It's Monday! What are you reading?

It's Monday! What are you reading is hosted by One Person's Journey.

Last week was a bad reading week.

This week:

The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf by Molly Harper (been reading this one off and on because I had other books that to priority, but it is getting really good now.)
Awaken the Highland Warrior by Anita Clenney (So far its been pretty interesting)

Next week:

Nick of Time by Tim Downs and what ever else I decide on cause I am not sure yet. :)

What are you reading?

Blog Hop Friday!

I haven't blogged much this week and I apologize. I think I am in a reading and writing slump this week. I just can't seem to get into any of the books I have tried this week. :(

This week's question comes from Britta who blogs at I Like These Books:


"What book-to-movie adaption have you most liked? Which have you disliked?"

There haven't been a lot of book-to-movie adaption that I have liked. The only one that I can think of that I felt was most like the book was Steven King's Green Miles. Though I like seeing the books I like in movie form they are usually so altered that it is like watching something besides the book I read. Percy Jackson's The Lightning Thief, Inkheart, Beastly and just some of the movies I was very disappointed in when I watched the movie version.

What about you?

Trailer Thursday

From time to time I like to post some book trailers that I find interesting. This week I am going to post some from books I have recently read or I am reading. :)


The Undertakers: Rise of the Corpses by Ty Drago


Paranormalcy (Been meaning to read this one for a while.)


The Gathering (I will be reading this one next)

It's Monday! What are you reading?

My  heart and prayers go out to those in a town just 25 miles away from me as Tornado came through and tore it up good. Joplin, Mo is in a horrible state as they are still searching for survivors. As of right now there are 116 dead. :( The bad thing is there are more strong storms coming. Right now where we are is a severe thunderstorm warning and this is not helping with search and rescue attempts. :(

So on with what I am reading. Hosted by One Person's Journey!

Last week:

The Undertakers: Rise of the Corpses by Ty Drago (review)

This week:

Just not really sure. I have a lot of books I need to read and picking one out to read is more trouble than I need..lol.

Review of The Undertakers: Rise of the Corpses

The Undertakers: Rise of the Corpses by Ty Drago
Pages: 480
Publisher: Sourcebook Jabberwocky
Review Source: Sourcebook Jabberwocky
My rating: 5/5

One day everything was normal for Will Ritter, then he went outside to meet the bus for school and noticed that his neighbor looked like a zombie. He had just received what the others call the sight. He runs off from his neighbor, but soon finds out he can run from the walking dead.

Will is then helped by another girl with the sight and is taken to a place called Haven. It's at Haven were he meets the leader of The Undertakers. They are a group of kids who can see what nobody else can see, that people all over the city are dead, they call them  corpses. Zombies are slow and dumb, corpses are aliens who have taken over a dead body.

As far as they know there has been only one adult who could see them and that was Will's father. As will learns more about the secrets his father kept from him, he learns to be a soldier in the Undertakers. A group of kids who are doing their best to stay alive and try and find away to kill the corpses.

Will Ritter is a great main character. He is twelve years old and acts it. When he is dragged away from his mom and little sister he whines about it. He is head strong and tough, but he often thinks about his mom.When he doesn't think the Undertakers are doing anything to get rid of the corpses he tries to do something about it, often not using rationalized thoughts. Because he is a twelve year old kid trying to be a soldier and save people from something that most of them can not see, and in doing so he screws up some. He think irrationally because he is angry and young.  He is stubborn, strong and flawed, which to me makes him a great hero.

The other characters in the book are great too, each of them has a purpose and I am sure we will learn more about the secondary characters as the series continues. Tom Jefferson is the Chief of the Undertakers and to Will's frustrations he has only lead them on a defensive strategy. Sharyn Jefferson is Tom's sister and she is in charge of the group called Angels, she is one tough girl. Though she doesn't always agree with her brother she is fiercely loyal to him. Helene, is in the group called Schoolers, they infiltrate the school and look for other kids who can see the corpses. This is how Will and Helene meet, she was going to his school waiting for the day he got the sight. Helene is not really Will's love interest since he is only twelve, but his crush. There are a lot more I could name but these are some of the main ones.

I could really tell that Ty Drago enlisted the help of his child to make it feel more real. The characters definitely had a preteen to teen feel about them. They were doing grown up things but deep down they were still children. They had many flaws and they acted like kids. It is one of the things that made this book so great.

This is the first in the series so I can't wait for the next one to come out and I would highly recommend this book to anyone who likes zombie type books.

