We all know that Cassandra Clare has another Shadowhunter series coming out and then two more trilogies after that (seriously woman, where are you going to stop?!), and no matter how many of us think that she has dragged this Shadowhunter world on for too long (ahem), none of us can deny that we're looking forward - even the tiniest bit - for The Dark Artifices to come out. Luckily for us, Clare has posted some snippets of the book for us to fangirl/boy over! #1 Emma swallowed. She was remembering Julian, two years ago, standing in the overlapping circles of fire where the parabatai ritual was performed. The look on his face as they each stepped into the central circle and the fire rose up around them, and he unbuttoned his shirt to let her touch the stele to his skin and carve the rune that would bind them together for their whole lives. She knew if she just reached out now, she could touch it, touch the rune cut into his shoulder, the rune she had put there … #2 Mark whirled on them. His eyes were blind, unseeing. “You bring the twins in front of me and you kill them over and over. My Ty, he doesn’t understand why I can’t save him. You bring me Dru and when she laughs to see the fairytale castle, all ringed round with hedges, you throw her against the thorns until their pierce her small body. And you bid me wash in Octavian’s blood for the blood of an innocent child is magic under the Hill.” #3
Now he looked at her sideways. “You don’t think I look like a Shadowhunter any more?”
“Do you want to?” Cristina asked.
“I want to look like my family,” Mark said. “I cannot have the Blackthorn coloring, but I can look as much like Nephilim as possible. Besides, if I wish to be part of the investigation, I cannot stand out.”
Cristina held back from telling Mark that there was no world in which he didn’t stand out. “I can make you look like a Shadowhunter.”
You should all be excited, with The new Lux Series book, Abigail Haas news, Another Becca Fitzpatrick news and another video from Capitol TV (new Mockingjay video). I'm going to do this in order of date, so that its set out in chronological order (it seems more logical to do it like this..)
Lets crack on!
THE LUX SERIES
I utterly love this series, and the first five books utterly kicked butt. As many fans of the Lux series would know that we are all eagerly awaiting the last instalment of this series, and as I spend at least one hour each day looking at different authors blogs, I frequently check out Jennifer Armentrout's blog and we have news about the last book in the Lux series.
OPPOSITION
RELEASE DATE : AUGUST 5TH
BLURB:
Katy knows the world changed the night the Luxen came.
She can't believe Daemon welcomed his race or stood by as his kind threatened to obliterate every last human and hybrid on Earth. But the lines between good and bad have blurred, and love has become an emotion that could destroy her—could destroy them all.
Daemon will do anything to save those he loves, even if it means betrayal.
They must team with an unlikely enemy if there is any chance of surviving the invasion. But when it quickly becomes impossible to tell friend from foe, and the world is crumbling around them, they may lose everything— even what they cherish most—to ensure the survival of their friends…and mankind.
War has come to Earth. And no matter the outcome, the future will never be the same for those left standing.
TEASERS
1. “Katy
I always had this plan for the off chance I was around for the end of the world. I’d climb up on my roof top, turn up the radio, blast R.E.M.’s It’s The End of The World, and watch it all go down from my lofty perch.
Except real life rarely turned out that cool.
And it was really happening—it was the end of the world as we knew it, and I sure as hell didn’t feel fine.
Everything had changed and we had been the catalyst for it all.”
2. “For once, I don't hurt. I don't worry. I want this.”
3. Her stare was serious as she studied him. "I'm not sure she likes you"
4. "She's not going anywhere soon. Dawson knocked her into next week I think"
5. "We were supposed to have tonight and tomorrow, and many weeks and many months, but we didn't even have another minuet."
6. "There was a rumble , causing the house to groan and small clouds of dust to drop from the ceiling. The table scuttled over the floor. A chair toppled over, and then another. somewhere in the living room a window shattered. Kat was going to bring the house down."
REACTIONS ON GOODREADS
(MANY GIFS WERE USED)
These reactions were once the books name had been released and these reviews were posted back in 2013, when we had to wait almost a year for the book.
"I had one of the happiest moments of my life when I found out that the fifth book was going to be in Katy's and Daemon's POV and that it already had a title. I was dancing around in joy, but then my eyes fell on the date 2014 and I felt like ripping someone's throat out. Okay maybe not that extreme but I still really wanted to punch something."
"AM I IN HEAVEN? OR AM I DREAMING?
PIIIIIINNCCCCHHHHHH ME SOMEONE!
AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
*squeals louder*
"So Kate and Daemon got married, Andrew and Ash died, Bethany and Dawson are having a baby, Matthew betrayed his own family then dies, Daemon, Dawson, and Dee turned all Dark Vader on us, and Jennifer L. Armentrout excepts us to wait a freakin century and a half for the release date of the next book?"
