Month: March 2014

Mar 31

Best of the Bunch & Challenge Updates – March 2014

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Best of the Bunch is a book blog hop hosted over at Always Lost in Stories on the last day of each month, where we can look back over the books we have read over this past month and give a Best of the Bunch award to our favorite book of that month. March 2014 I read so many amazing books this month! I can’t believe how many 4.5 and 5 star reviews I posted! This month I reviewed the following: This Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales | Review | Rating: 4.5/5 The Star Thief by Jamie Grey | Review | Rating 4.5/5 Saving Quinton by Jessica Sorenson | Review | Rating 5/5 The Violet Hour by Whitney A Miller | Review | Rating 4/5 Almost by Anne Eliot | Review | Rating 4.5/5 Hopeless by Colleen Hoover | Review | Rating 5/5 All of You by Christina Lee | Review | Rating 3.5/5 Golden Stair by Jennifer Blackstream | Review | Rating 5/5 Don’t Even Think About It by Sarah Mlynowski | Review | Rating 3.5/5 True North: Finding Home by Allie Juliette Mousseau | Review 5/5… Read more »

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Mar 30

Sunday Post & Giveaways Galore – 3/30/14

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The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer ~ It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on my blog and share news about what’s coming up in the week ahead. Last week on FYFA:Wow! I have been a busy little bee lately. I’ve been reading A LOT and I’m not completely keeping up with reviewing even though I’ve been posting every day (you’ll notice my Reviews Coming Soon list in the left sidebar keeps getting longer!). I promise you’ll see reviews for all of these books coming soon. Maybe I’d better take a day to just write reviews and not allow myself to read!!Here’s what you may have missed this past week on my blog: Before You Break by Christina Lee (review) Twelve Steps by Veronica Bartles (excerpt & giveaway) – Still time to enter to win! Ellie Stanton by Aurora Zahni (excerpt & giveaway)… Read more »

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Mar 30

Middle Grade Spotlight – Grimmtastic Girls by Joan Holub & Suzanne Williams

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I thought I’d highlight another middle grade series that I reviewed over on my MG blog – Best Kids’ Reads. This series features super cute retellings of some of our favorite fairy tales, It includes lots of fun nods to the original stories, but gives them all a definite twist. And it’s perfect for middle grade girls! You can read my review of the first two books in this series (including some of my daughter’s impressions) HERE! (Plus, there’s a $50 giveaway running right now as well!)

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Mar 29

Need BEA Advice!! Pretty please!

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I’m hoping to be able to go to BEA this year, but I haven’t set anything up yet because I’m nervous about the details. So, is anyone else going this year? Have you gone in past years? (Know someone else who has? Send them over here, please!) How easy is it to get around? What hotel should I get a room at? (Is there anything that won’t cost me an arm and a leg? Anyone looking for a roommate?) Are there specific events that I should definitely get to? Anything I should skip? Any other advice you can give me? I know there’s other stuff I should be asking, but I don’t know where to start! I appreciate any advice anyone can give me – I need that kick in the pants so that I’ll make that final leap and just go! I really, really want to!! (But… Read more »

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Mar 29

Review – Obsession by Jennifer L. Armentrout

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Title: Obsession Series: NA spin-off of the Lux series Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout Release Date: May, 2013 Pages: 275 Goodreads Rating: 4.16 Stars My Rating: 4.5/5 Stars My Content Rating: 18+ (Explicit sex) Summary from Goodreads: This is a stand alone novel that is an adult spin-off of the Lux Series. You do not need to read a Lux book to read Obsession and vice versa. He’s arrogant, domineering, and… To. Die. For. Hunter is a ruthless killer. And the Department of Defense has him firmly in their grasp, which usually doesn’t chafe too badly because he gets to kill bad guys. Most of the time he enjoys his job. That is, until he’s saddled with something he’s never had to do before: protect a human from his mortal enemy. Serena Cross didn’t believe her best friend when she claimed to have seen the son of a powerful senator turn into something… unnatural. Who would? But then she witnesses her friend’s… Read more »

