Book Haul Time! :) -2/11/12- Warning: This book all is
a little super long. Therefore, I will be posting it in 2, maybe 3 parts.
My TBR (To be read) shelf is overflowing! There's maybe..50, 60 books I haven't read yet.
I know, I know I should read faster, and stop buying books. But, I have school! And, after that
extremely hard day at school all I want to do is get on my computer and listen to music, and maybe play a little Minecraft.
Without further adieu, let's start the book haul. Shall we?
First on the list I have
Crank by the very talented and poetic Ellen Hopkins.
Crank is Ellen Hopkin's first book for those of you who don't know, and as the title may suggest it deals with drugs.
Is this my first Ellen Hopkins book? No. The first and only book I've read by Ellen Hopkins is
Impulse, and let me tell you; I
loved every second of it. If you want a full review of
Impulse please visit my goodreads page.
Also on my book haul I have the book
Glass by Ellen Hopkins, which is the sequel to
Crank. But, since I have yet to read
Crank I will not be including
Glass in this book haul. Maybe the next one.
Synopsis:
Kristina is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. Then she meets the monster: crank. And what begins as a wild ride turns into a struggle for her mind, her soul - her life.
Next on the list we have another book written by Ellen Hopkins. Burned. I haven't heard as much about Burned as I have her other books, but there is still no doubt in my mind that it will be great.
I was attracted to
Burned because of it's cover. It just looked so intriguing. I was curious to what it was about, so I flipped through a couple pages of the book. I wasn't used to the writing style Hopkin's used, and did not enjoy poetry at the time I found burned. (Please note: This is before I knew of Ellen Hopkins.) So, what did I do? I quickly put the book back on the shelf and continued my search for a different book.
Months later,
many, many months later my friend introduced me to
Impulse. When I finished the book I told myself I would read all of Hopkins books. So, I went to the bookstore and what do you know? They don't have it. I continuously go back to the store time after time, and finally I get lucky.
Synopsis:
Raised in a religious - yet abusive - family, Pattyn Von Stratten starts asking questions - about God, a womans role, sex, love. She experiences the first stirrings of passion, but when her father catches her in a compromising position, events spiral out of control. Pattyn is sent to live with an aunt in the wilds of Nevada to find salvation and redemption. What she finds instead is love and acceptance - until she realizes that her old demons will not let her go.
"Really! Another Ellen Hopkins book?! Is this chick obsessed!" Why yes. Yes I am. Oh, don't worry it's the last one - I think.
Perfect is the sequel to
Impulse. Though it deals with a whole new set of characters.
This book focuses on Cara, Connor's twin sister. (Connor is a character from the book
Impulse as some of you may know.) As well as four other characters who are new.
The synopsis of this book sounds
amazing. The moment I read it I knew I wanted it.
"Don't be ridiculous. You knew you wanted it when you saw it was an Ellen Hopkins book."
This. Is very true. But, I'm running a blog. I can't say I got a book
just because of the author. I have to base it on the synopsis, and the cover, and what good things I've heard about it.
Speaking of the cover, it's beautiful. Don't you think? You can listen to the first few chapters on Ellen Hopkins website. Which I will post at the end of this haul.
Synopsis:
Perfect? How do you define a word without concrete meaning? To each his own, the saying goes, so why push to attain an ideal state of being that no two random people will agree is where you want to be? Faultless. Finished. Incomparable. People can never be these, and anyway, when did creating a flawless facade become a more vatal goal than learning to love the person who lives inside your skin? The outside belongs to others. Only you should decide for you - what is perfect.
The next book on the list is James Dashner's
The Scorch Trials. Hmm, what other book was written by James Dashner? Oh, that's right,
The Maze Runner. So this must be..
The sequel!
Oh, how I've longed to own the sequel to the fabulous book
The Maze Runner. And, now I finally have it. It was the
last one at the store too. How lucky can I get?
I've heard interesting things about this book.
Very interesting things. Why, oh, why is Teresa horrible? Will Thomas and the rest of the Gladers be safe in this plage infested place?
These are the questions that haunt me.
Synopsis:
Solving the Maze was supposed to be the end. No more puzzles. No more variables. And no more running. Thomas was sure that escape meant he and the Gladers would get there lives back. But no one really knew what sort of life they were going back to.
Burned by sun flares and baked by a new, brutal climate, the earth is a wasteland. Government has disintegrated - and with it, order - and now Cranks, people covered in festering wounds and driven to murderous insanity by the infectious disease known as the Flare, roam the crumbling cities hunting for their next victim...and meal.
The Gladers are far from done running. Instead of freedom, they find themselves faced with another trial. They must cross the Scorch, the most burned out section of the world, and arrive at a safe haven in two weeks. And WICKED has made sure to adjust the variables and stack the odds against them. Thomas can only wonder - does he hold the secret to freedom somewhere in his mind? Or will he forever be at the mercy of WICKED?
So, I was walking through my towns used book store and out pops the freakiest book cover I have ever seen. I mean,
What is that thing? It looks like it's gonna jump out of the cover and eat my soul any second.
And that my dear children, is exactly why I got this book.
