Update!

Well, hey guys there's a new update for your booknerd needs and what-nots.

This year is going to be perfect with all the filming and books being released. I'm going to warn you now, the blog post will be long featuring TMI, Divergent, PJO, THG, and a special something.

The Mortal Instruments

I) City of Heavenly Fire 

by Cassandra Clare
May, 27th, 2014

Summary: Darkness has descended on the Shadowhunter world. Chaos and destruction overwhelm the Nephilim as Clary, Jace, Simon, and their friends band together to fight the greatest evil they have ever faced: Clary's own brother. Nothing in this world can defeat Sebastian—but if they journey to the realm of demons, they just might have a chance... Lives will be lost, love sacrificed, and the whole world will change. Who will survive the explosive sixth and final installment of the Mortal Instruments series?

Not the TMI fandom that's for sure.

Seriously who expects us to read through the deaths of six characters that we know by name? It's the last book too. I'm not happy. I am not okay, not one single drop of happiness has reached me.

Sebastian, you evil little... I'm glaring at him. No really.

The sad thing is, I still haven't finished the end of Allegiant, apparently that's even worse.

Anyways, get more info on the book at Cassandra Clare's website here.

II) CoA Movie Postponement

This has been news for a while, but The Mortal Instruments: City of Ashes will be likely to be "shelved" since the first movie hadn't been a success.

To make matters worse, the cast might even be replaced in the time that the movie's script is being changed up. I really hope they do stick to the book. 

 I had just got my friend into the TMI fandom and she asked me when the movie was coming out (I know most of this stuff) and I was like "Never, with Sony being a b****"

She still didn't understand what I was saying so I told her the ticket sales for the first movie was not great. We both got seriously depressed because that it what Cassie and the whole fandom does to people. Not kidding.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

I)Percy Jackson's Greek Gods

by Rick Riordan
August 19, 2014
Who's not excited for a book that comes out a day after Percy Jackson's birthday?!?!

I sure am. It's because of some publishing issues that they had to make it a day late, but still pretty significant, isn't it?

What do you think for the art on the cover? I think that everyone but Zeus and Poseidon look okay. I mean really, the film even portrayed them better than this. They are not two fat guys that are shirtless staring down at Percy Jackson.

It's sad that Annabeth isn't on the cover though. (I'm pouting, but you really can't see my face.)

Read more about it here.

II) Blood of Olympus

by Rick Riodan
October 7, 2014

I checked some of the PJO websites on Facebook earlier in the morning and I'm happy to know the book is coming out a day earlier than it was last year. I also don't want to breeze through it because sadly, it's going to be the end of Percy Jackson's adventures that we read of in books -and not if there's a probability short stories.- These series has been there for me all throughout my middle school years so it seems fitting to end when I start high school next school year.

Unfortunately, I still cannot get the front cover of the book although I believe there is a summary. And there is.

 Though the Greek and Roman crew-members of the Argo II have made progress in their many quests, they still seem no closer to defeating the earth mother, Gaea. Her giants have risen—all of them, and they're stronger than ever. They must be stopped before the Feast of Spes, when Gaea plans to have two demigods sacrificed in Athens. She needs their blood—the blood of Olympus—in order to wake. The demigods are having more frequent visions of a terrible battle at Camp Half-Blood. The Roman legion from Camp Jupiter, led by Octavian, is almost within striking distance. Though it is tempting to take the Athena Parthenos to Athens to use as a secret weapon, the friends know that the huge statue belongs back on Long Island, where it might be able to stop a war between the two camps. The Athena Parthenos will go west; the Argo II will go east. The gods, still suffering from multiple personality disorder, are useless. How can a handful of young demigods hope to persevere against Gaea's army of powerful giants? As dangerous as it is to head to Athens, they have no other option. They have sacrificed too much already. And if Gaea wakes, it is game over.


So a little FYI- Rick Riordan has never even watched Percy Jackson and the Lighting Thief that was directed by Chris Columbus saying that it would change his perspective in how he saw the characters. (Rick's twitter is @camphalfblood)

It is also a running joke from Uncle Rick's twitter that there is going to be a new movie coming out. One  that the PJO fandom has never heard before. It is named Percy Jackson and the Curse of Titanium.

