Book Survey - Greek Mythology Style

Hello everybody. 

A couple of weeks ago i saw this while looking for book tags to do and it seemed like fun i saw it on DreamLandBookBlog  and thought i would give it a go. 

This survey was created by Flip That Page, and the main idea of the whole thing is that you have to answer a number of questions, one for each god/character from Rick Riordan’s Heroes of Olympus and Percy Jackson and the Olympians-series.

Gods of Olympus 

Zeus (Jupiter) 

God of the Sky and Thunder / King of the Gods

 Favourite book (choose your own category!)

Breathe - Abbi Glines

This book started my addiction with Abbi Glines and even though it was cheesy in parts it still brings a smile to my face when i think about it. 

Poseidon (Neptune) 

God of the Seas and Earthquakes

Book that drowned you in feels

Ugly Love - Colleen Hoover

God even a couple of months on the emotions and feels from this book still kill me every time i think of it. The pain was so real you could feel it. 

Hades (Pluto)

God of the Underworld

Favourite book with a dark / ominous plot

The Never List - Koethi Zan 

This book is messed up it is about a girl who was locked in the basement with 3 other girls and 10years after they escape they are confronted with each other and what they did to survive. Twist and Turns a plenty.

Hera (Juno)

Goddess of Marriage and Family

 Cutest fictional couple

Tessa and Jase

Tessa and Jase from Be With Me by J Lynn are one of the cutest couples right from the start just the awkwardness around them and their interactions have made them a favourite for me.

Athena(Minerva)

Goddess of Wisdom, Handicraft and Strategic Warfare

 Series with the best world-building

 Throne of Glass - Sarah J Maas 

This series is all about the world building i don't want to say too much but it is such an intricate world and all the different places and the different creatures it is phenomenal.

Aphrodite (Venus)

Goddess of Love and Beauty

 Most beautiful cover on a 2014 release

To All The Boys I've Loved Before - Jenny Han

This cover is extremely gorgeous, a beautiful cover for a beautiful book.

Ares (Mars)

God of War and Bloodshed

 Most violent book you’ve ever read

Stombird - Conn Iggulden 

Stormbird is a very real take on medieval war craft and it is violent and bloody and just getting started.

Hephaestus (Vulcan)

God of Blacksmiths and Fire

 Scorching hot swoon worthy character

Cage York

So boys in books how can i choose just one, in the end i chose one that even to this day almost a year on he is still one of my favourite boys in books, Cage is the bad boy every good girl needs. 

Artemis (Diana)

Goddess of the Hunt and Virginity

Favourite Kick-Ass Heroine

Rose Hathaway 

Rose for me is the original kick ass heroine before her i had read about Bella and Zoey Redbird she is a kick ass heroine and she is one of my all time favourite female characters.

Phoebus Apollo (Apollo)

God of Light and Healing

Sequel book that redeemed its series

Cross My Heart And Hope To Spy - Ally Carter

The first book in the Gallagher Girls series was OK for a stand alone but for me it didn't bring anything into the series at all it had a completely different vibe to the rest of the series. And when i read the second book i became addicted to it. 

 

Hermes (Mercury)

Messenger God of Thieves and Commerce

 Book with the best message

Love Rosie - Cecelia Ahern

The message in this book is that if love is meant to happen it will even if it takes years and many failed marriages if its meant to be it will be.

Hestia (Vesta)

Goddess of the Hearth and Home

 Book with the most relatable story

Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell 

Fangirl is such a relatable story its about a normal girl trying to find her way in the world and meeting new people and dealing with family problems it just describes almost every teenage girl in the world. 

Demeter (Ceres)

Goddess of Fertility and Agriculture

  Favourite bookish setting

Tudor England 

I absolutely love The Tudor Period and any book i have read that is set in that period. If i could live in any world it would have to be the Tudor era. Who wouldn't want to see Henry VIII as a young hansom prince. 

Dionysus (Bacchus)

God of Wine and Celebration

 2015 release you are most anticipating

The Sword of Summer - Rick Riordan

I literally need this book right now, it has been almost a year since we have heard about Annabeth and Percy and I'm hoping we get some glimpses of them and also i have never read a Norse Mythology book before so I cannot wait. 

