Follow Friday (21) TGIF (1)

Follow Friday is a weekly meme hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. Its a way to get out there and meet new bloggers and discover new blogs. :)

Q: Fight! Fight! If you could have two fictional characters battle it out (preferably from books), who would they be and who do you think would win?

Hmmm, this is a tough one! I think I would like to see Rose from Vampire Academy, go head to head with Alex from the Covenant series! I'm not sure who would win, they both have similar training and have been doing it most of their lives. It seems like an even match and I would just love to see who would come out on top.

TGIF is new here at The Book Addict, and it might not become a regular thing but I saw the question this week and I had to join in. TGIF is hosted over at GReads!

Book Blogger Influences: Has there been a particular book blogger who's influenced what you read? Share with us a review/book blog that convinced you to pick up a certain book.

There have been a few that have influenced me in joining the Book Blogging Community, in what books I sometimes choose to read, and who have inspired me to try to make my blog better and better.

1. Lori @ Pure Imagination -  Hers was one of the very first book blogs I had ever read. We happened to be in the same Shelfari group and I read a few posts about her blog and checked it out and I was dazzled. It took me some time from that point to get into book blogging but at that time I knew I wanted to do it.

2. Angela @ Reading Angel - We were also in the same Shelfari group and it wasn't uncommon to see us either reading the same book at the same time or one right after the other. Usually when Angela says she LOVES a book I know that I should pick it up because the chances are very high that I will too.

Candace @ Candace's Book Blog - Another Shelfari group member who happened to post about her blog a few times and it was her that gave me the push I needed to really start blogging. I always loved hearing about their blogs and one day I said ok I have to try this.

If it wasn't for the 3 lady's listed above I probably wouldn't be blogging today. I would be missing out on meeting some awesome people and hearing about some great books. I enjoy being apart of the community although I am a bit shy and haven't really gotten to know many of you as well as I would like to. But I sincerely thank these 3 lady's because without them I would be apart of this wonderful community at all.

Review: Forever - Maggie Stiefvater

Reading level: Ages 14 and up
Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: Scholastic Press; 1St Edition edition (July 12, 2011)

In Maggie Stiefvater's SHIVER, Grace and Sam found each other. In LINGER, they fought to be together. Now, in FOREVER, the stakes are even higher than before. Wolves are being hunted. Lives are being threatened. And love is harder and harder to hold on to as death comes closing in.

This is actually a tough review for me to write! I loved Shiver and Linger, and while I liked Forever I didn't love it. I did like Grace as a wolf and watching her stuggle with the shifting until it was warm enough for her to stay human. I truley feel that all of that added something great to Grace's character. I wasn't a huge Sam fan in this book, he seemed so negative, and ready to give up. I did love Cole though, and his experiments. I feel like I finally got to know the real Cole! I love the dynamic between Isabel and Cole, and how it evolved through the book, and Same and Grace were well...Sam and Grace...The story in this book was fitting for the final chapter in this series, but it didn't grab me the way the other 2 books did. The one thing I won't complain about is that it wasn't all wrapped up with a pretty bow, but it gave me the closure I needed to be satisfied by this book, and the series. I am giving this one 3.5 stars! I do recommend this whole series to everyone though.

Waiting on Wednesday (24) - Masque of the Red Death - Bethany Griffin

Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

My pick this week is...

Masque of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin

Everything is in ruins.

A devastating plague has decimated the population. And those who are left live in fear of catching it as the city crumbles to pieces around them.

So what does Araby Worth have to live for?

Nights in the Debauchery Club, beautiful dresses, glittery make-up . . . and tantalizing ways to forget it all.

But in the depths of the club—in the depths of her own despair—Araby will find more than oblivion. She will find Will, the terribly handsome proprietor of the club. And Elliott, the wickedly smart aristocrat. Neither boy is what he seems. Both have secrets. Everyone does.

And Araby may find something not just to live for, but to fight for—no matter what it costs her.

This book has an amazing cover, and that blurb! I mean come on this just oozes awesome. I have read great things from people who have already had a chance to read this book and with every new review I read I grow more and more impatient! I need this book like yesterday!

