WAITING ON WEDNESDAY: #2 - Supernaturally by Kiersten White & Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill @ Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating! 

This week my selection is: SUPERNATURALLY by Kiersten White

Publication Date: July 26, 2011

I have been waiting for this book since I finished the last page in PARANORMALCY so I'm super psyched for SUPERNATURALLY to come out.

From Goodreads: Evie finally has the normal life she’s always longed for. But she’s shocked to discover that being ordinary can be . . . kind of boring. Just when Evie starts to long for her days at the International Paranormal Containment Agency, she’s given a chance to work for them again. Desperate for a break from all the normalcy, she agrees. 

But as one disastrous mission leads to another, Evie starts to wonder if she made the right choice. And when Evie’s faerie ex-boyfriend Reth appears with devastating revelations about her past, she discovers that there’s a battle brewing between the faerie courts that could throw the whole supernatural world into chaos. The prize in question? Evie herself.

So much for normal. 

My second selection is: ANNA DRESSED IN BLOOD by Kendare Blake

Publication Date: August 30, 2011

From Goodreads: Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead.

So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. Together they follow legends and local lore, trying to keep up with the murderous dead—keeping pesky things like the future and friends at bay.

When they arrive in a new town in search of a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas doesn't expect anything outside of the ordinary: track, hunt, kill. What he finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he's never faced before. She still wears the dress she wore on the day of her brutal murder in 1958: once white, now stained red and dripping with blood. Since her death, Anna has killed any and every person who has dared to step into the deserted Victorian she used to call home.

But she, for whatever reason, spares Cas's life.
 

What are you eagerly anticipating?

Mini RANT: The McDouble

How hard is it to fully cook a burger??

I know, my rants tend to be focused on Fast Food places, specifically the McDonald’s down the street from me. But is it really that hard to cook a burger so that it’s not pink and gray inside? This has happened to me the past threeeeee times I’ve been there. Each time that much worse.

I’m all for people wanting their burgers rare, medium rare, raw! But when it comes to my processed, packed, meat patty; I would like it to be well done. I would like to order a burger that doesn’t taste like chewing gum in my mouth and that doesn’t have dead lettuce clutching onto the ketchup for dear life. That my friends, is not a good burger. And that is the end of my mini RANT. Thank you for taking the time to listen.

200 FOLLOWER GIVEAWAY

***Contest Closed***
Hey guys! Since I've made it to 200 followers I thought I should do another giveaway to thank you guys for being such great followers and blogging buddies! There will be three winners: Winner #1 gets their first choice of which book they want, Winner #2 second choice, Winner #3 third choice.

Here are the super awesome books up for grabs:

Fallen by Lauren Kate

Almost To Die For by Tate Hallaway

Sea Change by Aimee Friedman

Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles

Paranormalcy by Kiersten White

Hunger by Jackie Morse Kessler

Look Both Ways by Jacquelyn Mitchard

Violet Wings by Victoria Hanley ARC

Plain Kate by Erin Bow ARC

Dark Goddess by Sarwat Chadda ARC

L.A. Candy by Lauren Conrad

Rules:

You must be a follower (That's it!)

To earn extra entries you can:

Follow me on Twitter @lo_chase

Become my friend on Goodreads

Post my giveaway button on your blog (Can be found at the top on the left sidebar)

Blog about this giveaway

Tweet about this giveaway

Good luck! And thank you so much to all of my followers for being so great! 

Please leave a separate comment for each entry, it makes them way easier to count!

This is open INTERNATIONALLY

This giveaway ends July 17th @ Midnight
Please leave your e-mail in the comments. If you don't I'll just contact you through your blog or Google Connect.

IN MY MAILBOX: #4

In My Mailbox is this great meme hosted by Kristi @The Story Siren where you get to showcase the books you've received that week.You get to see the books people have bought, borrowed, or received for review. This week I totally caved and went crazy... My bank account hates me. I also took pictures this time! Let me know what you guys think! Pictures I take or Web book cover pics? Here they are:

 

 BOUGHT:

 

 

KINDLE: 

  

FOR REVIEW: Thanks to NetGalley and Abrams

 

WON: Thanks to Tiger Holland @ All-Consuming Books

 

What did you guys get?

BOOK REVIEW: Evernight by Claudia Gray

I’m not quite sure what to say about EVERNIGHT. I have to admit I’d been avoiding this book because of the cover but finally decided to read it when another blogger recommended it. When I started EVERNIGHT I knew I was going to love it, the first pages pulled me in right away and I knew I would be hooked. What I wasn’t expecting was the story to lull for awhile; making me put the book down more than once. 

Here's the synopsis from Goodreads:

Bianca wants to escape.

She's been uprooted from her small hometown and enrolled at Evernight Academy, an eerie Gothic boarding school where the students are somehow too perfect: smart, sleek, and almost predatory. Bianca knows she doesn't fit in.

Then she meets Lucas. He's not the "Evernight type" either, and he likes it that way. Lucas ignores the rules, stands up to the snobs, and warns Bianca to be careful—even when it comes to caring about him.

"I couldn't stand it if they took it out on you," he tells Bianca, "and eventually they would."

But the connection between Bianca and Lucas can't be denied. Bianca will risk anything to be with Lucas, but dark secrets are fated to tear them apart . . . and to make Bianca question everything she's ever believed.

While I could relate to Bianca’s character, her swooning over Lucas left me feeling a little woozy. She fell so hard so quickly that I didn’t have enough time to fall in love with Lucas myself which left me feeling a bit off balance when I hardly even knew the guy. The one character I did fall in love with was Balthazar; he was a gentlemen, he was confident, smart, and he genuinely cared about Bianca. (I was quietly rooting for him throughout the entire book).

What I think a lot of people have felt deceived about was the twist in the second half of the book, which I already knew about due to some spoiler-filled reviews. But the twist, even knowing it, didn’t bother me in the least, although I think some things should have panned out differently, Gray knowingly put the pieces together so that it wouldn’t be such a shock when the reader finally got to that twist.

By the end, the story had picked up and I couldn’t put the book down. I was turning page after page trying to figure out what was going to happen next. The tension is definitely in the second half of the book. So if you haven’t picked up EVERNIGHT yet you definitely should.

BLOGGER HOP: #2

"Share your favorite post from the last month and tell us why it’s close to your heart!”

One of my favorite posts would have to be my review of Divergent by Veronica Roth. But my ALL TIME favorite post would have to be of my review for Dust City by Robert Paul Weston because he contacted me on Twitter and thanked me for the kind words. That definitely brightened my day!

How about you guys?

FOLLOW FRIDAY: #4

Q. What are you doing to prepare for an upcoming zombie apocalypse and/or the return of Mel Gibson to the silver screen? (Both of which could be terrifying.)

Ooh... this is a hard one this week... I'm ransacking as many stores as I can to find all the Jelly beans in existence. Who can survive without jelly beans?!?!? That's like asking me to stay underground for two years without water, it's not gonna happen. I'm also training my spider-monkey kitteh to fight! She needs to know how to defend... me. Against all those dead dudes/gals. On the other hand I could try to make peace with them with an offering of everyone's flesh but my own... I don't know how the rest of you feel about that but I think I'd be pretty happy in my imaginary basement eating jelly beans and watching re-runs of The Vampire Diaries... Did I really answer this question...?

What would you guys do??