Yearly Archives:: 2012

Saturday, October 06, 2012

Fresh Batch (October 7th – 13th)

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Exclusively titled for Xpresso Reads, Fresh Batch features the hottest releases of this upcoming week.

Flavor of the week:

Velveteen
Daniel Marks
Series: Velveteen, #1
Publication date: October 9th 2012
by Delacorte Books for Young Readers

 

Velveteen Monroe is dead. At 16, she was kidnapped and murdered by a madman named Bonesaw. But that’s not the problem.

The problem is she landed in purgatory. And while it’s not a fiery inferno, it’s certainly no heaven. It’s gray, ashen, and crumbling more and more by the day, and everyone has a job to do. Which doesn’t leave Velveteen much time to do anything about what’s really on her mind.

Bonesaw.

Velveteen aches to deliver the bloody punishment her killer deserves. And she’s figured out just how to do it. She’ll haunt him for the rest of his days.

It’ll be brutal… and awesome.

But crossing the divide between the living and the dead has devastating consequences. Velveteen’s obsessive haunting cracks the foundations of purgatory and jeopardizes her very soul. A risk she’s willing to take—except fate has just given her reason to stick around: an unreasonably hot and completely off-limits coworker.

Velveteen can’t help herself when it comes to breaking rules… or getting revenge. And she just might be angry enough to take everyone down with her.

Daniel Marks writes young adult horror and fantasy, spends way too much time glued to the internets and collects books obsessively (occasionally reading them). He’s been a psychotherapist for children and adolescents, a Halloween store manager, a cafeteria janitor (gag) and has survived earthquakes, volcanoes and typhoons to get where he is today, which is to say, in his messy office surrounded by half empty coffee cups. He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife, Caroline, and three furry monsters with no regard for quality carpeting.

 Other releases this week (Click on title links for Goodreads):
*In no particular order*  *Purchase links are for The Book Depository*

 

So what’s on your to-buy list this week?

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Cover Reveal: Pheonix by Elizabeth Richards

Posted by on 10/05/2012 • 16 Comments

PhoenixElizabeth RichardsSeries: Black City, #2Publication date: June 2013by G.P. Putnam’s Sons BYR

The much anticipated second book in the enthralling Black City series

Engaged to be married, Ash and Natalie are just starting to build a life together, when things in the United Sentry States go from bad to worse. Ash and Natalie find themselves at the center of the turmoil when dictator Purian Rose threatens Natalie’s life unless Ash votes in favor of Rose’s law—a law that will send Darklings and other dissenters to a deadly concentration camp known as the Tenth.

Ash can’t bring himself to trade Natalie’s life for those of millions of Darklings. The only way to save everyone is to escape Black City and find the Ora, a powerful weapon that could…

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Eve and Adam Review, Interview & Giveaway

Posted by on 10/04/2012 • 36 Comments

Today, as part of the Eve and Adam blog tour, I have the hilarious Michael and Katherine over for a fantastic interview that I promise will amuse you! There’s also a giveaway for you, and my review! Have a look:

Eve and AdamMichael Grant & Katherine ApplegatePublication date: October 2nd 2012by Feiwel & Friends

 

Sixteen-year-old Evening Spiker lives an affluent life in San Francisco with her mother, EmmaRose, a successful geneticist and owner of Spiker Biotech. Sure, Evening misses her father who died mysteriously, but she’s never really questioned it. Much like how she’s never stopped to think how off it is that she’s never been sick. That is, until she’s struck by a car and is exposed to extensive injuries. Injuries that seem to be healing…

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Review: Toxic by Jus Accardo

Posted by on 10/03/2012 • 16 Comments

ToxicJus AccardoSeries: Denazen, #2Publication date: October 16th 2012by Entangled Teen

 

When a Six saved Kale’s life the night of Sumrun, she warned there would be consequences. A trade-off. Something taken for the life they gained. But Dez never imagined she’d lose the one thing she’d give anything to keep… And as if it’s not enough Dez finds her immunity to Kale fading, the Six brought in to help Kale learn to control his killer touch starts drooling on him the moment they meet. Worse than that? Jade can touch Kale. But bimbo Barbie is the least of Dez’s problems.

After Dez and Kale got away at Sumrun, her father lost not only his most powerful weapon but an important piece of the Supremacy project. Forced by Denazen…

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Waiting on Wednesday (55)

Posted by on 10/03/2012 • 44 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 Ruining Anna Collomore Release date: February 7th 2013by Razorbill  

Annie Phillips is thrilled to leave her past behind and begin a shiny new life on Belvedere Island, as a nanny for the picture-perfect Cohen family. In no time at all, she falls in love with the Cohens, especially with Libby, the beautiful young matriarch of the family. Life is better than she ever imagined. She even finds romance with the boy next door.

All too soon cracks appear in Annie’s seemingly perfect world. She’s blamed for mistakes she doesn’t remember making. Her bedroom door comes unhinged, and she feels like she’s always…

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Review: Lindsey Lost by Suzanne Phillips

Posted by on 10/02/2012 • 14 Comments

Lindsey LostSuzanne PhillipsPublication date: September 18th 2012by Viking Juvenile

 

The Bourne Identity meets I Am the Cheese in this taut thriller

Even though Micah’s a star pitcher, his older sister Lindsey is the real deal–a runner so good, she has a shot at the Olympics. The two of them urge each other on, and are each other’s best support. Then the unthinkable happens: Lindsey is murdered, and Micah may have been the last person to see her. But he can’t remember what happened, no matter what their parents tell him, no matter what the police say. Did he witness his sister’s murder–or commit it? Can he recall the truth before his life is sentenced to end, too?

*A copy was provided by Penguin Canada for review purposes*

The…

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Pretty When She Kills Tour Stop

Posted by on 10/01/2012 • 27 Comments

Hiya lovelies! I have one of my favorite ladies on the blog today! You all know by now how much she rocks, and that if you haven’t read any of her books you are part of my hit list * to talk about reviews! We all write reviews, we all see the drama behind dealing with authors who can’t deal with reviews, so here’s a look at the other side. But first, zee book:

Pretty When She KillsRhiannon FraterSeries: Pretty When She Dies, #2Publication date: September 7th 2012

 

Amaliya Vezorak never believed in happy endings…

When Amaliya harnessed her necromancer powers to defeat her greatest enemy, she believed she had finally found a happy ending with Cian, her lover and the master of Austin. That happiness is short-lived…

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Xpresso Weekly: Stacking the Shelves (23)

Posted by on 09/30/2012 • 54 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

I am definitely feeling the fall weather here! It has been very blah, over having my computer crash on me and losing everything (yeah, why no backup? million dollar question!), it has been a very long week. So what’s up blog-wise? Well I had two blog tours stop by and they both have giveaways! You can win a copy of Alice in Zombieland and Stealing Parker. I also posted a few cover reveals on Facebook here.

Reviews on the blog this week:

New by Xpresso Design:

Stacking the Shelves

I received for review…

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