Month: June 2014

Jun 30

Best of the Bunch – June 2014

Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction Best of the Bunch, Monthly Recap 0

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. June 2014I’ve felt l’ve been in a little bit of a reading slump this month (no horrible books, just books that were good, but not great). But when I look back over my reviews, I realize that it was better than I remembered. It’s nice to put it in perspective! This month I reviewed the following: The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker | Review | Rating: 5/5 Of Stardust by February Grace | Review | Rating 4/5 I Am the Weapon by Allen Zadoff | Review | Rating 4.5/5 Time Return by Micah Caida | Review | Rating 4/5 Time Lock by Micah Caida | Review | Rating 4.5/5 Knife of Dreams by Robert Jordan | Review | Rating 4/5 Rematch by… Read more »

Keep Reading

Jun 30

Random Reads Review – After the Parch by Sheldon Greene

Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction Random Reads, Reviews 0 ★★★½

Title: After the Parch Author: Sheldon Greene Release Date: March 1, 2014 Pages: 220 Goodreads Rating: 3.10 Stars My Rating: 3.5/5 Stars My Content Rating: Adult (Sex, including sex involving a child; Some violence) Summary from Goodreads: It’s 2075. California is nothing like we know it. The USA has broken up and California has become an independent refuge dominated by a single omnipotent corporation. Eighteen-year-old Bran, a shepherd, is given a mission to traverse the California republic in ten days, in order to save his rural community from forfeiting its land. On the way, he teams up with a seventeen-year-old girl who has the skills and prowess of a warrior, an eleven-year-old wild boy with uncanny survival skills, and a wandering musician with a secret revolutionary agenda. After the Parch is a fast-paced, vivid, dystopian fantasy with a chilling resemblance to the way we are, and a vision of what we might become. This is one… Read more »

Keep Reading

Jun 29

Sunday Post & Giveaways Galore 6/29/14

Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction Sunday Post 0

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:On Friday, I was featured over on The Masquerade Crew! Head over there to check it out and to learn a bit more about me!I haven’t been doing as many tours this month because I’m trying to catch up on reading some books from my TBR that I haven’t gotten to yet (and some BEA books and random review books). So, not too many giveaways posted this week. Lots of other stuff, though! Check out what you may have missed: The One by Kiera Cass (review) Top Ten Cover Trends I Love (or Hate) – Find out what makes me love a cover! Your Perfect Life by Liz Fenton &… Read more »

Keep Reading

Jun 28

ARC Mini Review Preview – This Shattered World by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner

Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction Reviews 1 ★★★★★

Title: This Shattered World Series: Starbound #2 Author: Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner Release Date: December 23, 2014 Summary from Goodreads: The second installment in our epic Starbound trilogy introduces a new pair of star-crossed lovers on two sides of a bloody war. Jubilee Chase and Flynn Cormac should never have met. Lee is captain of the forces sent to Avon to crush the terraformed planet’s rebellious colonists, but she has her own reasons for hating the insurgents. Rebellion is in Flynn’s blood. Terraforming corporations make their fortune by recruiting colonists to make the inhospitable planets livable, with the promise of a better life for their children. But they never fulfilled their promise on Avon, and decades later, Flynn is leading the rebellion. Desperate for any advantage in a bloody and unrelentingly war, Flynn does the only thing that makes sense when he and Lee cross paths: he returns to base with her as prisoner…. Read more »

Keep Reading

Jun 27

5 Star Review – Froi of the Exiles by Melina Marchetta

Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction Reviews 1 ★★★★★

Title: Froi of the Exiles Series: Lumatere Chronicles #2 Author: Melina Marchetta Release Date: October, 2011 Pages: 593 Goodreads Rating: 4.39/5 Stars My Rating: 5/5 Stars My Content Rating: Mature YA/Adult (Some sex, including assault; Some violence) Summary from Goodreads: Blood sings to blood, Froi . . . Those born last will make the first . . . For Charyn will be barren no more. Three years after the curse on Lumatere was lifted, Froi has found his home… Or so he believes… Fiercely loyal to the Queen and Finnikin, Froi has been trained roughly and lovingly by the Guard sworn to protect the royal family, and has learned to control his quick temper. But when he is sent on a secretive mission to the kingdom of Charyn, nothing could have prepared him for what he finds. Here he encounters a damaged people who are not who they seem, and must unravel both the dark bonds of kinship and… Read more »

