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Sunday, February 20, 2011

City of Fallen Angels & Cryer's Cross WINNERS!!!!!

Okay, I know I said that this coming week we'd post the winners for our City of Fallen Angels & Cryer's Cross giveaways, but I'm too excited to wait. Thank you to everyone who's made the CoFA Chapter Hunt a huge success and so much fun! It's been a blast chatting with you guys about the chapter and visiting the different sites. Don't forget that this TUESDAY Cassie will revealing the entire chapter, including the 13 missing pages on her site here!

You guys are amazing as we had a huge number of entries for our City of Fallen Angels giveaway! Random.org selected.... #23 Jessica Cochrane! CONGRATULATIONS!! Please note that Simon and Schuster is mailing out CoFA and it will NOT arrive until April 5th, 2011.



Thank you to those who left questions for us to ask Lisa during our interview with her yesterday. I used a few of them and you'll hear your names and questions being mentioned in our video, which I'll be posting later this week. Random.org picked.....#10 Britney Wyatt!! CONGRATULATIONS on a winning a SIGNED ARC of Cryer's Cross!


Thank you to EVERYONE who entered both contests! It's been a lot of fun hosting these giveaways. Thank you to Simon and Schuster for making these giveaways possible! Both winners have been notified and have 48 hrs to respond or new winners will be selected.

This Week's Features & In My Mailbox

I'm switching gears and instead of just posting about what we received in our mailbox each week, I'm also going to combine a new feature we've been talking about doing on Mundie Moms. Our Weekly Feature will list some of the things we'll have on Mundie Moms for the coming week, like reviews, author chats, interviews etc (which are also listed on our right hand side bar).

This Week's Happenings-
THANK YOU to everyone for all your support for Cassie's COFA chapter hunt and our 2nd Birthday Bash!!! Last week has a crazy busy week and a lot of fun. Thank you to everyone who joined our fun chat with Shannon Delany, Max and Pietr this past Thursday night!.

This week we'll be sharing our interview with Lisa McMann, and announcing our winners for Cyer's Cross, our Birthday Bash and the City of Fallen Angels!

This week we will be chatting with-
* Ally Carter on Tuesday the 22nd at 8 pm CST here on the blog
* Julie Kagawa on Thursday the 24th at 8 pm CST here on the blog

On Tuesday, we will be part of 5 bloggers who will be revealing the cover of Sophie Jordan's Vanish!! More details will come...

Last week I ended up moving two reviews around and one will be this week and one next week This week we will be reviewing-

* Mad Love by Suzanne Selfors
* The Heist Society by Ally Carter
* Secrets and Shadows by Shannon Delany
* Griffin Rising by Darby Karchut
* Father of Lies by Anne Turner
* Mieradome by Kate O'Hegarty



In My Mailbox- (In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by The Story Siren where we share what books we've received through out the week either for review, that we purchased, borrowed or were gifted. This week I've combined our MG and YA books.)
I had to show off my new bookends that arrived this week! I found them on Amazon, via Smash Attacks Reads here. She has a fabulous weekly feature called Friday Finds, Owl Edition. I couldn't resist getting them.

For Review-
* Where She Went by Gayle Forman, published by Dutton Juvenile, to be released on April 5th, 2011.
* What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen, published by Penguin, to be released on May 10th, 2011.
* Lens and Looker by Lory S Kaufman, published by The Fiction Studio, to be released on March 16th, 2011
* Moon Spell (The Tale of Lunarmorte #1) by Samantha Young, published by CreateSpace, to be released on March 1st, 2011
* River Cast (The Tale of Lunarmorte #2) by Samantha Young, published by Createspace, to be released on March 21st, 2011.

Bought-
* Secrets and Shadows by Shannon Delany
* Cryer's Cross by Lisa McMann (for signing)

I have to share something that I am so excited about, as this was a total surprise to me. If you have a copy of Secrets and Shadows, you'll find listed in Shannon's acknowledgements three Mundie Moms! I'm honored to be named with two other fabulous Mundie Moms, Alyson, Carla and myself.
I am still totally shocked to see my name in there! THANK YOU Shannon!!

Thank you to Penguin, Samantha Young and The Fiction Studio for this weeks fantastic reads. What goodies did you receive this week?

