Release Date: May 4th 2010
Pages: 344 Pages
Audiobook: 10 hours and 8 minutes
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Genre: Contemporary
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Book Reviews
Audiobook Review : Poison Princess by Kresley Cole
- Release Date : October 2nd 2012
- Audiobook Length : 12 Hours and 36 Minutes
- Genre : Paranormal/Mystic, Post-Apocalyptic
- Publisher : Simon & Schuster Audio
- Narrators : Emma Galvin and Keith Noobs
I’ve been hoarding Audible credits for a while, and while searching for a good YA audiobook, I turned atAudible’sBest of 2012. Poison Princess was the only one on the list I wasn’t familiar with. I mean sure I’d seen the book with its business as usual brooding male/female in pretty dress Paranormal Romance cover, but I never thought much of it….
Book Review + Giveaway : Prodigy by Marie Lu (Legend #2)
Release Date: January 29th 2012
Pages: 384
Genre: Dystopian
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Synopsis: June and Day arrive in Vegas just as the unthinkable happens: the Elector Primo dies, and his son Anden takes his place. With the Republic edging closer to chaos, the two join a group of Patriot rebels eager to help Day rescue his brother and offer passage to the Colonies. They have only one request—June and Day must assassinate the new Elector.
Meeting Marie Lu and snagging Prodigy were two of my top priorities at BEA and I was so happy to accomplish both ! It’s seems so long ago, but here I am with a Prodigy review. Sequel reviews can be hard, but I promise a review that is spoiler-free for Prodigy and only slightly for Legend…
Audiobook Review: Everybody Sees The Ants by A.S. King
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Pages: 279
Audiobook hours: 7 hours 44 minutes
Genre: Contemporary/Magic Realism
Publisher: Little Brown Books For Young Readers
Lucky Linderman didn’t ask for his life. He didn’t ask his grandfather not to come home from the Vietnam War. He didn’t ask for a father who never got over it. He didn’t ask for a mother who keeps pretending their dysfunctional family is fine. And he didn’t ask to be the target of Nader McMillan’s relentless bullying, which has finally gone too far.…
Audiobook Review: Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley
Release Date: August 1st 2010
Pages: 264
Audiobook Hours: 6 hours 9 minutes
Genre: Contemporary
Publisher: Pan Macmillian Australia
It’s the end of Year 12. Lucy’s looking for Shadow, the graffiti artist everyone talks about.
His work is all over the city, but he is nowhere.
Ed, the last guy she wants to see at the moment, says he knows where to find him. He takes Lucy on an all-night search to places where Shadow’s thoughts about heartbreak and escape echo around the city walls.
But the one thing Lucy can’t see is the one thing that’s right before her eyes
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Audiobook Review: Finnikin of The Rock by Melina Marchetta
“You list the dead. You tell the stories of the past. You write about the catastrophes and the massacres. What about the living, Finnikin? Who honors them?”
― Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock
- Release Date: September 28th 2008
- Page Number: 416
- Genre: Epic Fantasy
- Publisher: Viking Australia
Synopsis: Finnikin of the Rock and his guardian, Sir Topher, have not been home to their beloved Lumatere for ten years. Not since the dark days when the royal family was murdered and the kingdom put under a terrible curse. But then Finnikin is summoned to meet Evanjalin, a young woman with an incredible claim: the heir to the throne of Lumatere, Prince Balthazar, is alive.
Evanjalin is determined to return home and she is the only one who can lead them to the heir. As they journey together, Finnikin is affected by her arrogance . . . and her hope. He begins to believe he will see his childhood friend, Prince Balthazar, again. And that their cursed people will be able to enter Lumatere and be reunited with those trapped inside. He even believes he will find his imprisoned father.
But Evanjalin is not what she seems. And the truth will test not only Finnikin’s faith in her . . . but in himself
Being an epic fantasy, Finnikin of the Rock is completely outside of the genres I usually read. I had previously seen the blog Sash and Em gushing about this book on Twitter so when I spotted the audiobook at the library I was confident I would enjoy it. The world created in this novel has so much terminology, so let’s hope I get them all right
After the assassination of the royal family and rouge uprising, in an incident known as the Unspeakable the once peaceful kingdom of Lumatere is cursed and locked away. Half the Lumaterens are trapped inside and other half scattered across the neighboring kingdoms to live as exiles; forced to survive fever, refugee camps and the bloody rage of their neighboring kingdoms.
As son of the imprisoned captain of the guard and best friend to murdered Prince Balthazar, Finnikin has always felt a certain responsibility to help lead his people to a place they can call home. Traveling with his guardian Sir Topher, they’ve spent the last 10 years since the Unspeakable trying to find a second Lumatere. When Finnikin awakes from a dream that leads him to a temple and a novice girl named Evanjilin, a new Lumatere is suddenly closer for Finnikin than he ever imagined.
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