Monday, September 16, 2013

What's New: Week One

This idea occurred to me while I was thinking about doing some non-review stuffs on my blog.
What's New will be a weekly blog post where  I'll be blogging about 3 books (each week) that are recently released.
This is the first time I'm posting this topic and I really hope that you, my readers, will like the idea. I'd be glad if this turns out to be helpful for you guys. I'll be posting this on every Monday.
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Book One: 

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black




Information Regarding The Book:
  • Author(s): Holly Black
  • Publisher: Little, Brown Books For Young Readers
  • Genre(s): Vampires, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy
  • Age Range: 14+
  • Release Date: September 03, 2013
  • ISBN: 0316213101
  • You'll Find This Book At: AmazonIndie Bound.

Plot:

Tana lives in a world where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle in a decadently bloody mix of predator and prey. The only problem is, once you pass through Coldtown’s gates, you can never leave.

One morning, after a perfectly ordinary party, Tana wakes up surrounded by corpses. The only other survivors of this massacre are her exasperatingly endearing ex-boyfriend, infected and on the edge, and a mysterious boy burdened with a terrible secret. Shaken and determined, Tana enters a race against the clock to save the three of them the only way she knows how: by going straight to the wicked, opulent heart of Coldtown itself.

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown is a wholly original story of rage and revenge, of guilt and horror, and of love and loathing from bestselling and acclaimed author Holly Black.




Book Two:

Antigoddess (Antigoddess #1) by Kendare Blake


Information Regarding The Book:


  • Author(s): Kendare Blake
  • Publisher: Tor Teen
  • Genre(s): Teen Fiction, Mythology & Folklore, Fantasy
  • Age Range: 13+
  • Release Date: September 10, 2013
  • ISBN: 978-0765334435
  • You'll Find This Book At: AmazonIndie Bound.


Plot: 


Old Gods never die…

Or so Athena thought. But then the feathers started sprouting beneath her skin, invading her lungs like a strange cancer, and Hermes showed up with a fever eating away his flesh. So much for living a quiet eternity in perpetual health.

Desperately seeking the cause of their slow, miserable deaths, Athena and Hermes travel the world, gathering allies and discovering enemies both new and old. Their search leads them to Cassandra—an ordinary girl who was once an extraordinary prophetess, protected and loved by a god.

These days, Cassandra doesn’t involve herself in the business of gods—in fact, she doesn’t even know they exist. But she could be the key in a war that is only just beginning.

Because Hera, the queen of the gods, has aligned herself with other of the ancient Olympians, who are killing off rivals in an attempt to prolong their own lives. But these anti-gods have become corrupted in their desperation to survive, horrific caricatures of their former glory. Athena will need every advantage she can get, because immortals don’t just flicker out.

Every one of them dies in their own way. Some choke on feathers. Others become monsters. All of them rage against their last breath.
The Goddess War is about to begin.







Book Three:

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell





Information Regarding The Book:

  • Author(s): Rainbow Rowell
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
  • Genre(s): Contemporary Romance, Realistic Fiction
  • Age Range: 14+
  • Release Date: September 10, 2013
  • ISBN: 1250030951
  • You'll Find This Book At: AmazonIndie Bound.

Plot:

In Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl, Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath, being a fan is her life—and she’s really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it’s what got them through their mother leaving.

Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie premiere.

Cath’s sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can’t let go. She doesn’t want to.
Now that they’re going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn’t want to be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. She’s got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fan fiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words . . . And she can’t stop worrying about her dad, who’s loving and fragile and has never really been alone.

For Cath, the question is: Can she do this? Can she make it without Wren holding her hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? And does she even want to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?










2 comments:

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    1. Thank you Adrienne!
      I'll check your book. :)

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