Teaser Tuesday (4) - Deam On by M. Kircher

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read

• Open to a random page

• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page

• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)

• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Teaser Tuesday #2 - Fire of the Sea by Lyndsay Johnson

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read

• Open to a random page

• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page

• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)

• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

THE BEAUTIFUL ASHES excerpt and audio news by Jeaniene Frost

Remember The Beautiful Ashes by Jeaniene Frost? I've featured it in one of my Sunday Suspense posts. And now, Ms Frost has published news on the audiobook AND we also have gotten an excerpt. It's freakin' exciting, I don't know how I will be able to wait until August, almost September. Though, if I could wait two years for City of Heavenly Fire, I can bear anything at all. So here is the article:



"Hi, everyone! I’ve finally been given the green light to announce that audio rights for the upcoming Broken Destiny series sold at auction to Blackstone Audio in what Publishers Marketplace would classify as a “significant” deal. Blackstone (called Downpour on the consumer end) was the audio publisher for my first eight novels, so I’m thrilled to be working with them again.
I’m also thrilled to announce that Tavia Gilbert, the audio narrator for all my vampire novels, will be narrating the new series, too. Tavia is a genius with accents, emotions and performance, so I can’t wait to hear her rendition of the books.
Speaking of the new series, I’ve been promising you an excerpt from book one, THE BEAUTIFUL ASHES, and now I’m finally putting out ;). This excerpt takes place in Chapter Two, so it’s still early in the story. For a little context, my heroine arrived in town only to be attacked twice and then saved by a stranger, but as you’ll see, that’s just the beginning of her problems.
If you’ve never heard me talk about the new series before, I’m pasting the cover and description below. If you’ve already seen that, just skip to the new stuff after it. Hope you enjoy!"

Which scenes from ‘The Maze Runner’ book are featured in the movie teaser stills?

I found a rather interesting comparison on Page to Premier about the movie trailers/teasers and the book scenes.



Disclaimer: I haven't read the book so I couldn't do this. Every rights are in the possession of Page To Premier. Although I didn't copy the whole post, it's not my writing, every line is a quotation I only channel it to you so that more people can see it!










First up is this fantastic shot of Thomas and Minho in the Maze! And my, does the CGI look breath-taking in this, it has us all wondering just how fantastic the entire Maze itself looks in the film, and the Grievers too! So, from looking back at the book and how certain Maze scenes are described, our guess here at Page To Premiere is that this is when Thomas and Minho spend the night in the Maze, getting chased by Grievers and the first time they find the cliff that the Grievers fall down in. Exciting stuff!












Second up is my personal favourite! A stunning shot of British Actress Kaya Scodelario, who plays Teresa in the adaptation! From the blurry background we can tell that there are many computers and screens behind Kaya, which can only mean that the Gladers have surpassed their battle with the Grievers and down the hole, and are now in the presence of WICKED personnel for the first time –from what they remember.












Now we have a close-up of one of my favourite characters, Minho! From this serious and pondering shot of actor Ki Hong Lee, I’ve come to the conclusion that this may just be the Keeper Meeting that the Gladers have in order to decide what to do with Thomas after he spent the night in the Maze. This is all guessing, of course, but from the expression on Minho’s face, as well as the others who look to him to speak in this still, it may just be that scene!








Still four is an easy one, and one that I adore, a full on shot of the Maze walls from within the Glade, kind of makes you feel like a Glader yourself! Here we have Chuck and Thomas, and Chuck is probably giving Thomas a tour of the Glade due to him being a ‘Greenie’ to the Glade. I personally can’t wait for this scene!






Now this close-up of Thomas Brody-Sangster –who plays Newt- could be of any particular scene, seeing as Newt is a secondary character, but again going off on his expression I’d say it’s early days in the Glade, he seems relaxed and not as tense as he progressively becomes in the book as the plot unfolds. So again, this could be from Thomas’ first few days within the Glade as he digests his environment around him.











This still really got my excitement going! It’s dark, and all the actors within the scene not only look tense, but frightened, and since Thomas is already wearing his Runner gear I’d say it’s Griever time! For those who remember the day the walls never shut and there was absolute pandemonium within the Glade, this scene feels like the calm before the storm. The fear filled seconds of silence as you wait for whatever dangerous entity there is to come at you, this is another scene that will be so exciting to watch!












I’ll admit, I never did like Gally much in the first book; he was a nasty piece of work after all. I do, however love the actor Will Poulter, and have no doubt that he’s going to deliver a heck of a performance as Gally when the films released. Again, I think this scene is from when Thomas first arrives at the Glade, Gally doesn’t look too hostile yet, and maybe he’s still attempting to read Thomas here.












