Beiträge von miyajima

Emily McKay > The Farm

Life was different in the Before: before vampires began devouring humans in a swarm across America; before the surviving young people were rounded up and quarantined. These days, we know what those quarantines are—holding pens where human blood is turned into more food for the undead monsters, known as Ticks. Surrounded by electrical fences, most kids try to survive the Farms by turning on each other…

And when trust is a thing of the past, escape is nearly impossible.

Lily and her twin sister Mel have a plan. Though Mel can barely communicate, her autism helps her notice things no one else notices—like the portion of electrical fence that gets turned off every night. Getting across won’t be easy, but as Lily gathers what they need to escape, a familiar face appears out of nowhere, offering to help…

Carter was a schoolmate of Lily’s in the Before. Managing to evade capture until now, he has valuable knowledge of the outside world. But like everyone on the Farm, Carter has his own agenda, and he knows that behind the Ticks is an even more dangerous threat to the human race...

Heather Anastasiu > Glitch

In the Community, there is no more pain or war. Implanted computer chips have wiped humanity clean of destructive emotions, and thoughts are replaced by a feed from the Link network.
When Zoe starts to malfunction (or "glitch"), she suddenly begins having her own thoughts, feelings, and identity. Any anomalies must be immediately reported and repaired, but Zoe has a secret so dark it will mean certain deactivation if she is caught: her glitches have given her uncontrollable telekinetic powers.
As Zoe struggles to control her abilities and stay hidden, she meets other glitchers including Max, who can disguise his appearance, and Adrien, who has visions of the future. Together, this growing band of glitchers must find a way to free themselves from the controlling hands of the Community before they’re caught and deactivated, or worse.

Alexandra Bracken > The Darkest Minds

When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that gets her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government "rehabilitation camp." She might have survived the mysterious disease that's killed most of America's children, but she and the others have emerged with something far worse: frightening abilities they cannot control.

Now sixteen, Ruby is one of the dangerous ones.

When the truth comes out, Ruby barely escapes Thurmond with her life. Now she's on the run, desperate to find the one safe haven left for kids like her-East River. She joins a group of kids who escaped their own camp. Liam, their brave leader, is falling hard for Ruby. But no matter how much she aches for him, Ruby can't risk getting close. Not after what happened to her parents.

When they arrive at East River, nothing is as it seems, least of all its mysterious leader. But there are other forces at work, people who will stop at nothing to use Ruby in their fight against the government. Ruby will be faced with a terrible choice, one that may mean giving up her only chance at a life worth living.

Lauren DeStefano > Wither

By age sixteen, Rhine Ellery has four years left to live. She can thank modern science for this genetic time bomb. A botched effort to create a perfect race has left all males with a lifespan of 25 years, and females with a lifespan of 20 years. Geneticists are seeking a miracle antidote to restore the human race, desperate orphans crowd the population, crime and poverty have skyrocketed, and young girls are being kidnapped and sold as polygamous brides to bear more children.

When Rhine is kidnapped and sold as a bride, she vows to do all she can to escape. Her husband, Linden, is hopelessly in love with her, and Rhine can’t bring herself to hate him as much as she’d like to. He opens her to a magical world of wealth and illusion she never thought existed, and it almost makes it possible to ignore the clock ticking away her short life. But Rhine quickly learns that not everything in her new husband’s strange world is what it seems. Her father-in-law, an eccentric doctor bent on finding the antidote, is hoarding corpses in the basement. Her fellow sister wives are to be trusted one day and feared the next, and Rhine is desperate to communicate to her twin brother that she is safe and alive. Will Rhine be able to escape--before her time runs out?

Together with one of Linden's servants, Gabriel, Rhine attempts to escape just before her seventeenth birthday. But in a world that continues to spiral into anarchy, is there any hope for freedom?

Michelle Hodkin > The unbecoming of Mara Dyer

Mara Dyer doesn't think life can get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there.
It can.
She believes there must be more to the accident she can't remember that killed her friends and left her mysteriously unharmed.
There is.
She doesn't believe that after everything she's been through, she can fall in love.
She's wrong.

Marissa Meyer > Cinder

Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl. . . .

Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future.

David Levithan > Every Day

Every day a different body. Every day a different life. Every day in love with the same girl.

There’s never any warning about where it will be or who it will be. A has made peace with that, even established guidelines by which to live: Never get too attached. Avoid being noticed. Do not interfere.
It’s all fine until the morning that A wakes up in the body of Justin and meets Justin’s girlfriend, Rhiannon. From that moment, the rules by which A has been living no longer apply. Because finally A has found someone he wants to be with—day in, day out, day after day.

