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!)
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 […]
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 […]
Title: Damselfly Series: Damselfly #1 Author: Jennie Bates Bozic Release Date: July 9, 2013 Pages: 242, Paperback Goodreads Rating: 3.9 Stars My Rating: 4/5 stars My Content Rating: PG (Nothing more than kissing, small amount of violence) Summary from Goodreads: In 2065, the Lilliput Project created Lina – the first six-inch-tall winged girl – as the solution to a worldwide energy and food crisis. Isolated in a compound amidst the forests of Denmark, Lina has grown up aware of only one purpose: learn […]
Title: Anomaly Series: Anomaly #1 Author: Krista McGee Release Date: July 9, 2013 Pages: 312, Paperback Goodreads Rating: 3.84 Stars My Rating: 4/5 stars My Content Rating: PG (No sexual content, murder and death discussed but nothing is graphic) Summary from Goodreads: Thalli has fifteen minutes and twenty-three seconds left to live. The toxic gas that will complete her annihilation is invading her bloodstream. But she is not afraid. Thalli is different than others in The State. She feels things. She asks questions. […]
The Guardians is an exciting sequel to MORE – I loved this book even more than the first book in the series!! We get to learn more about the Race and see our favorite characters put in all sorts of perilous situations – what else can you ask for? The negatives: Could have used more Caleb and Ava? This is honestly getting very nitpicky. While thinking about this book, this is the only negative I […]
Buy Links: Amazon I Barnes & Noble Lichgates is an incredibly inventive fantasy adventure, full of danger, magic and mythical creatures! When Kara finds and opens a mysterious book, she doesn’t realize that she has just become the Vagabond – fated to bring peace to the strange land of Ourea (or die trying). She suddenly finds herself thrown into a war between Ourean races that has been brewing for centuries – and not everyone wants her […]
Tour Schedule Title: Just Ella Author: Annette K. Larsen Release Date: August 14, 2013 Pages: 300, ebook Goodreads Rating: 4.42 stars My Rating: 4.5/5 stars My Content Rating: PG-13 (No more than kissing) Summary from Goodreads: A Proper Romance Ariella was only looking for a distraction, something to break up the monotony of palace life. What she found was a young man willing to overlook her title and show her a new and vibrant way of life. But when her growing feelings […]
Title: Starstruck Author: Brenda Hiatt Release Date: August, 2013 Pages: 328, Paperback Goodreads Rating: 3.7 stars My Rating: 4/5 stars My Content Rating: PG-13 (Nothing more than kissing) Summary from Goodreads: Nerdy astronomy geek Marsha, M to her few friends, has never been anybody special. Orphaned as an infant and reluctantly raised by an overly-strict “aunt,” she’s not even sure who she is. M’s dream of someday escaping tiny Jewel, Indiana and making her mark in the world seems impossibly distant until […]
Title: More Series: More #1 Author: T.M. Franklin Release Date: October 4, 2012 Pages: 255, Paperback Goodreads Rating: 4.28 stars My Rating: 4/5 stars My Content Rating: PG Summary from Goodreads: Ava Michaels used to think she was special. As a child, she fantasized about having magical powers . . . making things happen. But Ava grew up and eventually accepted the fact that her childish dreams were just that, and maybe a normal life wasn’t so bad after all. Now a young college […]