Yet more lacking of posts.

Emmy just got back from her Family reunion, and I've been in a hotel for the past week cuz the floors are getting redone in my house, and the hotel is a little hovel with no wi-fi! AHH!! Just kidding, i'll live. anyway, we'll be going on vacation together for the next two weeks, so we should have plenty of time to do book reviews and such.

Lack of posts

Sorry about the lack of posts lately, Emmy's got family stuff going on and i've been very busy at work as of late. i do however have the book review done, i just have to type it up. XP Oy.

However, one of our Fav authors... Yes, the same one i mentioned before, Ilona Andrews, has posted a collection of the lead male character's POV's From her "MAGIC" series, and it's Free on Smashwords.com I have downloaded it and look forward to reading it!

I've gotta go tho, I have work in the morning, and if i don't sleep it's gonna get ugly... real fast.

~*~The Maggie~*~

A couple of Books Read

Ok, so I finished a book called The Maze Runner by James Dashner (YA sci-fi, I think) yesterday, and I have to admit, it was good. I wasn't too sure about it in the beginning, because some of it was confusing and didn't seem like it was going anywhere. However, I liked the development of the main character, Thomas, and the world he now inhabits. At the beginning of the book, he climbs out through The Box, otherwise known as the thing that delivers new kids and supplies to the boys who live in the middle of the Maze, which is called The Glade. For some reason, there are only boys living here, but no one knows where they came from, or why they're in the Maze in the first place. All they know is they have to solve the Maze, in order to escape.

And then, only a day after Thomas arrives, a girl is sent up through The Box, carrying a startling and somewhat confusing message for the 'Gladers'. Her appearance has everyone suspicious of Thomas because this sort of thing has never happened before.

Then at one point, Thomas is shown what is out there in the Maze just waiting for them to make a mistake. They're the reason the Doors of the Glade close for the night. The Grievers are the reason that no one has ever made it after being trapped in the Maze overnight. Once stung by the Grievers, you must get the Griever Serum in order to survive. Also, in what is called "The Changing" you regain most of your lost memories. And when that happens, some kids go crazy after what the've seen. One of them goes so insane, he tries to kill Thomas because the kid saw him in a flash of memory. And, the penalty for that is Banishment, of course.Left out in the Maze after dark.

According to the last page of the book, there will be another book. And just as well. I would like to know what will happen to Thomas, seeing as it's clear he's not out of the game just yet.

A few other books I've read this past month are Hush,Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick, Carpe Corpus, Fade Out, and Kiss of Death by Rachel Caine (and they were EPIC!), Nightlight by the Narvard Harpoon, Bad Blood by Mari Mancusi, Devoured by Amanda Marrone, Gone by Lisa McMann, The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer (It was GREAT! I loved it!), Mistwood by Leah Cypess, The Call of the Mild by William Rabkin (Who writes the script for the AMAZING series PSYCH!)and Heir to Sevenwaters by Juliet Marrilier (Which was effing AMAZING!)

☼ The Emily

A bit of something i've done.

So like the header says we read a lot and write some. Well here's a bit of something i'm working on, it's about a Government Issue Assassin who has paranormal abilities, as does the rest of her Unit.

“Hey boys.”
They all said their hellos, except Beast, he just inclined his head in a gesture of recognition.
“How’ve things been going?”
“Pretty good, but things could be going better if you’d bring your sweet self over here,” said Landers with his signature southern drawl. The boys got a good laugh at that, I just smiled and shook my head, Landers was completely harmless to me, he was gay as a maypole, and apparently I was the only one that knew it, but I wasn’t going to tell, he’d get kicked from the boy’s club right quick if anyone else found out. I was part of the boys club only because I’d managed to kick their collective asses, and they respected that.

~*~The Maggie~*~

Even More Books

I finished Ilona Andrews' novella Questing Beast,(sci-fi) and it was good, and very cute. I liked the variety of creatures and although the world they were in was confusing at first, once i caught on the read was enjoyable. I especially liked the trogmots or 'fuzzies' as they were sometimes called. *mook-mook* :P I wish it had been longer though, it would have been nice to see what Ilona could have done with the world the characters inhabited. The entire thing, though wonderful, felt rushed and because of that i give it 7/10 stars.

I also read Cynthia Eden's Eternal Hunter. It was free for the kindle, so I downloaded it, and Loved It! I would classify it as Urban Fantasy/Romance(Rated R). I'd give it 10/10 stars, because it kept me entertained and i definately didn't see that twist at the end coming. Hell i didn't see half the twists the author managed to throw in coming. I don't have time to review it right now, but i will most definately write up a review and post it before the week is out.

~*~The Maggie~*~

More books

So, now that i've finished reading both Heist Society and White Cat, I'm moving on to, Sherrilyn Kenyon's Born of Night, and 2 anthologies, Unusual Suspects and Unbound. They look promising. I'm also going to upload Ilona Andrews' Questing Beast to my kindle. I'll probably finish one of them today, and i'll post a review of it later. :)

~*~ The Maggie~*~

Book Review: White Cat

In a world where the slightest brush of a fingertip can bring you the best luck of your life, or kill you instantly, it's best to handle everything with kidd gloves... Literally.

Cassel Sharpe comes from a family of highly talented curse workers. However he's the only one of his family without a talent. His mother can manipulate emotions, his grandfather deals death with the brush of a fingertip, his father, before he died, was a luck worker, as is his brother Barron, and Phillip is a knee-breaker for the head of the curse worker mafia. But Cassel has no talents, and he killed his best friend, the only girl he ever loved, Lila Zacharov, the 'mob' boss's daughter.

A few years later he begins sleepwalking again, almost throwing himself off the roof of his boarding school, where he has gone to escape his crazy family life. When his brother Phillip comes to pick him up and take him back to their childhood home, Cassel begins to notice things he never noticed before about his family. This is when he starts to realize that everything may not be how he remembers it, and maybe he isn't a killer after all.

I really enjoyed this book, although the ending isn't happily ever after, and reminded me of the feelings i got after reading Melissa Marr's Wicked Lovely, although much less distressing, I loved the book and hope Holly Black adds another book or two to the series. Cassel was a fun witty character, and i would definately enjoy reading more of his adventures.

~*~ The Maggie~*~