Neophyte

Neophyte (Linked #1)

by Emmalee Aple
Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal
Rating: 3 stars

(From Goodreads) Addisyn White thought she had her new life, her after life, all figured out. Granted death had not brought her to the pearly white gates, she hadn’t even left Earth. But death had its perks; she got to live forever with her best friend and her assigned Link of Angels, in a beautiful beach house. Even with the changes she was going through to turn her human body into an angelic one, everything seemed pretty easy. Until a gray winged angel comes into her life, then all the secrets and lies her Link had been keeping start crumbling away, exposing a whole new world of dangers she didn’t even know about. 



Now Addisyn must fill in the blanks before things escalate too far. Will she save her Link? Or will she be buried in their secrets forever?

Its a pretty good book and definitely worth a read. Angels are not my thing but it is still enjoyable. The premise and characters are interesting. I particularly liked Hunter and his loyalty to Addisyn. There is action right at the start and it continues on pretty well throughout the book. How little Addi's link tells her about being an angel does get a bit repetitive. Also her whining gets to be a bit on the extreme side although I understand her frustrations.

Something I loved about the book was learning how Addisyn died and would like to know more about how it is decided who gets reincarnated as angels. The basic idea is shown but I think it would be interesting to learn more. Another thing I found enjoyable and different was Addi and Grey's secret code to identify themselves.

My biggest issue is there are still some editing problems, these tend to take away from the story. Improper usage of words is very frustrating for me as a reader and there are currently some of those issues in this story as well as general spelling and grammar mistakes. I do look forward to reading more from this author who also happens to be a great friend

Up and Running

As you can see I have had a few failed attempts at getting this blog up and running. I've decided now is the time to see if I can. I would like a better name for the blog but I am lacking the creative juices needed to think one up. Any suggestions are always welcome. There will be a whole bunch of changes in the next while I am sure as I try to figure out how this all works so just stick with me! Thanks!!

Top Ten Tuesday is an original meme hosted at Broke and Bookish! The top ten of this week:

Top Ten Books I HAD To Buy...But Are Still Sitting On My Shelf Unread

This is a great top ten for me. I am so bad for this! Deciding I must have a book immediately and then never seeming to get to it. Maybe this will be the kick I need to read some of them!


1. Beautiful Creatures- I bought this on sale a couple years ago and have had every intention of reading it before the movie came out..

2. Virals- I love Kathy Reichs and her young adult series is supposed to be really good yet this is still sitting on my shelf.

3. Storm Glass- Read the Study series thought it was amazing went out and bought the first of the Glass series and there it sits.

4. Academ's Fury- Read the first one thought it was alright but it is by Jim Butcher so I must read the rest of the series. I own book 3 as well.

5. Waking the Witch- Once I got caught up on this series I seem to have stopped reading it! I am almost done and it is one of my favourite series you'd think I would pick this up sometime!

6. Lover Enshrined/Lover Mine/ Lover Avenged- I keep buying more of this series but never continuing on it!

7. I am Number Four- I thought this looked interesting, I still do so I bought it and refuse to watch the movie until I finally get around to reading it.

8. Silence- I haven't even been able to get through Crescendo (although I did try once) but I still felt the need to own this book.

9.Crave- The pretty cover caught my attention and the blurb sounds like something right up my alley but it has now been sitting unloved for months.

10. First Grave on the Right- I had heard nothing but good things about this book so I went out and got myself a copy. I really am hoping to get to it soon!!

So these are some of the books I need to read one of these days. What are yours?

Books!

Reading is one of my all time favourite hobbies. This blog is a place for me to geek out about books, whether to celebrate a new release, gush about a series or attempt to write a review. Maybe, just maybe, I will get better at getting my thoughts out in written form this way!

I love to travel and hope to see more of the world. I live in Canada. I have been to every province in Canada except for Newfoundland and many of the US states. I have also been across the ocean to England, Paris twice and I would NOT go again, Switzerland, Austria and Germany. My dream is to make it to Greece as well as anywhere else I can get to! 

So I am finally trying to figure this whole blogger thing out, any suggestions?

I had actually forgotten about my blog.. hmmm maybe I should actually work on it?