Dead Rules Blog Tour

Today I am THRILLED to kick of the Dead Rules tour with a fantastic post by the author himself R. S. Russell And an extract from the book!!!

PLUS Come Back later for a Giveaway of The book

She loved Michael that much, he thought.

Mars knew that love wasn’t all red paper valentines and candy hearts. Love wasn't always joy.  Love could be hot-blooded pain down to the bone.

Sometimes love was despair. And sometimes love was wrong.

Jana loved Michael enough to kill him for it. Jana loved Michael to death.

  

 Where did the idea for Dead Rules come from?

I created Dead Rule from a fascination with trying to understand love. I believe love is endless.  Sadly, our bodies are not. I wondered one day how young people might handle being dead and still being in love. Death is easy. Love’s the hard part.  

With this in mind I sat down and wrote Jana Webster’s story of being a victim of her own love in the afterlife. Because she needed people to talk to, I created an entire school of dead kids and, like all of life and death, there are some fun parts, too. Going out on dates when you’re dead isn’t always dreary (at least I hope it isn’t)…

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HAPPY EASTER Folks!!  Hope you haven't eaten yourself into a chocolate coma yet??  Personally I can't swear I haven't......

Wow this week feels like it has been LONG!  Nothing particularly huge has happened, it just seems long ago that I did my last IMM - I've obviously just gone a bit funny!!

I did get some fab books this week though 

 

RECEIVED

 

 Unrest By Michelle Harrison

Simon And Schuster sent me a lovely finished copy of this - I loved this book!!

Insignia By S.J.Kincaid

This was sent by the fantastic people at Hot Key Books - I've started this and am loving it!!

The Immortal Rules By Julie Kagawa

Mira Ink sent me a fantastic finished copy of this.  Shall be reading this soon as I am pleased to say I am part of the BLOG TOUR - YAY!!!

 

 Along with my copy of UNREST I was sent a press release that had quote from yours truly - Literally made my LIFE!!!  

Thanks to all the publishers that sent me books this week!!

What made your week??

Leanne 

xoxo

Review - Pandemonium By Lauren Oliver

 As This Is A Sequel Some Spoilers Are Possible

"I’m pushing aside
the memory of my nightmare,
pushing aside thoughts of Alex,
pushing aside thoughts of Hana
and my old school,
push,
push,
push,
like Raven taught me to do.
The old life is dead.
But the old Lena is dead too.
I buried her.
I left her beyond a fence,
behind a wall of smoke and flame." from goodreads

I've been extremely excited for the sequel to Delirium, since devouring it last year.  I'd never considered what a world without love would be like till reading that and it literally had me thinking about it ever since.

The UK cover is beautiful.  It is quite fitting with the location of much of the book.  However I was slightly disappointed that it was so different to the first cover.  I do like to have some sort of theme that runs through and couldn't see it with this.

On starting the book I was astonished to find where I was in the story.  Quite some time has passed and things have evolved vastly, which just made me eager to read on and find out what has happened.

You find out that the book alternates between two times, just after the last book and sometime in the future.  The shifting between the two times made me more and more curious as to how things could change so much, but like I said it makes you want to read faster to try and find out whats, what.

At times I found the descriptions of 'then' to be somewhat over descriptive.  I felt I just wanted to read about the characters and wasn't so excited to read about what was surrounding them.  This possibly is somewhat down to me being impatient and just wanting to know everything already.

I found reading about the struggles of the 'wild' very hard to comprehend.  I even started to question if the life Lena had before was THAT bad.  You realise what they are fighting for is worth it and hopefully in the same position people would fight for the same.

Pandemonium was completely different to Delirium and so not at all what I was expecting.  As I had certain expectations, I didn't find it quite as enjoyable as I thought I would.  That said I was really engrossed with the end and am extremely eager to read the finale and see how it all ends!

