Angel Eyes - Shannon Dittemore

Once you’ve seen, you can’t unsee. Everything changes when you’ve looked at the world through . . .

ANGEL EYES
Brielle’s a ballerina who went to the city to chase her dreams and found tragedy instead. She’s come home to shabby little Stratus, Oregon, to live with her grief and her guilt . . . and the incredible, numbing cold she can’t seem to shake.
Jake’s the new guy at school. The boy next door with burning hands and an unbelievable gift that targets him for corruption.
Something more than fate has brought them together. An evil bigger than both of them lurks in the shadows nearby, hiding in plain sight. Two angels stand guard, unsure what’s going to happen. And a beauty brighter than Jake or Brielle has ever seen is calling them to join the battle in a realm where all human choices start.
A realm that only angels and demons—and Brielle—can perceive.

Angel Eyes starts almost the same way that Twilight (urrrgh!) started: A girl getting on a small town, coming home after some time. At the least, Brielle is a little more lively than Bella. The book changes POV, which is a thing that I don't like that much, because I start to get a little confused, but since I started to read George R.R Martin books, I don't have much trouble with that anymore.


The relation ship between the two main characters is adorable, but I've serious problems with those stuff, when people meet and in 2 minutes they're already in love and planning weddings. I know that they're soulmates and stuff like that, but I still like when things are taken slowly.


The book is well wirtten, despise sometimes is a bit slow, but I would like to pick the second book to read sometime. It's a good story, that makes you intrigued, but someone besides me got the Twlight feeling in the book? That god that Jake doesn't shine. So, if you like books with angels, like Unhearthly and Hush, Hush, Angel's Eyes is a good pick for you!

My Rating was:

I enjoyed this book!

Review: Along Wooded Paths by Tricia Goyer

About the book:

All she wanted was a simple Amish life . . . But now Marianna Sommer finds herself depending on Englisch neighbors. Although proud of living apart from the world, she and her newly relocated Amish family have discovered that life in the remote mountains of Montana requires working together.

As Marianna begins helping those different from herself—and receiving their help—her heart contemplates two directions. She’s torn between the Amish man from Indiana whom she has long planned on marrying and the friendly Englischer who models a closer walk with God than she’s ever seen before.

Who should have young Marianna’s heart? What is God asking her to sacrifice? Her traditions? Her community? The answer is found along the wooded paths.

Find out about book 1, Beside Still Waters, here: http://www.triciagoyer.com/contemporaryfiction.html#BesideStillWaters

Read an excerpt.

Buy the book: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1433668696/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=sprightly-20&camp=213381&creative=390973&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=1433668696&adid=1GWJQSEY88PNG6ERWGQP

I always liked amish stories, even if I don't know too much about their beliefs. So, when I could I signed for a chance to be in this tour. So, I've to say, that I really enjoyed the story (even through I never a books fast like I've read this one. I'm dead.)

This story presents Marianna, a girl who left the home that she always knew in Indiana e now lives in Montana with Englishchers and starts to know people with differents beliefs and ways of life. She even starts to fall in love for one of those people, Ben, who has a closer relationship with God than anyone whom she has met, but when things seems to be great, her fiancee Aaron, arrives to take to Indiana.

Besides all the love that we see in the book, I loved who the characters are well made, that they seem to be alive. I found myself torn between Ben and Aaron, like Marianna, and besides the love triangle, we see the growth of Marianna's faith. The book ends and left us with some questions, but I believe that they're going to be answered in the third book of this great series.

My rating was: 

I really enjoyed this book!   

P.S: See the rest of the stops here! http://litfusegroup.com/blogtours/text/13430807

Book Tour: Along Wooded Paths by Tricia Goyer

About the book:

All she wanted was a simple Amish life . . . But now Marianna Sommer finds herself depending on Englisch neighbors. Although proud of living apart from the world, she and her newly relocated Amish family have discovered that life in the remote mountains of Montana requires working together.

As Marianna begins helping those different from herself—and receiving their help—her heart contemplates two directions. She’s torn between the Amish man from Indiana whom she has long planned on marrying and the friendly Englischer who models a closer walk with God than she’s ever seen before.

Who should have young Marianna’s heart? What is God asking her to sacrifice? Her traditions? Her community? The answer is found along the wooded paths.