A fun fact to add to your day. Probably the weirdest ship name ever is Person. Take a guess.... No, not Percabeth, Percico, Perlia... How about Thalia's brother, perhaps, Jason? Percy x Jason. Person. Nice ship name, I prefer Percabeth and Jeyna and then there's Jason/brick fanfictions.

Dates to Remember – Winter 2014

These are the dates this winter that you, as a booknerd, need to know.

from December 2, 2013 to March 1, 2014

On this blog:

March 1 – You get this again for the spring!

Never – When I finish everything I want to write here! Ugh, I have so much to do.

Books:

Note that these are only the books that Ivy, Somaya, and me have an interest in; you can find a huge list here.

December 17 – Release of "The Initiate" by Veronica Roth (Divergent Novellas #2; e-book only)

December 17 – Release of "The Last Stand of the New York Institute" by multiple authors (The Bane Chronicles #8; e-book only)

January 21 – Release of "The Son" by Veronica Roth (Divergent Novellas #3; e-book only)

January 31 – Release of Invasion by Galaxy Craze (The Last Princess #2)

February 4 – Release of Cress by Marissa Meyer (The Lunar Chronicles #3)

February 11 – Release of "The Traitor" by Veronica Roth (Divergent Novellas #4)

February 25 – Release of Shadow Scale by Rachel Hartman (companion novel to Seraphina)

February 25 – Release of Tremor by Patrick Carman (Pulse Trilogy #2)

Movies:

December 13 – Release of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

February 14 – Release of The Maze Runner

Authors' birthdays:

December 19 – Chris d'Lacey

January 1 – J.R.R. Tolkien

January 25 – Stephen Chbosky

February 22 – P.B. Kerr

Characters' birthdays:

December 6 – Rubeus Hagrid, Harry Potter

December 12 – Charlie Weasley, Harry Potter

December 17 – Hazel Levesque, The Heroes of Olympus

December 22 – Thalia Grace, Percy Jackson & the Olympians

December 31 – Tom Riddle, Harry Potter

January 9 – Severus Snape, Harry Potter

January 28 – Nico di Angelo, Percy Jackson & the Olympians

January 30 – Lilly Potter, Harry Potter

February 6 – Arthur Weasley, Harry Potter

March 1 – Ron Weasley, Harry Potter

 — Nick

House of Hades!!!

Well, what do you think?

Just three more days until "All Hades breaks loose".

Let's see what's major in the book?

Percabeth, Tartarus, Annabeth, Percy, Hades, Percabeth --did I say that twice?-- and Percabeth. 

Moving on if you haven't already read an excerpt for The House of Hades, click here. Or paste this link to your browser. http://a.dolimg.com/en-US/publishing/HouseofHades_chapter_one.pdf

On The Heroes of Olympus | Partners, there is a lot of action going on for the books. But the main thing is Rick Riordan reading a part of The House of Hades. ASDFGHJKL!!! Fangirling right now!!!

And before I go into any photos, I want to link you to Rick Riordan's blog, Myth and Mystery. Well, we have a deleted scene to look at.  Nancy Bobofit! Can you believe it?

Click here to see the scene.

Link to: http://rickriordan.blogspot.com/2013/10/a-deleted-scene-from-last-olympian.html

It's Eros/Cupid as the picture says. Way
to go, Captain Obvious. But what's with
the eyes?
I dunno, he seems mechanical... *Shiver*

Nyx is scary... I'm wasn't even going to be polite about it.

She looks rather fancy in that chariot (?) and party dress.

But do you think this photo looks more professionally done than the one on top?

The moment that you haven't been waiting for. A really ugly Percy and Annabeth. If I had to say, the younger versions were better than these.

I'm too tired to get a comparison, but you can always see the enlarged version on the link I put up earlier.







Signed,
Ivy

Update!

I know that September was a busy month for sure. But we have a lot to look forward to after the first month of the school year for students and the end of summer for everyone.

