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The Killables by Gemma Malley
Pages: 384
Release Date: March 29th 2012
Publisher: Hodder
Source: For Review from Publishers
Buy it: Amazon
Add it: Goodreads
Everyone accepted that people were different physically. But inside? Inside, they were different too. You just had to know how to tell, what to look for.
Evil has been eradicated. The City has been established. And citizens may only enter after having the 'evil' part of their brain removed. They are labelled on the System according to how 'good' they are. If they show signs of the evil emerging, they are labelled a K . . . But no one knows quite what that means. Only that they disappear, never to be seen again . . .
My Thoughts
Gemma Malley! I've been a big fan of her books right after I devoured her The Declaration trilogy. I LOVED reading them. Her writing had a awe to it that I didn't see before. When I received The Killables I didn't take much notice of it but not until I saw Gemma Malley printed on the cover. I instantly left everything I was doing and jumped to the chance of reading. I had serious high expectations.
Horray for another dystopian novel. I just can't get enough of them. In The Killables we're introduced to a society where 'evil' ceases to exist and people are marked in regards to how 'good' they are. How cool does that sound.
Evie is not to bad either. I liked her character a lot but please excuse me as I have to first rush into what I didn't like associated with her. Raffy. Let me tell you about Raffy.Here's the thing. Raffy doesn't deserve what her has. He acts like a child that has no understanding, no care and no responsibility. He makes rash decisions without a thought about the consequences. I mean, he's just SO frickin selfish I feel like being mean to him! Okay so that's the worst I can think of but yeah, I hope I've established how much I dislike him.
I don't think I would have disliked him as much as I do if it wasn't for William. William is Raffy's brother. And he is everything that Raffy is not. He has understanding, he does care and he sure as hell is responsible. The number of things he has done, the amount he has sacrificed is just amazing. William deserves so much more and I love all these things about him. And for once, I love a guy character mainly because of what he is, not how he looks like. (Not that he's not good looking. I'm sure he is!)
Okay. So on to the story! A lot of secrets are revealed. Although, it's something good to help them all, a secret was kept a secret for a reason so it's only giving that something bad would string along. These revelations help Evie and Raffy make sense of the world they live in and help them decide what on earth to do next. It's a great atmosphere full of so much drive.
How exciting! And, as you can tell The Killables met my expectations, if not, then further. My only wish now is that William gets. what. he. WANTS!!!! As you can tell, I get very emotional when I'm talking about William. I will only be at rest until I read the next book. I need it.
Author news: Hana (A Delirium Story) by Lauren Oliver!
Are you a Lauren Oliver fan?
Well, then listen up! Hodder & Stoughton, Lauren Oliver's publishers have an amazing Christmas treat!
Now, we know you'll be desperate to order it immediately, but we have a favour to ask you. We'd love to give Lauren the best Christmas present ever: seeing Hana at number one in the eBook charts on Christmas Day.
Will you help us get it there by joining in on one big Christmas Eve push? If we all buy it on the 24th December, that will propel it up the charts into (hopefully!) the top spot.
SO. Lets all support Lauren Oliver. Buy Hana and hopefully it number one on the eBook charts!Happy holidays! :)
SO. Lets all support Lauren Oliver. Buy Hana and hopefully it number one on the eBook charts!Happy holidays! :)
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Cover Alerts!
My Sister Lives on the Mantlepiece by Annabel Pitcher
Jenny @ Wondrous Reads earlier revealed the cover for My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece that is published in paperback here in the UK on September 29th! I love it! It looks so cute especially with that little drawing.
Loss by Jackie Morse Kessler
Jackie Morse Kessler just released the cover to book three in her Horsemen of the Apocalypse series, titled Loss, on her blog! I really like it especially since the covers match with the colours and font. And, it's spooky like the others!
This is not a Test by Courtney Summers
I haven't heard of Courtney Summers before but when I found out she has a new book called This Is Not A Test coming out in June 2012 with this amazing cover, I knew I has to read it. She recently revealed the cover on her blog and I think it's phenomenal!
