Top Ten Tuesday

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Abigail Haas, Amanda Ashby, Anna Banks, Christopher Paolini, Debra Driza, Jessica Spotswood, Jim Butcher, Kady Cross, Matthew Reilly, Neal Shusterman, Only read 1 book authors, Top Ten Tuesday

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This Week’s Topic: Top Ten Authors I’ve Only read one book from, but I NEED to read more

1. Jim Butcher
I’ve read the first Dresden Files, and while I really enjoyed it, I haven’t got a to reading the rest yet.

2. Matthew Reilly
I’ve read Contest, and I did really like it. My mum and brother have read all his other stuff.

3. Neal Shusterman
I’ve read Unwind, and I’ve been planning to read the rest of the series for a while.

4. Jessica Spotswood
I’ve only read Born Wicked, because I haven’t found the sequels at the library yet.

5. Christopher Paolini
I’ve only read Eragon, but that’s only because I haven’t had a chance to read the rest of the series.

6. Abigail Haas
I read Dangerous Girls, and Dangerous Boys has come out recently so I’m planning on reading that.

7. Debra Driza
I haven’t gotten Renegade (Mila 2.0 #2) yet, so I’ve only read one.

8. Amanda Ashby
I read Fairy Bad Day, and I thought it was great, but I haven’t really seen anything else that I want to read by her…

9. Anna Banks
I haven’t gotten the sequel to Of Poseidon yet, so…yeah.

10. Kady Cross
I loved The Girl in the Steel Corset, so I will definitely be getting the sequels.

So, yeah. That was really hard. I tried not to include authors who only have one book published, so the list ended up being (almost) made up entirely of authors who have series where I’ve only read the first book, but am planning on reading the rest.

This Week in Books

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Anna Banks, Beth Crowley, Gayle Forman, If I Stay, Lucy Saxon, Of Poseidon, Porcelain Heart, Richelle Mead, Silver Shadows, Take Back the Skies, This Week's Adventures

Silver Shadows Book Trailer 3:

Conditioning Tape 6, came out on Tuesday:

Teaser trailer 3, online on Thursday:

Also. if this tweet gets retweeted 5000 times, we get another 2 chapters!!!

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Beth Crowley:

You can now pre-order Beth Crowley’s album ‘Porcelain Heart’ from her website.

I am SO EXCITED for this thing.

Books Read:

Of Poseidon, by Anna Banks
You can read my review of this here.

Take Back the Skies, by Lucy Saxon
You can read my review of this here.

If I Stay, by Gayle Forman
Starting this audiobook at midnight was probably not the brightest of ideas, seeing as there wasn’t a single good spot to stop listening…as a result, I finished the audio at 4:30 this morning, after spending a good deal of time crying my eyes out.

Review: Of Poseidon

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Anna Banks, Book Review, Of Poseidon

Author: Anna Banks

Synopsis: Galen is the prince of the Syrena, sent to land to find a girl he’s heard can communicate with fish. Emma is on vacation at the beach. When she runs into Galen—literally, ouch!—both teens sense a connection. But it will take several encounters, including a deadly one with a shark, for Galen to be convinced of Emma’s gifts. Now, if he can only convince Emma that she holds the key to his kingdom…

Told from both Emma and Galen’s points of view, here is a fish-out-of-water story that sparkles with intrigue, humor, and waves of romance.

How I got this book: Borrowed from Library

My Thoughts:

I’m honestly glad I didn’t read the synopsis before reading this book. The synopsis makes the book sound so lame.

This book was not lame.

Ok, true, it was a bit annoying to start with. Firstly, because I highly dislike present tense in third person. I’m also not a fan of first-person/third-person viewpoint alternation (if that makes sense…basically, the Emma chapters were first person and the Galen chapters were third person…gargh).

And secondly, my opinion of Galen (at first) can be summed up quite easily:

Eventually, Galen stopped being stalkerish, but there were still moments when I just wanted to:

That doesn’t mean I didn’t like him. By the end of the book, I was totally:

When it came to Emma and Galen.

Final Opinion:

I liked this book. It didn’t start great, but it improved enough to make up for it.

Now I’m excited for the next one.