Monthly Archives:: April 2014

Sunday, April 06, 2014

Giselle’s Stacking the Shelves [April 6]

Posted by Giselle • 25 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.

Hi bookish friends! Are you all ready for BEA? Man I can’t believe it’s already less than 2 months away SO MUCH EXCITE!! Hopefully the weather will be just as awesome as last year especially that I’m driving up. Did you stop by the blog this week? We have a new giveaway for a hardcopy of Sekret, as well as the book’s dream cast which is all kinds of hot! So let’s see what new books I got! The last 2 weeks for me have all been ebooks – I think the mailman can’t even get to our mailbox due to all the snow anyways >.<

THIS WEEK’S BOOK HAUL:
(Click on covers for Goodreads)

I received for review:

*Big thanks to HarperCollins, St. Martin’s Press, Little, Brown and Company, and Simon & Schuster for these pretties!*

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That’s all for me this week!
XOXO

Fresh Batch (New Releases April 6th – 12th)

Posted by Giselle on 04/05/2014 • 19 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Dreams of Gods and Monsters Laini Taylor Series: Daughter of Smoke and Bone #3 Publication date: April 8th 2014by Little, Brown & Company

Goodreads Purchase

By way of a staggering deception, Karou has taken control of the chimaera rebellion and is intent on steering its course away from dead-end vengeance. The future rests on her, if there can even be a future for the chimaera in war-ravaged Eretz.

Common enemy, common cause.

When Jael’s brutal seraph army trespasses into the human world, the unthinkable becomes essential, and Karou and Akiva must ally their enemy armies against the threat. It is a twisted…

Sekret Dream Cast + Giveaway!

Posted by Giselle on 04/04/2014 • 16 Comments

This week we’re celebrating the release of Sekret by Lindsay Smith, and today is my stop on the blog tour with a Dream Cast of Sekret along with a giveaway!

Sekret Dream Cast

Yulia, telemetrist and ration rat

Tatiana Maslany or Freya Tingley

Yulia, who can read the memories of objects and people through touch, is strong-willed, resourceful, and sometimes stubborn to a fault. I love Tatiana Maslany’s character(s) on Orphan Black, and how she convincingly slips into whatever role is required to get what she needs to survive. That definitely fits Yulia! But Freya Tingley (Hemlock Grove) also excels at just the right amount of attitude for Yulia — the one that lets you know she’ll obey your orders for now, but she won’t be broken…

Review: Prisoner of Night and Fog by Anne Blankman

Posted by Giselle on 04/03/2014 • 34 Comments

To anyone who thinks research for a book is not worth the time or effort, Prisoner of Night and Fog proves to the contrary. Based on true historical events, Anne has crafted a brilliantly compelling and incredibly authentic story entwined with real historical figures who are given a second breath of life. This is a story of a girl’s desperate search for the truth.

Underneath it all, Prisoner of Night and Fog is a gripping account of Hitler’s rise to power. The plot introduces many real-life characters who were part of Hitler’s entourage or impacted his life in some way. Naturally, fictional characters are also added to the mix to initiate an engaging mystery that, although fictional, is entangled inside real historical events. I may not be a history buff,…

Review: The Wicked We Have Done by Sarah Harian

Posted by on 04/02/2014 • 24 Comments

A funny, recurring conversation I always have with my friends is about the stark contrast between books I like and movies I like. See, I love me a good action movie. Give me Jason Statham, Mark Wahlberg or a nice gory horror film any day of the week. But when it comes to reading, I want the “chick-flicks” I want heartbreak, I want emotion, I want to be left so emotionally wrecked that I can’t even see through my tears. The Wicked We Have done brought everything that I like in movies so perfectly to a book that it surprisingly worked incredibly well for me!

What struck me right off the bat with this one was how original it was. First of all there is the fact that it is…

Review: The Last Forever by Deb Caletti

Posted by on 04/01/2014 • 16 Comments

I really don’t even feel like I can effectively review this book because all I want to do is flail all over the place and shove it in people’s faces so they read it too. This book was absolutely perfect for me, I picked it up on a Saturday morning and before I knew it I was halfway through and dreading the book ending. This book is emotional, this book is funny and this book is engrossing.

We meet our MC Tess as she is grieving the recent loss of her mother to cancer. She is living with her father and just going through the motions of day to day life. One afternoon the two of them pack up her father’s truck and head out to finally see the Grand…