Category: Reviews

5 Star Review – American Girl on Saturn by Nikki Godwin

5 Star Review – American Girl on Saturn by Nikki Godwin

Title: American Girl on Saturn Series: Saturn #1 Author: Nikki Godwin Release Date: August 29, 2013 Pages: 341 Goodreads Rating: 4.25 stars My Rating: 5/5 stars My Content Rating: PG (Nothing more than kissing) Summary from Goodreads: The summer after graduation is supposed to be that first real taste of freedom – but not for eighteen-year-old Chloe Branson. Just as that breeze of freedom is making its way into her galaxy, her secret-service-agent dad drops a meteor-sized bomb of bad news on her and her […]

Posted February 25, 2014 in Reviews / 2 Comments
5 Star Review & Giveaway – That One Summer by C.J. Duggan

5 Star Review & Giveaway – That One Summer by C.J. Duggan

Tour Schedule   Title: That One Summer Series: Summer #3 Author: C.J. Duggan Release Date: December 17, 2013 Pages: 349 Goodreads Rating: 4.29 Stars My Rating: 5/5 Stars My Content Rating: Mature YA/NA (Sex – not super explicit, but described) Summary from Goodreads: Loving Chris Henderson would be wrong. Diabolically disastrous. I mean, what is there about him to love? He’s moody, bossy, brooding, a control freak, and that’s on a good day … but there was one achingly obvious fact that haunted […]

Posted February 24, 2014 in Giveaways (Ended), Reviews / 3 Comments
5 Star Review – Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta

5 Star Review – Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta

Title: Finnikin of the Rock Series: Lumatere Chronicles #1 Author: Melina Marchetta Release Date: 2008 Pages: 416 Goodreads Rating: 4.08 stars My Rating: 5/5 stars My Content Rating: Very mature YA or Adult (Contains sexual situations, including abuse and prostitution; violence) Summary from Goodreads: Finnikin of the Rock and his guardian, Sir Topher, have not been home to their beloved Lumatere for ten years. Not since the dark days when the royal family was murdered and the kingdom put under a terrible curse. But then Finnikin […]

Posted February 21, 2014 in Reviews / 20 Comments
5 Star Review & Giveaway – My Date From Hell by Tellulah Darling

5 Star Review & Giveaway – My Date From Hell by Tellulah Darling

***This review may contain spoilers for the first book in the series.  To read my review of My Ex From Hell click HERE.*** I LOVED My Date From Hell!!  This book included everything I loved about the first book, but it was even better because I was totally on board with Kai and Sophie this time! The negatives: Annoying deities.  This is nitpicking, but Aphrodite was really annoying to me.  I hated her New York accent (which often […]

Posted February 13, 2014 in Giveaways (Ended), Reviews / 1 Comment
Review – My Ex From Hell by Tellulah Darling

Review – My Ex From Hell by Tellulah Darling

My Ex From Hell is a fun romp through Greek mythology.  First and foremost, his book will make you laugh.  The synopsis explains the plot pretty well, so I’ll just jump right into my review. The negatives: I wasn’t totally on board with Kai and Sophie.  I really wanted to love Kai (and to want Sophie to love Kai), but I just wasn’t totally there. He was a typical bad boy – the guy who […]

Posted February 11, 2014 in Reviews / 6 Comments
Review – City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

Review – City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

Title: City of Bones Series: The Mortal Instruments #1 Author: Cassandra Clare Release Date: January 22, 2014 Pages: 220 Goodreads Rating: 4.13 stars My Rating: 4/5 stars My Content Rating: PG-13 (Nothing more than kissing, some violence) Summary from Goodreads: When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder — much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. […]

Posted February 10, 2014 in Reviews / 2 Comments
Review – Never Let You Go by Michele G. Miller

Review – Never Let You Go by Michele G. Miller

Title: Never Let You Go Series: The Prophecy of Tyalbrook #2 Author: Michele G. Miller Release Date: January 29, 2014 Pages: 246 Goodreads Rating: 4.69 stars My Rating: 4/5 stars My Content Rating: PG (Nothing more than kissing) Summary from Goodreads: Two souls desperate to discover the truth about the past and determined to save their future… SKYE The usual warmth I felt deep in my soul when Xander was near me was beginning to dull. Yet I still remembered the warning: “Be careful, my […]

Posted February 8, 2014 in Reviews / 1 Comment
Review & Giveaway – Grimnirs by Ednah Walters

Review & Giveaway – Grimnirs by Ednah Walters

  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 […]

Posted February 3, 2014 in Giveaways (Ended), Reviews / 0 Comments
Review – Insanity by Cameron Jace

Review – Insanity by Cameron Jace

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 […]

Posted January 29, 2014 in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review – You Look Different in Real Life by Jennifer Castle

Review – You Look Different in Real Life by Jennifer Castle

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 […]

Posted January 28, 2014 in Reviews / 0 Comments