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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Book Review- Kane Richards Must Die

By Shanice Williams
Published by Lands Atlantic Publishing, LLC
Released on May 12th, 2011
Source- ARC from publisher for review

After an unexpected transfer to the States for her senior year, Suranne's new friends give her just one instruction: stay away from Kane Richards. According to everyone, he's a heartless playboy concerned only for himself. With one glance, it's easy to see why he gets away with it. But things aren't always what they seem- especially when he sets his sights on her and whispers that she's different.

Despite all the red flags, Suranne considers whether or not his intentions are genuine or if she's simply another name on his list. In the process, she may just uncover the real Kane Richards. But, when it comes down to it, the real Kane Richards may not want to be found.

Filled with raw emotion, Kane Richards Must Die explores relationships, trust, love, and what can happen when life takes an unexpected turn (quoted from Goodreads).


I've been looking forward to reading Kane Richards Must Die since reading the premise. What the story offered was something I wasn't excepting. I'm not a huge fan of YA books that are full of sexual context and sex scenes, both of which are through out this book. Even though there were things that turned me off from the book I couldn't stop reading it. I was totally intrigued with Kane Richard's. He is such a broken boy in every sense of the word that I had to know more about him.

I liked Suranne's character. I had sympathy for her when she's forced to leave England while her mom is away on business to go live with her Aunt in America for a few months. Unlike all the other girls in her new high school, Suranne isn't afraid to give Kane a piece of her mind. The two of them had this chemistry were they both despised each other and yet find themselves falling each other, and I really liked that. It made their chemistry feel more realistic, and yes it's a hot one. The other thing I liked in the story was the alternating points of view, which I thought was well done.

Aside from their physical relationship, I really liked seeing how much Kane changed. Shanice did a great job at keeping a realistic feel in her story, both in what the characters deal with, and how they change each other. Kane's story is heartbreaking and I liked seeing how Suranne is able to break down the walls he's built around himself, little by little, slowly revealing who he really is. Kane Richards Must Die deals with some heartbreaking emotional issues, love, friendships and most importantly trust. I would definitely recommend this to older teens. There is a lot of sexual context, sex scenes and language through out the book. I think fans of The Duff will really enjoy picking this book up.

Summer's Crossing Teasers

We LOVE Julie's Kagawa's The Iron Fey series. How can you not? She has hot fairy boys, fabulous mythology, romance, action and she keeps us glued to each page as we wonder what's going to happen next.

As we all eagerly await the release of The Iron Knight, Julie has a novella called Summer's Crossing which is told by Puck aka Robin Goodfellow that will be released on June 1st!


I love this cover! The covers that Harlequin Teen has created for Julie's series are some of my favorites. If you missed it, Julie is posting TEASERS!!! You can read the one from today here:
Names are, of course, very important to my kind. Me, I have so many, I can’t even remember them all. None of them are my True Name, of course. No one has ever spoken my real name out loud, not once, despite all the titles and nicknames and myths I’ve collected for myself over the years. No one has ever come close to getting it right.

Curious, are you? Wanna know my True Name? Okay, listen up, I’ve never told anyone before. My True Name is…

You can read the rest of the Summer's Crossing teasers here. Now I'm going to go back to hoping both Winter's Passage and Summer's Crossing will eventually be published. Who wouldn't want to add these to their book collections. I just want to pet both of the covers.

Twitter Tuesday - Maggie Stiefvater


By now, most of you have seen the lovely cover of Maggie's new, standalone novel, The Scorpio Races. It's release date is October 18th and here's the synopsis from goodreads:

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Shiver and Linger comes a brand new, heartstopping novel.

With her trademark lyricism, Maggie Stiefvater turns to a new world, where a pair are swept up in a daring, dangerous race across a cliff--with more than just their lives at stake should they lose.


This is the story that Maggie promised us. Remember her comment about writing a novel with "blood, beaches and kisses"? I can hardly wait.

To help the wait a little, Maggie also posted a short story over on The Merry Sisters of Fate webpage. Here's a sample from the beginning:

On Tuesday, we discovered the dragon in the well.

Dad was grimly triumphant. He’d been complaining about a change in the water pressure for two weeks now; oh, we’d doubted him, had we? My sister Pippa was pleased. She’d just begun school and said she had nothing to talk about with her classmates. Well, no one else at school had any sort of reptiles affecting their utilities. Mom was disgusted. The entire reason that we’d had the well investigated was because she’d noticed an “off taste” to her pasta and tea and decided it was something in the water.

Well, there was something in the water all right.

For my part, I was just . . . interested. I was seventeen, and so far, year seventeen had seemed pretty similar to year sixteen, which had been pretty similar to year fifteen, which was pretty depressing any way you sliced it.

I’d been pretty burnt up about not having any good cocktail party stories yet.

But a dragon. A dragon definitely set apart year seventeen from sixteen. A dragon seemed like something that might be good cocktail party conversation later in life.

And that was interesting.
For the rest of the story, click over here. What could be better than a dragon story by Maggie? Nothing except a story with blood, beaches and kissing.

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