Review: Eden's Root by Rachel Fisher

Blurb:
It is 2033, and the world hovers on the edge of explosion as unexplained crop deaths lead to severe global food shortages. In the United States, the Sickness is taking lives slowly, creeping its way into every family. Thirteen year old Fi Kelly has already faced the Sickness in her own family, toughening her at a young age. But when her dying father makes a shocking confession, Fi realizes that her toughness will be pushed to its absolute limits. Saddled with an impossible secret and the mission of saving her little sister, Fi sets out to transform herself into the warrior that she must become to survive the coming collapse. Along the way, she will discover that evil can be accidental...and that love can be intentional.

Review:
First if all i loved this book! Really wonderful read especially if you love Dystopian...which I do. At first i thought it wouldnt take long to read because its only 350 pages when i picked it up and felt the weight, then I opened it an saw the small type.... and i knew it was going to be a bit mire than I thought.....it was alot more than I thought. Which is just awesome because i loved reading it. I really felt like i took this journey with Fi and her Family. The writing was good and the characters were so strong. I fell for them all. Its heartening to see such love and compassion in a world so desolute and cold. I loved and bonded with the characters and felt their losses and their hardships. I also was up lifted by their journey and every small good thing that happened. Fi the main character felt so real. I connected to her almost instantly when things started to turn up side down. All the character s grow so much its wonderful and when its over you feel like you really know these people. Rachel has built an amazing world filled with outstanding characters. So much of it felt like something i would write myself. Like we were on the same page (pun intended). The whole idea of the world falling apart the way she described is just so feasibile to me. It makes you think .... Are we headed down that road now? Everything was well thought out and i loved knowing what more than just Fi was thinking and feeling. Had it been written in first person POV so much would have been lost. I have to say that I've fallen completely in love with this book. I laughed out loud and cried a few times. I love a book that you can feel. And i felt Eden's Root to my core....

5 out of 5 stars!!!!!

Thank you Rachel for giving me the opportunity to know these characters.

Hoping for a book 2.........;)

Look what i got today!

Thanks to Jennifer Blyth. I can't wait to read it and i love the swag!

Teaser Tuesday .....

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish memento hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading..... My Teaser ....."It feels as though the world is a giant bubble about to pop, spilling forth bees and words. I am walking lightly so as not to disturb it, all the while knowing something is very wrong with my perception." - Rhine, from Fever, (book two of The Chemical Garden Trilogy)

Happy Valentines Day -- And a little something from Lauren Oliver......

 

Happy Valentines Day Everyone!!!

Hope everyone has a wonderfully loving day!!!

And from Lauren Oliver if you are a Delirium fan you have to read this....!!!!

Click here for HANA! 

YAY Isn't she Great!!!! Enjoy guys!!

Dystopian Reading Challenge

I am signing up for this awesome reading challenge! I love dystopian! Guys you need to hope over to Dark Faerie Tales and sign up for this! I plan on reading so many dystopian books this year anyway so this is just a added bonus plus she is keeping a running list of dystopian titles on the blog and so many of them I haven't heard of. So its great and it gives me sooo many more books to read :) Just click HERE to sign up on her blog. 

Happy reading guys!!!!
 

In My Mailbox (big one)

 

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by The Story Siren. I am glad to be a part of it.

For Review:

• Eden's Root by Rachel E Fisher (Goodreads)
• Spear of Seth by Rene' Daniel (Goodreads)

 Thank you to Rachel Fisher and Rene' Daniels for these copies of their books I cant wait to read them both they look great :) 

I Bought:

• Midnighters 2 Touching Darkness by Scott Westerfeld (Goodreads)
• Extras by Scott Westerfeld (Goodreads)
• Dragon's Oath by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast (Goodreads)
• The Maze Runner by James Dashner (Goodreads)
• Evernight by Claudia Grey (Goodreads)
• The Fallen 1 by Thomas E Sniegoski (Goodreads)
• Demon Glass by Rachel Hawkins (Goodreads)
• Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick (Goodreads)

So yeah I hit the used book store and Walmart cause I just had to feed my habit :) May have went a little overboard :) Or so my husband says anyway, when he saw my receipt O.o  

Got 3 last week I forgot to post:

• Nightshade by Andrea Cremer (Goodreads)

• The Revenge of The Shadow King by Derek Benz & J.S. Lewis (Goodreads)
• Twilight Hunger by Maggie Shayne (Goodreads)

 A small used book store in the next town over, but they didn't have many YA books :( 

All Awesome books! I cant wait to read them all. Also I am beta reading a new Dystopian by a great author....more on that at another time. 

If you guys have read any of these please comment and let me know what you thought of them and which ones I should get to quickly! 

Whats in your mailbox???????

Review: Angel Evolution by David Estes

• Format: eBook
• Publisher: David Estes, Smashwords
• Genre: Young Adult
• My Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
• Buy it: Barnes and Noble, Smashwords, Amazon

Synopsis (from Goodreads):
Angel Evolution- the first book in the young adult fantasy trilogy: The Evolution Trilogy... When Taylor meets Gabriel at college, she is in awe of the subtle glow that surrounds him. No one else, not even her best friend, seems to notice. Something about him scares her. Is all as it appears? While Taylor struggles for answers, she finds herself in the middle of a century old war centered on one miraculous revelation: evolution. 

My review:
The beginning of this book actually starts at a good pace with Taylor our main character having this awful, scary dream that she has had all her life. Only now something has changed. There are new faces in this dream one seems to be good and the other seems evil.....

Taylor is looking for a four leaf clover on her college campus grounds when a mysterious guy names Gabrial approaches her and offers her (of all things)....a four leaf clover, and that isn't even the weirdest part, Taylor gets this funny feeling shes seen him somewhere. Could he be one of the figures from her dream? But which one is he the good or the evil? And how was he in her dream if she just met him?.....

This series promises to be very exciting. I liked Taylor right away, and her BFF Sam.  Gabrial keeps you guessing for a while, wondering if he is good or bad. The story takes off at a good pace but it seems a little hard to stay hooked to in the middle because for me it seemed that the wording or maybe the way the story is being told, doesn't quite flow smoothly. Never the less it doesn't really take away from the story because it is the story that hooked me. 

I liked the chemistry between a couple of the side characters but felt that there should have been a little more steamy scenes and just romance between Taylor and Gabriel. Its implied that the chemistry and romance are there but we really don't get a chance to see much of it. I am a big fan of the kissing scenes and would love to have seen (read) more tender moments between them. It seemed like the side characters had a much more passionate attraction between them then the main characters. 

That said, I still loved this book, and I could be way off, David Estes could just be hooking us in by withholding the steamy kissing scenes between Taylor and Gabrial just to keep us pining to see what happens, teasing us with the romance between the side characters (thats very sneaky of him,.... I like it). 


I love that this book is a new take on the Angel/Demon genre. I had never thought of it in terms of evolution. It definitely puts a whole new twist on things. And the good vs evil that is going on in this book is very intriguing to say the least. I won't say to much because I want this to be a spoiler free review but trust me if you are into the Angel books, this needs to be on your TBR list, like right now :P


Over all I totally fell for this book and think you guys will to because the story is so compelling. I give it 4 out of 5 stars :) I can't wait to read the second installment in the series which is already on ebook Demon Evolution, and book 3 also out on ebook Archangel Evolution. 


Thank you to David Estes for the chance to review such a wonderful book, I look forward to reading the rest of the series. You have a new fan in me. 

Book one Angel Evolution is only $0.99 on Barnes and Noble and Amazon. They are only available in ebook formats. What are you waiting for go get your copy, its only .99 cents!!!! Also a little birdie told me that David is working on a new YA Dystopian story!!! I am excited about this one because I am a HUGE Dystopian fan, and now a David Estes fan :)

I'm hooked!

 Comments,... I love comments,... just saying :)