Clandestine Sanctuary

2012-01-30T09:00:00.000+08:00

Hello Lovelies! This year I have decided to move to Wordpress but also decided to not totally abandoning this blog however old reviews are retained here while new reviews and updates will be blogged in my newest home. In addition to that I've decided to reinvent Clandestine Sanctuary altogether and adapted a different name. :) If you are a GFC follower please take the time to subscribe to my new

Review: Every Other Day by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

2011-12-27T23:28:00.000+08:00

Title: Every Other Day Author: Jennifer Lynn Barnes Pages: 352 Publisher: Egmont USA ISBN: 1606841696 Source: Netgalley Every other day, Kali D'Angelo is a normal sixteen-year-old girl. She goes to public high school. She attends pep rallies. She's human.And then every day in between . . . She's something else entirely.Though she still looks like herself, every twenty-four hours predatory

Review: Touch of Power by Maria V. Snyder

2011-12-22T19:42:00.000+08:00

Title: Touch of Power (Healer Series #1) Author: Maria V. Snyder Pages: 400 Publisher: MIRA ISBN: 0778313077 Source: Netgalley Laying hands upon the injured and dying, Avry of Kazan assumes their wounds and diseases into herself. But rather than being honored for her skills, she is hunted. Healers like Avry are accused of spreading the plague that has decimated the Territories, leaving the

Covers & eBooks (14)

2011-12-10T17:55:00.000+08:00

Cover & eBooks is a bi-weekly post dedicated in my discoveries of free eBooks over the Internet. This is also a great way to discover new authors and talents among the known authors that we admire today. Books featured are free from various websites but mostly the eBook source is Smashwords. Links are provided so feel free to download the book and share it with others. :) Title: Lost Cargo

Covers 7 eBooks (13)

2011-11-26T17:35:00.000+08:00

Review: City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare

2011-11-22T14:57:00.000+08:00

Title: City of Ashes (The Mortal Instrument #2) Author: Cassandra Clare Pages: 464 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing ISBN: 1416914293 Clary Fray just wishes that her life would go back to normal. But what's normal when you're a demon-slaying Shadowhunter, your mother is in a magically induced coma, and you can suddenly see Downworlders like werewolves, vampires, and faeries?

Review: The Beginning of After by Jennifer Castle

2011-11-21T17:26:00.000+08:00

Title: The Beginning of After Author: Jennifer Castle Pages: 432 Publisher: HarperTeen ISBN: 0061985791 Source: Netgalley Anyone who’s had something truly crappy happen to them will tell you: It’s all about Before and After. What I’m talking about here is the ka-pow, shake-you-to-your-core-and-turn-your-bones-to-plastic kind of crappy.Sixteen-year-old Laurel’s world changes instantly when

Review: City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

2011-11-14T14:53:00.000+08:00

Title: City of Bones (The Mortal Instrument #1) Author: Cassandra Clare Pages: 485 Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry ISBN: 1416914285 When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder - much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears

Covers & eBooks (12)

2011-11-12T17:19:00.000+08:00

Review: The Faerie Ring by KiKi Hamilton

2011-11-11T14:36:00.000+08:00

Title: The Faerie Ring (The Faerie Ring #1) Author: KiKi Hamilton Pages: 352 Publisher: TOR Teen ISBN: 0765327228 Source: Pinoy Book Tours The year is 1871, and Tiki has been making a home for herself and her family of orphans in a deserted hideaway adjoining Charing Cross Station in central London. Their only means of survival is by picking pockets. One December night, Tiki steals a ring,

Review: A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

2011-11-09T20:50:00.000+08:00

Title: A Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy #1) Author: Deborah Harkness Pages: 579 Publisher: Viking Adult ISBN: 0670022411 Sometimes scholars should be more careful: Youthful researcher Diana Bishop briefly consults an medieval alchemical manuscript; then, after jotting down a few notes, sends it back to its prison in the stacks. Unfortunately for Diana, her quick dabbling has

Review: Carrier Of The Mark by Leigh Fallon

2011-11-07T20:31:00.000+08:00

Title: Carrier Of The Mark Author: Leigh Fallon Pages: 342 Publisher: HarperTeen ISBN: 0062027875 Their love was meant to be. When Megan Rosenberg moves to Ireland, everything in her life seems to fall into place. After growing up in America, she's surprised to find herself feeling at home in her new school. She connects with a group of friends, and she is instantly drawn to darkly handsome

