Monthly Archives:: April 2013

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Review: Reboot by Amy Tintera

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Reboot
Amy Tintera
Series: Reboot #1
Genre: YA Dystopian
Publication date: May 7th 2013
by HarperTeen

Five years ago, Wren Connolly was shot three times in the chest. After 178 minutes she came back as a Reboot: stronger, faster, able to heal, and less emotional. The longer Reboots are dead, the less human they are when they return. Wren 178 is the deadliest Reboot in the Republic of Texas. Now seventeen years old, she serves as a soldier for HARC (Human Advancement and Repopulation Corporation).

Wren’s favorite part of the job is training new Reboots, but her latest newbie is the worst she’s ever seen. As a 22, Callum Reyes is practically human. His reflexes are too slow, he’s always asking questions, and his ever-present smile is freaking her out. Yet there’s something about him she can’t ignore. When Callum refuses to follow an order, Wren is given one last chance to get him in line—or she’ll have to eliminate him. Wren has never disobeyed before and knows if she does, she’ll be eliminated, too. But she has also never felt as alive as she does around Callum.

The perfect soldier is done taking orders.

-A copy was provided by Hachette Book Group Canada for review-

Book Girls Don’t Cry: Blogging Schedules

Posted by on 04/25/2013 • 40 Comments

Inspired by Book Buzzers, Book Girls Don’t Cry is a weekly feature where we each discuss/vent/advise on the chosen weekly bookish topic. Don’t miss Jenni on Mondays, and Amy on Saturdays:  

Planning is half the battle!

When you start a blog most people go in with absolutely no clue what it entails, nor how much organization goes into running one–especially if you want good constant content AND respect what publishers ask as far as reviewing the books they send to you on time.

My first few months of blogging were craz-ay! I was not using anything to keep track and just going about it with the flow, and it got pretty unorganized. I would forget tours I had signed up for, and I lost track of what was due…

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Waiting on Wednesday (80)

Posted by on 04/24/2013 • 38 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: All the Truth That’s In MeJulie Berry Genre: YA Contemporary Publication date: September 26th 2013by Viking Juvenile  

Four years ago, Judith and her best friend disappeared from their small town of Roswell Station. Two years ago, only Judith returned, permanently mutilated, reviled and ignored by those who were once her friends and family. Unable to speak, Judith lives like a ghost in her own home, silently pouring out her thoughts to the boy who’s owned her heart as long as she can remember—even if he doesn’t know it—her childhood friend, Lucas. But when Roswell Station is attacked, long-buried secrets come…

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Review: Hopeless by Colleen Hoover

Review: Hopeless by Colleen Hoover

Posted by on 04/23/2013 • 30 Comments

Wow where do I start? At the amazing characters? At the sky rocketing chemistry? At the scenes that are so powerfully emotional that you want to curl into a ball and cry for days? I have nothing but praise for this gem that Colleen has created. This book rocked my world, and then it broke it in two.

Before we get down and heavy into the depths, let’s talk about what started it all, and that is the characters. Sky is our protagonist and she could not have been a more enjoyable character for me. She does not have an ounce of superficiality on her body. This girl is honest, so honest that she blurts out the most random and embarrassing things because she doesn’t want to play games or…

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Review: Icons by Margaret Stohl

Posted by on 04/23/2013 • 0 Comments

IconsMargaret Stohl Series: Icons #1Genre: YA Dystopian Publication date: May 7th 2013by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Your heart beats only with their permission.

Everything changed on The Day. The day the windows shattered. The day the power stopped. The day Dol’s family dropped dead. The day Earth lost a war it didn’t know it was fighting.

Since then, Dol has lived a simple life in the countryside — safe from the shadow of the Icon and its terrifying power. Hiding from the one truth she can’t avoid.

She’s different. She survived. Why?

When Dol and her best friend, Ro, are captured and taken to the Embassy, off the coast of the sprawling metropolis once known as the City of Angels, they find only more questions. While…

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Review: Chantress by Amy Butler Greenfield

Posted by on 04/22/2013 • 35 Comments

ChantressAmy Butler Greenfield Series: Chantress Trilogy #1Genre: YA Historical Fantasy Publication date: May 7th 2013by Margaret K. McElderry Books

Lucy’s Chantress magic will make her the most powerful—and most hunted—girl in England.

“Sing, and the darkness will find you.” This warning has haunted fifteen-year-old Lucy ever since she was eight and shipwrecked on a lonely island. Lucy’s guardian, Norrie, has lots of rules, but the most important is that Lucy must never sing. Not ever. Now it is 1667, Lucy is fifteen, and on All Hallows’ Eve, Lucy hears a tantalizing melody on the wind. She can’t help but sing—and she is swept into darkness.

When she awakes in England, Lucy hears powerful men discussing Chantresses—women who can sing magic into the world. They are hunting her,…

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Xpresso Weekly: Stacking the Shelves (52)

Posted by on 04/21/2013 • 42 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

Ok guys this is going to be quick because I’m reading Hopeless and it’s so freakingly amazing that I’m doing this post in a hurry to get back to it! So blah blah blah. Kthxbye! Oh wait. I got 2 new giveaways on the blog this week don’t forget to check out zee sidebar!

Reviews on the blog this week:

Xpresso Book Tours

Tours open for sign ups:— Arrow of the Mist by Christina Mercer— Hidden by M. Lathan — Saving Ben by Ashley Farley — The Children and the Blood by Megan Joel…

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Fresh Batch (April 21st – 27th)

Posted by on 04/20/2013 • 16 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Unbreakable Elizabeth Norris  Series: Unraveling, #1Publication date: April 23rd 2013by Balzer + Bray

Four months after Ben disappeared through the portal to his home universe, Janelle believes she’ll never see him again. Her world is still devastated, but life is finally starting to resume some kind of normalcy. Until Interverse Agent Taylor Barclay shows up. Somebody from an alternate universe is running a human trafficking ring, kidnapping people and selling them on different Earths—and Ben is the prime suspect. Now his family has been imprisoned and will be executed if Ben doesn’t turn himself over within five days.

And when Janelle learns that someone she cares about—someone from…

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