Blood,Sweat and Books

For this weeks Book to Movie Monday I have decided to cover the movie Ella Enchanted. First Lets Discuss The Book. Below Is The Cover. Now for a little back story in case some of you aren't familiar with the novel. Ella Enchanted is a book written by the Author Gail Carson Levine. It was published back in 1997 by Harper Trophy. The story is a re-imagining of Cinderella featuring various mythical creatures including fairies, elves, ogres, gnomes, and giants. Much of the book was written on commuter trains which the Author spent nearly 4 hours on daily commuting back and forth to work each day. Let's look at some of the characters in the book. Main Protagonists Ella of Frell- Ella is a brave, outspoken, strong will girl living her stepmother and stepsisters who make her life a living hell. Unfortunately for Ella as a baby a reckless Fairy Godmother named Lucinda "gifted" her with the power of obedience. Not only does poor Ella have to do everything she ...

Taste by Kate Evangelista Expected Release: May 2012 At Barinkoff Academy, there's only one rule: no students on campus after curfew. Phoenix McKay soon finds out why when she is left behind at sunset. A group calling themselves night students threaten to taste her flesh until she is saved by a mysterious, alluring boy. With his pale skin, dark eyes, and mesmerizing voice, Demitri is both irresistible and impenetrable. He warns her to stay away from his dangerous world of flesh eaters. Unfortunately, the gorgeous and playful Luka has other plans. When Phoenix is caught between her physical and her emotional attraction, she becomes the keeper of a deadly secret that will rock the foundations of an ancient civilization living beneath Barinkoff Academy. Phoenix doesn’t realize until it is too late that the closer she gets to both Demitri and Luka the more she is plunging them all into a centuries old feud. Excerpt From Taste Below I sat up and followed Calixta’s gaze upwar...

ISBN: 0765331276 (ISBN13: 9780765331274) Author: Rhiannon Frater Publisher: Tor Books Published: November 8,2011 (first published February 17th 2009) Page Count: 368 Pages Goodreads Page: Click Here Picking up where The First Days ends, Fighting to Survive features the further zombie-killing, civilization-saving adventures of a pair of sexy, kick butt heroines and the men who love them. A hundred or so survivors of the zombie plague have found tenuous safety in the walled off center of a small Texas town. Now the hard work of survival begins—finding enough food; creating safe, weather-resistant shelter; establishing laws; and fighting off both the undead who want to eat them and the living bandits who want to rob and kill them. I borrowed a copy of this book to review. All opinions are my own and I was not compensated in any way for them. Review: Fighting to Survive continues the story first established in The First Days. Unfortunately for the survivors in Ashley Oaks t...

In My Mailbox is a weekly blog post hosted by The Story Siren . Each Week I will post the books I have gotten for Review,Bought,Won,Gifted well you get the idea. Books For Review Goodreads Page Goodreads Page Goodreads Page *Big thank you to Simon&Schuster,Jessica Fortuna (E-copy)and Thomas Nelson Publishing for providing copies to review. Books I Won Goodreads Page I actually entered for this because I thought my husband might like it. So far he's digging it. I'm gonna see if I can convince him to write a short review when he is done.:) Goodreads Page I won this over at Library thing. This was also the first item I have ever won through them so pretty excited. E-Books I Bought Goodreads Page Goodreads Page Thanks for stopping by and Checking out my In My Mailbox this week. Have you read,bought any of these? Let me know in the comments below. I love reading your responses. Since I feel like I'm forgetting books at time of posting, if I have I will ...

This week I wanted to talk about the different types of Zombies one might encounter during the Zombie Apocalypse. I know it is a wide held belief that Zombies will and should be slow, shambling ghouls. I however feel that whatever brings a person back as a zombie is surely capable of creating something much more complex than just a corpse dragging its way at a speed of 1 mile per hour through the world. 1.) The Slow Zombie- We have all seen them. They barely move at a crawl and one can easily push them out of the way running to safety. These are the types of undead most people associate with zombies. Mostly I think they are just scared of anything else. Slow Zombies are a threat. They don't tire, they can keep coming at you gathering numbers along the way. Then you thinking "Ha I outran those suckers." decide to take a break and possibly even grab a few zzz's wake up to a horde on your safe haven and no chance of escape. That is what makes slow Zombies so menacing...

ISBN: 0765331268 (ISBN13: 9780765331267) Author: Rhiannon Frater Published: July 5,2011 (first published August 14th 2008) Publisher: Tor Books Page Count: 336 Pages Goodreads Page: Click Here The morning that the world ends, Katie is getting ready for court and housewife Jenni is taking care of her family. Less than two hours later, they are fleeing for their lives from a zombie horde. Thrown together by circumstance, Jenni and Katie become a powerful zombie-killing partnership, mowing down zombies as they rescue Jenni's stepson, Jason, from an infected campground. They find sanctuary in a tiny, roughly fortified Texas town. There Jenni and Katie find they are both attracted to Travis, leader of the survivors; and the refugees must slaughter people they know, who have returned in zombie form. I borrowed a copy of this book to review. All opinions are my own and I was not compensated in any way for them. Review: “Tiny fingers. So small. So very, very small. The...

It's time for another edition of Freebie Friday! Each week I compile a list of books that I've found for FREE and share them with all of you! All you have to do is click on the title and it will take you to the purchase page. "The Sin Collector" follows the life of Liliana, a born Sin Collector. She has spent over 100 years absorbing people's sins so they may rest in peace come death. However when she meets another Collector, one who insists everything she has been taught is a lie, Liliana must make her way from sunny L.A. all the way to the streets of Madrid. Searching for answers to a question we all share. Why are we here? The friends and enemies she makes along the way only seem to blur the line between right and wrong. Can Liliana fight the Castus, an organization whose sole mission is to kill every Collector? Should she trust her head or her heart when the two most important men in her life are fighting alongside her? Then there is the worst question o...