Rise of the Guardians: Hidden Truth & Other Stories

Book Name: Rise of the Guardians: Hidden Truth & Other Stories
Author: Ben Lichius
Pub Date: 11.13.2012
Rating: 4 Stars

Book Description:
North. Bunnymund. Sandman. Tooth Fairy. They are the make-believe characters that populate the imagination of children the world over. But young Jamie believes otherwise. They're all real, and he's been collecting the "evidence" to prove it! When Jamie's friend, Toby, comes over to spend the night, he finds Jamie's "Weird Stuff" scrapbook full of copious notes and samples about unexplained phenomenon, and the talk turns to Jamie's stories of near-miss encounters. It soon becomes evident, however, that Toby has a pretty amazing story of his own to tell. Based on the upcoming Dreamworks Animation blockbuster film "Rise of the Guardians", this prequel tells the story of Jamie's budding interest in the "Guardians of Childhood" ...and the encounters that shape his fascination!

My Review: This comic was a cute prequel for the movie in which I still need to see :( And also makes me love Jack Frost even more. The first story is about Jamie and getting proof about these characters of myth. And it showed that Jack Frost doesn't only play jokes on people but cares for mortals. I give this 4 stars, and hope you guys will check out this lovely little comic!

Grimms Fairy Tales : The Library

Name: Grimms Fairy Tales : The Library
Author: Joe Brusha
Rating: 3 Stars

DESCRIPTION: Grimm Fairy Tales presents an all new miniseries that explores an alternate reality of the Grimm Universe. When fourteen year old Sela Mathers discovers an ancient magic book in a condemned library her and her younger brother cast a spell that unlocks the amazing worlds and characters from the books and novels around them. Hercules, Robin Hood and Pecos Bill all come magically to life. But heroes aren't the only characters in stories. Villains too are affected by the magic spell and soon the children find themselves in a race against time to reverse the spell as evil characters from all of literature threaten to take over the world. Their only chance lies with the heroes they've brought to life. But even that may not be enough to stop the Frankenstein, Baba Yaga and the Wicked Witch of the West!

REVIEW: First I would have to say that Sela doesn't look to be 14 years old at all. Second the story plot was pretty good but rushed thru-out the whole thing. Maybe it should be made into a book and not be a comic. Not sure. Tho I loved the Heroes and everything- but they were gone too soon for me. Robin Hood was my fav. but hey. Whatever. So I give this comic 3 stars just because I could finish it and I love Myths.

Cardboard

Name: Cardboard
Author: Doug TenNapel
Rating: 5 stars and a fav.

Have you always wanted a new toy but didn't have the money for it? Well in this graphic novel is about a young kid and his father. And they are in a tough spot and the father is trying to find a present for his friendly son. So he is stopped by this guy on his way from home and buys this cardboard box. The guy says that he must return the cardboard he doesn't use and also he can't ask for more- that are the rules.  So during the night him and his son make this cardboard boxer guy. And he comes alive, the father makes the guy mow the yawn and stuff. But the kids that hangout notice and evenutally take a machine the dad makes that makes more cardboard. Lots of adventure- this graphic novel was amazing... I loved it. And I won't say anything else about it!

Winter's Bone (Movie Review)

Synopsis:
17-year-old Ree Dolly's father is absent and her mother suffers from severe depression, so she alone struggles to provide for their poverty-stricken family in the rural Ozarks. When Ree learns that her father has put their house up as collateral for his bail bond and then disappeared, she sets out to find him before the court seizes their property and turns their family out into the woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and risking her life, Ree sorts through the lies, evasions and threats of her relatives and begins to piece together the truth. 17-year-old Ree Dolly's father is absent and her mother suffers from severe depression, so she alone struggles to provide for their poverty-stricken family

Review:
This movie was different then my normal movies I watch, tho I watched it because I'm a huge fan of Jennifer. She is such a good actress :). A few scenes grossed me out but telling ya about them will ruin the movie- which is a pretty good movie. Just going to say the Ozarks area is a bit like the mafia or something like that. Alright so I give this movie 3 stars- not the worse but not her best! :) not her fault its the movie!

Warm Bodies

Title: Warm Bodies
Author: Isaac Marion

Book Description: R is a young man with an existential crisis - he is a zombie. He shuffles through an America destroyed by war, social collapse, and the mindless hunger of his undead comrades, but he craves something else something more than blood and brains. He can speak just a few grunted syllables, but his inner life is deep, full of wonder and longing. He has no memories, no identity and no pulse but he has dreams.
After experiencing a teenage boy's memories while consuming his brain, R makes an unexpected choice that begins a tense, awkward, and strangely sweet relationship with the victim's human girlfriend. Julie is a blast of color in the dreary and gray landscape that surrounds R. His decision to protect her has transform not only R but also his fellow Dead and perhaps their whole lifeless world.
Scary, funny, and surprisingly poignant, Warm Bodies is about being alive, being dead, and the blurry line in between.