Heroes of Olympus

Percy Jackson

a brave, spirited natural leader with a sarcastic sense of humour, and a will to save friends and enemies alike

Favourite protagonist

Celaena Sardothian 

Celaena is such an amazing protagonist she is strong and she has such an amazing personality and she is a kick ass heroine who protects the people she cares about. 

Annabeth Chase 

intellectual genius with a strong mind, brave heart, and a love for architecture

Series / book with the cleverest plot

Shadowhunters Series - Cassandra Clare

It is such a cleverly written series with how all of the series are interconnected and it all flows perfectly i cannot imagine what goes into writing a world like this where you have different characters in different generations but at the same time they are all very similar. 

Jason Grace

 has a moderate sense of humour, but a strong sense of Honor, justice and compassion, often described as perfect

Book with an epic finale

 

The Mark of Athena - Rick Riordan

 

The ending to this book had me having a heart attack seriously if i had read it then had to wait for the next book i would probably have killed someone, this ending was epic for all the right reasons even if it gave me heart attack. 

Piper McLean

aggressive and persuasive but down to earth, caring and loving towards Jason, her friends and family

Book with a tempting synopsis (one you haven’t read!)

 

The Book of Ivy - Amy Engel

 

So i saw this book on goodreads and keep on debating if i should buy it i have not been able to forget the synopsis and i really want to read it. 

After a brutal nuclear war, the United States was left decimated. A small group of survivors eventually banded together, but only after more conflict over which family would govern the new nation. The Westfalls lost. Fifty years later, peace and control are maintained by marrying the daughters of the losing side to the sons of the winning group in a yearly ritual.
This year, it is my turn.
My name is Ivy Westfall, and my mission is simple: to kill the president’s son—my soon-to-be husband—and restore the Westfall family to power.
But Bishop Lattimer is either a very skilled actor or he’s not the cruel, heartless boy my family warned me to expect. He might even be the one person in this world who truly understands me. But there is no escape from my fate. I am the only one who can restore the Westfall legacy.
Because Bishop must die. And I must be the one to kill him…

 

 

Leo Valdez

good-natured and energetic, funny but intelligent, honest and witty, and is skilled with machines

Book that made you laugh

Geek Girl - Holly Smale 

 

Geek Girl is a funny cute contemporary book that made me laugh out loud, and it still makes me laugh and smile whenever i think of certain scenes. 

 

 

Hazel Levesque

bright  and outgoing despite an unfortunate childhood, is mature for her age and has a love for horseback riding

 
Favourite character with a tragic past

 

Avery Morganstern

 

Avery goes through something traumatic at 14, when she does the right thing and tells the police her family make her lie and say she made it up.

 

 

Frank Zhang

somewhat shy, cynical, and clumsy, though he possesses a strong sense of duty, loyalty, and love

Book you loved more than you thought you would

 

Stray - Rachel Vincent

 

When i first was going to start Stray i looked it up on goodreads and it had some really bad reviews, so i didn't read it until about a week later and i thoroughly enjoyed it. 

 

 

 

Nico di Angelo

grim, solitary, powerful and mysterious, highly unpredictable and selectively affectionate

Most mysterious character you’ve ever encountered

 

The Silent Brothers

 

We really don't know much about them and they are in all of the shadowhunter books and i would love to know what really goes on in the silent city when no ones watching. 

 

 

 

Grover Underwood

cheerful, upbeat and protective satyr who chews on furniture when he gets nervous

Book you won’t read due to warnings against them

Vampire Diaries Nightfall - L J Smith 

I have heard that they get worse as you carry on the first four are OK but then they get really bad so i wont be continuing with this series.

Clarisse La Rue

arrogant and hot-tempered, but brave, strong and protective of camp

Most annoying character

 

George Warleggan

 

George Warleggan is from the Poldark saga and he is such an annoying little bugger and i really want to punch him, at every turn hes trying to financially hurt Ross and i really hate him for it.

 

 

So that is it for this tag

 

Until Next Time

Happy Reading

 

My 15 Most Anticipated Books of 2015

Hiya so here are the top 15 new releases in need to reed this this ...

1. The Ruby Circle - Richelle Mead - Book #6 in The Bloodlines Series 

The ruby circle is the 6th and final book in the Bloodlines Series which is the spin off to the Vampire Academy Series, its going to be really sad when this series ends. 

2. The Sword of Summer - Rick Riordan -  Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard

 Magnus Chase has always been a troubled kid. Since his mother's mysterious death, he's lived alone on the streets of Boston, surviving by his wits, keeping one step ahead of the police and the truant officers.

