Yearly Archives:: 2013

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Giveaway: If You Find Me by Emily Murdoch

Posted by • 8 Comments

If You Find Me
Emily Murdoch
Genre: YA Contemporary
Publication date: March 26th 2013
by St. Martin’s Griffin

There are some things you can’t leave behind…
 A broken-down camper hidden deep in a national forest is the only home fifteen year-old Carey can remember. The trees keep guard over her threadbare existence, with the one bright spot being Carey’s younger sister, Jenessa, who depends on Carey for her very survival. All they have is each other, as their mentally ill mother comes and goes with greater frequency. Until that one fateful day their mother disappears for good, and two strangers arrive. Suddenly, the girls are taken from the woods and thrust into a bright and perplexing new world of high school, clothes and boys.

Now, Carey must face the truth of why her mother abducted her ten years ago, while haunted by a past that won’t let her go… a dark past that hides many a secret, including the reason Jenessa hasn’t spoken a word in over a year. Carey knows she must keep her sister close, and her secrets even closer, or risk watching her new life come crashing down.

The lovely people over at St Martin’s Press have generously offered up one finished copy of If You Find Me for giveaway to one of my readers. I have only heard amazing things about this novel and I can’t wait to read it myself! Stay tuned for my review on March 12th, and the blog tour will be stopping by on March 26th!

 Giveaway
One finished copy of If You Find Me
Open to US and Canadian addresses
Giveaway ends on March 12th, 2013
Use the Rafflecopter below to enter
a Rafflecopter giveaway

Waiting on Wednesday (74)

Posted by on 02/20/2013 • 50 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:

Delia‘s Shadow Jaime Lee Moyer Release date: September 1st 2013by Tor

Advance word on Delia’s Shadow:

“Like fog creeping in from the Bay, this ghostly, romantic tale of San Francisco past made the outside world disappear and sent shivery tendrils into my soul. A gorgeous and haunting book.” –Rae Carson, author of The Girl of Fire and Thorns and The Crown of Embers

“Spirits seek vengeance while the young try to build a future in a fog-shrouded San Francisco shaken by more than the great earthquake. This bravura mix of ghost story and historical mystery will chill and grip its readers from…

Continue Reading »

Review: Teeth by Hannah Moskowitz

Posted by on 02/19/2013 • 23 Comments

Teeth Hannah Moskowitz Genre: YA Fantasy/Magical RealismPublication date: January 1st 2013by Simon Pulse

A gritty, romantic modern fairy tale from the author of Break and Gone, Gone, Gone.

Be careful what you believe in.

Rudy’s life is flipped upside-down when his family moves to a remote island in a last attempt to save his sick younger brother. With nothing to do but worry, Rudy sinks deeper and deeper into loneliness and lies awake at night listening to the screams of the ocean beneath his family’s rickety house.

Then he meets Diana, who makes him wonder what he even knows about love, and Teeth, who makes him question what he knows about anything. Rudy can’t remember the last time he felt so connected to someone, but being friends with Teeth…

Continue Reading »

Review: The Nightmare Affair by Mindee Arnett

Posted by on 02/18/2013 • 25 Comments

The Nightmare Affair Mindee Arnett Series: The Arkwell Academy, #1 Genre: YA ParanormalPublication date: March 5th 2013by Tor Teen

Sixteen-year-old Dusty Everhart breaks into houses late at night, but not because she’s a criminal. No, she’s a Nightmare.

Literally.

Being the only Nightmare at Arkwell Academy, a boarding school for magickind, and living in the shadow of her mother’s infamy, is hard enough. But when Dusty sneaks into Eli Booker’s house, things get a whole lot more complicated. He’s hot, which means sitting on his chest and invading his dreams couldn’t get much more embarrassing. But it does. Eli is dreaming of a murder.

Then Eli’s dream comes true.

Now Dusty has to follow the clues—both within Eli’s dreams and out of them—to stop the killer before more people…

Continue Reading »

Pieces Tour Kick Off + Giveaway!

Posted by on 02/18/2013 • 6 Comments

Today I’m kicking off the Pieces blog tour that will run from Feb 18th to Feb 23rd! check out the book and an excerpt, along with an awesome giveaway for all your swag needs! 😉

Pieces Michelle Davidson Argyle Series: The Breakaway, #2 (companion) Publication date: February 14th 2013by Rhemalda Publishing

Staying in love can mean running away…

Two years after watching her kidnappers go to prison, Naomi Jensen is still in love with one of them. Jesse will be released in a few years, and Naomi knows college is the perfect distraction while she waits. But when her new friend Finn makes her question what is right and what is wrong, she begins to wonder if Jesse is the one for her…until she discovers he’s out on…

Continue Reading »

Xpresso Weekly: Stacking the Shelves (43)

Posted by on 02/17/2013 • 55 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

Happy belated Valentine’s day, lovelies! Hope you all had a fab day and week! I got a heart shaped ice cream cake so what can I say? I married him for a reason! 😉 I’ve been epically busy this week. I haven’t even designed at all. Eepers! But there are some fab new tours that are going to be opening up for sign ups in March! 😉 Oh and don’t forget to enter the Quantum Drop giveaway that ends tonight, and you can also win an iPad here dude!

Reviews on the blog this week:…

Continue Reading »

Fresh Batch (February 17th – 23rd)

Posted by on 02/16/2013 • 11 Comments

Exclusively titled for Xpresso Reads, Fresh Batch features the hottest releases of this upcoming week. Flavor of the week: Fuse Julianna Baggott Series: Pure, #2 Genre: Adult Post ApocalypticPublication date: February 19th 2013by Grand Central Publishing

When the world ended, those who dwelled within the Dome were safe. Inside their glass world the Pures live on unscarred, while those outside—the Wretches—struggle to survive amidst the smoke and ash.

Believing his mother was living among the Wretches, Partridge escaped from the Dome to find her. Determined to regain control over his son, Willux, the leader of the Pures, unleashes a violent new attack on the Wretches. It’s up to Pressia Belze, a young woman with her own mysterious past, to decode a set of cryptic clues from the past to…

Continue Reading »

Review: The Murmurings by Carly Anne West

Posted by on 02/15/2013 • 22 Comments

The Murmurings Carly Anne West Genre: YA ThrillerPublication date: March 5th 2013by Simon Pulse

A teen girl starts hearing the same voices that drove her sister to commit suicide in this creepy, suspenseful novel.

Everyone thinks Sophie’s sister, Nell, went crazy. After all, she heard strange voices that drove her to commit suicide. But Sophie doesn’t believe that Nell would take her own life, and she’s convinced that Nell’s doctor knows more than he’s letting on.As Sophie starts to piece together Nell’s last days, every lead ends in a web of lies. And the deeper Sophie digs, the more danger she’s in—because now she’s hearing the same haunting whispers. Sophie’s starting to think she’s going crazy too. Or worse, that maybe she’s not….

*A copy was provided by Simon…

Continue Reading »