Review: Thone of Glass Novellas Pt.2 by Sarah J. Maas

Throne of Glass Novellas

Author: Sarah J. Mass

Publisher: Bloomsbury, 2012

Genre: YA Fantasy

Price: .99 each!

The Assassin and the Underworld (0.3)

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          Celaena has returned from her training, and after the beating she suffered, she is ready to move out of the Assassin’s Keep. But Arobynn is not ready to let her go. He’s sorry about what happened and tried to bribe her on staying with jewels and a job. One that Celaena can’t turn down, because it means ending the slave trade between two countries. Her newly honed assassin skills will be put to the test. But the deeper she digs the more confusing it gets. What happens when you’ve been fed the wrong information?

          Once again Celaena will have to work with Sam. During her stay in the Red Desert she missed him, and her feelings for him seem to have changed, only she doesn’t know if it’s a good or a bad thing. Will Sam’s kind and sweet gestures make her realize what her heart knew from that fated day in Skull Island?

Best scene: the sewers…trust me. 

Vote Daemon Black!

Team Daemon FTW

Daemon from the Lux series by Jennifer L. Armentrout will be going up against Peeta from The Hunger Games in the Young Adult Crush Tournament today (Wednesday August 1). Valerie from Stuckinbooks.com is Daemon's advocate.

To vote just head on over to

YA-Sisterhood.

For those who don’t know Daemon is from the Lux series (Obsidian and Onyx) by Jennifer L. Armentrout. To find out more about the series check out Jennifer’s website, here and read why Katy thinks you should vote here. Also check out the book trailer for Obsidian on Youtube. Need more info? You can check out my review of Obssidian HERE.

Daemon is competing the same day as one of Jennifer's other characters, Aiden from the Half-Blood series who is competing against Dimitri from the Vampire Academy series, so Jennifer will be combining the incentives.

The incentives that Jennifer will be offering include:

   
850 Votes: 
A  teaser from Daemon's POV in Onyx

 
1700 votes: 
A teaser from Deity, Cursed and Unchained

  
2500 Votes: 
A sneak peek at the "Kitchen Scene" from Onyx

  
Winning Vote:
A first peek at the "Club Scene" in Opal

(Check out the incentive from Round 1 (A)/ Round 1 (B) 
and Round 2 (A)/ Round 2 (B) in the Tourney)

Also don’t forget to join in on the Twitter party that will be lasting all day. There will even be the opportunity to win some awesome giveaways. To join in just use the hashtag #TeamDaemonFTW. Then stop by Valerie's blog Stuckinbooks.com to enter some more giveaways.

“Beautiful face. Beautiful body. Horrible attitude. It was the holy trinity of hot boys.” - Obsidian

Go Team Daemon!

Musing Mondays (46) &It's Monday! (43)

 Hosted by Should Be Reading.

 This week’s musing is…

What attracts you to a book blog? What puts you off in a book blog? Do you share personal stuff on your book blog?

          That's a lot of questions today! :)

          What attracts me to book blogs and keeps me going to them can be narrowed down to three things: 

          A. Presentation - AKA the look of the blog. Yes, this is important to me, especially when you take into consideration my answer to question #2. The biggest thing that puts me off a blog is if I can't deal with the presentation. That means neon colors, dark colors with hard to read fonts, too many sparkly things hovering, too many widgets everywhere, etc. My advice is to keep it simple and people will focus more on your posts.

          B. Organization - this has to do with the amount of widgets presented, but also the amount of posts and feature posts you do regularly. If you're a regular blogger, you get an immediate follow from me.

          C. Special Features - I love Memes and I follow quite a few of them, but if you've got a special meme or feature or post I like, I will take notice.

          As for the personal stuff, I think it's important to find a balance between sharing a bit and sharing too much. We don't want our readers to think we're robots and we do nothing but read and review, but we also don't want them to feel like they're reading our diary. I do like to share some personal stuff, like my adventures at Seton Hill where I'm getting my MFA in Writing Popular Fiction because I think it's relevant to the topic of books...and I gotta start promoting my work somewhere for when it's finished! Haha. But other than that I don't share my day to day happenings; not here, or twitter, or facebook.