Another shot of the Maze walls from within the Glade! And it looks like the sun is setting here, the walls may have even just shut! And if you look a little closer to your left, it looks like Thomas and Chuck there; it even looks like Thomas is in his Runner gear once again. This may have been Thomas’ first day out there as a Runner, learning the ropes with Minho.












I won’t lie; I always find this shot hilarious because of Chuck’s face! He looks so confused and alarmed at the same time, whereas Thomas looks intrigued with Minho sporting the same expression, maybe they’ve all just released that another person has been brought into the Glade. Cue Teresa, people!












Now, this is a great shot of actor Aml Ameen, so simple yet the lighting is wonderful, and again he seems to be another Glader in the midst of pondering. He seems quite sombre, in my opinion, and I came to the guess that maybe this is shortly after he banished Ben. We all saw that it was something he didn’t generally want to do, but to keep order within the Glade he needed to establish rules, which Ben broke. This could be Alby in his moment alone wondering if he’d done the right thing.

So, that’s it! Those are all the latest stills we’ve seen, and we’re getting a trailer tomorrow! *cue screams of excitement*

The Maze Runner Big Trailer Collection

Here are all the trailers and teasers (or at least all as in as many as I can find) from the movie so far.

If you find any other ones, it would be much appreciated if you could include it in a comment to share us. Thank you. :)

Teaser Tuesday #1 - Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Updates from Cassandra Clare (CoHF, a brilliant fanart & more CoHF)

"CoHF

Hi, is everyone really gonna die in the last book of the Mortal 

Instruments? — deansgirl27

Everyone is not going to die in the last book of The Mortal 

Instruments.

I feel like there’s been a lot of character death floating around in 

random media lately (Homeland, Teen Wolf, various) and I have 

been seeing much sad. Which I totally understand because 

character death often sends me off to bed with a fluffy cat and 

an ice pack.

I have said that six people whose names we know will die 

in City of Heavenly Fire. (And there was a big banner that said 

WHO WILL SURVIVE across the teaser cover but to be fair I 

didn’t come up with that one!) And I can see how that would be 

nervewracking.

I guess what I can say is:

1) I do think all the deaths matter. None of them happen for 

shock value or no reason or to get across the message that death 

is random.

2) No ladies are fridged.

3) While some deaths might be surprising (?) — there is a big 

war going on so I don’t think the fact that some characters die 

will actually be that shocking. 

4) My goal is not to destroy lives or drown anyone in a bucket 

of feels, just to tell an enjoyable story and create an end point 

that hopefully people will feel does justice to the story that came 

before. 

5) I don’t want anyone to feel jerked around. I want things to 

feel earned and meaningful. I am not a fan of nihilism — which 

is not really an overall judgement call, just a preference. The 

ending is not a despairing one. I believe in hope! I really do. I 

hope this calms some of the more trepidatious fears.  I guess 

time will tell — two more months — how it all works out, but 

that’s the goal!

And now, a gratuitous picture of my cat looking at my husband. 

WHO HAS FLUFFY TINY PAWS? (Josh, of course.)"

"The Letter"

Hi Cassie! I have a question regarding The Bane Chronicles: 

remember when there was going to be an instalment called 

“The Letter”? Can you tell us what it was supposed to be 

about and/or why didn’t you end up writing it after all? 

Thanks, and love you! xx — you-are-not-trivial

It didn’t wind up being in the Chronicles because it wound up 

being worked into City of Heavenly Fire instead. You’ll know 

the scene when you see it.

We wound up with Alec and Magnus’ first date instead which I 

think was more fun all around. :)"

"Sizzy"

"City of Heavenly Fire signed

Hi Mrs. Clare :) Is there any news on the b&n signed pre-

orders yet?? Will it be a special pre-order? I’m so paranoid 

I’ll miss the link and not get one! lol I would be gutted if I missed the chance to buy the signed copy… My cat is 

named after Church so I’m keeping my fingers crossed I get Church sketch copy when I order! Any update info would be appreciated, and thank you for being so amazing ♥ x — chelle-ma-belle

Could you please make some more signed books. <3 i 

really want one. :P — hippytrippie

Is it still possible to get a signed copy of CoHF? If not, 

where can I order the normal one?

— flyingbluedragon

——— 

The signed copies from Barnes and Noble that I posted about 

two weeks ago unfortunately sold out in a few days. They 

are gone and they won’t be replaced because what I did was 

sign “tip-in pages” — kind of like what John did with Fault 

in Our Stars — which means signing pages that will later be 

bound into the book when it’s printed. The books are being 

printed now so it’s too late to do more.

I work with one indie bookstore, Books of Wonder, in New 

York, owned by Peter Glassman, that stockpiles signed copies 

of my books — I go in whenever I am in town and sign 

them. Peter has hooked me up with signed Harry Potter first 

editions, so I owe him. Also it’s a fabulous indie bookstore 

that should be supported. :)

I will be going into BoW the day CoHF pubs and signing 

copies for them. I’ll try to put some Church sketches in. If 

you want one, you can always contact the store via email or 

phone and place an order. In fact, they have a big old 

banner about it on their frontpage:

http://www.booksofwonder.com/

(They do ship internationally, etc, you just have to call 

them.)

As for where you can get the normal one: any bookstore, 

Target, Walmart, Costco, Amazon.com."

source: http://cassandraclare.tumblr.com

YA Book Releases Next Week (March 31-April 6) Part 2

Here is part 2 of YA Releases Next week (March 31-April 4) and I'm trying out a new kind of ordering, since there are many reprinted editions among the new releases and I don't want any misinterpretation to happen, that somebody might overlook it and buy it thinking that it's something new or something akin. So first the indeed new books come, and then after a post divider, the reprinted books get listed. Well...Let's start.

Publisher: Simon Pulse

• Publication date: 4/1/2014
• Pages: 336
• Age range: 12 - 17 Years

Synopsis:

Nothing lasts forever, and no one gets that more than Tessa. After her mother died, it’s all she can do to keep her friends, her boyfriend, her happiness from slipping away. And then there’s her dad. He’s stuck in his own daze, and it’s hard to feel like a family when their house no longer seems like a home.

Her father’s solution? An impromptu road trip that lands them in a small coastal town. Despite all the beauty there, Tessa can’t help but feel even more lost. Her most cherished possession—a rare plant of her mother’s—is starting to wither, and with it, Tessa’s heart and her hope.

Enter Henry Lark. He understands the relationships that matter. And more important, he understands her. Though secrets stand between them, each has a chance at healing…if first, Tessa can find the courage to believe in forever.

YA Book Releases Next Week (March 24-30) Part 2

• Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
• Publication date: 3/25/2014
• Pages: 320
• Age range: 12 - 17 Years

Synopsis:

Summer has begun, the beach beckons . . .

. . . but Francesca Schnell is going nowhere. Four years ago, Francesca’s little brother, Simon, drowned, and Francesca was the one who should have been watching. Now Francesca is about to turn sixteen, but guilt keeps her stuck in the past. Meanwhile, her best friend, Lisette, is moving on—most recently with the boy Francesca wants but can’t have. At loose ends, Francesca trails her father, who may be having an affair, to the local country club. There she meets four-year-old Frankie Sky, a little boy who bears an almost eerie resemblance to Simon, and Francesca begins to wonder if it’s possible Frankie could be Simon’s reincarnation. Their surprising friendship leads Francesca to places she thought she’d never dare to go—and it begins to seem possible to forgive herself, grow up, and even fall in love, whether or not she solves the riddle of Frankie Sky.

YA Book Releases Next Week (March 24-30) Part 1

Here I come with the YA book releases of next week. (Fortunately) we have an abundance of upcoming books, therefore I'm going to split the topic into two posts. For the same reason, this time it won't be in an order of interest, there are eight books in this part, and five in the next, and that is all. So here is part one. Enjoy! :)

Miscellaneous

There are quite a few things that piled up in the last few days, so I'll be making a mixed post. It's going to be about publishing dates of the books by Jennifer L. Armentrout this year, upcomig book signings of her, and Cassandra Clare: The City of Heavenly Fire news.


In one of my earlier posts, I mentioned how many books will be published this year by Jennifer L. Armentrout. Now, I'm bringing the exact dates of the publications.

 

Books That We Are Insanely Looking Forward To Read 1 - City of Heavenly Fire

Hi, Dear Reader. How are you? Thank you for reading my very first book-related post on the blog. The idea of writing about books that we can't wait to read conceived in my head when I finished reading Origin, the fourth book of the Lux series just yesterday. The next book is going to come out in August 5 and I'm not entirely sure if I can wait until than, since this is on of the worst cliffhanger endings I have ever seen. By the way cliffhanger endings. The first book I'll be presenting to you is City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare. She is a brilliant author who is the uncrowned queen of our loved cliffhanger endings, (although I've been thinking about that Jennifer L. Armentrout is seriously trying to beat her) and has a reputation for being keen on torturing her readers with revealing mocker informations about deaths and break-ups and other crucifying things. But let's start with the beginning.