Fateful by Claudia Gray
This is the UK cover. I gotta admit I like this one better than the US one. I so want to read this seeing it has something Titanic-al. I LOVE the cover!
Trailers
OMG! The Hunger Games! This clip was revelead on MTV at the VMAs. I have been dying to see this! It's not much but it sure is somthing. I really really love it. The effects are awesome!! Though, I can't see my Peeta!
This is the second part trailer to the amazing book, Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Tailor. You just have to see it! I loved the first one and now this one too. How great!
The third novel in Becca Fitzpatrick's bestselling Hush, Hush saga- Silence, is published globally on 4th October 2011 here is an exclusive taster to keep us fans going until the book is available! You should so watch it especially if you love topless fallen angel boys ;D
Blog Tours
Sorry I haven't done a book news post in ages! It just that these post take quite a while to compile! Though, I hope you enjoy this weeks bookish news! Awesome stuff, right?
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Cover Alerts!
Tiger's Voyage by Colleen Houck
The cover to the third book in the Tiger Quest series. The cover is pretty I love the colours but I'm not a big fan of that monster there LOL.
Angel Fire by L.A Weatherly
I think this is the UK cover to Angel Fire... this looks really good. I love how the title is glowing and not being able to see the models face also gives it another great look!
Trailers
Laini Taylor has posted a daughter of smoke and bone teaser trailer on her site. I've put it up here and you can also find it on her site too. Don't forget to follow her as well! Regarding the trailer, I think it's great... I love the look of it!
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This is the trailer to Fury by Elizabeth Miles. Check it out it really is awesome. Also the website for Fury has also launched! The website promotes the ‘Revenge Is Sweet’ campaign, encouraging fans and tweeters alike to tell us their revenge stories for a chance to win a fabulous bespoke Fury bracelet. It’ll also is taken to Twitter with the hashtag #revengeissweetfury. There are also some fantastic authors on board, including Lauren Oliver and Becca Fitzpatrick! Fury is to be released on 1st Spetember in the UK!
Other News
Remember the Bloodlines contest Richelle Mead had talked about? Well, Richelle announced if Bloodlines got 10,000 or more pre-orders in a week then she will release the unseen unoffical chapter of Bloodlines which is in Adrians point of view! So, it's been a week and what do you think happened?
Check out the results on Richelle's blog!
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Becca Fitzpatrick, the bestselling author of the Hush Hush series has announed her UK and US tour dates for her book signing of Silence! Check out the dates on her blog if she's going to a store near you!
Becca Fitzpatrick, the bestselling author of the Hush Hush series has announed her UK and US tour dates for her book signing of Silence! Check out the dates on her blog if she's going to a store near you!
Awesome news this week! Right?
A Need for Book News (7)
A Need for Book News is a weekly feature I thought of doing displaying recent book related news that have been announed during the week! For previous Book News posts, click here.
Take a look at all the awesome bookish things! :D
Take a look at all the awesome bookish things! :D
Cover Alerts!
Destined by P.C. CAST
Oh my! I LOVE this cover! Especially, the tattoos on the models back, it makes it all the more alluring and way spooky-er :)
UPDATE: This is NOT the official cover. It's Fan Made!
Oh my! I LOVE this cover! Especially, the tattoos on the models back, it makes it all the more alluring and way spooky-er :)
UPDATE: This is NOT the official cover. It's Fan Made!
Across the Universe by Beth Revis
This is the US(?) paperback version of cross the Universe. I really like it and I think it's just as good as the hardback version!
This is the US(?) paperback version of cross the Universe. I really like it and I think it's just as good as the hardback version!
Ahhh! The Fever cover! It's so great and it totally goes with the Wither cover too. I love it! I really liked reading the book too, can't wait to read this one now! (:
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Here's an extract too!
A breeze rolls up from the water, and I realize at once how numb the cold air and wet clothes have made me. We should find someplace to stay, but where? I sit up and take in our surroundings. There’s sand and rocks for several more yards, but beyond that I can see the shadows of buildings. A lone freight truck lumbers down a faraway road, and I think soon it’ll be dark enough for Gatherer vans to start patrolling the area with their lights off. This would be the perfect place for them to hunt; there don’t appear to be any streetlights, and the alleyways between those buildings could be full of scarlet district girls.
