Today, December 23, is the third day of Persnickety Snark’s FIVE Challenge, and today’s particular challenge is…Great Series!
Adele’s list may be YA only, but I’m including all age brackets. Oh, and these aren’t all published in 2010 – I just read them in 2010. Better late than never 😉
Anyhoo, here we are, counting down from 5 to 1 – yes, I do play favourites:
Posted in Alexander Gordon Smith, Ann Aguirre, Jeanne DuPrau, Rachel Vincent, Susan Beth Pfeffer
Tagged Bloody Maria, Blue Diablo, Death Sentence, Devil's Punch, Execution, Fugitives, Hell Fire, If I Die, Life As We Knew It, Lockdown, My Soul to Keep, My Soul to Save, My Soul to Steal, My Soul to Take, Shady Lady, Solitary, The City of Ember, The Dead and the Gone, The Diamond of Darkhold, The People of Sparks, The Prophet of Yonwood, This World We Live In
Ann Aguirre
Hell Fire (Corine Solomon, Book 2)
Penguin Roc (US & CA: 6th April 2010); Hachette Gollancz (UK: June 2010; AU: July 2010)
Buy (US) Buy (UK) Buy (CA) Buy (Worldwide)
Book 1 dealt with Chance’s mother’s disappearance, and Book 2 here investigates Corine’s mother’s death. Hell Fire lacks most of the Mexican flavour that I adored in Blue Diablo, so in comparison America’s South lacks pizzazz. Actually, as a town that shuns modern technology and conveniences, Kilmer lacks a lot.
There’s some weird shiz involving human sacrifice, and scary shiz around the myth that you can hear dead people’s spirits on the radio if you’re young – or just before you die.
I’m still Team Chance, and new character Shannon is a true rarity – a precocious teen that DOESN’T get on my nerves. But there’s a lot less of my favourite characters, Chuch and Eva.
Done with June 2010 Releases? Here are the July 2010 Releases. As always, to see future releases, check Reading Wishlist.
Posted in Ann Aguirre, Caitlin Kittredge, Jeannie Holmes, Jeri Smith-Ready, K. A. Stewart, Karen Kincy, Katherine Allred, Kelley Armstrong, Kim Harrison, Lauren Dane, Libba Bray, Lili St. Crow, Lori Devoti, Maggie Shayne, Maggie Stiefvater, Reading Wishlist, Sean Cummings, Stacia Kane
Tagged A Devil in the Details, Amazon Queen, Black Magic Sanction, Blood Law, Blue Diablo, Bring On the Night, City of Ghosts, Close Contact, Funeral Pallor, Hell Fire, Insatiable, Jealousy, July 2010 Releases, June 2010 Releases, Killing Me Softly, Linger, Other, Pure Blood, The Sweet Far Thing, Unholy Magic, Waking the Witch
Done with March 2010 Releases? Here are April 2010 Releases. To look into the future, check Reading Wishlist.
Posted in Ann Aguirre, Carrie Jones, Carrie Ryan, Gayle Ann Williams, Heather Davis, Jeaniene Frost, Kat Falls, Kelley Armstrong, Kim Harrison, Kylie Chan, Laura Bickle, Lori Devoti, Maria V. Snyder, Rachel Caine, Rachel Vincent, Reading Wishlist, Richelle Mead, Robin Wasserman, Sara Creasy, Susan Beth Pfeffer
Tagged Amazon Queen, April 2010 Releases, Black Magic Sanction, Blood Promise, Blue Dragon, Captivate, Crashed, Dark Life, Embers, Halfway to the Grave, Hell Fire, Inside Out, Kiss of Death, March 2010 Releases, My Soul to Save, Red Phoenix, Song of Scarabaeus, Tales of the Otherworld, The Clearing, The Dead-Tossed Waves, The Reckoning, This World We Live In, Tsunami Blue, White Tiger
Here we have:
-Ann Aguirre’s Hell Fire (UK)
-Karen Kincy’s Other
-Yolanda Sfetsos’s Better Off Alone
-R. J. Anderson’s Wayfarer (US/CA)
I have no idea what Better Off Alone looks like, because it’s so dark and maybe my computer settings are too low. I can see a zigzag design at the top…and that’s it. Note to Damnation Books: Please lighten up your art so eejits like me can see it properly, please. Many thanks.
Wayfarer will be published as Rebel in the UK et al, which has a completely different cover.
Posted in Ann Aguirre, Cover Art, Karen Kincy, R. J. Anderson, Yolanda Sfetsos
Tagged Better Off Alone, Damnation Books, Hell Fire, Other, Rebel, Wayfarer
