A Note:

6/2/13

I once told myself: IF I am accepted into grad school, this blog would no longer be updated. As it turns out, in April, I received news of my acceptance for the Fall 2013 semester, where I will attain a Master's degree of Science in Nutrition.

Running a blog, as many of you may already know, is a demanding side job once the excitement wears off. And once I fell out of the blogging community's loop (have you SEEN how many blogs there are now? Wow!), it was like the kiss of death. Despite my best efforts, I couldn't get into a blogging routine once this happened due to the disconnect I felt from the community.

So I took a break. I struggled with the loss and with missing my blog. And then I realized I didn't have to run Book Faery to still be a book reviewer; I could read my books and post reviews online. I'm still a book review blogger, just not in the traditional sense.

I'll still be online. You can chat with me on Twitter, where I'll be posting links to my reviews and talking books. I'll also be posting links to nutrition articles. And if you'd like to connect with me where I guarantee I will post reviews, just add me as a friend on Goodreads.

So that's all, folks! It's been a fun and amazing journey, and I thank you all for listening to my thoughts about books. I hope we all can keep in touch elsewhere :)

Tori

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Giveaway: The Monstrumologist and The Curse of the Wendigo

I hope you're all ready for this awesome giveaway courtesy of Simon and Schuster!


THE MONSTRUMOLOGIST

These are the secrets I have kept. This is the trust I never betrayed. But he is dead now and has been for nearly ninety years, the one who gave me his trust, the one for whom I kept these secrets. The one who saved me . . . and the one who cursed me.

So starts the diary of Will Henry, orphan and assistant to a doctor with a most unusual specialty: monster hunting. In the short time he has lived with the doctor, Will has grown accustomed to his late night callers and dangerous business. But when one visitor comes with the body of a young girl and the monster that was eating her, Will's world is about to change forever. The doctor has discovered a baby Anthropophagus—a headless monster that feeds through a mouth in its chest—and it signals a growing number of Anthropophagi. Now, Will and the doctor must face the horror threatening to overtake and consume our world before it is too late.








THE CURSE OF THE WENDIGO

While attempting to disprove that Homo vampiris, the vampire, could exist, Dr. Warthrop is asked by his former fiancé to rescue her husband from the Wendigo, a creature that starves even as it gorges itself on human flesh, which has snatched him in the Canadian wilderness. Although Warthrop also considers the Wendigo to be fictitious, he relents and rescues her husband from death and starvation, and then sees the man transform into a Wendigo. Can the doctor and Will Henry hunt down the ultimate predator, who, like the legendary vampire, is neither living nor dead, whose hunger for human flesh is never satisfied? This second book in The Monstrumologist series explores the line between myth and reality, love and hate, genius and madness.

Read the first chapter: http://books.simonandschuster.com/Curse-of-the-Wendigo/Rick-Yancey/Monstrumologist-The/9781416984504



Learn more on the Monstrumologist website:  http://www.monstrumologist.com

About the Author:
Rick Yancey is the author of The Monstrumologist series (Book #1 of which won the Michael L. Printz Honor Award in 2010) as well as the critically acclaimed series Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp. He has also written several novels for adults including The Highly Effective Detective and A Burning in Homeland. He earned a BA in English from Roosevelt University in Chicago, and worked as a field officer for the Internal Revenue Service before turning to writing full time in 2004. Rick lives in Florida with his wife Sandy, three sons, two dogs and one lizard. Visit him at http://www.rickyancey.com for more info.




Giveaway:

This giveaway will have two winners who will each receive a copy of THE MONSTRUMOLOGIST and THE CURSE OF THE WENDIGO courtesy of Simon & Schuster and Blue Slip Media.

Giveaway Guidelines:
Leave a comment with your email address.

Open to US & Canada only.

Giveaway closes November 25th (that's two weeks) and I will announce/contact winners sometime on the 26th.  Make sure you check the blog to see if you've won!

Extra Entries:
+1 for Tweeting about this giveaway.  Make sure you include the link with your comment!
 

