Stacking the Shelf (1)

Stacking the Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in a physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts, and of course ebooks!

If you want to find out more about Stacking The Shelves, please visit the Tynga's Reviews official launch page!

Title: Steelheart
Author: Brandon Sanderson
Series: Reckoners #1
Author Info: Website | Twitter | Goodreads
Age Group: Young Adult
Genre Type: Fantasy, Science-Fiction
Publication date: September 23rd 2014
Publisher: Ember
Format: Paperback
Pages:  384 pages
Source: Prize/Give Away

Brandon Sanderson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Words of Radiance, coauthor of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series, and creator of the internationally bestselling Mistborn Trilogy, presents Steelheart, the first book in the Reckoners series, an action-packed thrill ride that will leave readers breathless.
How far would you go for revenge if someone killed your father?
If someone destroyed your city?
If everything you ever loved was taken from you?
David Charleston will go to any lengths to stop Steelheart. But to exact revenge in Steelheart’s world, David will need the Reckoners—a shadowy group of rebels bent on maintaining justice.
And it turns out that the Reckoners might just need David too.

Title: Firefight
Author: Brandon Sanderson
Series: Reckoners #2
Author Info: Website | Twitter | Goodreads
Age Group: Young Adult
Genre Type: Fantasy, Science-Fiction
Publication date: January 6th 2015
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover
Pages:  416 pages
Source: Prize/Give Away

From the #1 "New York Times" bestselling author of Words of Radiance coauthor of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, and creator of the internationally bestselling Mistborn Trilogy, Brandon Sanderson presents the second book in the Reckoners series: Firefight, the sequel to the #1 bestseller Steelheart.

They told David it was impossible--that even the Reckoners had never killed a High Epic. Yet, Steelheart--invincible, immortal, unconquerable--is dead. And he died by David's hand.

Eliminating Steelheart was supposed to make life more simple. Instead, it only made David realize he has questions. Big ones. And there's no one in Newcago who can give him the answers he needs.

Babylon Restored, the old borough of Manhattan, has possibilities, though. Ruled by the mysterious High Epic, Regalia, David is sure Babylon Restored will lead him to what he needs to find. And while entering another city oppressed by a High Epic despot is a gamble, David's willing to risk it. Because killing Steelheart left a hole in David's heart. A hole where his thirst for vengeance once lived. Somehow, he filled that hole with another Epic--Firefight. And he's willing to go on a quest darker, and more dangerous even, than the fight against Steelheart to find her, and to get his answers.

Title: The Winner's Curse
Author: Marie Rutkoski
Series: The Winner's Trilogy #1
Author Info: Website | Twitter | Goodreads
Age Group: Young Adult
Genre Type: Fantasy
Publication date: March 4th 2014
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Format: Hardcover
Pages:  355 pages
Source: Barnes and Noble, Bought

Winning what you want may cost you everything you love

As a general’s daughter in a vast empire that revels in war and enslaves those it conquers, seventeen-year-old Kestrel has two choices: she can join the military or get married. But Kestrel has other intentions.

One day, she is startled to find a kindred spirit in a young slave up for auction. Arin’s eyes seem to defy everything and everyone. Following her instinct, Kestrel buys him—with unexpected consequences. It’s not long before she has to hide her growing love for Arin.

But he, too, has a secret, and Kestrel quickly learns that the price she paid for a fellow human is much higher than she ever could have imagined.

Set in a richly imagined new world, The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski is a story of deadly games where everything is at stake, and the gamble is whether you will keep your head or lose your heart.

Title: The Winner's Crime
Author: Marie Rutkoski
Series: The Winner's Trilogy #2
Author Info: Website | Twitter | Goodreads
Age Group: Young Adult
Genre Type: Fantasy
Publication date:  March 3rd 2015
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Format: Hardcover
Pages:  402 pages
Source: Barnes and Noble, Bought

The engagement of Lady Kestrel to Valoria’s crown prince means one celebration after another. But to Kestrel it means living in a cage of her own making. As the wedding approaches, she aches to tell Arin the truth about her engagement…if she could only trust him. Yet can she even trust herself? For—unknown to Arin—Kestrel is becoming a skilled practitioner of deceit: an anonymous spy passing information to Herran, and close to uncovering a shocking secret.