One day, he's tracked down by an uncle he's never met - a man his mother claimed was dangerous. His uncle tells him an impossible secret: Magnus is the son of a Norse god.

Apparently, the Viking myths are true and the gods of Asgard, which Magnus thought were a myth, are preparing for war. Trolls, giants and worse monsters are stirring for doomsday. To prevent Ragnarok, Magnus must search the Nine Worlds for a weapon that has been lost for thousands of years: the Sword of Summer.

When an attack by fire giants forces him to choose between his own safety and the lives of hundreds of innocents, Magnus makes a fatal decision.

Sometimes, the only way to start a new life is to die... and he learns that the hard way.

This is kind of a spin off to Percy Jackson because the main character is Annabeths Cousin.

 3. Lady Midnight - Cassandra Clare - The Dark Artifices 

Los Angeles. It’s been five years since the events of the Mortal Instruments when Nephilim stood poised on the brink of oblivion and Shadowhunter Emma Carstairs lost her parents. After the blood and violence she witnessed as a child, Emma has dedicated her life to to discovering exactly what it was that killed her parents and getting her revenge.

Raised in the Los Angeles Institute with the Blackthorn family, Emma is paired as a parabatai with her best friend, Julian Blackthorn. A series of murders in the city catch her attention — they seem to have the same characteristics as the deaths of her parents. Could the murderer be the same person? And her attention isn’t the only one caught: someone has been murdering Downworlders as well. The Fair Folk make a deal with the Institute: if the Blackthorns and Emma will investigate the killings, they’ll return Mark Blackthorn to his home. The catch: they have only two weeks to find the killers. Otherwise it’s open war between faeries and Nephilim.

The Shadowhunters of the Institute must race against time to catch the killers, even as they begin to suspect the involvement of those closest to them. At the same time, Emma is falling in love with the one person in the world she’s absolutely forbidden by Shadowhunter Law to love. Set against the glittering backdrop of present-day Los Angeles, Emma must learn to trust her head and her heart as she investigates a demonic plot that stretches from the warlock-run nightclubs of the Sunset Strip to the enchanted sea that pounds the beaches of Santa Monica. 

I think this book is probably on most peoples lists this year because its the start of new trilogy by Cassandra Clare and they are always amazing.

4.Tales From The Shaowhunters Academy - Cassandra Clare - The Shadowhunter Chronicles 

This is like the Bane chronicles where there are 10 Novellas, and i mostly want this book for the Novella about James Herondale. 

5. All Fall Down - Ally Carter - Embassy Row 

Grace can best be described as a daredevil, an Army brat, and a rebel. She is also the only granddaughter of perhaps the most powerful ambassador in the world and Grace has spent every summer of her childhood running across the roofs of Embassy Row.

Now, at age sixteen, she's come back to stay - in order to solve the mystery of her mother's death. In the process, she uncovers an international conspiracy of unsettling proportions, and must choose her friends and watch her foes carefully if she and the world are to be saved.

As soon as i heard Ally Carter was releasing a new book it was straight on my list because i love Ally Carters writing style and I'm hoping this will be no different. 

6.  When I'm Gone - Abbi Glines - Rosemary Beach 

I had an urge to fix all her problems. Which was stupid. She was doing fine without me. But something about those big eyes…

Mase Colt-Manning has always preferred his humble life as a Texas rancher to his birthright as the son of a legendary rock star. In fact, he rarely visits his father’s rarefied world in Rosemary Beach, especially if it means bunking at his vile half-sister Nan’s house—until one visit leads to a chance encounter with a young, gorgeous house maid who awakens him with her off-key but spirited imitation of a country music star…

Reese Ellis finally has her freedom. After escaping a lifetime of abuse from her parents and classmates for an undiagnosed learning disorder, she seizes the opportunity to be a house maid to some of the richest families in Rosemary Beach. But her job is in jeopardy when she causes an accident at the home of her most important client, Nan Dillon. When a hot, half-naked stranger with a cowboy’s swagger comes to her rescue, she’s intrigued—then afraid once he shows his own interest. Reese has never met a trustworthy man in her life. Will Mase be any different?