Keep Reading

Jun 25

Review – Your Perfect Life by Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke

Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction Reviews 7 ★★★½

Title: Your Perfect Life Author: Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke Release Date: June 10, 2014 Pages: 304 Goodreads Rating: 4.41/5 Stars My Rating: 3.5/5 Stars My Content Rating: Adult (Adult themes; Sex is discussed, but not shown) Summary from Goodreads: With “a delicious, page-turning premise, and sweet and surprising insights” (New York Times bestselling author Jen Lancaster), Your Perfect Life perfectly illustrates that old adage: Sometimes, you to have to walk a mile in someone else’s shoes to see what’s in her heart. Best friends since childhood, Casey and Rachel couldn’t lead more different lives. While workaholic Casey rubs elbows with celebrities daily as the host of Gossip TV and comes home nightly to an empty apartment, stay-at-home mom Rachel juggles an “oops” baby, two fiery teenagers, and a husband who barely seems the man she fell in love with two decades before. After an argument at their twentieth high school reunion, Casey and Rachel throw back shots to… Read more »

Keep Reading

Jun 24

Top Ten Cover Trends I Love (or Hate)

Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction Top Ten Tuesday 0

Today’s Top Ten Tuesday is: Top Ten Cover Trends I Love (or Hate) This one was hard for me because, while I absolutely LOVE some covers (and hate others), it’s hard for me to always really quantify why. Still, when I took a look, I was definitely able to come up with some patterns. Not sure if these are really trends or not, but this is what I’m going with. I couldn’t quite come up with ten either.I LOVE: Rich Colors I absolutely LOVE colorful covers – especially when the colors are rich and bold. The covers for the Splintered series are AMAZING to me – I absolutely adore them. And it’s all about the color!! Color is probably one of the most influential factors in whether or not I truly love a cover. In fact, you’ll find that lots of my favorite covers that fall into other categories below also have vibrant… Read more »

Keep Reading

Jun 24

Review – The One by Kiera Cass

Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction Reviews 0 ★★★★½

Title: The One Series: The Selection #3 Author: Kiera Cass Release Date: May 6, 2014 Pages: 323 Goodreads Rating: 4.27/5 Stars My Rating: 4.5/5 Stars My Content Rating: YA (Nothing more than kissing) Summary from Goodreads: The highly anticipated third book in Kiera Cass’s #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series, The One will captivate readers who love dystopian YA fiction and fairy tales. The One is perfect for the fans who have followed America’s whirlwind romance since it began—and a swoon-worthy read for teens who have devoured Veronica Roth’s Divergent, Ally Condie’s Matched, or Lauren Oliver’s Delirium. The Selection changed America Singer’s life in ways she never could have imagined. Since she entered the competition to become the next princess of Illéa, America has struggled with her feelings for her first love, Aspen—and her growing attraction to Prince Maxon. Now she’s made her choice . . . and she’s prepared to fight for the future she wants. Find… Read more »

Keep Reading

Jun 22

Sunday Post & Giveaways Galore – 6/22/14

Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction Sunday Post 0

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:I think I’ve done most of my updates on BEA now (though I might have one more post about what I learned and what I hope the BEA organizers learned). Things should be getting back to normal around here! Here’s what you may have last this week: Fan Art by Sarah Tregay (excerpt & giveaway) – Still time to enter to win a signed ARC! Afterlife Academy by Jaimie Admans (review) Let’s Discuss: All the Feels – When was the last time a book made you feel … everything? Talented by Sophie Davis (Random Reads review) Invisible Magic by Mary Buckham (review) Midsummer’s Eve Giveaway Hop – Come join us! Over 100 blogs… Read more »

Keep Reading

Jun 22

10 Mistakes I Made at BEA (and One BIG Mistake that They Made!)

Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction BEA, Book Events 0

So, I learned a lot being a first-timer to BEA this year! Now that I’ve been through the experience, there are a few things I’d do differently. I thought I’d share for those of you who might make it there in future years!10 Mistakes I Made at BEA Me and my roommate, Jenni 1. Left my Roomie Hanging – If you read my recap of Day 1 of BEA, you know that my poor roommate had to hang out in the hotel lobby for hours waiting for me to get there so she could check-in. Oops!! And while this wasn’t exactly my fault (I thought I had all the bases covered by adding her name to the reservation), I should have made sure that we communicated a little better before we checked in – then I would have known that she didn’t have a CC with her and was planning… Read more »

Keep Reading