the bursting book shelf

Title:  Echoes and Embers  Author:  Karsten Knight Publisher:  Simon & Schuster  Release:  August 28, 2012 Pages:  480 THANKS TO SIMON AND SCHUSTER CANADA FOR THE REVIEW COPY. Series:  Wildefire #2 Synopsis: Fan the flames: A teen goddess fires up her search for love and family in this sequel to  Wildefire . Ashline Wilde may have needed school to learn that she is actually a reincarnated goddess, but she’s ready to move beyond books. She leaves her California boarding school behind and makes for Miami, where she meets a new group of deities and desperately seeks her sister Rose, the goddess of war. But she’s also looking for love—because even though her romance with Cole had to be snuffed, Ash is a volcano goddess—and she doesn’t get burned.      This sequel to the edgy and action-packed  Wildefire  continues a fiery drama on an immortal scale. Review: I was lucky enough to receive Wildefire for review last ...

Title:  The Lost Girl  Author:  Sangu Mandanna Publisher:  Balzer + Bray Release:  August 28, 2012 Pages:  423 THANKS TO HARPERCOLLINS CANADA FOR THE REVIEW COPY. Series:  Unknown Synopsis: Eva’s life is not her own. She is a creation, an abomination—an echo. Made by the Weavers as a copy of someone else, she is expected to replace a girl named Amarra, her “other”, if she ever died. Eva studies what Amarra does, what she eats, what it’s like to kiss her boyfriend, Ray. So when Amarra is killed in a car crash, Eva should be ready. But fifteen years of studying never prepared her for this. Now she must abandon everything she’s ever known—the guardians who raised her, the boy she’s forbidden to love—to move to India and convince the world that Amarra is still alive. What Eva finds is a grief-stricken family; parents unsure how to handle this echo they thought they wanted; and Ray, who knew every detail, every contour of Amarra. And when Eva is unexpectedl...