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January 2012 Round Up

January 2012 Round Up

Sorry this is late!

Stats

My Aim : 6 Books

Total number of read books : 3

Comments

It looks like hardly any books! Well I guess 3 is hardly anything and I am sad to say, it will pretty much be like this most months. Now I am working full time and have two hamsters (who take up 2 hours a night) I am struggling to find time to read. In  my holidays I am hoping to read two extra books so some months will hopefully be around 6 books =)

Book of January

Both Skin Deep and A Beautiful Evil were 4.5/5 but I am doing with Skin Deep as it's such a unique story which is heart warming and heartbreaking. 

Cover of January

Definitely a cover which makes you go 'wow!'

*Review* : A Beautiful Evil By Kelly Keaton

  A Beautiful Evil - Kelly Keaton

Series : #2 Gods and Monsters

Released : 2nd February 2012

Publisher :  Simon and Schuster

Format : Paperback

Source : Publisher

Buy : Amazon (UK/USA)|Book Depository

Overall rating

 .................................... The Blurb  ....................................

A power she can’t deny. A destiny she’s determined to fight.
When Ari first arrived in the dilapidated city of New 2, all she wanted was to figure out who she was. But what she discovered was beyond her worst nightmare. Ari can already sense the evil growing inside her—a power the goddess Athena will stop at nothing to possess.
Desperate to hold on to her humanity and protect her loved ones, Ari must fight back. But Athena’s playing mind games, not just with Ari but with those she cares about most. And Athena has a very special plan for the brooding and sexy Sebastian.
Ari is determined to defeat Athena, but time is running out. With no other options, Ari must unleash the very thing she’s afraid of: herself.

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In Short 

- A Beautiful Evil is definitely action packed with lots of twists in

- I love how Kelly challenged her characters 

- The characters and their relationships grew stronger in this book

-   I do feel that this could have been rounded off nicely without needing a 3rd in the series

- I would have loved for Kelly to just go over what happened in Darkness Becomes Her

In Long

I have to admit that I sadly didn’t remember much from Darkness Becomes Her but I did remember that I loved it so I was very excited to read A Beautiful Evil. A Beautiful Evil didn’t really recap much from Darkness Becomes Her which sadly meant it took a while for everything to come back to me. But it did! Slowly I started to remember things and the more I remembered the more I got into the book.

The main thing I love about this book is the twists and turns throughout it. Keaton did an amazing job at keeping my attention throughout most of the book and I was surprised constantly by twists which I didn’t expect. I also love how Keaton doesn’t seem to hold much back. She puts her characters through a very hard time and it left me feeling shocked and very sorry for poor Ari. But I really liked that Kelly dares to go that little bit further than most authors do and push her characters to the limit.

The characters got stronger in this book as well as the relationships. I enjoyed getting to know Ari more in this book although I didn’t find myself becoming any fonder of her. I can’t really say much about any of the other characters as I sadly couldn’t place them due to not being able to remember them from the previous book. I would have loved for Keaton to just go over who they are in a subtle way.

I don’t know if there is going to be a third in this series, the ending makes me think there is but this kind of puts me off this book. I found that although I enjoyed this book a lot the actual story could have ended after A Darkness Becomes Her and it can definitely end with A Beautiful Evil. I feel like Keaton has took her characters as far as they can go and has tested them as much as possible.

Final Thoughts

I did enjoy A Beautiful Evil, it’s action packed with twists throughout the book which will keep you guessing what’s going to happen next for the whole book. I do feel that this book could have been rounded up nicely but I am guessing it’s been left open for the 3rd in the series. I don’t feel too excited about reading a 3rd in the series as I feel everything has happened that needs to. I am sure I would read the 3rd though and hope that Keaton would blow me away.

The Time Will Come #54

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The Time Will Come - 

Every Thursday l am going to list a book which l really want to read/keep meaning to get to. These are mostly books which have been on my shelf for awhile now but don't have to be, maybe you got it two weeks ago and really want to read it! 

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   Forbidden - Jana Oliver
Well I haven't even read the first in this series (Forsaken) but this one deserves it's own The Time Will Come Post too! I have had these books for months and really honestly keep telling myself that I will start reading this series next but I never do!
I honestly think that maybe the covers are what are putting me off? I really don't like the covers. The girl on the cover is really freaky so it kinda makes me wonder about the character in the book (bad I know!) Anyway I will definitely read this one soon. If you have a review of this book leave a link below for me and hopefully if you enjoyed it you can talk me into actually getting to this series.

The Blurb

Riley Blackthorne is beginning to learn that there are worse things than death by demon. And love is just one of them…
Seventeen-year-old Riley has about had it up to here. After the devastating battle at the Tabernacle, trappers are dead and injured, her boyfriend Simon is gravely injured, and now her beloved late father’s been illegally poached from his grave by a very powerful necromancer. As if that’s not enough, there's Ori, one sizzling hot freelance demon hunter who’s made himself Riley’s unofficial body guard, and Beck, a super over-protective “friend” who acts more like a grouchy granddad. With all the hassles, Riley’s almost ready to leave Atlanta altogether.

Waiting on Wednesday (#53)

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event hosted at Breaking The Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

  Trafficked - Kim Purcell
Published : 16th February 2012
Publisher : Viking Juvenile
I was so so glad when I found this one today! I straight away knew after reading the blurb that this would be a book I am dying to read! I really like books which put characters in difficult situations and to see how the characters develop.
The blurb makes it sound like there will be twists throughout this book so I can't wait to see where Kim takes the story and the characters. This seems to be Kim's first proper book and I love finding new authors. Hoping this will live up to my exceptions =)

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The Blurb :
A gripping thriller, ripped from the headlines
Hannah believes she's being brought from Moldova to Los Angeles to become a nanny for a Russian family. But her American dream quickly spirals into a nightmare. The Platonovs force Hannah to work sixteen-hour days, won't let her leave the house, and seem to have a lot of secrets - from Hannah and from each other. Stranded in a foreign land with false documents, no money, and nobody who can help her, Hannah must find a way to save herself from her new status as a modern-day slave or risk losing the one thing she has left: her life.