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  1. We came back from London on Friday and we did quite some bookshopping. Who could resist Waterstone's 3 for 2 offers?? ;)

     

    And this is what I got for myself:

    Rachel Caine > Lord of Misrule

    Rachel Caine > Carpe Corpus

    Rachel Caine > Fade Out

    Rachel Caine > Kiss of Death

    Rachel Caine > Ghost Town

    Rachel Caine > Bite Club

    Suzanne Collins > The Hunger Games

    Suzanne Collins > Catching Fire

    Suzanne Collins > Mockingjay

    Christos Tsiolkas > The Slap

    Harlan Coben > Miracle Cure

    Stephenie Meyer > The Host

  2. Hi Weave, I'm fine, thank you :) Hope you're well, too! :) As you're a great book-recommedation-source, I'm sure that I will read those series rather sooner than later. Just have to save up some bookshopping money, as I went quite crazy in London last week and took 12 books home with me :eek::D

  3. Kelley Armstrong > Bitten

     

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    synopsis from amazon

    Elena, heroine of Kelley Armstrong's impressive debut thriller Bitten, never planned that a casual sexual encounter would transform her into a werewolf. Neither did Clay, her lover and one of the leaders of the exclusive werewolf clique known as the Pack; women do not generally change or survive if they do. Elena's considerable reservations about her new life come to a head and she walks out on the Pack to return to something like normality, finding herself a boyfriend who turns a blind eye to her occasional disappearances in the middle of the night. She may have done with the infighting of werewolves, but they have not done with her; her former family call her back when they find themselves under threat from those they have excluded and dominated. Kelley Armstrong is very good on the sheer exhilaration of shape-changing, of running on four feet through forests, suburban greenery and urban back alleys; if there is a weakness here, it is that Elena's relationship with the taciturn, untrustworthy Clay is sometimes a little too conventionally romantic--but the dark poetry of the best of the book overcomes this entirely.

     

    my thoughts

    I found the story to be a bit slow and chewy at times, but still interesting and I will keep on reading the series.

     

    Rating: 3/5

    Series: Women of the Otherworld 1

  4. Alex Garland > The Beach

     

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    synopsis from amazon

    In our ever-shrinking world, where popular Western culture seems to have infected every nation on the planet, it is hard to find even a small niche of unspoiled land--forget searching for pristine islands or continents. This is the situation in Alex Garland's debut novel, The Beach. Human progress has reduced Eden to a secret little beach near Thailand. In the tradition of grand adventure novels, Richard, a rootless traveller rambling around Thailand on his way somewhere else, is given a hand-drawn map by a madman who calls himself Daffy Duck. He and two French travellers set out on a journey to find this paradise.

    What makes this a truly satisfying novel is the number of levels on which it operates. On the surface it's a fast-paced adventure novel; at another level it explores why we search for these utopias, be they mysterious lost continents or small island communes. Garland weaves a gripping and thought-provoking narrative that suggests we are, in fact, such products of our Western culture that we cannot help but pollute and ultimately destroy the very sanctuary we seek.

     

    my thoughts

    Another great read, probably my favourite book this year, so far. As I already know and love the movie, I just had to finally read the book aswell. I totally loved loved it and couldn't stop reading once I started. The chapters are very short, only a few pages each, which keeps you thinking that you can read just one more chapter before you stop, and then again, just one more chapter ...

    It's an amazing story of how people find their own little paradise and what they would all do to keep it.

     

    Rating: 5/5

  5. Maggie Stiefvater > Shiver

     

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    synopsis from amazon

    For years, Grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf--her wolf--is a chilling presence she can't seem to live without. Meanwhile, Sam has lived two lives: In winter, the frozen woods, the protection of the pack, and the silent company of a fearless girl. In summer, a few precious months of being human . . . until the cold makes him shift back again.

    Now, Grace meets a yellow-eyed boy whose familiarity takes her breath away. It's her wolf. It has to be. But as winter nears, Sam must fight to stay human--or risk losing himself, and Grace, forever.

     

    my thoughts

    What a great read this was! I totally loved it! A wonderful mood is set free by the writing style and even though I read the book in hot weather, I could lose myself in this winterly scenerie. I'm glad I already baught the second book in the series and preordered the third book right after I finished the first.

     

    Rating: 5/5

    Series: The wolves of Mercy Falls 1

  6. Emma Donoghue > Room

     

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    synopsis from amazon

    It's Jack's birthday, and he's excited about turning five. Jack lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures 11 feet by 11 feet. He loves watching TV, and the cartoon characters he calls friends, but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real - only him, Ma and the things in Room. Until the day Ma admits that there's a world outside . . . Told in Jack's voice, Room is the story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible.

     

    my thoughts

    This was a wonderful read, very moving. Everything that is so normal for Jack makes you ache for him as he just doesn't know it differently. The book is written from Jacks point of view and there for a bit childlike. As my english is not that good, I struggled a bit to understand everything at first. But I got into it soon enough and finished the book in a few days, beeing practicaly glued to it.

     

    Rating: 4/5

  7. Tom Rob Smith > Kind 44 (Child 44)

     

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    synopsis from amazon

    With so many new books in the crime and thriller field vying for our attention, alert readers need all the help they can get. In the case of Tom Rob Smith's Child 44, the numerous glowing reviews were preceded by a lively word of mouth on the book. The latter can often be misleading, but not in this case -- this is a very exciting debut. It is set in the Soviet Union and in the year 1953; Stalin's reign of terror is at its height, and those who stand up against the might of the state vanish into the labour camps – or vanish altogether. With this background, it is an audacious move on Tom Rob Smith’s part to put his hero right at the heart of this hideous regime, as an officer in no less than the brutal Ministry State Security.

     

    Leo Demidov is, basically, an instrument of the state -- by no means a villain, but one who tries to look not too closely into the repressive work he does. His superiors remind him that there is no crime in Soviet Union, and he is somehow able to maintain its fiction in his mind even as he tracks down and punishes the miscreants. The body of a young boy is found on railway tracks in Moscow, and Demidov is quickly informed that there is nothing to the case. He quickly realises that something unpleasant is being covered over here, but is forced to obey his orders. However, things begin to quickly unravel, and this ex-hero of state suddenly finds himself in disgrace, exiled with his wife Raisa to a town in the Ural Mountains. And things will get worse for him -- not only the murder of another child, but even the life and safety of his wife.

     

    my thoughts

    The book starts very grippping right away and the story kept me interested all the way, even though it's not very fast paced. It's also very interesting at the story is set at a cruel time that actually happened and not even so long ago.

     

    Rating: 4/5

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