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Top Ten Anticipated Reads For Early 2017.

Dec 13, 2016

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. Each week they post a new Top Ten list that members at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone join as you please. This week’s topic is: Top Ten Books Anticipated Reads For The First Half Of 2017.

I am excited for quite a few books coming out next year. Most of the list today are sequels or new books in a series, that I cannot wait to get my hands on. 2017 is going to be a big year and I cannot wait. However, These books are in no particular order.

Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare: I know I said that there was no order to my list, but I would be lying if I said Lord of Shadows wasn’t my most anticipated read. If you know me well, then you would know that I love Cassandra Clare. And after reading Lady Midnight this year, my love for her books and the Shadowhunter world has grown. Lady Midnight was her best yet and I cannot wait to see what Lord of Shadows brings | May 2017

Nova by Rebecca Yarros: I love Rebecca Yarros’ books, I don’t read a whole lot of NA, but her books are those I read without question. Nova is the sequel to Wilder which came out earlier this year. And by the way that it ended, Nova is going to be a wild ride | February

Breaking by Danielle Rollins: With the way that Burning ended, I know that I have to read Breaking as soon as I can. However, it’s only a companion novel so I am intrigued to see how it all pans out. I am guessing everyone is going to meet in the middle | June

The Ship Beyond Time by Heidi Heilig: The Girl from Everywhere was one of my favourite reads this year, and I cannot way to see where the next book takes us. However, just by reading the synopsis I know that we are in for a bumpy ride | March

Avenged by Amy Tintera: If you have read Ruined, then you know that the ending was one hell of a cliffhanger and it’s begging to be read. It’s everything that I love in a book and I am expecting great things from book 2 | May

Now I Rise by Kiersten White: Again another series that I started this year and loved, And I Darken was just the start. Set in the Ottoman Empire, with a gender switch of Vlad the Impaler. And I Darken was fierce, bloody and very complicated. I cannot wait to see what is next for Lada | June

Wires and Nerve VI by Marissa Meyer: I adored the Lunar Chronicles, they were fantastic. With a brilliant cast, it’s an addicting series. I cannot wait to see what they are up to in this new graphic novel | January

Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor: I love Laini Taylor’s books. This one sounds magic and just as beautiful as her rest | March

Perfect by Cecelia Ahern: I was left with questions after finishing Flawed earlier this year and now I want them answered | April

Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology: Yes Please. Some of my favourite Aussie Young Adult author coming together and edited by Danielle Binks. | April

And that is it! What books are you looking forward to for the first half of 2017? Do we share any of the same? What is your anticipated read? Do you think I might like something that is coming out next year? Nevertheless, Let’s Chat!

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Book Review: Hallowed Ground by Rebecca Yarros

Jan 27, 2016

Hallowed Ground by Rebecca Yarros

Pages: 410
Publish date: 25 January 2016
Publisher: Entangled: Embrace
ISBN: 1633755428
Purchase: Book Depository– Amazon UK – Amazon US – Amazon AU

There are some debts you can’t repay.

Josh Walker is loyal, reckless, and every girl’s dream. But he only has eyes for December Howard, the girl he’s craved since his high school hockey days. Together they have survived grief, the military, distance, and time as they’ve fought for stolen weekends between his post at Ft. Rucker and her college at Vanderbilt. Now that Josh is a medevac pilot and Ember is headed toward graduation, they’re moving on—and in—together.

Ember never wanted the Army life, but loving Josh means accepting whatever the army dictates—even when that means saying goodbye as Josh heads to Afghanistan, a country that nearly killed him once before and that took her father. But filling their last days together with love, passion, and plans for their future doesn’t temper Ember’s fear, and if there’s one thing she’s learned from her father’s death, it’s that there are some obstacles even love can’t conquer.

Flight school is over.
This is war.

Hallowed Ground:

I wasn’t prepared for Hallowed Ground by Rebecca Yarros, not at all. If you are going to start reading it, them please do yourself a favour and have a box of tissues nearby. This will contain spoilers from all the previous books.

Hallowed Ground is book 4 in The Fight and Glory series and a sequel to book 1 – Full Measures. It’s set 2 years after the events of the first book and follows protagonists, December (Ember) and Josh as they set into life of living together, except now he is expected to go back to where he was nearly killed before and the place that took her father’s life – Afghanistan.

I love and hate this book. I loved it because the series finished with something really beautiful and we got to see the characters that we have come to previously love. However this book torn me to shreds.

I loved seeing Ember and Josh again, it had been quite a while since we had seen them, sure they came up in parts of the other books, but we didn’t see them, and it was nice to see.

I loved Ember as a character, her character arc is quite amazing from the first book. She has grown so much from the first time we have seen her. Throughout Hallowed Ground all I wanted to do is hug her. Ember broke me. She had been through so much before and in this book, she is ripped apart.

“I don’t care how you come home. I don’t care what parts of you are broken, or bleeding, or… anything, just as long as you come home. As long as your heart is beating, I will want you, do you understand me? I don’t care what happens there as long as you come home.”

