In My Mailbox #14

A weekly meme hosted by The Story Siren, where we post all books we have received where in the mail, bought or got from the library.

Bought: 

• Forsaken by Jana Oliver (Goodreads)

 Gift:

• Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning (Goodreads)

Well, that wasn't a long wait! :D I'm looking forward to reading both. I'd like to thank Elodie over at Once upon a quote for Darkfever! I'm so excited to read it! YAY! I dunno which book to read next. So many choices! :D

What did you get in your mailbox this week? 

Review: Acadia, Book 1: The Goddess of Time and The Lost King by Ali Naqvi

Title: Acadia, Book I: The Lost King and the Goddess of Time (The Second Great War Trilogy)

Author: Ali M. Naqvi
Started: 08/5/11
Finished: 28/5/11
Goodreads | Review List

Review:

Acadia reminded me so much of the Lord of the Rings but still held its own uniqueness and originality. Naqvi managed to write beautifully and create such a magnificent world. If you liked the Lord of the Rings trilogy you will enjoy this book entirely.

It was adventurous and exciting. Maybe not in the beginning but as the pages kept on turning so did the story. Some bits and twists were predictable but besides that every part was written rather poetically. Naqvi has talent and I'm sure with each book of this trilogy it will get better!

I really enjoyed reading about Damont's journey to find out who he really is. I felt a real connection to him and his Uncle Julian. But there were some characters in the story that have me skeptical about their friendship (Maybe its just paranoia). Yep, I'm talking about the bad guys. They'll totally annoy me in this one specially the "real big bad guy" at the end. He's a lot more playful and cynical. I guess he likes to play with his food before eating it. If you know what I mean.

Overall, the characters were all carefully written and the story was awesomely planned. But the genre isn't for me. But for those who like to try different things and who loved the LOTR Trilogy you should pick up this book. 4/5 stars

Comments: 

So I was reading this on the iPad and everyone kept on taking the iPad from me because you know. Its not my iPad. Its "our family's" iPad. So there's 4 of us using it. Anyways, my point is. I'm not comfortable reading E-books on E-readers and I took almost more than 2 weeks to finish this book because of it. I think I'd rather read them all on my Adobe Reader on my Macbook. I read faster that way. Plus, I really get into the story without any distractions! I'm glad I finished another book this month. I thought I'd be stuck with just 2 this month. I'm such a disgrace in the book blogging community.

I'd like to thank Ali for allowing me to review his book. I enjoyed it and my venture onto this genre.

Where to find him?

• Goodreads
• Facebook

Re-Cover Me Friday #4

Re-Cover Me Friday, is a new feature only featured on my blog. It is a feature where I basically take a book cover and redesign it completely in my own way. This is something I can do that incorporates both my hobby and my job (I'm a designer :D if you don't know already). I'm very excited about this! I hope everyone will find this enjoyable.

As I promised! I present to you Prismatica! :D

Click the image to view it in full.

While I was reading Prismatica every story seemed to somehow connect to this scene on the cover and because of that I came up with the one on the right. It actually took me awhile to make it because I kept on changing it completely. But the third times the charm! :D I really liked Prismatica. If you guys haven't read it yet. Please do! :D A little note as well. o.o It looks like I forgot to crop the image to the actual book size. Haha.

Stock used:
mzacha - foreground
night-fate - sky
lillyfly06-stock - tree
kasko, sabercat, mattox - kids
Thanks to all the stock providers! :D

For more info on the books:

L. David Hesler's Blog
Prismatica on Goodreads


Disclaimer: I mean no disrespect to the actual designers of the books that are mentioned. I also do not own any of the images that are used on the re-covered designs unless otherwise stated.