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Short Story Review : The Coldest Girl In Coldtown by Holly Black

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  • Length : 29 pages 
  • Publication Date : February 10th 2010

 Info: In her debut collection, New York Times best-selling author Holly Black returns to the world of Tithe in two darkly exquisite new tales. Then Black takes readers on a tour of a faerie market and introduces a girl poisonous to the touch and another who challenges the devil to a competitive eating match. Some of these stories have been published in anthologies such as 21 Proms, The Faery Reel, and The Restless Dead, and many have been reprinted in many Best of” anthologies.

Did you know Holly Black’s newest novel, Coldest Girl in Coldtown started off as a short story ? It was featured in a 2010 anthology called The Poison Eaters, Coldtown comes in at just under 30 pages.

While at the Beautiful Creatures book signing last month, Kami Garcia raved about Holly Black’s short story The Coldest Girl In Coldtown and how excited she was to find out that Black was writing the novel. I decided to pick it up at the library to  learn a little bit more about Coldtown.

Now, you know Black’s Curse Workers series is one of our favorite reads at Books and Sensibility and when another authors recs something,  wehave to check it out.

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Waiting On Wednesday Vol. 12

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Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill from Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating.

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Book Review : Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

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  • Release Date: June 12, 2012 
  • Genre: Fantasy/High Fantasy
  •  Pages: 358  
  • Publishers: Henry Holt and Co. (Macmillan)

Synopsis: Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee.Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life—a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Wrenched from everything she knows, Alina is whisked away to the royal court to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the mysterious Darkling.


 I heard a lot about this book in the YA blogging community and was ready to jump on the bandwagon. I really like Macmillan’s Fierce Reads novels, but Shadow and Bone was a lukewarm book for me. I could never get caught up in the story and it took me a while to really sit down and finish this one.

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The Sense List Vol. 17

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It’s back ! Books and Sensibility rounds up this weeks bookish news.

Welcome to The Sense List ! A feature on Books and Sensibility where we wrap up current YA news and events.

 

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Kat’s Bloggiesta To Do List ! Ole !

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So, this weekend is a bit busy for me with Easter dress shopping, job hunting and other things, but I still plan to do some Bloggiesta stuff !

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Book Review: Altered by Jennifer Rush

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  • Genre: Science Fiction
  • Pages: 323
  • Publisher: Little Brown, Books for Young Readers 
  • Release Date: January 1st 2013 

Synopsis: Everything about Anna’s life is a secret. Her father works for the Branch at the helm of its latest project: monitoring and administering treatments to the four genetically altered boys in the lab below their farmhouse. There’s Nick, Cas, Trev . . . and Sam, who’s stolen Anna’s heart. When the Branch decides it’s time to take the boys, Sam stages an escape, killing the agents sent to retrieve them. Now on the run, Anna soon discovers that she and Sam are connected in more ways than either of them expected. And if they’re both going to survive, they must piece together the clues of their past before the Branch catches up to them and steals it all away

Altered isn’t a book I’d usually pick up since I’m more of a contemporary/dystopian reader, but when Jennifer Rush came to a signing near me, I went ahead and bought a copy. One of the first things Jennifer said was that she writes for the boys. And it’s pretty obvious what she means by this once you get into a book.

In  the basement of Anna Mason and her father’s farmhouse, four boys suffering from amnesia are confined to glass cells. The boys are being held there by The Branch, the clandestine organization her father works for.

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