Top 5 Sundays # 67 - Most Awaited Books of 2012!

 

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  This week’s results:

Most Awaited Books of 2012! = 16 (88%)

Best To Be Released Covers So Far! = 2 (11%)

 

The theme for today is:

Most Awaited Books of 2012!

 

But first, a little bit about this feature and the rules to join in…

Every Sunday I will post a TOP 5 list on the blog. It can be about anything and every week I'll have a new theme {You can vote on next week’s theme on my left sidebar!} and I will ad the Mr.Linky bellow the post so you can do a list with the theme and add you link to it.

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5. If you don’t have a blog to post, just leave your list in the comments =)

This week’s theme is Most Awaited Books of 2012!

*in no particular order

Alien Diplomacy 

Katherine “Kitty” Katt Series by Gini Koch

 Out on April 3rd, 2012!

  Striking cover! This series can do NO wrong! =D

 

Timeless

Parasol Protectorate Series by Gail Carriger

 Out on March 1st, 2012!

After the ending of Heartless, I cannot wait for this one!

   

Lethal Rider 

Lords of Deliverance Series by Larissa Ione

 

 Out on June 1st, 2012!

Awesome cover! This series is fantastic!

 

Thirteen 

World of Lupi Series by Eileen Wilks

 Out on July 5th, 2012!

  Final chapter in this fantastic series!

I cannot wait!

 

Before I Wake 

Soul Screamers Series by Rachel Vincent

 Out on June 22nd, 2012!

After “If I Die”, I just want wait to get my hands on this one!

Team Tod FTW!

 

Special Mentions:

 

 

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Series Review: Darkest Powers Trilogy by Kelley Armstrong

 

After years of frequent moves following her mother’s death, Chloe Saunders’s life is finally settling down. She is attending art school, pursuing her dreams of becoming a director, making friends, meeting boys. Her biggest concern is that she’s not developing as fast as her friends are. But when puberty does hit, it brings more than hormone surges. Chloe starts seeing ghosts–everywhere, demanding her attention. After she suffers a breakdown, her devoted aunt Lauren gets her into a highly recommended group home.
At first, Lyle House seems a pretty okay place, except for Chloe’s small problem of fearing she might be facing a lifetime of mental illness. But as she gradually gets to know the other kids at the home–charming Simon and his ominous, unsmiling brother Derek, obnoxious Tori, and Rae, who has a “thing” for fire–Chloe begins to realize that there is something that binds them all together, and it isn’t your usual “problem kid” behaviour. And together they discover that Lyle House is not your usual group home either…

From Goodreads {Blurb from the first book in the series: “The Summoning”}

• Publisher: Harperteen
• Release Date of Book #1: July 1st, 2008
• Release Date of Book #3: April 6th, 2010  
• My Copy: eBooks/Hardcover | Bought.
• Series: Darkest Powers Trilogy 
• Genre: Paranormal Y.A. 
• Author's Website
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The Summoning | The Awakening | The Reckoning

*SPOILER FREE

I am I huge fan of Kelley Armstrong’s Otherworld series and when she came out with an Y.A. series set in the same world I was completely psyched and I am happy to say that I wasn’t disappointed!

For Chloe growing up means more than what it would for any other teenager. Strange things are happening and she finds herself sent to a private institution where she doesn’t feels safe, at all and where she finally finds out secrets from her past that she’d rather hadn’t come to surface.

The Darkest Powers trilogy is a perfect example of how awesome the Paranormal Y.A. genre can be. Great heroine, interesting side characters, heinous villains and a love triangle that makes you want to pull your hair out but that also makes your heart bleed and beat faster, all at the same time.

If you love Paranormal Y.A. novels this is definitely a series that you should check it out! I promise you won’t be disappointed!

 

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Top 5 {11?} Sundays #34 – Fave Paranormal Y.A. Series!

Hello Everyone!!! Sunday is here and it’s time for another Top 5! YAY!

This week’s results:

Fave Paranormal Y.A. Series! = 11 (52%)

Fave Character Names! = 10 (47%)

 

The theme for today is:

Fave Paranormal Y.A. Series!

 

But first, a little bit about this feature and the rules to join in…

Every Sunday I will post a TOP 5 list on the blog. It can be about anything and every week I'll have a new theme {You can vote on next week’s theme on my left sidebar!} and I will ad the Mr.Linky bellow the post so you can do a list with the theme and add you link to it.

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4. After you've finished your post, add you link (of the post, not your blog's main page) to the Mr.Linky at the end of that week's post.
5. If you don’t have a blog to post, just leave your list in the comments =)

This week’s theme is Fave Paranormal Y.A. Series!

Ok guys, so I cheated on my list today and I came up with 11 picks {I LOVE the number 11}… but I divided into two categories with 5 picks each and one special mention.

The categories are series that have ended and series that are still going on =)

*in no particular order

Still Going On Series:

 

Mortal Instruments Series

This was one series I honestly thought was over, but thankfully we’re getting 3 more books!

It’s such a great series with a lot of action, a great and scary villain, not to mention an awesome hero and heroin!

 

Curse Workers Series

 

This is a recent one to me, but it’s such a great one!

It’s an out of the box world with a very uncommon hero that you can’t help but love.

 

Morganville Vampires Series

 

Amazing series that i hope never ends hehe!

 

Iron Fey Series 

Even me not being a huge Fey fan, this series captured my heart and The Iron Knight can’t come soon enough.