More Daemon, Dawson, and (dare I say?) Archer?
A title of the final book?
But no synopsis...
AND RELEASE DATE SET TO SUMMER 2014!?
DANGEROUS GIRLS... DANGEROUS BOYS?
After very recently buying and reading this book, it made a huge impact on my emotions. Its an indescribable book, brilliantly written. Celine wrote a review on it, make sure you check it out and then run to your bookshop and read it.
Imagine my surprise when I was surfing the web and found another book, just like Dangerous girls but with a slightly different title and by the same author...
I SCREAMED!
DANGEROUS BOYS?
RELEASE DATE : AUGUST 17TH
BLURB:
Three teens venture into the abandoned Monroe estate one night; hours later, only two emerge from the burning wreckage. Chloe drags one Reznick brother to safety, unconscious and bleeding; the other is left to burn, dead in the fire. But which brother survives? And is his death a tragic accident? Desperate self-defense? Or murder?
Chloe is the only one with the answers. As the fire rages, and police and parents demand the truth, she struggles to piece together the story of how they got there. A story of jealousy, twisted passion, and the darkness that lurks behind even the most beautiful of faces…
REACTIONS ON GOODREADS.
Update: OH. EM. GEE. I AM GETTING AN ARC.
"Dangerous Squirrels.Dangerous Babies. Dangerous Half-Eaten Corn on the Cob. I do not care what the hell Abigail Haas writes next - if it has her name on it, I'll be reading it. I'm already evangelical about Dangerous Girls, and beyond excited that her newest psychological thriller maintains the same thoughtful, slow-building creepiness combined with intriguing character development told through creative non-linear structure".
"After the mindf****ry and awesomeness that was Dangerous Girls,
I. CANNOT. WAIT."
MORE BECCA?
After Becca Fitzpatrick's amazing series of Hush Hush, which is about a girl who meets an incredibly mysterious guy in biology only to learn he is as fallen angel, she gets dropped into this surreal world. Becca's writing is laced with detail, she creates a world and characters as if she is writing an unauthorised biography.
I was very excited when I check out her blog and found that she was indeed making another book, called Black ice.
BLACK ICE.
RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 7TH
BLURB:
Sometimes danger is hard to see... until it’s too late.
Britt Pfeiffer has trained to backpack the Teton Range, but she isn't prepared when her ex-boyfriend, who still haunts her every thought, wants to join her. Before Britt can explore her feelings for Calvin, an unexpected blizzard forces her to seek shelter in a remote cabin, accepting the hospitality of its two very handsome occupants—but these men are fugitives, and they take her hostage.
In exchange for her life, Britt agrees to guide the men off the mountain. As they set off, Britt knows she must stay alive long enough for Calvin to find her. The task is made even more complicated when Britt finds chilling evidence of a series of murders that have taken place on that very mountain... and in uncovering this, she may become the killer’s next target.
But nothing is as it seems in the mountains, and everyone is keeping secrets, including Mason, one of her kidnappers. His kindness is confusing Britt. Is he an enemy? Or an ally?
BLACK ICE is New York Times bestselling author Becca Fitzpatrick’s riveting romantic thriller set against the treacherous backdrop of the mountains of Wyoming. Falling in love should never be this dangerous…
REACTIONS ON GOODREADS.
THAT COVER. THAT BLURB. AND WRITTEN BY BECCA FITZPATRICK?
"aw, if Hush, Hush isn't enough, Becca went ahead and started a new series.
Becca, I'm still paralyzed with the fangirling and admiration for Patch. AND NOW I HAVE ANOTHER BOOK TO TAKE AWAY ANY TRACES OF MY NORMALCY THAT HUSH, HUSH MISSED TO TAKE AWAY? I will not stand for this. I call for justice. It's wrong to hypnotize people with your writing.
Eh, oh well, it's not like I have a social life, anyways. I'm just gonna...you know...pop some popcorn, saddle into my bed, and turn pages of your new book."
MOCKINGJAY NEWS!
After doing a very long post of the news for the upcoming Mockingjay films, guess what got released? No, not the trailer but another Capitol Report.
(A/N : I almost cried)
How exciting is this?! I can almost taste the trailer.
Well I hoped you enjoyed the update.
I loved the reactions on goodreads, made me realise how crazy and funny fangirls are.
After the massive, but predictable success of the movie The Fault in Our Stars, John Green's first novel Looking for Alaska will be adapted on screen!
Actress and film maker Sarah Polley has been assigned by Paramount to adapt Looking for Alaska into a movie. John Green is dominating both the book charts and film charts and will continue to.
