Showing posts with label sarah cross. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sarah cross. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Books Read in 2015

2015
My goal for this year is to read at least 50 books.
My Goodreads goal

2015 Reading Challenge

2015 Reading Challenge
Ashley has read 4 books toward her goal of 50 books.
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  • Foretold by Various Authors
  • Tear you apart by Sarah Cross
  • 50 shades of gray by E.L James
  • Prisoner of Night and Fog by Anna Blankman
  • The Duff by Kody Keplinger
  • The Uninvited by Sophie Jordan
  • The Young Elites by Marie Lu
  • The Murder Complex by Lindsay Cummings
  • The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
  • Hexed by Michelle Krys
  • We were liars by E. Lockhart
  • The Queen of Bright and Shiny Things by Ann Aguirre
  • Love, Lucy by April Linder
  • Queen of the Dead by Stacey Kade
  • Vanished by E.E Cooper
  • Trial by Fire by Josephine Angelini
  • This is what happy looks like by Jennifer E. Smith
  • Poisoned Apples by Christine Heppermann
  • Spelled by Betsy Schow
  • Charmed by Michelle Krys
  • Amber Smoke by Kristin Cast
  • United We Spy by Ally Carter
  • All Fall Down by Ally Carter
  • Are you there god? It's me margaret by Judy Blume
  • Summer Queen by Amber Argyle
  • Ruthless by Carolyn Lee Adams
  • Landry Park By Bethany Hagen
  • A School for unusual Girls by Kathleen Baldwin
  • The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall by Katie Alender
  • Never, Alaways, Sometimes by Adi Alsaid
  • Jubilee Manor by Bethany Hagen
  • Delirium Stories by Lauren Oliver
  • Sound Effects May Vary by Julie Murphy
  • Sound by Alexandra Duncan
  • School Spirits by Rachel Hawkins
  • Poison by Lan Chan

Sunday, January 25, 2015

Blog Tour and GIveaway: Tear You Apart by Sarah Cross



MY REVIEW: TEAR YOU APART
Giveaway at bottom of this post :)

Tear You Apart (Beau Rivage)
Publisher: EgmontUSA
Release Date: January 27th 2015

Synopsis:

An edgy fairy tale retelling of "Snow White" set in the world of Kill Me Softly for fans of Once Upon a Time and Grimm.

If you want to live happily ever after, first you have to stay alive.

Viv knows there’s no escaping her fairy-tale curse. One day her beautiful stepmother will feed her a poison apple or convince her on-again-off-again boyfriend, Henley, to hunt her down and cut out her heart before she breaks his. In the city of Beau Rivage, some princesses are destined to be prey.

But then Viv receives an invitation to the exclusive club where the Twelve Dancing Princesses twirl away their nights. There she meets Jasper, an underworld prince who seems to have everything—but what he really wants is her. He vows to save her from her dark fate if she’ll join him and be his queen.

All Viv has to do is tear herself away from the huntsman boy who still holds her heart. Then she might live to see if happily ever after is a promise the prince can keep. But is life as an underworld queen worth sacrificing the true love that might kill her?

Faced with a possible loophole to her "Snow White" curse, Viv goes underground, literally, to find the prince who's fated to rescue her. But is life safe in the Underworld worth the price of sacrficing the love that might kill her?

POP CULTURE CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF TWISTING FAIRY TALES: ABC's Once Upon a Time and NBC's Grimm continue to pull in high ratings. And with the anticipated Angelina Jolie Maleficent (2014), the film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods (2014), and Kenneth Branagh's Cinderella (2015), Hollywood is infected with fairy tale fever.

CAMEOS FROM FAVORITE CHARACTERS: Viv, who first appeared in Kill Me Softly trailed by her brooding boy-toy Henley, takes center stage in this new Beau Rivage tale. Other familiar characters including Blue and Jewel are back to help her defy her destiny.

TEENS LOVE THIS FAIRY TALE WORLD: Kill Me Soflty was a 2013 YALSA Teens' Top 10. Readers have been clamoring for a sequel.

A FRESH TAKE ON THE FAMILIAR: Drawing on "Snow White," "The Twelve Dancing Princesses," and "Rumpelstiltskin," Tear You Apart is very conscious of the way these stories have pervaded pop culture, twisting known tropes into an exciting new story that can stand on its own.
  
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Sarah Cross is the author of the fairy tale novels Kill Me Softly and Tear You Apart (coming January 2015), the superhero novel Dull Boy, and the Wolverine comic "The Adamantium Diaries." She loves fairy tales, lowbrow art, secret identities and silence.                                                                    |Website|  |Twitter| |Goodreads| |Facebook| |Tumblr| |Personal Tumblr| |Pinterest|          


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(Note that the "After the Ball" cover was my creation. I found the picture and added the text.)



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Book Review: Tear You Apart by Sarah Cross




AUTHOR: Sarah Cross
PUBLISHER: Egmont
SERIES/STANDALONE:
PAGES: 384
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Outline:
An edgy fairy tale retelling of "Snow White" set in the world of Kill Me Softly for fans of Once Upon a Time and Grimm.

If you want to live happily ever after, first you have to stay alive.

Viv knows there’s no escaping her fairy-tale curse. One day her beautiful stepmother will feed her a poison apple or convince her on-again-off-again boyfriend, Henley, to hunt her down and cut out her heart before she breaks his. In the city of Beau Rivage, some princesses are destined to be prey.

But then Viv receives an invitation to the exclusive club where the Twelve Dancing Princesses twirl away their nights. There she meets Jasper, an underworld prince who seems to have everything—but what he really wants is her. He vows to save her from her dark fate if she’ll join him and be his queen.

All Viv has to do is tear herself away from the huntsman boy who still holds her heart. Then she might live to see if happily ever after is a promise the prince can keep. But is life as an underworld queen worth sacrificing the true love that might kill her?

Faced with a possible loophole to her "Snow White" curse, Viv goes underground, literally, to find the prince who's fated to rescue her. But is life safe in the Underworld worth the price of sacrficing the love that might kill her?


Quick Thought (or not)
Once upon a time I decided to read a fairy-tale retelling. Here's how it ended up.
I haven't read many if any at all retellings. (I do however have quite a few on my shelf.) I didn't know what to expect when I asked to be on tour and read Tear you apart. I had seen the other book she wrote around, but it never caught my attention. (I ended up getting it, and I'll probably read it after my next book I have planned.)
Tear You Apart isn't just a re-telling of one fairy-tale (Well okay I guess it is) It has so many others all twisted into snow whites though so it's enjoyable. I like how it's modernized.

I'm not really sure if I like Viv, or not. She has this attitude like she's better than everyone else. I think the way she treated Henley sucked most of the time, but I guess with them being who they were Snow white and huntsman it was bound to happen.  I do like that she never gave up on what she believed. There are always going to be hard times, but you got to fight through those to get to the good ones. :) 

I will say when we were first introduced to Prince Jasper I immediately liked him. I liked that he wanted to protect this girl who barely knew. I know it sounds weird, but I don't know. As the book went on though things changed, and he became a bit of an ass. I realize you're dad is who he is, but be a man and stand up for this girl you claim to love.

My heart flip-flopped a bit towards the end and went to Henley because even through all the crap he was dealt he still cared so much for Viv, and wasn't going to give up on her even if she was bitch sometimes.

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