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Waiting On Wednesday – 5

Welcome to the Dystopian Survival Week Hop – Day 3 !

This Hop is hosted by Kristen @ Seeing Night Reviews and Ali’s @ Ali’s Bookshelf. It started on Monday, April 23th and it runs through Friday, April 27st.

There are 9 participating blogs and I strongly suggest you visit each of them because we all give you the opportunity to win awesome Dystopian books if you’re willing to take part in our challenges. Today you can win The Maze Runner @ Ali’s Bookshelf and The Hunger Games @ Pretty Deadly Reviews).

Also my challenge/giveaway is still open here and you have the opportunity to win The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness. Enter now!

“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly event, hosted by book blogger Breaking The Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating.

So, since it is Dystopian Week on the blog, my Waiting On Wednesday’s pick is a Dystopian novel:

Black City by Elizabeth Richards (Expected publication: November 13th 2012 by G.P. Putnam’s Sons BYR).

From Goodreads:

“A dark and tender post-apocalyptic love story set in the aftermath of a bloody war. In a city where humans and Darklings are now separated by a high wall and tensions between the two races still simmer after a terrible war, sixteen-year-olds Ash Fisher, a half-blood Darkling, and Natalie Buchanan, a human and the daughter of the Emissary, meet and do the unthinkable–they fall in love. Bonded by a mysterious connection that causes Ash’s long-dormant heart to beat, Ash and Natalie first deny and then struggle to fight their forbidden feelings for each other, knowing if they’re caught, they’ll be executed–but their feelings are too strong. When Ash and Natalie then find themselves at the center of a deadly conspiracy that threatens to pull the humans and Darklings back into war, they must make hard choices that could result in both their deaths.”

What are you waiting for this week?

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Dystopian Survival Week Hop – Day 2

 Welcome to the Dystopian Survival Week Hop – Day 2 !

This Hop is hosted by Kristen @ Seeing Night Reviews and Ali’s @ Ali’s Bookshelf. It started yesterday, Monday, April 23th and it runs through Friday, April 27st.

There are 9 participating blogs and I strongly suggest you visit each of them because we all give you the opportunity to win awesome Dystopian books if you’re willing to take part in our challenges.

My challenge/giveaway is open internationally. It is open until Friday, 27th April at midnight (EST).

*Challenge/Giveaway is now closed. Thanks to all who participated!*

My challenge: Guess that Quote from Dystopian Novels

Here are four quotes from (very) famous dystopian novels. You have to guess/research which book each quote is from and send me your answers via the contact form below.

Quote #1: “Big Brother is Watching You.”
Quote #2: “I held you in my hands, Wanderer, and you were beautiful.”
Quote #3: “I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless. I am Divergent.”
Quote #4: “Katniss, the girl who was on fire!”
In the contact form below, you only need to fill in your name and email, and list in the core of the message your four answers. For example:

1-    Title of Book #1

2-    Title of Book #2

3-    Title of Book #3

4-    Title of Book #4

 

If your four answers are correct, your will have a chance to win…

The prize: “The Knife of Never Letting Go” Giveaway

“The Knife of Never Letting Go”, by UK-based author Patrick Ness, is a YA Dystopian novel. Published in 2008, it is the first installment in the Chaos Walking Trilogy. It has won numerous awards, including the Booktrust Teenage Prize, the Guardian Award, and the 2008 James Tiptree, Jr. Award. It was also shortlisted for the 2009 Carnegie Medal and longlisted for the 2009 Manchester Book Award. It is a great book that you should definitely read, so why not win it?

Enter the challenge now!

Done entering my challenge? Check out the other participating blogs:

April 24

 (YA Book) – Government System in Dystopian Novels (Giving away Various Dystopian Novels)

April 25th

Ali’s Bookshelf – Would you make it through the Maze Challenge (Giving away The Maze Runner)

Pretty Deadly Reviews) – Hunger Games Theme (Giving away Hunger Games + Swag)

April 26th

Breath of Life Book Reviews) – Article 5 Theme (Giving away Article 5 + Post Card)
Book Lovin Mamas – Surviving the Caves Challenge (Giving away The Host)

April 27th

(One Book Per Week) – Woman/Girls in Dystopian Novel Theme ( Giveaway Blood Red Road)

Sharon Loves Books and Cats – The Hunt Challenge (Giveaway The Hunt)

Seeing Night Reviews – Closing Announcements (Giving away Insurgent)

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Book of the Week – 6

Welcome to the Dystopian Survival Week Hop – Day 1 !

This Hop is hosted by Kristen @ Seeing Night Reviews and Ali’s @ Ali’s Bookshelf. It starts today, Monday, April 23th and it runs through Friday, April 27st.

There are 9 participating blogs and I strongly suggest you visit each of them because we all give you the opportunity to win awesome Dystopian books if you’re willing to take part in our challenges.

Today you can win Insurgent @ Seeing Night Reviews and The Maze Runner @ Ali’s Bookshelf.

Make sure to stop by my blog tomorrow as my challenge/giveaway will be open and you will have the opportunity to win The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness.

So, since it is Dystopian Week on the blog, my Book of the Week had to be a dystopian novel. I have picked Blood Red Road by Moira Young (published in 2011 by Margaret K. McElderry Books).

From Goodreads:

“Saba has spent her whole life in Silverlake, a dried-up wasteland ravaged by constant sandstorms. The Wrecker civilization has long been destroyed, leaving only landfills for Saba and her family to scavenge from. That’s fine by her, as long as her beloved twin brother Lugh is around. But when a monster sandstorm arrives, along with four cloaked horsemen, Saba’s world is shattered. Lugh is captured, and Saba embarks on an epic quest to get him back.

Suddenly thrown into the lawless, ugly reality of the world outside of desolate Silverlake, Saba is lost without Lugh to guide her. So perhaps the most surprising thing of all is what Saba learns about herself: she’s a fierce fighter, an unbeatable survivor, and a cunning opponent. And she has the power to take down a corrupt society from the inside. Teamed up with a handsome daredevil named Jack and a gang of girl revolutionaries called the Free Hawks, Saba stages a showdown that will change the course of her own civilization.

Blood Red Road has a searing pace, a poetically minimal writing style, violent action, and an epic love story. Moira Young is one of the most promising and startling new voices in teen fiction.”

What are you reading this week?