AAAANNDDD... Paper Towns is also going to be adapted by the same producers who worked on The Fault in Our Stars. Exciting, exciting, exciting!
You can scream now.
Before. Miles "Pudge" Halter's whole existence has been one big nonevent, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave the "Great Perhaps" (François Rabelais, poet) even more. He heads off to the sometimes crazy, possibly unstable, and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed-up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young, who is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart.
After. Nothing is ever the same.
For those of you who didn't read The Fault in Our Stars before watching the movie, I suggest that you go to your closest bookstore, buy and start reading Looking for Alaska ASAP, pronto.
For the fans of the Hunger Games this is directed straight at you, whilst we have a look at the newest report for the Mockingjay Part One Movie. This is where you'll be able to find everything you need to know.
STILLS AND SET.
With fans of the Hunger Games eagerly awaiting the Mockingjay Part One movie, many are going crazy about the fact that we still do not have a theatrical trailer. The scheduled date for the Mockingjay movie to hit theatres 21st November of this year. This means that it is 138 days away and we still do not have a trailer. Only propaganda report and stills, the rest is left up to our imagination. We are also told 'Fans should expect a cliffhanger from the first instalment of the movie' and reports claimed that the major action scenes from the book will be shown in the second adaptation of the book. Although Mockingjay is the weakest out of the three books it includes a major bloodbath about the insurgency against the Capitol. However producers say that by bringing it up onto big screen it'll be an advantage claiming that they will make it bigger than the books. Back in October 2013 US weekly did a Catching Fire special to confirm that the capitol scenes will be filmed in France and Berlin. An abandoned mill in the town of Griffin just south of Atlanta is being used for filming and rumours and assumptions have been spread saying that this will be District 8, but we cannot be sure. Much of the movie was being shot in Atlanta and Georgia. However places such as Los Angeles was added to the list.
CAPITOL PROPAGANDA POSTERS.
The capitol Propaganda is to keep the fans ticking over, telling us to sit tight and more will come later, this is only to keep us satisfied. The posters highlight the strengths of the outlying districts, showing that each is important to the Capitol.
CAST.
CAST NEWS.
JOSH HUTCHERSON / HIJACKED PEETA.
A photo of Josh Hutcherson surfaced online back in March of what appears to be set make up for Mockingjay.Josh is with Laura Simpson who gained media attention after a behind the scenes write up from the Oscars. He is wearing the golden necklace that Effie Trinket gave to Peeta as a token going into the Quarter Quell, and make up looking like char, perhaps to signify burns perhaps from Capitol Torture. Many were confused as to why Peeta is wearing the necklace as he gave it to Katniss in Catching Fire, however it is not totally clear whether she gave it back or that Peeta kept it. The best guess is that it will be the Peeta we will see in Mockingjay Part 2. His black eye is slightly faded meaning it is an older incident. It could be the scene where Peeta tries to warn District 13.Perhaps
At the mention of my name, Peeta’s face contorts in effort. “Katniss…how do you think this will end? What will be left? No one is safe. Not in the Capitol. Not in the districts. And you…in Thirteen…” He inhales sharply, as if fighting for air; his eyes look insane. “Dead by morning!”
Off camera, Snow orders, “End it!” Beetee throws the whole thing into chaos by flashing a still shot of me standing in front of the hospital at three-second intervals. But between the images, we are privy to the real-life action being played out on the set. Peeta’s attempt to continue speaking. The camera knocked down to record the white tiled floor. The scuffle of boots. The impact of the blow that’s inseparable from Peeta’s cry of pain.
And his blood as it splatters the tiles.
Perhaps this was the first sight of a hijacked Peeta.
WHO IS ANTONIUS?
Well, when I heard this name I had no sense if recognition whatsoever. Antonius is going to be played by Robert Knepper who also didn't know who the character was claiming "They're so secretive about things like this!"
Well we soon found out that Antonius is a solider fighting for the capitol, so he is a bad guy, entertainment weekly say that 'Robert Knepper tends to play nasties.'
Or he could be a soldier fighting for District Thirteen, turning the tables completely and being a good guy.
But in my opinion I think he is going to be a bad guy, Antonius sounds very Roman, and in the Capitol Roman names seem to be the trend. Such as Flavia, Portia, Cinna...
MOCKINGJAY TEASER
Not only Tributes went crazy about this teaser but it seems like the whole world did as well, this 'trailer' was the most viewed trailer with over 10 million views!
Many of you will be pleased to know that a full length trailer is due out later this month and I will be eagerly awaiting and probably scream and jump up and down when it is released!
I'm a HUGE fan of Sarah's movies, and her ideas about Looking for Alaska are really wonderful, and I am SO VERY EXCITED.
— John Green (@realjohngreen) June 26, 2014
