Kiss of Midnight - Lara Adrian

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Here is finally my review for Kiss of Midnight by Lara Adrian. Enjoy!

Short description

He watches her from across the crowded dance club, a sensual black-haired stranger who stirs Gabrielle Maxwell’s deepest fantasies. But nothing about this night—or this man—is what it seems. For when Gabrielle witnesses a murder outside the club, reality shifts into something dark and deadly. In that shattering instant she is thrust into a realm she never knew existed—a realm where vampires stalk the shadows and a blood war is set to ignite.

Lucan Thorne despises the violence carried out by his lawless brethren. A vampire himself, Lucan is a Breed warrior, sworn to protect his kind—and the unwitting humans existing alongside them—from the mounting threat of the Rogues. Lucan cannot risk binding himself to a mortal woman, but when Gabrielle is targeted by his enemies, he has no choice but to bring her into the dark underworld he commands.

Here, in the arms of the Breed’s formidable leader, Gabrielle will confront an extraordinary destiny of danger, seduction, and the darkest pleasures of all. . . .

My opinion

Midnight is definitely a book that shed another light on vampirism.  In this books they still burn when in sunlight, but the way new vampires are created is different than I have read in most books. Also these vampires don’t come from the earth, so in a way they are vampires and aliens how cool is that! And this is what made the book so refreshing, because the story on itself was not very special. Like in every vampire book that I have ever read there are good and bad vampires. And of course the good ones are fighting the bad ones.  But what made this book really different from the other vampire books was that this book was way more sexual/sensual than the others. So this isn't a book  for very young readers.
But all in all was it a book that was well written and it did read easily away. Definitely going to read the next one.

Stars

Kiss of Midnight:****

Extra

Author: Lara Adrian

Publisher: Dell

Publishing Date: May 1st 2007

Other books in this serie:

• Kiss of Crimson (Midnight Breed #2)
• Midnight Awakening (Midnight Breed #3)
• Midnight Rising (Midnight Breed #4)
• Veil of Midnight (Midnight Breed #5)
• Ashes of Midnight (Midnight Breed #6)
• Shades of Midnight (Midnight Breed #7)
• Taken by Midnight (Midnight Breed #8)
• Deeper Than Midnight (Midnight Breed #9)
• A Taste of Midnigt (Midnight Breed #9.5)
• Dark After Midnight (Midnight Breed #10)
• Edge of Dawn (Midnight Breed #11) (publishing date February 26th 2013)

See you later xx
El

Night School - C.J. Daugherty

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Here's my review for Night School by C.J. Daugherty.

Short desription:

Allie's world is falling apart...

She hates her school. Her brother has run away. And she's just been arrested.

Again.

Now her parents are sending her away to a boarding school where she doesn't know a soul.

But instead of hating her new school, Allie finds she's happy there. She's making friends. And then there's Sylvain, a suave French student who openly flirts with her. And Carter, the brooding loner who seems to have her back.

Soon, though, Allie discovers Cimmeria Academy is no ordinary school. Nothing there is as it seems. And her new friends are hiding dangerous secrets.

My opinion

When I read the short description of this book I didn’t know what I could expect. And the storyline turned out to be completely different than I expected. When I found out about the mystery of the school I was surprised in a good way. And I definitely want to read the next book to find out more about it. Of course there were also some point about the book that I didn’t like. When we first met Allie in the book she was trouble. But the moment she enters Cimmeria Academy  she is suddenly the good girl. She doesn’t do anything wrong, good points, good behavior… . So I missed the character from the first chapter. And then you have the two boys: Sylvain and Carter. They are each other’s opposites. Sylvain is charming, nice, sweet, popular, rich and has a lovely French accent. Carter on the other is a loner, rude, poor… but when you really get to know him you see that he’s completely different than you first thought. Some other point that I hope will improve in the next book is that some side characters will have more show time in the book. They are interesting but they didn’t have enough space in the book to tell their story.But still it was a good page-turner that I only can recommend to everyone.

Stars:

Night School: ****

Extra:

Author: C.J. DaughteryNight School #2: Legacy (release date January 17th 2013)

See you later xx

El

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El

Between - Jessica Warman

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Here is my review for between that I wrote I while ago. I just hadn't the time to upload it, but here it is finaly.

