Upcoming (2)

In Upcoming I talk about the books that I will read and review. So you know what you can expect on the blog in the upcoming days / weeks. I hope you enjoy it!

This week

 

Review of Vanish by Sophie Jordan

An impossible romance.
Bitter rivalries.
Deadly choices.

To save the life of the boy she loves, Jacinda did the unthinkable: She betrayed the most closely-guarded secret of her kind. Now she must return to the protection of her pride knowing she might never see Will again—and worse, that because his mind has been shaded, Will’s memories of that fateful night and why she had to flee are gone.

Back home, Jacinda is greeted with hostility and must work to prove her loyalty for both her sake and her family’s. Among the few who will even talk to her are Cassian, the pride’s heir apparent who has always wanted her, and her sister, Tamra, who has been forever changed by a twist of fate. Jacinda knows that she should forget Will and move on—that if he managed to remember and keep his promise to find her, it would only endanger them both. Yet she clings to the hope that someday they will be together again. When the chance arrives to follow her heart, will she risk everything for love?

Synopsis from Goodreads

Review of Sevenster by Alexandra Penrhyn Lowe

Because this is a Dutch book, the synopsis is also in Dutch. In short the story is about Eveline. When she tries to summon ghosts, she begins to see them everywhere. And not only ghosts, but worse. She learns she has a gift, which was shielded before, but know she have to learn to live it.  

Eveline heeft maar één zorg deze zomer: een echt leuke jongen vinden met wie ze voor het eerst kan zoenen. Maar dan roept ze geesten op tijdens een feestje – tegen de waarschuwing van haar pleegmoeder in – en nu ziet ze plotseling dingen die andere mensen niet zien.

Doodsbang dat ze bezeten is door een kwade geest, probeert ze een manier te vinden om alles terug te draaien. Maar dan hoort ze van een waarzegster dat ze de eeuwenoude gave van De Wachters heeft – een gave die was afgeschermd, maar nu is wakker gemaakt. Een gave waardoor ze geesten en demonen kan zien.
En zij zien haar ook.

Eveline heeft maar één zorg deze zomer: in leven blijven. 

Synsopsis from Goodreads

Next week

Review of Slated by Teri Terry

In a world where young people who turn bad are being slated, Kyla has to find out why she’s different than all the other slated kids.

Review of Hush, hush by Becca Fitzpatrick

I love books about fallen angels. I’m currently reading it and I really like it so far.

Hope to see you soon!

Review Fever by Lauren DeStefano

Title:Vrees

Original title: Fever

Author: Lauren Destefano

Published: April 20th, 2012 (Van Holkema & Warendorf)
Pages: 349
Source: for review
Series: The Chemical Garden Trilogy #2

Rating: 3 / 5       

Synopsis from Goodreads: Rhine and Gabriel have escaped the mansion, but danger is never far behind.
Running away brings Rhine and Gabriel right into a trap, in the form of a twisted carnival whose ringmistress keeps watch over a menagerie of girls. Just as Rhine uncovers what plans await her, her fortune turns again. With Gabriel at her side, Rhine travels through an environment as grim as the one she left a year ago - surroundings that mirror her own feelings of fear and hopelessness.
The two are determined to get to Manhattan, to relative safety with Rhine’s twin brother, Rowan. But the road there is long and perilous - and in a world where young women only live to age twenty and young men die at twenty-five, time is precious. Worse still, they can’t seem to elude Rhine’s father-in-law, Vaughn, who is determined to bring Rhine back to the mansion...by any means necessary.
In the sequel to Lauren DeStefano’s harrowing Wither, Rhine must decide if freedom is worth the price - now that she has more to lose than ever.

I read this book in the Dutch translation, so it's possible that some things might be different in the original version. 

In a World where women do not get older than twenty and men die at twenty five, people live different lives. Women are taken from the streets to be sold to the highest bidder, often someone from the First Generation, the only people who do get old.

At the end of Wither Rhine flees with Gabriel from her husband and sister wives. In Fever they try to find her twin brother, but it isn’t easy. The world they end up in is dangerous, and her father-in-law, Vaughn, is closing in on them. Time flies by and that is frightening for more than one reason.

I picked up the first part because of its beautiful cover and they did a great job at this cover too. I wasn’t really enthusiastic at first about part one, but the world it is set in kept me thinking about it, so I liked the book a lot more in the end and that’s why I wanted to read part two.  It didn’t let me down. The story picks up where Wither ended, so you’re right back in the game. In the beginning I had to get used to the world and storyline again, but the story is really exciting, so I really enjoyed it.

The dystopian world is well set and you learn more about it in this book. I like the style of writing of Lauren DeStefano and because of that it was sometimes really difficult to put the book down. The end asks for more, so I can’t wait for part three.