“Love is an Open Door” from Frozen. A lesson about the perils of insta-love! 🙂 If you read my reviews regularly, you know that insta-love is usually a major negative for me. You all know what I’m talking about – boy meets girl and both are instantly drawn to each other. They’ve never felt this way about anyone before. Surely no one else in the world could ever complete them the way that this person […]
It’s time for my June Random Reads (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.This month I decided to once again […]
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 2014 I’ve felt l’ve been in a little bit of a reading slump this month (no horrible books, just books that were good, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]