Items: $15 Barnes & Noble gift card
Purchases: The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith AND
Keeping the Castle by Patrice Kindl
Which one will I read first? Probably Keeping the Castle. I will have a LOT of time on my hands after tomorrow: THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!
I'm actually a bit sad that school is ending. I like my teachers! They are fun. Oh! And that reminds me: I bought my ELA teacher a joke book.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
GIFT CARD!!!!!
I just received a $15.00 Barnes & Noble gift card because I volunteered at the school library 30 times! I am going to Barnes & Noble soon so expect a book haul post!
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Book Review: Grave Mercy
Grave Mercy
by Julia Kuntz
Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers is a very interesting read. It is part one of the trilogy His Fair Assassin, which she describes as "YA books about assassin nuns in medieval France." The main character in Grave Mercy is Ismae Rienne, who has been sired by Death Himself. To escape from a dreadful arranged marriage at age fourteen to a pig farmer who only wants carnal knowledge of her, Ismae joins the convent of an old god-turned-saint called Mortain. There, she trains for three years to become an assassin, learning womanly arts and many ways to kill a man.
Finally, when she is seventeen, she receives her first assignment that is quickly followed by a second. On both, she encounters Gavriel Duval, the bastard son of a late duke and his mistress. He is angry that she killed two men before he had the chance to talk to them. The Reverend Mother is suspicious of Duval. She sends Ismae to court to pose as his mistress. There she must find out whether or not he is loyal to his half sister Anne, duchess of Brittany.
While posing as Duval's mistress, Ismae falls in love. Then she gets an instruction: She must kill Duval. Does she kill the man with whom she has fallen so deeply in love with? To find out, read Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers.
I actually met Robin in person at the Teen Book Festival!
The cover of Grave Mercy
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