Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Tell Me Tuesdays #12!!


Tell Me Tuesdays is a meme/feature created by the awesome ladies of Please Feed The Bookworm and La La In The Library where we can share how we choose the book we are currently reading from our TBR pile!

I'm always curious about that, cause as much as I tend to make myself a rough schedule for books to read and the like, I'm quite a mood reader and sometimes I just HAVE to ignore my schedule and read something else!


 Polaris by Mindee Arnett

"Following the events of Avalon, Jeth Seagrave and his crew are on the run. Jeth is desperate to find the resources and funding he needs to rescue his mother from an ITA’s research lab and leave this whole galaxy behind for a new life somewhere else. But the ITA is just as desperate, and soon Jeth finds himself pursued by a mysterious figure hell-bent on capturing Jeth and his crew—dead or alive. In a last-ditch effort to save everyone he holds dear, Jeth enters into a bargain with the last person he ever thought he'd see again: Dax Shepherd, the galaxy’s newest and most fearsome crime lord. And he’s not the only one: upon arriving back at Peltraz spaceport for the first time since he witnessed the death of his old employer, Jeth discovers Dax has a new partner: Jeth’s mother, Marian.

This shocking turn of events is only the first in another breathless, action-packed sci-fi adventure rife with danger, love, and betrayal, as Jeth has to once again ask himself how much he’s willing to invest in a morally bankrupt galaxy in the hopes of saving those he cares for."




 Winterspell by Claire Legrand

"Darkly romantic and entirely enchanting, this reimagining of The Nutcracker from Claire Legrand brims with magic, love, and intrigue. New York Times bestselling author Marissa Meyer (Cinder) says “this is not your grandmother’s Nutcracker tale.”

After her mother is brutally murdered, seventeen-year-old Clara Stole is determined to find out what happened to her. Her father, a powerful man with little integrity, is a notorious New York City gang lord in the syndicate-turned-empire called Concordia. And he isn’t much help.

But there is something even darker than Concordia’s corruption brewing under the surface of the city, something full of vengeance and magic, like the stories Clara’s godfather used to tell her when she was a little girl. Then her father is abducted and her little sister’s life is threatened, and Clara accidentally frees Nicholas from a statue that has been his prison for years. Nicholas is the rightful prince of Cane, a wintry kingdom that exists beyond the city Clara has known her whole life.

When Nicholas and Clara journey together to Cane to retrieve her father, Clara encounters Anise, the queen of the faeries, who has ousted the royal family in favor of her own totalitarian, anti-human regime. Clara finds that this new world is not as foreign as she feared, but time is running out for her family, and there is only so much magic can do..."



These two are ARCs, and both of them I'm reading more as me reads than actually because I must. Winterspell is a September release, so this one is also working on the review pile, but Polaris... well, Polaris is a total "I want to read it now and I don't care if it's a 2015 release" case. I won the ARC on a giveaway that the author did on her blog and I'm just so happy to have it in my hands! Thank you Mindee!

So what are you all guys reading and how and why did you decide to pick up that book? Shiny new ARC? Comfort read? Scheduled for review? Must have new release? Tell me!!

 

10 comments:

  1. Aw, yay :D I'm still so happy for you that you won Polaris. <3 yet so jealous too, lol :) signed books are the best. I hope you are loving it sweetie :D AND YAY. Winterspell. Oh, how I want you to love it. Please do :) I loved it so much. <3 happy reading Pili :) I'm planning on starting Illusions of Fate next; print arc that I got in the mail yesterday :)

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    1. I do hope you'll get an ARC of Polaris super soon too, Carina! I'm even happier I won this one since I was rejected for the eARC on Edelweiss!
      So far I'm really liking Winterspell but I still haven't really met Anise, so I am excited of what's to come!!
      Thank you sweetie!

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  2. Congrats on winning a copy of Polaris, especially since you wanted it that badly. There aren't many books that make me say to hell with my schedule, I'll read this now! Lately that's only been Mortal Heart and Burn for Me by Ilona Andrews, both of which I read months ago.

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    1. Thank you, Maja!
      I also read something that is not in my review schedule when I feel a slump coming, cause that way I'm too excited to not want to read!
      And yeah, Mortal Heart I'd skip anything for reading it ahead of time!!

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  3. Polaris, you say?? SO jealous! I'm sure it's going to be awesome! :)

    The book I'm reading now is called Something Witchy and it was sort of a mood read. I think it was an Amazon freebie a while ago. I've been mood reading a lot lately :)

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    1. So far it's being awesome and full of action and surprises all over!!

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  4. Ohhhhh Polaris looks great! Congrats on that win my dear. I personally can't wait for Winterspell it's waiting patiently for me in my netgalley que. Another happy tell me Tuesday to you!! *hugs*

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    1. Thank you dear! I hope to finish Winterspell soon, so far I'm really liking it!!

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  5. We are both reading a space themed scifi! I did not realize Winterspell was a Nutcracker retelling. Now it is intriguing me. Thanks for being such a faithful feature follower, Pili. *wuzzies*

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    1. Thank YOU for creating a meme I love for my Tuesdays!! *squishes*
      And YAY for reading sci-fi!!

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