Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl release title to the 4th and final Beautiful Creatures Novel

Author of the New York Times Bestselling series Beautiful Creatures have released the title of the 4th and final novel in the series, Beautiful Redemption will be released on October 23rd 2012.  The cover to the book will be released of her next month.  I am really excited for this book to come out especially with the way Beautiful Chaos ending it nearly killed me i cried so much, it has been a very big month for the authors and series with the movie being cast with actresses such as Viola Davis as Amma Emma Thompson as Sarafine Alice Englert as Lena and Jack O' Connell as Ethan Wate. Filming for the movie begins in April in New Orleans and the release date is set for February 1st 2013.  Though I have a bittersweet feeling about this being the last book i know it will be as amazing as the other three. Kami and Margaret  now how to pull there readers in and keep them wanting more.

Waiting for....

Girl of Nightmares

By: Kendare Blake

Release Date: August 7th, 2012

After reading Anna Dressed in Blood I'm really excited for the second book in this series.  After the ending of the last book I really want to know whats going to happen next.  Blake amazed me with her first book in this series  it was wonderful how Blake lures you into the story and makes you feel like your there with the characters her detailing is just great and I'm sure she'll amaze me again with the Girl of Nightmares.

Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake

Overall: 5 Stars

Description:

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....

My Thoughts: 

Ok so this book was just down right amazing...I got it almost a half a year ago and hadn't bothered to read about it tell now.  I hadn't really heard much hype about this book until lately and all of it has been about how amazing the story is and let me tell you all the hype is true. This is probably one of the best stories I've read in a very long time.  I never really liked horror novels and that's what made me avoid reading this book for so long but this book is much much more then a horror story.

The story is told from the point of view of Cas Lowood.  Cas kills the dead, spirits that still wander Earth even after they died.  Cas inherited the job from his Dad who was murdered by ghost he was hunting.  Cas, his Mother, and their cat hunt ghost in legend and lore across the country.  Then Cas hears about the ghost called Anna Dressed in Blood. She was murdered 1958 her throat slit. Anna is said to kill anyone who enters the home, and gets her name from the white dress she wore on the night of murder is now covered in blood.


This story is told in amazing detail I was competely engrossed from the first page.  Cas at the beginning of the book seems very distant and cold, his jobs is his life, its all the matters.  He wants to be the best at what he does so he can kill the ghost who took he's father life.  He sees the case of Anna no differently then he does any other kill the ghost.  Cas moves to the town haunted by Anna and enrolls at a local high school to gain information on to the legend of Anna and soon catches the eye of Carmel the most popular girl in school. He also catches the eye of the guys in school but not in the best way. Cas is invited the party later that week at a local hot spot in town.  Later that night him Carmel and two other guys go to the house haunted by Anna.  They beat Cas over the head with a broad and drag him into the house.  Cas awakens shortly after the blow and sees Anna her dress dripping in blood just like the legends say, he prepares to die he doesn't have his athame to kill Anna but something happens he doesn't expect Anna doesn't kill him.

The characters and scenery are created by Blake so well it feels like I'm there.  The way she taps into your senses and goes into such detail to describing the things in Cas's life and his feeling you can connected with him and whats around him so well it's what makes this book so addicting. Also what makes this book even better is the love Anna and Cas have. Anna is described as this dark horrible monster by most people and its even how she See's herself, but in truth she has no control of what she turns into and can't control it, she is really just a scared girl with a very bad past.  Cas at first doesn't understand why Anna doesn't kill him but still wants to kill her so he goes back to the house repeatedly to try and kill her and soon realizes its impossible unless they cast a spell to see into Anna past and figure out why shes this way.  That's when Cas's learns Anna's terrible past and he begins to fall in love with her he even saves Anna from one of the boys killing her Cas's then becomes willing to and do anything to break the curse on her.

Anna and Cas's love is one beautifully told in this story on how love can conquer any obstacle and what a person will do for the one they love.  Blake tells this story beautifully in a mix of horror and romance that makes the reader never want to put the book down.  The ending of this book broke my heart and I'm jumping up down waiting for sequel Girl of Nightmares to be release I cant wait tell I get to read what happens to Cas and Anna next

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DEADLY LITTLE VOICES: A TOUCH NOVEL by Laurie Faria Stolarz

*Release date December 6th

 

High school junior Camelia thought her powers of psychometry only gave her the ability to sense the future through touch. But now she’s started to hear voices. Mean voices. Berating her, telling her how ugly she is, and that she’d be better off dead. It’s a troubling development that has Camelia terrified for her mental stability, especially since her deranged aunt with a suicidal history has just moved into the family house. More torturing, ex-boyfriend Ben, who has similar psychometric abilities, has been spending more time with their classmate Alejandra.

With the line between right and wrong fraying, Camelia turns to pottery to get a grasp on her emotions. She begins sculpting a beautiful figure skater, only to receive frightening premonitions that someone’s in danger. But who is the victim? And how can Camelia help them when she is on the brink of losing her own sanity?

 

 

I'm so excited for this book to come out.  I picked up the first one about a year ago and I've been in love with the series ever since.  After the way the last book ended I really want to read this one. I love the cover of this book the colors and the way shes standing there with the flowers and the field of flowers  behind her its just beautiful.  The title already tells us the point of the book Camelia is hearing voices and there telling her horrible things. I'm so excited for this book to come out and I'm sure it will be as good as the other three.

 

 

Beautiful Creatures By Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl



Ethan Wate is haunted by dreams of a girl he’s never met. When Lena Duchannes moves into his small southern town of Gatlin County, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her. And he is determined to uncover the strange connection between them, even if it means uncovering the one secret that could change everything.









    I remember when I first picked up this book a year ago in my schools library.  It was maybe our third week back from summer break and I was looking at the new books the school had gotten.  I came across Beautiful Creatures and it was huge this book is 500 plus pages and I looked through it, the cover is what really caught my attention I loved the beautiful writing and the background, the main reason I picked it up and don't judge me on this was because I like the name Ethan. I was glad I picked up this book it is one of the best books I have ever read.

 The book is told from the point of view of Ethan Wate. Ethan has been stuck in the small town of Gaitlin all his life and can't wait to leave he is actually counting down the days tell he leaves.  Ethan's Mom has died and he lives with his house keeper Amma and his shut in Dad.  Ethan is a popular guy at Jackson High he is a sophmore,  he plays basketball and is handsome, tall and is 16.  He is also smart and loves to read, he has classic novels hidden under the bed in his room.  Ethan thinks nothing ever changes in Gaitlin until they return to school after summer break and he finds out they have a new girl Lena Duchannes.  Lena is the niece of the towns "Boo Radley" Macon Ravenwood who lives in an old mansion outside of Gatilin.  Everyone is quick to deem Lena a freak but Ethan doesn't he knows there is something different and special about her.  Lena is smart she is in mostly advance classes she has long black hair and green eyes she also wears a necklace full of random pieces of "junk" she drives a hearse and is only 15.  What Ethan doesn't know is when he meets and starts to get close to Lena that everything he's ever known about Gaitlin and himself will change forever. Her family is haunted by a curse that will choose if they become Light or Dark on their 16th birthday.

 I loved this book to pieces i actually finished it in one night I could not put it down.  The beginning of the book is a tad slow but they have to set the scene of Gaitlin and what life is like.  Ethan and Lena are an adorable couple the relationship between them is just wow the way the authors wrote about it, about all the obstacles that they have to over come for there relationship to work, how strong their love for each other is and how love can get you through anything no matter what anyone (or curse) says.  The setting is just amazing as well a few times I felt like I was in Gaitlin with Ethan and Lena standing in the muggy Southern air trying to break the curse that has haunted Lena's family forever and feeling everything the characters felt.

  Beautiful Creatures is a great read and already has the next two books in the series out. Id suggested this book to anyone of loves a good romance book mixed with a dark paranormal plot.