Musing Mondays #15

MUSING MONDAYS is a weekly meme created and hosted by Jess from A Daily Rhythm.

Thank you so much Jess!

My Musing:
I
AM
SO
TIRED
OF
FINALS
!!!!!

Anyone else wishing they could be already on vacations reading three or four books a week?

Review: The Sacrifist

The Sacrifist

By T. Mason Gilbert

book rate: ★★★★☆ (4/5) 

Publisher: Mjollnir Enterprises LLC

Date of Publication:  March 3rd 2015

Genre: Fantasy, Paranormal, Adventure
Page Count: 380

Source: I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Synopsis provided (adapted):

Sir Randolph Barrington hires a mountaineer to look for his son, Rand, who has disappeared, leaving nothing but a lot of blood in the snow on Mt. Kangchenjunga, the third tallest mountain in the world. Was it the fabled yeti? Was is it just and avalanche? Or was it something else? Any witnesses aren't talking. 

Torleif, who guided the expedition in which Rand disappeared, meets with Dane Nielsen and forwards Sir Randolph's terms. Dane has been hiding out at his ranch in Colorado since his own avalanche accident, but money talks. Dane and Torleif organize an expedition to find Rand's remains. Before Dane leaves, he receives a strange call from a woman warning him not to go. 

Meanwhile, the High Lama of a monastery near Kangchenjunga sends his emissary, the Sacrifist, to the local guide who is heading up the crew used by Dane. The guide agrees to take the Sacrifist along, disguised as a porter for the expedition, but has no idea what the Sacrifist's intentions are. Is he a monk? He doesn't look like one. 

Besides these competing factions, Sir Randolph has also hired the TV show host of 'Big Game, Big Times' to look for the animal who attacked his son. 

Who will find the beast first? And who will die?

Review:

The Sacrifist was a very pleasant surprise.
The cover isn't the most attractive in my opinion and (because sometimes I judge books by their covers, yes) therefore I started it with low expectations. I don't regret it, actually I think it made me like it better than I would if I went to it with high expectations.

This is a story about strong characters going through life experiences that you have to be strong if you want to survive. It's a tale about survivers and the losses they've had to endure. It has it's funny moment but also terrifying ones. It's a roller coaster of experiences really...

The Sacrifist alse brought something new to my readings: the environment, this was the first book I read that takes place in one of the eight-thousanders. I learned new terms and gained new knowledges I probably wouldn't have otherwise.

If you want to know one bit of information I found interesting and that was new to a few of you guys too: check out my Teaser Tuesdays post of this week here!

The characters are very unique and you will grow found of them! And once you finish you will want to know what happened to them next, not that there's a big plot twist or anything, you just really care about these characters and are invested in them. Fortunately this is book one in a triology called The 216 Triology! ;)

To wrap this review up, I do recommend this book if your in the mood for something very new and different!

One Sentence Wednesdays #3

One Sentence Wednesdays is a weekly meme hosted by Rebeca of "Liberamans". Anyone can join, you just have to do the following:

• Pick up the book you're currently reading (or read last)
• Think about what it made you feel so far
• Describe it in one sentence
• Share your sentence, book title and author with the book community :)

Note: Please refer the host of the meme (this blog/this post) in your own post and leave a comment down below with a link to your 1SW so all the participant can have a look and share their thoughts too :)

My Sentence:

"A good surprise :)"

- about The Sacrifist by T. Mason Gilbert

Teaser Tuesdays #4

TEASER TUESDAYS is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm.


My Teaser (spoiler free):

"The eight-thousanders were the fourteen independent peaks in the Himalayan and Karakoram mountain ranges with heights exceeding 8,000 metres. That's around 26,000 feet if you're from the USA, Myanmar or Liberia, the only three countries in the world still refusing to convert to the metric system."

-page 14, "The Sacrifist" by T. Mason Gilbert

Musing Mondays #14

MUSING MONDAYS is a weekly meme created and hosted by Jess from A Daily Rhythm.

Thank you so much Jess!

My Musing:
This Monday I'll be musing about...
*drums*
Covers of future publications I'm really anticipating!

Starting with Passenger by Alexandra Bracken, author of on of my favourite triologies, The Darkest Minds.

Doesn't it look gorgeous?

Release date: 5th of January of 2016

Here's the link to the goodread's synopsys in case you want to check it out :)

Next up we have Carry On by Rainbow Rowell. To those of you who have read Rainbow's Fangirl, this is the story of Simon Snow the story Cath fangirled so much ;)

Release date: 6th of October of 2015

Here's the link to the goodread's sysnopsys of Carry On in case you want to read it :)

And here's the link to the goodread's sysnopsys of Fangirl for those of you that haven't read and are interested :)



And that's all for this Monday folks!
Feel free to share your opinions on this covers or other books your anticipating in th comments' section below!

Review: Night Film

Night Film
by Marisha Pessl


Book Rate: ★★★★★


Brief Introduction (adapted from goodreads):

Everybody has a Cordova story. Cult horror director Stanislas Cordova hasn't been seen in public since 1977. To his fans he is an engima. To journalist Scott McGrath he is the enemy. To Ashley he was a father.

This story starts with the loss of Ashley's life and might end with McGrath's loss of grip on reality.


Review:

If asked to review this book in one sentence I would say "Reminded me what a true 5-star book really is".

Night Film remind me of We Were Liars in the way that you have to go to it without knowing much about the book. The difference between them is just the following: Night Film did not disappoint me, it blew me away.

Talk about gripping, talk about scary, talk about page-turner and though-consumer. This book is all of the above. You'll love and hate with the characters in such an intense way, Night Film will forever have a little spot in your mind.

I don't want to tell more in order to not ruin your experience in case you want to read it. If you do please let me know ;)

One Sentence Wednesdays #2

One Sentence Wednesdays is a weekly meme hosted by Rebeca of "Liberamans". Anyone can join, you just have to do the following:

• Pick up the book you're currently reading (or read last)
• Think about what it made you feel so far
• Describe it in one sentence
• Share your sentence, book title and author with the book community :)

Note: Please refer the host of the meme (this blog/this post) in your own post and leave a comment down below with a link to your 1SW so all the participant can have a look and share their thoughts too :)

My Sentence:

"It's finals period in college and I read this in a day, that's how this book is."

- about Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead