Waiting on Wednesday: The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater

'Waiting on Wednesday' is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine, where we pick the book we just can't wait to get our hands on next. 

See our pick after the jump!

The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness (review)

Rating: 4 Highly Recommended 
Source: Bought (and signed) at Bookslam Bristol

Synopsis from Goodreads: The extraordinary happens every day...

One night, George Duncan - decent man, a good man - is woken by a noise in his garden. Impossibly, a great white crane has tumbled to earth, shot through its wing by an arrow. Unexpectedly moved, George helps the bird, and from the moment he watches it fly off, his life is transformed.

The next day, a kind but enigmatic woman walks into George's shop. Suddenly a new world opens up for George, and one night she starts to tell him the most extraordinary story.

Wise, romantic, magical and funny, The Crane Wife is a hymn to the creative imagination and a celebration of the disruptive and redemptive power of love.

Find out why I loved The Crane Wife after the jump:

Wool by Hugh Howey (review)

Rating: 4, Highly Recommended
Source: Copy provided by Random House via NetGalley (thank you!)

An epic story of survival at all odds and one of the most anticipated books of the year.

In a ruined and hostile landscape, in a future few have been unlucky enough to survive, a community exists in a giant underground silo.

Inside, men and women live an enclosed life full of rules and regulations, of secrets and lies.

To live, you must follow the rules. But some don't. These are the dangerous ones; these are the people who dare to hope and dream, and who infect others with their optimism.

Their punishment is simple and deadly. They are allowed outside.

Jules is one of these people. She may well be the last.


Read my review after the jump!

Our Summer Reads: Feli

This summer I've decided to try to read a couple of books out of my usual comfort zone so this is what I came up with:

Waiting On Wednesday: The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon

'Waiting on Wednesday' is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine, where we pick the book we just can't wait to get our hands on next. 

Find out what we're waiting on after the jump:

Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Words/Topics That Will Make You NOT pick up a book

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Each week they suggest a title for a list and we attempt to answer it! 

This week it is:

Top Ten Words/Topics That Will Make You NOT pick up a book

Everyone has certain 'buzzwords' or topics that make you shy away from a book, sometimes before you've even finished reading the blurb. Find out what our triggers are after the jump:

When the World was Flat (and we were in love) by Ingrid Jonach (review)

Rating: 3 - good, with reservations
Source: ARC provided by Angry Robot (Thank you!)
Publication date: 3rd September 2013

Check out my review after the jump: