Monthly Archives:: September 2014

Saturday, September 20, 2014

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

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

Flavor of the week:

Salt & Storm
Kendall Kulper
Publication date: September 23rd 2014
by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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A sweeping historical romance about a witch who foresees her own murder–and the one boy who can help change her future.

Sixteen-year-old Avery Roe wants only to take her rightful place as the witch of Prince Island, making the charms that keep the island’s whalers safe at sea, but her mother has forced her into a magic-free world of proper manners and respectability. When Avery dreams she’s to be murdered, she knows time is running out to unlock her magic and save herself.

Avery finds an unexpected ally in a tattooed harpoon boy named Tane–a sailor with magic of his own, who moves Avery in ways she never expected. Becoming a witch might stop her murder and save her island from ruin, but Avery discovers her magic requires a sacrifice she never prepared for.

Other releases this week:
* In no particular order *


– Rooms by Lauren Oliver [Purchase]
– Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld [Purchase]
– Deacon (Unfinished Hero #4) by Kristen Ashley [Purchase]
– Unmade (The Lynburn Legacy #3) by Sarah Rees Brennan [Purchase]


– How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran [Purchase]
– Lark Rising (Guardians of Tarnec #1) by Sandra Waugh [Purchase]
– Tabula Rasa by Kristen Lippert-Martin [Purchase]
– In a Handful of Dust (Not a Drop to Drink #2) by Mindy McGinnis [Purchase]


– Bones Never Lie (Temperance Brennan #17) by Kathy Reichs [Purchase]
– Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth [Purchase]
– Adrenaline Crush by Laurie Boyle Crompton [Purchase]
– Messenger of Fear (Messenger of Fear #1) by Michael Grant [Purchase]


– The Fires of Calderon (The Balance Keepers #1) by Lindsay Cummings [Purchase]
– The Bodies We Wear (The Bodies We Wear #1) by Jeyn Roberts [Purchase]
– Firebug (Firebug #1) by Lish McBride [Purchase]
– The Faerie Queen (The Faerie Ring #4) by Kiki Hamilton [Purchase]


– Tape by Steven Camden [Purchase]
– Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty by Christine Heppermann [Purchase]
– Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix [Purchase]
– The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place by Julie Berry [Purchase]


– Unfriended by Rachel Vail [Purchase]
– Remember Me (Find Me #2) by Romily Bernard [Purchase]
– Stay with Me (Wait for You #3) by J. Lynn [Purchase]
– Survival Colony Nine by Joshua David Bellin [Purchase]


– Skink–No Surrender (Skink #7) by Carl Hiaasen [Purchase]
– On a Clear Day by Walter Dean Myers [Purchase]
– The Prophecy (Reign #1) by Lily Blake [Purchase]
– The Paradox of Vertical Flight by Emil Ostrovski [Purchase]


Anything you’re excited for this week?

 

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Review: Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer

Review: Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer

Posted by on 09/19/2014 • 15 Comments

It took me months to get through this one, I kept forgetting I was even reading it, so let’s just say it wasn’t a memorable read for me. It is unique, don’t get me wrong, but I just didn’t really care about any of these characters. Then when the magical element got introduced, it made the book even less interesting, not more as I had hoped.

Ok so let’s start with this premise. After her boyfriend dies, Jam gets sent to boarding school for troubled teens, and in one of her classes she’s given a journal that, to her surprise, sends her to a magical place whenever she writes in it. This place is free of pain and heartache: it’s a world where the tragedy that brought them to this…

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Guest Post & Giveaway: A Trick Of The Light

Posted by on 09/18/2014 • 1 Comment

I am so excited to be able to share with you today a guest post and opportunity to win a novel that I read and loved last year. To celebrate the paperback release of A Trick of The Light, Lois Metzger is here to talk about the unique POV of the novel and let me tell you, this is one perspective you have probably never read from before. First here is a little about the novel:

Click Here To Read Jenni’s Review of A Trick Of The Light

Guest Post from Lois Metzger

How I Came to Write a Book Narrated by a Voice in Someone’s Head

Years ago I wrote an opening scene for my novel, “A Trick…

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I NEED to Read More From These Authors!

I NEED to Read More From These Authors!

Posted by on 09/16/2014 • 31 Comments

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish where we list top bookish things.

Author lovin’ fail!

Colleen Hoover: I read Hopeless maybe a year or so ago, and I loved it so hard and immediately bought all of her other books (at the time), but I still haven’t read any of them. I know I would love them too just by the reviews and my feelings towards this one. #FailIsMe V.E. Schwab/Victoria Schwab: I reeeeeallly want to read the Archived by Schwab, and even more so ever since I read this one and saw how much of an incredible writer she is. Dude! I even swore in my review I was going to read the Archived next!…

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DNF Round-Up [2014: Part 2]

DNF Round-Up [2014: Part 2]

Posted by on 09/15/2014 • 20 Comments

The post where I post mini reviews on why I DNFed (did not finish) these books! For my past DNF posts, click here!

Mortal Danger Ann Aguirre

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Revenge is a dish best served cold.

Edie Kramer has a score to settle with the beautiful people at Blackbriar Academy. Their cruelty drove her to the brink of despair, and four months ago, she couldn’t imagine being strong enough to face her senior year. But thanks to a Faustian compact with the enigmatic Kian, she has the power to make the bullies pay. She’s not supposed to think about Kian once the deal is done, but devastating pain burns behind his unearthly beauty, and he’s impossible to forget.

In one short summer, her entire life changes, and…

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Stacking the Shelves [September 14th]

Stacking the Shelves [September 14th]

Posted by on 09/14/2014 • 17 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. Hiya guys! I hope everyone is doing awesomely even as the weather gets colder. At least for those up north like me. So even though Jenni is not blogging anymore, I still plan to only post an STS every 2 weeks, mostly because I rarely get enough in just one week to bother making a book haul post about it. Also this week, if you missed it, was my 3 year blogoversary. I did up a post with a sweet giveaway here! I also shared a fun sneak peek at The Gifted Dead here. So the past weeks were a tad slow for…

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Fresh Batch (New Releases September 14th – 20th)

Fresh Batch (New Releases September 14th – 20th)

Posted by on 09/13/2014 • 9 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

I’ll Give You the Sun Jandy Nelson Publication date: September 16th 2014by Dial

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A brilliant, luminous story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal for fans of John Green, David Levithan, and Rainbow Rowell

Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does the talking for both of them. But three years later, Jude and Noah are barely speaking. Something has happened to wreck the twins in different and dramatic ways . ….

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Review: Rooms by Lauren Oliver

Review: Rooms by Lauren Oliver

Posted by on 09/12/2014 • 16 Comments

I didn’t love this, but it’s a very unique – I’d even say peculiar – story with some candid personalities and buried secrets. And of course, Lauren’s writing makes the storyline so intriguing that it compels you to read even if it’s not blowing your mind. This review will be short, because the whole of this (also short) book is one haunting secret after another being unearthed into a story full of tragedy.

Brought together in this house by the death and upcoming burial of a husband and father, this story encircles the lives of half a dozen people who make up our narrators of this novel. While we learn the ins and outs of what makes these people who they are, we also learn that, ultimately, this is the…

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