Book Review: Untamed by P.C Cast & Kristin Cast

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Life sucks when your friends are pissed at you. Just ask Zoey Redbird — she’s become an expert on suckiness. In one week she has gone from having three boyfriends to having none, and from having a close group of friends who trusted and supported her, to being an outcast. Speaking of friends, the only two Zoey has left are undead and unMarked. And Neferet has declared war on humans, which Zoey knows in her heart is wrong. But will anyone listen to her? Zoey’s adventures at vampyre finishing school take a wild and dangerous turn as loyalties are tested, shocking true intentions come to light, and an ancient evil is awakened.



This is another one of my oppsy forgot to write the review when I finished it books. But I am making good, and keeping my own personal challenge of writing reviews on all of my books I read this year by doing it now.

Untamed is another Chapter in the House of Night series. And what a good Chapter it is. Once again poor Zoey finds herself in the middle of a lot of things. Not the least of which is being with no boyfriends, having everyone angry at her. And did she mention that her mentor has declared war on humans? Not something taken lightly in a vampire world that lives peacefully with humans. Because humans are well aware of vampires.

Once again the Cast’s have found a way to pull us into a world of Vampires and Humans and to make it believable that they co exist and do so without much trouble. There are some conflicts of course especially with the religious zealots the People of Faith. But the parallels aren’t so far away with some things in the real world. So I can do nothing but once again recommend this book series for anyone who likes the genre. So if you haven’t started the series yet do so now, and make sure you get to this one fast. It is a great read.


Saturday Sanctuary #4

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The Saturday Sanctuary will be a Weekly Writing Post. I will ask something or give a topic. Sometimes it will be short, sometimes it might be longer. The idea is just to write! So others can read. I thought it would be a great idea for a Book Blog to do something about writing. We are bloggers after all so we must have some enjoyment of writing too! So hop on in and Join the Saturday Sanctuary, grab our link and our picture and post your replies here. Make sure you visit others blogs out there and leave comments. Mostly have fun.

What season inspires you?

I have to say I am inspired most by spring. It is a time when your coming out of the cold winter (very cold winter here) and everything is new. When in the fall the 40’s is a low temperature in the spring its warm! In the spring you feel refreshed and invigorated to feel the cool breezes against your cheeks.

I always feel something stir inside when I hear the birds outside the window in the spring. When the first rainstorms come and wash away the grit and dirt of the winter seasons and leave everything smelling sweet and fresh.

If I were the kind giving to fits of running around the yard singing, (okay sometimes I do) I would run around singing the hills are alive with the sound of music in the spring. But more often than not what I end up doing is putting on something snuggly taking up a book and going outside and enjoying the promise of another good season.

Booking Through Thursday – Turkey Day

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It’s Thanksgiving in the U.S.A. today, so I know at least some of you are going to be as busy with turkey and family as I will be, so this week’s question is a simple one:

What books and authors are you particularly thankful for this year?

I am thankful for all of my books. I love the fact that no matter how many books I read I will never read them all. That said I am praticularly thankful for the Charline Harris series, P.C Cast and Kristin Cast and Tasha Alexander. Just to name a few. Happy Thanksgiving.

Grand Opening- Giveaway @ Lady Ambrosia’s Creations

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It is Grand Opening Time. At my new Design Website. Lady Ambrosia’s Creations And I am going to be giving away a COMPLETE Blog Makeover design to the Winner of this giveaway. This is going to be a surprise Mega Makeover that is not even currently listed (but will be) as a choice for purchase.
Don’t leave your comments here head over to Lady Ambrosia’s and Leave them there!

This Giveaway will Start Thanksgiving 11/26/2009 and will Run through 12/10/2009 so get signed up!!

It will include:
2 or 3 column design
Header design with image (yours, or scrapbook or both!)
Custom Signature with image (or without your choice)
fancy background with multiple layers (if you choose)
matching favicon
Unlimited Sidebar Images Fancy or simple your choice.
Post Divider
Net Working Buttons
Matching Custom Grab Button
Installation
Any other goodie’s we can make that you want on your blog!

This Custom Blog Design giveaway is limited to Blogspot users.

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6. Head to Fire & Ice and Follow me there – 1 entry
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Wicked Wednesday #15

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Wicked Wednesday a place to be wicked to other book readers and make them get those TBR piles growing. The concept is simple. Pick a book or two and tell s about them. If its one you read tell us what you liked. If its one you found tell us about that to. Than leave a comment to let us know where to find your Wicked Wednesday titles. Make sure to link back in your posts for other people to follow Wicked Wednesday.