I have been on Instagram and Facebook and I'm getting many things that we should hope for that will be coming. In this post, the following topics will be discussed (isn't necessarily in order):

• The Fault in Our Stars movie is being filmed
• The City of Ashes movie is postponed
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them  is being filmed
• The House of Hades release
• Allegiant book leaked

First up is The House of Hades. I know I did a post on this before, but just because there's only 9 days left until it is released! I have already pre-ordered it, but for those who didn't I would say to just drive your car to the local bookstore. 

The City of Ashes movie has been postponed for filming. I have found a post off Instagram with news about the movie update. CoB had a bad debut for the whole series. This is to add that Sony found the script of CoA to be lacking and has cut the fund in half. Unless the movie has a good film script, the movie should start filming in 2014 and released in 2015. You can read more on it at Google or click here. 

The Fault in Our Stars has started to film and John Green is really excited with it. You can tell with his "vlogbrothers" posts on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. He's really into the movie set to. Go check out the following video of the TFIOS set. 

Tell me if you're happy with the cast. Shailene Woodley (Hazel Grace) --who is also playing Tris in Divergent-- and Ansel Elgort (Augustus Waters) --Caleb from Divergent. That might be a little weird going from siblings to lovers in this movie.

Just mentioning, did you notice, John Green always brushing his hair back? I did!

Anyways, next topic: Allegiant book leak. Veronica Roth has said on her Goodreads account that some Allegiant books had had an issue with shipping and some mistakes were made resulting in some readers recieving their books before 10-22. This happened in Canada and Roth wasn't really thrilled about this because she says that she was waiting for the day when the last book in the trilogy would be released. I'm guessing that's not going to happen now. Let's just hope those people who have gotten the book don't spoil it for the rest of us on the internet. Read more about the issue clicking here. If you couldn't get to the webpage, just copy and paste this to your browser or click on it. http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/4930806-about-that-allegiant-leak

It's getting late. I'm pretty sure all the Potterheads know that a new movie will be based on Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. It isn't an adventure based on Harry, but it's his wizarding world is it not. Warner Bros. and Jo (J.K. Rowling) are partnering up for this movie as Jo is writing the screen play script. I'm sure this is going to turn out well. Read more about it on Google. 

That's it for the Update and bye!

Signed,

Ivy

Coldplay: "Atlas"

Just today, Coldplay released their song for Catching Fire the book following The Hunger Games. Look at the picture of what we saw before the world premiere of the song.



I'll have the video for "Atlas" right here. Tell me what you think!

If the video didn't work for you, copy the link below and paste it onto the search bar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Lh3TokLzzmw

The lyric video had a theme with Greek mythology and words followed popped up as a string pulled you though the video.

If you didn't notice it, the mockingjay appeared at around 2:12 of the video. It was easy to miss if you don't remember what it looked like. It was the same one as that of the pin -that Madge gave in the book or Greasy Sae in the movie- just with it's neck elongated like an arrow.

I don't think there was much of an obvious chorus in this song and I kinda missed that, but who said everything had to be a pop song!

You might need to strain your ears a little bit, but you'll hear the singing from Coldplay.

I personally didn't like it, but just tell me what you thought about it, by commenting.

Signed,
Ivy

P.S. Catching Fire  will be released in the theatres on November 22nd. I think it is a worldwide release, but if it isn't that's the US date.

Dates to Remember – Fall 2013

This is a list of dates that you, as a booknerd, should know.

from September 2, 2013 to December 1, 2013

On this blog:

September 2 – My Book of the Months start; it'll be every 2nd of the month (Ivy's will be on the 1st

September 9 – Ivy and I go back to school
November 11- Ivy's Birthday! 

