Summer Songs (11)

It's summer again so we'll be presenting some fun summer feeling songs. Songs that'll get your hips and feet moving!

So here we go,

The first in the summer season is....


Ships In The Night by Mat Kearney

Happy Listening Everybody!

Review: The Intruders

The Intruders (Visitors Trilogy #1) by Logan Rutherford
Publication Date: April 6th 2012                     
Genre: YA Science Fiction
Pages: 250
Goodreads

Summary


The White House has been engulfed by the shadow of a mysterious ship. Days go by, and the Visitors make no contact, until one day, they leave. Suddenly the Earth goes still. Billions of people disappear at once. There’s no trace as to where that vast population has gone.

Seventeen-year-old Charlie Freeman and his cousin Alex, are two of the few left behind. While fighting for survival they join a girl named Sarah on her journey to Washington D.C. to rescue her little brother. The path they walk is riddled with the horrors, and strange creatures. They must overcome great obstacles before ending their treacherous journey.

 

 

Omg, this was such an entertaining read for me and I thank Logan, the author, for sending me a copy. :)

This is an action packed novel that'll keep you on your toes.

 

In the beginning we get to see the normal life of trouble maker Charlie Freeman before the Visitor's come. We get to meet his parents and their daily lives , the father Principal of Charlie's high school and the mother an author. I just adore the mother when the Visitor's come, it's so funny! 

 

However, the Visitor's come in no time. Hovering above The White House doing nothing Charlie and his families life turns upside down. His aunt and cousin come down from D.C just to get away but in the end there is no place safe for anyone.....anyone human that is.

 

The Visitor's were creepy to the t. Their look, the way they acted, and the way they become one with a human. It was creeptastic. Especially this one scene very far into the book. Let's just say it makes you think over the whole book and then it'll just blow your mind because of what really is going on. It's a favorite scene of mine and I still can't stop thinking about it.

 

But, besides the non-stop action and the very exciting plot line, I did have a little problem with this book. Editing and a little over description, oh and if there is only two people in the scene- say the main character and another- I don't need the other guys name repeated over again. For example, I don't need to see this a few times- Alex said. Just say he said instead cause I got it the first time.

 

Now the edits were either miss spelled words, sentences not making any sense or two words that needed to switch places in a line. And the over description, say the main character is walking to a pond, well I don't need to be told over and over again in the sentences to come after the first one telling me he's walking to a pond.   

 

Though, it might seem this book as a lot of edit issues, it really doesn't. They're spread out in the book so it won't bug you too much. Plus with this great story being told you'll forget about them.

 

Overall, with these amazing charters, creepy aliens, and fun dialog you'll be hooked and day dreaming about the second one, The Enemy. Which I can not wait for it to come out. I want to know more about the characters, mainly Rae, I want to know what she's hiding. And I want to see where Logan takes this. Plus, I enjoyed this book so much more because it had me thinking about my own alien book and I loved it for that. 

 

I most definitely recommend & thanks again Logan. :)

 

 

Happy Reading Everybody!



 

 

 

Teaser Tuesday (27)

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by MizB from Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read.
• Open to a random page.
• Share (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page.--BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS. Make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away. You don't want to ruin the book for others.
• Share the title & author, so others can add to their TBR list if they like your teasers.

Our Teasers This Week. . .

NOTE TO SELF: when fighting hand-to-hand with rubber-skeletoned aliens - which some of these evidently were - remember that thing Sir Isaac Newton said about every action being met with an equal and opposite reaction.

-from page 67, Watch the Skies

Review: TimeRiders

TimeRiders (TineRiders #1) by Alex Scarrow
Publication Date: January 2010
Genre: YA Science Fiction
Pages: 405

Summary

Liam O'Connor should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026. Yet moments before death, someone mysteriously appeared and said, 'Take my hand ...'

But Liam, Maddy and Sal aren't rescued. They are recruited by an agency that no one knows exists, with only one purpose - to fix broken history. B...moreLiam O'Connor should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026. Yet moments before death, someone mysteriously appeared and said, 'Take my hand ...'

But Liam, Maddy and Sal aren't rescued. They are recruited by an agency that no one knows exists, with only one purpose - to fix broken history. Because time travel is here, and there are those who would go back in time and change the past. That's why the TimeRiders exist: to protect us. To stop time travel from destroying the world...

The book was really good. I loved the plot and characters. But even a good book like this has it's flaws.

 

She noticed something in its face. Intelligence. Perhaps a long faded memory stirring behind those milky boiled-fish eyes. This thing was human, or at least it had once been human, she was sure of that.

 

In this world, in the year 2044 the first time machine was invented. The government eventually banned them for reasons that were explained, but would be hard to describe in the review. But, did that stop people from trying to invent them? Of course not. So this agency secretly made their own machines and set up teams, the TimeRiders, through out history to make sure no one would go back and changed it. Pretty much the police of time traveling.

 

So that's pretty much what the TimeRiders are. The team that are featured are stationed in 2001 New York, the Monday before and the Tuesday of 9/11. The team members are Foster, who is the team leader and trainer, Maddy, the leader-in-training and team analyst, Sal, the team observer, Liam, the operative, and Bob, the support unit. And Bob is pretty much a meat puppet with a computer brain.

 

 

You don't learn that much about any of them. There wasn't a lot of character development, which I didn't like. I wanted to know more about their lives back in their own time, especially Sal because she was from the year 2026. You see the moments before Liam and Maddy are supposed to die, but other then that you only get stuff like Sal had both her parents and Maddy was kinda a geek. Other than wanting them to be more developed, the characters were great. I liked their personalities, and they were characters i could get behind.

