Release Date: January 17th, 2011
Genre:  Romance, Paranormal
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages: 423
Rating:
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Series: Unearthly #2 (Review of #1)
Summary(Spoilers, highlight to view):

For months part-angel Clara Gardner trained to face the raging forest fire from her visions and rescue the alluring and mysterious Christian Prescott from the blaze. But nothing could prepare her for the fateful decisions she would be forced to make that day, or the startling revelation that her purpose—the task she was put on earth to accomplish—is not as straightforward as she thought. Now, torn between her increasingly complicated feelings for Christian and her love for her boyfriend, Tucker, Clara struggles to make sense of what she was supposed to do the day of the fire. And, as she is drawn further into the world of part angels and the growing conflict between White Wings and Black Wings, Clara learns of the terrifying new reality that she must face: Someone close to her will die in a matter of months. With her future uncertain, the only thing Clara knows for sure is that the fire was just the beginning.

Blurb: Only someone with steel skin wouldn't be touched by this book.

Review: This book hit my Achilles heel: mother-daughter relationships. Ah! I LOVED this book. It is written so magically and wonderfully. I even cried at the end. Seriously cried. It broke my heart.

I said I would read this book because I loved the romance in Unearthly. Unfortunately, this book suffers from quite a bit of sequel-phase and love-triangleness. So the romance wasn't doing it for me in this one.

BUT, the main reason I'm only giving it 4 flowers is because... well... nothing really happened. There was one BIG (and heartbreaking) event that the book focused on; and while I loved it, it wasn't exciting. This is really common with the second book in a series. Everything is set up for where it needs to be in book 3, but the set up made this book very... simple. Almost no action at all except for one intense car-crash scene. But that was over in a couple pages.

All in all this book didn't have the WOW factor of Unearthly, though it was still touching, and I'm really excited to see what Cynthia does with everything she's built up.


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Want to know how to get rid of all those blogs you followed once upon a time but now you just want them GONE?! Good news! After much pestering, my Blogging Bud Emily posted how to do it! Pay attention to the part where she metions the "Sites you've joined" page. That's where you can mass-unfollow.

When GFC first came around I LITERALLY went to the YA book blog directory and followed EVERY BLOG. I can't tell you how good it feels to be rid of them. :)

Time to announce the winner of the best of 2011 contest! There were only 49 qualifying entries (3 people didn't get any right and were disqualified) so only one person is getting only one book. Yeesh. I don't know why I have nearly twice the followers, but got less than HALF the participation of last year! Oh well. More money for ME! ;)

Before the announcing of the winner, it's time for the obligatory answers & statistics:


And the winner (who also got all 16 right! This made me very happy) is...


Congrats! You can choose any book you'd like from this list.

Other honorable mentions who got all 16 correct:

Ren @ All By Myshelf
melissa @ 1lbr
Gabrielle Carolina
Evie
Maria
Vivien

The upcoming release giveaway will FINALLY start up again this month. Give me a week or so to get it ready, though. :)

Before I get to my 2012 goals, let's see how we did with my 2011 goals: