Waiting on Wednesday

Wainting on Wednesday is a wekly meme hosted at Breaking the Spine.
This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:

Title: Beautiful Chaos

Authors: Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl 

Release Date: 18th October 2011

Publisher: Little Brown Books for Young Readers

Summary:Ethan Wate thought he was getting used to the strange, impossible events happening in Gatlin, his small Southern town. But now that Ethan and Lena have returned home, strange and impossible have taken on new meanings. Swarms of locusts, record-breaking heat, and devastating storms ravage Gatlin as Ethan and Lena struggle to understand the impact of Lena's Claiming. Even Lena's family of powerful Supernaturals is affected - and their abilities begin to dangerously misfire. As time passes, one question becomes clear: What - or who - will need to be sacrificed to save Gatlin?

For Ethan, the chaos is a frightening but welcome distraction. He's being haunted in his dreams again, but this time it isn't by Lena - and whatever is haunting him is following him out of his dreams and into his everyday life. Even worse, Ethan is gradually losing pieces of himself - forgetting names, phone numbers, even memories. He doesn't know why, and most days he's too afraid to ask.
Sometimes there isn't just one answer or one choice. Sometimes there's no going back. And this time there won't be a happy ending.

Doesn't the plot just hook you? 

                                                 
                                                                      




Title: Whiteout
Author: Ken Follett


Remember that I said, this was not going to be an YA lit exclusive blog? Well, this is my first adult book review.
Whiteout is a fantastic book and I couldn't stop reading it (I know I've been saying this too much, but lately I've been reading really good books).
Set in the cold and snowy Scotland, this book gain  lots of points just because of the setting.
One thing that I really enjoyed, about Whiteout,was that the book is really fast paced, so though you will still be turning pages to find out what is going to happen (because the chapters end very conveniently in the climax) you won't sufferthrough long and boring descriptions and lots of scientific facts (wich sometimes happens in books of the thriller genre) to discover what happens next.
The cast of characters is really interesting. They're all different from each other but at the same time they are all captivating and the reader cares about them. I believe that the villains are kind of a cliché but that didn't bother me.
The plot is incredible, and there are going to happen things that you never imagined. It's easy to understand all the subplots and not get lost in the sequence of events.
Witheout is an incredible thriller and if I were you I would read it.

9/10

Times & Places - Paris

Times & Places is a new feature, where I explore the settings and the eras of books I loved! I'm working on a logo and everything but I'm not very good at Photoshop.
This first edition is about Paris, the setting of Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins.
Who has never dreamed with Paris? Walking down Champs Élysées, climbing the Eiffel Tower, visiting Louvre,...
I visited Paris a few years ago and I loved it. I hope to return there very soon.
Please join me for a tour around a few sites of Anna and the French Kiss:


 A city view at your left  your left!

 Point zero, where Anna and Étienne made wishes. We will stop for a few minutes. Fell free to make a wish here.

 Everyone has made his wish? Great!
Anna and Étienne visited Notre Dame the first time she leaves the school and actually visits Paris.

  In front of you is The Latin Quarter where the School of America's is. Anna and Étienne attended to this school.

 This is Cinema Le Champo where Anna and her friends watched movies every other night!

  The library where Étienne bought Anna a book by Pablo Neruda.


And this is the end of tour through a few Parisian places mentioned in ANNA AND THE FRENCH KISS!

Anna and the French Kiss

                                      


Title: Anna and the French Kiss
Author: Stephanie Perkins
Publisher: Dutton
Release Date: 2nd Decembre 2010

Summary:Anna is looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a great job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. Which is why she is less than thrilled about being shipped off to boarding school in Paris—until she meets Étienne St. Claire: perfect, Parisian (and English and American, which makes for a swoon-worthy accent), and utterly irresistible. The only problem is that he's taken, and Anna might be, too, if anything comes of her almost-relationship back home.  and painfull waiting for this book I finally got to read it. There aren't words to say how much I liked it.
Anna is sent to France after, in my opinion, her snobbish father (after a quick rise to fame), decides that studying in France will be a "good learning experience". In the beginning of her senior year abroad, she's annoyed and sad because she's far away from her friends, her mother and her brother but then.... she meets Étienne and her feelings change. And I'm not going to say much more about it, because I don't want to spoil the book for you.

As winter melts into spring, will a year of romantic near-misses end with the French kiss Anna—and readers—have long awaited?


