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| Which book do you choose for October's book of the month? |
| The Magicians' Guild - Trudi Canavan |
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14% |
[ 11 ] |
| Daggerspell - Katherine Kerr |
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14% |
[ 11 ] |
| Sabriel - Garth Nix |
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30% |
[ 24 ] |
| Storm Born - Richelle Mead |
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15% |
[ 12 ] |
| Graceling - Kriston Cashore |
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25% |
[ 20 ] |
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| Total Votes : 78 |
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Vogue Muffin___x Vice Captain
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 Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:06 am
The shortlist has been chosen early, as there have been no extra votes over the last week.
The shortlist was carefully chosen, so that the books would appeal to the majority of the guild.
If you wish to discuss any of the other books that were nominated, you can still do so in the general book discussion forums.
I shall list the shortlist of books for the month of October and their synopsis' in the next post so you can all make your decision.
The winning book will be announced on the morning of the 1st of October smile
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Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:07 am
The Magicians' Guild by Trudi Canavan Quote: Each year the magicians of Imardin gather together to purge the city streets of vagrants, urchins and miscreants. Masters of the disciplines of magic, they know that no one can oppose them. But their protective shield is not as impenetrable as they believe. Sonea, angry, frustrated and outraged by the treatment of her family and friends, hurls a stone at the shield, putting all her rage behind it. To the amazement of all who bear witness, the stone passes unhindered through the barrier and renders a magician unconscious. The guild's worst fear has been realised ...There is an untrained magician loose on the streets. She must be found before her uncontrolled powers unleash forces that will destroy both her, and the city that is her home. Daggerspell by Katherine Kerr Quote: In a world outside reality, a young girl's spirit hovers between incarnations, knowing neither her past nor her future. In the temporal world lives Nevyn, who long ago vanquished the maiden's hand in marriage and forged a terrible bond between three souls. Now he must atone the wrong of his youth. Sabriel by Garth Nix Quote: Sent to a boarding school in Ancelstierre as a young child, Sabriel has had little experience with the random power of Free Magic or the Dead who refuse to stay dead in the Old Kingdom. But during her final semester, her father, the Abhorsen, goes missing, and Sabriel knows she must enter the Old Kingdom to find him. She soon finds companions in Mogget, a cat whose aloof manner barely conceals its malevolent spirit, and Touchstone, a young Charter Mage long imprisoned by magic, now free in body but still trapped by painful memories. As the three travel deep into the Old Kingdom, threats mount on all sides. And every step brings them closer to a battle that will pit them against the true forces of life and death--and bring Sabriel face-to-face with her own destiny. With "Sabriel," the first installment in the Abhorsen trilogy, Garth Nix exploded onto the fantasy scene as a rising star, in a novel that takes readers to a world where the line between the living and the dead isn't always clear--and sometimes disappears altogether. Storm Born by Richelle Mead Quote: Just typical. No love life to speak of for months, then all at once, every horny creature in the Otherworld wants to get in your pants...Eugenie Markham is a powerful shamen who does a brisk trade banishing spirits and fey who cross into the mortal world. Mercenary, yes, but a girl's got to eat. Her most recent case, however, is enough to ruin her appetite. Hired to find a teenager who has been taken to the Otherworld, Eugenie comes face to face with a startling prophecy - one that uncovers dark secrets about her past and claims that Eugenie's first-born will threaten the future of the world as she knows it.Now Eugenie is a hot target for every ambitious demon and Otherworldy ne'er-do-well, and the ones who don't want to knock her up want her dead. Eugenie handles a Glock as smoothly as she wields a wand, but she needs some formidable allies for a job like this. She finds them in Dorian, a seductive fairy king with a taste for bondage, and Kiyo, a gorgeous shape-shifter who redefines animal attraction. But with enemies growing bolder and time running out, Eugenie realizes that the greatest danger is yet to come, and it lies in the dark powers that are stirring to life within her. Graceling by Kriston Cashore Quote: In a world where people born with an exceptional skill, known as a Grace, are feared and exploited, Katsa carries the burden of a skill even she despises: the Grace of killing. She lives under the command of her Uncle Randa, King of the Middluns, and is expected to carry out his dirty work, punnishing and torturing anyone who displeases him. Breaking arms and cutting off fingers are her stock-in-trade. Finding life under his rule increasingly unbearable Katsa forms an underground Council, whose purpose is to combat the destructive behavior of the seven kings - after all, the Middluns is only one of the seven kingdoms, and each of them is ruled its own king with his own personal agenda for power. When the Council hears that the King of Liend's father has been kidnapped Katsa investigates . . . and stumbles across a mystery. Who would want to kidnap him, and why? And who was the extraordinary Graced fighter who challenged her fighting skills, for the first time, as she and the Council rushed the old man to saftey? Something dark and deadly is rising in the north and creeping across the continent, and behind it all lurks the shadowy figure of a one eyed king . . . Product descriptions taken from Amazon.
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Vogue Muffin___x Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:28 pm
Ahhh! They all sound so good! I can't choose! This is gonna take a lot of thought and decisive thinking..... hmmmmmmmmm......... gonk sweatdrop confused
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Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:09 pm
I really want to read Graceling the most~ :3
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Vogue Muffin___x Vice Captain
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Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:27 am
The Sixth L I really want to read Graceling the most~ :3 Haha, I voted Graceling too! smile
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Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:31 am
I voted Sabriel only because my roommate has a huge Garth Nix collection and I wouldn't have to expend any effort to get it. mrgreen
Score one for lazyness.
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Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 8:52 am
i voted the magicians guild. i figured if i liked harry potter this would be entertaining.
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Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:59 pm
Storm Born sounds very interesting. I want to read that!
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Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 3:58 pm
Daggerspell was the only one that sounded interesting...
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Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 4:01 pm
And neither of my libraries has Daggerspell
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Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 4:26 pm
I've never read anything by any of these authors, so I guess it will be a new experience for me either way.
I do have a couple of Katherine Kerr's books in my (huge) pile of books to be read, so I voted for Daggerspell as well.
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Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 8:22 pm
All the books are about magical girls!
I voted for Daggerspell because... it had the shortest description. And is possibly about a male.
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Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 8:38 pm
The Great Owl All the books are about magical girls! I voted for Daggerspell because... it had the shortest description. And is possibly about a male. A good majority of readers (who read story books, anyway) are female and most females prefer to read about other girls having whimsical adventures and triumphing over all odds. I personally don't care so long as its interesting.
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Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 1:37 pm
RenkonNairu The Great Owl All the books are about magical girls! I voted for Daggerspell because... it had the shortest description. And is possibly about a male. A good majority of readers (who read story books, anyway) are female and most females prefer to read about other girls having whimsical adventures and triumphing over all odds. I personally don't care so long as its interesting. I like watching girls and my boy characters going through pain and hard times mostly biggrin Not whimsical adventures. The only book that was really a whimsical adventure that I've read anytime recently was the book Goose Chase.
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Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 5:11 pm
AAAAAAAAAAH!! sabriel is way freaking sweet and BUT SO IS GRACELING DUDES YOU GOTTA READ IT IF IT WINS OR IT DOESN"T!!!!!!!! xd It has got to be one of the best books ever!! blaugh
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