Review of Vampire School: Casketball Capers (Book 1)

Vampire School: Casketball Capers (Book 1) by Peter Bently and Chris Harrison
Pages: 96
Publisher: Albert Whitman and Company
Review Source: Netgalley
My Rating: 4/5
Age Range: 4-8

Vampire School: Casketball Capers is a cute children's story about Lee and his friends who are vampires. They are getting ready for a big Casketball game at school. First they get to learn how to turn into bats and in doing so Lee meets a real bat. Then its time to play the game and its against Werewolves, and a big bad werewolf isn't playing fair. He keeps cheating and messing with the Mummy referee's wrap and making it fall down on his face so he can't see. Lee must come up with a plan and fast or they are going to lose the game to that cheating werewolf.

I think this would be a fun story for any young boy or girl who likes fun little stories involving vampires, etc. The only thing that bothered me was some of the illustrations. I just thought the drawings could be a little bit better. The pictures of the vampires without arms drove me crazy. I understand they have capes on but give them some arms!

It's Monday! What are you reading?

It's Monday! What are you reading? is a weekly meme hosted by One Person's Journey.

Last week:

A Heart Divided by Kathleen Morgan (review)

This week:

The Undertakers: Rise of the Corpses by Ty Drago (Was reading this last week and didn't get finished.)
Probability Angels by Joseph Devon
The Samaritan by Stephen Besecker (will take me longer since I am reading it on the computer.)

Next week:

Anything I haven't finished up this week. :) Unless I get the urge to break out a different book..LOL

What are you reading?

Review of A Heart Divided

A Heart Divided by Kathleen Morgan
Pages: 329
Publisher: Revell
Review Source: Donna from Revell
My rating: 4/5


It is 1878 and the Caldwells and Wainwrights have been feuding for decades. Still, Sarah Caldwell has misgivings when her father pressures her into distracting a ranch hand while he and her brothers rob the Wainwright place. When it becomes clear that hand is actually Cord Wainwright, Sarah realizes she needs to lay low. But Cord spots her in town and, with the sheriff away, makes a citizen's arrest, dragging her off to the Wainwright ranch until the sheriff's return. As the feud boils over, Cord and Sarah make a most inconvenient discovery--they are falling in love. Can they betray their families for love? Or will their families betray them?

It's the Hatfields and McCoys and Romeo and Juliet all rolled into one! Well except for there is no tragic death of the hero and heroine..lol. :) Though there is some emotional, tragic things that happen in the book.

Most of the Christian Romance books I have ever read always has some sort of underlining theme and the hero or heroine, or sometimes both have to get past this certain thing before they can be together. In A Heart Divided the message is about forgiveness.

Ever since the day the Edmund Wainwright won Jacob Caldwell's home in a gambling match there has been a feud between the two families. Instead of it being a feud between just those two men they have both manipulated their children into it. Which is a very horrible thing for fathers to do to their children.

Sarah Caldwell is eighteen and really wants nothing to do with the feud but her father talks her into doing something wrong for the sake of her little brother Danny. Sarah is very strong willed, and in Cord's eyes down right feisty and a bit of a hand full. She also has a tender, sweet side and Cord can't help but fall for her. I feel sorry for Sarah because her heart really is divided between her love for her family and her love for Cord.

Cord is handsome, strong and stubborn and every bit a cowboy even though he went away to New York and became a lawyer. He has come back to help his father with his ranch but there is a lot of tension between Cord and his father. When the Caldwell's rob the Wainwrights and Cord takes Sarah into custody awhile waiting for the sheriff t return, he begins to see how this feud is affecting Sarah. He knows its not her fault that their fathers act like they do and something in him gets protective.

I love some of the secondary characters in the book as well as the main characters. Nick is Cord's brother who was shot by Jacob Caldwell a long time ago on accident. Now he is in a wheelchair and quite taken by his 'Angel' (Sarah), but he knows she only has eyes for Cord. Emma is the spunky housekeeper who is not afraid to speak her mind when it comes to Cord and Nick.

Even though it is a Christian book I felt that the religious aspects of the book did not override the storyline of the book. I have never liked a preachy book and I believe that this book is not in anyway preachy. It is a story about forgiveness and how God can help you to forgive those who have heart you, its a book about healing hearts so they can be open to love. I recommend this book to anyone who loves historical romance books because all together it was a very nice, clean, fun romance book.

Friday Blog Hop

Friday Blog Hop is hosted by Crazy-for-books. If you would like to participate please see her blog for the rules.