Gabriel, of course, is more concerned about the blood. He’s trying to wrap my palm with a piece of seaweed, and the salt is burning the wound. I just need a minute to take this all in, and then I’ll worry about the cut. This time yesterday, I was a House Governor’s bride. I had sister wives. At the end of my life, my body would end up with the wives who died before me, on a rolling cart in my father-in-law’s basement, for him to do only he knows what.
But now there’s the smell of salt, sound of the ocean. There’s a hermit crab making its way up a sand dune. And something else, too. My brother, Rowan, is somewhere out here. And there’s nothing stopping me from getting home to him.
Trailers
Chain reaction book trailer! I am dying to read this book after reading the two previous books in the series! And look! The trailer. I really like it! Don't you?
LJ Smith. The author of the vampire diaries? Yes, so this is another book series she wrote- The Secret Circle. I havn't read that series but I did read the Vampire Diaries series. Anyways, this is the trailer for the series that's going to air on CW on Spetember 15th. It's totally great! I cannot wait to watch it!
Other News
Richelle Mead has issued a challenge to her fans: Reach 10,000 pre-orders for BLOODLINES before this week ends and she will reveal an exclusive cut-chapter from the book, narrated by the one and only Adrian Ivashkov!! ADRIAN FANS UNITE! Details here!
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Feeling the need to release your inner wolf
over the cliffhanger Andrea Cremer left us with in Wolfsbane? Well tuck your tail between your legs, because she's given us preview of the first chapter of BLOODROSE! Warning: Do not read if you have not read Wolfsbane. Spoilers, ahoy! Read it here!
Want to read the first chapter of LOLA AND THE BOY NEXT DOOR?! Of course you do! Go on this link to read it!! CAN I HAVE THE FULL BOOK NOW PLEASE?!
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The Hunger Games!
Entertainment Weekly has done a spread for the boys of The Hunger Games. EW has released high quality versions of some of those stills to help hold us over until we can pick up the magazine for ourselves!
Just look at Peeta! Gale's not too bad either. Don't you just love the photos! More info at EW.
So much bookish news this week! Awesome stuff! Right?
So much bookish news this week! Awesome stuff! Right?A Need for Book News (6)
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COVER ALERTS!
The Statistical Probability of love at first sight by Jennifer E. Smith
This UK cover was revealed a copule of days back! I love the cover, the writing and well the book sounds really good too. I can't wait to read it!
Spellbound by Rachel Hawkins
Amazing! The cover really does compliment with the other books in the series which is a great thing. I have to really get reading this series!
Amazing! The cover really does compliment with the other books in the series which is a great thing. I have to really get reading this series!
OTHER NEWS
So, I'm a mega mega Vampire Academy fan and so when I found out you can read the first chapter of Bloodlines online I was ecstatic. Yes, you heard my right! The First Chapter of Bloodlines by Richelle Mead! Yay :) Okay, so just click on THIS LINK to go and read it.
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Hunger games movie poster!
OMG! I came across this frickin unbelievably awesome Hunger Games Poster! It's official and It is just so so awesome! I love it and especially because of the beautiful, roaring flames, the symbolic Mockingjay pin, and the quote that perfectly captures the story. It’s all there!
And this is the countdown widget! :O ...come on March 23, 2012!
The poster, the countdown widget, what do you think?
A Need for Book News (5)
A Need for Book News is a weekly feature I thought of doing displaying recent book related news that have been announed during the week! For previous Book News posts, click here.
Take a look at all the awesome bookish things! :D
Take a look at all the awesome bookish things! :D
COVER ALERTS
Perception by Kim Harrington
This is A Clarity novel, I havn't gotten a chance to read it but is very high on my TBR list. I love the cover, it may not be in with Clarity but it has the same kind of grace and well clarity.
