Stacking The Shelves #31

Welcome to Stacking The Shelves! Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga Reviews and is a meme to share those books, both print and e-book, that have been added to your shelves in the last week/s.

It was a quieter week on the blog this week with only the one review being posted on monday and just a couple of other posts throughout the week. I spent most of the week either busy at work, reading or catching up on Marvel Agents of SHIELD. I am only just over a season behind now :-P

Whilst the beginning of the week in terms of new books, towards the end of the week I got notice of some tour stops I will be participating in over the coming weeks and the review titles that went with them.  take a look on the left to see some of the tours and events I will be participating in over the next couple of weeks.

I am also looking forward to Armchair BEA next week.  Who else is participating?  This will be my 3 or maybe fourth year being involved though I really need to get to work on my posts.  Let me known if you are participating and I will come by and visit during the week :-)

Reading wise, this week I read Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen ( see review here) and Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus #2) and I have been listening to The battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #4).  It can be a little confusing at times but it still works as I actually read the entire first Percy jackson series a couple of years so its kind of a refresher and I am really enjoying the Heroes of Olympus series.  So much so that I have already reserved books 3 and 4 at the library. Who else is excited about The Sword of Summer (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard #1) coming out in October???

 I also just started on Nowhere But Here (Thunder Road #1) by Katie McGarry this morning. Really enjoying it so far.  Almost didn't want to put it down to finish this post :-P  Stay tuned for the review this week!

Even my library finds this week are actually earlier books in the series for a couple of the ARCS I received to review.

What is on your reading list this week?

E-Arcs (Bookouture via Netgally)

I read the first two books in this series earlier this year and reviewed the first book here in late February.  This is actually the fifth and final book in the series and I cannot wait to see what happens

Night School: EndGame by C J Daugherty

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Broken. Scattered. But not defeated.

The spy is gone but the cost has been high - the rebels at Cimmeria Academy have lost their leader and Carter West is missing. Nathaniel can taste victory. But Allie and the other survivors aren't done yet. First they have to get Carter back. Then they plan to make Nathaniel pay.

One way or another - the game must end.

Endgame is the thrilling fifth and final book in the internationally bestselling Night School series.

E-Arcs for Blog Tours/Blitzes

Got confirmation of my stops for a few Blog tours and Blitzes this week - two of them also have already provided the review copy i will be reviewing for my stops.  Check out the Blog Tiour banners on the left for more info on these tours

The Cinderella Moment by Jennifer Kloester 

A love of fashion.

A couture competition.

A once-in-a-lifetime chance . . .

Angel Moncoeur has always wanted to be a fashion designer, but without money or connections, it's going to be a challenge. When an opportunity to leave her home in New York and head to Paris appears, Angel grabs it – even if it means masquerading as her best friend Lily. That can't be too hard, can it?

But faking things doesn't come easy for Angel, so when she falls in love with her very own Prince Charming and he thinks she's someone else, things start to get complicated.

Angel needs to stop her secrets unravelling if she wants to live happily ever after . . .

From exciting talent Jennifer Kloester comes this fabulous story about high society, mistaken identity, love, betrayal, friendship – and great clothes.

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Finding Mr Darcy: High School Edition by Erin Butler

Sixteen-year-old Liza Johnson takes fangirl to a whole new level of crazy when she decides to take dating advice from her literary hero: Jane Austen.

With the help of her best friends, Liza sheds her ancient-speak and complete Austen wardrobe for something a bit more modern in an attempt at finding her very own Mr. Darcy.

Enter Will, the new kid and Liza's Darcy incarnate. Add her BFF's ex to mix and the sexy Brit who kisses with an accent, and Liza is in trouble.

So, what's a girl to do? Without her mom to go to relationship advice, Liza turns to the only person she can truly trust with matters of the heart via her mother's copy of COMPLETED WORKS OF JANE AUSTEN.

It's too bad Austen's heroines have never played Spin the Bottle or Seven Minutes in Heaven. Liza's determined to find her true Austen-esque happy ending, but if she can't trust herself instead of books, she just might end up in her own tragic love story.

Purchase: Amazon  

Library Books :

As mentioned earlier, this week my library finds are earlier books in two series wheer i wil be review the latest one.