December 1 – You get this list again for the winter! ;)

Books:

September 3 – Release of The 100 by Kass Morgan (They're also making a TV series based on this book)

September 10 – Release of Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein (I'll tell you more about that tomorrow in my BotM)

October 7 – Release of Confessions: The Private School Murders by James Patterson, the second book in the Confessions of a Murder Suspect series

October 8 – Release of House of Hades by Rick Riordan, the fourth book in the Heroes of Olympus series

October 8 – Release of The Extra by Kathryn Lasky

October 8 – Release of The Eye of Minds by James Dashner, the first book in the Morality Doctrine series

October 22 – Release of Allegiant by Veronica Roth, the third and final book in the Divergent series

November 5 – Release of The Royal Ranger by John Flanagan, the eleventh and final book of the Ranger's Apprentice series

November 5 – Release of Champion, the third book in the Legend series

December 31, the year 999999999999999 – When my library finally gets me City of Ashes 

Movies:

September 23 – Production begins on The Mortal Instruments: City of Ashes

November 1 – Release of Ender's Game

November 15 – Release of The Book Thief

November 22 – Release of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Author's birthdays:

October 19 – Phillip Pullman

November 2 – Ally Condie

November 8 – Lauren Oliver

November 12 – Richelle Mead

November 14 – Margaret Stohl

November 18 – Maggie Stiefvater

November 26 – James Dashner

November 29 – C.S. Lewis

November 29 – Madeline L'Engle

Character's birthdays:

September 19 – Hermione Granger, Harry Potter

September 22 – Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, Lord of the Rings

September 25 – Garrick Ollivander, Harry Potter

September 26 – Quirinus Quirrel, Harry Potter

September 29 – Hazel Grace Lancaster, The Fault in Our Stars

October 14 – Minerva McGonagall, Harry Potter

October 17 – Filius Flitwick, Harry Potter

October 20 – Dairine Callahan, Young Wizards

October 30 – Molly Weasley, Harry Potter

November 29 – Bill Weasley, Harry Potter

Phew, that's a lot of November author's birthdays. Eight, actually, more than any other month by far.

Remember these dates!

– Nick

DIVERGENT TRAILER!!!!!!!

ASDFGHJKL It's the divergent trailer!!! Okay, now that that's out of the way, let's talk about it.

Wait - first you need to watch it again. :)

The first eight seconds show Jeanine Matthews addressing all the sixteen year-olds in all five factions in a giant auditorium. "The future," she says slooooooowly, "belongs to those who know where they belong." They show all five factions sitting together. You see the Abnegation in grey, the Amity in yellow, the Erudite in blue, the Candor in black & white, and the Dauntless in black. That's good; you can see they're following the book in that, at least. However, you also see the following shot of Beatrice staring dumbly:

I mean, seriously? What even is that expression? Whatever.

Then four seconds of Caleb & Beatrice chatting as they walk to school before the aptitude test. We get a one second shot of the Priors before they go to the ceremony. Then fourteen seconds of Tori--the only person in this trailer more overdramatic than Jeanine--explaining to Beatrice that she is Divergent. That ends what we see of Beatrice; now we enter Tris in Dauntless.

Now some Jeanine--she's in at the Dauntless training area for some reason and not in her own faction. She tells Tris that "the system removes the threst of anyone excersizing their independent will." She pauses for two seconds while we see a couple of shots of people hoilding guns, and then continues, "Divergents threaten that system. It won't be safe until they're removed." Meanwhile we see the scene where she jumps off the roof!! That looks cool.

Then we have a bunch of stuff that we already saw in the teaser, and it starts to get interesting at about 00:53. Tori tells Tris to "trust herself" and then we see her awesomely beat Peter up. We see a few shots from various scenes (jumping off the train, the ferris wheel, and Four showing Tris his tatoos) while Jeanine tells Tris that she's a "poor blend of impulses and impurities." Tris snaps back, "Don't try and define me," we cut to a shot of Tris and Four kissing (which i'm sure you guys will love--I personally never liked them together but that's a different story). And then the music starts to wind down and we get a full couple seconds of the knife-throwing scene, and the end.

So, really good trailer!! It is definitely better than what we saw in the teaser.

We still need more, though!!!!! I can't wait until March 21, and I'm sure you can't either!

 - Nick

The official Divergent trailer is coming!

