Burning Impossibly Bright

Hello, my lovelies. Just writing this to let you know that once again, exam time  has come a-knocking, and because I am a good egg, I have to prioritize my education over my blog. I'm not taking a full on break, and I'll try and post when I can, but it'll probably be even less frequently than usual, especially seeing as I just plain haven't been reading as much. So, yeah.  But I'll still be on the internet, as per, mainly because I don't know how to revise without wanting to bang my head repeatedly against my bookshelf and I have to take frequent breaks from it to keep myself from dying. (I am not a good reviser. I think I've already done more revision for my AS levels than I did throughout the whole 5 years I spent in high school and it is NOT FUN.) Sorry for that rant! So anyway, yeah, a break. That was the point of this.

Letterbox Love is the UK's version of IMM, hosted by the lovely Lynsey at  Narratively Speaking  :) Woo, look at that quality! I finally found a good use for my new phone ;) Review: Life After Theft by Aprilynne Pike Imposter by Jill Hathaway (Thanks HarperCollins! Never read any of Aprilynne's books before, but I like the cover of this one, and I enjoyed Slide, too.) Shadow and Bone/Siege and Storm omnibus by Leigh Bardugo (very exciting post! Thank you Indigo! I've been wanting to reread Shadow and Bone anyway to see if I'd like it more 2nd time around, and now I can read the second book straight after!) The Drowning by Rachel Ward You Don't Know Me by Sophia Bennett (Thank you Chicken House for these two! Not read any of Rachel Ward's books either, but this sounds good. And Sophia Bennett is amazing.) Kite Spirit by Sita Brahmacharmi ( Just reviewed this yesterday , thank you Macmillan!) The Oathbreaker's Shadow by Amy McCulloch (started this yesterday an...

Kite Spirit Sita Brahmachari May 9th 2013 Macmillan Children's Books During the summer of her GCSEs Kite's world falls apart. Her best friend, Dawn, commits suicide after a long struggle with feeling under pressure to achieve. Kite's dad takes her to the Lake District, to give her time and space to grieve. In London Kite is a confident girl, at home in the noisy, bustling city, but in the countryside she feels vulnerable and disorientated. Kite senses Dawn's spirit around her and is consumed by powerful, confusing emotions - anger, guilt, sadness and frustration, all of which are locked inside. It's not until she meets local boy, Garth, that Kite begins to open up - talking to a stranger is easier somehow. Kite deeply misses her friend and would do anything to speak to Dawn just once more, to understand why . . . Otherwise how can she ever say goodbye? A potent story about grief, friendship, acceptance and making your heart whole again. I really enjoyed Kite Spirit ...

Touch of Power Maria V Snyder December 20th 2011 MiraInk THEY DESTROYED HER WORLD. BUT SHE’S THEIR ONLY HOPE... Avry’s power to heal the sick should earn her respect in the plague-torn land of Kazan. Instead she is feared. Her kind are blamed for the horrifying disease that has taken hold of the nation. When Avry uses her forbidden magic to save a dying child, she faces the guillotine. Until a dark, mysterious man rescues her from her prison cell. His people need Avry’s magic to save their dying prince. The very prince who first unleashed the plague on Kazan. Saving the prince is certain to kill Avry – yet she already faces a violent death. Now she must choose – use her healing touch to show the ultimate mercy or die a martyr to a lost cause? After reading this book, I have come to the conclusion that Maria V Snyder's books are like crack. I cannot put them down once I've picked them up. It's weird because as much as I love fantasy, it usually takes me a while to settle int...

Dead Silence Kimberly Derting 16th April 2013 Headline Violet thought she’d made peace with her unique ability to sense the echoes of the dead and the imprints that cling to their killers…that is until she acquired an imprint of her own. Forced to carry a reminder of the horrible events of her kidnapping, Violet is more determined than ever to lead a normal life. However, the people who run the special investigative team Violet works for have no intention of letting her go. When someone close to Violet becomes a suspect in a horrific murder, she finds herself pulled into a deadly hunt for a madman with an army of devoted followers. Violet has survived dangerous situations before, but she quickly discovers that protecting those closest to her is far more difficult than protecting herself. Dead Silence, while not being my favourite of the Body Finder series, was great. The tension is amped up and it's as creepy as ever, as well as revealing some things that we about the team that Vio...

