The Overflowing Library

Awakened by PC and Kristin Cast Published by ATOM Challenge: None Source: Review copy (UK hardback) At the start of Awakened, the pulse-pounding eighth installment of the bestselling House of Night series, Zoey has returned, mostly whole, from the Otherworld to her rightful place as High Priestess at the House of Night. Her friends are just glad to have her back, but after losing her human consort, Heath, will Zoey—or her relationship with her super- hot Warrior, Stark—ever be the same? Stevie Rae is drawn even closer to Rephaim, the Raven Mocker with whom she shares a mysterious and powerful Imprint, but he is a dangerous secret that isolates her from her school, her red fledglings, and even her best friends. When the dark threat of Neferet—who is coming closer and closer to achieving her twisted goal of immortality—and Kalona returns, what will it take to keep the House of Night from being lost forever, and what will one desperate girl do to keep her heart from...

Rowan the Strange by Julie Hearn Published by Oxford University Press Challenge: BBC Source Own copy (UK paperback) Set at the start of the Second World War, Rowan the Strange shows what life is like in a mental asylum for a young boy who is diagnosed with schizophrenia. The treatments he receives are still experimental - and nobody predicts the effect they will have on him ... *** This book wasn't at all what I was expecting. The book follows the story of Rowan a young boy who is sent away by his family to a mental hospital because he is strange. During the course of the book you see how he is treated by the staff at the hospital, other patients and his family. It also has the nice touch of being set during the early part of World War Two. The main reason I would recommend someone should read this is because it gives you real insight into how people with mental illness were treated and viewed during the 1940s. The treatments used are quite horrific and th...

 IMM in hosted by the lovely Kristi at www.thestorysiren.com Please forgive me if I'm MIA this weekend I am marking GCSE scripts for exam board and am on stupidly tight deadlines (made worse by the fact I am off to Scotland to see my younger brother next weekend). I will make up for it in half term and become a commenting machine! While you're visiting enter my Long Reach Giveaway ! UK only 5 copies up for grabs!! Delirium by Lauren Oliver (UK Proof) The Gorgeous Jesse for books4teens.co.uk sent me this. He is now officially my favourite person (shh don't tell Hadley) When the following two books arrived I did a happy dance - you probably know why! Across the universe by Beth Revis (UK proof) Words cannot describe how much I am looking forward to this!! Between shades of gray by Ruta Sepetys (UK proof) This is completely different to the book above which I received in the same package but I am so excited to read it (with my history head on). If you've...

Dear all as you read this I am off in a secret online room doing standardisation for marking History GCSE papers. I will then be set loose on marking millions of them over the next few weeks (millions is a bit of an exaggeration but it feels likes it sometimes when you are in the middle of doing them) and will be on very tight deadlines. You might find therefore that I'm not about it in blogoworld for the next few weeks as much while I'm getting it done so please keep leaving me comments anyway and I'll catch up back when half term hits. I thought today I'd leave you with this link - it is a site I hope to be using very soon when all the lovely money rolls in for marking all the papers!! http://www.firsts-in-print.co.uk/ I have used them before and they have loads of signed and first edition books you can buy. For a signed copy addict like myself it is heaven!!

Entangled by Cat Clarke Published by Quercus Challenge: DAC, BBC Source: Own copy (UK paperback) The same questions whirl round and round in my head: What does he want from me? How could I have let this happen? AM I GOING TO DIE? 17-year-old Grace wakes up in a white room, with a table, pens and paper - and no clue how she got here. As Grace pours her tangled life onto the page, she is forced to remember everything she's tried to forget. There's falling hopelessly in love with the gorgeous Nat, and the unravelling of her relationship with her best friend Sal. But there's something missing. As hard as she's trying to remember, is there something she just can't see? Grace must face the most important question of all. Why is she here? A story of dark secrets, intense friendship and electrifying attraction. *** The thing I liked best about this book is that it was original in its ideas, concepts and execution along with being an engaging and pac...

I don't read a lot of adult books but if I had to pick out my top five books ever most of them would be adult books. These are the ones I would recommend without question to other people as they are fab. I haven't reviewed them in full but I might do someday as it will give me an excuse to reread them. Maybe in the summer holidays.. Gone to soldiers by Marge Piercy If you love your World Wat Two fiction you will love this - it is an epic at a staggering 800 pages but it is totally worth the time and effort (I have read it twice and would certainly read it again. In a stunning tour-de-force, Marge Piercy has woven a tapestry of World War II, of six women and four men, who fought and died, worked and worried, and moved through the dizzying days of the war. A compelling chronicle of humans in conflict with inhuman events, GONE TO SOLIDERS is an unforgettable reading experience and a stirring tribute to the remarkable survival of the human spirit. The Time Traveller...

Wither by Lauren DeStefano Published March 2011 This book sounds amazing - I love a bit of dystopian fiction and this one sounds particularly good. What if you knew exactly when you would die? Thanks to modern science, every human being has become a ticking genetic time bomb—males only live to age twenty-five, and females only live to age twenty. In this bleak landscape, young girls are kidnapped and forced into polygamous marriages to keep the population from dying out. When sixteen-year-old Rhine Ellery is taken by the Gatherers to become a bride, she enters a world of wealth and privilege. Despite her husband Linden's genuine love for her, and a tenuous trust among her sister wives, Rhine has one purpose: to escape—to find her twin brother and go home. But Rhine has more to contend with than losing her freedom. Linden's eccentric father is bent on finding an antidote to the genetic virus that is getting closer to taking his son, even if it means collect...