Yearly Archives:: 2013

Saturday, July 27, 2013

Fresh Batch (New Releases July 28th – August 3rd)

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FreshBatchBanner637Fresh Batch, posted weekly, keeps you up to date on the hottest releases of the upcoming week.

Flavor of the week:

Indelible
Dawn Metcalf
Series: The Twixt #1
Publication date: July 30th 2013
by Harlequin Teen

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Some things are permanent.

Indelible.

And they cannot be changed back.

Joy Malone learns this the night she sees a stranger with all-black eyes across a crowded room—right before the mystery boy tries to cut out her eye. Instead, the wound accidentally marks her as property of Indelible Ink, and this dangerous mistake thrusts Joy into an incomprehensible world—a world of monsters at the window, glowing girls on the doorstep, and a life that will never be the same.

Now, Joy must pretend to be Ink’s chosen one—his helper, his love, his something for the foreseeable future…and failure to be convincing means a painful death for them both. Swept into a world of monsters, illusion, immortal honor and revenge, Joy discovers that sometimes, there are no mistakes.

Somewhere between reality and myth lies…

THE TWIXT

Dawn Metcalf’s Website / Facebook / Twitter

The role of Dawn Metcalf will be played by the tall brunette in the off-the-shoulder, floor-length leather straitjacket. Makeup by Clinique, buckles by Jada Pinkett-Smith, hair by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop.

I have no good excuse for the way I write. I lived in a normal, loving, suburban home, studied hard, went to college, went to graduate school, got married, had babies, and settled down in northern Connecticut. Despite this wholesome lifestyle, I’ve been clearly corrupted by fairy tales, puppet visionaries, British humour and graphic novels. As a result, I write dark, quirky, and sometimes humorous speculative fiction.

INDELIBLE: Book One of the Twixt is coming July 30, 2013 by Harlequin Teen. My debut novel, LUMINOUS, was published by Dutton Books in 2011.


Other releases this week:
* In no particular order *




The Sound by Sarah Alderson [Purchase]
Unwanted by Alivia Anders
Kill City Blues (Sandman Slim #5) by Richard Kadrey [Purchase]
Frigid (Frigid #1) by J. Lynn[Purchase]


Three (Legends of the Duskwalker #1) by Jay Posey [Purchase]
Unbreakable by Rebecca Shea
I Surrender (I Surrender #1) by Monica James
Kitty and the Midnight Hour (Kitty Norville #1) by Carrie Vaughn [Purchase]


Earthbound (Earthbound #1) by Aprilynne Pike [Purchase]
Near and Far (Lost and Found #2) by Nicole Williams [Purchase]
Prep School Confidential (Prep School Confidential #1) by Kara Taylor[Purchase]
Last Blood (House of Comarré #5) by Kristen Painter[Purchase]


Complete Me (Stark Trilogy #3) by J. Kenner[Purchase]
All Our Pretty Songs by Sarah McCarry [Purchase]
The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty [Purchase]
Three Little Words (Fool’s Gold #12) by Susan Mallery[Purchase]


The Darkest Craving (Lords of the Underworld #10) by Gena Showalter [Purchase]
The Mistress Files (The Original Sinners #3.5) by Tiffany Reisz [Purchase]
Midnight Frost (Mythos Academy #5) by Jennifer Estep[Purchase]
Seven Minutes in Heaven (The Lying Game #6) by Sara Shepard[Purchase]


The Marriage Merger (Marriage to a Billionaire #4) by Jennifer Probst [Purchase]
Magic Rises (Kate Daniels #6) by Ilona Andrews [Purchase]
Unteachable by Leah Raeder [Purchase]
The Life Beyond (The Other Life #2) by Susanne Winnacker[Purchase]


Manic (Rook and Ronin #2) by J.A. Huss [Purchase]
The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic by Emily Croy Barker [Purchase]
Canary by Rachele Alpine [Purchase]
Emperor of Thorns (The Broken Empire #3) by Mark Lawrence[Purchase]


What’s Left of Us by Ari Tucker [Purchase]
Star Power (Charly’s Epic Fiascos #3) by Kelli London [Purchase]
The Thing About Weres (Mystwalker #2) by Leigh Evans [Purchase]
The Chocolate Touch (Amour et Chocolat #4) by Laura Florand [Purchase]


Love Disguised by Lisa Klein [Purchase]
If I Ever Get Out of Here by Eric L Gansworth [Purchase]
Torn by David Massey [Purchase]
The King’s Guard (Fire and Thorns 0.7) by Rae Carson [Purchase]


The Boy on the Bridge by Natalie Standiford [Purchase]

 

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Review: Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick

Review: Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick

Posted by on 07/26/2013 • 26 Comments

Wow what a sad story this was! Told in the voice of a morose, yet incredibly intelligent teenage boy, we’re given a raw look into the road to suicide, and how depression affects your thoughts.