Rating 3 Out Of 5

Published in the UK By Hodder And Stoughton

This Can Be Purchased HERE and at all good book retailers

Title Reveal: Everneath 2 By Brodi Ashton

You may or may not know I had the pleasure of reading Everneath a couple of months ago and have pretty much raved about it since.  I still can't get over the fact that I read it in 2 sittings - I NEVER do that.  I was relieved to find out that this was just the first book in the series and so have lots more to look forward too.  Yesterday came the mega exciting news of the title for book 2 - Eeeeeee!

Brodi Ashton Announced on her blog (here) that the sequel will be called.......

EVERBOUND

I'm Loving the fact that they are keeping to the 'Ever' theme, just wondering what it means for the story though......I feel this is going to be a long wait!!!

Books That Make Me Go Oooooh (41) WENTWORTH HALL By Abby Grahame

Waiting On Wednesday is a brilliant book blog feature hosted by Breaking The Spine   

Wentworth Hall By Abby Grahame
Published In The UK By Simon And Schuster
Due For Release In UK July 2012
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"A lush, historical novel about the secretive Darlingtons of Wentworth Hall!The prettiest people often have the ugliest secrets…     Eighteen-year-old Maggie Darlington has turned into an entirely different person. The once spirited teen is now passive and reserved. A change Lord and Lady Darlington can’t help but be grateful for.     It’s 1912, and the Darlingtons of Wentworth Hall have more than just the extensive grounds to maintain. As one of Britain’s most elite families, they need to keep up appearances that things are as they have always been…even as their carefully constructed faÇade rapidly comes undone.     Maggie has a secret. And she’s not the only one…the handsome groom Michael, the beautiful new French nanny Therese, the Darlingtons’ teenage houseguests Teddy and Jessica, and even Maggie’s younger sister Lila are all hiding something. Passion, betrayal, heartache, and whispered declarations of love take place under the Darlingtons’ massive roof. And one of these secrets has the power to ruin the Darlingtons forever.     When scandalous satires start appearing in the newspaper with details that closely mirror the lives of the Darlingtons, everyone is looking over their shoulder, worrying their scandal will be next. Because at Wentworth Hall, nothing stays secret for long"

I only recently found out about this one, but was instantly excited for it.  I am a HUGE fan of all things Downton Abbey, Upstairs Downstairs, you get my drift so getting this kind of story but for the YA market is so beyond thrilling for me.  This can not come soon enough!!!

FEVER DAY

TODAY IS FEVER DAY

IT MARKS THE RELEASE OF THE AWESOME NEW TRILOGY BY 

DEE SHULMAN

FIRST OFF IS A GREAT VIDEO BY DEE HERSELF EXPLAINING FEVER DAY

NEXT UP IS THE THRILLING TRAILER FOR THE BOOK

SO WHAT DO YOU THINK?  ARE YOU EXCITED?  DYING FOR MORE??

CHECK OUT WWW.FEVERBOOK.CO.UK

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Sadly my friend went home to Canada *sob* BUT it does mean I have more time for my blog - YAY!!!  

   Generally been a good week, went to my very first book club meeting!!  Also got sent some incredible books, so here we go......

BOUGHT

The World Of The Hunger Games

This is a hard back beauty that I think is another fab edition to the series

RECIEVED

The Peculiars By Maureen Doyle McQuerry

I got this from the lovely Amulet / Abrams & Chronicle - I am SO EXCITED to read this one

 Ghost Flower By Michele Jaffe

I got this from ATOM books.  This sounds pretty interesting, really want to give this one a go!

A Face Like Glass By Frances Hardinge

This Is From MacMillan.  I've not read anything by Frances before, so quite intrigued

These are from the fantastic people at MIRA Ink

The Immortal Rules By Julie Kagawa

Eeeeep!  This sounds incredible, and it was signed to ME :D

The Goddess Test & Goddess Interrupted By Aimee Carter

I've heard some great things about this series and would love to give these a read

THANK YOU so much to all the lovely publishers for sending me there books!!!

Hope you had a spiffing week?

Leanne

xoxo