Kimberly Derting > The last echo

In the end, all that's left is an Echo.

Before, Violet's morbid ability to sense the dead led her to uncover dark murders and long-buried secrets in her small town. Now that she's working with a special investigative team, Violet hopes she can help even more people—whether by saving a life or catching a killer.

Although she's relieved to finally be honest about what she can do, her instant connection with her mysterious partner, Rafe, is both confusing and unsettling, and their unique bond creates tension with her boyfriend, Jay. When she discovers the body of a college student murdered by "the collector," Violet refuses to give up on the case. With her own relationship on the line, Violet doesn't realize that the serial killer is looking to add to his collection and that she may have caught his eye. Will the life Violet has to save be her own?

Christoph Marzi > Lycidas in der Fantasy-Leserunde

Als die kleine Emily eines Nachts Besuch von einer sprechenden Ratte erhält, weiß sie, dass nichts in ihrem Leben so bleiben wird, wie es einmal war. Nicht, dass sie ein gutes Leben in dem kleinen Waisenhaus in einem Armenviertel Londons führen würde. Doch dass sie auf der Suche nach dem Geheimnis ihrer Herkunft eine phantastische Stadt unter den Straßen Londons entdecken würde und schon bald von den seltsamsten Wesen verfolgt wird – das hätte sich Emily selbst in ihren kühnsten Träumen nicht ausgedacht.

April finde ich auch gut

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Original von Saiya
Was für einen Reader hast du? Das Kindle-eBook zeigt die dem "normalen" Buch entsprechenden Seitenzahlen an.

Ich habe einen Kindle Touch, die Seitenzahlen kann ich mir auch anzeigen lassen, finde es allerdings ein wenig nervig dafür immer das "Menu" aufrufen zu müssen. Zudem scheint es verschiedene Gesamtseitenzahlen zu geben, bei zB Goodreads ist eine andere Seitenzahl angegeben als in meinem e-book.

Die Kapitel-Auflistung finde ich daher schon viel praktischer Danke Maharet

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Original von Maharet
Kapitel 1 Dombey & Son - einschl. Kapitel 8 Mr. Wolf and Mr. Fox
Kapitel 9 Irrungen und Wirrungen - einschl. Kapitel 17 St. Pauls
Buch II Lilith (Zwischenspiel) - einschl. Kapitel 10 Anubis
Kapitel 11 Der alte Raritätenladen - einschl. Kapitel 19 Snowwhitepink
Buch III Licht (Zwischenspiel) - einschl. Kapitel 10 Liliths Lied
Kapitel 11 Palaver - Ende

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Da ist ja die Kapitel-Aufteilung, super Dann habe ich die ersten beiden Abschnitte jetzt bereits gelesen, läuft doch ganz gut muss ich mich nur noch in den entsprechenden Threads umsehen...

Die Startwoche ist schon fast rum und ich habe mich noch gar nicht gemeldet

Ich habe am Mittwoch erst mit dem Buch beginnen koennen und bin inzwischen bei 30% (die Kapitel/Seiten-Aufteilung muss ich mir noch mal raussuchen, so ohne Seitenzahlen weiss ich grad nicht in welchem Abschnitt ich bin).
Mir gefaellt es gut bisher und wuerde nun lieber den Tag ueber lesen statt zur Arbeit zu fahren

John Green, Maureen Johnson, Lauren Myracle > Let it snow

An ill-timed storm on Christmas Eve
buries the residents of Gracetown under multiple feet of snow and causes quite a bit of chaos. One brave soul ventures out into the storm from her stranded train and sets off a chain of events that will change quite a few lives. Over the next three days one girl takes a risky shortcut with an adorable stranger, three friends set out to win a race to the Waffle House ( and the hash brown spoils), and the fate of a teacup pig falls into the hands of a lovesick barista.
A trio of today's bestselling authors - John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle- brings all the magic of the holidays to life in three hilarious and charming interconnected tales of love, romance, and kisses that will steal your breath away.

