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review: rooftops of tehran

book info: on sale: now copy from: public library pages: 348 review written: 21.12.17 originally published: 2009 edition read: Penguin NAL 2009 title: Rooftops of Tehran author: Mahbod Seraji In a middle-class neighborhood of Iran's sprawling capital city, 17-year-old Pasha Shahed spends the summer of 1973 on his rooftop with his best friend Ahmed, joking around one minute and asking burning questions about life the next. He also hides a secret love for his beautiful neighbor Zari, who has been betrothed since birth to another man. But the bliss of Pasha and Zari's stolen time together is shattered when Pasha unwittingly acts as a beacon for the Shah's secret police. The violent consequences awaken him to the reality of living under a powerful despot, and lead Zari to make a shocking choice... my thoughts: This book was first published in 2009 and I remember adding it to my list around that time but never actually reading it since I preferred checking out library books to ...
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Thursday Oldie: The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner

The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner Series: The Queen's Thief #1 Source: Bought paperback Publisher:  Greenwillow Books Publication Date:  January 1, 1996 Original Post: Feb 11, 2014 Age Genre: Young Adult "I can steal anything." After Gen's bragging lands him in the king's prison, the chances of escape look slim. Then the king's scholar, the magus, needs the thief's skill for a seemingly impossibly task--to steal a hidden treasure from another land. To the magus, Gen is just a tool. But Gen is a trickster and a survivor with a plan of his own. This may not be a five-star rating, but this book deserves the McGonagall clap . When I decided to read The Thief , it was because one of my favorite bloggers, Christina , talked about the whole series in such a favorable light. I was further encouraged when I saw a few other bloggers talking about its greatness a few weeks later.  It just sounded so effing good, you know? Like it was right up my alley. I didn...
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Thursday Oldie: Angelfall by Susan Ee

Angelfall by Susan Ee Series:   Penryn & The End of Days #1 Source:  Bought paperback Publisher:  Skyscape Publication Date:  August 28, 2012 Original Post: Jan 11, 2014 Age Genre: Young Adult It's been six weeks since the angels of the apocalypse destroyed the world as we know it. Only pockets of humanity remain. Savage street gangs rule the day while fear and superstition rule the night. When angels fly away with a helpless girl, her seventeen-year-old sister Penryn will do anything to get her back... Angelfall is one of these books. You know, the kind that takes over the reading community by storm? The kind everybody seems to unanimously love?   Naturally, I was pumped up for this book. I wanted to be wowed by it. I wanted it to be the first Angel book that blew my mind all the way to mars. For the most part, it wasn't. But there was a ton of epic shit going down there at the end, and just for that last 30% I'll be picking the second book up... probabl...
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Relatively Famous by (The Lovely) Heather Leigh

Relatively Famous by Heather Leigh  Series:   Famous #1 Source:  Free Kindle Copy Publisher:  Shelbyville Publishing Publication Date:  June 7, 2014 Age Genre: Adult Relatively Famous on Leafmarks This is NOT your average Hollywood romance. There are no virgins falling in love with hot actors. There isn't a famous guy falling for the normal girl next door. What there IS in this book, is a fragile, damaged girl and the sexy alpha who rescues her. Sydney Allen is trying to be your average 24 year old New Yorker. It’s hard to be average though when your mother is Evangeline Allen, an Oscar winning actress known as “America’s Sweetheart” to moviegoers across the globe. It’s even harder to be average when your dad is Reid Tannen, Hollywood Bad Boy and one of the highest paid actors in the world. Their divorce when Sydney was 12 years old was set off by a series of haunting incidents that left Sydney scarred mentally and physically. Hollywood destroyed her parents’ m...
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December Gifly Round Up

Some bloggers review every book they read. Me? Not so much. I really have to feel like I have something to say about a book, for better or worse. And I have to feel like I can say that in more than three sentences. This year, I've been getting into Gifs. I think Tumblr have something to do with that, but I rather not look too closely at it. Anyways, I've decided that a t the end of every month, I'm going to sum up the books I read but didn't review using a gif. It could be my thoughts on it in one sentence, or it could be something important of the book. So, let's begin! 1. Dark Currents by Lindsay Buroker (4 stars) (To see many more Dark Currents related gifs, see my reading process here ) 2. Whiskey Rebellion by Liliana Hart (4 stars) 3. Romancing the Duke by Tessa Dare (4 stars) Listen to Mama Mc'Call and don't hide your feeling dude! 4. Unclaimed & Unraveled by Courtney Milan (4 stars each) 5. Scandal with a Prince by Nicole Burnham (4 stars) 6....
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The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen

The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen Series:   The Ascendance Trilogy #1 Source:  bought paperback Publisher:  Scholastic Publication Date:  Feb 1st, 2013 Age Genre: Young Adult Choose to lie...or choose to die. Four boys, one treacherous plan, an entire kingdom to fool... In a faraway land, civil war is brewing. To unify his kingdoms' divided people, a nobleman named Conner devises a cunning plan to place an impersonator of the king's long-lost son on the throne. Four orphans are recruited to compete for the role, including a defiant and clever boy named Sage. Sage knows that Conner's motives are more than questionable, yet his life balances on a sword's point -- he must be chosen to play the prince or he will certainly be killed. As Sage moves from a rundown orphanage to Conner's sumptuous palace, layer upon layer of duplicity and deceit unfold, until finally, a truth is revealed that may very well prove more dangerous than all of the lies taken together. When ...
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A Little Something Different by Sandy Hall

A Little Something Different by Sandy Hall Source:  bought paperback Publisher:  Swoon Reads Publication Date: August 26th. 2014 Age Genre:  New Adult (no sex) Fourteen viewpoints. One Love Story. Lea and Gabe are in the same creative writing class. They get the same pop culture references, order the same Chinese food, and hang out in the same places. Unfortunately, Lea is a little aloof, Gabe is shy, and it looks like they are never going to work things out. But something is happening between them, and everyone can see it. Their creative writing teacher pushes them together. The baristas at the local Starbucks watch their relationship like a TV series. The bus driver tells his wife about them. The waitress at the diner automatically seats them together. Even the squirrel who lives on the college green believes Lea and Gabe are meant to be together. You'll be rooting for Gabe and Lea too, in this irresistibly romantic, completely original novel! As Ryan Gosling so wonder...
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Pieces by Janine Infante Bosco

Pieces by Janine Infante Bosco Series:   The Riverdale #1 Source:  Kindle edition Publisher:  indie Publication Date: April 6th, 2014 Age Group:  Adult Jake Lanza is one of Riverdale New York’s favorite sons. He owns a tattoo parlor in the small upstate town and prides himself on being a fun-loving, live by the seat of your pants type of guy. He has everything he wants in life, a thriving business, a great family and a best friend with whom he could never live without. Cara Sloane weaved her way into Jake’s life when they were fifteen years old. After her life fell apart at such a young age, Jake helped her heal, and began to pick up the pieces of her fallen life. His unconventional ways slowly had him becoming the anchor in her life. Now fourteen years later Jake begins to see Cara in a new light. The things he thought he never wanted, he suddenly began to yearn for. The only problem was they were both too frightened to lose the greatest love either of them has ever...
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Last Breath by Rachel Caine

Last Breath by Rachel Caine Series:   The Morganville Vampires #11 Source:  Bought paperback Publisher:  Allison & Busby Publication Date:  Oct 28, 2011 Age Genre: Young Adult Claire Danvers is concerned when three vampires vanish from Morganville without a trace. The last person seen with them is someone new to town - a mysterious individual named Magnus. Claire is convinced creepy Magnus isn't human... but is he a vampire, or something else entirely? Claire's hunt for answers leads her to solving another mystery that's long been puzzling her: why do vampires live so far out in a sunny desert when they're sensitive to sunlight? The answer has nothing to do with sunlight, but with water - and an ancient enemy who has finally found a way to invade the vampires' landlocked community. Vampires aren't the top predotor on earth. There's something worse that preys on them... something much worse. Which means if Claire, and Morganville, wants to live, they will...
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Sabriel by Garth Nix

Sabriel by Garth Nix Series:   Abhorsen #1 Source: bought kindle copy Publisher:  HarperTeen Publication Date:  Oct 6th, 2009 Age Genre: Young Adult Game of Thrones fans will love the New York Times bestselling Abhorsen series. Sabriel, the first installment in the trilogy, launched critically acclaimed author Garth Nix onto the fantasy scene as a rising star. Since childhood, Sabriel has lived outside the walls of the Old Kingdom, away from the power of Free Magic, and away from the Dead who refuse to stay dead. But now her father, the Abhorson, is missing, and Sabriel must cross into that world to find him. With Mogget, whose feline form hides a powerful, perhaps malevolent spirit, and Touchstone, a young Charter Mage, Sabriel travels deep into the Old Kingdom. There she confronts an evil that threatens much more than her life and comes face-to-face with her own hidden destiny. . . . I've read Sabriel for the first time somewhere at the first years of high-school, and i...
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The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater Source: bought hardcover Publisher:  Scholastic Inc Age Genre: Young Adult SOME RACE TO WIN. OTHERS RACE TO SURVIVE. It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. Some riders live. Others die. At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the returning champion. He is a young man of few words, and if he has any fears, he keeps them buried deep, where no one else can see them. Puck Cannolly is different. She never meant to ride in the Scorpio Races. But fate hasn't given her much of a choice. So she enters the competition - the first girl ever to do so. She is in no way prepared for what is going to happen. I find it fairly difficult -- perhaps even impossible -- to form my thoughts of this book in a coherent manner.  It's a book that's hard to describe, with prose that's hard to find words for. It's a book that is both beautiful an...
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