewolves usually appear in popular culture.

Q: What’s your favorite word (other than schmazing,‘cause yanno look at it)?

Andrea: I have many favorite words, but one is sanguinary. It means bloody.

Alrighty, this was one spectacular interview with Andrea Cremer. Thanks a bunch to Andrea, and you readers!

If I Stay by Gayle Forman

If I Stay is a beautiful and gripping tale of love, family and the choices we all make. Mia is living an ordinary life with dreams of getting in Julliard because that girl has some serious cello playing skills. One day when she’s driving out with her family to meet family friends, they end up in a car accident. Mia then has an out of body experience as she notices her current situation, comatose, and the people who love watch over her body as they pray and hope for her to come back to them. Mia has a choice to make, if she wants to stay or if she'll leave. If I Stay is a graceful and haunting tale, having a steady pace but keeping you hooked. I absolutely freaking loved If I Stay because Mia is there but not really and you see family and friends come in and out of the hospital as they wait for Mia to emerge from her comatose state. She has a reliable best friend, Kim and awesome boyfriend Adam, who instigate possibly the coolest/craziest plan to get into Mia's hospital suite (hint: it involves a famous celebrity and that was just bomb).
If I Stay is a must read. No exceptions, just READ it.
The sequel, Where She Went is out. Now let me go find it.

My review: 8 Stars

An Idea.. That Will Now Be a Regular Thing

Alrighty, peeps so you guys know who I do interviews with authors when they can (because writing is DEMANDING) so I want to make the interviews on here unique. Myra McEntire does The Fort over at her blog, CJ Redwine has fun installment with Captain Jack/Spork of Doom and the Werellama, I'll be doing Behind the Bookshelf (since you know, my blog is called Wondeful Bookshelf of Jaz, so it's only fitting I do Behind the Bookshelf). Behind the Bookshelf is an idea that I just came up with this morning when I remembered I had sent interview questions to Andrea Cremer, author of Nightshade. So as soon as I can put the interview up (which wil be by tomorrow, I PINKY SWEAR, cause that stuff is legit), Behind the Bookshelf will be a regular thing everytime I get an interview.

Muchas gracias,
Jazmin.

10 Reasons Why You SHOULD be Reading Curse Workers series by Holly Black

So, in a previous post I've written about Holly Black and her Curseworkers series. Now, if you aren't hooked by reading the back covers, I'll give you ten reasons WHY Curse Workers series is bomb.

10) There's Magick. Not Tinkerbell magic, this is the real shiz. Everyone has some type of magick but with that comes blowback. I'll explain that next.

9) The Blowback. See when the characters in the Curse Workers use magick, there's a price to pay. It's Karma basically, let's say you're a Death Worker (kill someone with just your touch) the blowback you get is slowly dying yourself. The same goes with Luck/Memory/Dreams, if you do bad magick, you get bad blowback. It's BEAST.

8) Cons. Man, do I love a good con. I blame my friend Kelsey for involving me with Leverage (btw CONS!!!). So anyways in White Glove, there are mini cons going throughout (like Cassel being a bookie at school) and then there's the big con at the end where EVERYTHING CHANGED. I may not have the skillz to be a con-man or mobster, but I'll live it through Holly Black's series.

7) Cassel. Hot boy, like no joke. Cassel is such a messed up and flawed character but you love him BECAUSE of these flaws. He tries to convince you he's bad, but whenever he's nice to his friends/family you see that he's just misunderstood. I LOVE MISUNDERSTOOD BOYS, they always tend to be hotter...

6) The Family Business. Even though Cassel doesn't have any 'special' curse worker ability (snerk, YA RIGHT. read White Cat to see why), his family is always close (but for a totally different reason...) as they do cons/jobs together and they do it right. I wonder if I can start the Family Biz when I get older, so TIME TO BECOME A CON ARTIST.

5) The girls. Alright, before you think of me as some weird person, I gotta say Holly Black's female characters are MOXIE. They do things for the people they love (Daneca in the series, Maura in Red Glove, Lila...) and even though that sometimes goes south, they only want best for those they love (except you Lila, you better prove me wrong in Black Heart or I'll make a vodoo doll for you)

4) The Bad Girl/Bad Boy (Lila and Cassel's chemistry). So in Red Glove, these two have some nice moments until yanno somewhere near the late middle. Lila is a spoiled girl but not enough parent love (I've heard that song sung before) so she's a tad pyschotic (probably those years where she was 'dead' added to that) but you can't deny that she and Cassel have some great moments (read Red Glove for more on those moments as well as the flashbacks to when they were kids). I have the vodoo Lila doll ready just in case she does something totally unforgivable in Black Heart.

