Thursday, January 8, 2015

My Dusty Bookshelf

My Dusty Bookshelf
I've got an addiction for adding books to my bookshelf but never getting around to them. I'm sure I'm not the only one either. It's just so easy with all the new books to forget about the older ones. I'd like to start reading some of the books I've had for years and just haven't read. I thought this would be a good way to share and rekindle some interest in my dusty books. Plus I love giving books a little extra spotlight when I can. 

I've had this one on my TBR forever and even longer on my kindle. With the new year I want to work on clearing that TBR shelf. So This week I picked a book that I also plan to start today. The Raven Boys also happens to meet several of my reading challenges this month too so big bonus. 


The Raven Boys 
by Maggie Stiefvater 
(Goodreads)

Synopsis

“There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.”

It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.

Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.

His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.

But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.

For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.

From Maggie Stiefvater, the bestselling and acclaimed author of the Shiver trilogy and The Scorpio Races, comes a spellbinding new series where the inevitability of death and the nature of love lead us to a place we’ve never been before.


Opening Teaser 
Blue Sargent had forgotten how many times she’d been told that she would kill her true love.

Her family traded in predictions. These predictions tended, however, to run toward the nonspecific. Things like: Something terrible will happen to you today. It might involve the number six. Or: Money is coming. Open your hand for it. Or: You have a big decision and it will not make itself.

 How is your reading going? Anything interesting that's been sitting on your shelf a long time. 

3 comments:

  1. I've been wanting to start this series for a long time...I've heard a lot of good things about it. Hopefully I'll get to it this year.

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  2. The Raven Boys is soooooooo good! I let it sit on my shelf for like a year after it came out, or at least a year after I got the ARC of it in 2012. But when I read it, I loved it, and was so mad at myself for waiting! Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

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  3. I work at a Scholastic call center and they have a bookstore and I got the first two books in this series like really cheap. They have been sitting on my shelf for a while too.

    Stormi

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