Book Review: As She Ascends

Title: As She Ascends (Fallen Isles #2)
Author: Jodi Meadows
Genre: Young Adult | Fantasy 
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Publication Date: September 11, 2018
Source: Author
Format: Manuscript

MIRA, THE HOPEBEARERMira Minkoba is on the run with her friends after a fiery escape from the Pit, where she’d been imprisoned for defending the dragons she loves. And she wants answers. Where have all the dragons been taken? Why are powerful noorestones being shipped to the mainland? And did the treaty she’s been defending her whole life truly sell out the Fallen Isles to their enemies?
MIRA, THE DRAGONHEARTEDAs her connection to the dragons—and their power—grows stronger, so does Mira’s fear that she might lose control and hurt someone she loves. But the only way to find the truth is to go home again, to Damina, to face the people who betrayed her and the parents she’s not sure she can trust.
Home, where she must rise above her fears. Or be consumed.
The second page-turning novel in Jodi Meadows’ Fallen Isles trilogy scorches with mysterious magic and riveting romance as one girl kindles a spark into a flame (goodreads). 

As She Ascends had more action, more character development, and more at stake. 

Waiting on Wednesday [#142]

Title: As She Ascends (Fallen Isles #2)
Author: Jodi Meadows
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Publication Date: September 11, 2018

MIRA, THE HOPEBEARERMira Minkoba is on the run with her friends after a fiery escape from the Pit, where she’d been imprisoned for defending the dragons she loves. And she wants answers. Where have all the dragons been taken? Why are powerful noorestones being shipped to the mainland? And did the treaty she’s been defending her whole life truly sell out the Fallen Isles to their enemies?
MIRA, THE DRAGONHEARTEDAs her connection to the dragons—and their power—grows stronger, so does Mira’s fear that she might lose control and hurt someone she loves. But the only way to find the truth is to go home again, to Damina, to face the people who betrayed her and the parents she’s not sure she can trust.
Home, where she must rise above her fears. Or be consumed.
The second page-turning novel in Jodi Meadows’ Fallen Isles trilogy scorches with mysterious magic and riveting romance as one girl kindles a spark into a flame (goodreads).

Book Review: Before She Ignites

Title: Before She Ignites (Fallen Isles Trilogy #1)
Author: Jodi Meadows
Genre: Young Adult | Fantasy
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Publication Date: September 12, 2017
Format: ARC
Source: Publisher

Before
Mira Minkoba is the Hopebearer. Since the day she was born, she’s been told she’s special. Important. Perfect. She’s known across the Fallen Isles not just for her beauty, but for the Mira Treaty named after her, a peace agreement which united the seven islands against their enemies on the mainland.
But Mira has never felt as perfect as everyone says. She counts compulsively. She struggles with crippling anxiety. And she’s far too interested in dragons for a girl of her station.
After
Then Mira discovers an explosive secret that challenges everything she and the Treaty stand for. Betrayed by the very people she spent her life serving, Mira is sentenced to the Pit–the deadliest prison in the Fallen Isles. There, a cruel guard would do anything to discover the secret she would die to protect.
No longer beholden to those who betrayed her, Mira must learn to survive on her own and unearth the dark truths about the Fallen Isles–and herself–before her very world begins to collapse (goodreads). 

Before She Ignites became a fantasy novel that I just can't get enough of!

Book Review: The Mirror King

Title: The Mirror King (The Orphan Queen #1)
Author: Jodi Meadows
Genre: Young Adult | Fantasy | Romance
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Publication Date: April 5, 2016
Format: Physical
Source: Purchased

Wilhelmina has a hundred enemies.
HER FRIENDS HAVE TURNED. After her identity is revealed during the Inundation, Princess Wilhelmina is kept prisoner by the Indigo Kingdom, with the Ospreys lost somewhere in the devastated city. When the Ospreys’ leader emerges at the worst possible moment, leaving Wil’s biggest ally on his deathbed, she must become Black Knife to set things right. 
HER MAGIC IS UNCONTROLLABLE. Wil’s power is to animate, not to give true life, but in the wraithland she commanded a cloud of wraith mist to save herself, and later ordered it solid. Now there is a living boy made of wraith—destructive and deadly, and willing to do anything for her.
HER HEART IS TORN. Though she’s ready for her crown, declaring herself queen means war. Caught between what she wants and what is right, Wilhelmina realizes the throne might not even matter. Everyone thought the wraith was years off, but already it’s destroying Indigo Kingdom villages. If she can’t protect both kingdoms, soon there won’t be a land to rule (goodreads).

 

Jodi Meadows just wrote herself a perfect duology. 