Going Vintage Lindsey Leavitt April 1st 2013 Scholastic Sixteen-year-old Mallory loves her boyfriend, Jeremy. Or at least likes him more than she's ever liked any other boy. She's sure he feels the same way. Until she happens upon his online Authentic Life game and discovers he's cheating on her ...online Mallory's life is falling apart and technology is the cause. And then she finds a list, written by her grandma when she was Mallory's age. All her grandma had to worry about was sewing dresses and planning dinner parties. Things were so much simpler in the 1960s. And there's nothing on the list that Mallory couldn't do herself. Maybe it's time for Mallory to go vintage and find the answers to her modern-day problems . If I had to sum up Going Vintage in one word, it would be cute.  Like, downright-adorable-if-it-were-a-person-I'd-pinch-their-cheeks-CUTE. It wasn't amazing, but it was very enjoyable and I really loved the concept behind it. Proba...

Letterbox Love is the UK's version of IMM, hosted by the lovely Lynsey at  Narratively Speaking  :) Bought: Through The Ever Night by Veronica Rossi (I really liked Under The Never Sky, so I'm looking forward to this - even though I don't remember much that happened in book 1...) Let's Get Lost by Sarra Manning (Sarra Freaking Manning. I love her.) (not pictured) Nobody's Girl by Sarra Manning (Already read and reviewed this here ) Ferryman by Claire McFall (Sort of an impulse buy. I liked the sound of it, is all. Not heard much about it.) Going Vintage by Lindsey Leavitt (Already read this and it's SO CUTE.) Review: Angelfall by Susan Ee (A lovely surprise from Hodder! I didn't know it was getting traditionally published. Heard great things about it!) Dead Silence by Kimberly Derting (Already read it and really enjoyed it, thought it's not my fave in the series. Thank you Headline!) Won: Cracked Up To Be by Courtney Summers (Won it from Fatima, who is c...

The Girl of Fire and Thorns Rae Carson September 20th 2011 Greenwillow  Once a century, one person is chosen for greatness. Elisa is the chosen one.  But she is also the younger of two princesses, the one who has never done anything remarkable. She can't see how she ever will.  Now, on her sixteenth birthday, she has become the secret wife of a handsome and worldly king—a king whose country is in turmoil. A king who needs the chosen one, not a failure of a princess. And he's not the only one who seeks her. Savage enemies seething with dark magic are hunting her. A daring, determined revolutionary thinks she could be his people's savior. And he looks at her in a way that no man has ever looked at her before. Soon it is not just her life, but her very heart that is at stake. Elisa could be everything to those who need her most. If the prophecy is fulfilled. If she finds the power deep within herself. If she doesn’t die young. Most of the chosen do. I love fantasy. It's so...

Title:  The Indigo Spell  Author:  Richelle Mead Series:   Bloodlines, #3 Pages:  432 Publisher:  Puffin Date of Publication: 12th February 2013 Source:  Publisher* Synopsis from Goodreads:  In the aftermath of a forbidden moment that rocked Sydney to her core, she struggles to draw the line between her Alchemist teachings and what her heart is urging her to do. Then she finally tracks down the elusive, enigmatic Marcus Finch – a former Alchemist who the organisation denies exists, and who lives in shadows, on the run. With Marcus's help, Sydney realises that the group she's been loyal to her whole life has been hiding the truth from her. Is it possible that her golden lily tattoo might have more power over her than she thinks? As she struggles to come to terms with what that might mean, Sydney is compelled to use her growing magical powers to track down an evil magic user who is targeting powerful young witches. Using magic goes against ever...

