My Lady Jane

Title: My Lady Jane
Authors: Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows

Rating: 5 /5

Description:
The comical, fantastical, romantical, (not) entirely true story of Lady Jane Grey. In My Lady Jane, coauthors Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows have created a one-of-a-kind fantasy in the tradition of The Princess Bride, featuring a reluctant king, an even more reluctant queen, a noble steed, and only a passing resemblance to actual history—because sometimes history needs a little help.

At sixteen, Lady Jane Grey is about to be married off to a stranger and caught up in a conspiracy to rob her cousin, King Edward, of his throne. But those trifling problems aren’t for Jane to worry about. Jane is about to become the Queen of England.

My Short and Sweet Review: Well that was a really cute retelling... love the magic mixed in with royality and history! If your open to changing history and sorts this story is for you.

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This year I'll complete my book, hopefully :) #NaNoWriMo
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NG fail reads

The Following are stories I started but couldn't finish because I couldn't get into them or found out they were books in a series and I don't have books before them.

My Sweet Audrina

Name: My Sweet Audrina
Author: V.C. Andrews
Rating: 4/5

Description:
V.C. Andrews, author of the phenomenally successful Dollanganger series, has created a fascinating new cast of characters in this haunting story of love and deceit, innocence and betrayal, and the suffocating power of parental love. Audrina Adare wanted so to be as good as her sister. She knew her father could not love her as he loved her sister. Her sister was so special, so perfect -- and dead.
Now she will come face to face with the dangerous, terrifying secret that everyone knows. Everyone except...  My Sweet Audrina

My Review:
The movie followed this story pretty close tho Audrina's younger sister never existed... I like the story in the book much better. The actual V.C. Andrews books written by herself are so much better than the ones the pen writer does now... this book was soooo good! I'll be picking up the second book Whitefern just to find out what happens next even tho its the pen writer!

Halloween Frost

Title: Halloween Frost
Author: Jennifer Estep
Rating: 4/5

Description:
It’s Halloween at Mythos Academy, and Gwen Frost and her friends are ready to have a little fun. But when a mythological monster shows up, the night turns out to be more trick than treat.

My Sweet and Short Review:

This whole series is the best, love it!

Coraline

Title: Coraline
Author: Neil Gaiman
Rating: 5/5

Description:
The day after they moved in, Coraline went exploring....

In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close.

The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own.

Only it's different.

At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. The toy box is filled with wind-up angels that flutter around the bedroom, books whose pictures writhe and crawl and shimmer, little dinosaur skulls that chatter their teeth. But there's another mother, and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go.

Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. Coraline is their only hope of rescue. She will have to fight with all her wits and all the tools she can find if she is to save the lost children, her ordinary life, and herself.

My Sweet and Short Review:
This is a reread, I picked this book up over 10 years ago and it freaked me out and it still does. The book is like nothing like the movie... creepy as heck. Neil Gaiman can really tell a story and I love this one and its perfect for Halloweenie time! And the characters are colorful and enjoyable. :) Pick it up and enjoy it!

Under my Hat

Title: Under my Hat
Edited by: Jonathan Strahan

I plan to read the following from this book;

Stray Magic - Diana Peterfreund
A Handful of Ashes - Garth Nix
Little Gods - Holly Black
Felidis - Tanith Lee
Witch Work - Neil Gaiman
The Stone Witch - Isobelle Carmody
Andersen's Witch - Jane Yolen
B is for Bigfoot - Jim Butcher

Yuppers so this is soon to be read!

Angel's Dance

Title: Angel's Dance
Author: Nalini Singh
Rating: 3/5

Description:
The gentle teacher of angelic young, and the keeper of her people's histories, Jessamy is respected and admired by everyone who knows her. Yet, born unable to soar into flight, she has spent thousands of years trapped in the mountain stronghold of the Refuge, her heart encased in painful loneliness...until the arrival of Galen, warrior angel from a martial court.

Rough-edged and blunt, Galen is a weapons-master at home with violence, a stranger to the sweet words it takes to woo a woman--but he is also a man determined to claim Jessamy for his own, to dance with her through the skies denied her for so very long...even if their exhilarating passion proves as dangerous as the landscape of war and unrest that lies before them.

My Sweet & Short Review:
This short story was alright, didn't really go anywhere. Or anything. Idk what to say about it...

Me Before You

Title: Me Before You
Author: Jojo Moyes

Rating: 4/5

Description:
They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose . . .

Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life—steady boyfriend, close family—who has barely been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex–Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after an accident. Will has always lived a huge life—big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel—and now he’s pretty sure he cannot live the way he is.

Will is acerbic, moody, bossy—but Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than she expected. When she learns that Will has shocking plans of his own, she sets out to show him that life is still worth living.

A Love Story for this generation, Me Before You brings to life two people who couldn’t have less in common—a heartbreakingly romantic novel that asks, What do you do when making the person you love happy also means breaking your own heart?

My Sweet & Short Review:
A really good book, loved the characters maybe too much since the end I was crying so hard. Very heartbreaking and I don't think I can watch the movie that's for sure... read for a challenge but I think I'm glad I read it... I think... let me calm down a bit and wipe my face... *tears up*

Twilight?

Might be rereading Twilight after the fall/winter releases with a few peeps!

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NG DNF Sept Edition!

NG DNF Sept/Beginning of Oct Edition!

I'm sad to say that I have a few books from Netgalley that I DNF on... either it didn't hook me into the story and I lost least or I found out that there is more to the series and can't get the first and so on book from that series... Yup here it goes!

Book of Fire by: Michelle Kenney
C I N by: Christina Leigh Pritchard
Moonlit Waltz by: Kathleen Collins

Mask of Shadows by: Linsey Miller 

A Dangerous Engagement by: Melanie Dickerson 

So I Married a Sorcerer by: Kerrelyn Sparks 

Cherished Mercy by: Tracie Peterson 

The Proving by :Beverly Lewis 

My kindle doesn't support these files!

Disney Manga Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas by: Jun Asuka 

Disney Manga Descendants Rotten To The Core Trilogy V.2 by: Jason Muell 

Charmed: A Thousand Deaths by: Erica Schultz 

The Worst Witch

Title: The Worst Witch
Author: Jill Murphy
Rating:  4/5

Description:
Catch up on Mildred Hubble’s magical adventures at Miss Cackle’s Academy for Witches with these reissued editions featuring energetic new covers. Mildred Hubble is starting her first year at Miss Cackle’s Academy for Witches — and making a mess of it! She can’t ride her broomstick without crashing, she’s always getting her spells mixed up, and worst of all, the teacher’s pet, Ethel, has just become her sworn enemy.


My Sweet and Short Review:
Cute little story about a girl who is a witch and everywhere she goes disasters happen... but she also saves the day at the end! So the tv show on Netflix had to be based loosely on this book- the book is better but Netflix didn't ruin this classic at all... both are cute!

Cat

Title: Cat (Wildflowers #4)
Author: V.C. Andrews
Rating:  3/5

Description:
Cat has not yet shared in Dr. Marlowe's therapy group, but she has the darkest secret of all four girls and the most to lose by opening up.


My Sweet and Short Review:
This is Cathy story on why she is an Orphan with Parents and why she fits into the group of girls with similar problems as her own. Her mother shelters her from the world and make Cat even feel shameful about her body and the things she feels and her dad... well he is a big problem (which I won't tell ya in this) The girls act like what you would think girls would act talking to their psychologist and this is Cathy's day to tell the others why she is here. I gave it a 3 because I think I need a V.C. Andrews break- a lot of the ghostwriter's writing style and plots are the same now a days! So there ya go- first week is done YAY!