The Sleeper and the Spindle

You can see my vid review in english here
and in spanish here

Product Details:

Published: 23-10-2014 Format: Hardback Edition: 1st Extent: 72 ISBN: 9781408859643 Imprint: Bloomsbury Childrens Dimensions: 238 x 175 mm - See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-sleeper-and-the-spindle-9781408859643/#sthash.9NWvxTY1.dpuf

Published: 23-10-2014 Format: Hardback Edition: 1st Extent: 72 ISBN: 9781408859643 Imprint: Bloomsbury Childrens Dimensions: 238 x 175 mm - See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-sleeper-and-the-spindle-9781408859643/#sthash.9NWvxTY1.dpuf

• Hardcover: 72 pages
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Childrens (23 Oct. 2014)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1408859645
• ISBN-13: 978-1408859643
• Product Dimensions: 18 x 1.2 x 24.7 cm 

A thrillingly reimagined fairy tale from the truly magical combination of author Neil Gaiman and illustrator Chris Riddell - weaving together a sort-of Snow White and an almost Sleeping Beauty with a thread of dark magic, which will hold readers spellbound from start to finish.

On the eve of her wedding, a young queen sets out to rescue a princess from an enchantment. She casts aside her fine wedding clothes, takes her chain mail and her sword and follows her brave dwarf retainers into the tunnels under the mountain towards the sleeping kingdom. This queen will decide her own future - and the princess who needs rescuing is not quite what she seems. Twisting together the familiar and the new, this perfectly delicious, captivating and darkly funny tale shows its creators at the peak of their talents.

Lavishly produced, packed with glorious Chris Riddell illustrations enhanced with metallic ink, this is a spectacular and magical gift.

Published: 23-10-2014 Format: Hardback Edition: 1st Extent: 72 ISBN: 9781408859643 Imprint: Bloomsbury Childrens Dimensions: 238 x 175 mm - See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-sleeper-and-the-spindle-9781408859643/#sthash.9NWvxTY1.dpuf

Reseña del "Sacrificio del Verdugo" de Noelia Amarillo

DATOS TÉCNICOS:
Título: El sacrificio del Verdugo
Autor: Noelia Amarillo
Editorial: Terciopelo
Publicación: 06 Junio 2013

Género: Romántica Fantástica

Podéis leer los primeros capítulos aquí
Video trailer aquí

Resumen:
Un rumor recorre el reino del Verdugo. Una joven de singular belleza camina desnuda entre los robles del Bosque Prohibido. Una salvaje dríade que atrapa en sus redes de placer a los incautos que osan adentrarse en la mágica floresta… 
El trabajo de Kier consiste en crear útiles tallas de madera con las que dar placer a las damas. Un trabajo que no le agrada y que además tiene un gran inconveniente: para evitar encontronazos con maridos furiosos debe satisfacer los encargos de las damas en el Bosque Prohibido y, cada vez que se adentra en este, se siente observado. El rey Verdugo gobierna con implacable justicia no carente de crueldad; solo Gard, capitán de la guardia, puede contener al irascible monarca.

Pero ni siquiera el inmutable soldado es capaz de detener al rey cuando llega el rumor de que alguien ha osado adentrarse en el Bosque Prohibido… Oculta entre las ramas de los robles, Aisling observa en silencio juegos que anhela compartir. Un día, al escuchar el dolor en la voz del hombre al que acecha, ignora las órdenes y consejos de quienes la protegen y decide abandonar la seguridad del bosque para poseer a aquel que desea. 

Podéis ver mi video reseña del libro aquí

 

"Fangirl" review

Product Details

• Hardcover: 448 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; First Edition edition (September 10, 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1250030951
• ISBN-13: 978-1250030955

In Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl, Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath, being a fan is her life--and she's really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it's what got them through their mother leaving.

Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie premiere.

Cath's sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can't let go. She doesn't want to.
Now that they're going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn't want to be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. She's got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fan fiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words . . . And she can't stop worrying about her dad, who's loving and fragile and has never really been alone.

For Cath, the question is: Can she do this?

Can she make it without Wren holding her hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? Writing her own stories?

And does she even want to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?

You can see my review in English here
You can see my review in Spanish here

Reseña de "Eleanor & Park"

Product Details

• Hardcover: 336 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (February 26, 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1250012570
• ISBN-13: 978-1250012579

“Eleanor & Park reminded me not just what it’s like to be young and in love with a girl, but also what it’s like to be young and in love with a book.”—John Green, The New York Times Book Review
Bono met his wife in high school, Park says.
So did Jerry Lee Lewis, Eleanor answers.
I’m not kidding, he says.
You should be, she says, we’re 16.
What about Romeo and Juliet?
Shallow, confused, then dead.
I love you, Park says.
Wherefore art thou, Eleanor answers.
I’m not kidding, he says.
You should be.

Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits—smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. When Eleanor meets Park, you’ll remember your own first love—and just how hard it pulled you under.

A New York Times Best Seller!
A 2014 Michael L. Printz Honor Book for Excellence in Young Adult Literature
Eleanor & Park is the winner of the 2013 Boston Globe Horn Book Award for Best Fiction Book.
A Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book of 2013
A New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of 2013
A Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Book of 2013
An NPR Best Book of 2013

You can see my video review in Spanish here
You can see my video review in English here

Review: Ensnared by A.G. Howard

 BOOK STATS:

• Tapa dura: 416 páginas
• Editor: Harry N Abrams Inc (6 de enero de 2015)
• Colección: Splintered Series
• Idioma: Inglés
• ISBN-10: 1419712292
• ISBN-13: 978-1419712296

After surviving a disastrous battle at prom, Alyssa has embraced her madness and gained perspective. She's determined to rescue her two worlds and the people and netherlings she loves. Even if it means challenging Queen Red to a final battle of wills and wiles ...and even if the only way to Wonderland, now that the rabbit hole is closed, is through the looking-glass world--a parallel dimension filled with mutated and violent netherling outcasts. In the final installment of the wildly popular Splintered trilogy, Alyssa and her dad journey into the heart of magic and mayhem in search of her mom and to set right all that's gone wrong. Together with Jeb and Morpheus, they must salvage Wonderland from the decay and destruction that has ensnared it. But if they succeed and come out alive, can everyone truly have their happily ever after?

I  made a mini review on my Goodreads profile, stating more or less this:

I couldn't get into this book. I just couldn't. It is crazy, not like the others, where craziness was useful to the story, but bat-shit crazy with no purpose. I got boooooored with the love triangle. It appears almost every three pages and it feels like it drags into forever. The solution to this one is just... not going there as not to make spoilers, but I found it to be easy and non compromising.
I tried to get into the book time and time again only to found out I just couldn't. It was a bizarre book with no other purpose in its bizarre-ness (is that even a word?), and with a week love triangle with an easy solution which was a no brainer: [SPOILER] Let's keep both, momma! [SPOILER OVER]
I just loved the first one, wasn't sure about the second one but I still enjoyed it, but this one... destroyed the trilogy for me.
Sorry, I don't want to offend anyone. Maybe it wasn't the moment to read this one or maybe this one is just bat-shit crazy... :s

If you want to see a longer one were I talk about the three books on the series, please head over to my youtube video about it 

Thank you!!! ^.^