Review: Paranormalcy by Kiersten White

2011-11-07T15:10:00.000+08:00

Title: Paranormalcy (Paranormalcy #1) Author: Kiersten White Pages: 335 Publisher: HarperTeen ISBN: 0061985848 Weird as it is working for the International Paranormal Containment Agency, Evie’s always thought of herself as normal. Sure, her best friend is a mermaid, her ex-boyfriend is a faerie, she's falling for a shape-shifter, and she's the only person who can see through paranormals'

Review: The Demon Trapper's Daughter by Jana Oliver

2011-11-03T23:45:00.000+08:00

Title: The Demon Trapper's Daughter (The Demon Trapper's Daughter #1) Author: Jana Oliver Pages: 340 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin ISBN: 0312614780 Demon Trapper Riley Blackthorne just needs a chance to prove herself—and that’s exactly what Lucifer is counting on… It’s the year 2018, and with human society seriously disrupted by the economic upheavals of the previous decade, Lucifer has

Review: From Dead To Worse by Charlaine Harris

2011-11-01T22:50:00.000+08:00

Title: From Dead to Worse (Southern Vampire Mystery #8) Author: Charlaine Harris Pages: 359 Publisher: ACE ISBN: 0441015891 After the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina and the manmade explosion at the vampire summit, everyonehuman and otherwiseis stressed, including Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse, who is trying to cope with the fact that her boyfriend Quinn has gone

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2011-10-29T16:55:00.000+08:00

Review: The Iron Knight by Julie Kagawa

2011-10-27T17:11:00.000+08:00

Title: The Iron Knight (Iron Fey Series #4) Author: Julie Kagawa Pages: 386 Publisher: Harlequin ISBN: 0373210361 Source: Netgalley My name—my True Name—is Ashallayn'darkmyr Tallyn. I am the last remaining son of Mab, Queen of the Unseelie Court. And I am dead to her. My fall began, as many stories do, with a girl… Review: I am actually lost with words on how to describe how beautifully and

Review: All Together Dead by Charlaine Harris

2011-10-26T22:50:00.000+08:00

Title: All Together Dead (Southern Vampire Mystery #7) Author: Charlaine Harris Pages: 323 Publisher: ACE ISBN: 0441014941 Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has her hands full dealing with every sort of undead and paranormal creature imaginable. And after being betrayed by her longtime vampire love, Sookie must not only deal with a new man in her life-the shapeshifter Quinn-but

Review: Across The Universe by Beth Revis

2011-10-25T20:38:00.000+08:00

Title: Across The Universe (Across The Universe #1) Author: Beth Revis Pages: 398 Publisher: Razorbill ISBN: 1595143971 Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she

Review: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

2011-10-24T15:34:00.000+08:00

Title: The Night Circus Author: Erin Morgenstern Pages: 387 Publisher: Doubleday ISNB: 0385534639 "Opens at Nightfall; Closes at Dawn." The Le Cirque des Rêves is a circus unlike any other, just as this magical debut novel is equally unique. At the center of The Night Circus spectacle are two specially gifted young magicians, Celia and Marco, pitted against each other in professional

Review: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

2011-10-20T22:56:00.000+08:00

Title: The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games Trilogy #1) Author: Suzanne Collins Pages: 374 Publisher: Scholastic, Inc. ISBN: 0439023483 In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the

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2011-10-15T22:49:00.000+08:00

Waiting on Wednesday (Oct 12)

2011-10-12T17:38:00.000+08:00

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. Title: Under The Never Sky Author: Veronica Rossi Pub Date: Feb 07, 2012 Exiled from her comfortable home, Aria knows her chances of surviving in the outer wasteland – called the Death Shop – are slim. Violent energy storms can strike

Review: Definitely Dead by Charlaine Harris

2011-10-05T20:52:00.000+08:00

Title: Definitely Dead (Southern Vampire Series #6) Author: Charlaine Harris Pages: 324 Publisher: Ace ISBN: 0441014917 Spiked with a frothy fusion of romance, mystery, and fantasy, this bestselling series sends the supernaturally gifted cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse to New Orleans, where she has to deal with the legacy of one of her own family and a host of potentially dangerous

Waiting on Wednesday (Oct 5)

2011-10-05T17:36:00.000+08:00

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. Title: Cinder Author: Marissa Meyer Pub Date: January 01, 2012 Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No