Easter Bingo Blitz

With Easter just around the corner I decided to create a fun activity for us all to do.

To take part just email me via my profile. I've created a Forum so we can share how we are doing.

In each square is a task. Like bingo the aim is to get a full house. 

So for example if you choose childhood favorite.... You choose a book you read as a child eg. Enid Blyton. 

After you read it post on the forum...

Challenge:

Book Read:

Pages:

Published:

My Rating:

Romance Book	Favourite Author	Fantasy	Childhood Favourite	Set in Spring
An Author  you've never Read	More than 10 Years Old	Set  Somewhere You would like to visit	retelling Of A fairy tale	One Word Title
150/200 Pages	Place name In title	Your  choice	poetry	From this year
Flowers on the cover	Based on a True Story	1st book in A Series	Historical    Fiction	A Best-selling book
Author who shares your Name	Made into a movie 🎥	Pink Cover	Animals on cover	About Nature

A Radiant Sky, #3

Since the night of he seventeenth birthday, Skye

ISBN 0062119656
(ISBN13: 9780062119650)

has been torn between two opposites: Light and Dark, the Order and the Rebellion, Devin and Asher.

But her decision shocked both sides because she chose neither.

With the help of her friends, Skye forges her own path, setting out to gather an uprising of Rogues. The treacherous and elusive half-angels maybe the key to maintaining the balance of fate and free will. But completing the mission her parents left unfinished is more difficult - and dangerous -than she could have imagined. And doing so comes at a cost: her greatest love my now be a lethal enemy. Because it's not just the Order that sees her as a threat that must be eliminated. The Rebellion does, too.

And both sides will do whatever it takes to win.

Dark days lie ahead, and if Skye is to survive, she'll need to rely on her extraordinary powers and the strength of her will. Because she has a future - and a life - that's worth fighting for.

360 pages

Published September 24th 2013  (HarperTeen)

First Impression

From A Fractured Light, everything has gone up in smoke, once friends now enemies. Skye has a big task a head of her as she fights to right everything before time runs out.

My Rating ⭐⭐⭐⭐

The final book in the A Beautiful Dark Series, tells the story of finding balance no matter what. I was captivated by Skye's journey to be herself throughout all the drama that was taking place around her.

I would definitely recommend reading the entire series. The ending was emotional. I had tears but I was moved at the same time.

Quotes

"We would make mistakes, we would argue, we would make up. We would lose the people we love and find new ones, and hold our memories close. We would fight for each other, again and again. We would keep living. We were in love. And we were only human, after all."

A Fractured Light, #2

When she wakes up in unfamiliar

ISBN13: 9780061990670

surroundings, Skye knows something terrible has happened to her. It's not until she hears Asher, the dark, rebellious angel she fell in love with, that the memories come flooding back. She tries to put the past behind her, but she knows she'll be forever haunted by the ruthless betrayal that almost took her life.

Skye returns home, but with the knowledge of who she really is, nothing can ever be the same. As she tests the limits of her newfound powers, Skye discovers that she's capable of far more than anyone could have imagined. Both the Order and the Rebellion want her for their side as war between the fractions looms. She can't forget the terrifying truth she now knows about the Order, but something holds her back from embracing the Rebellion.

337 pages

Published September 25th 2012

First Impression

We learn what has happened and we see how Skye deals with the aftermath of the events of A Beautiful Dark.

My Rating ⭐⭐⭐⭐

There was a lot of things I didn't expect to happen. I was happy that things worked out in the end...

A Fractured Light had twists and soppy moments throughout each chapter. Only thing I will say is that it ended to soon or I just couldn't put it down either way it was worth the read to find out what happened next.

I would 100% recommend reading A Fractured Light especially after reading A Beautiful Dark. 

Quotes

 "I couldn't make a choice between chaos and control. Not because it had been made for me. But because there was no choice to make. It wasn't one or the other. They both were inside of me. They both were apart of me. I was noting without both sides. Take one away and would fall." ~ Skye"

A Beautiful Dark, #1

On the night of Skye's

ISBN 0061990655
(ISBN13: 9780061990656)

seventeenth birthday, she meets two enigmatic strangers. Complete opposites - like fire and ice - Asher is dark and wild, while Devin is fair and aloof. Their sudden appearance sends Skye's life into a tailspin. She has no idea what they want, or why they seem to follow her every move - only that their presence coincides with a flurry of strange events. Soon she begins to doubt not just the identity of the two not, but also the truth about her own past.

