Monthly Archives:: July 2012

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Cover Reveal: Doomed by Tracy Deebs

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Doomed
Tracy Deebs
Release date: January 8th, 2013
by Bloomsbury Walker

 

Beat the game. Save the world.

Pandora’s just your average teen, glued to her cell phone and laptop, surfing Facebook and e-mailing with her friends, until the day her long-lost father sends her a link to a mysterious site featuring twelve photos of her as a child. Unable to contain her curiosity, Pandora enters the site, where she is prompted to play her favorite virtual-reality game, Zero Day. This unleashes a global computer virus that plunges the whole world into panic: suddenly, there is no Internet. No cell phones. No utilities, traffic lights, hospitals, law enforcement. Pandora teams up with handsome stepbrothers Eli and Theo to enter the virtual world of Zero Day. Simultaneously, she continues to follow the photographs from her childhood in an attempt to beat the game and track down her father, her one key to saving the world as we know it. Part The Matrix, part retelling of the Pandora myth, Doomed has something for gaming fans, dystopian fans, and romance fans alike.

Make sure to check out Mundie Moms for an excerpt and your chance to win a copy! 

Coming from a big dystopian fan, call me intrigued! This sounds so exciting and the cover is awesome! I love the bright colors and futuristic/gaming look!

Let me know what you think!

Giveaway: Semi-Charmed Life

Posted by on 07/11/2012 • 0 Comments

Gossip Girl meets The Roommate

Semi-Charmed LifeNora Zelevansky Release date: July 3rd 2012by St. Martin’s Press

 

Having spent years secretly dreaming of a life filled with Hostess Cupcakes and pop culture thrills in her parents’ immaculately modern Upper West Side apartment, Beatrice is disappointed to find that college is not the great life-changing experience she had hoped. Bored by her predictable world, Beatrice has all but resigned herself to the expected path that has been set out before her, but everything changes with one unexpected encounter with a new classmate, the beautiful socialite Veruca Pfeffernoose. In just a few days, Beatrice’s life goes from mundane to extraordinary when she takes the job of ghost writing Veruca’s blog.

In this Gossip girl meets The Roommate story, Beatrice is quickly…

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Waiting on Wednesday (44)

Posted by on 07/11/2012 • 54 Comments

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event that is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine and spotlights upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating.  My pick this week:

The Murmurings Carly Anne West Release date: March 5th, 2013 by Simon Pulse  

After her older sister dies from an apparent suicide and her body is found hanging upside down by one toe from a tree, sixteen-year-old Sophie starts to hear the same voices that drove her sister to a psychotic break.

DID YOU SEE THIS!!!! Holy frack balls this cover freaks me out. Love! It! (The Grudge, anybody? That movie scared me FOR LIFE!). Anything about hearing voices, unexplained freaky, and psychological creepiness – WANT so hard!!

PS: Tagline says “The voices in her head are not her own…”

What…

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Review: Lost Girls by Ann Kelley

Posted by on 07/10/2012 • 42 Comments

Lost GirlsAnn KelleyRelease date: July 10th 2012by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

 

No parents. No rules. No way home.  Fourteen-year-old Bonnie MacDonald couldn’t be more excited for a camping trip on an island off the coast of Thailand with her fellow Amelia Earhart Cadets-the daughters of the men and women stationed there during the Vietnam War. But when a strong current deposits the girls on what their boatman calls the “forbidden island,” things take a turn for the worse: A powerful storm comes to destroy their campsite, the smallest of the junior cadets is found dead, and their boatman never returns. What once seemed like a vacation in paradise has become a battle against the elements.  Peppered with short, frantic entries from Bonnie’s journal, Lost Girls is a…

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Review: Long Lankin by Lindsey Barraclough

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Long LankinLindsey BarracloughRelease date: July 10th 2012by Candlewick Press

 

When Cora and her younger sister, Mimi, are sent to stay with their elderly aunt in the isolated village of Byers Guerdon, they receive a less-than-warm welcome. Auntie Ida is eccentric and rigid, and the girls are desperate to go back to London. But what they don’t know is that their aunt’s life was devastated the last time two young sisters were at Guerdon Hall, and she is determined to protect her nieces from an evil that has lain hidden for years. Along with Roger and Peter, two village boys, Cora must uncover the horrifying truth that has held Bryers Guerdon in its dark grip for centuries – before it’s too late for little Mimi. Riveting and intensely…

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Fresh Batch (July 8th – 14th)

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Exclusively titled for Xpresso Reads, Fresh Batch features the hottest releases of this upcoming week. *note: After trying it out, I decided to revert to my good ol’ posting dates for Fresh Batch and Stacking the shelves. As of next week, Fresh Batch will be back on Saturdays, and my Stacking the Shelves on Sundays*

Flavor of the week:

Never EnoughDenise JadenRelease date: July 10th 2012by Simon Pulse

 

From the author of Losing Faith, a novel about two sisters and the eating disorder that threatens to destroy their family.

Loann’s always wanted to be popular and pretty like her sister, Claire. So when Claire’s ex-boyfriend starts flirting with her, Loann is willing to do whatever it takes to feel special… even if that means betraying her sister.

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Cover Reveal x 6

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Pretty Girl-13 Liz Coley Release date:March 19th 2013  by Katherine Tegen Books  

Angie Chapman was thirteen years old when she ventured into the woods alone on a Girl Scout camping trip.

Now she’s returned home…only to find that it’s three years later and she’s sixteen—or at least that’s what everyone tells her.

What happened to the last three years of her life?

Angie herself doesn’t know.

But there are people who do—people who could tell Angie every detail of her forgotten time, if only they weren’t locked inside her mind.

With a tremendous amount of courage and support from unexpected friends, Angie embarks on a journey into the darkest corners of her mind. As she unearths more and more about her past, she discovers a terrifying secret…

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Xpresso Weekly: Stacking the Shelves (11)

Posted by on 07/07/2012 • 67 Comments

Xpresso Weekly is my edition of Stacking the Shelves hosted by Tynga’s Reviews featuring the books I got this week, and I also mention blog news/happenings of the past week.

This week at Xpresso Reads

July is here already!! Such crazy nonsense! I want summer to last forever I’m having a fabulous one so far! I hope you are too! This week on the blog I have a few things to mention. First, I’ve got crazy giveaway madness going on at the moment and a whole bunch were posted this week. There is the Cover Madness giveaway hosted along with my friend Jenni at Alluring Reads. You can also enter to win The Forsaken by Lisa M. Stasse. I spotlighted White Lines by Jennifer Banash that included the cover…

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