A Million Suns by Beth Revis
I have read Across the Universe, I really looooved it and I just cannot wait to read this one too. Just look at that cover! I was awed by... it is really nice!
The Golden Lily by Richelle Mead
WOW. I am a majoy VA fan and when I saw this I instantly fellin love with it! Come one! It so goes with Bloodlines and all that yellow and gold really stands out!
Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver
Another beautiful cover. It lives up to Deliruim definetly. I cannot wait to read this one either, seeing as Delirium was definetly gripping!
UK | US
Can you guess what happened? Yep, the UK publishers decided the change the cover of Bloodlines to fit in with US ones. They're not exactly same, there is a bit of a differnce. Anyways, what can I say! I am so relieved. I really did not like the other cover at at all. I was going to buy the US book after knowing how the UK one looked. It wasn't all bad, but I'm just head over heels about the US one! I'm so so happy ;D
OTHER NEWS
OMG! HARRY POTTER! Yes, I do realise everyone knows that this is the final movie to be made in the series and it just been released but I just have to rave about it! Other than re-reading the books and re-watching the movie, what are we going to do! Well, there is Pottermore but that's in a couple of months. Are you feeling what I'm feeling right now?
BLOG TOURS
Awesome news this week! Right?
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A Need for Book News is a weekly feature I thought of doing displaying recent book related news that have been announed during the week! For previous Book News posts, click here.
Take a look at all the awesome bookish things! :D
COVER ALERTS
Torn by Cat Clarke
I havn't read Entangled yet, and I so need to put it near the top of my TBR list because look at torn. Ctat Clarke released the cover on her blog and it's just so cool right, I'm so loving it!
Hallowed by Cynthia Hand
Just look at the US cover for Hallowed, the book that follows unearthly... it really fits in with the series and I love this cover too. If you havn't read Unearthly, you so should... it is one awesome book!
Balthazar by Claudia Hand
Balthazar is the companion novel to the Evernight series. I really loved the Evernight series but I wasn't a really big fan of how everything ended. I don't really like the colour to the Balthazar cover but I'll say it's alright.
Everneath by Brodi Ashton
OMG just look at the Everneath cover! It is just to die for. I havn't read any books by Ashton and can't wait to see wha this one is about!
TRAILERS
NEW Delirium Trailer - would you take the cure?
If love were a disease
would you take the cure?
Watch the brand new interactive trailer for Delirium and decide...
OMG! The trailer for Delirium is so so awesome and do you know what's more, it's interactive so you can click yes or no... watch it and you'll see what I mean. And oh I clicked No obviously :D ...great trailer don't you think?
OTHER NEWS
Random House Children's Books have acquired not
one, not two, but three new titles from Karen Mahoney, author of The Iron
Witch and its upcoming sequel The Wood Queen.
These new titles will include the third and
final book in The Iron Witch trilogy, entitled The Stone Demon, to
be published in 2013.
RHCB have also snapped up two books in a
Karen's new series, Beautiful Ghosts. This one features Moth, a teenage
vampire who first appeared in a short story Falling to Ash in The
Eternal Kiss anthology.
Here's more about Beautiful
Ghosts:
Being a vampire is for life - not just a lifestyle.
Reluctant teenage vampire Marie 'Moth' O'Neal infiltrates a group of Otherkin kids in Boston, teenagers who believe they are reincarnated vampires, in order to find out who or what is killing off the troubled teens... and then turning them into something truly undead with a taste for human flesh. All this while trying to stop sexy young hunter Jace Murdoch from shooting anything that doesn't breathe - including her.
BLOG TOURS
Some great news this week! Awesome stuff! Right?
MIA
MIA
A Need for Book News (3)
A Need for Book News is a weekly feature I thought of doing displaying recent book related news that have been announed during the week! For previous Book News posts, click here.
Take a look at all the awesome bookish things! :D
Take a look at all the awesome bookish things! :D
COVER ALERT
Bloodlines by Richelle Mead
So this is the UK cover of Bloodlines. As great as it is, I still prefer the US cover, it's so much more captivating and bright. But hey, the UK cover isn't that bad. I so cannot wait to read Bloodlines!