Short description
Elizabeth Valchar-pretty, popular, and perfect-wakes up the morning after her eighteenth birthday party on her family's yacht, where she'd been celebrating with her six closest friends. A persistent thumping noise has roused her. When she goes to investigate, what she finds will change everything she thought she knew about her life, her friends, and everything in between. As Liz begins to unravel the circumstances surrounding her birthday night, she will find that no one around her, least of all Liz herself, was perfect-or innocent. Critically acclaimed author Jessica Warman brings readers along on a roller-coaster ride of a mystery, one that is also a heartbreaking character study, a touching romance, and ultimately a hopeful tale of redemption, love, and letting go.

My opinion

Looking at your own dead body, that isn’t something that you would ever thought possible. But it happened to Liz… on her 18^th birthday.

From then on the story was very intriguing. Why did she die? And most of all why is there only one person who can she her. A boy who died a year ago through a hit and run accident. While Liz tries to find back her memories the story develops in unexpected ways. True some plotlines were predictable, but other events I had never seen coming. The characters to developed during the book. In the beginning Liz seemed shallow and a bitch, but in the end she won a place in my heart. And it was the same with all the other characters. The story only got better with every page I turned.

So Between was a very good story with a well-developed plotline and well worked out characters. Definitely a must read for anyone who likes reading YA with a bit of mystery.

Stars
Between: ****

Extra:
Author: Jessica Warman

See you later xx
El

Stacking the Shelves #2

Showcase Sunday's aim is to showcase our newest books or book related swag and to see what everyone else received for review, borrowed from libraries, bought in bookshops and downloaded onto eReaders this week. This Sunday meme is hosted by Books, Biscuits and Tea.

Received for review:

        

1. Model Spy (The Specialists #1) - Shannon Greenland
2. A schimmer of Angels (Angel Sight #1) - Lissa M. Basso
3. Elemental: The First (Primord Series #1) - Alexandra May
4. The Panem Companion - V. Arrow

Wich books did you get this week?

See you later xx
El

Darkest Powers Trilogy - Kelley Armstrong

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Here's my review for Darkest Powers Trilogy by Kelley Armstrong.

Short description

My name is Chloe Saunders and my life will never be the same again.

All I wanted was to make friends, meet boys, and keep on being ordinary. I don't even know what that means anymore. It all started on the day that I saw my first ghost - and the ghost saw me.

Now there are ghosts everywhere and they won't leave me alone. To top it all off, I somehow got myself locked up in Lyle House, a "special home" for troubled teens. Yet the home isn't what it seems. Don't tell anyone, but I think there might be more to my housemates than meets the eye. The question is, whose side are they on? it's up to me to figure out the dangerous secrets behind Lyle House...before its skeletons come back to haunt me


My opinion

What can I say? I loved this books. Most of the time I don’t like it when the characters are only fifteen or younger (seventeen is the perfect age for me). Because most of the time fifteen year olds are still immature and it can annoy me like hell. But not this time, I really like Chloe as a character. Also the plot was well worked out, I can’t recall a moment that I wanted to put down this books! But at the end of the third book there were still some loose ends. Did the author do this on purpose? Id don’t know. And then the characters, like I already have said, I liked Chloe. She’s hones, funny, sometimes a bit naïve (but who isn’t), forgiving and very loyal to her friends and family. Tory is as spoiled as hell, but still at the end of the books I liked her. I think she grew on me during the books. And then you have the brothers Derek and Simon. Simon is the sweet one, the cute one, the funny one… in short the perfect boy. Derek on the other hand is dark, mysterious and most of the time cynical. Still if I could choose between the two of them, I would choose  him. He just has something more that Simon misses.
So if you are looking for something to read and you haven’t read this books yet than you should  definitely give them a try.

Stars

The Summoning: ****

The Awakening: ****

The Reckoning: *****

See you later xx

El

  

Read in November

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First of all I want to explain why I'm posting so little these days. I'm going to college and in December the semester ends, so everyone is giving us a lot of assignments. On top of that my days are very long, so at the end of the day I'm exhausted. So that's why I read and blog so little these days. But in February (I know it's 2 months) I will be back completely and in the mean time I will try to post as much as I can.

And now the real thing: the books I've read in November!

The Summoning (Darkest Powers #1) - Kelley Armstrong
The Awekening (Darkest Powers  #2) - Kelley Armstrong
The Reckoning (Darkest Powers #3) - Kelley Armstrong
Nightfall (The Vampire Diaries: The Return #1) - L.J. Smith
Onyx (Lux #2) - Jennifer Armentrout
A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle #1) - Libba Bray

The review for Darkest Powers is comming, I hope to post him this week.
Which books have you read this month?

See you later xx
El