Well, that and the reviews I've hear about it. Some good, some bad. Nevertheless, I am a risk taker, and for six dollars, it was a small risk to pay.
I'm sorry I'm getting chills from the cover. It's like it's staring at me. Waiting for me to avert my gaze so it can bite my head off.
I'm getting off topic. My apologies.
Synopsis:
Beyond the mirror, the darkest fairy tales come alive...
For years, Jacob Reckless has enjoyed the Mirrorworld's secrets and treasures.
Not anymore.
His younger brother has followed him. Now dark magic will turn the boy to beast, break the heart of the girl he loves, and destroy everything Jacob holds most dear...
Unless he can find a way to stop it. If your looking for a happily ever after, you've come to the wrong place.
When I saw this book in Walmart I nearly fainted. Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating a bit.
a bit?
Okay, wha had happen wazz... I was walking with my mom in walmart looking for presents for my sister, her husband, and my niece. Bored, I walk over to the book aisle and what do you know?
The second book in
The Infernal Devices series is sitting right there. Right in front of my face. So, what do I do? Like any other
normal person would do. I pick the book up and gently stroke it's cover about ten times with an astounded look on my face.
I probably looked ridiculous to by standers, but what do you expect? They couldn't have possibly understanded the feelings running through my body.
"What happened then Jodi? What idiotic thing did you do next?" Well, I ran to my mother (Who at the time was in the frozen foods section) and very loudly explained why I must have this book.
And her responce?
"I'll get you it for Christmas."
Christmas?
Christmas? I couldn't possibly wait until Christmas! with a whole
week left, the books would be sold out by then! I would never get to have this gorious book! My world was falling down around me as I placed the beautifully covered book back on the shelf with the rest of it's book buddies. One treachorous week later It was Christmas, and y'know what? I got the book. Surprise, Surprise.
Synopsis:
In the magical underworld of Victorian London, Tessa Gray has at last found safety with the Shadowhunters. But that safety proves fleeting when rogue forces in the Clave plot to see her protector, Charlotte, replaced as head of the Institute. If Charlotte loses her position, Tessa will be out on the street - and easy prey for the mysterious Magister, who wants to use Tessa's powers for his own dark ends.
With the help of handsome, self-destructive Will and the fiercely devoted Jem, Tessa discovers that the Magister's war on the Shadowhunters is deeply personal. He blames them for a long-ago tragedy that shattered his life. To unravel the secrets of the past, the trio journeys from mistshrounded Yorkshire to a manor house that holds untold horrors, from the slums of London to an enchanted ballroom where Tessa discovers that the truth of her parentage is more sinister than she had imagined. When they encounter a clockwork demon bearing a warning for Will, they realize that the Magister knows their every move - and that one of their own has betrayed them.
Tessa finds her heart drawn more and more to Jem, though her longing for Will, despite his dark moods, continues to unsettle her. But something is changing in Will - the wall he has built around himself is crumbling. Could finding the Magister free Will from his secrets and give Tessa the answers about who she is and what she was born to do?
As their dangerous search for the Magister and the truth leads the friends into peril, Tessa learns that when love and lies are mixed, they can corrupt even the purest heart.
Finally,
Finally, FINALLY!(That is how you spell 'finally' right? It looks wrong somehow.)
That's all I could think when I saw this book in the store. I searched high and low for this book. And, when I'm just casually strolling through a walmart a little farther away from my own POOF! It's there!
Of course, I had to look twice, because it's not the cover I'm used to seeing online, but it
is an attractive cover.
Besides, having a different cover doesn't change the words on the pages. Personally, I've grown to love this cover more than the other one.
Like I said, I've heard a lot of good things about this book. But, I also heard one or two bad things about this book. Something about not connecting to the characters?
But, hey. Maybe I'll like the book more than people who didn't. Maybe I'll be able to connect to the characters. Who knows?
Synopsis:
Amy is a chryogenically frozen passenger aboard the spaceship Godspeed . She has left her boyfriend, friends - and planet - behind to join her parents as a member of Project Ark Ship. Amy and her parents believe they will wake on a new planet, Centauri - Earth, three hundred years in the future. But fifty years before Godspeed's scheduled landing, cryo chamber 42 is mysteriously unplugged, and Amy is violently woken from her frozen slumber.
Someone tried to murder her.
Now, Amy is caught inside a tiny world where nothing makes since. Godspeed's 2,312 passengers have forfeited all control to Eldest, a tyrannical and frightening leader. And Elder, Eldest's rebellious teenage heir, is both fascinated with Amy and eager to discover whether he has what it takes to lead.
Amy desperately wants to trush Elder. But should she put her faith in a boy who has never seen life outside the ship's cold metal walls? All Amy knows is that she and Elder must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets before whoever woke her tries to kill again.
That was part one of my book haul! :)
I hope you enjoyed it! Oh, and by the way..
I think this may take more than 2 or 3 blogs. Sorry? heh, heh..
What can I say? I have a lotta books! Sue me why don't you!
Anyway, be on the lookout for Part 2!
~ Compulsive Reader (A.K.A Jodi)