(details above from Goodreads)


Review: After a long and painfull waiting for this one, I finally got to read it and I loved it.
Étienne is probably one of my favorite male characters of all time. He's gorgeous, he's funny, he's British (accent, duh?) he's French, he's sweet, he's kind, he loves his family and he likes art and history. But he also has flaws (which is great, because I hate when the guy is too perfect): he is short, he likes normality too much and he can't express some of his feelings.
Anna is a great character as well: she is funny, ironic and strong but at the same time vulnerable. She's kind ,smart and a movie addicted!
The other characters are very interesting to read about. They are all very different from each other: some love the arts, other sports, others parties,...The setting is amazing of course. I really enjoyed revisiting Paris trough the pages of Anna and the French Kiss.
One of the best books of 2010.
10/10



Debut Alert - January

I'm participationg in the Debut Author Challenge this year, hosted at The Story Siren, so I decided to create this monthly feauture that willahow the US and UK debuts (YA and MG) that are going to be realeased every month.
Last year, two of my 3 favorite books were debuts so I can't wait to read some of them in 2011.
Let the list begin... (insert music here)
US DEBUTS

Other words for Love by Lorraine Zago Rosenthal
11th January 2011 YA

Choker by Elizabeth Woods
4th January 2011 YA



The Great Wall of Lucy Wu by Wendy Wan-Long
1st January 2011 MG



The Trouble with Half a Moon by Danette Vigilante
6th january 2011 YA



The Water Wars by Cameron Stracher
1st january 2011 YA



XVI by Julia Karr
6th January 2011 YA



Vesper by Jeff Sampsen
25th January 2011 YA

Flirt Club by Cathleen Daly
4th January  2011 MG



Dogsled Dreams by Terry Lynn Johnson
1st January 2011 MG



Head Games by Keri Mikulski
6th January 2011 YA



Across the Universe by Beth Revis
11th January 2011 YA



Warped by Maurissa Guibord
11 January 2011 YA



Tiger's Curse by Colleen Houck
11th January 2011 YA

The Latte Rebellion by Sarah Jamila Stevenson
8th January 2011 YA

Timeless by Alexandra Monir
11th January 2011 YA

The Rendering by Joel Naftali
25th January 2911 YA

The False Princess by Ellis O'Neal
25th January 2011 YA

Hidden by Tomas Mournian
25th January 2011

 







Unearthly by Cynthia Hand
4th January 2011 YA

UK DEBUTS 

The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Eighth Grade Bites by Heather Brewer
6th January 2011 YA



Artichoke Hearts bySita Brahmachari
7th January 2011  YA



Entangled by Cat Clarke
6th January 2011 YA



Being Billy by Phil Earle
6th January 2011 MG

The Memory Cage by Ruth Eastham
3rd January 2011

Wereworld: Rise of the Wolf by Curtis Jobling
6th January 2011

The Iron King by Julie Kagawa
21st january 2011 YA

A Beautiful Lie by Irfan Master
4th january 2011 YA

My Soul to Take by Rachel Vincent
1st January 2011 Ya

Forsaken by Jana Oliver
7th January 2011 YA

Small Blue Thing by S. C.  Ransom
´13th January 2011 YA

The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff
6th January 2011 YA

0.4 by Mike Lancaster
1st January 2011 YA

Great book, right? Note to self, update DAC list. The covers are pretty good as well I love the 0.4 cover it's so ....spooky, and real!

What about you guys? Are you reading any Debut this month? What do you think about the covers?

2011: Goals & Changes

I know I've been an awful blogger these months: I've done a great deal of memes instead of reviews, I've been MIA too many times,I haven't been outgoing...
I plan in 2011 became a much better blogger:

• I have a few ideas for new feautures
• I plan on doing movie reviews as well
• I plan reading other genres outside YA, though 80% of this blog will be YA related
• I plan on writting 3 reviews per week
• I'm going to do less memes
• I plan on reading more (I want to read 100 books)

If you have any suggestion you would like to tell me comment or e-mail me.

Christmas and TOP 3 books (in no particular order)

Merry Christmas, or as Étienne (from Anna and the French Kiss) would say: Happy Christmas!
I've noticed that a few bloggers are doing list about their favorite books from 2010, in different categories. I'm not going to make one, I’m just going to mention the 3 books that I most love this year (in no particular order) :
                                    

Wildthorn by Jane   

                                                              

Losing Faith by Denise Jaden

                                                        

             
Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

                                                         

(after a painful waiting for this one, because my copy was delayed, I read it and LOVED it)