My Review:  I totally adorned this book, at first before the movie came out I didn't want to read this. I was like another twilight ewwww what are they going to do give zombies glittery skin too. But after finishing this book in practically one night I can say that I enjoyed every word printed in this book. The relationship between R and Perry is strange. To where R starts to like like him a bit... like Perry was haunting R to protect Julie. And the relationship between the zombies and Julie was great. And I was glad that the romance wasn't to thick in this book- and the story was just perfect. I'm looking forward to more from Isaac Marion... hopefully soon!

Rating: 5 ★ and a ♥ 

A Shimmer of Angels

Title: A Shimmer of Angels
By: Lisa M Basso

Rating:  ★ ★ ★

A Shimmer of Angels is about a girl (Rayna) who before the books starts was put into a mental hospital for seeing people with wings. Her father and sister plus herself moved from Arizona and now its been months since she seen the wings but one day she is walking to school and she sees them again. which causes her to think she is crazy but she doesn't want to go back. She hides this fact in a notebook after a student commints sucide. Which Ray finds the body- but it doesn't stop at just one. People around her are killing themselves. But not only that but a fellow student turns out being an angel and also at her job there is a another but he is different. This book is a girl meets angel, can't be with that angel. Meets fallen angel is scared of him. Battles baddie with both angel and fallen type of book. It was pretty good but a bit over done lately for my liking. I'll give it 3 stars for at least having a pretty good ending.

Reviewed for Netgalley

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Crimson Frost by Jennifer Estep

 

This is the 4th book of the Frost series. Its about a girl Gwen Frost and her battle with the evil god Loki. Gwen herself is a Gypsy and has the power of touch. With one touch from her she will know your deepest secrets or even kill a guy. So this book starts with a wonderful date with the hunky Logan. What she doesn't know is that this date will turn life threatening for her and I'm not talking about from the Reapers who serve the god Loki but by the 'good guys'. They take her away because they think she is the one that released Loki from his prison- that she is a reaper (which being Nike's Champion is plain stupid to think). The students at Mythos hate her with a passion, threaten her, hurt her with cans and sorted things. I won't say anymore about the plot but wow. I loved this book, well I knew I would love it since the last book made me cry at the death of the fenir wolf who protected Gwen. And I love the relationship between Vic (her sword) and Nyx (the fenir pup). And as these books finish I find myself falling in love more and more with Logan :) But who isn't. This book mixes myths almost perfectly and I can't wait for the next book... Midnight Frost.

 

I give this book 5 stars and a heart (LOVE IT)

 

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Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

 

My name is Juliette and my touch can kill. This book takes place after the world is failing us, the world to her is dead as she is forced to live in a prison where you hear people scream at night and the chilled air haunts you at night. Juliette is placed there by The Reestablishment after helping a little boy, she didn't know she was going to kill in the process. Her parents let them take her. Was she a monster... She wondered if she was sane or even alive as she was left alone in the cell. But then they threw in a roommate. A boy, Adam. This boy Juliette knows from her past, and even with her scared to touch him- she falls in love with him even after everything turns chaos. They take her out of her cell and Warren tries to turn her into a weapon. She can not turn herself into the monster she fears she can be... Alright thats enough spoiling of the book... read it- it's really good I swear!

 

I give this book 5 stars

 

Well my Feb MADIOS BOTMS are done... off to read Netgalley and BuddyReads now :)

 

 

                   

Eloisa's Fairy Tales: Book 2 &3



When Beauty Tamed the Beast
by: Eloisa James

Miss Linnet Berry Thrynne is a Beauty . . . Naturally, she's betrothed to a Beast.
Piers Yelverton, Earl of Marchant, lives in a castle in Wales where, it is rumored, his bad temper flays everyone he crosses. And rumor also has it that a wound has left the earl immune to the charms of any woman. Linnet is not just any woman. She is more than merely lovely: her wit and charm brought a prince to his knees. She estimates the earl will fall madly in love—in just two weeks. Yet Linnet has no idea of the danger posed to her own heart by a man who may never love her in return. If she decides to be very wicked indeed . . . what price will she pay for taming his wild heart?

Description from Shelfari

http://www.shelfari.com/books/16042952/When-Beauty-Tamed-the-Beast

 

 

This is my first book reading by this author and I was very shocked in that I loved it as much as I have but I did. Linnet had beauty and attitude and wasn't afriad of the Beast of a man Piers. She stood her ground and fought for her right to be herself although at times failing but not giving up. At the end Piers tells her why he is such a Beast of a person and she starts melting that ice wall he puts up. But at the end of the story its the Beast who has to melt the walls of Beauty's heart after a terrible thing happens.

 

I gave this story 5 stars, and so will you!

 



The Duke is Mine

by: Eloisa James

 

 

 

He is a duke in search of a perfect bride.
She is a lady - but a long way from perfect.