Book Review- Red Riding Hood


By Sarah Blakely-Cartwright
With an introduction by Catherine Hardwicke
Screenplay by David Leslie Johnson
Book Published by Little Brown
Released on Janruary 25th, 2011
Source- book from Little Brown for review
4 stars- It's a good read

The body of a young girl is discovered in a field of wheat. Her flesh mutilated by telltale claw marks. The Wolf has broken the peace.

When Valerie learns that her sister has been killed by the legendary creature, she finds herself at the center of a dark mystery, one that has plagued her village for generations. It is revealed that the werewolf lives among them, and everyone in the village immediately becomes a suspect. Could her secret love Peter be behind the attacks on her town? Is it her betrothed, Henry? Or someone even closer to her?

As the men in the village hunt for the beast, Valerie turns to her grandmother for help. She gives Valerie a handmade red riding cloak, and guides her through the web of lies and deception that has held her town together for so long. Will Valerie discover the werewolf's identity before the town is ripped apart?

This is a dangerous new vision of a classic fairy tale, the happy ending could be hard to find (quoted from Goodreads).

I enjoy reading a well written re-telling of a classic fairytale, which there's been a few of lately. Little Red Riding is one of them. I liked that the book is based on the movie, which I felt read well. I really liked the twists that were thrown in to this unique spin on Little Red Hiding Hood. I liked that this story isn't one for little kids, as it's darker undertones will be more appealing to teens and adults, and I'm really looking forward to seeing the movie.

Valerie the main character is someone I admired, as she's drawn to the wolf, despite the fact the wolf has turned her tiny village into a place of mass hysteria and panic from it's recent attacks. Mixed into all this is a love triangle between Valerie, Peter and Henry. Peter is the guy Valerie grew up with, roaming the woods, spending their childhood days together and until Peter leaves town abruptly with his dad one day and doesn't return until 10 years later. Then there's Henry, the mysterious handsome boy who Valerie seems to connect with on a different level. To add to all this is the cunning wolf who Valerie is also drawn to. There's something familiar about it....

With the story being told from the various view points, I was constantly trying to figure out which of the characters could be the wolf. Was it Peter or Henry or could it be someone else. There's an air of mystery surrounding many of the characters and the wolf, and I like that I was drawn into the story by trying to figure out who it could be. The plot twists were great as no one knows for sure who the wolf is, and I really liked that the classic fairy tale details were left in the book with the red cape, Grandma living in the woods alone, Valerie being the smart, fearless maiden and of course an evil intelligent wolf.

I really enjoyed the setting, which is in a mountainous area surrounded by woods, and has a feeling of a mid-century era to it, though the year is never revealed. Then there's the ending, which I enjoyed as I'm left wondering who the wolf is! Knowing there's a movie that will reveal the ending the book doesn't, I like that the book doesn't giveaway any spoilers and I know what I'll be doing on March 11th, 2011! If you're not able to see the movie, be rest assured that Little Brown will reveal the final chapter to Red Riding Hood on March 14th, 2011 @ am EST on www.redridinghoodbook.com. I for one am looking forward to finding out who the wolf is, as I have my suspicions nailed down between two people.

I recommend picking up Red Riding Hood. It's a fun read that offers something to both teen and adult readers. It's definitely not the fairytale I was read when I was a little kid. There's a lot more action in this story and I'm looking forward to seeing that brought to life on the big screen.

Clockwork Prince Teaser


Cassie has treated us with another great teaser and this time it's Will & Jem from Clockwork Prince-

Will's voice dropped. “Everyone makes mistakes, Jem.”
Yes,” said Jem. “You just make more of them than most people.”
“I —” “You hurt everyone,” said Jem. “Everyone whose life you touch.”
“Not you,” Will whispered. “I hurt everyone but you. I never meant to hurt you.”
Jem put his hands up, pressing his palms against his eyes.
“Will —” “You can’t never forgive me,” Will said in disbelief, hearing the panic tinging his own voice. “I’d be —” “Alone?”
Jem lowered his hand, but he was smiling now, crookedly. “And whose fault is that?”

Here's the link that Cassie tweeted last night http://twishort.com/acib5

What do you think MM's? I'm thinking my heart might be ripped out after reading CP. LOL I had an "Aw Will" moment.

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