Teaser Tuesday is a Meme hosted by Mizb @ Should Be Reading. Anyone can join in, as long as they do the following:
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Cinder: Book One in the Lunar Chronicles
by Marissa Meyer Release Date: 3rd January 2012 Publisher: Penguin Pages: 387 "Her brow drew together, questioning, but he didn't elaborate. His fingers, light as breath, brushed her elbow. He craned his head. Cinder couldn't move, barely managing to wet her lips as her eyes slipped shut. Pain exploded in her head. Raced down her spine" pg 230
Release Date: 27th May 2004
Publisher: Baker and Taylor Format: eBook
Pages: 224 Rating: 5.0/5.0
This book was read as part of the 2012 OTS Challenge and 2012 ATS Challenge
Summary from Amazon:
"A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the
remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian
who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist
whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's
passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two
lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Niffenegger's
cinematic storytelling that makes the novel's unconventional chronology
so vibrantly triumphant.
An enchanting debut and a spellbinding
tale of fate and belief in the bonds of love, The Time Traveler's Wife
is destined to captivate readers for years to come."
Review:
First off, I have to say that I am so, so sorry that it took me so long to get around to writing this review. And while this review won't be long, I think I'll be able to get across what I need to say.
All I'm going to say is this - this has to be one of the best romance novels I've ever read. Not only do you have this once-in-a-lifetime love depicted, which is written really well, but you also have a bit of the supernatural thrown in, with Henry being able to time-travel. This one extra aspect makes this novel unlike any other romances.
This is a complex story about love, life and loss. It can be a bit hard to get into because of the time traveling - I found it a bit hard at the beginning to figure out the ages, what with the time traveling, and exactly which Henry was in each scene. But once you figure it out, this book is a piece of cake to read, and could quite possibly be one of the best romance novels you ever read.
Teaser Tuesday is a Meme hosted by Mizb @ Should Be Reading. Anyone can join in, as long as they do the following:
Grab your current read.
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The Time Traveler's Wifeby Audrey Niffenegger Release Date: 1st October 2004 Publisher: Vintage Pages: 318
"It seems like such a small thing to ask. Continuity. Surely if there is a God, he wants us to be good, and it would be unreasonable to expect anyone to be good without incentives, and Clare is very, very good, and she even believes in God - I open my eyes. All the tiny porcelain fixtures have iridescent auras, and I resign myself to going, there's no stopping now, and I am shaking, 'No!' but I'm gone"
Release Date: 9th August 2011
Publisher: Random House Format: Paperback
Pages: 448 Rating: 5.0/5.0
This book was read as part of the 2012 OTS Challenge and 2012 ATS Challenge
Summary from Amazon:
"Jazz . . . Booze . . . Boys . . . It’s a dangerous combination.
Every
girl wants what she can’t have. Seventeen-year-old Gloria Carmody wants
the flapper lifestyle—and the bobbed hair, cigarettes, and music-filled
nights that go with it. Now that she’s engaged to Sebastian Grey, scion
of one of Chicago’s most powerful families, Gloria’s party days are
over before they’ve even begun . . . or are they?
Clara Knowles,
Gloria’s goody-two-shoes cousin, has arrived to make sure the
high-society wedding comes off without a hitch—but Clara isn’t as
lily-white as she appears. Seems she has some dirty little secrets of
her own that she’ll do anything to keep hidden. . . .
Lorraine
Dyer, Gloria’s social-climbing best friend, is tired of living in
Gloria’s shadow. When Lorraine’s envy spills over into desperate spite,
no one is safe. And someone’s going to be very sorry. . . ."
Review:
This book reminded me a lot of Anna Godbersen's books - her latest series is also set in the flapper era, also centered on the lives of three young women. But, I think that I enjoyed this book slightly more (only slightly, though). I can't really place my finger on what exactly I enjoyed more about this book, but I think it might have something to do with the inter-racial relationship depicted between Gloria and Jerome - something that would have been so scandalous back in the 1920's was really interesting to read about.
I enjoyed reading about all three of the girls. Gloria's story was interesting because of her relationships, Clara's was interesting because of her deepest, darkest secret (that actually shocked me a little when it was revealed), and Lorraine's, well, Lorraine is one of those characters where you just think to yourself "Oh Lorraine, why, why, why?"
Vixen isn't a book that will plunge you deep into thought, nor will it tug at your heartstrings - its just a good, fun read. There were a couple of basic editing mistakes that I picked up on, but besides that, there wasn't really anything that I disliked about the book. If you don't usually read young adult fiction, let alone read at all; or maybe you don't usually read historical fiction, I would recommend this book as a book to try, to expand your horizons a bit - I don't doubt that you'll enjoy it.
Teaser Tuesday is a Meme hosted by Mizb @ Should Be Reading. Anyone can join in, as long as they do the following:
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Vixen (The Flappers)by Jillian Larkin Release Date: 9th August 2011 Publisher: Random House Pages: 448
"At first she thought it was Bastian who'd hit her. But as she recovered from the shock of it, holding her smarting cheek, she met Gloria's boiling eyes
All at once, the world around her - the roaring crowd and the blinding, dizzying stage lights; the myusic that was now blaring - didn't matter. All Lorraine could see was Gloria, whose face said: You betrayed me, you ruined my life, you destroyed everything" Pg 245
by Marissa Meyer
by Audrey Niffenegger - it is so amazingly good!
by Michael Scott 
by Jillian Larkin {review 
by David Nicholls
