Month: June 2016

Bite-Sized Audiobook Reviews – Porcelain Keys, The Accident Season, and Every Last Word

A few quick reviews of audiobooks I’ve been listening to this summer. Hopefully these bite-sized reviews will be enough to feed your fiction addiction! Porcelain Keys by Sarah Beard Published by Cedar Fort Publishing & Media in 1/14 Genres: Young Adult, New Adult, Contemporary, Romance Pages: 345 Audio Length: 11 hours and 41 minutes Source: The Author My content rating: YA (Nothing more than kissing) My rating: Aria’s life is full of secrets–secrets about her mother’s death, her father’s cruelty, and her dream to […]

Posted June 28, 2016 in Reviews / 16 Comments

June Wrap-Up Round-Up Link-Up

It’s time for the June Wrap-Up Round-Up! The May giveaway was hosted by Wendy over at Falconer’s Library. Silvara won a fun bookish items from Powell’s City of Books! (I can’t wait to hear what she chose!) Thanks so much for hosting, Wendy!! This is the link-up for our June wrap-up posts. If you don’t already know about the Monthly Wrap-Up Round-Up, read the information below: Every month, at the end of the month, I’ll put up a monthly […]

Posted June 28, 2016 in Monthly Wrap-Up Round-Up / 2 Comments

This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab – 5 Star Review!

Wow! Just … wow! I haven’t read Schwab before, and now I know what I’ve been missing. I absolutely loved this story of humanity’s worst ills come to life in the form of monsters. What Fed My Addiction: Monstrous! This book gives us a bleak (but oh so fascinating) look at the human condition. In Schwab’s fantasy world, the urban areas have been overtaken by monsters that are born out of violence. Whenever a violent act […]

Posted June 27, 2016 in All-Time Favorites, Reviews / 21 Comments

Sunday Post & Giveaways Galore – 6/26/16

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 (and in my life): Managed to get around the blogosphere a bit more this week, and I caught up on the posts linked up to the Discussion Challenge. It felt […]

Posted June 26, 2016 in Sunday Post / 16 Comments

My Top Ten Addictions – Let’s Discuss

Those of you who’ve been around my blog for a while know that usually, when I feature a guest post from an author on my blog (usually along with a review), it’s the author’s Top Ten Addictions (click the link if you want to see them). I like that it’s a fun, lighthearted tie-in to my blog name and that it’s a quick read. (If I’m being honest, I don’t usually take the time to read […]

Posted June 25, 2016 in Author Top Ten Lists, Let's Discuss / 34 Comments

Summer of Supernovas by Darcy Woods – Review

A quick note from Nicole for those of you who are regulars around here – this is my mom’s (Gay’s) first solo review (okay, fine, I interjected a few things here and there – but, for the most part, it’s hers!). Hopefully you’ll be seeing lots more of these! To put it simply, this is a story of a girl looking for her astrological soulmate, and she’s on a deadline. Wil promised her mother before she […]

Posted June 24, 2016 in Reviews / 10 Comments

738 Days by Stacey Kade – Review

This is one of those books where it’s hard to know what to expect. On the one hand, it tackles an incredibly serious and tough subject – the emotional (and physical) scars left from an abduction and abuse. But then, it also incorporates a romance trope that we typically find in much lighter fare – the burnt-out celebrity who needs to freshen up his image by helping out a fan. Somehow Kade managed to blend […]

Posted June 22, 2016 in Reviews / 16 Comments

Sunday Post & Giveaways Galore – 6/19/16

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 (and in my life): This week I read my first Wattpad book (Cait from Paper Fury wrote it, and I’d tell you all to go read it, but it seems […]

Posted June 19, 2016 in Sunday Post / 20 Comments

Is Celibacy Shaming a Thing? Let’s Discuss!

This is kind of a difficult topic to talk about because I honestly think my viewpoint might be contradictory to a lot of other bloggers out there – at least partially. And this might be one of those cases where I’m showing my age, making myself look old-fashioned. I’m aware that my views on sex are more conservative than a lot of other people’s and that affects my perspective on this topic. But I decided to […]

Posted June 18, 2016 in Let's Discuss / 76 Comments

The Wrath & the Dawn Series by Renee Ahdieh – Series Review

The Wrath & the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh Series: The Wrath & the Dawn #1 Published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers on 5/12/15 Genres: Young Adult, Historical, Fantasy Pages: 395 Source: Purchased My content rating: YA (Characters have sex, but it’s not shown in detail) My rating: One Life to One Dawn. In a land ruled by a murderous boy-king, each dawn brings heartache to a new family. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, is a […]

Posted June 16, 2016 in Reviews / 11 Comments