Harry Potter #14

This is a meme hosted by me here at my blog :).The aim of this meme is to share with fellow bloggers a character, spell, chapter, object or quote from the books/ films/ J. K. Rowling herself or anything Potter related! I will be picking a topic within HP for us to focus on each week and then if anyone wants to take part feel free! All I ask is to link back here, to my blog :). There is now a full list of the topics to come here. This weeks is FREE WEEK! Explore anything within the Harry Potter world you would like. I decided to explore:

Waiting on Wednesday #27

"Waiting On Wednesday" is a weekly event, hosted over at Breaking the Spine , which allows us to show off the books we cannot wait to get our hands on.

Top Ten Tuesday #17

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted over at the wonderful blog; Broke and Bookish. This weeks is Top Ten Favorite Book Covers Of Books I've Read. This weeks one I love. There are so many awesome covers about! So, in no particular order:

REVIEW: Charm and Strange - Stephanie Kuehn

Charm and Strange - Stephanie Kuehn

When you’ve been kept caged in the dark, it’s impossible to see the forest for the trees. It’s impossible to see anything, really. Not without bars . . . 

Andrew Winston Winters is at war with himself. 

He’s part Win, the lonely teenager exiled to a remote Vermont boarding school in the wake of a family tragedy. The guy who shuts all his classmates out, no matter the cost.

He’s part Drew, the angry young boy with violent impulses that control him. The boy who spent a fateful, long-ago summer with his brother and teenage cousins, only to endure a secret so monstrous it led three children to do the unthinkable. 

Over the course of one night, while stuck at a party deep in the New England woods, Andrew battles both the pain of his past and the isolation of his present. 

Before the sun rises, he’ll either surrender his sanity to the wild darkness inside his mind or make peace with the most elemental of truths—that choosing to live can mean so much more than not dying.

*Received in exchange for an honest review*

COVER REVEAL: Antithesis - Kacey Vanderkarr

Antithesis - Kacey Vanderkarr

My name is Gavyn. 

Liam doesn’t care that I only have one arm. He actually likes my red hair and freckles. I might forgive him for kidnapping me. 

My name is Gavyn. 

I lost my Liam. I’ve lost them all. And now it’s my job to make sure they don’t show up again. 

My name is Gavyn. 

I had a life with Liam, but he couldn’t give me what I need. Then I killed his father. I don’t expect he’ll forgive me for that. 

My name is Gavyn.

REVIEW: The Ghosting of Gods - Cricket Baker

The Ghosting of Gods - Cricket Baker

Jesse is an apprentice exorcist who defies his priests when he learns his sister is in danger even though she’s dead. When he’s exiled to a haunted world, Jesse must unravel the mystery of ghosts if he is to save her. He plunges into a deadly game of hide-and-seek. The players include denizens draped in monkish robes, ghosts with matted eyes, the dead who tunnel underground in terror, and...Elspeth.

A coven scientist, Elspeth is both respected and feared for her abnormal spiritual powers. Jesse needs--craves--the knowledge of ghosts which she possesses. But is Elspeth a spiritual prodigy, or dangerously insane? The coven scientist begs him to trust her. He doesn’t. But he wants to.

Caught in a world on the brink of spiritual evolution, Jesse struggles to understand Elspeth even as frightening contacts from his sister force him to face the secret, shattering meaning of a verse he knows well: Blessed are the poor in ghost.

DNF

*Received for review from the author*

Harry Potter A-Z : E is for The Epilogue

A Saturday post I have been doing to spread the Harry Potter love and to take us all on a trip down memory lane :). I wasn't online much yesterday so this weeks post is going to be on a Sunday instead.

E is for The Epilogue

19 years later... 

So this epilogue to conclude the series brought about much tension when it was first read. Some readers absolutely loved it. Others (myself included) really did not like it. It was far too brief and it felt like it wasn't necessary and that it was only tacked on to prevent others creating/ writing their own endings to the series. Now that I'm older, I can totally understand why she has done it. For something which has taken J. K. Rowling so long to write and something which has been so close to her, it is totally understandable to want to ensure that they get the ending that she had set out for them.