40 comments:

  1. This sounds like a great book. I have heard great things about this book.
    Thanks for the giveaway

    kristen_babygurl@hotmail.com

    Kristen
    My Bloody Fairy Tale

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  2. Those look like some really great books! Thanks so much for holding a giveaway for them!

    VanillaMusic15@aol.com

    Caitlin

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  3. Hi Tori! Thanks for the great giveaway. These books sound wonderfully creepy;) Here is my twitter link:
    http://twitter.com/#!/papercutreview/status/2614267836637184

    email addy: papercutreviewer@gmail.com

    Thanks!
    Steph

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  4. I'd love to enter!

    +1 Tweeted:
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  5. These sound great, I'd love a copy :)

    My e-mail is:
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  6. Those sound like really good books. I had never heard of the monster in the first book, I wonder if it is the author's own creation. I would love to read the books.
    twoofakind12@yahoo.com

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  7. I read other books by Yancy and loved them, but I haven't gotten to these. Everyone tells me they are wonderful and they look really good! I am definitely going to have add them to my reading list. Thanks for the giveaway!

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  8. Both book sound great. Count me in the giveaway. juliecookies(at)gmail.com

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  9. I really want to read this series! Thanks for the giveaway.

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  10. Thanks for the giveaway. Sounds like a great book. I would love to read it. Please enter me in contest. Tore923@aol.com

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  11. I've heard about these books before and thought the idea of this story is really amazing. Thanks so much for the awesome giveaway!

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    Lexie
    Booklover-Book Chicks

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  12. A friend has been telling me to read these books, but I haven't had a chance to yet. Thanks for the giveaway and the opportunity to snag these! I have heard nothing but good things about them.

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  13. I would love to read both of these books!

    jlynettes @ hotmail . com

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  14. Thanks for the opportunity.

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    http://twitter.com/#!/BooksThings/status/2771868213846016

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  15. I would love to win these two books. I have heard good things about both of them.
    mom1248(at)att(dot)net

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  16. Thanks for the giveaway! These books sound wonderfully creepy. :)

    Lauren
    365DaysReading(at)gmail(dot)com

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  17. These look great! :)
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  18. Love the book covers. The books sound very good.
    Sue B
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  19. I actually had the opportunity of meeting Rick Yancey last summer. He is a really cool guy and had interesting stories to tell. I can't wait to read The Curse of the Wendigo! Even though it wasn't my usual cup of tea, I liked The Monstrumologist.
    Thanks for another great giveaway Tori! :)

    hollyjolly89@gmail.com

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  20. I would love to read these!
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  21. Sounds like a great book. Count me in.

    Thanks for hosting giveaway,

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  22. This sounds like such an interesting series! Would love to win :-)

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  23. I've been wanting to read this series ever since it came out! Thanks for hosting such a great giveaway!

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  24. The books sound interesting. I look forward in learning more about Rick Yancey.

    Thanks,
    Tracey D
    booklover0226 at gmail dot com

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  25. ooh, count me in. Both books sounds like they'd be my kind of read. Thanks for the sxuper contest. ^_^

    Orchid
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  26. Wow, Talk about a bonus, not one but two books, thats Awesome! Please enter me these books sound great.
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  27. These books sound great. Please count me in. Thanks!

    +1 I tweeted:
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  28. Both sound good. Thanks for the chance!

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  29. With a title like "The Monstrumologist" I'm guessing I'll have at least two copies under the x-mas tree. But that is just so far away! Count me in.

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  30. lol there's a long list of requests for these books at my local library.

    Mimi
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  31. Super excited to get a chance to read these!

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  32. This series sounds very interesting. And I love the cover! Count me in!

    Sara M
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  33. this sounds wonderfully creepy, please sign me up for the giveaway!

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  34. I would really love a chance to read these. Thanks.
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  35. I left a tweet for you.
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  36. I would love to read these! Thank you for the giveaway!
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  37. These sound like such interesting books!

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  38. Sounds really interesting, would love to read these! Thanks!

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  39. Wonderful and intriguing sounding reads.

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  40. I would love to be entered to win The Monstrumologist and The Curse of the Wendigo, I've heard great things about both :)

    Thanks for the giveaway :D
    Ambur
    ambiepie_6(at)hotmail(dot)com

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