We're an Open Book
BEA 2012 was our first BEA and you can read about our experienceshere and here. It was definitely an experience and after a lot of debating we’ve decided to do BEA 2013 ! It’s a big financial and time commitment but we only do this once a year so we figured why not ? Here are some tips we picked up from last year:
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I have to say, doing this week’s TTT has me seeing all the new covers of some of my old favorites.
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“Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy.”
― Victoria Schwab, The Archived
- Genre: Supernatural
- Pages: 328
- Publisher: Hyperion
- Release Date: January 22nd 2013
Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books.
Each body has a story to tell, a life seen in pictures that only Librarians can read. The dead are called Histories, and the vast realm in which they rest is the Archive.
Da first brought Mackenzie Bishop here four years ago, when she was twelve years old, frightened but determined to prove herself. Now Da is dead, and Mac has grown into what he once was, a ruthless Keeper, tasked with stopping often—violent Histories from waking up and getting out. Because of her job, she lies to the people she loves, and she knows fear for what it is: a useful tool for staying alive.
Inspired by Dr. Who and a performance to “Gravity” by Sara Barielles on So You Think You Can Dance, I was peaked by this book’s inspirations before I even knew the plot. I was a bit concerned about how it would all come together but, The Archived is an amazing speculative fiction novel, with a story all its own.
The Archive itself is a hidden place where the Histories of the dead are stored in unconscious bodies. When a History wakes and tries to escape the Archive, it’s the job of 16-year-old Mackenzie Bishop to find and return them. It’s a job she excels at until her little brother dies and her family moves to The Coronado, an old hotel renovated into apartments. Suddenly, things are beginning to go wrong in the Archive and Mackenzie is sure it has something to do with The Coronado’s past.
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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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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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Cover Reveal
Roman Holiday by Ashelyn Poston
I am so happy to be doing this cover reveal today ! I met Ashelyn briefly at BEA last year, while resting my feet from all the standing. She wrote her blog down on a folded Post-it and afterwards I started following her writing journey on her blog, read some of her Wattpad and now here I am with the cover reveal for her debut novel, Roman Holiday. I love the pop of pink and the intense eye action on the cover !
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