John Green, Maureen Johnson, Lauren Myracle > Let it snow

An ill-timed storm on Christmas Eve
buries the residents of Gracetown under multiple feet of snow and causes quite a bit of chaos. One brave soul ventures out into the storm from her stranded train and sets off a chain of events that will change quite a few lives. Over the next three days one girl takes a risky shortcut with an adorable stranger, three friends set out to win a race to the Waffle House ( and the hash brown spoils), and the fate of a teacup pig falls into the hands of a lovesick barista.
A trio of today's bestselling authors - John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle- brings all the magic of the holidays to life in three hilarious and charming interconnected tales of love, romance, and kisses that will steal your breath away.

Madeleine Roux > Allison Hewitt is trapped

One woman's story as she blogs - and fights back - the zombie apocalypse

Allison Hewitt and her five colleagues at the Brooks and Peabody Bookstore are trapped together when the zombie outbreak hits. Allison reaches out for help through her blog, writing on her laptop and utilizing the military's emergency wireless network (SNET). It may also be her only chance to reach her mother. But as the reality of their situation sinks in, Allison’s blog becomes a harrowing account of her edge-of-the-seat adventures (with some witty sarcasm thrown in) as she and her companions fight their way through ravenous zombies and sometimes even more dangero

Sergej Lukianenko > Wächter der Nacht

Seit Menschengedenken gibt es die sogenannten »Anderen«: Vampire, Gestaltwandler, Hexen, Schwarzmagier. Unerkannt leben sie in unserer Mitte und sorgen dafür, dass das Gleichgewicht zwischen den Dunklen Anderen und den Hellen Anderen gewahrt bleibt. Zwei Organisationen, den »Wächtern der Nacht« und den »Wächtern des Tages«, obliegt es, den vor langer Zeit geschlossenen Waffenstillstand zu überwachen und jegliche Verstöße zu ahnden. Doch es heißt, dass ein mächtiger Anderer kommen wird, der die Fähigkeit besitzt, das Gleichgewicht der Kräfte für immer zu verändern. Und sollte er sich auf die Seite des Bösen schlagen, würde dies die Welt ins Chaos stürzen …

Man wundert sich ja das ganze Buch hindurch, ob Faina nun ein richtiger Mensch ist oder nicht. Nachdem auch die Bensons Faina kennen gelernt haben und sie mit Garret ein Kind bekommt, hatte ich "richtiger Mensch" geschlussfolgert. Das Ende des Buches lässt dahingehend jedoch wieder Zweifel aufkommen. Ist Faina nun doch als Mädchen aus Schnee auf Grund des eigenen Fiebers geschmolzen? Lagen deswegen all ihre Anziehsachen im Schnee?

Das Buch hat mir im Ganzen sehr gut gefallen, ich konnte es flüssig durchlesen und war fasziniert von der Beschreibung des Lebens in Alaska.
Zuerst hatte ich etwas Bammel, da dieses Buch nicht meinem eigentlichen Beuteschema entspricht. Jetzt bin ich jedoch froh es mit dem Anreiz dieser Leserunde gelesen zu haben und es nicht weiter vor sich hin subt.

Die Schlittschuhszene hat mir auch sehr gefallen. Sobald es um Faina geht blühen Jack und Mabel richtig auf.

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Original von Donaldduck
1) Jack und Mabels einzigstes Kind wurde tot geboren. Wie beeinflußt das Mabels Beziehung zu Faina?

2) Als Jack sich verletzt hat, ziehen Esther und Garrett in Jacks und Mabels Blockhütte ein, um den beiden zu helfen. Wie verändert sich dadurch die Beziehung von Jack und Mabel?

1) Verlustangst und der Wunsch sie zu beschützen sind sehr gross. Ihr eigenes Baby konnten sie nicht retten, Faina dagegen könnten sie Eltern sein. Der Wunsch ist so gross, das sie Faina so sehr einengen dass sie sich zurückzieht.

2) Der unfreiwillige Rollentausch war für beide hilfreich jeweils den anderen besser zu verstehen. Zudem fühlt sich Mabel nun dazugehörig, sie kann mitreden und helfen Entscheidungen zu treffen bzgl Bepflanzung usw. Es bringt beide wieder näher zusammen, nachdem sie sich zu Anfang des Buches doch schon einiges voneinander entfernt hatten.

Die Bensons sind wirklich wunderbar. Sie waren mir direkt von Anfang an sympatisch und die letzten Seiten dieses Abschnitts verstärken dies noch.
Was ich von dem Schneemädchen halten soll weiss ich immer noch nicht. Eingebildet? Real? Geist? Irgendwie merkwürdig. Wo ist der Sinn ihres Auftauchens, wenn sie so schnell weg ist? Kommt sie wieder?