Book Review: The Claiming Words by Tricia Drammeh

Title: The Claiming Words

Author: Tricia Drammeh

Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal, Demon, Magic

Release Date: October 6th, 2012

Rating: 

Book Blurb:

The Claiming Words is the first book in a new fantasy series for Young Adults and is scheduled for release by Iconic Publishing in Autumn 2012.
When Jace moves to Oaktree, he attracts the interest of everyone in school, but only one girl captures his attention, or maybe two. Alisa is an outcast, but when she saves Jace from a Hunter, she finds herself drawn into a world of friendship and magic. Rachel has always felt different from everyone she grew up with until an encounter with the new student illustrates how unique she is. As dangerous forces descend upon the small southern town, each girl shares a special connection with Jace. Only one will win his love.

The Claiming Words left me speechless. In all honesty, I was having doubts if I would like it but when I started reading it, I was sucked into the world of Demons, Hunters, Magic and Warriors. I was like, holy crap! I was grinning from ear to ear, I feel like an idiot smiling to myself. It is all worth it!

Book Review: On the Island by Tracey Garvis-Graves

Title: On the Island
Author: Tracey Garvis-Graves
Genre: Chick Lit, Adult, Contemporary Romance
Release Date: October 11th, 2011

Rating:

Book Blurb from Goodreads:

When thirty-year-old English teacher Anna Emerson is offered a job tutoring T.J. Callahan at his family's summer rental in the Maldives, she accepts without hesitation; a working vacation on a tropical island trumps the library any day. T.J. Callahan has no desire to leave town, not that anyone asked him. He's almost seventeen and if having cancer wasn't bad enough, now he has to spend his first summer in remission with his family - and a stack of overdue assignments - instead of his friends.
Anna and T.J. are en route to join T.J.'s family in the Maldives when the pilot of their seaplane suffers a fatal heart attack and crash-lands in the Indian Ocean. Adrift in shark-infested waters, their life jackets keep them afloat until they make it to the shore of an uninhabited island.
Now Anna and T.J. just want to survive and they must work together to obtain water, food, fire, and shelter. Their basic needs might be met but as the days turn to weeks, and then months, the castaways encounter plenty of other obstacles, including violent tropical storms, the many dangers lurking in the sea, and the possibility that T.J.'s cancer could return. As T.J. celebrates yet another birthday on the island, Anna begins to wonder if the biggest challenge of all might be living with a boy who is gradually becoming a man.

Oh boy. I was having doubts with this one when I decided to read it. It was because my reader played with me, I thought that I'm gonna read a 600 page book. But really it's just 300 something. I just read this in one day! Yay! I would finish it sooner if I didn't do anything other than read, but well, anyway...

Filipino Friday [1]

WOW! This is so cool! Just come across it in a fellow filipino blogger I've been stalking, er, following. And I want to join too since I'm a fellow Filipino and a book lover. :) This would be my first ever con, a Filipino Con. Excited much!

School of Reading. We all started reading somewhere, and more often than not, we were influenced by someone. Who got you into reading? Your parents? A friend? A librarian? One teacher who always lends out his/her books? How helpful was your school in helping your reading habit / fueling your book addiction?

I guess I started reading, I mean really read was back in 2004 or 2005. My younger brother was in the hospital getting a heart surgery. I was visiting and keeping him company, I was bored to death. My Aunt and cousin visited us, bringing a lot of Tagalog Pocketbooks and Britney Spears' book. So even though I really don't like reading AT ALL then AND they gave me tagalog pocketbooks, like the PHR ones, which I totally didn't like back then, I started reading. And guess what? I like it! I love it! I was hooked! So from then on, I collected pocketbooks, read Danielle Steel's books, some Harlequins. I even met PHR authors and became close friends with three of them namely, Sonia Francesca, Keene Alicante and Sofia.

