Monthly Archives:: June 2013

Sunday, June 23, 2013

Stacking the Shelves (60)

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Stacking the Shelves is a meme hosted by Tynga’s Reviews featuring the books we got this week, and I also mention blog news/happenings of the past week. 

It’s going to be a short post this week as my mailbox was pretty lonely, but I did find a few good reads at the sales tables which I’m pretty happy about. Also if you missed it this week, I listed my top zombie books on this week’s Big Girls Don’t Cry – on the zombie subject, just got back from seeing World War Z and I though it was pretty awesome! The story and zombie lore were both so well thought out (note that I haven’t read the book, but I do hear it’s nothing like it). Anyways, there were also 2 new giveaways posted on the blog this week make sure to enter! 🙂
THIS WEEK’S BOOK HAUL:

 (Click on covers or title links for Goodreads)
I received for review:
 

I bought:
Found these for 5$ each! How can that go wrong? 😉

–Such a Rush by Jennifer Echols
–You Against Me by Jenny Downham
–Bystander by James Preller


Awesome bookmark finds:

Short and sweet!
Don’t forget to link me to your book haul! 🙂

Interview + Giveaway: The Well’s End by Seth Fishman

Interview + Giveaway: The Well’s End by Seth Fishman

Posted by on 06/22/2013 • 33 Comments

I’ve got a special treat for you today. Seth Fishman is here to entertain us and talk about his fantastic looking upcoming YA Thriller novel, The Well’s End. To end with a bang you can enter to win your very own ARC and some signed art!

The Well’s End Seth Fishman Genre: YA Thriller Publication date: February 25th 2014 by Putnam Juvenile

A deadly virus and an impossible discovery unite in one enthralling can’t-miss read.

Sixteen-year-old Mia Kish has always been afraid of the dark. After all, she’s baby Mia, the one who fell down a well. That was years ago, though the darkness still haunts her. But when her classmates and teachers at ritzy Westbrook Academy start dying of old age from a bizarre and frightening virus…

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Fresh Batch (New Releases June 23rd – 28th)

Posted by on 06/22/2013 • 10 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Ashes on the Waves  Mary Lindsey Publication date: June 27th, 2013 by Philomel/Penguin

Liam MacGregor is cursed. Haunted by the wails of fantastical Bean Sidhes and labeled a demon by the villagers of Dòchas, Liam has accepted that things will never get better for him—until a wealthy heiress named Annabel Leighton arrives on the island and Liam’s fate is changed forever.

With Anna, Liam finally finds the happiness he has always been denied; but, the violent, mythical Otherworlders, who inhabit the island and the sea around it, have other plans. They make awager on the couple’s love, testing its strength through a series of cruel obstacles. But…

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Review: Another Little Piece by Kate Karyus Quinn

Posted by on 06/21/2013 • 31 Comments

Whoa! This book has to be one of the strangest reads I’ve come across. I can see how its eccentric nature will not be for everyone, but for me the beautiful, often disturbing, writing style captivated me and never let go. It’s not the type of story that just anyone could pull off, the author definitely did some thinking outside the box for this one, and Quinn has my two thumbs up.

Calling this book Another Little Piece is quite fitting, as it felt like with every turn of a page, another piece of this mind-boggling puzzle was put in place – or at least moved a tiny bit closer. And this review is especially hard, because in almost every piece lies a spoiler. The first of these spoilers comes…

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Book Girls Don’t Cry: Zombiefied!

Book Girls Don’t Cry: Zombiefied!

Posted by on 06/20/2013 • 34 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:  

Must Reads – For the Zombie Fans!

This week we decided to take a favorite genre or ours and do a top list. So, of course, you know me and my zombies! So if you love zombie books as much as I do maybe you’ll find some more to add to your lists, and leave me some recs in the comments, too! 🙂 FYI – these are not really in order, because that would be too hard >.<

—The Last Bastion of the Living by Rhiannon Frater—

This is definitely one of my all time favorite…

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Hidden by Catherine McKenzie: Meet the Characters!

Hidden by Catherine McKenzie: Meet the Characters!

Posted by on 06/19/2013 • 16 Comments

As part of the Hidden blog tour, today I’ve got the wonderful Catherine McKenzie dropping by to introduce us to her characters. This books sounds great and the fact that it was blurbed by the author of On The Island intrigues me even further! So let’s see what it’s all about! 🙂

Hidden Catherine McKenzie Publication date: June 18th 2013 by HarperCollins

When a married man suffers a sudden fatal accident, two women are shattered—his wife and someone else’s—and past secrets, desires and regrets are brought to light

While walking home from work one evening, Jeff Manning is struck by a car and killed. Not one but two women fall to pieces at the news: his wife, Claire, and his co-worker Tish. Reeling from her loss, Claire…

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Giveaway: Undercurrent by Paul Blackwell

Posted by on 06/19/2013 • 11 Comments

UndercurrentPaul Blackwell Genre: YA Thriller Publication date: July 23rd 2013by Doubleday Canada 

Sixteen-year-old Callum Harris never wanted to move to Crystal Falls. Neither did Cole, his brawny and fearless older brother. With the recent separation of their parents, the brothers have had quite enough change of late.

But the move turns out to be only the first of many changes in Callum’s life. After he plunges headlong over the falls, he wakes up in the hospital to find that life is no longer what it once was: his squabbling parents appear to have reconciled; his brother, an unrepentant jock and serial dater, is paralyzed and bed-ridden in a makeshift hospital room at home; and even Callum himself, always studious and unpopular, is now the object of…

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Review: A Trick of the Light by Lois Metzger

Posted by on 06/18/2013 • 20 Comments

What a strange little book this was. Narrated by anorexia, A Trick of the Light is a lightning fast story about a boy who’s has a run-in with this illness. I felt it was a little like an afternoon special on fast forward, but I did enjoy the book nonetheless. It touches on a topic that is so often misunderstood, told in the unique voice of the illness itself. Because for someone with anorexia, it becomes exactly that: an entity that takes over your thoughts, your life.

This choice of narrator is excellent as it shows the aggressive nature of the disease. It puts in the forefront how brutally insistent it becomes and I appreciated the ugly truth of it all. Mike, like so many teenagers, has problems with…

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