Shannon’s Comments (group member since Jun 22, 2011)

Shannon’s comments from the Enchanting Lexis group.

Ok so the winners are....
The signed Hardcover copy of Fallen:
is Stacey! I dont know your last name..

And the winners of the 3 signed book marks are:
Alice Priday
Melinda (dont know your last name)
and
Ellen Trieu

If you haven't already got an email from me, it means I havent got it, so could you please respond to this post with your email address, failure to do so within 7 days will result in a re-draw for your prize.

Ok ill start :-D

My favourite book is Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier. Now, I adore all of Juliet's books, but this one would have to be my favourite.

"A beautiful retelling of the Celtic "Swans" myth, Daughter of the Forest is a mixture of history and fantasy, myth and magic, legend and love... To reclaim the lives of her brothers, Sorcha leaves the only safe place she has ever known and embarks on a journey filled with pain, loss and terror. When she is kidnapped by enemy forces and taken to a foreign land, it seems that there will be no way for Sorcha to break the spell that condemns all that she loves. But magic knows no boundaries, and Sorcha will have to choose between the life she has always known and a love that comes only once."

Its full of adventure, intrigue, celtic mythology and of course, romance. The writing is beautiful, as is the story itself.

I would reccommend this one to older teens and adults, as there are some themes in the book that would be a bit too mature for younger teens.

So far I have reccommended this to everyone who asks me for a book reccommendation. I love this book, and It has not moved from the No.1 spot scince i first read it when I was 16.

So this one is all about spruking your favourite book, why you love it so much, how you found it, who you would reccomend it to...etc
Feel free to put in a small teaser as well :-P

Hi Diana,
Are you as excited about Bloodlines as I am???? Only a few more weeks here in Australia till i can get my hands on a copy :-D

While at the Lauren Kate event, as well as getting my own hardcover Fallen series books signed, I managed to pick up a Hardcover edition of the first book in the series, Fallen, that I had signed by Lauren to giveaway to one lucky member on the Enchanting Lexis Facebook and Goodreads pages. I also have 3 signed Passion Bookmarks to give to 3 other members.

So thats 4 prizes in total. Lots of chances for you to win something :-D

Okay so there are a few rules/prerequisites for this giveaway. As the Enchanting Lexis book pages are both fairly new, I need your help in spreading the word. I love meeting fellow bookies such as myself! So here's what you need to do to eneter:
- "Like" the Enchanting Lexis Facebook page. (1 point)
- Join the Enchanting Lexis book group on the Goodreads site. (1 point)
- Spread the word about this giveaway! (1 point)
- And so that I know who has entered, leave a comment at the end of this post, in this discussion (Fallen Giveaway!!, as I cannot accept entries through the Facebook page) With your name and if possible, a link to where you spread the word, as well as the total amount of entry points (a maximum total of 5). (You can get 2 points for this one) Feel free to tell me how you discovered the Fallen series and what you thought about it, if you have a review for it, leave me a link, I'd love to read it :-) (The review bit is not compulsory)

This is an international giveaway, because its the first kinda big one I've done :-)

Entries will close on the 31st of August (Australian Eastern Standard time) and I will notify the winners via a post on both the Goodreads and Facebook pages. If you have won something, I will then ask you to email me your address to the Enchanting Lexis email, which I will provide when the winners are announced (however, you can also find the email on the info tab on the Facebook page) All personal information will be kept confidential and deleted when you have notified me about you receiving your prizes.

I think Ive covered everything, If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact me. Also Introduce yourself once you've joined the Goodreads Enchanting Lexis Group so I know who I'm talking to, let me know what your favourite book is, and what your most looking forward to being released. This will aid me in deciding what to do for future giveaways :-P

Good luck and Happy reading :-D

On Friday 5th of August I got the opportunity to meet the lovely author of the fantastic Fallen series, Lauren Kate.

There were about 40-50 people at this event, ranging in ages, but all sharing the love and interest in these books. Lauren arrived to the lovely book shop that is Riverbend book store at Bulimba, who has, against all odds, remained a thriving and busy little shop despite the boom of online book shopping.

Lauren started the event off with introducing herself and talking with the group about how much she has loved touring Australia. This was the second last stop on her Fallen book tour, and you could see that she was getting a little tired, as you do when you have about 3 different book signings/events in the one day immediately after each other, right across captial cities and sometimes states!

She did a reading of her latest book in the series, Passion, explaing the process of writing it and even describing how Passion was initially contracted to be a prequal to the Fallen trilogy. However, Lauren felt that she didnt want to distrupt the flow of the story and incorporated the prequal elements of the story into a continuation of the overall series.

Questions were then asked about Lauren and her writign process and the Fallen series in general. Laren described who some of the characters were based on (in particular her husband (naw, cute!) and someone with particularly droolworthy abs :-P, i think we know which character Im referring to here...)

