Yearly Archives:: 2013

Sunday, August 11, 2013

Stacking the Shelves (67)

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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.


Hiyall! Dyou all see the fabulous new covers for Crewel and Altered this week? I love them, and there’s 3 sweet giveaways for you as well that you cannot miss (and yet another chance to win an ARC of Altered here)! And yesterday I posted a giveaway for Night Witches too which is not a book I’d seen around a lot but it sounds so unique! I’m off to Boston at the end of the week so there will likely not be any Stacking the Shelves next weekend, but I will be tweeting in all Bostonified glory when I finally meet my book soulmate!

THIS WEEK’S BOOK HAUL:
(Click on cover or links below picture for Goodreads)

I received for review:
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–Perfect Ruin by Lauren Destefano
–Omens by Kelley Armstrong

*Big thanks to Simon & Schuster Canada, Random House Canada, Inkslinger, and Macmillan for this awesome haul!*

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Have a fab week! 🙂

Don’t forget to link me to your book haul!
Ciao!

Fresh Batch (New Releases August 11th – 17th)

Fresh Batch (New Releases August 11th – 17th)

Posted by on 08/10/2013 • 15 Comments

Fresh Batch, posted weekly, keeps you up to date on the hottest releases of the upcoming week.

Flavor of the week:

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea April Genevieve Tucholke Series: Between #1 Publication date: August 15th 2013 by Dial

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You stop fearing the devil when you’re holding his hand…

Nothing much exciting rolls through Violet White’s sleepy, seaside town…until River West comes along. River rents the guesthouse behind Violet’s crumbling estate, and as eerie, grim things start to happen, Violet begins to wonder about the boy living in her backyard. Is River just a crooked-smiling liar with pretty eyes and a mysterious past? Or could he be something more? Violet’s grandmother always warned her about the Devil, but she…

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Giveaway: Night Witches by L.J. Adlington

Giveaway: Night Witches by L.J. Adlington

Posted by on 08/10/2013 • 12 Comments

I have a treat for all y’all today! Thanks for the lovely people at Hachette Children’s Books UK, I have a copy of this gorgeous pretty for giveaway! I don’t know about you but I kind of love this cover! They describe it as a dark and rich fantasy with teenage bomber pilots and witchcraft – Yes please!

Giveaway

Hachette Children’s Books UK has generously offered a paperback of Night Witches for giveaway.

Open internationally Giveaway ends August 23rd, 2013 Full contest terms and conditions found on Rafflecopter

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Review: Shooting Scars by Karina Halle

Review: Shooting Scars by Karina Halle

Posted by on 08/09/2013 • 28 Comments

*Spoiler free for the series!*

I don’t think I could ever tire of this series. Shooting Scars is an epic sequel and an impressively satisfying follow up to Sins & Needles, which I would have thought impossible.

Sins & Needles ended on an intense note that made the wait for this sequel brutally long. It felt like I’d been holding my breath ever since, and it was an amazing relief to finally be back into this world of scams and betrayals! In the voice of both Ellie and Camden, this book is thrilling through and through. We’re thrown into an action packed chase towards trouble on Camden’s side, and a plan destined for disaster on Ellie’s. Even though Camden and Ellie aren’t together for much of this sequel – which…

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Book Girls Don’t Cry: I Still Have Not Read These!

Book Girls Don’t Cry: I Still Have Not Read These!

Posted by on 08/08/2013 • 55 Comments

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:

 

Books I’m Missing Out On (Apparently)!

This week we decided to do a top ten style discussion post on the books we should have read but still haven’t because; top lists are fun, and you all get to chide us for being late in many ball fields, or something. So these are my top 10 books (ok I cheated and there’s 8- whatevs!) I should have read by now. PS – You can click on the cover for their Goodreads’ page!

–The Iron King by Julie Kagawa: I actually have not read ANY book by Julie Kagawa, and…

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Cover Reveal: Crewel & Altered by Gennifer Albin (+ Giveaway!)

Cover Reveal: Crewel & Altered by Gennifer Albin (+ Giveaway!)

Posted by on 08/07/2013 • 121 Comments

Today I have a very special treat for y’all! I’ve got the BRAND NEW (and gorgeous) covers for both Crewel and Altered which is being released at the end of October. PLUS, I have an epic giveaway that you might just drool over! Without further ado:

Crewel Gennifer Albin Genre: YA Science Fiction Publication date: October 15, 2013 (paperback) by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Enter a tangled world of secrets and intrigue where a girl is in charge of other’s destinies, but not her own.

Sixteen-year-old Adelice Lewys has always been special. When her parents discover her gift—the ability to weave the very fabric of reality—they train her to hide it. For good reason, they don’t want her to become…

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Review: The Year of Shadows by Claire Legrand

Review: The Year of Shadows by Claire Legrand

Posted by on 08/06/2013 • 26 Comments

A delightful, yet dark MG novel; The Year of Shadows is dusted with ghosts, entertaining personalities, and an unexpected amount of grave topics which are handled with complete expertise, all through the delicate eyes of a child who is harboring a mountain of pain.

This book is about a young girl, Olivia, who has had to move into this battered concert hall where her father works due to the stupid Economy. Fostering anger towards both her father for bringing her to this dank place, and her mother for leaving without saying goodbye, she’s tuning everyone out to concentrate on the one thing she loves: drawing. Then the ghosts show up. From abandonment to loneliness to grief, Olivia’s heart became my own when I was reading her story; the heavy burden…

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Review: Just Like Fate by Cat Patrick and Suzanne Young

Review: Just Like Fate by Cat Patrick and Suzanne Young

Posted by on 08/05/2013 • 28 Comments

Do you ever wonder where you would have ended up if you’d chosen differently that one time? “What if?” is a question we’ve all wondered once or twice. How different would our lives be today? This is why I enjoyed Just Like Fate so much; it explores consequences of two sides of a coin, while showing that no matter the road that leads, we end up where we’re meant to be. For Caroline, both roads are linked to her decision to go to a party, not knowing it will be during the last of her grandmother’s moments. A quick decision, really, and things end up so incredibly different for her. Told via alternating chapters, we see how neither of these roads are easy, each coming with their own set of…

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