Gore Vidal, one of the master stylists of American literature and one of the most acute observers of American life and history, turns his immense literary and historiographic talent to a portrait of the formidable trio of George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. In Fathers of the Republic, Vidal transports the reader into the minds, the living rooms (and bedrooms), the convention halls, and the salons of Washington, Jefferson, Adams, and others. We come to know these men, through Vidal’s splendid and percipient prose, in ways we have not up to now-their opinions of each other, their worries about money, their concerns about creating a viable democracy. Vidal brings them to life at the key moments of decision in the birthing of our nation. He also illuminates the force and weight of the documents they wrote, the speeches they delivered, and the institutions of government by which we still live. More than two centuries later, America is still largely governed by the ideas championed by this triumvirate.

Blogversery Soon

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So my blogversery on this blog, or should I say on the re-launch of this blog is coming in 26 days. And I am going to be doing some giveaways in honor of the blogversery. I will host some here and host some on my other blog just to get some re-readership there as well. Just what is she giving away they ask? Oh you shall see what I gather up.

But I can promise you my reader friends that ONE item for sure will be to help a new project I am launching. Lady Ambrosia’s Creations will be opening after thanksgiving! What is that you ask? Well first it is a blog design blog. I have picked up my paint shop pro (not that I will be redoing this design I LOVE the work Sara did) and I am getting pretty darn good. I have several completed projects I have been doing for friends to get my chops going. And one has been a FULL website for a Jewelry Seller. (I am going to be trying to get her to donate a piece to a giveaway wink wink)

So keep your eyes peeled for the give always for the anniversary. And I promise I will be starting to give things away with Hatchett again. I have just been away from them trying to catch up on my own health and all that. But Have no Fear I am still affiliated.

Teaser Tuesday #28

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TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to: Grab your current read.Let the book fall open to a random page.Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!Please avoid spoilers!

Garrett felt a deep sense of emptiness after Mia left.He stood for several minutes looking at the gate through which she had passed through into garden. No doubt she was safely in the house by now. Pg. 71 A Lady of High Regard by Tracie Peterson

2010 Read from my Shelves Challenge

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Diane from the Bibliophile by the Sea is Hosting this One.

Does this sound like something you’d like to do as well??? If so, feel free to join in:

• grab the button
• decide how many books you want to read from your shelves (minimum of 20 – no maximum)

• find a new home for the books once you read them
• post the titles and the authors of books you’ve read and passed on
• project runs from January 1, 2010 through December 31, 2010
• crossover challenge books are allowed

I am setting my goal for this one at 50 books. Thats half my goal for my other challenge and perfect I think as I do give away most of my books.

4 / 50 Books. 8% done!

1. Scandal’s Bride by Stephanie Laurens
2. Tempted by P.C Cast & Kristin Cast

3. Don’t Miss your Life by Charlene Anna Baumbich

4. The Night Gardener by George Pelecanos

2010 100+ Challenge

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1. The goal is to read 100 or more books. Anyone can join. You don’t need a blog to participate.

–Non-Bloggers: Post your list of books in the comment section of the wrap-up post. To learn how to sign up without having a blog, click here.

2. Audio, Re-reads, eBooks, YA, Library books, Young Reader, Nonfiction – as long as the book has an ISBN or equivalent or can be purchased as such, the book counts.

3. No need to list your books in advance. You may select books as you go. Even if you list them now, you can change the list if needed.

4. Crossovers from other reading challenges count.

5. Challenge begins January 1st thru December, 2010. Books started before the 1st do not count.

6. When you sign up under Mr. Linky, put the direct link to your post where your books will be listed. Include the URL to this post so that other viewers can find this fun challenge. If you’d prefer to put your list in the sidebar of your blog, please leave your viewers the link to the sign up page. Again, so viewers can join the challenge too.

13 / 100 books. 13% done!

My Goal for this Challenge will be the same as my Challenge will be for PBS. 100 Books in one year.

1. Scandal’s Bride by Stephanie Laurens

2. Tempted by P.C Cast & Kristin Cast

3. Don’t Miss your Life! by Charlene Ann Baumbich

4. The Night Gardener by George Pelecanos

5. Unmasked by Author: Janet Dailey, Jennifer Blake, Elizabeth Gage
6. Big Girls Don’t Cry by Author: Donna Hill, Brenda Jackson, Monica Jackson, Francis Ray 7. The Culture of Excess by J.R Slosar
8. Gordon Ramsay The Biography by Neil Simpson
9. Thanks for the Memories by Cecelia Ahern
10. Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee
11. The Teahouse Fire by Ellis Avery
12. Plain Pursuit by Beth Wiseman
13. Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay

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