Snow Like Ashes by Sara Raasch

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Night School: Fracture (Night School #3) by C J Daugherty

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Night School: Resistance (Night School #4) by C J Daugherty

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So what did you add to your shelves this week?

Review: Night School (Night School #1) by CJ Daugherty

Title: Night School (Night School #1)

Author: C J Daugherty
Published: 5 january 2012 by Hachette Digital
Source: iBooks
Reviewed: Sapphired Dragon
Rating: *****

My Review:

I really enjoyed this novel.  I read it in 24 hours finding it almost impossible to put down during this time.  I also bought book 2, Night School: Legacy for my kindle with in minutes of finishing this story.

I have always had a things about stories that were about mysterious boarding school and this novel has mystery in abundance.   When main character Allie is sent to Cimmeria Academy after being arrested for the third time, she thinks she is being punished but Cimmeria is nothing like she expected.  in fact despite the terrifying building and the strange rules and the secret Night School, she starts to feel happy there.  However as more and more secrets start to pile up, she finds herself getting more and more involved and the more involved she gets, the more dangerous it becomes and no one is who she thinks they are.

The amount of suspense and mystery  Ms Daugherty  puts into this novel is unrelenting, for every one secret we find out about 3-4 more seem to be created and even by the end, which though satisfying still leaves us with just as many questions as answers. Hence why book two was bought so swiftly as I need to know MORE.

I found it easy to connect with main character Allie and understood her need to find out answers and her frustration at trying to work out who to trust.  I also liked trying to work out whether the characters I liked were the good guys and the bad guys.

That being said, I found for the most part, the story moved a long well.  There were parts in the middle where i felt i was literally going to explode if I didn't find out more soon and felt it may have been drawn out just a little too much at time.  This is why I have only given it four stars because i loved everything else about it.


If you want novel that has a dark and mysterious boarding school, intriguing characters and suspenseful tale that will leave you gripping the edge of your seat then this is the novel for you.

I give this novel 4 stars.

Sapphired Dragon xx

About The Book:

Allie Sheridan’s world is falling apart. Her brother’s run away from home. Her parents ignore her. And she’s just been arrested. Again.

This time her parents have had enough. They send Allie to Cimmeria Academy - far away from her London friends. The school is beautiful, and filled with gorgeous, ultra-wealthy teens who travel by private jet, and were raised by nannies.

Allie has never felt more of an outsider.

Instead of hating boarding school though, Allie begins to feel happy. She's slowly making friends. And there's Carter, a brooding loner with whom she feels an instant connection.

But when Allie is attacked late one night, the school suddenly begins to feel like a very dangerous place. Allie finds out that nothing at Cimmeria is what it seems.

And that she is not who she thought she was…

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Teaser Tuesday #82: Legacy (Night School #2)

Welcome to Teaser Tuesdays.

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

1. Grab your current read

2. Open to a random page

3. 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 muchaway! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)

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

My current read is Legacy (Night School #2) by C J Daugherty  and my four lines are from page 163

A chill ran through her and her eyes flicked towards the door through which carter woud be walking any minute. When she looked back at Sylvain he was studying her curiously. She didn't like the way his gaze could stil unsteady her.

In the last year, Allie's survived three arrests, two breakups and one family breakdown. The only bright point has been her new life at Cimmeria Academy. It's the one place she's felt she belongs. And the fact that it's brought dark-eyed Carter West into her life hasn't hurt either. But far from being a safe haven, the cloistered walls of Cimmeria are proving more dangerous than Allie could have imagined. The students and faculty are under threat, and Allie's family - from her mysterious grandmother to her runaway brother - are at the centre of the storm. Allie is going to have to choose between protecting her family and trusting her friends. But secrets have a way of ripping even the strongest relationships apart...

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Stacking The Shelves #21

Welcome to Stacking The Shelves! Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga Reviews and is a meme to share those books, both print and e-book, that have been added to your shelves in the last week/s.