What I noticed immediately was the writing style which stood out to me as something very… honest. Not only is it told in first person – which I consider a requirement for a story such as this – but we get a format that emphasizes his unhealthy state of mind even more so. This includes foot notes on his interpretations of certain situations and people; pages that only include 1 single word for a whole sentence; “Letters from the future” which had me baffled at first but ended up leaving me teary eyed. Knowing…

Book Girls Don’t Cry: My Randomness

Book Girls Don’t Cry: My Randomness

Posted by on 07/25/2013 • 67 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:

 

All About Yours Truly!

After seeing a guest post by an author listing random/fun facts about their books, we thought it would be fun to implement it as a topic where we list fun facts about ourselves… except we’ve deduced we’re pretty boring so far, so this may not have been a good idea after all >.<

When I stumbled upon Facebook for the first time it was when I found it open on my husband’s computer (though we weren’t married yet). I got mad at him for making an account on a dating site and made him delete…

Waiting on Wednesday (87)

Posted by on 07/24/2013 • 41 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:

I know, I know, it’s a dystopian, but it’s so hard to break the habit and it sounds so good! >.<

What are you waiting on?

Review: The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani

Review: The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani

Posted by on 07/23/2013 • 41 Comments

Adorable and adventurous, The School for Good and Evil is a fun escape from reality. When beautiful Sophie and weird Agatha end up in the wrong school – perfect Sophie can’t be evil now, can she? – they’re determined to fix this unforgiving mistake.

This is a magical adventure through and through; the book is set at this School of Good and Evil, a wonderfully imaginative school that trains future fairy tale characters. Meaning when you graduate, you’ll be in a fairy tale book; whether a princess, a villain, a gremlin, or even a tree, your faith will be determined by how well you do at this school. This idea kind of blew my mind a little; I found it so unique and incredibly fun. The girls, each clearly…

Nomad by J.L. Bryan: Guest Post + Giveaway!

Nomad by J.L. Bryan: Guest Post + Giveaway!

Posted by on 07/22/2013 • 18 Comments

Today I have the fabulous J.L. Bryan (boys can be fabulous too!) on the blog with his usual witty self in an awesome guest post! And then you can win your very own signed copy of this pretty! First though let’s get all the jazz on this book! PS – If you missed it, check out my review here.

Guest Post by J.L. Bryan

Long-Distance Dating: Time Travel Edition

Long-distance relationships only grow more complicated when you and your significant other are years apart. We’re not talking about May-December romances here, we’re talking about dating someone who lives in an entirely different century. With the recent popularization of home time-travel devices, this is a problem facing more and more people every day.

It’s always the…

Stacking the Shelves (64)

Stacking the Shelves (64)

Posted by on 07/21/2013 • 45 Comments

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.   How is everyone this week? I have been super busy moving Xpresso Book Tours to WP this week so I’m sorry for being a sucky commenter, I swear I’ll be visiting you all when it’s all set which should be soon! But hey, did you stop by and see my overstuffed bookcases this week? And this week I think I received the biggest book package ever which made me it even worse but hey, who’s complaining? 🙂

THIS WEEK’S BOOK HAUL: (Click on cover or title link for Goodreads)

I received for review:

–The Well’s…

Fresh Batch (New Releases July 21st – 27th)

Fresh Batch (New Releases July 21st – 27th)

Posted by on 07/20/2013 • 12 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Stacey’s Website / Goodreads / Facebook / Twitter

Stacey Jay is a recovering workaholic (or at least working hard at recovering) with three pen names, two small children, and a passion for playing pretend for a living. She’s been a full time mom-writer since 2005 and can’t think of anything she’d rather be doing. Her former careers include theatre performer, professional dancer, poorly paid C-movie actress, bartender, waiter, math tutor (for real) and yoga instructor.

Other releases this week: *In no particular order* *Click on title links for Goodreads*

–  Sizzle (Bad Boy Rockers #1) by…