Showing posts with label Jackson Pearce. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jackson Pearce. Show all posts

Monday, August 22, 2011

Tuesday Tomorrow

Flash and Bones by Kathy Reichs
Published by: Scribner
Publication Date: August 23rd, 2011
Format: Hardcover, 288 Pages
To Buy
The official patter:
"Just as 200,000 fans are pouring into town for Race Week, a body is found in a barrel of asphalt next to the Charlotte Motor Speedway. The next day, a NASCAR crew member comes to Temperance Brennan’s office at the Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner to share a devastating story. Twelve years earlier, Wayne Gamble’s sister, Cindi, then a high school senior and aspiring racer, disappeared along with her boyfriend, Cale Lovette. Lovette kept company with a group of right-wing extremists known as the Patriot Posse. Could the body be Cindi’s? Or Cale’s?

At the time of their disappearance, the FBI joined the investigation, only to terminate it weeks later. Was there a cover-up? As Tempe juggles multiple theories, the discovery of a strange, deadly substance in the barrel alongside the body throws everything into question. Then an employee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention goes missing during Race Week. Tempe can’t overlook the coincidence. Was this man using his lab chemicals for murder? Or is the explanation even more sinister? What other secrets lurk behind the festive veneer of Race Week?

A turbocharged story of secrets and murder unfolds in this, the fourteenth thrilling novel in Reichs’s “cleverly plotted and expertly maintained series” (The New York Times Book Review). With the smash hit Bones about to enter its seventh season and in full syndication—and her most recent novel, Spider Bones, an instant New York Times bestseller—Kathy Reichs is at the top of her game."

New Bones book, you know you can't resist... don't deny it.

Sweetly by Jackson Pearce
Published by: Little Brown
Publication Date: August 23rd, 2011
Format: Hardcover, 320 Pages
To Buy
The official patter:
"As a child, Gretchen's twin sister was taken by a witch in the woods. Ever since, Gretchen and her brother, Ansel, have felt the long branches of the witch's forest threatening to make them disappear, too.

Years later, when their stepmother casts Gretchen and Ansel out, they find themselves in sleepy Live Oak, South Carolina. They're invited to stay with Sophia Kelly, a beautiful candy maker who molds sugary magic: coveted treats that create confidence, bravery, and passion.

Life seems idyllic and Gretchen and Ansel gradually forget their haunted past-- until Gretchen meets handsome local outcast Samuel. He tells her the witch isn't gone-- it's lurking in the forest, preying on girls every year after Live Oak's infamous chocolate festival, and looking to make Gretchen it's next victim. Gretchen is determined to stop running and start fighting back. Yet the further she investigates the mystery of what the witch is and how it chooses its victims, the more she wonders who the real monster is.

Gretchen is certain of only one thing: a monster is coming, and it will never go away hungry."

Ok, so, I know I shouldn't fall for the total awesomeness of this cover, given how much I hated Sisters Red... but cover, pretty.

Skary Childrin and the Carousel of Sorrow by Katy Towell
Published by: Knopf
Publication Date: August 23rd, 2011
Format: Hardcover, 272 Pages
To Buy
The official patter:
"Twelve years ago, for 12 days straight, the town of Widowsbury suffered a terrible storm, which tore open a gate through which escaped all sorts of foul, rotten things. Strange things and strange people were no longer welcomed in Widowsbury, for one could never be sure of what secrets waited under the surface . . .

Adelaide Foss, Maggie Borland, and Beatrice Alfred are known by their classmates at Widowsbury's Madame Gertrude's School for Girls as "scary children." Unfairly targeted because of their peculiarities—Adelaide has an uncanny resemblance to a werewolf, Maggie is abnormally strong, and Beatrice claims to be able to see ghosts—the girls spend a good deal of time isolated in the school's inhospitable library facing detention. But when a number of people mysteriously begin to disappear in Widowsbury, the girls work together, along with Steffen Weller, son of the cook at Rudyard School for Boys, to find out who is behind the abductions. Will they be able to save Widowsbury from a 12-year-old curse?"

This looks intriguing...