In the dead of a bitingly cold Colorado winter, Skye finds herself coming to terms with the impossible secret that threats to shatter her world. Torn between Asher, who she can't help falling for, and Devin, who she can't stay away from, the consequences of Skye's choice will reach further than the three of them can ever imagine.

Pages 390

Published September 27th 2011 (Harperteen)

First Impression

Skye seems like a down-to-earth person. Asher the typical bad boy, and Devin the placid one. 

My Rating ⭐⭐⭐⭐

I felt compelled to read until I had finished, leaving me questioning what would happen till the end....

It's Skye's birthday and her friends have planned a surprise party. When she steps out for a breath of fresh air, this mysterious stranger is there. When she goes back inside she notices that things begin to get strange from that point forward.

Both Asher (the stranger from her party) and Devin turn up at school and put Skye's life apart at the seams. Everywhere she looks one or both of them are there, and she has no idea why.

The ending for me was a big shocker I wasn't expecting it at all...makes you want to read the next book A Fractured Light.

Quotes

"When you like someone you have allow yourself to be vulnerable enough to let them in. Love is messy."

"Love. The great destroyer of worlds."

 "Its wrong to think that you need a heart to love"

Book of the Month April 2020

This is where I share the April 2020's book of the month with you and when I will be reading them

Genre

book of the month	Mystery My Thoughts
Waterstones	Non fiction My Thoughts
Waterstones	Thriller My Thoughts

I look forward to reading them join me reading them the dates on the weekly reading challenge

Swing Time

Two brown girls dream of  

ISBN 0241144159
(ISBN13: 9780241144152)

being dancers - but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, about what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten, either.

Dazzling energetic and deeply human, Swing Time is a story about friendship and music and stubborn roots, about how we are shaped by these things and how we survive them. Moving from Northwest London to West Africa, it is an exuberant dance to the music of time. 

453 pages

Published November 15th 2016 (Hamish Hamilton)

First Impression

The narrator comes across as a plain Jane her mother dressed them both as plainly as possible. Tracey is described as her mother's "striking accessory" with diamante everything, and expensive trainers.

My Rating ⭐

Set in the 1st person, Swing Time tells the story of the narrator and her friend, Tracey. Zadie Smith has sectioned of stages of the story into 7 separate parts.

In the first section the plot jumps from Tracey and the narrator meeting to church and then dancing. As a reader, I find myself baffled as it doesn't seem to have a flow it's just put together.

3 chapters in I had no other option than to put it as a "DNF". I just couldn't do it...from the blur it sounded like a book worth reading but I am so disappointed with how it is structured which is one of the reasons why I have to give it 1 star.

Quotes

Heroic Abduction, #5

He'll do anything to be her

ISBN13: 9781927459492

knight in purple armor.

Bucking family tradition, Dyre is determined to become his planet's first hero, even if it breaks his mother's heart. He sets out on numerous quests to save the universe, however his altruism never seems to turn out quite as expected. Who knew that doing the right thing was so hard?

In between saving those who don't want his help - and the chaos that follows - he rescues a damsel in distress. She doesn't appreciate his heroic abduction, and even worse, once Dyre gets to know the outspoken human, he entertains less than noble thoughts about ravishing her.

It takes only a couple of comical mishaps, some hot kisses and danger for Sure and Betty to discover their happily ever after - and thank the star for a heroine who ends up saving this hero from his chivalrous side.

Pages 176

Published April 13th 2014 (self-published)

First Impression 

Dyre is determined to be a hero, he just wishes that the "downtrodden and maidens would stop forcing him to kill them when he did them a favor." 

It's a little hard to form an opinion of Betty as Heroic Abduction seems to been mainly about Dyre.

My Rating  ⭐⭐.5

Taking place years after Dual Abduction, heroic abduction tells the story of Betty, who we first met in dual abduction and Dyre.

The pair first meet on a planet when Betty is disguising herself to acquire loot from the aliens residents. Dyre foils the Betty's plan by coming to get rescue.

I really liked the fact that Eve Langlais created a lot of action and didn't rush the intimate scenes. However, I felt that the character development of Betty lacked depth. All Heroic Abduction seemed to do was highlight Dyre's quest to be a hero.

I struggled on whether to give 2 stars or 3. But as I liked the fact that there was a great fight scene, the sex scenes were few but passionate I decided on 2.5.

I would recommend Heroic Abduction for the action, but it's a shame about Betty.

Quotes

 " "why is being a hero so frukxing hard" he muttered "