Win Unearthly at Paper Cut Reviews!
International.
Ends March 1st.
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Showing posts with label contest. Show all posts
Sunday, 13 February 2011
Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Contest @ Paper Cut Reviews
Enter at Paper Cut Reviews to win The Locket or Across The Universe.
International.
Ends March 1st.
Good luck!
International.
Ends March 1st.
Good luck!
Contest @ Paper Cut Reviews
Steph from Paper Cut Reviews is having numerous giveaways on her blog in celebration of her first blogversary. Go and check it out. Enter here for the 1st YA Release Giveaway! Win from a great selection of books including Delirium. More followers mean more books!
International.
Ends March 1st.
Good luck!
International.
Ends March 1st.
Good luck!
Sunday, 23 January 2011
Haven Cover Contest @ Imagination In Focus
Amelia at Imagination In Focus is holding a Recreate The Cover Contest for Haven by Kristi Cook! Be sure to enter by the 8th of February to be in with a chance to win the book! Yes, it's international.
Synopsis:
One month into her junior year, sixteen-year-old Violet McKenna transfers to the Winterhaven School in New York’s Hudson Valley, inexplicably drawn to the boarding school with high hopes. Leaving Atlanta behind, she’s looking forward to a fresh start--a new school, and new classmates who will not know her deepest, darkest secret, the one she’s tried to hide all her life: strange, foreboding visions of the future.
But Winterhaven has secrets of its own, secrets that run far deeper than Violet’s. Everyone there--every student, every teacher--has psychic abilities, 'gifts and talents,' they like to call them. Once the initial shock of discovery wears off, Violet realizes that the school is a safe haven for people like her. Soon, Violet has a new circle of friends, a new life, and maybe even a boyfriend--Aidan Gray, perhaps the smartest, hottest guy at Winterhaven.
Only there’s more to Aidan than meets the eye--much, much more. And once she learns the horrible truth, there’s no turning back from her destiny. Their destiny. Together, Violet and Aidan must face a common enemy--if only they can do so without destroying each other first.
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my entry:
Wednesday, 24 November 2010
and the winner is...
Thanks for entering everyone!
random.org did its work and the winner is....
*drumroll*
....
David!!!
I'll email you soon for your information. You'll have 48 hours to respond before a new winner is chosen.
Sunday, 7 November 2010
Harry Potter Contest
Hello lovely people.
In celebration of the US release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 go to the:
Hufflepuff House
movie countdown - virtual party
Nov 13-18
I'm going to give away Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter Signature Edition)
To enter leave a comment with your email address.
Rules:
You DO NOT have to be a follower to enter but please remember to leave your email address in case you win!
INTERNATIONAL- I'll be shipping it out once it arrives.
One comment per person.
Contest ends on Monday 22nd November, midnight GMT.
Winner will be chosen randomly.
Extra Entries: (Put everything in one comment please)
+1 New follower
+2 Old follower
+2 Spread the word (Leave direct link/s)
+2 Leave a comment on a post @ vvb32 reads (Leave direct link)
Good luck:) I'm rooting for you!
Thursday, 14 October 2010
Nightwalker Cover re-creation entry
Recreate the cover of Nightwalker by Jocelynn Drake and/or make a button for the series and you could get 20 dollars to The Book Depository at Paper Cut Reviews. It's international and ends on the 19th of October. Everyone should enter!
Here's the original cover:
Not totally pleased with it, but hey, it was fun to do:)
Here's the original cover:
And mine:
Not totally pleased with it, but hey, it was fun to do:)
Wednesday, 13 October 2010
Nightshade Cover Contest Entry
Over at The Book Vixen, you can recreate the cover of Nightshade and have a chance of winning a signed copy of Nightshade. It will be judged by Andrea Cremer herself. Also, it's international! Go and enter!