As Arin enlists dangerous allies in the struggle to keep his country’s freedom, he can’t fight the suspicion that Kestrel knows more than she shows. In the end, it might not be a dagger in the dark that cuts him open, but the truth. And when that happens, Kestrel and Arin learn just how much their crimes will cost them..

Title: Dove Arising
Author: Karen Bao
Series: Dove Chronicles #1
Author Info: Website | Twitter | Goodreads
Age Group: Young Adult
Genre Type: Fiction, Thriller, Dystopia
Publication date:  February 24th 2015
Publisher: Viking Books
Format: Hardcover
Pages:  324 pages
Source: Barnes and Noble, Bought

Phaet Theta has lived her whole life in a colony on the Moon. She’s barely spoken since her father died in an accident nine years ago. She cultivates the plants in Greenhouse 22, lets her best friend talk for her, and stays off the government’s radar.

Then her mother is arrested.

The only way to save her younger siblings from the degrading Shelter is by enlisting in the Militia, the faceless army that polices the Lunar bases and protects them from attacks by desperate Earth-dwellers. Training is brutal, but it’s where Phaet forms an uneasy but meaningful alliance with the preternaturally accomplished Wes, a fellow outsider.

Rank high, save her siblings, free her mom: that’s the plan. Until Phaet’s logically ordered world begins to crumble...

Suspenseful, intelligent, and hauntingly prescient, Dove Arising stands on the shoulders of our greatest tales of the future to tell a story that is all too relevant today.

Time to Talkback: Review on Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

The Authors had their time to talk now it's Time to Talkback. This gives me the chance to review the book or books I have been reading. Now I'm all for a honest review and at times I can be a bit harsh with some of the judgements I voice, as far as book go. But it has nothing to do with the author(s) for without them what would my imagination be (goodness help us all). It is just my own opinion, constructive criticism (I say) and I just want to state it as so many of us sometimes do. Good or Bad, I am always thankful for the books I read and the author(s) who wrote them. So, welcome to Talkback and here to a honest review.

Waiting On Wednesday: March 4th (1)

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly feature hosted at Breaking The Spine that spotlights those can't-wait-to-get-my-hands-on-them books that we are eagerly awaiting!

Coming out on March 10th, 2015, I have chosen Breaking Sky by Cori McCarthy.

Breaking Sky by Cori McCarthy

Chase Harcourt, call sign "Nyx," is one of only two pilots chosen to fly the experimental "Streaker" jets at the junior Air Force Academy in the year 2048. She's tough and impulsive with lightning-fast reactions, but few know the pain and loneliness of her past or the dark secret about her father. All anyone cares about is that Chase aces the upcoming Streaker trials, proving the prototype jet can knock the enemy out of the sky.

But as the world tilts toward war, Chase cracks open a military secret. There's a third Streaker jet, whose young hotshot pilot, Tristan, can match her on the ground and in the clouds. Chase doesn't play well with others, but to save her country she may just have to put her life in the hands of the competition.

March Book of the Month 2015

The Divergent Series:Insurgent hits theaters on March 20th, 2015, but will fans of the novel on which it's based enjoy the movie? According to author Veronica Roth, the are "clear differences" between her novel and the film we will be watching in just a few short up coming weeks. And though fans may still like the movie, everyone knows the book is always better. So for my Book of the Month, I have Chosen Insurgent by Veronica Roth as a tribute to the movie.

Insurgent by Veronica Roth

One choice can transform you - or it can destroy you.

Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable--and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships, Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so.

