Shelfie [August 8]

Shelf #2: Cassandra Clare

Normally I do not section my bookshelves off by authors but, like Rick Riordan, I seem to have acquired quite a few Cassandra Clare books and the collection only appears to be growing. I will admit that I have kind of fallen off of the bandwagon with her work—I have yet to read the final book in her Mortal Instruments series or the first in her The Dark Artifices series—but she still remains one of my favorite authors and I love looking at all of her books together on one shelf!

Teaser Tuesday [September 16]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. All you have to do is grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences (that don't give too much away).


This week's teaser is brought to you by the zombie-infested first book in the Something Strange and Deadly trilogy:

"Just as my brain screamed for this hot oil to leave my skin, for my heart to slow, that I could take no more, a howl of pain erupted from Joseph's mouth. The lines of blue lightning stopped. The darkness was gone."

— Something Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard (page 184)

Series Review: Across the Universe by Beth Revis

Author: Beth Revis
Series: Across the Universe
Publisher: Razorbill
Release Date: January 2011 - January 2013
Pages: 1,153
Format: Hardcover/paperback
Average Rating: 4.07
Read it in: A few weeks
Source: Bought from Amazon

- Summary - 

A love out of time. A spaceship built of secrets and murder.

Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules.

Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone - one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship - tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn't do something soon, her parents will be next. Now Amy must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there's only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the love she could never have seen coming.