The first official trailer for the Divergent movie (the one released a few days ago was just a teaser) will be released tonight!! It will be sixty seconds and will first air just before the MTV Video Music Awards. That's on the MTV channel at 8:00 p.m. Eastern/7:00 p.m. Central.

I'm just hoping we're going to get a glimpse of Beatrice's life in Abnegation, because that was left out of the teaser, and that's a big part of her life. Her life in Abnegation had a big effect on her, something I'm worried the movie will downplay in favor of action scenes in Dauntless. Okay, I'll stop ranting now.

What do you want to see in the trailer? Stay tuned to this blog today, where we'll post the video directly from YouTube and we'll discuss it!

 - Nick

Divergent: Movie Stills and Gifs

Like Nick posted yesterday, the movie teaser was a short mere 12 seconds. (Now that I think about it, how much speaking happened within 12 seconds?)

Anyways, in case you don't wanna go to the last post,  I'll put it here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV5zpjpd5Og

I spent quite an amount of time just looking at movie stills and videos for the movie to be released in theaters March 20th of 2014.

Most  I found were from Entertainment Weekly. The cover of the magazine for June 28 is the one on the side.

Tris Prior (Shailene Woodley) and Four (Theo James) are on the front page.

You can see that Tris wearing a red shirt. I think that's up for discussion as well as her pants that are holding knives. Red is for Amity as the main colors go. As for Tris' pants, if I remember correctly, she wasn't doing so well with target training and even Four (let's not reveal his real name for the people that

 haven't read Divergent  yet) doesn't do that.

Now Four looks like a normal Dauntless.

Is Divergent the next Hunger Games? I wouldn't think so. I have read both of the books and loved them both. However, I can't say I like them equally. When I read The Hunger Games, it was totally amazing (as I expected it to) but the fallout began with the beginning of Mockingjay. There is the same adventure but I think without that much bloodiness. It focuses more on the things that Tris goes through. Enough for now.

Look at a parody of the cover I found:

So I found this off of Cinema Blend. (Thanks guys for getting the slowed down version of the trailer.) Like it's mentioned at Cinema Blend and because I kinda noticed this in the trailer, this is the actual proof. The ring of people around Four just fall as he punches one of the people around him. I don't what the point of this is because obviously, it's just a small punch not a round house.

Anywho, I also wanted to look at another fan analyzation from the peeps at www.cityofbonesmovie.com

We can all see what the message is here. Why did Neil Burger cast these three to be Tris, Four, and Jeanine Matthews, respectively?  It says that here Tris is supposed to be 16 but Shailene is already 21. Four, originally 18, is played by Theo, who is 28, acting 4 years below his own age (because the movie is making Four 24 years old—that's weird to read). Jeanine Matthews, I don't know what there is to say. I guess Kate's age should be around right since Tris' dad went to the same school as her, but we still never know Jeanine's age. Thus, making the question mark funny to question and look at.

Hi, this is Nick popping in to say that we can still guess how old Jeanine is. We know that Beatrice's father is the same age as Jeanine. At the beginning of the series, Mr. Prior's oldest child, Caleb, is almost seventeen. We can also gather that since Beatrice's parents are in Abnegation, they did not have their children before they became adults, and probably not before they were about 22/23. We can probably assume that they were not more than 28, as the Abnegation are very efficient people. This puts their probable age when they had Caleb at 23-25. Combine that with Caleb's almost 17 years of age and you have a Jeanine Matthews of 40-42.

Onto the Stills! (Remember, you can click on pictures to enlarge them.)

Everyone going crazy for the Ferris wheel and I've got to say, I was definitely ASDFGHJKL ing the whole time. I wonder how this scene is going to be in the movie.

You can clearly see the tattoos, three ravens, each one representing the family members that Tris left behind. I think that sounded more like a quote. 

This should be the scene where the initiates are training before their one-on-one matches. 

Take a moment to look at the punching bag. Quite the unusual shape, don't you think? Sorry for my immaturity; I just had to do that. 

The way that Four analyzes the punching bag is kinda strange isn't it. But that's minor. He's training the initiates so he's gotta be like that.

Tris' ponytail makes me feel relieved that it's not only my hair that get out of it's hair tie by the end of the day creating some pieces of hair that frame my face. I look at some people and their hair looks as if they fixed it up every single moment that they have! Oh, the horror. 

We didn't get to see much of Eric in the previews that we got either from following people (at least I hope they are people) on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook. 

Here's a clear shot of what he looks like! Don't mind the guy on the left, he's just the director. It's totally because he's not important to the film. Of course he's important, he decides how well the movie is going to be and if we're gonna go crazy for it.

This was the first picture to be revealed and it shows where Tris replaced Al as a target for Four to throw knives at. Because you know, Four thinks the perfect way to make a girl fall for you is to throw knives at her and tell her that you'll only go to her funeral if there's cake.

This picture makes people's hearts pound. But there's not really anything to be afraid of as Shailene says at Comic Con, view it here. There was a glass to prevent her from any harm while this was being shot. Whatever didn't hit the target, made it to the glass. I would still say that's a freaky experience.

 "First jumper" Tris. Welcome to Dauntless. So this is where Beatrice Prior from Abnegation makes her jump into Tris Prior of Dauntless. 

All those expecting Dauntless people. Stop bullying! It's not nice! 

If you look closely at the picture, there's Eric (or Max from the book) on the side with one hand over the other.

Be brave. Everything changes from here.

 At this still, you see Tris given her aptitude test by Tori, who supposedly is to have a black blazer on.

Looking from this, I'm thinking that Beatrice's results will be put into a machine through that thing around her head. In the book, students have to drink a serum and have electrodes placed around their head. I guess it's too Sci-Fi  for them to do.

This is probably the part where Tris, Christina, and Al are going to play paintball (?) I see that in the pictures above when Tris and Four go to get the Ferris wheel, Tris' clothes are different. What are we supposed to think of this?

I think that it is safe to say that the Choosing Ceremony is what is pictured right now. I would have thought that maybe it was the aptitude test, but that's kinda ruled out with a) the lady in the picture b) it's an auditorium.

The gray everywhere shows that this is the Abnegation all put together as where other factions stay with their own during the Ceremony.

This still is obviously focused on Caleb and Tris, (I don't think I need to say left to right, now, do I?)

This is Jeanine Matthews, the genius but not the mastermind behind everything as later revealed in the next book.

This crazy lady that we hated is very professional and I would say fit's her role as Jeanine. In this picture Kate is doing well with a black blazer and a blue shirt under. There's that nice touch of Erudite so she's not just wearing Dauntless black.


Here is target practice again, without the knives and with a gun. Dauntless initiation for you. It's very much unlike Abnegation where everyone just does a couple hours of community service and whatnot.

Dauntless is also the faction which creates the most Factionless members. Back to the picture.

As always, Four is trying to look cunning at practice. In the last picture with the punching bags, same expression. Scroll up and look at it if you would like. I personally think that Four had an easier attitude than Theo here.

Tris has both of her eyes open as she aims to shoot the gun in her hand. I think I would have already closed one of my eyes. That's why I'd be dead before I ever made it into Dauntless and got accepted.

I have no freaking idea why Four's wearing a jacket in this. Everyone around him is a tank tops or short sleeves. Is her really that cold? Sorry, bad pun.

You can see two people fighting in the background and another just standing like a douche ready to be hit.

I wonder what the discussion is about. They both seem quite serious. Hey look, it's the signature scowl again!

Yes, leave the climax to the end, Iz. Of course you have to do that.

If anyone remembers that is Al on the right. Two ninja like people are holding Tris back as she's thrashing. What's happening in this still? I really want to see the movie because of this. (Okay, I know. I'm lying. I know what's going on and what will happen. It's still true that I want to see the movie though!)

Is it a betrayal? I think so. What do you people who haven't read the book think?

Signed,
Iz

P.S. This took so  long to write. No kidding. I spent like 4 hours doing the research and then posting all  the stills and links that especially funny gif you saw.

