February 2016 Book Haul

Hello, so this month i brought 13 books 7 kindle books and 6 physical books. so lets jump in with my pre order ...

KEY 

GR - Goodreads 
** - Review 

February Pre Orders 

The Sleeping Prince - Melinda Salisbury (GR) **

Kindle Books 

Malik - Lisa Helen Gray (GR)
Mason - Lisa Helen Gray (GR)
Myles - Lisa Helen Gray (GR)
Before Jamaica Lane - Samantha Young (GR)
Echo's of Scotland Street - Samantha Young (GR)
Moonlight on Nightingale Way - Samantha Young (GR)
Beautiful Bastard - Christina Lauren (GR)

Physical Books 

Me Before You - JoJo Moyes (GR)
Down London Road - Samantha Young (GR)
Fall From India Place - Samantha Young (GR)
The Dream Thieves - Maggie Stiefvater (GR) **
Something Beautiful - Jamie McGuire (GR)

So that is all the books i brought this month 

Until Next Time

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Top 10 Most Owned Authors - February 2016

Hi so i did this back 2014 and i did it will all of my books even my dupes but this time i am just going to do it with the books on my shelves so here we go stating with the 10th most owned author all the way down to my most......

10) Alyxandra Harvey - 8 Books 

A Breath of Frost 
Haunting Violet
My Love Lie's Bleeding
Out For Blood
Blood Feud
Bleeding Heart's
Blood Moon
Blood Prophecy

9) Jennifer L Armentrout / J Lynn - 9 Books

Wait For You
Trust In Me
Be With Me
Stay With Me
Obsidian
Onyx
Opal
Origin
Opposition

8) J K Rowling - 10 Books

Philosopher's Stone
Chamber of Secrets
Prisoner of Azkaban
Goblet of Fire
Order of The Phoenix
Half Blood Prince
Deathly Hallows
The Tales of Beedle The Bard
Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them
Quidditch Through The Ages


7 - Ally Carter - 11 Books

I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You
Cross My Heart, And Hope To Spy
Don't Judge A Girl, By Her Cover
Only The Good, Spy Young
Out of Sight, Out Of Time
United, We Spy
Heist Society
Uncommon Criminals
Perfect Scoundrels
All Fall Down
See How They Run

6) Cassandra Clare -  12 Books (13 next month in March)

Clockwork Angel
Clockwork Prince
Clockwork Princess
City of Bones
City of Ashes
City of Glass
City of Fallen Angels
City of Lost Souls
City of Heavenly Fire
The Shadowhunter Codex
The Bane Chronicles
The Iron Trial


5) Rick Riordan - 13 Books

The Lightning Thief
Sea of Monsters
Titans Curse
Battle of The Labyrinth
The Last Olympian
The Lost Hero
The Son of Neptune
The Mark of Athena
The House of Hades
The Blood of Olympus
Percy Jackson & The Greek Gods
Percy Jackson & The Greek Heroes
Magnus Chase & The Sword of Summer

4) Rachel Caine - 16 Books

Glass Houses
Dead Girls Dance
Midnight Ally
Feast of Fools
Lord of Misrule
Carpe Corpus
Fade Out
Kiss of Death
Ghost Town
Bite Club
Last Breath
Black Dawn
Bitter Blood
Fall of Night
Daylighters
Prince of Shadows

3) Philippa Gregory - 16 Books

Changeling
Stormbringer
Fools Gold
The Lady of The Rivers
The White Queen
The Red Queen
The Kingmakers Daughter
The White Princess
The King's Curse
The Constant Princess
The Other Boleyn Girl
The Boleyn Inheritance
The Taming of The Queen
The Queens Fool
The Virgin's Lover
The Other Queen

2) Richelle Mead - 22 Books

Succubus Blues
Succubus Nights
Succubus Dreams
Succubus Heat
Succubus Shadows
Succubus Revealed
Vampire Academy
Frostbite
Shadow Kiss
Blood Promise
Spirit Bound
Last Sacrifice
Bloodlines
The Golden Lily
The Indigo Spell
The Fiery Heart
Silver Shadows
The Ruby Circle
Vampire Academy Ultimate Guide
Vampire Academy Graphic Novel
Frostbite Graphic Novel
Shadow Kiss Graphic Novel

1) Abbi Glines - 24 Books

Until Friday Night
The Vincent Boys
The Vincent Brothers
Breathe
Because of Low
While It Lasts
Just For Now
Sometimes It Lasts
Misbehaving
Bad For You
Hold On Tight
Until The End
Fallen Too Far
Never Too Far
Forever Too Far
Rush Too Far
Twisted Perfection
Simple Perfection
Take A Chance
One More Chance
You Were Mine
When I'm Gone
When You're Back
The Best Goodbye

And Finally Finished ... Lets Celebrate....

Until Next Time

Happy Reading

That's What He Said Thursday's - Simon Lewis - 24th February 2016

So That's What He Said Thursdays was Created by Chapter Break and it is pretty much just a appreciation post for your favourite Male Protagonist's quotes to his girl. 

So this week i chose this guy because i cannot wait for next month when we may see him again and everyone else, as well but the relationship between him and Izzy is one i have rooted for since the beginning .....

Simon Lewis

The Shadowhunter Chronicles - Cassandra Clare

Until Next Time

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Top 5 Wednesday - Worst Love Interests - 24th February 2016

Hello so the day i am writing this is actually 7th February because i am pre doing all of my posts that can be pre done because i am so busy this month doing too much to even think about and luckily enough when i planned each T5W post they were all really easy and i really enjoyed doing them, so lets get started ...

So this is all about the characters that you didn't ship the worst love interests was actually pretty difficult, well more difficult than i was expecting but i did manage to find 5 so lets get started ....

5. Rowan - Thrones of Glass Series - Sarah J Maas

I ship Celaena and Kahol and because of that i just really don't like Rowan at all he's smarmy and annoying. 

4. Jase - Shifters Series - Rachel Vincent

Again like Rowan i just couldn't see him with the female he was put with at all, for me they just didn't click at all and i just really want him to find someone who fits him. (the lions share oh i love that book)

3. Josh - Gallagher Girl Series - Ally Carter

Josh doesn't belong in Cammie's world so that was the biggest point against him, it never would have lasted because of all the lies she had to tel to keep everything a secret and also they didn't click like that feeling when two characters meet and you can just feel that this is going to be an amazing adventure. 

2. Nan - Take a Chance - Abbi Glines

Now i cannot wait for Nan's own book but in this one she was the worst love interest i mean what in god's green earth was grant thinking she was a f*****g nut case, but i really do hope she gets her happy ending with everything she has gone through in her life. 

1. George Wickham - Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen

What can i say about George Wickham as a villain he was brilliant but as a love interest he was smarmy and sly and he slithered about so much you would think he was in slytherin, he is manipulative and trying to get two 15 year old girls to marry you also a paedophile if he was living in today's society.

Top 5 Wednesday was created by GingerReadsLainey

Here is the goodreads page

Here is the full list of participants - Wednesday-Ers

Until Next Time

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Philippa Gergory - Author Apprectiation February 2016

Philippa Gregory 

Full Name - Philippa Gregory
Pen Name - None

Date of Birth - 9th January 1954

Birthplace - Nairobi, Kenya
Nationality - English / British
Genre - Historical Fiction

Website- X

Twitter - X

Facebook - X

Goodreads - X

Wikipedia - X

Info

(From Her Website)

Philippa Gregory was an established historian and writer when she discovered her love for the Tudor period and wrote the novel The Other Boleyn Girl, which was made into a TV drama and a Film. Now fifthteen novels later, after writing a series on the magnificent Plantagenet's she has returned to the Tudors with Henry's sixth wife Kateryn Parr.
Philippa lives with her family on a small farm in Yorkshire where she keeps Horses, Hens and Ducks. Visitor's to her website become addicted to the updates of historical research and the progress of her birds.
Her other great interest is the Charity she founded nearly 20 years ago Gardens for Gambia, she has raised funds and paid for almost 200 wells in the primary schools of this very dry and poor African country, and thousands of school children has been able to learn market gardening and grow food to eat in the school gardens watered by the wells. The Charity also provides wells for women's collective gardens, and for Gambia's only agricultural collage, at Njawara.
Philippa graduated from the University of Sussex with a degree in history, and received a PHD in 18th Century Literature from the University of Edinburgh, and many more .... 
she also reviews books for The Washington Post, The LA Times, and for many UK newspapers, and is a regular broadcaster on TV and Radio. She posts regularly to her large following on Facebook and Twitter. 

Bibliography

Philippa lives with her family on a small farm in Yorkshire where she keeps horses, hens and ducks. Visitors to this site, philippagregory.com, become addicted to the updates of historical research and the progress of her birds.

Read more at: http://www.philippagregory.com/biography
Source: Philippa Gregory

The Wideacre trilogy

1. Wideacre (1987)
2. The Favored Child (1989)
3. Meridon (1990)

Earthly Joys

1. Earthly Joys (1998)
2. Virgin Earth (1999)

The Tudor Court Series

1. The Constant Princess (2005)
2. The Other Boleyn Girl (2001)
3. The Boleyn Inheritance (2006)
4. The Taming of The Queen (2015)
5. The Queens Fool (2003)
6. The Virgin Lover (2004)
7. The Other Queen (2008)

The Cousins War

1. The Lady of The Rivers (2011)
2. The White Queen (2009)
3. The Red Queen (2010)
4. The Kingmakers Daughter (2012)
5. The White Princess (2013)
6. The King's Curse (2013)

Order of Darkness

1. Changeling (2012)
2. Stormbringers (2013)
3. Fools Gold (2014)

Non - Fiction 

The Women of the Cousins War

Why I Love This Author

So i know Philippa Gregory is not historically accurate at all and it does frustrate me, but her books are so addicting that i just look over my frustrating hate of things not being historically correct. But like i said she has a way of making you connect to all of these characters that you only just meet and also she gives voices to those in English/British history that never really got a voice and gave them one and made sure they were heard, Gregory's writing has captured the attention of the world her writing and scene setting are in a class of their own in historical fiction and i will also say her book will make you want to research the story behind and you will find a lot of things different but the core of it is all the same its about the Woman behind the Men and how they got to where they end up with a few embellishments here and there. 

Current Reviews 

The Tudor Court Series Review
The Taming of The Queen Review

Until Next Time

Happy Reading

Philippa Gregory was an established historian and writer when she discovered her interest in the Tudor period and wrote the novel The Other Boleyn Girl, which was made into a TV drama and a major film. Now, fifteen novels later, after writing a series on the magnificent Plantagenets she has returned to the Tudors with Henry VIII’s sixth wife, Kateryn Parr. Philippa lives with her family on a small farm in Yorkshire where she keeps horses, hens and ducks. Visitors to this site, philippagregory.com, become addicted to the updates of historical research and the progress of her birds. Her other great interest is the charity that she founded nearly twenty years ago: Gardens for The Gambia. She has raised funds and paid for almost 200 wells in the primary schools of this very dry and poor African country, and thousands of school children have been able to learn market gardening and grow food to eat in the school gardens watered by the wells. The charity also provides wells for women's collective gardens and for The Gambia’s only agricultural college, at Njawara. Philippa graduated from the University of Sussex with a degree in History, and received a PhD in 18th century literature from the University of Edinburgh. In 2008 Edinburgh made her the university's Alumna of the Year. She holds an honorary degree from Teesside University and is a fellow of the Universities of Sussex and Cardiff, and a Regent for the University of Edinburgh. Her love for history and commitment to historical accuracy are the hallmarks of her writing. She also reviews for The Washington Post, the LA Times, and for UK newspapers, and is a regular broadcaster on television and radio. She posts regularly to her large following on Facebook and Twitter. Philippa is a patron of The UK Chagos Support Association, which supports the Chagos islanders in their struggle against British injustice. The people of Chagos were displaced by the British government when they cleared the archipelago in the Indian Ocean of its inhabitants in the 1960s and 1970s to make way for an American airbase. Gregory often speaks about the Chagossians' plight and lobbies the government to take action.

Read more at: http://www.philippagregory.com/biography
Source: Philippa Gregory

Philippa Gregory was an established historian and writer when she discovered her interest in the Tudor period and wrote the novel The Other Boleyn Girl, which was made into a TV drama and a major film. Now, fifteen novels later, after writing a series on the magnificent Plantagenets she has returned to the Tudors with Henry VIII’s sixth wife, Kateryn Parr. Philippa lives with her family on a small farm in Yorkshire where she keeps horses, hens and ducks. Visitors to this site, philippagregory.com, become addicted to the updates of historical research and the progress of her birds. Her other great interest is the charity that she founded nearly twenty years ago: Gardens for The Gambia. She has raised funds and paid for almost 200 wells in the primary schools of this very dry and poor African country, and thousands of school children have been able to learn market gardening and grow food to eat in the school gardens watered by the wells. The charity also provides wells for women's collective gardens and for The Gambia’s only agricultural college, at Njawara. Philippa graduated from the University of Sussex with a degree in History, and received a PhD in 18th century literature from the University of Edinburgh. In 2008 Edinburgh made her the university's Alumna of the Year. She holds an honorary degree from Teesside University and is a fellow of the Universities of Sussex and Cardiff, and a Regent for the University of Edinburgh. Her love for history and commitment to historical accuracy are the hallmarks of her writing. She also reviews for The Washington Post, the LA Times, and for UK newspapers, and is a regular broadcaster on television and radio. She posts regularly to her large following on Facebook and Twitter. Philippa is a patron of The UK Chagos Support Association, which supports the Chagos islanders in their struggle against British injustice. The people of Chagos were displaced by the British government when they cleared the archipelago in the Indian Ocean of its inhabitants in the 1960s and 1970s to make way for an American airbase. Gregory often speaks about the Chagossians' plight and lobbies the government to take action.

Read more at: http://www.philippagregory.com/biography
Source: Philippa Gregory

Philippa Gregory was an established historian and writer when she discovered her interest in the Tudor period and wrote the novel The Other Boleyn Girl, which was made into a TV drama and a major film. Now, fifteen novels later, after writing a series on the magnificent Plantagenets she has returned to the Tudors with Henry VIII’s sixth wife, Kateryn Parr. Philippa lives with her family on a small farm in Yorkshire where she keeps horses, hens and ducks. Visitors to this site, philippagregory.com, become addicted to the updates of historical research and the progress of her birds. Her other great interest is the charity that she founded nearly twenty years ago: Gardens for The Gambia. She has raised funds and paid for almost 200 wells in the primary schools of this very dry and poor African country, and thousands of school children have been able to learn market gardening and grow food to eat in the school gardens watered by the wells. The charity also provides wells for women's collective gardens and for The Gambia’s only agricultural college, at Njawara. Philippa graduated from the University of Sussex with a degree in History, and received a PhD in 18th century literature from the University of Edinburgh. In 2008 Edinburgh made her the university's Alumna of the Year. She holds an honorary degree from Teesside University and is a fellow of the Universities of Sussex and Cardiff, and a Regent for the University of Edinburgh. Her love for history and commitment to historical accuracy are the hallmarks of her writing. She also reviews for The Washington Post, the LA Times, and for UK newspapers, and is a regular broadcaster on television and radio. She posts regularly to her large following on Facebook and Twitter. Philippa is a patron of The UK Chagos Support Association, which supports the Chagos islanders in their struggle against British injustice. The people of Chagos were displaced by the British government when they cleared the archipelago in the Indian Ocean of its inhabitants in the 1960s and 1970s to make way for an American airbase. Gregory often speaks about the Chagossians' plight and lobbies the government to take action.

Read more at: http://www.philippagregory.com/biography
Source: Philippa Gregory

Philippa Gregory was an established historian and writer when she discovered her interest in the Tudor period and wrote the novel The Other Boleyn Girl, which was made into a TV drama and a major film. Now, fifteen novels later, after writing a series on the magnificent Plantagenets she has returned to the Tudors with Henry VIII’s sixth wife, Kateryn Parr. Philippa lives with her family on a small farm in Yorkshire where she keeps horses, hens and ducks. Visitors to this site, philippagregory.com, become addicted to the updates of historical research and the progress of her birds. Her other great interest is the charity that she founded nearly twenty years ago: Gardens for The Gambia. She has raised funds and paid for almost 200 wells in the primary schools of this very dry and poor African country, and thousands of school children have been able to learn market gardening and grow food to eat in the school gardens watered by the wells. The charity also provides wells for women's collective gardens and for The Gambia’s only agricultural college, at Njawara. Philippa graduated from the University of Sussex with a degree in History, and received a PhD in 18th century literature from the University of Edinburgh. In 2008 Edinburgh made her the university's Alumna of the Year. She holds an honorary degree from Teesside University and is a fellow of the Universities of Sussex and Cardiff, and a Regent for the University of Edinburgh. Her love for history and commitment to historical accuracy are the hallmarks of her writing. She also reviews for The Washington Post, the LA Times, and for UK newspapers, and is a regular broadcaster on television and radio. She posts regularly to her large following on Facebook and Twitter. Philippa is a patron of The UK Chagos Support Association, which supports the Chagos islanders in their struggle against British injustice. The people of Chagos were displaced by the British government when they cleared the archipelago in the Indian Ocean of its inhabitants in the 1960s and 1970s to make way for an American airbase. Gregory often speaks about the Chagossians' plight and lobbies the government to take action.

