Cindy's Reply: August 2nd, 2012

Last time I checked, August meant closer time to school. ;P

And thinking about it, i haven't downloaded Divergent yet, I'll have to do that to the outside computer.

I plan to write that story at your house, Liana, so you can help me think...LOL. On August 5th, which is in four days, I would have to go to Liana's house and fulfill our busy schedule: which is all about books. I have to write my short story for the writing contest. I also have to proofread what Liana's book, Incend have so far. So, yep. I get to know her book's ending first and weeee....I won't tell anyone.....since I'm her personal editor, that is unless she gets like a real, professional editor, but I'll still be the first one to read her books. Since Liana wants me to write a book so much, I will also bring along the plot I have written for my book for Liana to look at and help me think of ideas. So yes, my official announcement that I'm writing a book. Butt it has no title and no ending. It has the beginning, though. It doesn't even have the climax yet.....but everything starts with a beginning, right?

Also on that day,we plan to read. Or I plan to look at Liana's magnificent bookshelf and see what they have in them. What else would we also do. If we have free time, we would probably just hang out. Either way, Liana feels like we wouldn't finish that schedule in one day, so we planned for a second meeting for the authors! On Satuday, August 11th! Which is about a week later! So either way, the days go by leading us closer and closer to school and the end of the year, and 2013 will come in no time!!

Which many awesome, plot-thrilling books will come out!!! I'm not saying mines. Since I barely started, so I will much less finish in 4 months. I meant all those book-hanging trilogies or series....that includes Requiem by  Lauren Oliver (Delirium #3), Prodigy by Marie Lu (Legend#2), Scarlet by Marissa Meyer (Cinder#2), Reached by Ally Condie (Matched#3), I haven't read Divergent yet, but I'm pretty sure Divergent#3 by Veronica Roth. And also Rick Riordan's The Mark of Athena (Heroes of Olympus #3) is going to come out this fall, October, I think. Wooo!!!! Oh and also, the Gallagher Girls series #6. It was not announced yet, but I'm pretty sure Ally Carter won't disappoint her fans and get that book out by 2013. And probably hopefully, if possible, Liana Chau's Incend would come out by then.

~ Cindy ;)

Cindy's Book Review: 13 Treasures by Michelle Harrison

13 Treasures by Michelle Harrison.
Book Summary: You don't always have to see to believe.
Though her mother cannot see the evil fairies that rouse Tanya from her sleep, torturing her at the slightest mention of their existence, they are as real to the thirteen-year-old as anything she's ever known. If she could wish them away, she would, but instead it is she who is sent away -- to live at her grandmother's secluded countryside manor.
There is much to explore and even more to fear in the woods surrounding the estate. But the forest isn't the only source of dark secrets, and Tanya soon finds herself entangled in a mystery that could trap her in the fairy realm forever.

Cindy's Summary: 13 Treasures is a book about fairies or includes fairies in them. Apparently, those who have second sight, able to see fairies and other mythical creatures, are passed down from generations as recessive traits, so it skips generations. Your family would only have second sight if someone up your family tree has been switched, as in someone was stolen to the fairy realm and a child of a fey replaced he/she. Anyways, Tanya's grandma has second sight and when Tanya's grandma, Florence was young, she had a best friend named Morwenna Bloom, who also had second sight and was overprotected. So Morwenna and Florence planned to go to the fairy realm to be immortal and to leave their family behind. Florence, later on backed out, so Morweena went alone and got stuck there. Tanya, thinking Morwenna is innocent, tried to get Morwenna out, but she didn't know that that was Morwenna's evil scheme to make Tanya trade places with her, so she can get out.

I actually think the name Morwenna is kind of pretty, despite that Morwenna is evil. Liana told me this was kind of creepy. It kind of was, but it's not scary at all. Too bad there's no romance, besides, Fabian's, the son of the caretaker of Florence's mansion, grandpa, Amos, who fell in love with Morwenna and kept a lock of Morwenna's hair which had some of Florence's in it and is used as a pact. Destroy the pact, then Morwenna gets stuck in the fairy realm forever, growing old. But I do not want Fabian and Tanya falling in love. They don't really match each other. For real. So maybe just be adventure buddies.

Rate: (1-10): 7.7
It was okay. Not the best book I ever read. No romance and such.

Okay. Moving on to the quotes.
" 'Don't be such a Mizhog.' "
That actually sounds...IDk. Maybe I should use it to Liana.

Warwick
Er....nice name? Sounds like he's from Star Wars or something. LOL.

" 'Foolish cretin! Stupid fool! Trust you to break that simple rule.' "
I didn't know why I laughed at this but haha , goblins talk in rhyme?

"...looked equally flabbergasted."
 I don't know. I'm just interested in the word. It's unique and no one really uses it....except Fabian....JK.

"...dripping with sarcasm."
I like the author's choice of words.....I feel like stealing them. LOL. But I don't have any announcement of writing a book yet.

There wasn't much quotes I found in this story, but these are the few that caught my eye. ;D

- Cindy ;)