Vacation Pictures: Part 1: Spain

As you might remember, I spent part of August on vacation in Spain! I had a great time, and the weather was great :) I promised to share some of my vacation pictures with you, so here you go;

Vacation Pictures: Part 1:

La Linea - where I stayed

Beautiful house in La Linea

The Beach

La Linea

Tarifa

Tarifa

Alcaidesa

Alcaidesa


So there you go, the cities I visited in Spain! Come back in a few days for part 2 of my vacation pictures, in which I take you to an entire different country!

New LooK!

YA Vampire Books have a new look!

I want to thank Leilani at Leilani Loves Books for hosting a contest for a header & button (which I won), and Andrea at Loud Words & Sounds for creating not only a header & a button, but a complete blog design!! Thank you so much girls!! I love my new blog :)

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Waiting on Wednesday (9/1)

Not only one, but two anticipated books were released ýesterday! Yes, I'm talking about The Clockwork Angel and Paranormalcy!

Title: Paranormalcy
Author: Kiersten White
Release Date: August 31

Wierd as it is working for the International Paranormal Containment Agency, Evie's always thought of herself as normal. Sure, her best friend is a mermaid, her ex-boyfriend is a faerie, she’s falling for a shape-shifter, and she’s the only person who can see through paranormals' glamours, but still. Normal.

Only now paranormals are dying, and Evie's dreams are filled with haunting voices and mysterious prophecies. She soon realizes that there may be a link between her abilities and the sudden rash of deaths. Not only that, but she may very well be at the center of a dark faerie prophecy promising destruction to all paranormal creatures.

So much for normal.

Title: The Clockwork Angel
Author: Cassandra Clare
Release Date: August 31


Magic is dangerous—but love is more dangerous still.
When sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray crosses the ocean to find her brother, her destination is England, the time is the reign of Queen Victoria, and something terrifying is waiting for her in London's Downworld, where vampires, warlocks and other supernatural folk stalk the gaslit streets. Only the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the world of demons, keep order amidst the chaos.
Kidnapped by the mysterious Dark Sisters, members of a secret organization called The Pandemonium Club, Tessa soon learns that she herself is a Downworlder with a rare ability: the power to transform, at will, into another person. What's more, the Magister, the shadowy figure who runs the Club, will stop at nothing to claim Tessa's power for his own.
Friendless and hunted, Tessa takes refuge with the Shadowhunters of the London Institute, who swear to find her brother if she will use her power to help them. She soon finds herself fascinated by—and torn between—two best friends: Jem, whose fragile beauty hides a deadly secret, and blue-eyed Will, whose caustic wit and volatile moods keep everyone in his life at arm's length...everyone, that is, but Tessa.
As their search draws them deep into the heart of an arcane plot that threatens to destroy the Shadowhunters, Tessa realizes that she may need to choose between saving her brother and helping her new friends save the world...and that love may be the most dangerous magic of all.

gaah I want to read both this books right now!

Read and Watched in August

This is a list of all books I have read and all movies I have watched during August.

Read:
1. Blood Oath - Christopher (Review)
2. Last Chance - Sarah Dessen (Mini Review)
3. Forget You - Jennifer Echols (Mini Review)
4. Girls, Boys and Other Hazardous Materials - Rosalind Wiseman (Mini Review)

TV series:
Roswell: Season 3: Episode 2-5

Movies:

1. Killers
2. Summer Catch

Book Review: Blood Oath

Title: Blood Oath
Author: Christopher Farnsworth
Published: 2010

Summary: Zach Barrows is an ambitious young White House staffer whose career takes an unexpected turn when he's partnered with Nathaniel Cade, a secret agent sworn to protect the President. But Cade is no ordinary civil servant. Bound 140 years ago by a special blood oath, Nathaniel Cade is a vampire. He battles nightmares before they can break into the daylight world of the American dream, enemies far stranger - and far more dangeorus - than civilians have ever imagined.


My Thoughts: Blood Oath was a fascinating and thrilling crime story filled with history, science fiction - and vampires. The idea with a vampire working for the US. president was original - and in fact very believable! I loved that Farnsworth gave us his theories on the Roswell incident, aliens in general, the story behind Frankenstein, and other events in the world's past. I'm wondering if Christopher Farnsworth has in fact, been in the secret room in the White House...

The story is funny, fast-moving and captivating - I couldn't stop reading! All characters are unique and well-developed, and the "crime story" along with the master criminal creeped me out!

Blood Oath is a well-written and well-researched beginning to a new crime series (The President's Vampire) - read it!

Rating: 4 of 5