Friday, July 16, 2010

Book Review - Jackson Pearce's Sisters Red

Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce
ARC Provided by Little Brown
Published by: Little Brown
Publication Date: June 7th, 2010
Format: Hardcover, 336 Pages
Challenge: 1st in Series
Rating: ★★
To Buy
The March sisters, so alike as if to be one heart in two bodies, lost everything the day the Fenris came. Their grandmother, their futures, and Scarlett's eye. Years later Scarlett and Rosie carry on fighting, luring the wolves and killing them till they become the dust of dark shadows. Building on the knowledge that Pa Reynolds taught them they are determined to fight, to save the ignorant flighty girls, nicknamed dragonflies by Scarlett. Pa's son Silas used to help, but he has since taken a sabbatical in San Francisco. But one day after his 21st birthday Silas returns. He's there to help, but not everything turns out as it should. Due to the rising murders in Atlanta they decide to take the fight to the Fenris, versus waiting for them on a dusty road in the hopes that they can kill enough. But in taking them to Atlanta Silas is showing that there is a greater world out there, a world where Rosie might be able to have a future away from the fight, away from her sister's scars and perhaps with Silas. With a wedge forming between them, they continue the fight. But with their red capes and mangled faces, they don't stand a chance to the lure of the dragonfly girls queuing up in front of the nightclubs. But it appears that while the March's have a plan, so do the Fenris. It's their time to claim another. A Potential Fenris would be a mighty lure for the rest. Perhaps this is the bait that Scarlett needs to win the ongoing war. But when things become personal, will any of them survive?

Sisters Red is a predictable and drawn out book which is worthy of two stars just for the basic fact it was refreshing to see evil werewolves again. I have many issues with this book, starting with who the hell wears a red cape!?! I know that this is to be a feminist, kick ass retelling of "Red Riding Hood," but please, update for the modernity that this book so obviously wanted to cram onto a traditional tale. A top, a skirt, anything! Also these wolves have to be really dumb to not spot the red cloak and wonder, that's an interesting fashion statement, but apparently they just get turned on by the red. But the thing that really got me was the use of stereotypes of femininity to lure the Fenris. They make such a big deal of basically slutting themselves up with tight clothes and perfume and swishing the cape and their hips just so I wanted to harm Jackson Pearce. There's Buffy on one end of the spectrum, kicking ass and being herself. Then on the other end, we have the March sisters, playing a disgustingly stereotypical part to kill. I really can't say why this bothered me so much, but I think that it being a Young Adult book and showing all the girls as either flighty sluts or killing machines with no in between seemed wrong. The females were one or the other, no in between, well, maybe Rosie is the in between. But it's not like she's really both. She could be, Silas is trying to show her this through outside experiences, but in the end, she's just like the rest of the non-hunters. Also, has no one learned anything with "potentials," ie, future slayers, future Fenris, equals boring. End verdict, I should have stopped reading because I saw then end long before it happened and I need to remember not to be drawn in by the pretty pretty covers. Needless to say, I won't be picking up the sequel.

Monday, June 7, 2010

Tuesday Tomorrow

The Basilisk's Lair: Nathaniel Fludd, Beastologist Book 2 by R. L. LaFevers
Published by: Houghton Mifflin
Publication Date: June 7th, 2010
Format: Hardcover, 150 Pages
To Buy
The official patter:
"Nate Fludd, Beastologist, is back in the camel saddle in hot pursuit of a missing, deadly Basilisk—the King of Serpents. As if saving an entire Dhughani village from the Basilisk’s poisonous gaze isn’t difficult enough, Nate and Aunt Phil must begin to piece together the mystery of his parents’ disappearance and protect the lone copy of the Fludd Book of Beasts from a sinister man who always seem to be one step ahead of them. Pack your goggles, rue, and an extra pair of gloves and join Nate on another unbelievable adventure—there’s no rest for the world’s youngest beastologist-in-training!"

While not as close to my heart as the first book, the pace is still kept high and I can not wait for the next installment! My review of the ARC can be found here.

Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce
Published by: Little Brown
Publication Date: June 7th, 2010
Format: Hardcover, 336 Pages
To Buy
The official patter:
"Scarlett March lives to hunt the Fenris-- the werewolves that took her eye when she was defending her sister Rosie from a brutal attack. Armed with a razor-sharp hatchet and blood-red cloak, Scarlett is an expert at luring and slaying the wolves. She's determined to protect other young girls from a grisly death, and her raging heart will not rest until every single wolf is dead.

Rosie March once felt her bond with her sister was unbreakable. Owing Scarlett her life, Rosie hunts fiercely alongside her. Now Rosie dreams of a life beyond the wolves and finds herself drawn to Silas, a young woodsman who is deadly with an ax-- but loving him means betraying her sister and has the potential to destroy all they've worked for.

Twenty-five-year-old Jackson Pearce delivers a dark, taut fairy tale with heart-pounding action, fierce sisterly love, and a romance that will leave readers breathless."

I have been uber excited for this book! In fact I just recieved an ARC in the mail before I left on my vacation so a review should be forthcoming. But how can you not like it? Look at that simply gorgeous cover! Also, I have been noticing it in bookstores already, so if you can't wait till tomorrow... maybe just pop round and see if they're early shelvers!

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