Synopsis from Goodreads: Calla Tor has always known her destiny: After graduating from the Mountain School, she'll be the mate of sexy alpha wolf Ren Laroche and fight with him, side by side, ruling their pack and guarding sacred sites for the Keepers. But when she violates her masters' laws by saving a beautiful human boy out for a hike, Calla begins to question her fate, her existence, and the very essence of the world she has known. By following her heart, she might lose everything--including her own life. Is forbidden love worth the ultimate sacrifice?
Original Cover:
My Cover:
Synopsis from Goodreads: Calla Tor has always known her destiny: After graduating from the Mountain School, she'll be the mate of sexy alpha wolf Ren Laroche and fight with him, side by side, ruling their pack and guarding sacred sites for the Keepers. But when she violates her masters' laws by saving a beautiful human boy out for a hike, Calla begins to question her fate, her existence, and the very essence of the world she has known. By following her heart, she might lose everything--including her own life. Is forbidden love worth the ultimate sacrifice?
Original Cover:
My Cover:
What do you think?
Sunday, 10 October 2010
My entry for the Minder Recreate a Cover contest at Blkosiner's Book Blog
Brandi at Blkosiner's Book Blog is holding a recreate a cover contest! We have to recreate the cover of Minder by Kate Kaynak! It's international, so go ahead and enter!
Original Cover:
Synopsis: Sixteen-year-old Maddie Dunn is special, but she needs to figure out how to use her new abilities before somebody else gets hurt. Ganzfield is a secret training facility full of people like her, but it's not exactly a nurturing place. Every social interaction carries the threat of mind-control. A stray thought can burn a building to the ground. And people's nightmares don't always stay in their own heads. But it's still better than New Jersey--especially once she meets the man of her dreams...
Original Cover:
My Cover:
Yeah, I'm not sure about it.
Let me know what you think.
Thursday, 16 September 2010
Recreate a Cover Contest @ Love Reading X
Go to Love Reading X to enter a re-create a cover contest. You can re-create one out of three book covers; Thirteen Reasons Why, The Thirteenth Chime and 13 to Life.
Here's my cover for Thirteen Reasons Why:
Ends: Sep 20.
Friday, 27 August 2010
Mockingjay Cover Remake for The Unread Reader's Contest
The Unread Reader is holding a contest where you have to remake/recreate the Mockingjay cover for your chance to win The Hunger Games Box Set (0r any box set/ books eqivalent or below the value of The Hunger Games Box Set. So even if you own The Hunger Games, you can still enter and win something else! Awesome, right?)
The contest is international!
Click here for details
Make sure you recreate the Mockingjay cover, not the other two or they won't be counted!
Here's my entry:
What do you think? Yay or or an all round nay?
The contest is international!
Click here for details
Make sure you recreate the Mockingjay cover, not the other two or they won't be counted!
Here's my entry:
What do you think? Yay or or an all round nay?
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
Leilani and Dija's Recreate a Cover Contest
Over at Leilani Loves Books, Leilani and Dija (from Black Fingernailed Reviews) are having a recreate a cover contest which runs from August 16th to September 30th. Also, there is an easier contest where you only need to fill in a form, so head on over there, check it out and enter.
I chose to recreate both the covers. Here's my entries:
Rotters by Daniel Kraus
I chose this pic because I think it symbolises something that is very sacred in graveyards and I wanted to depict that on the cover. I wanted the title to be bright and eye-catching.
and
Wake Unto Me by Lisa Cach
Well, I love this one too. Purple is actually my favourite colour so I had to use it. I like how it looks like she's calling her soulmate-a ghost- to her.
I chose to recreate both the covers. Here's my entries:
Rotters by Daniel Kraus
I chose this pic because I think it symbolises something that is very sacred in graveyards and I wanted to depict that on the cover. I wanted the title to be bright and eye-catching.
and
Wake Unto Me by Lisa Cach
Well, I love this one too. Purple is actually my favourite colour so I had to use it. I like how it looks like she's calling her soulmate-a ghost- to her.
Monday, 9 August 2010
Review: The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
Summary and author bio from Amazon
Imagine you're the only boy in a town of men. And you can hear everything they think. And they can hear everything you think. Imagine you don't fit in with their plans... Todd Hewitt is just one month away from the birthday that will make him a man. But his town has been keeping secrets from him. Secrets that are going to force him to run...
Patrick Ness is the author of two critically acclaimed works of fiction, The Crash of Hennington and Topics About Which I Know Nothing. An award-winning novelist, he has also written for Radio 4, the Sunday Telegraph and is currently a literary critic for the Guardian. This is his first book for young adults.
Review:
The Knife of Never Letting Go: The Most Disappointing Book I’ve Read This Year
At first, I thought that The Knife of Never Letting Go had potential with the intriguing way in which the inhabitants of Prentisstown lived with the ‘Noise’-their unstoppable telepathic abilities and I was very curious to learn more about why there was an absence of women.
Ness’s writing style was very unique and descriptive. The long passages describing the terrain created a nice visual picture in my mind. After a while, Todd’s repetition and use of slang was extremely wearing on the nerves. I believe that if the repetition was cut out, it would reduce a third of the book without taking away anything from the content. Additionally, this means that the book was slow paced.
Another reason that I felt that the book was sluggish to read was because Todd and Viola were fleeing and on the road for most of the book rather than in the centre of the action (which is where I like the main characters to be). This was really frustrating. I felt like I was hearing about what was going on elsewhere only through secondary characters and not through Todd and Viola’s own accounts.
In regards to the characters, I liked Todd at the beginning of the book as he did have a unique voice; however, his repetition, ignorance and stubbornness let him down as the story wore on. I found Todd to be narrow-minded and uneducated. He wouldn’t let anyone help him even though he needed all the help he could get. I was expecting a lot from Viola as she was, for the most part, the only female character that we were acquainted with and I liked her slightly better than Todd.
A lot of importance was placed on Todd’s Ma’s book and it made me believe that all my questions would be answered-however this did not transpire. By the time that Todd got over his pride and let Viola read his Ma’s book (he couldn’t read it himself because he was illiterate) only one or two of the numerous questions that I had were answered and I did not believe this was a sufficient reward for my patient reading.
The women in Prentiss Town could read the telepathic thoughts of the men, however the men could not perceive the thoughts of the women. Why didn’t the women escape before they were killed if they could read the men’s thoughts? Wouldn’t they have heard the build up of the sinister thoughts? Ness has not answered these questions in the book and it left me feeling cheated. This was only one example of a stream of unanswered questions in The Knife of Never Letting Go.
The only time Todd and Viola met an original inhabitant of New World was when Todd killed one and that did not leave much time for a conversation-orally or telepathically. Ness missed a vital opportunity here for letting us learn more about the natives.
A lot of the time, suspense was heavily built up but no answers were delivered within the framework of the book which often left me feeling exasperated and frustrated. For example, the ending left much to be desired as it was anticlimactic after the high expectations of a large scale battle in a city- this ‘battle’ ended before it even began.
There were elements in the book that were not realistic. An example is that Viola was sent on a scout ship with her parents to survey the planet for viable settlements and to establish a base camp for the mother ship they came from which housed thousands of people. I find it highly unlikely that only two adults and a child would be sent to prepare a colony when thousands of lives depend on their success.
A major irritation in the novel was that characters that I thought were incontrovertibly dead from horrific injuries kept jumping up again-their injuries not slowing them down at all. This was very unrealistic and it was left unexplained. Most of all, it was comical. I don’t think that was what Ness was aiming for in this mostly dark story. Characters such as Aaron and Mr Prentiss Junior were human, just like Todd and Viola, although they seemed to demonstrate superhuman abilities- like rising from the dead!
Overall, while I felt The Knife of Never Letting Go had potential, I did not like this book at all as it left me thoroughly frustrated by the end of it and I will not be reading the next book, The Ask and The Answer.