This is book 11 in the rosemary Beach companion series and i love it and am addicted to all of Abbi Glines's books they are amazeballs 

7. Fall With Me - J Lynn - Wait for You

Eleven months ago, bartender and weird-shirt-wearing extraordinaire Roxy and Officer Reece Anders had a one night stand. Well, kind of. She’s been in love with him since she was fifteen, and he wishes that night they shared never happened. She’s sworn him off forever, but the past and future collide, forcing her to rely on the one man who broke her heart not once, but twice.

Her best friend since birth has been in a long-term care facility since he became a victim of a hate crime years ago, and the person who put him in there is out of prison and wanting to make amends with him and Roxy. She’s not sure she has room for forgiveness in her and when she begins to receive frightening messages and is on the receiving end of escalating violence, she thinks she knows who is to blame. The man who already destroyed one life already.

But Reece isn’t convinced. The threats are too personal, and even if Roxy doesn’t believe him, he’s not willing to let anyone hurt her. Including himself. He’s already messed up more than once when it comes to Roxy and he’s not going to let history repeat itself.

This is book #4 in the Wait For You series and like so many other New Adult books they are my guilty pleasures. 

 

8. Miss Mayhem - Rachel Hawkins - Rebel Belle 

I read Rebel Belle Back in May of 2014 and loved it, it was funny and kick ass and not what i was expecting considering the cover is very girlie and pink.

9. Beautiful Redemption - Jamie McGuire - Maddox Brothers Series 

 If A Maddox boy falls in love, he loves forever. But what if he didn't love you, first?
No-nonsense Liis Lindy is an agent of the FBI. Deciding she is married only to her job, she breaks off her engagement and transfers from Chicago to the field office in San Diego. She loves her desk. She is committed to her laptop. She dreams of promotions and shaking hands with the director after cracking an impossible case.
Special Agent in Charge Thomas Maddox is arrogant, unforgiving, and ruthless. He is tasked with putting away some of the world’s toughest criminals, and he is one of the best the Bureau has to offer. Though, as many lives as he’s saved, there is one that is beyond his reach. Younger brother Travis is faced with prison time for his involvement in a basement fire that killed dozens of college students, and the media want a conviction. Travis’s only saviour is his unusual tie to the mob. In a deal that will spare his brother, Thomas has agreed to recruit Travis into the FBI.
Liis is stubborn, defiant, and yet somehow softens Thomas’s rough edges, making her the perfect agent to accompany him to the ceremony. Posing as a couple, they must travel to Travis & Abby’s beach vow renewal and give him the news, but when the pretending ends, she finds herself wondering if they were pretending at all.
In the second instalment of the Maddox Brothers books, experience firsthand the mysterious world of the elusive Thomas Maddox, and how good love can be when you’re not the first, but the last.

Again like quite a few of the book on this list this is a New adult Companion Series and they are my life i fly through them like they are book buying money. 

10. The Court of Thorn's & Roses - Sarah J Maas - Court of Thorn's & Roses 

 
When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand retribution for it. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin—one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled their world.

As she dwells on his estate, her feelings for Tamlin transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every lie and warning she's been told about the beautiful, dangerous world of the Fae. But an ancient, wicked shadow grows over the faerie lands, and Feyre must find a way to stop it . . . or doom Tamlin—and his world—forever.

Sarah J Maas is an amazing author and her writing style is beautiful so i love to read all of her books.

 11. The Heir - Kiera Cass - The Selection 

Twenty years ago, America Singer entered the Selection and won Prince Maxon’s heart. Now the time has come for Princess Eadlyn to hold a Selection of her own. Eadlyn doesn’t expect her Selection to be anything like her parents’ fairy-tale love story. But as the competition begins, she may discover that finding her own happily ever after isn’t as impossible as she always thought.

 I was really happy to find out they were extending the trilogy to add another book, so this is one of my most Anticipated book of the year 

12. Winter - Marrissa Meyer - The Lunar Chronicles 

I have only read  Cinder and Scarlet and am planning to read Cress in January 2015 and i really like this series and want to see how all they characters end the story. 

