August Reviews Wrap-up

Here are the books that I read and reviewed this month. (They are catergorized by Leisure Reads and Review Copies.)

Leisure Reads

    

Review Copies

   

My reading speed became a bit faster this month. I actually read 13 books this month but I only review 9 so I guess, I should improve my reviewing skills next time. 

So stay tuned for more of my reviews this coming month!

Ciao!

Back to the Books Giveaway Hop (INT)

It's the time again, when kids groan to the sound of alarm clocks and teens are either ecstatic or dreading to go back to school. First day jitters is now invading the school air again, making students feel all sorts of emotions.

So before that day began, I decided to join Back to the Books Giveaway Hop hosted by I Am A Reader, Not A Writer and Buried In Books. And because I want you guys to have a really nice day whether your at home or at school , I'm giving away a Book of your Choice worth $15. 

First Frost Blog Tour: Review

Title: First Frost
Author: Liz De Jesus
Genre/s: Young Adult, Fantasy

Synopsis:

Fairytales aren’t real…yeah…that’s exactly what Bianca thought. She was wrong.

For generations, the Frost family has run the Museum of Magical and Rare Artifacts, handing down guardianship from mother to daughter, always keeping their secrets to “family only.”

Gathered within museum’s walls is a collection dedicated to the Grimm fairy tales and to the rare items the family has acquired: Cinderella’s glass slipper, Snow White’s poisoned apple, the evil queen’s magic mirror, Sleeping Beauty’s enchanted spinning wheel…

Seventeen-year-old Bianca Frost wants none of it, dreaming instead of a career in art or photography or…well, anything except working in the family’s museum. She knows the items in the glass display cases are fakes because, of course, magic doesn’t really exist.

She’s about to find out how wrong she is.

Book Review: Divergent

Title: Divergent
Author: Veronica Roth
Genre/s: Young Adult,  Fantasy, Science Fiction, Dystopia

Synopsis:

In a future Chicago, 16-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.

Book Review: The Goose Girl

Title: The Goose Girl
Author: Shannon Hale
Genre/s: Young Adult, Fantasy, Mystery

Synopsis

Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, spends the first years of her life under her aunt's guidance learning to communicate with animals. As she grows up Ani develops the skills of animal speech, but is never comfortable speaking with people, so when her silver-tongued lady-in-waiting leads a mutiny during Ani's journey to be married in a foreign land, Ani is helpless and cannot persuade anyone to assist her.


Becoming a goose girl for the king, Ani eventually uses her own special, nearly magical powers to find her way to her true destiny. Shannon Hale has woven an incredible, original and magical tale of a girl who must find her own unusual talents before she can become queen of the people she has made her own.