Amy's Book Den

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Waiting on Wednesday (130)

Hosted at Breaking the Spine.

White Hot Kiss

Jennifer L. Armentrout

February 25 2014

Goodreads

One kiss could be the last.

Seventeen-year-old Layla just wants to be normal. But with a kiss that kills anything with a soul, she's anything but normal. Half demon, half gargoyle, Layla has abilities no one else possesses.

Raised among the Wardens—a race of gargoyles tasked with hunting demons and keeping humanity safe—Layla tries to fit in, but that means hiding her own dark side from those she loves the most. Especially Zayne, the swoon-worthy, incredibly gorgeous and completely off-limits Warden she's crushed on since forever.

Then she meets Roth—a tattooed, sinfully hot demon who claims to know all her secrets. Layla knows she should stay away, but she's not sure she wants to—especially when that whole no-kissing thing isn't an issue, considering Roth has no soul.

But when Layla discovers she's the reason for the violent demon uprising, trusting Roth could not only ruin her chances with Zayne…it could brand her a traitor to her family. Worse yet, it could become a one-way ticket to the end of the world.

Why am I waiting for it?

Armentrout has never dissapointed me and I'm quite excited with the whole gargoyle theme, BUT...It's a girl crushing on a 'teacher' figure again. It's a girl crushing on a super bad boy again. I don't know how she'll spin this, but hopefully it'll be a different dynamic than what she's done with Alex/Aiden and Katy/Daemon. Also, side rant, what's with the cover. I demand a new one.

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Teaser Tuesday (106)

Hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

Kinslayer
(The Lotus War 2)
by Jay Kristoff

~The girl all Guildsmen fear~

“Run back to your masters. Tell them what you saw here. And you tell them the next time they send a sky-ship near the Ishi Mountains, I'm going to carve my father's name into her captain's chest before I paint the sky with his insides. Do you understand me?"
Jubei nodded. "I do..."

She pressed on his neck, her blade sinking a little farther in. Jubei gasped, not daring to move, blood welling and running down his throat. For an awful, terrifying moment, he could see it in her face' the desier to simply open him up, ear to ear, to bathe in the spray of his carotid and jugular, lathering the bloody froth from his windpipe on her hands. Her lips peeled back from her teeth, blade twitching in his flesh, looking over him like a terror from some children's story, some nightmare sprung inexplicably to life.

The girl all Guildsmen fear.

"Please," he whispered. "Please..."