Quote-Tastic Monday #69

 

This one is simple and just about sharing your favorite quotes and the books they come from! Hosted by the FABULOUS Anna at Herding Cats & Burning Soup

 

 

Summary:

 

One choice can transform you—or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves—and herself—while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.

Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable—and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships, Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so.  

Summary & Cover taken from Goodreads.com

Length: 525 pages (Hardcover)

Publication Date: May 1st 2012 by HarperCollins Children's Books

 

Quote:

 

“People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.”

 

I'm not a fan of this series (Rated the first two books 2 stars and have book 3 coming up on my TBR pile) but I did love this quote.

Waiting on Wednesday #137

 

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking The Spine and is where we can talk about books we are looking forward to being released.

 

 

Summary:

 

Olivia’s life has exploded. She’s discovered she’s not only adopted, but her real parents are convicted serial killers. Fleeing the media frenzy, she took refuge in the oddly secluded town of Cainsville. She has since solved the town’s mysteries and finds herself not only the target of its secretive elders, but also her stalker ex-fiancé.

Visions continue to haunt her: particularly a little blond girl in a green sundress who insists she has an important message for Olivia, one that may help her balance the light and darkness within herself. Death stalks Olivia and the two men most important to her, as she desperately searches to understand whether ancient scripts are dictating their triangle. Will darkness prevail or does Olivia have the power to prevent a tragic fate?  

Summary & Cover taken from Goodreads.com

Length: 320 pages (Hardcover)

Expected Publication Date: August 6th 2015 by Sphere

 

Why I'm Waiting:

 

I've read the first two books in the Cainsville series and I've absolutely loved them, which is no surprise since I've been a fan of the author since I was 13. I can't wait to see where Olivia's story is going.

 

 

Summary:

 

In a masterpiece of supernatural mystery and apocalyptic prophecy, New York Times bestselling authors James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell bring to a thunderous conclusion their epic trilogy of novels set between the worlds of shadow and light, between salvation and damnation, where the very gates of Hell must be shattered to discover the true fate of humankind in...

Blood Infernal

As an escalating scourge of grisly murders sweeps the globe, archaeologist Erin Granger must decipher the truth behind an immortal prophecy foretold in the Blood Gospel, a tome written by Christ and lost for centuries: The shackles of Lucifer have been loosened, and his Chalice remains lost. It will take the light of all three to forge the Chalice anew and banish him again to his eternal darkness. With the Apocalypse looming, Erin must again join forces with Army Sergeant Jordan Stone and Father Rhun Korza to search for a treasure lost for millennia. But the prize has already fallen into the hands of their enemy, a demon named Legion, before whom even the walls of the Vatican will fall.

The search for the key to salvation will take Erin and the others across centuries and around the world, from the dusty shelves of the Vatican’s secret archives to lost medieval laboratories, where ancient alchemies were employed to horrific ends. All the while, they are hunted, besieged by creatures of uncanny skill and talent. As clues are dug free from ancient underground chapels and found frozen in icy mountain caverns, Erin will discover that the only hope for victory lies in an impossible act—one that will destroy not only her, but all she loves. To protect the world, Erin must walk through the very gates of Hell and face the darkest of enemies: Lucifer himself.

With The Blood Gospel, the first novel in the Order of the Sanguines series, James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell combined science, myth, and religion to introduce a breathtaking world where miracles hold new meaning and the fight for good over evil is far more complicated than we ever dreamed. And now, in this epic conclusion to the Sanguines trilogy, Blood Infernal, they take us to the very pit of Hell itself, making us peer into the abyss and face our greatest fears, to answer the ultimate question: What price will we pay for true salvation?  

Summary & Cover taken from Goodreads.com

Length: 352 pages (Hardcover)

Expected Publication Date: December 31st 2015 by Orion (first published February 10th 2015)

 

Why I'm Waiting:

 

I just love James Rollins' books and I love this series that he's penned with Rebecca Cantrell. It's

an excellent read with vampires, ancient secrets and lots of action so I'm really looking forward to this

one coming out.

 

 

 

Library Loot #43

Library Loot is a weekly event co-hosted by Claire from The Captive Reader and Linda from Silly Little Mischief that encourages bloggers to share the books they’ve checked out from the library. If you’d like to participate, just write up your post-feel free to steal the button-and link it using the Mr. Linky any time during the week. And of course check out what other participants are getting from their libraries.

 

Top Ten Tuesday #83

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created here at The Broke and the Bookish. This feature was created because we are particularly fond of lists here at The Broke and the Bookish. We'd love to share our lists with other bookish folks and would LOVE to see your top ten lists!

 

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Teaser Tuesday #68

 Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

 

• Grab your current read

• Open to a random page

• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)

• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers

 

 

Summary:

 

A woman’s corpse is discovered in a meadow. A strange combination of letters and numbers has been tattooed on the soles of her feet. Detective inspector Beatrice Kaspary from the local murder squad quickly identifies the digits as map coordinates. These lead to a series of gruesome discoveries as she and her colleague Florin Wenninger embark on a bloody trail – a modern-day scavenger hunt using GPS navigation devices to locate hidden caches. The "owner" of these unofficial, unpublished geocaches is a highly calculating and elusive fiend who leaves his victims’ body-parts sealed in plastic bags, complete with riddles that culminate in a five-stage plot. Kaspary herself becomes an unwilling pawn in the perpetrator’s game of cat and mouse as she risks all to uncover the motives behind the murderer’s actions. Five is definitely not a book for the faint-hearted, but it delivers great suspense, unexpected plot twists, and multi-dimensional characters.  

Summary & Cover taken from Goodreads.com

Length: 336 pages (Hardcover)

Expected Publication Date: December 9th 2014 by Minotaur Books (first published February 16th 2012)            

 

 

Pg. 218

 

They weren't even out the door before Beatrice's phone beeped. The tone was making her skin crawl by now; she would have to change it. As soon as the case was over.

FTF. BUT DOLET IT GET YOU DOWN, CHIN UP.

That was all. And it was yet another caching abbreviation; she remembered having seen it on the list. On their way out, she flung open the door to Stefan's office.

 

 

 

Tuesday Jams #36

 

Tuesday Jams is a meme where you share your favourite songs. bands and the current song you're feeling and is hosted by Sharonda from Salacious Reads

 

 

 

*[Blog Tour Review] The Tiger Queens: The Women of Genghis Khan by Stephanie Thornton

Summary:

In the late twelfth century, across the sweeping Mongolian grasslands, brilliant, charismatic Temujin ascends to power, declaring himself the Great, or Genghis, Khan. But it is the women who stand beside him who ensure his triumph....
After her mother foretells an ominous future for her, gifted Borte becomes an outsider within her clan. When she seeks comfort in the arms of aristocratic traveler Jamuka, she discovers he is the blood brother of Temujin, the man who agreed to marry her and then abandoned her long before they could wed.

Temujin will return and make Borte his queen, yet it will take many women to safeguard his fragile new kingdom. Their daughter, the fierce Alaqai, will ride and shoot an arrow as well as any man. Fatima, an elegant Persian captive, will transform her desire for revenge into an unbreakable loyalty. And Sorkhokhtani, a demure widow, will position her sons to inherit the empire when it begins to fracture from within.

In a world lit by fire and ruled by the sword, the tiger queens of Genghis Khan come to depend on one another as they fight and love, scheme and sacrifice, all for the good of their family...and the greatness of the People of the Felt Walls.
Summary & Cover taken from Goodreads.com
Length: 496 pages (Paperback)
Source: Review Copy
Available Formats: Print/E-book
Publication Date: November 4th 2014 by NAL Trade

I swear, Stephanie Thornton can do no wrong. I've been a fan of her novels since I first read her novel The Secret History: A Novel of Empress Theodora last year, and loved her sophomore novel, Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt as well. I reviewed both of those and my review for The Secret History can be found here and my review of Daughter of the Gods can be found here. I was so excited to be on the tour roster for this because she never disappoints in her novels.

I've never read historical fiction set in Mongolia, but as always Stephanie Thornton brought the setting and the period to vivid, brilliant life and she tackled the story with a passion that clearly shines through in the writing. I love how each of her books has a strong heroine as our main character, often I find women are left out of the history books and I've enjoyed her fictionalized accounts of these very real women. They are strong, intelligent, and ruthless when it comes to those they love and I love that.

Since this one was set in an unfamiliar setting, I went into the reading very excited because I love reading about new places, and commend her for chosing yet another exotic, if not turbulent place and period to write about. I've got the very vaguest knowledge of Ghengis Khan, and so in reading this I  learned that he was married to Borte, one of our heroines in this colourful tale of love, loss and betrayal on the Mongolian steppes and there was plenty of all three to go around for our four heroines in the story of the Tiger Queens.

I was really surprised about the fact that the story was told by four different women, as I've grown used to only having one heroine to concern myself with and if it had been any other author I would have been concerned about tying the story together through so many points of view but it was meticulously weaved together where each of the women; Borte, Alaqai, Fatima and Sorkhokhtani tell their sides, but seeing how everything fit together as a whole was fantastically done and it was nice seeing the women behind the great Khan.

Rich with historical detail, wonderfully depicted setting and extremely intense and strong leading ladies The Tiger Queens is just another example of Stephanie Thornton's being a powerhouse in the historical fiction arena, this is one I read in one setting and couldn't put down so if you love historical fiction and strong women check out this, or one of her other novels because she's an excellent author that every one should try out especially if you're in the mood that will suck you in and keep you reading for hours.

*I received a free copy of this book in exchange for my free and honest review. All thoughts and opinions expressed herein are 100% my own.

Loved It!
★★★★★

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Author Bio:

 

Stephanie Thornton is a writer and history teacher who has been obsessed with infamous women from ancient history since she was twelve. She lives with her husband and daughter in Alaska, where she is at work on her next novel.
“The Secret History: A Novel of Empress Theodora” and “Daughter of the Gods: A Novel of Ancient Egypt” are available from NAL/Penguin. “The Tiger Queens: The Women of Genghis Khan” will hit the shelves November 4, 2014, followed by “The Conqueror’s Wife: A Novel of Alexander the Great” in November 2015.

 

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? #121

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a meme hosted by Book Journey and is a great way for others to find out what you are planning to read this week and, best of all, see what others are reading.

 

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