Monthly Archives:: July 2014

Sunday, July 13, 2014

Jenni’s Stacking the Shelves [July 13]

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Stacking the Shelves is a meme hosted by Tynga’s Reviews featuring new additions to our bookshelves.

Hello Blogosphere! I feel so out of things when it comes to blogging lately. We got a big pool for our backyard two weeks ago and have been having some really hot weather ever since so I’ve been doing tons of reading but have been pretty absent online. Adding to me being absent is my addiction to the World Cup, but that will come to an end tomorrow. I can’t wait for the big game, I’m hoping I get to see my Germans take home the title. And I am not even going to get into my addiction to Hay Day and how farming has taken over my life because that would just be too much! I did get some goodies in the mail this past week and that is what I am here to share, so here we go!

I got a signed (and personalized) copy of the new A.S. King book from Lyn and Kara of Great Imaginations. These ladies are so freaking awesome and while talking to me on Twitter in Kings line at BEA, Lyn decided that she would get her copy signed for me and Kara mailed it out to me. I really can’t thank them enough, I am so excited for this one and it’s going to be a favourite on my shelf for a long time to come!

As I mentioned last week, I won a Kindle Paperwhite from Pop! Goes the Reader and that came this week (props to Amazon.ca’s super fast shipping!) Thanks to Jen for hosting the awesome giveaway (and for picking the right winner 😉 )

What have you added to your shelves lately?

Fresh Batch (New Releases July 13th – 19th)

Posted by Giselle on 07/12/2014 • 9 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Breathe, Annie, Breathe Miranda Kenneally Series: Hundred Oaks #5 Publication date: July 15th 2014by Sourcebooks Fire

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Annie hates running. No matter how far she jogs, she can’t escape the guilt that if she hadn’t broken up with Kyle, he might still be alive. So to honor his memory, she starts preparing for the marathon he intended to race.

But the training is even more grueling than Annie could have imagined. Despite her coaching, she’s at war with her body, her mind—and her heart. With every mile that athletic Jeremiah cheers her on, she grows more conflicted. She wants to run…

Review: Welcome to the Dark House by Laurie Faria Stolarz

Posted by Giselle on 07/11/2014 • 20 Comments

Welcome to the Dark House is a pretty great horror story, especially for horror-movie loving readers. However it reads just like a horror movie as well – you barely get to know the cast, and when one dies/disappears you’re not going to care all that much.

Ultimately told in multiple viewpoints, we’re first introduced to Ivy, who I consider to be the main character in this story. She’s the only character that we get to know with any amount of depth. We learn of her tragic past and how it haunts her, and her motivation to join Justin Blake’s latest project. Soon enough, we’re joining others inside this Dark House and meeting our other POVs – I never counted, but there must have been 5 or 6. Obviously they’re…

Review: All Four Stars by Tara Dairman

Posted by on 07/10/2014 • 10 Comments

After reading serious book after serious book and then topping it off with a gore-filled horrorfest novel, I didn’t think there could be a better cleanse for my palate than a sweet MG read. I was wrong, there was something better, a sweet MG read that is full of the most luscious, tasty food descriptions that I have ever come across! All Four Stars by Tara Dairman is a wonderful middle grade read that makes you fall for it’s voracious MC and also leaves your mouth watering like no book I have read before.

This book along with my last read are leaving me thinking that I am warming up to third person perspective. Of course I know that in these two instances it’s just cases of the POV being…

Review: Between the Lives by Jessica Shirvington

Posted by Giselle on 07/09/2014 • 25 Comments

Thought provoking and compelling, Between the Lives is a story about a girl with two lives. One is seemingly perfect, but the other has him…

At first this novel reminded me quite a bit of Lucid by Adrienne Stoltz and Ron Bass which I loved, but it ended up standing on its own. While Lucid was more about the mystery, this one is more about big choices and love and life. Often throughout this book I would stop and think about what I would do if I had two lives. Imagine the possibilities! Being able to basically get an extra 24 hours every day to be a different person, yet the same. I just loved this idea, although I could also understand her wanting to give one up, to…

Review: The Girl With All The Gifts by M.R. Carey

Posted by on 07/08/2014 • 21 Comments

*slow clap* I don’t even know where to begin reviewing this book. It was a book that I didn’t plan to read, I heard from my co-blogger it was a split POV story told in the third person and I thought “Rubbish! I don’t want that in my life.” Then a little birdie came along, one by the name of Christina of A Reader of Fictions and she said “Look, you need this book in your life. Total Jenni bait.” So I gave it a go and wow. I’m at a loss for words (which, if you know me, NEVER happens) because this book was just… everything.

We are introduced to the world through the eyes of a little girl named Melanie who spends her time in a cell and…

All Four Stars Tour Stop: Guest Post & Giveaway

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I am so excited to be taking part in the blog tour for All Four Stars by Tara Dairman. This tour is brought to you by the ladies over at The Midnight Garden Blog Tours and the novel is one that I loved! Later this week I’ll be posting my review but today you can read Tara’s guest post about diversity in her life (and the novel) & enter to win a pretty finished copy for yourself!

Guest Post by Tara Dairman

Diversity is Delicious

Unlike Gladys Gatsby, the star of All Four Stars, I didn’t grow up eating adventurously. I was actually a lot more like her picky friend Parm Singh—content to subsist on spaghetti, cereal, and multivitamins, and never try anything new.

That all changed—as…

Giselle’s Stacking the Shelves [July 6th]

Posted by Giselle on 07/06/2014 • 26 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 doing? I hope you were affected by the recent Google freak out – I hear a bunch of blogs got deleted this week. Never too late to move to WordPress! 😉 Also I hope all my Eastern friends all stayed safe from the hurricane. It hit us this weekend – just the tail end of it so it wasn’t so bad here. So this week on the blog we posted our 2nd Cover Madness giveaway hop which started on the 1st, don’t miss your chance to win over 40 giveaways! This was another slow book week for me, but I’m…