3) The Zacharov Crime Family . Man, the Mob is in here and I love that. I enjoy crime families that want to kill someone (albeit it's a character I like so...) but I just love how if you get one on your side, they're like your best friends but if there on the opposite side you better make sure you can hide REAL GOOD from them.

2) The twists Black just throws in there like she's dealing cards. That's bloody brilliant as well as how she just keeps you hooked that you have to keep reading. (I finished Red Glove in 3 hours. 3 friggin hours. I regret nothing.)

1) The covers. They ooze of mystery and intrigue and gorgeousness.

Who? Doctor Who?

Ohmygod you guys, today was the premiere of series 6 of Doctor Who. It was BOMB. The 11th Doctor always ALWAYS finds a way to make me laugh hysterically and uncontrollably such as:

"I wear a Stetson now. Stetson's are cool." I have a HUGE COWBOY obsession that started with Jensen Ackles, resurfaced with Dimitri Belikov and came back with the Doctor. Now I gotta go find me a Stetson....and a fez. I NEED A FEZ YOU GUYS!

Anyways, today's episode was chalk full of drama/action. The beginning was hilarious with the Doctor causing trouble intentionally. Amy and Rory are living their normal lives but they miss the Doctor so they basically are looking for hints of him throughout history (read: beginning = total hilarity) but then when River Song (who I aspire to be, like Nikita....), Amy/Rory and the Doctor are having a picnic things go bad. And when bad stuff happens in Doctor Who, Steven Moffat just lays on the bad. Anyways, tragic stuff passed by with Amy, River and Rory flipping out and looking for the Doctor. Yadda yah, these guys then go to the White House in 1969, to do with the space mission. (Remember, Nixon and the moon landing?) MARK SHEPPARD GUEST STARS. MARK FREAKING SHEPPARD. The man is like a one man show, he can play bad/good/and everything else. (Watch his stints on Leverage, recent Supernatural, and others). The bad guys today are horrrible disfigured aliens that make you forget them as soon as you see them but THEY LOOK SO FREAKING COOL. Alrighty, the ending has a cliffhanger. WHY MOFFAT WHY MUST YOU DO THIS TO ME?! but Amy gives a shocking revelation and silence shall fall (remember when the Doctor was trapped in the giant Pandora box?). I love Doctor Who. EMBRACE THE NERD, now excuse me while I build my own Tardis with my handy sonic screwdriver,

Lastly, I need to mention a great lady; Elisabeth Sladen. Those who don't know her, she was Sarah Jane on Doctor Who as well as having her own show The Sarah Jane Adventures (Doctor Who for kids). Today she passed away, due to cancer. Now, Elisabeth looked incredibly young for her age (around 60's) and she was possibly one of the Doctor's coolest assistants, wearing sonic lipstick (c'mon you know that's awesome). She will be missed and I am so glad that I've been watching Doctor Who since I was ten (the original ones too, word) as well as watching some Sarah Jane. I grieve for the loss for a pretty rad assistant, and I hope wherever she is, it's faraway from a Dalek and with her own Doctor.

Peace.
Jaz

RT BOOK LOVERS CONVENTION: TEEN DAY; the adventure

Hey y'all! I WAS supposed to post this yesterday but I was too tired to even move after I knocked out on the couch. Anyways yesterday was the Romantic Times Teen Day Convention and I was lucky enough to go but how I got there is a totally different story.
Here's how the day went:

7:30 a.m: i woke up, very excited. Couldn't WAIT to see my favorite authors but I wasn't changed and I was too busy huddling under my blankets for warmth.

8:00 a.m: I got up, changed and fed my pets under 10 minutes. Normally it takes 5 but I was stupid enough to wear super tight jeans. STUPID!

8:20 a.m: eat breakfast; do chores; sit around and wait.

9:20 a.m: Walk to bus stop (lovely parents didn't want to drive me. grr...)

9:30 a.m: @ Bust stop, waited there until 9:50 and then I was EXCITED. I was going to meet Authors and NOTHING COULD STOP ME. NOTHING.

10:20 a.m: Got off the WRONG STOP and sat by LAX parking for an hour. I wanted to murder someone. Lots of swearing and scared stares

10:50 a.m: called mom (she confuzzled me;actually i couldn't hear squat from my phone. stupid thing.) and then I went to Sissy and Bro (who is now WonderBro.... kinda sounds like WarnerBro... ANYWAY...)

after half an hour of talking, swearing and walking 20 feet from where I was WonderBro and Sissy decided to pick me up (FINALLY.)

11:20 a.m: On the bus where Mom called me. (insert FUDGE MUFFIN) she got mad that I was late and couldn't follow directions. Threatened to lock me in room if I got home alive (fear takes over..)