A Beautiful Evil by Kelley Keaton
This cover was released a few days ago and I really like it. It's really dark. The writing at the front goes with the other covers and the angel also makes it look even more mystififying!
OTHER NEWS
Everyone will HAVE to have heard about POTTERMORE by now, right? You'd be mad if you didn't! A few days ago, JK Rowling revealed what POTTERMORE is exactly about. You can find the video at pottermore.com. Also, you can submit your email to get an update when the website will officially open! How frickin awesome! Oh and did I mention you will be able to buy the Harry Potter ebooks? *squeels* :D
Talking about Harry Potter, don't forget to vote for your favourite harry potter character oveer at the Bloombury website!
'Simply select the character you would like to vote for and click the SUBMIT button. If your favourite character doesn’t appear, then select the OTHER button and type in the name of the character you would like to vote for.
The poll closes on Friday 26th August 2011 and the favourite character will be announced on Tuesday 30th August 2011'
'Simply select the character you would like to vote for and click the SUBMIT button. If your favourite character doesn’t appear, then select the OTHER button and type in the name of the character you would like to vote for.
The poll closes on Friday 26th August 2011 and the favourite character will be announced on Tuesday 30th August 2011'
-Bloombury website
BLOG TOURS
Some great news this week! Awesome stuff! Right?
MIA
MIA
A Need for Book News (2)
A Need for Book News is a weekly feature I thought of doing displaying recent book related news that have been announed during the week! For previous Book News posts, click here.
Take a look at all the awesome bookish things! :D
Take a look at all the awesome bookish things! :D
COVER ALERT
The cover for The Iron Knight by Julie Kagawa has already been released a long time ago but now recently, Julie Kagawa revealed the back of The Iron Knight! I personally LOVE the front! Ash is everything I imagined him to be and as you can guess the back is Puck! Puck's character is just so great but I'm not a big fan of the back cover. I suppose you can recognise it's Puck but it's not as great as the front.
What do you think?
WOW at Incarnate and Delirium. I've read Delirium and yes, it's just so aweomse and now I can't wait to read Incarnate! Great Covers... don't ya think?
TRAILERS
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 ! OMG this is like the FINAL trailer ever from the Harry Potter series and oh the final movie too! If you hav't watched it, then what are you waiting for? It's simply EPIC! :D
OTHER NEWS
Pottermore
Recently, POTTERMORE was revealed to everyone. And so everyone is wondering and wondering... what exactly IS POTTERMORE? I guess we'll all find out as JK Rowling announces it on the 23rd of June! I'm so so curious! All we know that there's not going to be another book but somthing even better? What can it possibly be! Waddya think it is?
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Second book to Divergent is titled
INSURGENT
Heres what Veronica had to say on her blog:
This post really wouldn't be complete without a dictionary definition, so here it is:
INSURGENT.
Origin: 1755–65; < Latin insurgent- (stem of insurgēns ) present participle of insurgere: to get up, ascend, rebel.
1. a person who rises in forcible opposition to lawful authority, especially a person who engages in armed resistance to a government or to the execution of its laws; rebel.
2. a member of a section of a political party that revolts against the methods or policies of the party.
3. one that acts contrary to the established leadership (as of a political party, union, or corporation) or its decisions and policies
4. (international law) a person or group that rises in revolt against an established government or authority but whose conduct does not amount to belligerency
1. a person who rises in forcible opposition to lawful authority, especially a person who engages in armed resistance to a government or to the execution of its laws; rebel.
2. a member of a section of a political party that revolts against the methods or policies of the party.
3. one that acts contrary to the established leadership (as of a political party, union, or corporation) or its decisions and policies
4. (international law) a person or group that rises in revolt against an established government or authority but whose conduct does not amount to belligerency
Not all of those definitions are equally applicable to the book-- some are more spot-on than others. But I won't tell you which ones yet.
Now all I have to do is finish! Back to the writing cave!
Now all I have to do is finish! Back to the writing cave!
Some great news this week! Awesome stuff! Right?
MIA
MIA
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