Between The Pages (3)

Hey Chroniclers! It's Saturday once again and I'm still not close to being home. Almost though, but not yet. But, it's still time for another edition of Between the Pages! Between the Pages is a weekly meme hosted by me where I pit two shows/movies/books, that revolve around the same idea, against each other. Your job as a Chronicler is to vote for your favorite one or the one you prefer so that we can settle, once and for all, which is better. The post will consist of an image to represent the competitors, along with a synopsis to let you guys know what they're about. You'll be able to vote at the end, so let us begin!

Battle Of The Wolves!

Nightshade by Andrea Cremer

vs

Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

Nightshade

Calla Tor has always known her destiny: After graduating from the Mountain School, she'll be the mate of sexy alpha wolf Ren Laroche and fight with him, side by side, ruling their pack and guarding sacred sites for the Keepers. But when she violates her masters' laws by saving a beautiful human boy out for a hike, Calla begins to question her fate, her existence, and the very essence of the world she has known. By following her heart, she might lose everything - including her own life. Is forbidden love worth the ultimate sacrifice?

Shiver

Grace and Sam share a kinship so close they could be lovers or siblings. But they also share a problem. When the temperature slips towards freezing, Sam reverts to his wolf identity and must retreat into the woods to protect his pack. He worries that eventually his human side will fade away and he will be left howling alone at the lonely moon.

I've only read Nightshade which I extremely enjoyed and haven't heard that many great things about Shiver. But, it's all up to you since I'm not allowed to vote. 

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Stacking The Shelves (11)

Hey Chroniclers! I was supposed to put this up yesterday but the day went by so fast and before I knew it it was over. I have no idea how that even happened! But I'm here now and time to show you what I got! Stacking The Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by the joyous Tynga over at Tynga's Reviews in which we show you what we bought or received during the week! This week I went bad, especially considering that tomorrow I'll be buying another book and in the next week or so I'll be getting two more. It seems like my TBR Pile will never go down! D=

 Barnes & Noble sent me a coupon for 20% off and I always said that I'd only buy a book if there was a coupon so I could limit myself and save money at that. So with the coupon I bought Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews. I've heard about this book so much on YouTube and it seriously got me interested and so I'm super freaking to read this one! I'm not sure when I'll get to it though. I also love the way the cover feels. It's like rough parchment!

On Saturday I went to Walmart and I went into the movies section and looked for Game of Thrones Season 2 but they only had the DVD when I was looking for Blu-Ray. So instead I settled on a book, Rise by Andrea Cremer. My mom actually bought me it so my money has been saved. Again, I hear the prequel series are the better books so I'm pretty excited to read this as well. I'm not sure when I'll read it but hopefully soon.

So that's all I got! What did you guys get this week? Let me know in the comments below!


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Cover Reveal: Snakeroot by Andrea Cremer

I was not expecting this at all but a new novel by Andrea Cremer is being released!

Snakeroot by Andrea Cremer takes place right after Bloodrose turning the trilogy into a series.

Andrea Cremer says, "Snakeroot focuses on Adne's struggles to adjust to the post-Witches War world of Searchers. She's plagued by disturbing dreams and visions, all of which draw her to the gardens of Rowan Estate. The cover image perfectly depicts the way in which Adne has become entangled by her own turbulent emotions and an encroaching dark magic."

Snakeroot will be released December 2013.

I have to say that this is by far my favorite cover of the series. I wasn't expecting the blue because they had done it for Rift and I was thinking they'd go with different colors each book but I do like it. Hopefully it's a different blue. But I can't wait for this book and this has made my day.

What do you guys think of the cover? Leave your thoughts down below!

Cast Them Away (2)

Holy shiznet Chroniclers! It has been the longest since I did another one of these. Almost a year really but I've got some inspiration to do it again. Cast Them Away is a weekly meme hosted by me in which I choose an actor or actress to play a role of a character from a book if it were ever a movie. This week I chose to do the Nightshade Trilogy by Andrea Cremer!

Who am I casting though? Today I shall cast the role of Calla Tor! The main character of course. Now I didn't exactly picture anyone while reading this but thinking about an actress only one person comes to my mind. Especially since the girl on the first cover (of the new covers) looks a bit like this actress. I'm talking about...

I tried to get a side shot so you can see how she resembles the cover model a bit as well. Not that much but I can see it. I think that Dianna Agron might be a good choice. She's done her part in an action movie already and she wasn't that bad and I sincerely think that it's time for her to star in her own role of a main character and who better than Calla? Just dirty her up a bit and bam! We got the wilderness girl we all love.

Also, there's a part in the series where Calla's hair gets chopped off and who else chopped off their hair at one point and still looks good and edgy and like she's ready to kick ass?

That girl.

She looks very good in that picture and like she's ready to kick ass of course. So should the Nightshade Trilogy be made into movies? Of course! Should Dianna Agron be cast as Calla Tor? Hell yes! Will it happen? Not sure but if I were the one making the movie I'd cast her in a heartbeat.

What do you guys think of this casting? Do you have anyone else in mind? Leave your comments down below and let me know!

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Tuesday's Novel Spotlight (48)

Hey Chroniclers! It is Tuesday which can only mean one thing. Books have been released into the world! And there's so many but only one will be chosen to be featured on the blog. Today will be a bit different than usual because the book is actually a sequel so I won't do my usual verdict, cover, story thing. Especially because I didn't read the first book yet so I don't want to be spoiled! That book though is....

Rise by Andrea Cremer.

This is the second and last book in her two-part sequel to her Nightshade Trilogy. I love it when authors write a bunch of books set in the same world and then match the covers along the way. And as much as I don't exactly like the covers for her books, I do enjoy how the spines look all together on a bookshelf. I do hope they continue the theme with black and one color with the next books if there are any. I'm thinking Orange, Pink, White, Brown, Gray, etc. etc. It'll just be cool all together.