And then I met TWILIGHT. I know! I'm one of those TwiHards back then! But well, now, I'm not. :P I branch out, I became addicted to Young Adult books, I craved for YA books. I still occasionally read Tagalog books, but if you'll ask me if I read Bob Ong's, the answer is NO, I have not. I didn't get it. I tried reading it. But I didn't get it. :(

My college library have lots of Fiction books, I really like going to library cause I like the smell of books. Yes, I smell the book, love the smell of the paper. :P I often borrow books there so yep, the library really helps my addiction. ;)

Feature & Follow Friday #4

Feature & Follow Friday is blog hop hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. The two blogs they are featuring this week are: Books are my reality and Concise Book Review.

First of all, congratulations to my dear friend, Alisa from Books are my reality for being featured! :) Hurrah! And second, thank you for reminding me to do this Feature & Follow Friday cause I definitely forgot about it! :P

Q: Summer Reading. What was your favorite book that you were REQUIRED to read when you were in school?

Honestly? I don't like reading when I was in school. Cause what they always say when we have a book reports, we have to choose classics. I don't like reading back then much less, Classics! And anyway, I already forgot the titles I have read for book reports. :P

But if I really must answer then... I say Mythology by Edith Hamilton.

What about you? :)

Versatile Blogger Award

I've been nominated for another award by my good friend Alisa from Books are my reality! Thank you Alisa! :)

1. Nominate 15 fellow bloggers who are relatively new to blogging
2. Let the nominees know that they've been nominated
3. Share 7 random facts about yourself
4. Thank the blogger who nominated you
5. Add the Versatile Blogger award picture to your post

My 7 facts:

1. I could talk non-stop once the topic is something I really like.
2. I really like being alone most of the time. I like going out on my own and just you know, think some things. ;)
3. I'm a shy person and will not talk with people whom I'm not really close with. Just the people I really am comfortable. :)
4. I hate cockroaches. Scared to go anywhere near it. :\
5. I like talking to boys more than girls. But well, that's kinda changing since I'm surrounded by my girl friends online. 
6. I'm really chubby back in grade school. LMAO! A lot of my friends would tease me because of it. And I'm like a tomboy back then. I'll fight 'em back. Yes, I fight with my fists. :P
7. One time in my 3rd year and 4th year high school (we're all classmates for 2 whole academic years), there's 5 male classmates who got a crush on me. LOL! And three M.U.s (short for Mutual Understanding). The two in my three MUs became my boyfriend #2 and the present one. ;)

My 15 Nominees:

1. Jenny from Book Doll
2. Yanee from Behind those Nerdy Glasses
3. Shawn from Errant Author
4. Lyra from Defiantly Deviant
5. Candi from Just Can't Beat Books
6. Kimberly from Love YA Books
7. Stuck on Reading
8. Max from The Paperfort Upstairs
9. Lauren from The Headless Owl
10. The Red Reader
11. Paige from For the Love of Literature
12. Jennifer from The Relentless Reader
13. Winnie from A Book Hoarder
14. Book Purses
15. Rita from The Broken Bookshelf

Thank you for your time! Thank you again, Alisa for nominating me! And Happy reading everyone! :)

Liebster Blog Award!

Yay! I've been nominated for the Liebster Blog Award by Lauren from The Headless Owl. Thank you Lauren! I believe this award is for new bloggers with less than 200 Followers. :)

Award winners share 11 facts about themselves, answer the 11 questions asked by the blogger who tagged them, come up with 11 of their own questions and tag 11 more bloggers with the award.

So here's my 11 facts about myself, questions and nominees! :)

Feature & Follow #3

Feature & Follow Friday is blog hop hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. The two blogs they are featuring this week are: A Glass of Wine and Booktastic Reviews.

Q: Christmas in July! Someone gives you a gift card for two books (whatever that costs). What two books will you buy?

This question is rather hard to answer since there are a lot of books I really want to have. And we only chooses TWO?! That's hard! Hmmm... Since I really like Stolen Nights by Rebecca Maizel, I'll go for that one. 

The second book (Is it really just two? :P) would be Origins by Jessa L. Gilbert. I'm actually planning to buy that one. Is it valid? LOL. If not, I'll choose Onyx by Jennifer Armentrout. ;)

What about you, fellow book lovers? I wish we could do at least ten books. :P Let me know if you're a New Follower so I could follow you back. :)