 

The bad guy was Paul Kramer, a scientist from 2066. He goes back in time to WWII to help the Germans to win. He does this because, in his mind, it would have been better. He is just crazy enough to try it and just sane enough to be able to do it. So, although he starts off having good intentions, he ends about blowing up a nuclear bomb.

 

The plot was great. There wasn't any point when I had no idea what was going on. Though there were a few times when I wasn't sure if they were in 1956 or 1957. The writing was pretty good, but I didn't always now who was talking.

 

 

All in all, I loved the book. I could get behind the characters. The plot was cool, and I couldn't help but wish I could time travel with them. But, who hasn't wanted to time travel at least once in their life. Anyway, I completely recommend the book and I can't wait to read the next one.

Review: Just One Wish

Just One Wish by Janette Rallison
Publication Date: March 5th 2009
Genre: YA Contemporary
Pages: 272
Goodreads

Summary

Seventeen-year-old Annika Truman knows about the power of positive thinking. With a little brother who has cancer, it's all she ever hears about. And in order to help Jeremy, she will go to the ends of the earth (or at least as far as Hollywood) to help him believe he can survive his upcoming surgery.

But Annika's plan to convince Jeremy that a magic genie will grant him any wish throws her a curveball when he unexpectedly wishes that his television idol would visit him. Annika suddenly finds herself in the desperate predicament of getting access to a hunky star actor and convincing him to come home with her. Piece of cake, right?

Janette Rallison's proven talent for laugh-out-loud humor, teen romance, and deep-hearted storytelling shines in a novel that will have readers laughing and crying at the same time.

I choose this book because I was hoping for a pick me up kind of book. And doesn't this plot sound like a good pick me up. I bet you guys can already feel the but coming, huh?

But it wasn't a majorly powerful pick me up kind of book. Yes, I had laughs even laugh out loud moments, but it didn't completely lift my spirits up. It was a nice little read but it didn't fill this certain craving. 

Annika was a fun, strong willed character that was put through the ultimate test- her little 6 year old brother getting cancer. I loved everything she did just so she could make him happy. Starting with the opening scene. That's when you knew this book had some humor in it.

The stunts she did all just to get the guy whom plays Robin Hood in her brothers favorite TV show were fun. The snake, the nuns costume, and the trailer jumping.....yeah, actually jumping from one trailer roof to another, was so much fun to read. Laugh out loud moment right there!     

However, I felt that in some areas were maybe a little rushed....just maybe. This plot takes place in only a couple to three days. So you know you're going from one silly stunt to the next. But when it came to the romance between Annika and Robin Hood (for god sake, I can't totally remember his name.) Anyways, I felt in some parts of the book she got to distracted by his good looks. Which is fine, being attracted to someone, but sometimes I felt she thought about that in some of the wrong times.

Overall, this was an okay book. Plus when I was reading this my life was going some what upside down, at that time, so that's probably why it wasn't as great as I thought it would be. This is a fun, light hearted read that can be read by anyone.

And if you loved any of Janette's previous works then I'm sure you'll love this one too!

On My Wishlist (27)

Is a weekly book meme hosted by Cosy Books. Where we talk about the books that are currently on top of our wishlists. Old, new or yet to be released titles are all welcome.

Snow White by Brothers Grimm, Illustrator by Camille Rose Garcia

Publication Date: February 28, 2012

Genre: Fairy Tales

Pages: 80

Summary

“Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
Who’s the fairest one of all?”

Originating in seventeenth-century French folklore, the story of Snow White has long been one of the world’s most memorable childhood tales.

It is the story of an evil queen determined to do away with a girl—with skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair as black as ebony—who threatens the queen’s quest to remain the most beautiful in her kingdom. This new gift edition presents the unabridged version of the Grimms’ tale, with an original interpretation by renowned artist Camille Rose Garcia that artfully combines wit and dark romance.

We all know the story of Snow White. But I simply want this because of the amazing illustration. Though, of course I would read it too, haha ^_^

Right, right....Gorgeous!!!!!!!!!

Happy Reading Everybody!

Day of the Predator (TimeRiders #2) by Alex Scarrow

Publication Date: August 5, 2010

Genre: YA Science Fiction

Pages: 448

Summary

Liam O’Connor should have died at sea in 1912.
Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010.
Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2029.

But all three have been given a second chance—to work for an agency that no-one knows exists. Its purpose—to prevent time travel destroying history . . .

When Maddy mistakenly opens a time window where and when she shouldn’t have, Liam is marooned sixty-five million years ago in the hunting ground of a deadly—and until now—undiscovered species of predator.

Can Liam make contact with Maddy and Sal before he’s torn to pieces by dinosaurs—and without endangering history so much that the world is overtaken by a terrifying new reality?

I know I am still reading the first one, but unless the ending really, and I mean really, sucks, I'm gonna want to read this one, too.

Teaser Tuesday (26)

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by MizB from Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read.
• Open to a random page.
• Share (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page.--BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS. Make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away. You don't want to ruin the book for others.
• Share the title & author, so others can add to their TBR list if they like your teasers.

Our Teasers This Week. . .

I threw it in drive and slammed on the accelerator. The tires spun, before gaining traction, and propelled us forward.

-from page 69, The Intruders by Logan Rutherford

Some small voice inside tried to reassure him that at least he was alive instead of being crushed and rotting fish-food at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. It did little to cheer him.

=from page 187, TimeRiders