WonderBro left me at different bus stop and then I understood his directions this time. I waited on the bus forEVER until we reached the last stop. I got off and then I called Mom. Mom helped but I walked around for like half an hour until I went the opposite way I was going and found the bus to take me to the hotel where RT times was being held at. My mom was on the phone with me the entire time until I got off,

1:30 p.m: I WAS AT RT BOOK CONVENTION, FINALLY. I WAS ECSTATIC AND FULL OF EUPHORIA. I paid for my ticket and walked in. Luckily all the YA authors were in the YA Alley so all I did was fly one place to another.

Ally Carter and Holly Black were my go-to peeps when I got there. Ally's so sweet (she laughs a lot, so she was also chill) and Holly was the bomb! She referred to me as one of 'Ally's' so that's why I heard about White Cat. I got Red Glove and Only the Good Spy Young as well as getting a 'Memory Worker' wristband. Then I went to Alyson Noel and she signed a bunch of book marks for me! YAY! we talked for a bit and she's so nice and kind! I went to Jennifer Lynn Barnes, author of Raised By Wolves and she signed a small photograph of it for me, YEAH! Then I went to Jackie Morse Kessler who signed a Rage poster to me. (I loved yesterday, p.s) Then Mari Mancusi who wrote Boys that Bite series gave me a bookmark, Carrie Ryan signed my copy of Forest of Hands and Teeth, Rachel Caine (who I talked to forever!) signed my copy of Ghost Town (Morganville Vamp. series) and we kept laughing about stupid things :). I bought Never Cry Werewolf by Heather Davis and got Richelle Mead to sign two posters and Cassandra Clare signed my City of Fallen Angels and signed a poster for a friend of mine. Then i went to a speed-reading event with some authors (Rachel Caine, Heather Davis, Kady Cross, to name a few) as well as going how do you create a story with Melissa Mar, Rachel Caine, Melissa De La Cruz, and two other authors who were the bomb.( We created a story where zombies who ate limbs were downstairs in the hotel and wore pink military uniforms for breast cancer awareness and searching for the zombie chosen one. It was wicked fun.) And another story (of karaoke night gone bad in the post office) and (a were-squirrel who turned into a hot guy on the full moon and stalked you while living in your attic. That was intense.) Unfortunately my parents decided to pick me up before I could have gotten a swag bag. (DAMN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!) but all in all it was so much fun!
I also realized I can't follow directions to SAVE MY LIFE. If I am ever on a road trip with you, we're screwed (actually don't give me the map, I'll drive.)

Bye and have a good weekend!
Jaz

A List...Because I feel like it

A list of today even though I've had like 3 posts today:

1) Yesterday, I realized that it was my one year anniversary of blogging but today (of last year) would be the first day I actually made sense. So...next week I'll be holding a contest/raffle where you can win some cool prizes. YAY FOR ONE YEAR BLOGGING!!

2) Japan had another earthquake while Mexico had a 6 point on. My heart goes out to them. I hope they're all right and I really want to donate


3) Wasn't tonight's episode of Vampire Diaries FREAKING AMAZING?!I thought it was the BOMB and that triple con that a fantastic lady pulled off here was pretty damn good and well executed. VD is so good and so awesome but it makes me want to die especially with that little stunt they pulled at the end. OH NO YOU DIDN'T JULIE AND KEVIN....
This is why I'm obsessed with this show.

4) I explained the premise of Vampire Diaries to my mother. In one commercial break. She's hooked. I feel so awesome and just a bit more accomplished now

5) I AM SERIOUSLY EXCITED FOR RT BOOKLOVERS CONVENTION THIS SATURDAY. I'M A BIT HYPER.PIX AND AUTOGRAPHED BOOKS AND OH SO HAPPY!

6) I'm currently on my second revision of my book. It's so nerve racking. I'm trying to get it just right so I can query and get an agent....

7) Nikita is my current affair with tv. Those are some neat explosions they pull off. I love Nikita. Girl has got some Mad skillz. Division's armory makes me drool. Pretty weapons..... She is now my new role model (though some people are worried now... heheheh :)

8) I realize I watch way too much tv and eat sugar and caffeine and can multi-task while writing. I feel so writer-like and author. I shall refer to myself as the Author of Awesomesauce of AoA...

9) If I hear that song "Firework" one more time, I will kill it. But that one guy from Prom who talked to blondie was HOT. Like legit, I was too busy staring at him to momentarily forgot my anger.

10) My older sissy got into Lafayette! I'm so excited for her even though nine hours ago, we were trying to kill each other.