First Thoughts [#111]

First Thoughts is a feature where I give my initial impression of my current read.

Book Review: My Lady Jane

Title: My Lady Jane

Author: Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, Jodi Meadows
Genre: Young Adult | Retelling | Shifters | Romance
Publisher: HarperTeen
Publication Date: June 7, 2016
Format: e-ARC
Source: Publisher

For fans of The Princess Bride comes the comical, fantastical, romantical, (not) entirely true story of Lady Jane Grey.
Lady Jane Grey, sixteen, is about to be married to a total stranger—and caught up in an insidious plot to rob her cousin, King Edward, of his throne. But that’s the least of Jane’s problems. She’s about to become Queen of England. Like that could go wrong (goodreads).

That got weird really fast.

First Thoughts [#35]

First Thoughts is a feature where I give my initial impression of my current read.

Shape-shifting + Tudors?? I just don't know. 

NEW COVER: The Mirror King

If you were lucky, you had the chance to read the brilliance that is commonly known as The Orphan Queen. The Orphan Queen left me with feels and chills and I couldn't contain my excitement when I saw the the cover for the sequel, The Mirror King has been revealed today. BEHOLD. 

LOOK AT IT. LOOK AT THE SHIMMERYNESS. I love it and can't wait to have it on my shelves. Have you read The Orphan Queen? Did it leave you breathless like it did me? What do you think about this cover? Let us discuss the things that truly matter about a book: it's cover.

 

Book Review: The Orphan Queen

Title: The Orphan Queen (The Orphan Queen #1)
Author: Jodi Meadows
Genre: Young Adult // Fantasy // Magic // Romance
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Publication Date: March 10, 2015
Format: Physical 
Source: Borrowed (Library)

Wilhelmina has a hundred identities.
She is a princess. When the Indigo Kingdom conquered her homeland, Wilhelmina and other orphaned children of nobility were taken to Skyvale, the Indigo Kingdom’s capital. Ten years later, they are the Ospreys, experts at stealth and theft. With them, Wilhelmina means to take back her throne.
She is a spy. Wil and her best friend, Melanie, infiltrate Skyvale Palace to study their foes. They assume the identities of nobles from a wraith-fallen kingdom, but enemies fill the palace, and Melanie’s behavior grows suspicious. With Osprey missions becoming increasingly dangerous and their leader more unstable, Wil can’t trust anyone.
She is a threat. Wraith is the toxic by-product of magic, and for a century using magic has been forbidden. Still the wraith pours across the continent, reshaping the land and animals into fresh horrors. Soon it will reach the Indigo Kingdom. Wilhelmina’s magic might be the key to stopping the wraith, but if the vigilante Black Knife discovers Wil’s magic, she will vanish like all the others.
Jodi Meadows introduces a vivid new fantasy full of intrigue, romance, dangerous magic, and one girl’s battle to reclaim her place in the world (goodreads).

You wanted an intense fantasy with a strong female lead and just the right amount of romance? Well Jodi delivered. 

[Meme]Teaser Tuesday [#63]

Hosted by Should Be Reading

"I'll be around my whole life," I whispered, not quite under the breeze in the forest, the pounding of my heart, and the beating of my invisible and incorporeal wings. "That's a long time to me." 

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Incarnate by Jodi Meadows [GoodReads] 

Weekly Wrap Up: October 22-27

Giveaway: Birthday and Blogoversary

Review: Deadly Cool by Gemma Halliday

Meme: Musing Monday

Review: Blackwood by Gwenda Bond

Meme: Waiting on Wednesday

Meme: Dream Cast Thursday

Meme: Cover Crush

The Iron Knight by Julie Kagawa

                                    The Lost Prince by Julie Kagawa

and I MUST finish: 

Feed by Mira Grant

(Look at our new kitty!) 

Received for Review:

Article 5 by Kristen Simmons
Thanks Tor Teen!

Bought: 

Incarnate by Jodi Meadows

Bought For Nook: 

Social Suicide by Gemma Halliday

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Embers in a Dark Frost by Kelly Keaton

Cover Crush [#1]

Hosted by What's on the Shelf

Cover Crush is a new meme hosted by the wonderful Vyki at  On The Shelf where beautiful and eye-catching covers are spotlighted! Any cover can be showcased whether it be old or new, read or still sitting in your TBR stack. 

Incarnate by Jodi Meadows

What I Love: 

The colors are just so warm and inviting! I've only read a chapter sampler of this, but if I remember correctly, Ana refers to herself as some kind of butterfly. I love that this is represented by the butterfly on the cover! Sooo pretty!