 

Soul Screamers Series

 

A great series that doesn’t follow the norm when it comes to paranormal world or the path the characters are taking. Awesome!

 

Finished Series:

 

Secret Circle Trilogy

Vampire Diaries is NOT my favorite LJ Smith series, at all! She has amazing ones and The Secret Circle is definitely one of them!

 

Darkest Powers Trilogy

I know, I know, there is going to be another YA trilogy in the same world, but this story with these characters as protagonists is over and it was an amazing ride!

 

Dark Visions Trilogy

My favorite LJ Smith series!!! This is such an awesome trilogy!

If you haven’t read this one, you so totally should!

 

Harry Potter Series

 

Do I need to say more? Like, seriously?

 

Vampire Academy  Series 

Such great books, with such incredibly strong and heartbreaking characters!

Richelle Mead can do NO wrong!

 

Special Mention:

 

Nightworld Series 

I Love this series, but the final and 10th book was supposed to have been released over 10 years ago =( 

 

 

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Review: Waking The Witch {Women of The Otherworld, #11} by Kelley Armstrong

 

 

 

 

 

“The orphaned daughter of a sorcerer and a half-demon, Savannah is a terrifyingly powerful young witch who has never been able to resist the chance to throw her magical weight around. But at 21 she knows she needs to grow up and prove to her guardians, Paige and Lucas, that she can be a responsible member of their supernatural detective agency. So she jumps at the chance to fly solo, investigating the mysterious deaths of three young women in a nearby factory town as a favor to one of the agency's associates. At first glance, the murders look garden-variety human, but on closer inspection signs point to otherworldly stakes.
Soon Savannah is in over her head. She's run off the road and nearly killed, haunted by a mystery stalker, and freaked out when the brother of one of the dead women is murdered when he tries to investigate the crime. To complicate things, something weird is happening to her powers. Pitted against shamans, demons, a voodoo-inflected cult and garden-variety goons, Savannah has to fight to ensure her first case isn't her last. And she also has to ask for help, perhaps the hardest lesson she's ever had to learn.”

 

From Goodreads.

• Publisher: Dutton Adult

• Release Date: July 27th, 2010

• My Copy: Kindle Version, personally bought.

• Pages: 400

• Genre: Urban Fantasy

• Series: Women Of The Otherworld / The Otherworld Series

• Genre: Urban Fantasy

• Author's Website

• Buy This Book:

Waking the Witch (Women of the Otherworld, Book 11)

I am an unconditional, card holding fan of this series and Kelley Armstrong is no doubt an automatic buy for me. Of course, it’s not a perfect series and there are couple books that aren’t my favorites But, 11 books and 2 anthologies in, I have to say it is a pretty solid and awesome series in general.

We meet Savannah in the second book, Stolen, when she’s only 12 years old. For the following two books, Dime Store Magic & Industrial Magic, we get to know more about her through the eyes of her guardian, Paige, who takes her in after her mother’s murder.

Fast Forward almost 10 years and we get to Waking the Witch, where Savannah is now 21 years old and a young woman trying to prove that she’s capable of being a PI and part of Paige & Lucas’s Supernatural PI firm. Both her guardians are taking a much needed vacation when an associate of theirs comes knocking, in need of assistance in his latest case. Savannah jumps at the chance of taking her first solo case and that’s where her adventure begins.

I have always enjoyed Savannah as a secondary character and I was really afraid that I would not like her as much as the heroine, specially an adult now. It was definitely weird seeing her older, but at the same timt it was perfect. I love that this series spans through so many years and time doesn’t stop in each book, giving it a more realistic timeline that follows the span of time that all the books have been released in. I mean, The first book in the series, Bitten, was released in 2001, so 9 years later it makes total sense that Savannah has aged 9 years.

Savannah has always lived in the shadow of her Witch mother and Sorcerer father, daughter of two very powerful spellcasters and considered a freak from being born into two races that have been rivals for centuries. With her parents dead and relying solely on her guardians, she has being trying to prove to them and to herself that she is more than her mother and father’s reputation. Savannah is a study in contradictions, she is tough, stubborn, selfish and even mean at times, but she is also fun, smart, loyal, fiercely protective of those she cares about and able of extreme acts of compassion. It was absolutely amazing getting to know the woman that the little girl I used to know has become.

I really loved this book, much more than I thought I would. It was fast paced and the mystery kept me gripped to the story. I found myself trying to solve the case right along with Savannah and Adam, and having a lot fun in doing so.

I don’t want to give out any spoilers, but I’ll say that the whodunit resolution was such a surprise and very well made. I actually guessed a part of it, but some parts really caught me off guard. The ending left a killer cliffhanger that had me gasping out loud and making me wish it was an year from now already, I really need to get my hands on the next book!

All in all, Waking the Witch was a perfect addition to one of my favorite series ever! The romance was very mild, but I have hope for a Savannah & Adam paring, something I have kept my eye on since many books before. If you are a fan of the Women of the Otherworld series this is definitely a must read for you and the cameos and mentions of other characters of the series will get you missing them all.

If you haven’t read this series yet, I totally advise you to and not to worry, you can absolutely read Waking the Witch without feeling lost. The Women of The Otherworld series is a staple in the Urban Fantasy genre and this latest installment just makes it clear why. Fast paced action from start to finish that you will not want to put down.

   

 

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Next: “Spell Bound” Comes out July 1st, 2011!

 

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