Tuesday, 18 September 2012

Review ~ Until I Die ~ Amy Plum

Until I Die (Revenants, #2)
5 stars


Title: Until I Die
Author: Amy Plum
Series: Revenants
Published by: Atom
Date: May 2012

Kate and Vincent have overcome the odds and at last they are together in Paris, the city of lights and love.

As their romance deepens there’s one question they can’t ignore: How are they supposed to be together if Vincent can’t resist sacrificing himself to save others? Although Vincent promises that he’ll do whatever it takes to lead a normal life with Kate, will that mean letting innocent people die? When a new and surprising enemy reveals itself, Kate realises that even more may be at stake—and that Vincent’s immortality is in jeopardy.

In Die for Me, Amy Plum created a captivating paranormal mythology with immortal revenants and a lush Paris setting. Until I Die is poised to thrill readers with more heart-pounding suspense, spellbinding romance, and a cliff-hanger ending that will leave them desperate for the third and final novel in the series.


(I know it's took me a while to get on top of my reviews, sorry about that!)

Opening line: I leapt, drawing my feet up beneath me, as the seven-foot quarterstaff smashed into the flagstones where I had been standing a half second before.

Closing line: Two words spoke clearly inside my head: Mon ange.

I loved Amy's first book in the Revenants series, Die For Me and was rather looking forward to reading Until I Die. I was just as in love with everything and everyone in this second instalment of Amy's exciting trilogy.

With book two comes a whole heap of revenant history which was really interesting to learn about, fantastic character development and of course Plum's signature attention to detail. Yet again I felt I was in Paris living in the world Plum has created rather than sat at home in the UK reading. I know many readers have said this feel very much like a second book but I didn't really feel that, I loved learning new things and the slightly slower pace that came with that. I love Paris and I love Plum's characters so Until I Die was the perfect book for me.

With a new book comes new characters and Arthur and Violette are very exciting characters to read about. I never really trusted them when they came into the world I already knew and that's one of the main reasons I loved them. Violette was a little too sweet and Arthur well annoying to be honest. But oh how my opinions changed throughout the book! I'm not going to say anything else about these two, it will give too much away!

I still very much love Jules!!!!!! I always thought he had more feeling for Kate than just the best friend of the boyfriend flirting and book two confirms this for me. His feels for Kate really are growing but I just wish he could find someone, I'd love for him to get with Georgia, I can just imagine that relationship, sparks would fly!! haha!!

Plum leaves us with a cliff hanger of an ending and I just wish I had book three sat there waiting to start! I even twitted her, as did many of my fellow readers asking, 'why Amy, why!?'

Until I Die is a fantastic second book in Plum's enthralling trilogy. And not only does the story line get better Plum is growing as an author and I look forward to not only book three in the Revenant series but anything else she writes in the future too.

 

Monday, 17 September 2012

Nix Mini Guest Review ~ Ghost Town by Rachel Caine

Ghost Town (The Morganville Vampires, #9)
4 stars from Nix

Title: Ghost Town
Author: Rachel Caine
Series: Morganville
Published by: Allison & Busby
Date: November 2010

Today we have a mini guest review from Nix. Some of you may recognise her name from twitter, she's a very good friend of ours and we are glad she's found time to give her opinion on Rachel Caine's Ghost Town.

goodreads says:

The fragile peace between humans and vampires in Morganville is in trouble, and when Claire takes drastic action, she’s put under serious pressure to re-establish the barriers that keep the town residents inside, and wipe the memories of those who leave.

But working with her half-crazy vampire boss Myrnin means that things don’t always turn out as planned... and as the people of Morganville begin acting strangely, Claire and her friends must solve the mystery and try to put things right. But one by one, her allies are turning on her... even the ones she trusts most.


Nix's Review:

This book kinda rekindled my interest in this series. To be honest the last 2 have been weaker...I loved this one! The machine that wipes the memories of the towns residents as they leave Morganville is malfunctioning and wiping the memories of the residents. Mayhem ensues and we have to see if everyone can remain alive (and friends/lovers!) when people think they are living in a Morganville that existed 3 years ago! Seth is still the high school playboy, Claire isn't even in Morganville and Michael is still alive!

To be honest I really don't like the character of Claire. I like to read about larger than life characters as the main - a feisty female or alpha male etc....she just interesting enough. That aside there was a moment in this book I actually felt a glimmer of sympathy for her! I read these books for other characters (namely Myrnin and Seth!) and they didn't fail to disappoint. I was giving up on these books.....this book makes me want to read the next one!


Thank you your thoughts Nix. We have had mixed feels here at Midnight Reads about the Morganville series and have to agree that it starts to pick up again with Ghost Town. We'd love to hear what you think of the Morganville series so please leave a comment if you have time.



Sunday, 16 September 2012

Stacking The Shelves #16

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Stacking The Shelves is hosted by Tyngs's Reviews and is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!

We love sharing our books with you each week but more importantly we loving see what you add to your shelves. Our links will take you to goodreads.
 
Sally
 
I was kind of good this week and I only bought two books.  I've been waiting for both of these for a while now and I'm so pleased they're finally here! The first one I got was The Iron Legends by Julie Kagawa.  The Iron Legends is a series of three novellas; Winters Passage, Summer Crossing and Irons Prophecy.  The book has really sweet deckle edging and I can't wait to start reading Irons Prophecy. It'll have to wait though as I'm in the middle of The Lost Prince at the moment and I don't want to be getting my fey all mixed up!  The second book I got this week was Inbetween by Tara Fuller.  I've been hearing good stuff about this book for ages so I'm looking forward to getting my teeth into it!  Inbetween in the first in the Kissed by Death series and with so many series coming to an end over the next few months I'm eager to find stories to take their place.  I have high hopes for this one!
 
 
 
Bungle
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This week I got back to being good and I didn't buy any books but oh my gosh, I ended up with TEN books!!! Ten awesome looking books, not bad for a weeks work ;) I'm going to get right to the books. First thing I received in the post this week was Tiger's Destiny by Colleen Houck, I love getting this series sent to me, the books are just so beautiful! Next I was sent the brilliant Spill the Ink bag from Harpercollins which included Sister Assassin by Kiersten White, Geek Girl by Holly Smale and Monster and Chips by David O'Connell (as you will see this is not a teen/YA title). Each book came with its own badge, I love the geek one :)
Then I was given three titles from Hot Key Books which were Jepp, Who Defied the Stars by Katherine Marsh, A World Between Us by Lydia Syson and Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner.
And if that wasn't enough the amazingly brilliant awesome Michelle from Much Loved Books sent me a signed copy of The Wood Queen by Karen Mahoney and Falling to Ash by the same author and 666 Park Avenue by Gabriella Pierce and three nnocent Darkness bookmarks. Thank you once again Michelle!!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 So that was the awesome week that was our book haul! We're off to see what you got now :)
Happy reading everyone.
 
 
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