Lauren was gracious in entertaining our fangirl requests of signing multpile copies of books and book marks, taking photos with everyone and having conversations with each group that came. Yes, there was aso the opportunity to have a photo on the poster backdrop of the Fallen book cover, and yes, I did this too, but I didnt pose, I just took a photo with a friend :-P.

Lauren was wonderful, a beautiful person and enjoyable to talk and listen to. The Fallen series is set to conclude in June 2012, with Rapture. But there are many other works in progress including short stories to entertain us while we wait for Rapture, as well as her other novel, The betrayal of Natalie Hargrave.

Check out the other discussion for the Enchanting Lexis page about the Giveaway!!

Happy reading :-D

Brittany wrote: "Ello my name is Brittany I love to read Paranormal and YA books. I mostly started reading when The Series of Unfortunate Events books came out. And my favorite book is Maximum Ride: Fang it was a h..."

Lol I remember those series of unfortunate events books! Did you like the movie adaptation of the first one? Did they ever do any more?

Mikila wrote: "Hey I'm Mikila but hate that so everyone calls me Mickey and has since I could walk =D
When I was a teen my fave books were crime/horror/mystery but I can't get into those anymore. YA/Paranormal Ro..."

Ha ha 12 books isnt really that many, and besides reading depends on moods. what happens when you feel like reading a particular book and you dont have anything like it?! Sacrilege!! ha ha, but I know what you mean with the TBR pile growing and growing, I think as it stands I have about 15 books to read and a few more on the way in the mail - And THATS IT! No more, someone slap me next time i try to buy a book lol :-P

Tammy wrote: "Hi all :)
I'm Tammy, I live in Ontario, Canada. I'm a stay at home mom, I have 3 kids, (1 child and 2 dogs) a 7yr boy, and 2, 4 legged kids.
I don't have 1 favorite, I have many favorites, I lo..."

Another Kelley Armstrong fan! What have I been doing all these years to have completely skipped over these books?!

Annmarie wrote: "hi im annmarie (waves)
i love ya book horror fantasy paranormal adventure i do read adult books but only if there not over written lol

the two books that started me reading where harry potter and..."

HAHA Annmarie, I just bought that trilogy after hearing you talk bout it on your page! I hope I like them as much as you do :-D

Alice wrote: "Amarabati wrote: "Alice wrote: "hey im alice :)
i read anything except twilight,
my first love was historical romance and then as i got older and joined facebook groups they got me into reading d..."

I know what you mean, and I hope the same doesnt happen to City of Bones and the Hunger Games when those movies are made!

Amarabati wrote: "Alice wrote: "hey im alice :)
i read anything except twilight,
my first love was historical romance and then as i got older and joined facebook groups they got me into reading different genres ..."

Lol I think I can have a go at answering that one!(cause I tell people all the time why I love it and love it not so much) Although Alice definately feel free to contradict me.


First of all, I love Twilight...the books, the movies kinda ruined it for me a little, but ive moved on from that now i think lol.

They are good books, and i read them twice after i first got them (i finished them and then kept thinking about them so i read them again lol) so for a while i was in my own little world where twilight was good, and fantastic and brilliant. But I also hadn't really read anything else in thet genre (plenty of history and literature etc, but not actually much YA or paranormal) so my veiw was limited.
looking back now, there are a few flaws that make the book - for me- not so fantastic as it originally was. Like the fact that Bella ceases to live after Edward leaves her, or the fact that she never fully gets why Edward is in love with her (got a little annoying) and the fact that there isnt really much action! Even the big fight scene had nothing much to it. Although i will concede by saying there were a few good fights in it.

Also people read books differently. So while I may LOVE a book, some else might hate it equally as much.

lol so thats why it lost a few stars when i'd re-read after all the hype was over. Still a good read but also changed slightly as i got older and wiser (ha ha)

So Ill get us started!
My Name is Shannon, and like I said add me so I can follow all ur reviews :-)

I like to read mostly YA(which is a pretty broad genre now) so ill narrow that one down and say YA/paranormal/adventure/romance, but I have a good collection of Fantasy and Historical fiction as well. Oh and I have also started to love Dystopians!

The book that started me reading (seriously reading) was Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier, which also happens to be my all time favourite book. In fact I reccomend all of Juliet's books! :-)

Hello peeps!
My name is Shannon, and you can add me as a friend with your goodreads account as well as this one if you like, I love reading everyones reviews!

This discussion is all about introducing yourself to me and to one another. So what we want to know is:
1. your name! Very important I think
2. What you like to read
3. What got you started reading, what was the book that started it all?
4. What is your all time, first book you grab when theres a fire, practically toothpick your friends eyes open to read, most favourite book?