Rating: 2/5
I am reviewing this as part of Dystopian August which is going on at Presenting Lenore
Imagine you're the only boy in a town of men. And you can hear everything they think. And they can hear everything you think. Imagine you don't fit in with their plans... Todd Hewitt is just one month away from the birthday that will make him a man. But his town has been keeping secrets from him. Secrets that are going to force him to run...
Patrick Ness is the author of two critically acclaimed works of fiction, The Crash of Hennington and Topics About Which I Know Nothing. An award-winning novelist, he has also written for Radio 4, the Sunday Telegraph and is currently a literary critic for the Guardian. This is his first book for young adults.
Review:
The Knife of Never Letting Go: The Most Disappointing Book I’ve Read This Year
At first, I thought that The Knife of Never Letting Go had potential with the intriguing way in which the inhabitants of Prentisstown lived with the ‘Noise’-their unstoppable telepathic abilities and I was very curious to learn more about why there was an absence of women.
Ness’s writing style was very unique and descriptive. The long passages describing the terrain created a nice visual picture in my mind. After a while, Todd’s repetition and use of slang was extremely wearing on the nerves. I believe that if the repetition was cut out, it would reduce a third of the book without taking away anything from the content. Additionally, this means that the book was slow paced.
Another reason that I felt that the book was sluggish to read was because Todd and Viola were fleeing and on the road for most of the book rather than in the centre of the action (which is where I like the main characters to be). This was really frustrating. I felt like I was hearing about what was going on elsewhere only through secondary characters and not through Todd and Viola’s own accounts.
In regards to the characters, I liked Todd at the beginning of the book as he did have a unique voice; however, his repetition, ignorance and stubbornness let him down as the story wore on. I found Todd to be narrow-minded and uneducated. He wouldn’t let anyone help him even though he needed all the help he could get. I was expecting a lot from Viola as she was, for the most part, the only female character that we were acquainted with and I liked her slightly better than Todd.
A lot of importance was placed on Todd’s Ma’s book and it made me believe that all my questions would be answered-however this did not transpire. By the time that Todd got over his pride and let Viola read his Ma’s book (he couldn’t read it himself because he was illiterate) only one or two of the numerous questions that I had were answered and I did not believe this was a sufficient reward for my patient reading.
The women in Prentiss Town could read the telepathic thoughts of the men, however the men could not perceive the thoughts of the women. Why didn’t the women escape before they were killed if they could read the men’s thoughts? Wouldn’t they have heard the build up of the sinister thoughts? Ness has not answered these questions in the book and it left me feeling cheated. This was only one example of a stream of unanswered questions in The Knife of Never Letting Go.
The only time Todd and Viola met an original inhabitant of New World was when Todd killed one and that did not leave much time for a conversation-orally or telepathically. Ness missed a vital opportunity here for letting us learn more about the natives.
A lot of the time, suspense was heavily built up but no answers were delivered within the framework of the book which often left me feeling exasperated and frustrated. For example, the ending left much to be desired as it was anticlimactic after the high expectations of a large scale battle in a city- this ‘battle’ ended before it even began.
There were elements in the book that were not realistic. An example is that Viola was sent on a scout ship with her parents to survey the planet for viable settlements and to establish a base camp for the mother ship they came from which housed thousands of people. I find it highly unlikely that only two adults and a child would be sent to prepare a colony when thousands of lives depend on their success.
A major irritation in the novel was that characters that I thought were incontrovertibly dead from horrific injuries kept jumping up again-their injuries not slowing them down at all. This was very unrealistic and it was left unexplained. Most of all, it was comical. I don’t think that was what Ness was aiming for in this mostly dark story. Characters such as Aaron and Mr Prentiss Junior were human, just like Todd and Viola, although they seemed to demonstrate superhuman abilities- like rising from the dead!
Overall, while I felt The Knife of Never Letting Go had potential, I did not like this book at all as it left me thoroughly frustrated by the end of it and I will not be reading the next book, The Ask and The Answer.
Rating: 2/5
I am reviewing this as part of Dystopian August which is going on at Presenting Lenore
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