Weekly Wanted: Wishlit Wonders #5

Got to apologize for not doing one last week, but frantic schedule meant a miss out for one week... this really should be no.6, but isn't. Oh well. Thumbs up to Amber and Rachel, who are the fabbity createttes of this weekly meme! :)

1. Envy by Anna Godbersen.
New York City, 1900 - In high society nothing is more dangerous than a scandal. Two months have passed since the esteemed Holland family's shocking fall from grace and those watching the impetuous Miss Diana Holland are beginning to whisper again.
Further uptown, notorious cad Henry Schoonmaker and his new bride are the city's most celebrated couple. But the glittering diamond she wears hasn't yet brought her all she desires. Manhattan's most envied residents appear to have everything: wealth, beauty, happiness. But in a city ruled by reputation, sometimes the most practised smiles hide the most scandalous secrets...

Official Publication Date: 2009 (paperback).

2. Last Sacrifice by Richelle Mead.
It all comes down to now. Murder. Love. Jealousy. And the ultimate sacrifice. The Queen is dead and the Moroi world will never be the same. Now, with Rose wrongly awaiting execution and Lissa in a deadly struggle for the throne, the girls find themselves forced to rely on enemies and to question those they thought they could trust. But what is freedom means sacrificing the most important thing of all?
Each other.

Official Publication Date: 7th December 2010 (paperback).

3. Anastasia by Carolyn Meyer.
In 1914, Grand Duchess Anastasia, youngest daughter of the Tsar, leads a regimented but privileged life in the grand palaces of Russia. Then come the First World War and the Bolshevik revolution, With the royal family arrested and exiled to Siberia, the life she knew is swept away forever. Fear and uncertainty are all that remains...

Official Publication Date: 2000 (paperback).

You like? They're all from different genres too, which is the first week I've actually done that. Is that important to have a mixed taste of reads, or do you reckon finding one type you like is enough? Comment with views, please! K-A x.

P.S. Sorry for no piccies at the mo - will be uploaded soon. (GTG NOW!!!) x

Award!!!!

WTML got her first award! Zoe Crook, brilliant bloggette from Bookhi, had given me the 'Stylish Blogger Award'! YAY. I call this a time for celebration, with muffins (latest obsession), and while we're on the thought of muffin, s'mite I mension that I have started a new blog on normal stuff (like Let's Go To A Journey, all about day to day life, blahblahlblah). Written the same style,still with bookish stuff... If it sounds your thing, head over there now. The link-thingy is on the side with the other fabbytastic ones!

ANYWAY. Back to my award. First one, too! Big hugs to Zoe who gave this to me - now for my seven facts you might not/might do know, and the fifteen lucky ones who I am passing this onto...

Seven Things You NEVER knew!

1. I couldn't throw a ball in benchball until last week. :P

2. My dream is to either be a teen novelist, cake decorator or interior designer for WAGs and Paris Hilton-alikes.

3. I started ballet lessons when I was four but quit the week after because the teacher wouldn't let me eat a custard cream at the rest break.

4. I've always attempted to keep a diary, but never write in one longer then a week.

5. I plan to take a gap year before college and go to Parisian fashion shows, Venice boat rides, trips to see koala bears in Austrailia and bead-shopping in India.

6. My all-time favourite foods are peanut-butter on toast, McDonald's burgers, fish and tartare sauce and strawberry ice cream with hot fudge sauce drizzled on top!

7. If I could, I'd go back in time to the 1920's and be a flapper living in exotic, lively London, wearing tassle dresses, smoking and drinking myself stupid, and basically having a life rain-free and much more interesting then the one I have.

Lucky fifteen!

1. The Beaucoup Review - Ria.

2. Bookster Reviews - Cliona.
3. Books Are A Girl's Best Friend - Stephanie.

4. The Mile Long Bookshelf - Amber.

5. Bookhi - Zoe .

6. The Life of Cat - A Teenage Daydreamer - Cat.

7. Heaven, Hell and Purgetory Book Reviews - Vicki and Lyndsey.

8. Vienna's Corner of The World - Vienna.

9. Cherry Diva - Cherry Diva.

10. Dubs and Classics.

11. SPICE - Amber

12. Random Gorgeouznezz - Mizz Ali.

13. Read It. Write It. Dream It. - Miss J.

14. My Game, My Rules - Angela.

15. Random Awesomenezz!!! - BLINGLICOUS.

Not all are book blogs, but hey, I love them all. Not in that order, mind, but yeah! I'll contact my fifteen as soon as so they can repost their own award specially from me, my muffins and my bookalicous life. Expect good reviews of I'd tell You I love You, But then I'd have to Kill You (phew!) and Dreamer Ballerina, in the coming week or so, and my Wishlit Wonder on Sun.

Toodalo!

K-Ax

a sort-of IMM.

IMM is In My Mailbox, right? I suppose this is onee of them. But it isn't. But it is. No. Yes. No. Yes. GAH!
I meant to start of with apologizing for the lack of POSTS. I'm sorry, I've had a hectic week! I've read and read, however, in every minute I can squeeze in. So, this is a little list of what is to come, all the books to be read and reviewed....

