Release Dates!

Two of my highly anticipated books of 2011 are now out and about! Whooo hoo!!

Squeee!!! Now, go forth and buy these books! Quickly! :-D

Alex Pettyfer as Jace in the Mortal Instruments movie...?

Reading Teen has just blogged about a US Magazine suggesting that Alex Pettyfer has been offered the role for Jace as part of the upcoming Mortal Instruments movie! This news, if true, would make fans around the globe absolutely thrilled! It's not often that the "dream pick" is actually cast (which is completely silly...we don't pick guys like Alex to play Jace for no reason!) so would be cause for celebration! Let's hope the rumours are true and he accepts the offer :)

Coops Cover Craves

Stay - Deb Caletti

Release; April 19th 2011

You can't deny how beautiful this design is. Stunning, poignant and emotional. This is beauty and books at its best.

Stolen Nights - Rebecca Maizel

Release; June 22nd 2011

I think I like this cover even more than the first book's, Infinite Days. I have yet to read the first book, but am completely adoring the cover art!

I Am Number Four - Pittacus Lore

Available NOW!

Simply because it's Alex Pettyfer :-D

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The Hunt Of the Unicorn - C.C. Humphreys

Release; March 8th 2011

It has a unicorn on the front. That is all. :-D

Mercy - Rebecca Lim

Available NOW!

There are a few different covers for this book floating around as of late, but this is by far my favourite. I'm a huge angel fan, so give me a person with wings...and I'm in love! Very moody, dark and beautiful!

Tempest Rising - Tracy Deebs

Release; May 10th 2011

So I'm going through a thing for mermaids, too. I actually haven't read a mermaid book yet...I'm just loving the mermaid covers out there! This one is beautiful and the tatoo is awesome!

Review; Across The Universe by Beth Revis

Across the Universe - Beth Revis

(Isn't the new cover GORGEOUS?)
Description; Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules.

Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone--one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship--tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn't do something soon, her parents will be next.

Now Amy must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there's only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the love she could never have seen coming.

Review;

Across the Universe is shaping up to be one of the most anticipated 2011 releases in the young adult spectrum. Despite the huge hype already, Beth Revis did not disappoint! With the series set to be a trilogy, I don’t know how I’ll ever survive until the next one…

From the very first sentence, Across the Universe is enrapturing. We’re introduced to Amy, a girl with human hopes and dreams and a burning need to remain connected to her humanity. Despite her desire to remain on Earth, her family loyalty pulls her into an icy coffin where she finds herself frozen, levitating between memories and nightmares, for hundreds of years.

That is, until she’s violently awoken in a murder attempt. On a foreign ship amidst people who speak, behave and govern strangely, Amy believes herself alone.

As a reader, I found it incredibly hard not to side with Amy, and found myself just as passionate about justice and change as she was. She was caught in a world that was not only largely removed from everything she knew; but a world corrupted. Amongst this corruption is Elder, the future leader of the ship Amy is traveling upon, Godspeed. His character lit up the pages and it was completely impossible not to fall in love with the guy. Even though romance and human connection is nearly extinct amongst humans of this time, Elder found independence in his sweet actions that separated himself from the rest of the ship’s population.

The concept was absolutely fascinating and the twists and turns embedded in the plot will make you gasp while tugging at your heart. Certainly not a book to be missed!

Across the Universe will reel you in as though you, too, were frozen and helpless. With colourful characters, sensational concept and hypnotic writing, Revis makes a charming debut.

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Please note; ARC won in Penguin Australia’s BTL contest. Thank you for the opportunity to read this book!

The countdown is on until Across the Universe will be officially released!! :)

I'm still here!

Ok, I know I kind of let my blog go through December... I was finding it really hard to post when every time I logged on, my Google reader would shout "you have 1000+ unread posts!" It was rather depressing, really. But today I've clicked the "mark all as read" and organising it...and I feel much more refreshed! :-) 2011 will be the year of Whats Cracking Coops!

I have a review coming right up as well as some last, wrap-up-of-2010 posts before its full steam ahead! And also a very awesome edition of Coops Cover Craves today! :-)

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And a very belated one at that! I hope everyone is enjoying the festive season...tomorrow will be Christmas Eve for those in Australia!

City of Fallen Angels - Cassandra Clare

Release Date; April 5th 2011

Recently revealed and completely drop. dead. gorgeous! I mean, look at Clary's hair. That's amazing stuff, I love how it looks like fire! I love that there are two people on the cover this time and although it certainly isn't beating the cover of City of Bones, it comes in as a worthy runner up! :-)

Awakened - P.C. Cast and Kristen Cast

Release Date; January 4th 2011

Shirtless guy with awesome angel wings. Need I say more? :-P

Tweet Heart - Elizabeth Rudnick

Available NOW!

Can I get a collective "nawwww" for this one. It's cute and sweet and...there aren't words beyond that!