The Book Thief

I've heard a lot about the book The Book Thief. It's written by Marcus Zusak, and it's about a girl who lives in Europe during World War II. A lot of people have raved about it, so when I saw this trailer, I checked it out. You can check it out too!

http://youtu.be/92EBSmxinus

I really want to see this movie now!! What about you?

 – Nick

Divergent teaser trailer!

A teaser trailer for the Divergent movie was just released!!!!! You can see it here!!

Update (again): Here it is!!!

It's only twelve seconds, but a lot goes on in those twelve seconds!! Let's discuss.

The first four seconds have Tori telling Tris she is Divergent. She also says, "They can't control you." That's a little odd, as at that point in the book, there wasn't any mention of anyone controlling anyone. Also, the screen cuts to a shot of Jeanine walking (like a bad ass) during the "they", which is definitely an implication that Jeanine is the "they". Readers of the book know that Jeanine is not a big factor until the latter half of the book, well after Tris meets Tori. I guess we'll have to wait and see whether this was a huge plot change or just sloppy editing.

Then, for three seconds, we cut to an extremely confusing cut of a bunch of dark-clad people running towards Tris. (???) Tobias comes out of nowhere and says, "If you want to survive, come with me." Does anyone else remember a scene like that in the book?

We then have a two-second cut of a bunch of great-looking training scenes, but they flash by and we don't see enough.

The final three seconds are given to a cut of Beatrice and Christina jumping off a train; it's the same scene as this picture (although from a different angle). That scene definitely looks cool.

All in all, the teaser looks great, but it's really way too short to judge the movie by. What did you guys think?


- Nick

The House of Hades

It's not very comfortable waiting for a book. Especially if the wait is in one-year intervals each time. You won't have to look at the back of the book to know when the next one will be published. However, you might want to know the name. That keeps you psyched.


The House of Hades by Rick Riordan is so close, yet so far. The release date is October 8th. I know. It feels so much closer than it did last Autumn when Mark of Athena was out. October 8, 2013 is a Tuesday so if you either head to the bookstore right away or had it pre-ordered, it probably won't be in your hands until the weekend.

John Rocco did great with the cover. I checked, the cover was revealed on March 31. That kept me very excited the whole time I was in school. The moment dismissal rang, I rummaged through my book bag for my phone and was totally freaking out. Unfortunately, the school still blocks connection so I had to get out of the damned building and then, finally see the picture.


Percy and Annabeth in Tartarus, facing the doors of Death! Yay, at least they made it that far! From my conclusions (written below), Percabeth makes it through the their journey, so people: don't fret.


Ok for all our fretting PJO Percabeth shippers since the Mark of Athena ended in a cliffhanger, I want to say that both Percy and Annabeth get out of Tartarus alive.

For those that have read the Son of Sobek, Carter says Percy looks 17 and Percy talks about the Doors of Death and Annabeth. From that we can conclude, he made it out alive and Annabeth is mentioned happily, so happy ending, everyone.

Share if you think so too and spread the word.

Signed,

Iz

Allegiant

I've read Divergent and Insurgent by Veronica Roth. The books were totally great. Action-packed with just enough romance that maybe, -I'm saying maybe because I've always been a independent non-girly girl- a girly girl will like.

The release date for the last book in the trilogy will be October 22, the same day of the next month that Catching Fire will be hitting theatres. The fans also know that the name for the book will be Allegiant. (Cover below)

Before the title was released to the general public, I remember that majority thought the name would be "Convergent". 

The wave on the color looks different with the red background. Anyways, if you can't see it the top of the book says:

ONE CHOICE WILL DEFINE YOU

Pretty interesting right? The poster on my wall in front of my writing desk the poster from the collectors edition of Insurgent.

We're all in the wait. Fangirls and fanboys we're the same.

So while we wait and we don't want to be kept waiting, it's all good because the authors need their time. I'm a fanfiction writer; it works the same way.

Have a laugh.

ONE CHOICE CAN CLEANSE YOU

Signed,
Iz

P.S. I did update earlier than I said. I'll see if I can fit some time in tomorrow.