Today's Question:

"Are you going to Book Expo America (BEA) and/or the Book Blogger Convention (BBC) this year?"


I really really wanted to, but it is just to expensive for me right now to get the money to fly out to NY. I don't know of any bloggers near me to carpool with and then with the expense of the actual convention and hotel it was just not something that was going to happen for me right now. I would love more than anything to go to next years so if anyone else who didn't get to go wants to carpool or share a hotel room then we should talk and get to know each other! :0)

I am so bummed. :*(

Friday Follow

Man, I never realized how much I liked getting on blogger till it was down and I couldn't do anything..LOL.
Follow Friday is a weekly meme hosted by Parajunkee View.

Today's Question:

The Blogger Apocalypse made me a little emotional. What is the most emotional scene in a book that you have read lately?

Blogger did have me a bit emotional yesterday when I couldn't get on it..lol. I don't think I have read a book lately that has effected me emotionally though. I guess Dark Mirror had a few emotion parts to it but it didn't make me emotional. I guess my books have been emotional free which is okay for me because I really hate it when a book makes me want to cry. :(

BTT: Age Appropriate

Booking Through Thursday is a weekly question about books and reading. If you would like to participate then just go check out the site above.

Do you read books “meant” for other age groups? Adult books when you were a child; Young-Adult books now that you’re grown; Picture books just for kicks … You know … books not “meant” for you. Or do you pretty much stick to what’s written for people your age?


I read all types of books. When I was a teenager I use to read a lot of Harlequin romances because that was what my mother read and they were always laying around the house. I remember picking up my first one thinking..ooh this isn't going to be good, but I liked it. Now that I am older I don't read them as much..lol. I also have been reading Steven King horror since I was a teenager too. Even though I do read adult books now that I am a adult I see myself reading a lot more Young Adult books than adult.

I just read what sounds good to me whether its adult, young adult, or children's. :0)

What about you?

Waiting on Wednesday!

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill @ Breaking the Spine.


Shadowcry (The Secrets of Wintercraft) by Jenna Burtenshaw
Publisher: HarperTeen
Release Date: June 21st

The Night of Souls—when the veil between the living and the dead is thinnest—is only days away.

Albion is at war . . . and losing.
The wardens have descended, kidnapping innocent citizens for their army, but looking for one in particular.
And fifteen-year-old Kate Winters has just raised a blackbird from the dead.

As her home is torn apart by the wardens, Kate's discovery that she is one of the Skilled—the rare people who can cross the veil between life and death—makes her the most hunted person in all of Albion. Only she can unlock the secrets of Wintercraft, the ancient book of dangerous knowledge. Captured and taken to the graveyard city of Fume—with its secret tunnels and underground villages, and where her own parents met their deaths ten years ago—Kate must harness her extraordinary powers to save herself, her country, and the two men she cares for most. And she'll make a pact with a murderer to do it.

Those who wish to see the dark, be ready to pay your price.

What book are you waiting for?

Teaser Tuesday!

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
•Grab your current read

•Open to a random page

•Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page

•BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)

•Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!



The Undertakers: Rise of the Corpses by Ty Drago
Page: 15
Publisher: Sourcebook Jabberwacky

My Dead math teacher watched me march slowly toward the door.

As soon as I'm in the hallway, I'll run for the nearest exit. I'll get home somehow--walk, or hitch, if I have to. I'll tell Mom what's happening. I'll make her believe me.

(Not very far into this one but it seems to be a different type of zombie book and I thought it might be interesting. You don't call them zombies because zombies are stupid and slow. They call the corpse and they act just like regular humans and not even can tell that they are dead only a select group of teenagers who call themselves The Undertakers.)

Do you have a teaser?

It's Monday! What are you reading?

Hey everyone! Its Monday! What are you reading? is hosted by Shelia from One Person's Journey! A time where we relax and let everyone know what we are reading for the week. I love letting everyone know although most of the time I seem to change my mind during the week. Last week I actually stuck pretty close to what I said I would read..LOL

Last week:

You Killed Wesley Payne by Sean Beaudoin (Review)
Alice in Zombieland by Lewis Carroll, Nickolas Cook (review)

This week:

The Undertakers: Rise of the Corpse by Ty Drago (So far its sort of interesting even though I am not a huge zombie fan..though in the book they are not called zombies they are corpses.) :)
The Heart Divided by Kathleen Morgan

Next week:

Awaken the Highland Warrior Anita Clenney
Probability Angels by Joseph Devon

So what are you reading?