Saturday Snippet: Vampire Academy OFFICIAL TRAILER

 

The first four episodes just dropped this Thursday!

 

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Tome Thursday: The Glittering Court

Hello everyone!

It's time for a book blog again, and boy, did I pick a lucky one this week!

Some of you may know (or you may not, depending) that I'm a Richelle Mead fan. I can't remember at this point how or when I stumbled across her first three Vampire Academy novels, but I did, and the rest is history as I think I have by now devoured every single one of her books, though not all of them, in my opinion, are at the same level of success.

Like, really, Vampire Academy and Bloodlines are probably some of my favourite books with characters I adore, but the Succubus series isn't one I connected with, and Soundless also fell a bit flat. I wrote some blogs on the before-mentioned, and I'm liking them at the end of this post.

I wasn't as inspired with her stand-alone novel, but then news came out that she was once again working on a book series, and I was thoroughly into it even before the first book got published a week or so ago, but I only learned some details recently.

So without further ado, let's dive right into The Glittering Court!

Tome Thursday: Soundless

Hello everyone!

It's time to blog about another book, and I just realized this week that I'm running low on movies to review, as in, I'm running low on the movies I've already seen and stocked up on. I think I need to revise my strategy a bit so that I can cram some more in, although to be honest I'm not entirely sure how that's going to happen.

There's just so much going on! Not only online, but away from the computer, as well, and reading has always been my escape, more so than watching something.

But I'll make it happen, somehow.

In the meantime, I'm no slacker when it comes to blogging, or at least I try not to be, although this Tuesday was a bit of a cheat as far as things go ...

Still, you enjoyed Bernard the Flamingo, right? Right?

Back to books.

And the author that I usually adore, Richelle Mead.

Saturday Snippet: Bookshelf Tour, part 2

Hello everyone!

I may be a little trippy at the moment. Not because I've drank anything, or otherwise consumed anything of the illegal sort of variety - but mostly because staring at translation stuff and then on top of it all reading through Alice Clayton's Cocktail book series is seriously something to make your mind spin.

Ahem.

But I'm back with the second round of my bookshelf tour! If you've fallen behind, never fear, there'll be a link at the bottom of the post to the previous part.

Tome Thursday: The Ruby Circle

Hello everyone!

Back in February, I wrote a quick little review about The Silver Shadows, the fifth book in Richelle Mead's Bloodlines series, and obviously I was late in doing so because it took a while for the physical book to arrive (I did have the electronic version, but truth be told I enjoy reading these ones in their original forms). Which meant I was pretty much just weeks away from the publishing date of The Ruby Circle, the sixth and final installment in the series, as well as the much-anticipated grand finale of the whole saga begun with the Vampire Academy years back.

Cue my excitement!

I can't even remember how or why I got into these books in the first place, I know for Twilight that I honestly wanted to know what the hype was about, and A Song o Ice and Fire was introduced to me on a weekend trip, but these books? No idea. I started reading Bloodlines because I loved the Vampire Academy series, and so it was sort of bitter-sweet for me to pick up the very last book (or it's last according to the author).

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Tome Thursday: The Silver Shadows

Hello everyone!

So a while back, probably in my first book blog post, I talked about some books by an author who's name is Richelle Mead (I think it was her Succubus series). I'm kind of a big fan of her vampire ones though, probably because I started reading her work when I bought the first three Vampire Academy novels, and I've been hooked ever since. It's a different take on vampire lore yet again, and a lot of hard-core vampire book fans don't like it. That's okay, because to each their own, I mean, I've read so many variations on vampires by this point that there's precious little I HAVEN'T seen, myself. But anyway, back to VA!

The six books in the first series were amazing, so imagine my surprise when the author announced she would be writing a spin-off series, again comprising of six books! This one is called Bloodlines, and man, did I fall in love with the characters there too. We get guest appearances from all our favourites from the first series, and the minor characters from there take center stage in this one. The books go, as follows, Bloodlines, The Golden Lily, The Indigo Spell, The Fiery Heart, The Silver Shadows, The Ruby Circle (out this February!). In this review, I'm going to talk about The Silver Shadows.
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Tome Thursday: Georgina Kincaid

Hello again everyone!

It's Thursday, and that means it's time to talk about books.

I spent an almost obscene amount of time reading. Really; I've been devouring books since pre-school, and during primary school our librarian actually forbade me from going into the section for higher-graders even though I'd read through all the other books already, which was when my parents signed me up for the public library. From there on out, my reading journey has gone through almost everything, from crime fighting to mushy romance, with occasional zombies tossed in the mix. I mean, the main reason why I treated myself to a Kobo e-reader was to be able to take more books with me to vacation!

And there are some authors I can never get enough of, one of them being Richelle Mead. Most of you will recognize her as the author of the world-famous Vampire Academy series (Dimitri Belikov fans, anyone?), and I started my 'acquaintance' with her there, too (for a review on the movie, check out next Tuesday's blog). And then I discovered she had written other series, among them about a succubus named Georgina Kincaid.