I will buy this one for sure as I seem to enjoy Cremer's work. Or most of it.
You can check out what I mean in my Honesty Hour of the Nightshade Trilogy. And since then I have read Bloodrose and enjoyed it immensely.

But yea that's it. I don't know when I'll buy this one seeing as I'm trying to save my money until I get a job but I will buy it for sure someday.

Will you guys be getting Rise? Let me know in the comments below.

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Cover Reveal: Rift by Andrea Cremer

Hey guys! Wow, this is crazy! I've posted every day since Monday! What is going on?! Haha sike nah but seriously. I saw this cover yesterday at the same time I saw Reached by Ally Condie. But at that time I didn't feel like commenting on it without looking more at it. Which I am now glad of. The more I look at this cover the more I seem to like it better than I first did. 

Rift by Andrea Cremer is a prequel to the Nightshade Trilogy. The thing is I kind of expected the cover to match the Nightshade Trilogy a bit but maybe it will. I'm hoping the spine is blue just like the spine for the other three because that would look pretty cool all together.

The girl is really pretty in this picture and I love the weapon that she's holding, which by the way is an actual weapon. I do feel as if her arm is slightly in an awkward placement. I am pretty excited to read this since I LOVED Nightshade. I read Wolfsbane and didn't really like it but let's see how Bloodrose does as I read it soon.

Rift has a release date of 07 August, 2012 so be sure to mark your calenders and get your copy then!

Honesty Hour (1)

Hello everybody! Sorry for the late post but I've been sick in bed and only now did I muster the courage to get online. Anyway, Honest Hour is a new thing I'll be doing possibly weekly. While it might seem like a review, it'll be full of spoilers and can talk from one book to multiple books. The reason for this is that my reviews are usually spoiler-free and I don't really go into length talking about it. I don't want to give away anything that might ruin the story during those reviews so I warn you that this will be full of spoils and should only be read if you have read the novels. 

To start this off I chose a series that I read two of its books last year.


Starting with Nightshade by Andrea Cremer. When I read this book I was all into it. It was something new, dark and humorous. The love-triangle that was in it was different than what I had previously read before. Instead of a girl falling for two people she had to choose between someone she was falling for and someone she had to be with due to her laws. 


When I began reading Nightshade I was also watching Skins UK from E4 so I kind of put the two together. Skins is about a group of teens in their last two years of High School with different personalities and it chronicles the events that lead up to graduation. Nightshade reminded me of that with how it was two groups coming together as one with everyone having a different personality. How they would hang out in the cafeteria and go to a night club even if it was to investigate. It was a really good novel that I went in with low expectations. The action was great, the characters were awesome and the ending was just intense. 


Then comes Wolfsbane by Andrea Cremer. Before the book came out they decided to change the covers to what is up top. For some reason I felt as if this would ruin the story for me as I compare the covers with the novel itself. I decided to forget about it and finally read it. Boy was I disappointed. I went into this with such high expectations and was greatly let down. The magic of the characters were gone. Although most of the characters aren't there for part of the story because of certain reasons, the new characters just weren't working for me. Their introduction was too abrupt and not enough development went on. The story seemed too rushed and yet it dragged on. 


I kind of confused myself with that when I first said it but then I thought about it. Wolfsbane felt as if it could have been a couple of chapters in Nightshade, if some scenes were taken out of course. But for the scenes that were in it, it took a long time for the story to get there and when it did it was just bam, done, over. It should have been longer, more properly developed. It took almost two hundred pages before anything exciting happened. And when it did I was thinking to myself how out of place it seemed. The world we were introduced to in the first novel had changed drastically in the second that it seemed out of the ordinary. Nothing really felt familiar and it felt as if Calla herself had changed overnight. But read it I did and when I got to the end I just felt as if time might have been wasted. I wasn't feeling the story but I was still going to read the third novel.


Before even reading Wolfsbane I looked it up and saw that the cover for the third novel was out and that's when I found out.


Bloodrose by Andrea Cremer was set to be released January 2012, just mere months after the release of the second. I thought it was mistake but then it was confirmed that the release date was true and I thought to myself that it was over. I don't know what happened, if she previously wrote all three books and they were just now getting published or if she rushed through them but that kind of killed it for me. 


I have this thing with authors not taking their time writing books. To me a book should be properly done and not rushed through. When I see an author writing two books per year it freaks me out because I wonder if they're really doing it for the story or for the money. For some authors it does work such as Ellen Hopkins. She writes an adult novel and young adult novel a year and when we read it it's amazing. But the thing is, she writes in free verse. It doesn't take long to do and yet she does her research and her studying and it shows in the work. Yet we see Cassandra Clare releasing two books per month and the result is one such as City of Fallen Angels which was the shortest book and something that shouldn't have ever been published. It just felt like an excuse for more of Clary and Jace make-out scenes.


But when I recently got Bloodrose I saw that it was bigger than the other two and I thought maybe she it might redeem herself and that I shouldn't give up on it. Perhaps it'll have the same BAM as the first one and give me something that I actually want. But I won't exactly know until I start reading it.


And so with this I leave you guys here. What do you guys think of these novels? Give me your thoughts on them and let me know if you think authors should take their time with their writing. 


I also would like to say that I respect every author and would never say anything to bash them. If I'm against something it would be their work and not them as a person. I am a fan of Cassandra Clare and even though I might not like City of Fallen Angels I still like her other work. The same goes for Andrea Cremer. Even if I didn't enjoy Wolfsbane as much as Nightshade I will still go into Bloodrose with hopes that it'll get to me and enjoy any other work she releases.