Insurgent is a 2012 science fiction young adult novel by American novelist Veronica Roth, the second book in the Divergent trilogy. As the sequel to the 2011 bestseller Divergent, it continues the story of Tris Prior and the dystopian post-apocalyptic version of Chicago. Following the events of the previous novel, a war now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. While trying to save the people that she loves, Tris faces questions of grief, forgiveness, identity, loyalty, politics, and love.

The book was first published on May 1, 2012 by the HarperCollins imprints Katherine Tegen Books in the U.S. and HarperCollins Children's Books in the U.K, a "Collector's Edition" was published on October 30 in the United States. Insurgent received mostly positive reviews from critics, with reviewers praising Roth's writing.

Insurgent (2015)
Release Date: March 20, 2015 (2D, 3D, IMAX 3D)
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance, Science Fiction, Adaptation, Sequel
Director: Robert Schwentke
Screenwriter: Brian Duffield
Cast: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Kate Winslet, Octavia Spencer, Jai Courtney, Ray Stevenson, Zoë Kravitz, Miles Teller, Ansel Elgort, Maggie Q, Mekhi Phifer, Naomi Watts, Daniel Dae Kim, Keiynan Lonsdale
Running Time:119 mins
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for intense violence and action throughout, some sensuality, thematic elements and brief language.
Official Website: InsurgentTheMovie

Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Kate Winslet and Naomi Watts star in The Divergent Series: Insurgent based on the second book in author Veronica Roth’s New York Times bestselling trilogy.  Tris (Woodley) and Four (James) team up with Evelyn (Watts), leader of the Factionless. The insurgent alliance must stop Jeanine (Winslet), who is hunting down Divergents in search of the one that can open a mysterious box.

“The Divergent Series: Insurgent” raises the stakes for Tris as she searches for allies and answers in the ruins of a futuristic Chicago. Tris (Woodley) and Four (James) are now fugitives on the run, hunted by Jeanine (Winslet), the leader of the power-hungry Erudite elite. Racing against time, they must find out what Tris’s family sacrificed their lives to protect, and why the Erudite leaders will do anything to stop them. Haunted by her past choices but desperate to protect the ones she loves, Tris, with Four at her side, faces one impossible challenge after another as they unlock the truth about the past and ultimately the future of their world. One choice can transform you - or it can destroy you.

Insurgent Fan Day!!!

Though this has to do with the movie more than the book,  our book is the based of that movie so. On Thursday March 5th there will be a #InsurgentFanDay.

All day long, we’ll be able to interact with Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Ansel Elgort, Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, and Veronica Roth across the Divergent Series social-media accounts! Check out the details below:

Thursday, March 5th is #InsurgentFanDay!

Tune in to The Divergent Series socials all day for your chance to interact with Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Ansel Elgort, Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, and Divergent Series author Veronica Roth! Find out details below:

THURSDAY, MARCH 5:

10:30am ET / 7:30am PT: BUZZFEED CHAT WITH ANSEL ELGORT
Have your burning questions ready for Ansel Elgort and visit BuzzFeed’s Twitter page! http://insur.gent/BFtwitter


1pm ET / 10am PT: GOOGLE LIVE STREAM WITH SHAILENE WOODLEY AND THEO JAMES
Submit your questions for Shailene Woodley and Theo James below now using #InsurgentGoogle, and tell us what country you’re from for a shout out! Tune in to watch the LIVE stream at: http://insur.gent/Google


3pm ET / 12pm PT: TWITTER CHAT WITH OCTAVIA SPENCER
This is your chance to chat LIVE on Twitter with Octavia Spencer, aka the leader of Amity, Johanna! http://insur.gent/Twitter


5pm ET / 2pm PT: FACEBOOK CHAT WITH NAOMI WATTS
Join Factionless leader Naomi Watts for a LIVE Facebook chat right here on the Divergent page! http://insur.gent/Facebook


6pm ET / 3pm PT: TUMBLR Q&A WITH VERONICA ROTH
The author behind the Divergent Series, Veronica Roth, answers all on Tumblr! Check back on Monday on how you can ask your questions! TheDivergentFandom.com