Some Book Goodness!

Posted July 21, 2010 by Rowena in Giveaways, News | 2 Comments

Each month over at WOWIO, they giveaway a free e-book of the book of the month. This month’s free giveaway is for The Choir Boats by Daniel Daniel A. Rabuzzi. Free books? Yeah, I’m all about it…so you should be too, go on over to the website and snatch up Daniel Rabuzzi’s novel. I hear it’s pretty good.

I heard some good things about the book like, January Magazine chose The Choir Boats as a Top Ten YA Novel for 2009. Reviewers describe it as “Gulliver’s Travels crossed with The Golden Compass and a dollop of Pride and Prejudice,” and as “a muscular, Napoleonic-era fantasy that, like Philip Pullman’s Dark Materials series, will appeal to both adult and young adult readers.”

Check out the blurb:

What would you give to make good on the sins of your past? For merchant Barnabas McDoon, the answer is: everything. When emissaries from a world called Yount offer Barnabas a chance to redeem himself, he accepts their price – to voyage to Yount with the key that only he can use to unlock the door to their prison. But bleak forces seek to stop him: Yount’s jailer, a once-human wizard who craves his own salvation, kidnaps Barnabas’s nephew. A fallen angel – a monstrous owl with eyes of fire – will unleash Hell if Yount is freed. And, meanwhile, Barnabas’s niece, Sally, and a mysterious pauper named Maggie seek with dream-songs to wake the sleeping goddess who may be the only hope for Yount and Earth alike.

The free download is available all month long, so make sure you get your copy downloaded before 8/1/10. You can read more on the author, here.

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Another book that was brought to my attention is Being Jamie Baker by Kelly Oram. I didn’t know anything about this book until the author emailed me and I’ve got to say that I’m pretty intrigued. This book has been added to my TBR pile.

Check out the blurb:

“Most superhero stories start with a meteor shower or a nasty insect bite, but mine actually starts with a kiss…” An accident that should end in tragedy instead gives seventeen-year-old Jamie Baker a slew of uncontrollable superhuman abilities. To keep her secret safe Jamie socially exiles herself, earning the title of Rocklin High’s resident ice queen. But during a supercharged encounter with star quarterback Ryan Miller she literally kisses anonymity goodbye. Now the annoyingly irresistible Ryan will stop at nothing to melt the heart of the ice queen and find out what makes her so special. Unfortunately, Ryan is not the only person on to her secret. Will Jamie learn to contain her unstable powers before being discovered by the media or turned into a government lab rat? More importantly, can she throw Ryan Miller off her trail before falling in love with him?

I showed this title to Brenna (my daughter) and she wants to read it too so this is a book that we’ll be reading soon.

It’s got a cute book trailer as well, check it out:

How fricking cute is this?

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