Josh, my love for Josh is unexplainable, but gosh did I want to slap him around a bit. I understand most of the things he did and that I am not even fussed about, however the things that happened with Ember towards the end of the book. It’s like Josh she loves you, why are you doing this to her and yourself.

They have survived through so much and I wasn’t sure they were going to survive this novel, especially with Josh being back in Afghanistan.

It was really great to see the military aspect of Hallowed Ground. We saw it a little in the last novel, however it wasn’t that prominent, with this novel being half in Josh point of view it made sense. I love military planes, there is something about there. Here is Victoria, where I live we have a thing called the Airshow every 2 years, where military planes and others come and put of a show. I love the feeling of hornets flying by. So I truly enjoyed seeing the military aspect.

One thing that annoyed me with Hallowed Ground was the consent separation between Ember and Josh, not the physical separation, but the emotional and it killed me. I just wanted everything to be okay, and it wasn’t, not in the slightest.

Hallowed Ground is emotionally draining. I cried for most of this book, bad things kept happening, all I wanted was for it to be over. Not because it was horrifying, because it hurt my heart.

“I cannot imagine a future where you’re not mine, because I’m yours in every sense of the word.”

Nevertheless, Hallowed Ground is probably my favourite of all 4 books. It had so much and more. There is a chance that I won’t read the middle two books again, for something in this book will make it impossible.

Although, many sad and emotionally heartbreaking things happened in Hallowed Ground there was so many beautiful moments that were heart lifting. The epilogue was just beautiful and I smiled the whole time reading it.

Overall, Hallowed Ground was a beautiful read that intertwined, family both by blood and friendship. Loss that can bring people closer together or tear some apart. About doing what is right for you and the ones that you love and forgiveness and what it truly means to forgive not only others but yourself.

Have you read Hallowed Ground yet? Did you cry as much as me? Are you are to read Hallowed Ground?

Excerpt Reveal: Hallowed Ground by Rebecca Yarros

Jan 15, 2016

Hallowed Ground (Fight & Glory #4) by Rebecca Yarros

Pages:
Publish date: 25th January 2016
Publisher: Entanlged:Embrace
ISBN: *************
Purchase: Book Depository – Amazon UK – Amazon US – Amazon AU

There are some debts you can’t repay.

Flight school is over.
This is war.

Welcome to a Excerpt Reveal for Hallowed Ground by Rebecca Yarros. I am so excited for this book, this series is one of my favourites from New Adult so I am counting down the days till the 25th of Jan. But, today I am doing something exciting. I have the chance of giving you guys an excerpt. Let me tell you that both that I had to choose from were amazing and I couldn’t pick – so I closed my eyes and this was the one. Hope you enjoy it.

He skated toward me, and I paused, blown away with everything that was Josh. His hair was sweaty, water dripping down his flushed cheeks from dumping his bottle over his head. It was high school and college all jumbled together to make this magnificent man in front of me. I’d never loved him more.  “I’ve gotten a little better since that first date, huh?” I asked with a flirtatious smile, skating backward just because I could.

“You’ve always been perfect.” That grin was enough to melt me despite the temperature of the ice.

“Did you have fun?”

“Yes. I can’t believe you did that for me.” His eyes were warm, letting his love for me shine.

“It’s your dream.”

He shook his head and took my hands in his much warmer ones. “No. It used to be my dream. And as hard as I worked for it, and as difficult as it was to let go, I can’t thank you enough for what you did for me. This”—he glanced at the empty seats and bright lights— “has been more than I could have ever imagined.”

“I’m glad. You deserve it.”

“The jersey, the game, hearing my name, it was amazing. But what made it perfect was seeing you against the glass like we were in high school again. Remembering every time I told myself not to get close to someone as good as you are. Thinking back to that day in college when I told you I was going to chase you. Feeling the warmth of your hand over mine seeping through the glass during the championship. Recalling every time I wanted to kiss you, hold you, tell you how much I love you. I have that now, and you, December, are what made this perfect, because you are all that matters to me now.”

About the Author

Rebecca Yarros is a hopeless romantic and lover of all things chocolate, coffee, and Paleo. In addition to being a mom, military wife, and blogger, she can never choose between Young Adult and New Adult fiction, so she writes both. She’s a graduate of Troy University, where she studied European history and English, but still holds out hope for an acceptance letter to Hogwarts. Her blog, The Only Girl Among Boys, has been voted the Top Military Mom Blog the last two years, and celebrates the complex issues surrounding the military life she adores.

When she’s not writing, she’s tying on hockey skates for her kids, or sneaking in some guitar time. She is madly in love with her army-aviator husband of eleven years. They finally can call Colorado home along with their gaggle of rambunctious kiddos and snoring English Bulldog.

Website | Facebook| Twitter | Instagram | Goodreads| Amazon PageSo I hope that you enjoyed the excerpt. I know I did. Will you be reading Hallowed Ground? You can find me on twitter at @angel_reads and on facebook and also on Instagram at angelreads. Subscribe to my email through the sidebar or follow me on bloglovin’ to keep up to date