.#Review #Giveaway Shadowhunters And Downworlders

Shadowhunters and Downworlders:
 A Mortal Instruments Reader (The Mortal Instruments)

by Cassandra Clare (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Holly Black (Goodreads Author), Kate Milford (Goodreads Author), Diana Peterfreund (Goodreads Author), Sara Ryan (Goodreads Author), Scott Tracey (Goodreads Author), Robin Wasserman (Goodreads Author), Kendare Blake (Goodreads Author) , more…Gwenda Bond (Goodreads Author), Sarah Rees Brennan (Goodreads Author), Rachel Caine, Sarah Cross (Goodreads Author), Kami Garcia (Goodreads Author), Michelle Hodkin (Goodreads Author), Kelly Link

Paperback, 256 pages

Published January 29th 2013 by SmartPop

*Received ARC Copy from SmartPop for review
Goodreads

Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments series, epic urban fantasy set in a richly imagined world of shadowhunters, vampires, werewolves, fairies, and more, has captured the imaginations and loyalty of hundreds of thousands of YA readers. Originally a trilogy (City of Bones, City of Ashes, City of Glass), the series has extended to six titles, plus a prequel trilogy, the Infernal Devices, and a planned sequel series, the Dark Artifices. A feature film is planned for 2013.

Shadowhunters and Downworlders, edited by Clare (who provides an introduction to the book and to each piece), is a collection of YA authors writing about the series and its world.

Introduction by Cassandra Clare

Unhomely Places by Kate Milford

The Art of War by Sarah Cross

Sharper Than a Seraph Blade by Diana Peterfreund

When Laws Are Made to Be Broken by Robin Wasserman

Simon Lewis: Jewish, Vampire, Hero by Michelle Hodkin

Why the Best Friend Never Gets the Girl by Kami Garcia

Brotherly Love by Kendare Blake

Asking for a Friend by Gwenda Bond

(Not) for Illustration Purposes Only by Rachel Caine

The Importance of Being Malec by Sara Ryan

Villains, Valentine, and Virtue by Scott Tracey

Immortality and Its Discontents by Kelly Link and Holly Black

What Does That Deviant Wench Think She’s Doing? Or, Shadowhunters Gone Wild The Dirty Side Of Demon Hunting by Sarah Rees Brennan

 

 

 

 



Shadowhunters and Downworlders  is a collection of stories and opinions based on the highly acclaimed Mortal Instruments Series. With over twelve shorts, essays in fact, by YA authors. We get an insight of the Mortal Instruments world and delve deeper into what makes this series successful. Now, I must admit I didn't read the whole book word for word, I read the beginnings of each short and then decided weather or not to finish the rest of the short or go on to the next one. Having said that I'm going to share with you the shorts that I read and will review them below

 

 

Favorite Essay-

 

Why the Best Friend Never Gets the Girl by Kami Garcia

 

Kami delivers to us the age old bff's between male/female and why they never hook-up. Simon and Clary in the S&D series are just that BFF's,

 Her reference to some of John Hughes films are spot on. Being a huge fan of Mr. Hughes films I totally connected with what she penned.

 

Pretty In Pink- Duckie and Andie- Duckie loved Andie, as well as Andie loved Duckie, but it never, ever would cross the line to be more. Duckie, of course doesn't see it that way, as he tries to make Andie jealous, and in reference to the movie Simon does the same to Clary.

 

Other films she delved into, Sixteen Candles, St. Elmo's Fire, The Outsiders, and more.

 

 

 

Other fav. essay's

 

Brotherly Love by Kendare Blake   - Jace and Clary and why we accept and want them together.

 

(Not) For Illustration Purposes Only by Rachel Caine -Tattoo's and the markings and power of the Shadowhunters. 

 

Immortality and its Discontents by Kelly Link and Holly Black -A back and forth interview type bantor between these two authors about Mortal Intruments

 

Sharper Than A Seraph Blade by Diana Peterfreund -Weapons, and the best weapon of them all -Carried by Jace  -humor, and why it works.

 

 

 

 

 Overall a good edition to The Mortal Instruments collection and a must for fans!

 

 

 

 

3/5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

•  I'm giving away my ARC copy of this book.
• Open Int.
• Giveaway 3/7-3/21
• Winner will be notified by e-mail and will have 48hrs. to respond or another winner will be chosen

 

 

 

 

 

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Dark Shadows Movie Trailer -Johnny Depp

Alright, I must admit I wasn't sure if I cared for Johnny Depp dressed up as a pasty vampire freak, but he does make it look soo good. Dark Shadows was actually a TV series back in the 70's. A kind of soap opera. I guess it was similar to The Adams Family. I have never watched it or actually heard of Dark Shadows, so this movie will be an all new treat for me.
You know anything with Johnny Depp in it is a must see!!!

Storyline
Director Tim Burton brings the cult classic series "Dark Shadows" to the big screen in a gothic comedy featuring an all-star cast, led by Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer and Helena Bonham Carter.


In the year 1752, Joshua and Naomi Collins, with young son Barnabas, set sail from Liverpool, England to start a new life in America. But even an ocean was not enough to escape the mysterious curse that has plagued their family. Two decades pass and Barnabas (Johnny Depp) has the world at his feet-or at least the town of Collinsport, Maine. The master of Collinwood Manor, Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy...until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green). A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire, and then burying him alive. Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin. The dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better each harboring their own dark secrets. Matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer) has called upon live-in psychiatrist, Dr. Julia Hoffman (Helena Bonham Carter), to help with her family troubles.


A Warner Bros. Pictures presentation in association with Village Roadshow Pictures, an Infinitum Nihil/GK Films/Zanuck Company production, a Tim Burton film, "Dark Shadows" is slated to open on May 11, 2012, and will be distributed worldwide in theatres and IMAX by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, and in select territories by Village Roadshow Pictures.







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THE DARK KNIGHT RISES MOVIE TRAILER



Even though I'm not a huge fan of the Dark Knight Series, I had to share this movie trailer with you.

The first trailer is the official one, the second trailer is a Lego Trailer of the same movie, fimed by http://paranickfilmz.co.nr/ and let me tell you IT IS COOL!!  

Loved it!!

 So, compare the two and see The Dark Knight in theaters July 20, 2012.