I thought I’d highlight a middle grade series that I’ve been reviewing over on my MG blog – Best Kids’ Reads. It’s great fun and along the lines of the Percy Jackson series (featuring Indian culture and mythology rather than Greek mythology). You can read my reviews of the first three books in this series HERE! (Plus, there’s a $100 giveaway running right now as well!)
Today’s Top Ten Tuesday is: Top Ten Books that Will Make You Cry I’m a total crier, so this one should have been easy, but I actually had trouble remembering which books had actually made me cry. Here’s a list of the ones I’m sure about, though (I think Forbidden made me cry the hardest – don’t read that one without a truckload of tissues nearby!!) If it wasn’t one o’clock in the morning, I’d tell you […]
It’s here! It’s here!! My one year blogoversary has arrived (along with my birthday next week) and I am so excited to be able to thank all of my wonderful readers by hosting this AMAZING giveaway!!I’m not even kidding, it’s Why is it so amazing, you ask? Because I’m giving away TONS of my very favorite books from 2013! That’s right – only the very best for my readers! These are the books that were […]
It’s time for my February Random Read (a fun meme hosted by I’m Loving Books). The idea is to pick one random book from your Goodreads To-Read list (using Random.org) to read within the month. As I mention every month, I am in love with this meme! This is such a great way to make sure that I actually read some of those books that have been in my TBR list for eons.Again, this month I limited my Random […]
Title: Grimnirs Series: Runes #2.5 (but it’s a full-length book!) Author: Ednah Walters Release Date: December 2, 2013 Genre: YA Paranormal Romance Publisher: Firetrail Publishing Presented by: As You Wish Tours Banner Made by: Jamie Turner-Norton Pages: 348 Goodreads Rating: 4.56 Stars My Rating: 4/5 stars My Content Rating: Very mature YA or 18+ (Relatively explicit sex) Summary from Goodreads: Straight out of the psych ward, Cora just wants her life to be normal. She doesn’t want to see souls or the reapers […]
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:Well, I survived my daughter’s big gymnastics tournament (which I was coordinating food for – it’s hard to feed 250 people over the course of a weekend!). I’ll be glad to get […]
Title: Insanity Author: Cameron Jace Release Date: December 20, 2013 Pages: 256 Goodreads Rating: 4.13 Stars My Rating: 4/5 stars My Content Rating: PG-13? (Violence and some mature subject matters) Summary from Goodreads: After accidentally killing everyone in her class, Alice Wonder is now a patient in the Radcliffe Lunatic Asylum. No one doubts her insanity. Only a hookah-smoking professor believes otherwise; that he can prove her sanity by decoding Lewis Carroll’s paintings, photographs, and find Wonderland’s real whereabouts. Professor Caterpillar persuades […]
Title: You Look Different in Real Life Author: Jennifer Castle Release Date: June 4, 2013 Pages: 355 Goodreads Rating: 3.63 Stars My Rating: 4/5 stars My Content Rating: PG-13 (Somewhat mature situations) Summary from Goodreads: For the rest of the world, the movies are entertainment. For Justine, they’re real life. The premise was simple: five kids, just living their lives. There’d be a new movie about them every five years, starting in kindergarten. But no one could have predicted what the cameras […]
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. MY BLOGOVERSARY GIVEAWAY IS COMING NEXT WEEK!!! THERE WILL BE TONS OF PRIZES – I CAN’T WAIT! Last week on FYFA:I had an absolutely crazy week this week and my blog suffered for it. 🙁 Hopefully […]
***This review may contain spoilers for the first two books in the series. You can find my review of Unwind HERE and my review of UnWholly HERE.*** This is one of my absolute favorite series!! If you haven’t read Unwind and UnWholly, you should. It is one of the most unique, thought-provoking dystopians out there. UnSouled picks up where UnWholly left off – Lev has just rescued Connor from the Graveyard and Risa has just […]