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

Sunday Post & Giveaways Galore – 2/9/14

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:This was a big week here on my blog!! It’s my blogoversary! Yay!! Here’s what you might have missed this past week here on FYFA: Grimnirs by Ednah Walters (review & giveaway) – […]

Posted February 9, 2014 in Sunday Post / 0 Comments

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

Best of the Bunch & Challenge Update – January 2014

I’m a little late with my January Best of the Bunch, but better late than never, right? 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. January 2014 So, the new year has […]

Posted February 8, 2014 in Best of the Bunch, Challenges, Monthly Recap / 0 Comments

Feature & Follow Friday – Read it For the First Time – Again

Gain new followers and make new friends with the Book Blogger Feature & Follow! This is a blog hop that allows bloggers to gain new followers and find some awesome new blogs to follow themselves! The Feature & Follow is hosted by TWO hosts, Parajunkee of Parajunkee’s View and Alison of Alison Can Read. Each host has a blog that they feature each week! So, if you’re a blogger, come join in on the fun! Here’s […]

Posted February 7, 2014 in Feature and Follow / 0 Comments

Middle Grade Highlight – Zoe & Zak Series by Lars Guignard

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!)

Posted February 6, 2014 in Giveaways (Ended), Middle Grade / 0 Comments

Top Ten Books that Made Me Cry

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 […]

Posted February 4, 2014 in Top Ten Tuesday / 30 Comments

My First Annual Blogoversary Giveaway EXTRAVAGANZA!!!

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 […]

Posted February 4, 2014 in Giveaways (Ended) / 74 Comments

February Random Read – Waterborn by Kimberly James

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 […]

Posted February 4, 2014 in Random Reads / 0 Comments

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