Read more at: http://www.philippagregory.com/biography
Source: Philippa Gregory

The Dream Thieves - Maggie Stiefvater - Spoiler Free Review

Title - The Dream Thieves
Author - Maggie Stiefvater
Series - The Raven Cycle #2
ISBN - 9781407136622
Genre - YA > Fantasy
My Copy - Purchased
Format - Paperback
Where You Can Find It - Goodreads - Waterstones - Barnes & Noble - Book Depository - Amazon UK - Amazon US

If you could steal things from dreams, what would you take?
Ronan Lynch has secrets. Some he keeps from others. Some he keeps from himself.
One secret: Ronan can bring things out of his dreams.
And sometimes he's not the only one who wants those things.
Ronan is one of the raven boys—a group of friends, practically brothers, searching for a dead king named Glendower, who they think is hidden somewhere in the hills by their elite private school, Aglionby Academy. The path to Glendower has long lived as an undercurrent beneath town. But now, like Ronan's secrets, it is beginning to rise to the surface—changing everything in its wake.

 I can honestly say i really didn't enjoy this book, i had such high expectations after the first book and this completely let me down, i couldn't get into it at all, i don't remember a thing about this book and i finished it a hour ago , i didn't connect with the story or the characters even though they are the same characters as last time. i don't know if it was me or it was the writing style because sometimes especially when it comes to Authors like Stiefvater i just cannot get into at least one of their books.

It was very confusing as well i couldn't follow the story line and also i believe it may have also been that i read some pretty negative reviews about this book and thought that it cant be right because the first book was so good but i agree it will probably be my least favourite in the series like most other reviews i have read. 

I really hope the next book is better because i just couldn't take anything in, I have no idea what happened in this book but i forced myself to get through it and i shouldn't have because i feel like if i had taken my time i would have maybe been able to make more sense of it. 

All i can say is, it cannot get any worse than this right now (well it could but i wouldn't like to think like that) so its got to be up hill from here and i cannot wait to read the next book so i can get back to loving this series. 

Until Next Time

Happy Reading

 

Totally Didn't Book Tag

Hi so this tag is a lot like last weeks tag but instead of a book should've had something this times its what they didn't need to have (i don't think that made any sense) some questions are repeated but i will give different answers so its not just the same post, so lets get started .....


Totally Didn't Need to have a Sequel/Sequels...

Untamed - P.C & Kristen Cast - House of Night #4

From this book onwards the story just got stupid really it could have been a 4 book series and pretty much everybody would be happy.

Totally Didn't Need To Have More Than One POV...

None, so far i have been OK with most dual POVS

Totally Didn't Need To Change Cover Art Through The Middle Of The Series ...

Sea Breeze - Abbi Glines 

Now i know the Americans and Canadians didn't get this problem but us in the UK and Australia and anywhere else I'm forgetting to mention we had lovely covers where you couldn't tell that it was a romance book the kind of covers you can read on a train and people not look at you funny, then they changed and became more like the US covers and now i cannot take them outside of my house.

Totally Didn't Need A Love Triangle ...

The Selection Series - Kiera Cass

This was always going to be a no brainer, Maxon was always end game the love triangle just pissed a lot of readers off. Myself included.

Totally Didn't Need This Book To Be Included In This Series ....

I'd Tell You I Love You, But I'd Have To Kill You - Ally Carter - Gallagher Girls Series

Really this series for me started on Book 2 and this book is my least favourite in the series but every book after it is so amazing and brilliant i really can give or take this book it bores me.

Totally Didn't Need A Cliffhanger ....

Clockwork Prince - Cassandra Clare - Infernal Devices

I mean its not that much of a cliffhanger the whole Cecily showing up but it really didn't have to end at that because that shouldn't be a cliffhanger.

Totally Didn't Need To Have Just One POV...

Flawed - Cecelia Ahern

Now i cannot say too much about this book since its not even out yet but it would have been really good to see certain scenes from another perspective and here what others think of the situation.

Totally Didn't Need That Much Hype ...

Eleanor & Park - Rainbow Rowell

I honestly didn't like this book, and i still cant understand why so many people hyped about it. I loved fangirl 10 times better.

Totally Didn't Need A Relative Book Reference (EG. Hunger Games Fans Would Love) 

Blood Read Road - Moira Young

So on the front it has some words from MTV and it says "it will satisfy the cravings of Hunger Games Fans... This Book Will Blow You Away"  I mean does it really need to do that just review a book on its own merit stop comparing them to other popular books because its not far no that book.

Totally Didn't Deserve My Time ...

The November Criminals - Sam Munson

I got this book for review and i couldn't get past 60 pages it was just a terrible book that pretty much condoned drug use and had way too much swearing in it for a YA book. 

So That is it for this weeks Tag, i hope you enjoyed

Until Next Time

Happy Reading