Waiting on Wednesday {2}

by Ikhlas // 6 July, 2011 // No Comments

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. Silence (Hush, Hush, #3)

This week's anticipated title: Silence Author: Becca Fitzpatrick Release Date: October 4th, 2011 Summary: The noise between Patch and Nora is gone. They've overcome the secrets riddled in Patch's dark past...bridged two irreconcilable worlds...faced heart-wrenching tests of betrayal, loyalty and trust...and all for a

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Review: The Iron King

by Ikhlas // 5 July, 2011 // 1 Comment

So it took me awhile to finish this one, despite the fact that I was breezing along very early on. For a refresher on my early review, check out my Initial Thoughts post. Okay, so before starting to read this book, lower your expectations. And I don't mean this

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The Edward

by Ikhlas // 3 July, 2011 // 2 Comments

Since every YA book out right now has the Edward hero, I figured I'd do a post about all the Edwards. Oh come on, you know the guy...don't you? Other than the requisite things about Edward from Twilight, the Edward archetype falls into the following pitfalls:

He's hot. Like scorching hot. Like he will melt your eyeballs out of your eye-sockets

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The Iron King (The Iron Fey #1): Initial Thoughts

by Ikhlas // 28 June, 2011 // 4 Comments

I started The Iron King today and just wanted to jot off some initial thoughts of this new YA novel by Harlequin Teen. Before Harlequin came to class, I didn't really know they did YA, but this is one of their new and emerging titles. Here's a synopsis, via Goodreads. Meghan Chase has a

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Book Banter

by Ikhlas // 27 June, 2011 // No Comments

Let's talk books, yeah? I just wanted to go over some of the books I recently read. Just some book background: I read a lot of YA. And by a lot, I mean that's almost all I read. I'm trying to diversify my tastes, but I just met a friend (hi Chelsey!) who's also a lover of YA and so we just

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