Rumours by Anna Godbersen

Eleanor: Crown Jewel of Aquitaine by Kristiana Gregory

Beads, Boys & Bangles by Sophia Bennett

Matched by Ally Condie

Bright Young Things by Anna Godbersen

Anastasia by Carolyn Meyer

Ballet Shoes by Noel Straitfeild

Blue Bloods by Melissa De La Cruz

The Clique by Lisi Harrison

Vampire Academy: Last Sacrifice by Richelle Mead

Doomed Queen Anne by Carolyn Meyer

I have a huge love of history. That list is pretty much preoccupied with Russian grand duchesses, doomed queens, pure-blooded dominents and girls who's stories are always complicated, set in the past, present and future. And that's what I love about YA. The way the author uses real life but makes it much more exotic and exciting then the regular classwork and teasing us normal teens go through.

Sorry for the short post. There'll be number five of my challenge, followed by a review later in the week. Nothing else, I'm afraid until at least a week today - I hate leaving everyone in tithers, but my birthday (thirteen, thank GOD) is on Tuesday so I'm preoccupied with that! Hopefully more novels are involved. This blog needs filling!

P.S Awesome book blog Heaven, Hell and Purgatory is holding a huge giveaway, to either win a copy of a book reviewed in January or a selection including the amazing Entangled by Cat Clarke! Check it out soon or you'll miss out on some brilliant chances to win some reading goodies - head over here: http://heavenhellandpurgatory.bookreviews.com

Weekly Wanted: Wishlit Wonders #4

Number 4.... ooh er. I've got this far! I'm very bad at challenges, I usually just get bored, but this one has some flair and difference to it. Ir's awesome, and I suggest you get down to http://themilelongbookshelf.blogspot.com/ to sign up and telling the blogoverse your three weekly wanted readettes! When you're done, link up and let us loony lot do the read, the comment and the smile. Simples. *squeak*.

1. Blue Bloods by Melissa De La Cruz

Schuyler Van Alen is a freshman at the prestigious Dechesne School. A loner by nature, she finds her life plunged into turmoil when she turns 15. Suddenly she is allergic to the sun, craves raw food, and if she cuts herself, her blood is blue. Schuyler has no idea what is happening to her. As more and more curious things happen to her, Schuyler must confront her friends and family to discover the truth behind her blue blood. But there are bigger problems to be faced: when a girl in school is found dead, with mysterious bite marks on her neck, Schuyler is even more confused about her heritage... and her destiny.

Official Publication Date: 22 February 2010 (paperback)

2. Bloodlines by Richelle Mead

Synopsis not released yet.

Official Publication Date: 23 August 2011 (hardback)

3. Fallen by Lauren Kate

There's something achingly familar about Daniel Grigori. Mysterious and aloof, he captures Luce Price's attention from the moment she sees him on her first day at Swords & Cross boarding school is sulty Savannah, Georgia. He's the one bright spot in a place where cell phones are forbidden, the other students are all screw-ups, and security cameras watch every move. Even though Daniel wants nothing to do with Luce - and tries to make that very clear - she can't let it go. Drawn like a moth to a flame, she has to find out what Daniel is desperate to keep so secret... even if it kills her.

Official Publication Date: 1st July 2010 (paperback)

There are all vampire/dark/paranormal novels, yup, but I do have a little thing for vamps. Team Edward (woop woop), Vampire Academy crazy best friends, a mother who thought she was a vampire until age 14 (true fact). Let's hope my wishlit wonders aren't bitten, eh?

Review: The Luxe by Anna Godbersen!

Every bookworm has the one book they have been desperate to read. They're scrimped and saved, only to splash the cash on chocolate (just me?), they have attempted to steal a copy from Waterstone's but chickened out at the history section, and torn their hair out because the nearest library to have a copy is as far away as me to you. However, I did get to FINALLY hold the copy of my must-read on the fourth of January and punch the air - I'll stop babbling and get on with it.

Imagine, if you will, New York City, 1899. Society's elite: the glamour, the grandeur, the glittering parties, the most handsome beaux, the most beautiful debutantes... the rich girl, the humble boy, the forbidden love, the stolen glances, the whispers, the scandal, the mystery, the revenge. You are cordially invited to step into The Luxe, where the secrets are dark and the sins are delicious. R.S.V.P
This book is more delicious than an jammy iced finger. I adored it. There isn't much flawing in the history, the sumptuous clothes are accurate and have you sighing with jealousy, and the love triangles and twists are cleverly planned and carried out in such good dialect. Anna writes a dream - the details are fantastic, the dialogue is witty and the plotline is stuck to. My only personal fault in the novel was the main character. Elizabeth was bland to me, with a tasteless personality like a wet lettiuce. OK, so maybe she should be, but it seemed silly to play make believe with her forbidden love, stable boy Will!
Penelope was one of my guilty pleasures. At first you think she'll be the perfect society best-friend, but her true side of jealousy, revenge and the desire to do what she wants to be on top came out. She had a pair of sharp talons, clawing at anything that benefits anyone but her, and this draws you in. Her love rival, Diana (Elizabeth's sister), was my other favourite. The way her and Henry innocently fall in love is beautiful and she seemed like my kind of person. Impatient for a life of adventure, the book ends with her in and good position. It leaves you hanging on for all the answers.
My copy has the opening prologue for the next in the series, Rumours. I have read this one too, which is just as good and ends with a sharp, but A-MAZING, twist. I am awaiting Envy, book three, but the post hasn't come. But while I'm thinking about early 1900's Manhatten elite monsters, you'll be buying book one and licking it up faster than a sticky doughnut!
Ratings:
Cover: 10/10
Plot: 10/10
Characters: 9/10
Writing Style: 10/10
Total: 39/20 - TOTAL.MUST.READ
Published 2008 by Penguin Books: 433 pages: 12+