Teaser Tuesdays

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

Grab your current read
Open to a random page
Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My Teaser::

1) Grace told me it was stupid of me to paint the same thing twice. She said his eyes are too close together in both of them, anyway.

2) Both were of a man kissing a woman’s neck, poses identical but colors radically different.

Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link to your own Teaser Tuesdays post, or share your 2 ‘teasers’ in a comment here (if you don’t have a blog). Thanks!

Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

Title: Shiver

Author: Maggie Stiefvater

Series: Wolves of Mercy Falls: Book 1

Pages: 390

Published: August 1st 2009

Rating: 5/5

Description:
For years, Grace has w

atched the wolves in the woods behind her house.
One yellow-eyed wolf--her wolf--is a chilling presence she can't seem to live without.
Meanwhile, Sam has lived two lives: In winter, the frozen woods, the protection of the pack, and the silent company of a fearless girl.
In summer, a few precious months of being human . . . until the cold makes him shift back again.
Now, Grace meets a yellow-eyed boy whose familiarity takes her breath away.
It's her wolf.
It has to be.
But as winter nears, Sam must fight to stay hum

an--or risk losing himself, and Grace, forever.

My Review:

Plot in under 10:
Girl gets attacked by werewolves then falls for one.

*smiles* I just…I just…LOVED this book. Five stars for sure! I loved Sam and Grace. Most of the time I don’t like one of the main characters for some reason or another, but I was in love with them both from the start.

The characters wooed me, but the story captivated me. Great plot development and killer suspense throughout. Shiver is a completely new take on werewolves that was fresh and riviting.

I feel like there is so much I could say about the awesomeness that is Shiver, but my mind is a big mush of happy incoherent thoughts. Seriously if you haven’t read this one, it’s a must.

My Rating:

You'd Like This Book if You Liked:

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer,  Iron Fey by Julie Kagawa or Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause

Swoon by Nina Milkin

Title: Swoon

Author: Nina Milkin

Genre: Young Adult

Pages: 421

Published: May 19th 2009

Rating: 1/5

Sin is coming... Prepare to Swoon. Torn from her native New York City and dumped in the land of cookie-cutter preps, Candice is resigned to accept her posh, dull fate. Nothing ever happens in Swoon, Connecticut...until Dice's perfect, privileged cousin Penelope nearly dies in a fall from an old tree, and her spirit intertwines with that of a ghost. His name? Sinclair Youngblood Powers. His mission? Revenge. And while Pen is oblivious to the possession, Dice is all too aware of Sin. She's intensely drawn to him—but not at all crazy about the havoc he's wreaking. Determined to exorcise the demon, Dice accidentally sets Sin loose, gives him flesh, makes him formidable. Now she must destroy an even more potent—and irresistible—adversary, before the whole town succumbs to Sin's will. Only trouble is, she's in love with him. What do you do when the boy of your dreams is too bad to be true?

My Review:

Plot in under 10:
Psychic falls for a ghost who’s an ass.

I was not impressed. I’m a girl who always likes to finish a book she’s started, so even after the plot got frustrating I pushed through thinking maybe it will redeem itself. I thought that it was going to, started to hope…and then in the last couple pages it crashed and burned. This might be someone else's cup of tea but it certainly isn't mine.

For some other opinions on Swoon check out these reviews:

Down the Rabbit Hole 4/5 Review here

Bibliophilic Book Blog 1/5 Review here

My Rating: 1/5

A Quick Review of 2 books

Reading: Lover Enshrined / An Insider's Guide 

Author: J.R. Ward

Series: Black Dagger Brotherhood

Alright so I just finished Lover Enshrined, the 6^th book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. I finished books 4 and 5 since my last post, and am currently about halfway through the Insider’s Guide. I have book 7 but seeing as how the guide was released first I thought I’d go in order.