Find out about book 1, Beside Still Waters, here: http://www.triciagoyer.com/contemporaryfiction.html#BesideStillWaters

Read an excerpt.

Buy the book: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1433668696/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=sprightly-20&camp=213381&creative=390973&linkCode=as4&creativeASIN=1433668696&adid=1GWJQSEY88PNG6ERWGQP


Watch the cute trailer! 

About Tricia:

Tricia Goyer is the author of thirty books including Songbird Under a German Moon, The Swiss Courier, and the mommy memoir, Blue Like Play Dough. She won Historical Novel of the Year in 2005 and 2006 from ACFW, and was honored with the Writer of the Year award from Mt. Hermon Writer's Conference in 2003. Tricia's book Life Interrupted was a finalist for the Gold Medallion in 2005. In addition to her novels, Tricia writes non-fiction books and magazine articles for publications like MomSense and Thriving Family. Tricia is a regular speaker at conventions and conferences, and has been a workshop presenter at the MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) International Conventions. She and her family make their home in Little Rock, Arkansas where they are part of the ministry of FamilyLife.

For more about Tricia and her other books visit www.triciagoyer.com

And come to the party! We will have cookies and amazing prizes!

Tricia is celebrating the release of Along Wooded Paths with a Fabulous Facebook party on October 18th. She'll be giving away prizes and a sneak peak at the next book in the Big Sky series.

Then during the second half of the party she'll be hosting a LIVE AUTHOR CHAT on her website and announcing something BIG! CLICK the button (below) to RSVP for the party - then go here to sign up for the Live Author Chat.

See the schedule here: http://litfusegroup.com/blogtours/text/13430807

Come back here 10/8 to see my review about Tricia's newest book!

Review: Son of Duprin by William H. Johnson

Sitting in the honored stalls of the Crystal Sanctuary, Calvin Gooding should be rejoicing in the message he receives from the Holy King of Duprin. But his heart is heavy. He awaits the carriage in which he must ride to deliver the fated news to his family. Time has run out.pIn the midst of this sorrow, exhaustion, and uncertainty, a sorceress from the Dark Province appears to Calvin. She promises to make his terminally ill twin sister, Marilyn, well again. As twins, Calvin and Mari share a special bond, and Calvin will do almost anything to save his sister's life. But in order to free Mari from death's grip, the sorceress claims that Calvin must travel to the Dark Province-a land where souls and flesh are devoured by the lawless and the spirit of man is bound in shackles. It's a reckless land dominated by morally corrupt warlords and open sexuality. Wrapped tightly in his religion, Calvin must make a life-altering decision. He can choose to follow the sorceress into the sinful abyss to save his sister, or he can accept a life of guilt and certain torment over Mari's death.

Mary and Calvin were like almost like every pair of twins: They made everything together in their childhood and even when they went on separate ways, they still contacted each other, when that was possible, but when Mary falls ill, Calvin will do everything in his power to cure his beloved sister. Even go to the unholy Dark Province.
I really enjoyed this book, because even if Calvin was stiff and a little annoying sometimes, because he is unsure about Dark Province, but in the end, I could see myself in his skin, I can say: I would do everything that he did. I really enjoy when the characters don't stay stuck with they faith until the end of the book. Calvin's makes the reader laugh sometimes, because it's funny when he sees the shape of a woman's body, cars and even a brothel. The inner fight of Calvin was something that was well constructed, because was interesting to see the changes that he went trough the whole book, because he starts his journey with a strict and closed vision about the Dark Province and in the end he was questioning everything that he went trough there and the beliefs of his people in Duprin and his own too.
But I didn't like one thing... That I've to wait to read the book 2! So many questions were left without a good answer, and the sad story between Calvin and his lover was a thing that almost made me cry! I want to know if something happened to them!
In the end: If you like a good story that make you think about your own beliefs and your way of living, this is the right choice!

My rating was: 

I really enjoyed this book!

P.S: William, thank you for your amazing patience with me and my lack of time to write a proper review to you!

I'm baaaaaack!

Hey guys!

Sorry for the reaaaaally long lack of postings lately. College was awful than ever and I started to work, so my time to write any good review was pratically none, but now I'm on vacations, so that means that I can write again! YEY! I'm starting to write tons of reviews of all books that I read, so wait for very good things form now on! :D

Thanks a lot for the patience!

