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Sunday, February 27, 2011

Alex Pettyfer Accepts Hollywood Crush's Advice for playing Jace

This interview is great, as not only does Hollywood Crush offer Alex great advice, but he jokingly accepts it. He also says she'a romantic... I know you guys are all sighing now.


We have to say we agree with Hollywood Crush.
You can also find a link for this interview in Cassie's latest email she sent out to her google group.

Book Review- Mieradome

Published by Author House
Released on November 20th, 2010
Source- ARC from the author for review
2.5 Stars- I wanted to like it more than I did

Mieradome pulls the reader into a unique fantasy world of faeries and technology, a different take on the Alice in Wonderland concept. The story revolves around a young girl named Amavia who believes she is a human girl, but slowly comes to find she is a faery in the world of Mieradome. Slowly who Amavia was began to unravel to show the truth; the truth that she just may be the evil they need to destroy. This is the first novel in a series, and gives a glimpse of what is to come for the main character Amavia (quoted from Goodreads).

Mieradome has a great premise with it's magic, fairytale lore, and at times it reminded me of A Mid Summer Night's Dream as the story reads like volume of classic literature.

I really loved the story's idea- the main character is a girl, Amavia who's really a fairy living in the human world, but she doesn't know who she is until she journeys back to the place her mother took her from years ago. Upon returning to Mieradome, Amavia finds out more of her heritage and who she really is. There's some great twists, some action, a great fairy lore and a nice romance that I found really intriguing. Even with a great story line, a great love triangle between Cadin who I adored and then Garin, who really surprised me, and a strong protagonist, I felt the story fell short for me.

I had a hard time connecting with the story, as there were a few things missing for me. There were times I felt scenes were too rushed and other scenes left a little incomplete. Having some key things mentioned in the middle and towards the end of the book was a little frustrating, as I would have love to see these things explored more through out the story. The characters weren't as in-depth as I would have liked them to be, and felt I really didn't get to know them/connect them, as I wasn't able to understand or read what they were thinking/feeling. There were a lot of characters introduced into the story, which was a little confusing at times. In the end I felt I got to know more about the beautifully detailed world, than I did the characters. There were some great characters introduced into the story that I really wanted to know more about.

There is a lot that goes on in Mieradome, and I really enjoyed the history and the world building with the story. I enjoy a well written love triangle, which the story has. I started off really adoring Cadin, I mean it was hard not to, but then Kate threw a total surprise at me with Gavin. I also like the twists with Amavia's mom. I won't say more, as I want to leave this spoiler free. Being the first book in a series, there were a lot of questions answered and some left unanswered, which I'm looking forward to finding answers for in the next book. While I'm mixed on my feelings with the book, I would recommend to those who enjoy reading about fairies. I am looking forward to reading the sequel, as I want to know what happens with some of the characters and the direction the story takes.

Weekly Feature & In My Mailbox


I'm switching gears and instead of just posting about what we received in our mailbox each week, I'm also going to combine a new feature we've been talking about doing on Mundie Moms. Our Weekly Feature will list some of the things we'll have on Mundie Moms for the coming week, like reviews, author chats, interviews etc (which are also listed on our right hand side bar).

This week on MM's we're hosting and kicking off Saundra Mitchell's The Vespertine blog tour, which is taking place through out the month of March. You can find out which sites are taking part in the tour, their tour stops and read about the book here

We'll be chatting with Karen Mahoney, author of The Iron Witch on Tuesday, March 1st @ 6 pm CST! It's a new time, as we don't want to keep Karen up all night, since she is a few hours ahead of us. We're looking forward to chatting with her about her debut book.

This week we'll be reading/reviewing-
* These Ten Bones by Clare B Dunkle
* The Vespertine by Saundra Mitchell
* The Liar Society by Lisa Roecker & Laura Roecker
* Demonglass by Rachel Hawkins
* Lemniscate by Jennifer Murgia
* Haven by Kristi Cook

In My Mailbox- (In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by The Story Siren where we share what books we've received through out the week either for review, that we purchased, borrowed or were gifted.
For Review-
* Darkness Becomes Her by Kelly Keaton, published by Simon Pulse, released on February 22nd, 2011
* The Dark and Hollow Place by Carrie Ryan, published Delacorte Books for Young Readers, to be released on March 22nd, 2011
* Father of Lies by Ann Turner, published by Harper Teen, released on February 8th, 2011
* Priscilla The Great by Sybil Nelson, published by WorldMaker Media, released on December 13th, 2010

Bought
* The Vespertine by Saundra Mitchell
* Will Work For Prom Dress by Aimee Ferris
* Haven by Kristi Cook
* Halfway to the Grave (Night Huntress series) by Jeaniene Frost *not pictured
* One Foot in the Grave (Night Huntress series) by Jeaniene Frost *not pictured

Thank you to Simon and Schuster, Random House, Harper Teen, Sybil Nelson, The Teen Book Scene for this weeks awesome reads. What goodies did you receive this week?

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