Lover Enshrined definitely wasn’t my favorite of the series. Phury kind of pisses me off with his martyrdom so I found it hard to connect with the story. But I discovered I really like Qhuinn, his dialogue with Blay is hilarious and I really like his character.

I’m liking the Insiders guide so far. There’s a short story called “Father Mine” to start it off. It’s about Z coming to terms with being a dad and all that entails. I loved that little story, very cute. Ward interviews each of the characters and gives deleted scenes and all sorts of goodies. 

*note*

After reading the rest of the guide I give it two thumbs up. I've read a few "guides" and this one is on the top of my list.

Lover Revealed - 5/5

Title: Lover Revealed
Author: J. R. Ward
Series: Black Dagger Brotherhood, #4
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Page Count: Mass Market Paperback, 480 pages
Published in 2007 by Onyx
Rating: 5/5

In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there's a deadly war raging between vampires and their slayers. And there exists a secret band of brothers like no other - six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. Now, an ally of the Black Dagger Brotherhood will face the challenge of his life and the evil of the ages. Butch O'Neal is a fighter by nature. A hard living, ex-homicide cop, he's the only human ever to be allowed in the inner circle of the Black Dagger Brotherhood. And he wants to go even deeper into the vampire world- to engage in the turf war with the lessers. He's got nothing to lose. His heart belongs to a female vampire, an aristocratic beauty who's way out of his league. If he can't have her, then at least he can fight side by side with the Brothers... Fate curses him with the very thing he wants. When Butch sacrifices himself to save a civilian vampire from the slayers, he falls prey to the darkest force in the war. Left for dead, found by a miracle, the Brotherhood calls on Marissa to bring him back, though even her love may not be enough to save him...

My Review

My first review for this series is for Lover Revealed, the forth book in The Black Dagger Brotherhood series by J. R. Ward. I got the series rec through a friend on Shelfari. I am loving them. They are a little more steamy then what I'm used to, but I'm loving them all the same. I love the YA genre, but I kind of got weary of buying books in the teen section at the bookstore and wanted to give PR a chance. Boy, am I glad I did!

If you haven't heard of the series, it's about a "brotherhood" of warrior vampires charged with protecting their race from their enemy species the Lessers (undead vamp-slayers). The vamps in Ward's world don't feed from people to survive; they are just a different species.

I like the twist of having the slayers being the villains. And man are they villains! Ward has created truly unlikeable antagonists without an ounce of redeeming qualities to them.

The brothers are totally badass - alpha males to the extreme. I'm not a fan of long hair or facial tattoos but I'm totally smitten with all of the tough males and their quirks. There's lots of action - both violence and lemons - keeping me hooked to the final page.

In Lover Revealed the story revolves around Butch, one of the human characters in the series. As in the previous three books, it gives the back-story of the character and develops his relationship with his mate (soul mate). Where, of course, crazy fights, torture and trouble ensue. This one is an awesome book in the series. Butch is in love with Marissa, Marissa's in love with Butch, but there's no chosen for her to feed from, and there's something very wrong with Butch. Will they be able to overcome all of the obstacles, and are they meant too? Gripping and fast-paced, it's a definite must read in the Brotherhood series.

My Rating: 5/5

Other Books in This Series

1 - Dark Lover
2 - Lover Eternal
3 - Lover Awakened
4 - Lover Revealed
5 - Lover Unbound
6 - Lover Enshrined
7 - Lover Avenged
8 - Lover Mine
9 - Lover Unleashed
10 - Lover Reborn

Links 4 More

Author Website: here
Add to Shelfari: here
Add to Goodreads: here
Buy from BookDepository (free shipping): here

Very First Post

So as of now, this post will be to no-one because it's brand new and I'm still trying to figure this thing out. I've never written a blog before but I've read lots so I thought I'd give it a whirl.

I'm pretty much making this post to figure out my formatting. If you're actually reading this, Hi thanks for dropping by! Hopefully you'll come back when I have something interesting to write about :)