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Mar 28

Review – The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay

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Title: The Sea of Tranquility Author: Katja Millay Release Date: 2012 Pages: 448 Goodreads Rating: 4.48 Stars My Rating: 5/5 Stars My Content Rating: Mature YA (Sex shown, but not explicit; Violence described, but again, not explicitly) Summary from Goodreads: I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifters, no angels or superhuman boys to save you. A place where people die and music disintegrates and things suck. I am pressed so hard against the earth by the weight of reality that some days I wonder how I am still able to lift my feet to walk. Former piano prodigy Nastya Kashnikov wants two things: to get through high school without anyone learning about her past and to make the boy who took everything from her—her identity, her spirit, her will to live—pay. Josh Bennett’s story is no secret: every person he loves has been taken from his life… Read more »

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Mar 23

Sunday Post & Giveaways Galore – 3/23/14

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The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer ~ It’s a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on my blog and share news about what’s coming up in the week ahead. Last week on FYFA:Here’s what you may have missed last week: Alive by Megan D. Martin (spotlight & giveaway) – Still time to enter! Don’t Even Think About It by Sarah Mlynowski (review) True North: Finding Home by Allie Juliette Mousseau (review & giveaway) – Still time to enter to win a $25 gift card or LOTS of other prizes! Angelfall by Susan Ee (Random Reads review) Severed Colours by Dawna Raver (Random Reads review) Feature & Follow Friday – Changing Reading Habits My Life From Hell by Tellulah Darling (except & giveaway) – Still time to enter to win signed copies of all of the books in the series! The Lost Girl by Sangu Mandanna (review) Coming this week on FYFA: Before You Break by Christina… Read more »

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Mar 21

Feature & Follow Friday – Changing Reading Habits

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Gain new followers and make new friends with the Book Blogger Feature & Follow! This is a blog hop that allows bloggers to gain new followers and find some awesome new blogs to follow themselves! The Feature & Follow is hosted by TWO hosts, Parajunkee of Parajunkee’s View and Alison of Alison Can Read. Each host has a blog that they feature each week! So, if you’re a blogger, come join in on the fun! Here’s today’s question – Question of the Week: How have your reading habits changed in the past few years? Did you get interested in a new genre? Do you read more? Less? Why do you think your habits changed, if they did. My reading habits have definitely changed in the past few years. I was a voracious reader as a kid and all through high school, but then stopped reading for the most part in college… Read more »

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Mar 19

Random Reads Review – Angelfall by Susan Ee

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Title: Angelfall Series: Penryn & the End of Days #1 Author: Susan Ee Release Date: 2011 Pages: 283 Goodreads Rating: 4.24 stars My Rating: 4.5/5 stars My Content Rating: 16+ (Violence) Summary from Goodreads: It’s been six weeks since angels of the apocalypse descended to demolish the modern world. Street gangs rule the day while fear and superstition rule the night. When warrior angels fly away with a helpless little girl, her seventeen-year-old sister Penryn will do anything to get her back. Anything, including making a deal with an enemy angel. Raffe is a warrior who lies broken and wingless on the street. After eons of fighting his own battles, he finds himself being rescued from a desperate situation by a half-starved teenage girl. Traveling through a dark and twisted Northern California, they have only each other to rely on for survival. Together, they journey toward the angels’ stronghold in San Francisco where she’ll risk everything to rescue her sister… Read more »

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Mar 18

Review & $25 Giveaway – True North: Finding Home by Allie Juliette Mousseau

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Title: True North: Finding Home Series: True North Book #1 Author: Allie Juliette Mousseau Genre: New Adult Romance (18+ – Contains explicit sex) Release Date: March 17, 2014 Summary from Goodreads: “When you’re lost… True North” The North brothers were hell on wheels-adrenaline-junky bad boys. You’d think they had a death wish – every one of them – but they didn’t really, they just got off on the thrill of pushing every limit, that gravity or any other force told them they couldn’t conquer. What they weren’t prepared for were the women that would steal their hearts… Livie Morrisey is dreading seeing Jake after his heroic homecoming from Afghanistan. She’s been in love with Jake North since she was a little girl, but he’s three-and-a-half years older than her and her big brother’s best friend. She was always nothing but the off-limits little sister – until the night before Jake left for… Read more »

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