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Monday, November 2, 2009

Fallen Archangel Hush, Hush Cover Week

Our wonderful affiliates over at Fallen Archangel are hosting a fun filled week of Hush, Hush goodies next week Nov. 9th the 13th.
Here's what they say, "Fallen Archangel is excited to announce that we will be celebrating the beautiful cover of HUSH, HUSH with "Cover Week" November 9 through 13. There will be exciting features as well as limited edition give aways...."

WP Memories Fallen Give Away


Enter to win a wonderful prize pack of Fallen goodies-
We're all so excited for Fallen to hit the bookshelves. Stay tuned to our reviews of this highly anticipated book.

MM chat with James Dashner

Hi everyone! In a few hours we'll be chatting with Author James Dashner at this link:
We'll see you guys at 7 pm MTN

We have a winner for our Hush, Hush Prize Pack


CONGRATULATIONS TO: JoJo!!!
Here's what we'll be sending you:
* A brand new hard cover of Hush, Hush that's SIGNED
* A limited edition Hush, Hush poster
We'll be contacting you to get your information to send these goodies to you.

We'll be chatting with Becca this Sunday!! Please join our forum here to talk about Hush, Hush.
We have more Hush, Hush goodies we'll be giving away during our chat.

Thank you to everyone who is following and joined in on this wonderful give away. Thank you to Simon and Schuster for the goodies so we could do this.

Amazon's Top 10 Best Books of 2009



Such good news from amazon.com, City of Glass is now Number 5 on their Customer Favorites List. Incredible!

And then some of our favorite authors have made amazon's list for Top 10 Best Books of 2009 for teens. Check it out here.

Congratulations to Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl on their Number 1 spot for Beautiful Creatures. The release date for Beautiful Creatures is December 1st. You can pre-order it here.

Maggie Stiefvater's Shiver is Number 2.

Libba Bray's Going Bovine is at Number 3.


Leviathan, Scott Westerfeld's newly released story is Number 4.

Kristin Cashore's sequel to Graceling, Fire, is Number 7.


And the sequel to Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins' Catching Fire is Number 9.


We extend a warm Mundie Moms' congratulations to all the authors. If you haven't picked up these books, please, hurry. You will love the characters, plot lines and mythologies in all of them.

Run out to the book store, or your library. And take a moment to escape into other worlds.

We're chatting with author James Dashner TONIGHT!

We're so excited to be chatting with James Dashner tonight at 7 pm mtn/ 8 cst/9 est!!!
Please join our forum here to discuss The Maze Runner.
**we'll post our link for our chat later in the day**

Happy Mundane Monday!!!! #6



"There's no need to clarify my finger snap," said Magnus. "The implication was clear in the snap itself." -CoA

AND just to make your Monday that much better... *thank you Pixie for this birthday picture yesterday*

"I was thinking about the first time I ever saw you," he said, "and how after that I couldn't forget you. I wanted to, but I couldn't stop myself. I forced Hodge to let me be the one who came to find you and bring you back to the Institue. And even back then, in that stupid coffee shop, when I saw you sitting on that couch with Simon, even then that felt wrong to me-- I should have been the one sitting with you. The one who made you laugh like that. I couldn't get rid of that feeling. That it should have been me. And the more I knew you, the more I felt it--it had never been like that for me before. I'd always wanted a girl and then gotten to know her and not wanted her anymore, but with you the feeling just got stronger and stronger until that night when you showed up at Renwick's and I knew." -CoG

Review - The Dead Girls Dance, Morganville Vampires Book 2 by Rachel Caine


Publisher: Allison and Busby
Order on Amazon here
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Claire has her share of challenges. Like being a genius in a school that favors beauty over brains; homicidal girls in her dorm, and finding out that her college town is overrun with the living dead. On the up side, she has a new boyfriend with a vampire-hunting dad. But when a local fraternity throws the Dead Girls' Dance, hell is really going to break loose.

Claire Danvers got accepted into college early, and thought her biggest problems would be keeping up with the mountain of school work she would surely get and trying to fit into a world most people would think she was too young for. Too bad for Claire, these were the least of her worries, because she chose the wrong town. You see, Morganville is the one town in America that is run by the undead, and by the undead, I mean vampires.

The story picks up right where Glass Houses ended. Michael Glass is a dead heap on the floor. Claire, Eve and Shane have no time to grieve or worry because Shane’s father is back in town. This doesn’t seem all that bad, does it? Well when your father is a kick ass vampire hunter on a war path of destruction, all kind of trouble will surely ensue. This trouble is more than the guys can deal with and they find themselves right in the midst of a very messy and violent battle. Plus, Michael has to deal with his own issues, but will the choices he makes change his life for the best or the worst?

I read the first Morganville vampires book, Glass Houses, a few months back and found the plotline to be a little dull for my taste. I like fast paced books chocked full of action and tortured characters, so I was reluctant to carry on with the series. After speaking to Jenny, over at Wondrous Reads and our very own Andrea about these books, I decided to give the series a shot, and I wasn’t sorry. For fans of vampires and hot boys, which is mostly every girl in the world, you will love these books and I can’t wait to read Midnight Alley.
The story moved at a rate fast enough to keep me on the edge of my seat, and the plot was full of twists and turns I never saw coming. I was shocked most of the time at the direction Rachel went with the book, because some of the events I never in a million years thought would happen. For instance, Amelie, Morganville’s founder and most powerful vampire. All the occupants of the Glass House find themselves under her protection, which means they can go back to normalcy. But how can they possibly do that when someone or something wants them all dead, and not dead in the good way.

I feel like I really got to know the characters a lot more in this book, I got to unearth Shane’s tortured past and Eves family life before the Glass House, both of which were real eye openers. Plus, there is a lot more romance and steamy scenes in this installment, overflowing fill sexual tension. Well Claire isn’t even legal yet, so how do her and Shane deal with the way they feel for each other? You’ll have to read it and find out!

Shane is my favorite male character in these books, in Glass Houses I was leaning more towards Michael, but he shines in this book. Drop dead gorgeous, and can make a mean chilli; what more could a girl want. I love him and wish I could pull him right out of the book and install him in my house as a permanent fixture. If any of you have any ideas how I would accomplish this, just drop me an email.
For me, Rachel proves in this book that she is the master of action and suspense, and can write some seriously hot characters. Dead Girls’ Dance was so fast paced I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough. I am now a fully fledged Morganville fan girl and can’t wait to follow their story right until the very end.

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