Review: Explosive Eighteen - Janet Evanovich

Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Bantam; 1 edition (November 22, 2011)
Language: English

Before Stephanie can even step foot off Flight 127 from Hawaii to Newark, she’s knee deep in trouble. Her dream vacation turned into a nightmare, she’s flying back to New Jersey solo, and someone who sounds like Sasquatch is snoring in row 22. Worse still, her seatmate never returned to the plane after the L.A. layover. Now he’s dead, in a garbage can, waiting for curbside pickup. His killer could be anyone. The FBI, the fake FBI, and guns-for-hire are all looking for a photograph the dead man was supposed to be carrying.

Only one other person has seen the missing photograph—Stephanie Plum. Now she’s the target, and she doesn’t intend to end up in a garbage can. With the help of an FBI sketch artist Stephanie re-creates the person in the photo. Unfortunately the first sketch turns out to look like Tom Cruise, and the second sketch like Ashton Kutcher. Until Stephanie can improve her descriptive skills, she’ll need to watch her back.

Over at the Bail Bonds Agency it’s business as usual—until the bonds bus serving as Vinnie’s temporary HQ goes up in smoke, Stephanie’s wheelman, Lula, falls in love with their “largest” FTA yet, lifetime arch nemesis Joyce Barnhardt moves into Stephanie’s apartment, and everyone wants to know what happened in Hawaii?!

Morelli, Trenton’s hottest cop, isn’t talking about Hawaii. Ranger, the man of mystery, isn’t talking about Hawaii.  And all Stephanie is willing to say about her Hawaiian vacation is . . . It’s complicated.

These books provide me with an endless source of entertainment. Reading a new Plum novel is like hanging out with old friends that I haven't seen in a while. Lula, Grandma Mazur, Connie and Vinnie never fail to make me laugh. Ranger and Morelli never fail to make me drool. The best thing is Stephanie never gets any better at her job which keeps things very entertaining. This addition to the series involoved FBI, some fake FBI, dead people and a car full of horse poop. I know some people are getting sick of this series or think that Stephanie should could use some character growth, or at least make a choice between Morelli and Ranger. I on the other hand disagree. This series is perfect, I would love to just keep reading them and enjoying a nice light funny read. This one get 5 stars and huge laughs from me. 

In My Mailbox (24)

In My Mailbox is hosted by Kristi over at The Story Siren, and was created to give bloggers a chance to come together and show each other the great goodies they got during the week.

Bought:

Emily M Danforth - The Miseducation of Cameron Post 

 Jocelynn Drake - Bound to Me

Kelley Armstrong - The Calling

 Barry Lyga - I Hunt Killers

CC Hunter - Taken at Dusk

Jennifer A Nielsen - The False Prince 

Meg Medina - The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind

 Gina Damico - Croak

Review: Shatter Me - Tahereh Mafi

Reading level: Ages 14 and up
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins; 1 edition (November 15, 2011)

Juliette hasn't touched anyone in exactly 264 days.
The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal. As long as she doesn't hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don't fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color.
The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war-- and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she's exactly what they need right now.
Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior.

I think I fell in love while I was reading this book. Juliette was awesome in a strange way. She totally had some issues going on, but that is understandable seeings as how she has spent the last 264 days in isolation. No one has touched her, or even really spoken to her. One day she is informed that she is getting a room mate  cell mate. She spends quite a lot of time being paranoid and wary of this room mate cell mate. There is so much to this book, twists, turns and romance. I loved Juliette's voice, and Tahereh's writing is addictive. I never knew what to expect from this book, even while reading it things happened that I didn't expect.  Juliette was an extremely complex character, and her "relationships" were equally as complex. 

This was one of my top books of 2011. If you haven't already read this do yourself a favor and go read it, like now. I give this one 5 stars!

Follow Friday (20)

Follow Friday is a weekly meme hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. Its a way to get out there and meet new bloggers and discover new blogs. :)

Q: What is one book that you would be nervous to see a movie adaption of because you think the movie could never live up to the book?

Oh this is a tough one, I for one love movie adaptations but there are some that I just am fearful of. I know they are planning on making a Vampire Academy movie and I am afraid to go see it when it comes out. What if it sucks? I will see it though because I have to.  But I would also be afraid of a Curse Workers by Holly Black movie. I love the story and the characters and would hate to see it done wrong. Or The Iron Fey by Julie Kagawa, I would be so sad if it wasn't perfect. The Shift series by Jeri Smith Ready would make a great movie if it was done well. There is a lot of books that would make great movies/tv shows but I would always worry that they changed a lot to make it work or are just inventing stuff to fill screen time *cough* (true blood) *cough* 

What movies/tv shows would you like to see but at the same time are afraid of.