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Sunday, 16 September 2012

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Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan Blog Tour: Character Interview with Kami Glass

Today, I have the pleasure of having the Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan Blog Tour is stopping by Once Upon a Bookcase! After enjoying the addictive first book in the Lynburn Legacy - check out my review - I'm excited to now share with you my interview with our protagonist, Kami Glass.

Unspoken by Sarah Rees BrennanSo, Kami, tell us a little about yourself.

I’m a totally normal girl. I’d describe myself as level-headed and sensible. I get fairly high test scores and hardly ever ride around in fast cars with dangerous boys. (More’s the pity.) I’m part Japanese, which is unusual for my tiny English town but totally normal. I live in a thatched cottage (very picturesque, also very damp) with my parents and my two little brothers. I want to be a journalist, because I want to find out the truths of the world and tell people stories about them: I want to have a hundred adventures and tell people about them, too.

It’s true that in the cause of sleuthing I did get a little bit entangled in some forgery this summer. And that I can frequently be found talking to myself, but that’s because I have an imaginary friend. And I have been known to break into people’s homes and swimming pools, but all this vandalism and trespass is done in the pursuit of great justice!

… All right, I admit to having a few quirks. But my best friend Angela’s description of me as ‘crazy as a bedbug in a straitjacket  was both untrue and hurtful!
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Wednesday, 5 September 2012

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Review: Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan (#Ad)

Unspoken by Sarah Rees BrennanUnspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan

I was sent this review copy for free by Simon & Schuster Children's Books for the purposes of providing an honest review.

Kami Glass is in love with someone she's never met - a boy the rest of the world is convinced is imaginary. This has made her an outsider in the sleepy English town of Sorry-in-the-Vale, but she doesn't complain. She runs the school newspaper and keeps to herself for the most part - until disturbing events begin to happen. There has been screaming in the woods and the dark, abandoned manor on the hill overlooking the town has lit up for the first time in 10 years. The Lynburn family, who ruled the town a generation ago and who all left without warning, have returned. As Kami starts to investigate for the paper, she finds out that the town she has loved all her life is hiding a multitude of secrets- and a murderer- and the key to it all just might be the boy in her head. The boy who everyone thought was imaginary may be real...and he may be dangerous. From Amazon UK
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Monday, 24 May 2010

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Various Bits of News!

Infinity by Sherrilyn Kenyon

To celebrate tomorrow's launch of 'Infinity', the first of Sherrilyn Kenyon's vampirific young adult series 'Chronicles of Nick', I have the book trailer to share with you! But first up, let's hear a bit about the book.
InfinityAt fourteen, Nick Gautier thinks he knows everything about the world around him. Streetwise, tough and savvy, his quick sarcasm is the stuff of legends... until the night when his best friends try to kill him. Saved by a mysterious warrior who has more fighting skills than Chuck Norris, Nick is sucked into the realm of the Dark-Hunters: immortal vampire slayers who risk everything to save humanity.

Nick quickly learns that the human world is only a veil for a much larger and more dangerous one: a world where the captain of the football team is a werewolf and the girl he has a crush on goes out at night to stake the undead.

But before he can even learn the rules of this new world, his fellow students are turning into flesh eating zombies. And he’s next on the menu.

As if starting high school isn't hard enough...now Nick has to hide his new friends from his mom, his chainsaw from the principal, and keep the zombies and the demon Simi from eating his brains, all without getting grounded or suspended. How in the world is he supposed to do that?
From Amazon US
How AMAZING does this book sound?! I also hear this is a good series for Dark-Hunter fans, as The Chronicles of Nick *is* Nick's real and true past. How I haven't heard of the Dark-Hunter series is beyond me, but I want both!

And now the trailer:




If that wasn't enough, you could also download the song used for the trailer, and read excerpts and an interview with Sherrilyn. Cool, huh?

Murder One Film Night with Sarah Rees Brennan

Sarah Rees Brennan will be having another film night in London with Murder One to sign copies of her lates novel, The Demon's Covenant, the sequel to The Demon's Lexicon. For all the information, click here, but here are the main details:

Who?
Sarah Rees Brennan
What?
Book signing and movie at Murder One Film Night event
Where?
Shortwave Cinema,
10 Bermondsey Square,
London,
SE1 3UN,
Tel: 0207 357 6845
http://www.shortwavefilms.co.uk/
When?
Tuesday 15th June 2010
Doors @ 6pm
Signing starts at 6.30pm
Movie, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, starts approx. 7.45pm
Tickets:
Ticket price is the book (available in the UK on May 27th) + 51p for the PayPal charges = £7.50 Please email trisha@murderone.co.uk to pay by credit card and receive your e-ticket.

Hope you're able to make it, and have a great time!

Reviews

Just so you're aware, for a while, reviews from me may be scare. I'm currently reading books for the Body Image and Self-Perception Month, and the reviews will be scheduled for the month. I'll still be around, but there may not be too many reviews.

Also, because of the back log of review copies I have, I have emailed all my publicist contacts asking them not to send me any more review copies for a while. I just don't think it's fair to be accepting books when I have so many. So once BI&SP Month is done, I will be focussing on really trying to make a dent in my TBR pile. Expects some long awaited reviews to make an appearance.
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Saturday, 1 August 2009

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Review: The Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan

The Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan - Nick has been on the run for as long as he can remember. His mother stole a charm off of a very powerful magician before he was born, and he wants it back. He and his older brother, Alan, move around the country with their deranged mother to escape the magicians and the demons the magicians send after them. But then Alan gets a demon mark - a mark that leads to possession and then death - when he tries to help two other teenagers who are in trouble. Nick is the only person who can save him, but that gets harder to do when he starts to think Alan is hiding things from him.
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