Tarquin, the powerful Duke of Sconce, knows perfectly well that the decorous and fashionably slender Georgiana Lytton will make him a proper duchess. So why can’t he stop thinking about her twin sister, the curvy, headstrong, and altogether unconventional Olivia? Not only is Olivia betrothed to another man, but their improper, albeit intoxicating, flirtation makes her unsuitability all the more clear.
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Determined to make a perfect match, he methodically cuts Olivia from his thoughts, allowing logic and duty to triumph over passion…Until, in his darkest hour, Tarquin begins to question whether perfection has anything to do with love.
To win Olivia's hand he would have to give up all the beliefs he holds most dear, and surrender heart, body and soul…
Unless it’s already too late.

 

Description from Shelfari

http://www.shelfari.com/books/17513625/The-Duke-Is-Mine

 

The Hunt is on for a Duke the Lytton's parents trained their daughters to grab the best of the best so that the family would be taking care for. But the plan fails when Olivia is the oldest and doesn't want to study to be a proper lady. She just wants to be herself- although her younger twin sister has the making and attitude for it. Olivia gets engaged to a man she likes as a friend but he rushes to war to make something of himself. See this man well he isn't all there. He leaves his dog with Olivia to care for. All in all this book was slow at the begining but thankfully it started to move when the girls finally got to the Duke of Sconce's place. Where Tarquin practically falls in love with Olivia but though the book they hide their love from each other since Olivia is promised to another man. She doesn't want to betray him, or her sister. But by the end of the book and a few turn of events they get together and end up marrying. Good book 4 stars... for the slowness.

The Winter Child

The Winter Child
by: Cameron Dokey

A Retelling of "The Snow Queen" Free-spirited Grace and serious Kai are the best of friends. They grew up together listening to magical tales spun by Kai's grandmother and sharing in each other's secrets. But when they turn sixteen and Kai declares his love for Grace, everything changes. Grace yearns for freedom and slowly begins to push Kai -- and their friendship -- away. Dejected Kai dreams of a dazzling Snow Queen, who entices him to leave home and wander to faraway lands. When Grace discovers Kai is gone, she learns how much she has lost and sets out on a mystical journey to find Kai...and discover herself.

Description from Shelfari

 

At first when I got this book I thought I wasn't going to get into the story but low and behold I read through it like a knife slicing into melting butter which is ironic since this story is about the Snow Queen. This book is about a girl (Grace) that turns down an easy life and true love for the unknown- for adventure. She wants to run away from the town and the comfort of the people there after her grandma dies. Next thing she knows Kai is spirited away by the Snow Queen. And she must leave most behind to find him... to get him back.  I really enjoyed this book and will try some of the others in this series of retelling fairytale stories but for now I have a few stack of books to catch up here on. And currently I joined the Netgalley so I'll have more to review. For this book I gave it 4 stars. 

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The Iron Fey Series:

I read the first book sometime ago. But this month I've the whole series even the Lost Prince. This series is written by Julie Kagawa which is now one of my fav authors out there- so lets get the reviews going...

So I'm still needing to read Summer's Crossing and another short story but I got most of it. The Iron Fey is about the journey of the Half-blood Meghan, Ash the Ice Prince, and Puck the Summer Fey.

In Winter's Passage after defeating the Iron King and returning her brother Ethan. She must go with Ash to the Winter Kingdom and talk with his mother Mab. So they head there but something in the darkness is hunting them down. I won't give away it- all these books you must read!

The Iron Daughter and Queen. They tell the story of the Meghan and Ash escaping the Winter Kingdom and battling the fake new Iron King. Which ends with Meghan and Ash exiled from Nevernever only to be bought back to defeat the fake and make Meghan the new ruler- which leads Ash unable to be with her which he can't have since they both fallen over heels with each other.

The Iron Knight is told by Ash, its his story of him trying to get a soul, and the journey and heartache that follows. With Puck and a certain cat, wolf, and a surprise they head to the end of the world where Ash will sample what it is to be human first- it scares him and thrills him... But he gets it and returns to Meghan's side to be her Knight. The only thing is that Ash isn't completely fae or human by this time.

 

I'm waiting for this to come to me from the library so I can read the last two short stories...

 

 

The Lost Prince was by far maybe my fav out of the series... this one is about Ethan who was left in the human world by his sister (the queen of the Iron Fae) but he has the sight. So he can see fae and thru the years the fae drive him nuts and end up ruining his life till he meets Kenzie and Todd. Ethan before that made sure that people wouldn't like him so he was an ass and he never wanted to deal with those faes that took his sister away from him. So he ends up in nevernever where he must battle a old race of faes and he ends up liking Kenzie alot. Also a surprise is waiting for him there too... I won't spoil it anymore... go read it!

Yuppers

Hello my name is Fyrekatz and this is my character in Minecraft.

Now I playing Technic- Its way too addicted!

 

OMG walking dead kicks butt!

 

Vampire Kisses

Soon to come, sorry if I am not up to date with reviews... I'm working on it!