Musing Mondays (63) & It's Monday! (61)

 Hosted by Should Be Reading.

 This week’s musing is…

~Tell us what book you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that book~

I read Ready Player One for last terms Fantasy and Scifi class, and the second I finished it I went online and bought my best friend a copy. He's a gamer freak, and I say that with all the love, so I knew he'd totally get hooked on the book the same way I did. Now that I think about it, with all the craziness of the holidays, I haven't even asked him about the book. lol

Waiting on Wednesday (78)

Hosted at Breaking the Spine, spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

I am eagerly waiting for... 

Shades of Earth

Beth Revis

January 5 2013

Goodreads:

Amy and Elder have finally left the oppressive walls of the spaceship Godspeed behind. They're ready to start life afresh--to build a home--on Centauri-Earth, the planet that Amy has traveled 25 trillion miles across the universe to experience.

But this new Earth isn't the paradise Amy had been hoping for. There are giant pterodactyl-like birds, purple flowers with mind-numbing toxins, and mysterious, unexplained ruins that hold more secrets than their stone walls first let on. The biggest secret of all? Godspeed's former passengers aren't alone on this planet. And if they're going to stay, they'll have to fight.

Amy and Elder must race to discover who--or what--else is out there if they are to have any hope of saving their struggling colony and building a future together. They will have to look inward to the very core of what makes them human on this, their most harrowing journey yet. Because if the colony collapses? Then everything they have sacrificed--friends, family, life on Earth--will have been for nothing.

FUELED BY LIES.
RULED BY CHAOS.
ALMOST HOME.

Why am I waiting for it?

I can’t believe this is the end of the journey, but OMG I can’t wait to read it! Even my mom is waiting for this one! No joke!

Review: Avow by Chelsea Fine

Avow

(The Archers of Avalon 3)

Author: Chelsea Fine

Publisher: Firefall Publishing, 2012

Genre: YA Paranormal Romance

Buy: Amazon ♥ B&N

Overview

Scarlet remembers. Everything. Her past lives, Tristan, Gabriel, Nate: she remembers it all--including how to get to the Fountain of Youth. But time is running out.

Heather and Gabriel have been kidnapped by Raven, while the curse that has plagued Scarlet and Tristan for centuries has shifted, putting the star-crossed lovers in more danger than ever before. Water from the Fountain of Youth is the only thing that can save Scarlet and her loved ones. But the water comes at a price.

With lives--and hearts--at stake, Scarlet leads her friends on a dangerous journey to the Fountain of Youth. Where eternal life is possible, but death is certain.