13. Lair of Dreams - Libba Bray - The Diviners 

I Was Really annoyed this book was meant to be published last August and is now set to be released in April so i hope it doesn't get pushed back again because i really need this sequel 

14. Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes - Rick Riordan 

Who cut off Medusa's head? Who was raised by a she-bear? Who tamed Pegasus? It takes a demigod to know, and Percy Jackson can fill you in on the all the daring deeds of Perseus, Atalanta, Bellerophon, and the rest of the major Greek heroes. Told in the funny, irreverent style readers have come to expect from Percy, ( I've had some bad experiences in my time, but the heroes I'm going to tell you about were the original old school hard luck cases. They boldly screwed up where no one had screwed up before. . .) and enhanced with vibrant artwork by Caldecott Honoree John Rocco, this story collection will become the new must-have classic for Rick Riordan's legions of devoted fans--and for anyone who needs a hero. So get your flaming spear. Put on your lion skin cape. Polish your shield and make sure you've got arrows in your quiver. We're going back about four thousand years to decapitate monsters, save some kingdoms, shoot a few gods in the butt, raid the Underworld, and steal loot from evil people. Then, for dessert, we'll die painful tragic deaths. Ready? Sweet. Let's do this.

I mean this is another Percy Jackson book and we didn't really get any of him in the Blood Of Olympus so this will hopefully make up for that. 

 

15. The Shadow Cabinet - Maureen Johnson - The Shades of London 

This is the 3rd book in the Shades of London series that is about an American Girl named Rory who moves to London and starts seeing ghosts its a really good series i suggest you check it out. 

So this year should be a good one so many new series starting and some really good ones ending. 

Until Next Time 

Peyton 

 

 

The Taylor Swift Book Tag

So this Tag is basically having Taylor Swift songs, and a question to go with them then you choose a book that goes with it. 

 

 

1 - We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together - pick a book or series that you were pretty sure you were in love with, but then wanted to break up with.

The Unearthly series - Cynthia Hand 

i loved the first two book and most of the last but that ending ruined it for me .

2)Red - pick a book with a RED cover.

Betrayals - Lili St Crow

 

 

 

 

 

3) The Best Day - pick a book that makes you feel nostalgic.

Eclipse - Stephanie Meyer 

I got the whole series just before New Moon (film) came out , and i didn't want to read twilight and new moon because i just saw the films so i went straight to eclipse and it was the book that made me want to read again and i have re read this book to many times to count. 

 

4)Love Story - pick a book with forbidden love.

Succubus Blues - Richelle Mead 

The forbidden love in this book/ series is between Georgina Kincaid who is a succubus and Seth Mortensen who is Human and she could drain his life with one kiss. 

5)I Knew You Were Trouble - pick a book with a bad character you couldn’t help but love.

Shatter me - Tahereh Mafi 

Warner is my Bad Boy in shatter me i loved him in this book and as you got to know him as the series went on i loved him even more.

6)Innocent (written b/c of Kanye West!) - pick a book that someone ruined the ending for.

Last Sacrifice - Richelle Mead

I got this book for Christmas 2010 it came out early in December 2010 and i caught who the murderer was on the Wikia it didn't really ruin the book for me but i was annoyed that i couldn't go along with the mystery. 

 

 

7)Everything Has Changed - pick a character from a book who goes through extensive character development.

Bloodlines - Richelle Mead 

Sydney Sage

From the first book Sydney is a stickler for the rules and doesn't like breaking them and book by book you see her finding her own way breaking away from the alchemist's and going against everything they taught her.

  

 

 

8)You Belong With Me - pick your most anticipated book release. 

Blood Of Olympus - Rick Riordan 

I Don't have anything else to say  

 October 7th 2014

9)Forever and Always - pick your favourite book couple.

Opposition - Jennifer L Armentrout 

Daemon & Katy 

i love them in every book there relationship just make me want to melt and shes a BOOK BLOGGER. 

 

 

10)Come Back, Be Here - pick the book you would least like to lend out, for fear of missing it too much.

Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen 

my beautiful copy will never leave my position ...

my precious 

 

 

 

11) Teardrops On My Guitar - pick a book that made you cry a lot.

Allegiant - Veronica Roth

i was ill when i was reading this book and i was in bed one of my friends had visited and i had quickly put on mascara and i for got about it i had to was my bedding straight away because i had big spots of black tear drops it was not pretty 

 

12) Shake It Off - pick a book that you love so much, you just shake off the haters

 Stray - Rachel Vincent 

at the beginning of July 2014 i was about to star this book so i checked Goodreads and the ratings were really bad most were 1 or 2 stars and i put it down but at the end of the month i picked it up and read it and  absolutely loved it and finished it in 2 days.

Love

Peyton Fox 

xoxoxoxoxoxo