This week was a nice little week for books.  Blogwise I started the week off well however real life intervened later in the week so i didn't get as many posts out as I planned.  However I have gotten a good start on a couple of review books I have to read and look forward to getting those reviews out ASAP

Review (Ebooks - Random House via netgalley)

Seeker (Seeker #1) by Arwen Elys Dayton

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The night Quin Kincaid takes her Oath, she will become what she has trained to be her entire life. She will become a Seeker. This is her legacy, and it is an honor. As a Seeker, Quin will fight beside her two closest companions, Shinobu and John, to protect the weak and the wronged. Together they will stand for light in a shadowy world. And she'll be with the boy she loves--who's also her best friend.
But the night Quin takes her Oath, everything changes. Being a Seeker is not what she thought. Her family is not what she thought. Even the boy she loves is not who she thought.
And now it's too late to walk away.

Purchased (Print Books):

I read the first book in the Grimm Legacy series a few years ago, before this one had been published.  After waiting for it to finally be published, it then took me another year or so to find it.  I ordered it shortly before Christmas and it finally arrived this week  so very much looking forward to reading :-)

The Wells Bequest (The Grimm Legacy #2) by Polly Shulman
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Leo never imagined that time travel might really be possible, or that the objects in H. G. Wells’ science fiction novels might actually exist. And when a miniature time machine appears in Leo’s bedroom, he has no idea who the tiny, beautiful girl is riding it. But in the few moments before it vanishes, returning to wherever—and whenever—it came from, he recognizes the other tiny rider: himself!
His search for the time machine, the girl, and his fate leads him to the New-York Circulating Material Repository, a magical library that lends out objects instead of books. Hidden away in the Repository basement is the Wells Bequest, a secret collection of powerful objects straight out of classic science fiction novels: robots, rockets, submarines, a shrink ray—and one very famous time machine. And when Leo’s adventure of a lifetime suddenly turns deadly, he must attempt a journey to 1895 to warn real-life scientist Nikola Tesla about a dangerous invention. A race for time is on!
In this grand time-travel adventure full of paradoxes and humor, Polly Shulman gives readers a taste of how fascinating science can be, deftly blending classic science fiction elements with the contemporary fantasy world readers fell in love with in The Grimm Legacy.

This next book I bought for my local book club as we are reading it as our January/February book.  You can't really go wrong with a Jodi Picoult read so i am expecting to enjoy this one :-)

Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult
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Alice Metcalf was a devoted mother, loving wife and accomplished scientist who studied grief among elephants. Yet it's been a decade since she disappeared under mysterious circumstances, leaving behind her small daughter, husband, and the animals to which she devoted her life. All signs point to abandonment - or worse.

Still Jenna - now thirteen years old and truly orphaned by a father maddened by grief - steadfastly refuses to believe in her mother's desertion. So she decides to approach the two people who might still be able to help her find Alice: a disgraced psychic named Serenity Jones, and Virgil Stanhope, the cynical detective who first investigated her mother's disappearance and the strange, possibly linked death of one of her WC mother's coworkers.

Together these three lonely souls will discover truths destined to forever change their lives. Deeply moving and suspenseful, Jodi Picoult's 21st novel is a radiant exploration of the enduring love between mothers and daughters.

Purchased (Ebooks):

I already have The Selection series in paperback but book 1 is free on Australian Ibooks this week so I couldn't resist getting an e-copy also :-)

The Selection (The Selection #1) by Kiera Cass
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For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape the life laid out for them since birth. To be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels. To live in a palace and compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon.

But for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. It means turning her back on her secret love with Aspen, who is a caste below her. Leaving her home to enter a fierce competition for a crown she doesn't want. Living in a palace that is constantly threatened by violent rebel attacks.

Then America meets Prince Maxon. Gradually, she starts to question all the plans she's made for herself--and realizes that the life she's always dreamed of may not compare to a future she never imagined.

I have been meaning to get this one for a while now but always seemed to forget about when i was doing my book buying.  However i still managed to have some credit on itunes left over from Christmas when i remembered this one.  It will probably be my next read

Night School (Night School #1) by C J Daugherty
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Allie Sheridan’s world is falling apart. Her brother’s run away from home. Her parents ignore her. And she’s just been arrested.

Again.

This time her parents have had enough. They cut her off from her friends and send her away to boarding school, far from her London friends.

But at Cimmeria Academy, Allie is soon caught up in the strange activities of a secret group of elite students.

When she’s attacked late one night the incident sets off a chain of increasingly violent events. As the school begins to seem like a very dangerous place, she finds out that nothing at Cimmeria is what it seems to be.

And that she is not who she thought she was.

So what did you add to your shelves this week?