11) I realized that just over a day ago, I called myself insane and two other friends of mine agreed. My friends don't know me that well.

12) I need to go watch Hanna now, that makes me smile. Eric Bana is in there. I haven't seen him since the Hulk.
P.S I'm also a comic book nerd, so I may need to add comics to the contest giveaway.


Thanks y'all, have a good night and don't do anything you'll regret in the morning
AoA

Books that have made Young Adults read AGAIN...

Hey everyone, y'all have read/seen Pretty Little Liars by Sara Sheppard right? It's awesome that young people are reading (be it Twilight or PLL)course some parents cringe over their children reading books like Pretty Little Liars. I had read this summer of my 6th grade year going into 7th and was so shocked. Was it possible that vampire books had ceased coming in? No but Liars showed me the light (fictionally speaking, der!)

Well anyway, the magnificent author of Pretty Little Liars has made yet another Young Adult mystery novel for teens and it doesn't disappoint. The Lying Game is about Emma, a foster kid who one day finds out she's got a twin sister named Sutton. She's a dead-ringer for Emma (hehe pun...) but unfortunately she's dead. Emma then decided to go meet Sutton but is forced (indirectly) by a mysterious assailant who says she's got to keep up the charade of being Sutton unless she wants to end up 6 feet in the ground too. This is where Emma steps up in Sutton's place and realizes her win sister may have her own secrets, especially when the girls start The Lying Game again in which they commit elaborate pranks and make the poor victim feel like their in a crime. Which one of Sutton's friends could have killed her?
Could it have been a jealous Charlotte?
Or the Swan Lake Mafia, Madeline?
Maybe it was her neglected sister Laurel or the two twins eager to join the Lying Game committee. Whoever did it is a damn good actor.

Man oh man, Sara Sheppard IS GOOD. IS LIKE A GOD. She's made teenagers into killers and made them look fabulous while Emma tries to figure out which one of Sutton's 'best friends' could have killed her. She also has the story alternate between Emma and dead Sutton.
Oh Sara Sheppard you are GOOD.


P.S ABC Family has picked up the Lying Game in addition to other shows :)

I can't wait for Never Have I Ever.... can you?

Books Made of Awesomesauce and other stuff....

Hey Blogger readers, I'm Back! No silly I wasn't gone... anyways I just re-read Hex Hall AND Demonglass for like the thirtieth time since it came out. I haven't read a book since Last Sacrifice that's made me gasp, cry, laugh and want to chuck the book at the wall which wasn't since... January. But that all I changed when I got my paws on Demonglass and read it in an hour. That's right folks, an HOUR. I think I beat my other record which was finishing a book in an hour and A HALF.


SPOILER ALERT; for those who haven't read the Hex Hall series, go. Read it now.
Demonglass picked up where Hex Hall ended, as Archer was revealed to be a member of L'Occhio di Dio and Sophie goes to London to go through with the Removal, which strips you of your powers but kills you... as well as going to the Council with her father. Jenna and Cal also go with her as well as a couple new characters (coughcoughNick&Daisy).. I LOVED LOVED LOVED <3 DEMONGLASS. It had everything Hex Hall was made of plus more... like ______ and make out session and one HELL of a cliffhanger. Oh man, well played Rachel Hawkins. Well played.




Also I was lurking around Myra Mcentire's Blog and I got a glimpse of Hourglass her book coming out this summer. I need that book because it's full of awesome. Here's the summary I got off Amazon: "One hour to rewrite the past . . .

For seventeen-year-old Emerson Cole, life is about seeing what isn't there: swooning Southern Belles; soldiers long forgotten; a haunting jazz trio that vanishes in an instant. Plagued by phantoms since her parents' death, she just wants the apparitions to stop so she can be normal. She's tried everything, but the visions keep coming back.So when her well-meaning brother brings in a consultant from a secretive organization called the Hourglass, Emerson's willing to try one last cure. But meeting Michael Weaver may not only change her future, it may change her past.
Who is this dark, mysterious, sympathetic guy, barely older than Emerson herself, who seems to believe every crazy word she says? Why does an electric charge seem to run through the room whenever he's around? And why is he so insistent that he needs her help to prevent a death that never should have happened?
Full of atmosphere, mystery, and romance, Hourglass merges the very best of the paranormal and science-fiction genres in a seductive, remarkable young adult debut."

Doesn't that scream HOLY COW THIS BOOK IS THE SHIZ?!
Lastly, Doctor Who is coming back April 23rd.

APRIl TWENTY FREAKING THIRD. I CANNOT WAIT THAT LONG FOR MATT SMITH MAN. I CAN'T!
oh well, i'll go hide in a corner now and rewatch Doctor Who episodes while you admire this poster for it.