Follow Friday and Book Blogger Hop!

Wow! I didn't make Friday memes for months! I've to start to make them again...

Follow Friday is hosted by Parajunkee's View and this week's question was made by Louise of Book Bliss! The question is:

How many books do you read in a week? And in what format do you read them, or listen to them?

Well, I usually read two or three books in a week, depends of my free time and how many books I've in my TBR pile, or if I've time to go to the library and get some new books of me to read. Well, since in my country, we don't have differents formats of books, all books that we've here, are, in my point of view, paperbacks. So I do read paperbacks, and hardbacks, we I get them via Book Depository XD

And you? How many books do you read in a week? :)

 

Book Blogger Hop is hosted by Jennifer of Crazy-for-Books and the question of this week is:
 

"What book-to-movie adaption have you most liked? Which have you disliked?"

Uhm... I really like the first Harry Potter movie (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone). To me was the most well adapted book in the whole serie, in my opinion, but I liked the movie 3 too (please, don't kill me! D:)
 

And you? What book-to-movie adaption did you like the most? :D 

P.S: Yeah, the html for this post sucks, but I'll fix it, when I get home, and enter on my computer and my Google Chrome. I hate IE u_u'

My Book Boyfriend (9)

My poor blog is abandoned! What sadness, but the college is killing my time, so I don't have time to write anything, despise th fact that I read several books in the past months. ARGH! 

This meme is hosted by The Unread Reader, in which we show to our readers, characters that we're drooling for! This week, I'll talk about my love of the week:

Ethan Ainsley

• Appearance: I only thing that I know about Ethan is that he has brown hair and blue eyes. And he's good-looking. Just that. Damn descriptions. 
• Books that he's in: Something Borrowed, Something Blue and Baby Proof.

• Ethan is very smart.
• He's Darcy and Rachel's childhood friend.
• He lives in London.
• He married a girl called Brandi, but he discovered that she was cheating on him, so he left her.
• He's the protagonist of Something Blue.
• He was the only one who did know about Rachel and Dex affair.

• Why he's my book boyfriend: I know that Dex is the hero of Something Borrowed, but... I don't like him, because he took too long to make the decision about Darcy and the wedding. But, I think that Ethan is so cute and such a great a friend, that I fell in love with him.
• Who would be my perfect Ethan: James Marsden. I love John Krasinski, but he isn't the guy who I imagined to play Ethan, but I do loved him in the movie.
• Scene that made me swoon: 

"I think Brandi soured Ethan on the whole fresh-air, live-off-the-land kind of life. Or maybe he just wanted something new. Because he moved to London, where he writes for a magazine and is working on a book about London architecture, an interest he didn't acquire until he landed on British soil. But that's how Ethan is. He figures things out along the way, always ready to back up and start over, never bowing to pressure or expectations. I wish I could be more like him. "So what did you do for your birthday?" Ethan asks.I shut my office door and blurt it out.

"Darcy had a surprise party for me, I got wasted, and hooked up with Dex." I suppose this is what happens when you're not accustomed to having secrets. You don't learn the art of holding back. In fact, I am surprised I have lasted this long. I hear static in the line as the news travels across the Atlantic. I panic, wishing I could suck the admission back in."Get the fuck outta here. You're kidding me, right?
"My silence tells him that I'm serious.
"Ohhh, shhhit." His voice is still smiling.
"What? What are you thinking? " I need to know if he's judging. I need to know what he thinks of me, if he is siding with Chanel Suit.
"Wait. Whaddaya mean, hooked up? You didn't sleep with him, did you?"
"Um. Yeah. Actually I did."I am relieved to hear him laugh, even though I tell him that it's not funny, that this is serious business.
"Oh, trust me. This is funny."I picture the dimple in his left cheek.

"And what exactly is so amusing?"
"Miss Goody Two-shoes screws her friend's fiancé. This is raw comedy at its best."
"Ethan!"" 

Ok, this isn't romantic, but I didn't read Something Blue that it's the book that he's the main protagonist yet, so I don't know any romantic scenes. Yet. BWAHAHAHAHAH

And you? Who is your Book Boyfriend of the week? :)