Nobody's Girl Sarra Manning February 4th 2010 Hodder Children's Books Bea thinks she's the most boring seventeen-year-old in the world. She's not pretty or popular or funny, unlike her mother who had Bea when she was 17. The only glamorous thing about Bea is the French father who left before she was born and lives in Paris. She yearns for la vie Parisienne every moment of her dull existence.  So when Ruby Davies, the leader of her school's most elite clique picks Bea as her new best friend and asks her to go on holiday with them, she's wary but delighted. If nothing else it's two weeks away from her over-protective mother . But when the gang arrive in Spain, Bea is crushed to realise that Ruby and her posse have simply been using her.  Bea wreaks vengeance on her so-called friends, and plans to decamp to Paris to find her father. But when she falls asleep on the train and wakes up in Bilbao, she meets a group of American students who are backpacking around E...

Happily Ever Endings... was born out of sheer frustration. You know how when you read a series and you love it but the last book takes a little while to come out and then you sort of forget parts of the novel? That's what these posts are going to serve to remedy. Happily Ever Ending... is a short post about what happened at the ending of each book that is going to be in a series for people who need a quick reminder of what happened in the previous installment. It's really annoying when you can't remember what happens and don't have time for a reread, so this hopefully will be a huge help! __________ Synopsis from Goodreads:  Everyone accepted that people were different physically. But inside? Inside, they were different too. You just had to know how to tell, what to look for. Evil has been eradicated. The City has been established. And citizens may only enter after having the 'evil' part of their brain removed. They are labelled on the System according to how ...

Title:  Geek Girl Author:  Holly Smale Series:  Geek Girl, #1 Pages:  378 Publisher:  HarperCollins Children's Date of Publication:  28th February 2013 Source:  Publisher* Synopsis from Goodreads: Harriet Manners knows a lot of things. She knows that a cat has 32 muscles in each ear, a "jiffy" lasts 1/100th of a second, and the average person laughs 15 times per day. What she isn't quite so sure about is why nobody at school seems to like her very much. So when she's spotted by a top model agent, Harriet grabs the chance to reinvent herself. Even if it means stealing her Best Friend's dream, incurring the wrath of her arch enemy Alexa, and repeatedly humiliating herself in front of the impossibly handsome supermodel Nick. Even if it means lying to the people she loves. As Harriet veers from one couture disaster to the next with the help of her overly enthusiastic father and her uber-geeky stalker, Toby, she begins to realise that the world of fashion...

Clockwork Princess Cassandra Clare 19th March 2013 Walker Books Danger and betrayal, secrets and enchantment in the breathtaking conclusion to the Infernal Devices trilogy Tessa Gray should be happy - aren't all brides happy? Yet as she prepares for her wedding, a net of shadows begins to tighten around the Shadowhunters of the London Institute. A new demon appears, one linked by blood and secrecy to Mortmain, the man who plans to use his army of pitiless automatons, the Infernal Devices, to destroy the Shadowhunters. Mortmain needs only one last item to complete his plan. He needs Tessa. And Jem and Will, the boys who lay equal claim to Tessa's heart, will do anything to save her.   *I can not guarantee that this review will be spoiler free. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK* I'm going to preemptively start this review by warning any of you who are reading this that I didn't love this book. I'm getting that off of my chest at the get-go because I figure if you want to read a r...

Getting Over Garrett Delaney Abby McDonald 2nd May 2013 Walker Books Can a twelve-step program help Sadie kick her unrequited crush for good? Abby McDonald serves up her trademark wit and wisdom in a hilarious new novel. Seventeen-year-old Sadie is in love: epic, heartfelt, and utterly one-sided. The object of her obsession — ahem, affection — is her best friend, Garrett Delaney, who has been oblivious to Sadie’s feelings ever since he sauntered into her life and wowed her with his passion for Proust (not to mention his deep-blue eyes). For two long, painful years, Sadie has been Garrett’s constant companion, sharing his taste in everything from tragic Russian literature to art films to '80s indie rock — all to no avail. But when Garrett leaves for a summer literary retreat, Sadie is sure that the absence will make his heart grow fonder — until he calls to say he’s fallen in love. With some other girl! A heartbroken Sadie realizes that she’s finally had enough. It’s time for a tota...