FUN FUN FUN!!!

Well no this blog post isn't gonna be fun. ALSO KEYBOARD I WILL CUT YOU IF YOU SCREW UP ONCE MORE (long story). anyways, yesterday I emailed Andrea Cremer, the lovely author of Nightshade and she'll be doing an interview with me soon so look out!
Also CJ Redwine did an interview with author with Bree Despain of the The Lost Saint and its the bomb! Go check it out. That is all! OH AND I CAN'T WAIT FOR MY RED GLOVE AND CITY OF FALLEN ANGELS TO COME!! SQUEE!!!!
Red Glove is the sequel to White Cat which I reviewed and City of Fallen Angels is the 4th book in The Mortal Instruments series!

Nightshade by Andrea Cremer

Well, keeping it to a book a post is going well. So far. Just wait, I'm gonna break it and put a hundred books in a post. Anyways, the book i just recently read was Nightshade by Andrea Cremer
(actually recently is a bit of a stretch, I read it in the middle of March and finished it in 2 days.


2 days.


Goodreads says: Calla Tor has always known her destiny: After graduating from the Mountain School, she'll be the mate of sexy alpha wolf Ren Laroche and fight with him, side by side, ruling their pack and guarding sacred sites for the Keepers. But when she violates her masters' laws by saving a beautiful human boy out for a hike, Calla begins to question her fate, her existence, and the very essence of the world she has known. By following her heart, she might lose everything- including her own life. Is forbidden love worth the ultimate sacrifice?


It's a bulky book, but by god, I wasn't going to put it down until I found out what would happen to Calla, her pack (the Nightshade pack), Ren, his pack (the Bane pack) and Shay. Calla is a guardian, a human who can turn into a wolf by will, guards the sacred sites of the Keepers and will soon be the mate of Ren Laroche. One day, Calla disobeys the Keepers law and saves human boy Shay from certain death. From then on, Calla's (somewhat) sheltered life is thrown on its side as Calla tries to figure out why the Keepers are so interested in Shay and why she's willing to risk it all for this human. Nightshade ends in a cliffhanger, leaving you waiting anxiously for Wolfsbane to come.

I absofreakinglutely LOVED Nightshade and I must have Wolfsbane. I might go crazy if I don't know what's going to happen next. Nightshade has a love triangle going on in it and I totally hate the love triangle deal unless you do it right. You manage that and I'm hooked for life. You're wondering throughout the whole book; Calla & Shay OR Calla & Ren? because yanno, she's got great moments and chemistry between both. But in all honesty, I am SO TEAM REN. REN FTW!!!!

Okay, outburst done. Go pick up Nightshade now, paperback or hardcover. I don't care, I just want you to read it and LOVE IT. LOVE IT, I Say.

Random....Writing related.... I think

I haven't blogged in forever. I was too busy going insane freaking out TOO BUSY EDITING.
This is a very bad thing but in my defense, I was busy with my book. Actually editing, to be specific. It's not fun. My main character Jules refuses to work with me so I had to send my plot bunnies (who are NOT Okay with this behavior) on her. She sassed them and proceeded to harass the other two male leads. Oh Jules, well played. Anyway this morning I woke up at an unholy time (5 a.m) to edit. And that I did, because soon after I got an idea that smacked into the back of my head and started to shout that they wanted to be written out too. I only got their names (Oliver and Simone) and the idea: (but i can't tell you.. YET) ( I blame the books I recently read...). See Oliver isn't like my other MC lead boys that are in my other book. He's a billionaire son, selfish, whines a lot and likes to drink (he's not even legal! WTF?!) while Simone is snarky, quiet and cause lots of hell, you might say she's what Jules would be if the .... nevermind I can't say anything.

see here's Simone

while this is Jules

(BEAR IN MIND; they're both stubborn and sassy. my favorite combination is a heroine)
Yup, so that's whats percolating in my head as well as the super secret one which I can't tell you but has some dirty secrets (OHLALA!)

so now that craziness has passed, who else is coming to RT Teen Day/Book Fair? Because yanno I'm going and I'll see if I can score multiple swag to give away here (for those who couldn't come) OR you can score some VIP tix here: http://rtteenday.blogspot.com/2011/04/featured-author-richelle-mead.html#comment-form . I'm also going to take pics and have captions that are like "Yo, I'm so G that I'm at the RT Times Convention," or something like that.

OH well, have fun and I'll be back tomorrow blogging about the recent books I just read that were FTW (Like Angelfire, Vesper, Paranormalcy, Demonglass, Nightshade and other stuff.)

I'm out,
J (my G name)