Monthly Archives:: November 2014

Sunday, November 30, 2014

Giselle’s Stacking the Shelves [November 30th]

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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.

I think it’s safe to say I’m officially in winter – we just got our first big snowstorm it’s so pretteh! But I only like snow until Christmas. Then it needs to go away! >.< So is all of your holiday shopping done? I wish mine was I’m such a slow poke when it comes to that. So I don’t know if you follow me on Instagram but I’m doing this Elf on the Shelf for my lil guy and I’m having so much fun with it! You should go see the antics our little (and creepy) elf has been up to 😉 Ok so this week I mostly went grabby hands with EW booksI haven’t been requesting much else lately. Let’s see what I got!



BOOK HAUL:

I received for review:
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And I also got this in the mail which came with a creepy news article that
I’m kind of wondering (and a tad hoping) if it’s real!
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*Big thanks to HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster Canada for these pretties!*


That’s all for me this week!
XOXO

Fresh Batch (New Releases November 30th – December 6th)

Fresh Batch (New Releases November 30th – December 6th)

Posted by on 11/29/2014 • 5 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Between the Shadow and the Soul Susanne Winnacker Series: Darkest Soul #1 Publication date: December 1st 2014 Goodreads Purchase

21st Century Cologne On the day of her sixteenth birthday Nela receives her Binding – a tattoo that’ll punish even the thought of magic with burning pain. In a world where the Brotherhood still burns witches at the stake, Nela has learned to fear her magical powers. But her powers are growing and refuse to be ignored. When Nela meets Darko, he shows her a hidden world of magic she can’t resist.

Darko hates the Brotherhood with blind fervor for destroying his life. Except…

Review: No Place to Fall by Jaye Robin Brown

Review: No Place to Fall by Jaye Robin Brown

Posted by on 11/28/2014 • 9 Comments

I was extremely bored while reading this. Even at 80% I felt like the book was going nowhere. The plot was dragging through the mud and the characters, while some are well-developed enough, were uninteresting and lacked any sort of compelling nature. It might be a good book to pick for when you just want a mindless read one boring Sunday, but otherwise I wouldn’t expect to become especially enthralled with No Place to Fall.

When we meet our main character, Amber, she seems like this party girl who makes a hobby out of hooking up and getting high with strangers from all over the world who stop by her town. She keeps track of her nightly… adventures.. on a map. But then we learn that she’s supposedly this good…

Review: Ferals by Jacob Grey

Review: Ferals by Jacob Grey

Posted by on 11/26/2014 • 14 Comments

You know what’s really hard? It is to read a book from a certain demographic that gave you a migraine, just right after you read another book from the same category that made you fly the heavens because of absolute ecstasy. There is always that voice in your head comparing the two, asking why is it like this when the other one did it better? More often than not, your mind fools itself to think that the book is actually worse than it is. I know I have to take that into account, but I can’t deny that my feelings right now are leaning towards a particular end of the stick… the one where a raging She-Hulk is preparing to throw a couple of knuckle sandwiches.

With that said, please,…

On My Winter To-Be-Read List!

On My Winter To-Be-Read List!

Posted by on 11/25/2014 • 22 Comments

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

Winter in Books!

Shutter by Courtney Alamera: You all know (or you will now) how much I love horror and creepy books in general, and this one has been catching my eye for a while but I’m definitely stoked ever since Faye read it and loved it and made me want to read it right meow! I’ll Meet You There by Heather Demetrios: I loved Heather’s Something Real and have been dying for a new contemp from her so this one is def high on my winter TBR list! The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma: I recently read Nova’s Imaginary Girls which…

Review: Into the Night by Suzanne Rigdon

Review: Into the Night by Suzanne Rigdon

Posted by on 11/24/2014 • 8 Comments

I don’t read a lot of Adult or Vampire novels that often anymore, but this one sounded interesting so I figured I would give it a go. (I am assuming it’s an adult book due to the age of the characters) I did like it, but it wasn’t anything that blew me away. I guess it has to be really unique in order for me to really love it. The characters were done pretty well, and the story was engaging enough, but I just felt like I needed more out of it. I didn’t feel like we got enough back story on any of the characters, especially the main ones. Things also seemed to just be kind of rushed through when it got to the action parts.

Selina was an…

Fresh Batch (New Releases November 23rd – 29th)

Fresh Batch (New Releases November 23rd – 29th)

Posted by on 11/22/2014 • 8 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Captive Aimee Carter Series: The Blackcoat Rebellion #2 Publication date: November 25th 2014by Harlequin Teen

Goodreads Purchase

For the past two months, Kitty Doe’s life has been a lie. Forced to impersonate the Prime Minister’s niece, her frustration grows as her trust in her fake fiancé cracks, her real boyfriend is forbidden and the Blackcoats keep her in the dark more than ever.

But in the midst of discovering that her role in the Hart family may not be as coincidental as she thought, she’s accused of treason and is forced to face her greatest fear: Elsewhere. A prison where no one can…

Review: Magonia by Maria Dahvana Headley

Review: Magonia by Maria Dahvana Headley

Posted by on 11/21/2014 • 36 Comments

First off, this was such a beautiful novel, inside and out.

I like the sky. It’s rational to me in a way that life isn’t. Looking at it doesn’t suck the way you might think it would, given all the dying-girl-stares-at-heaven possibilities. I don’t think of the sky as any kind of heaven item. I think of it as a bunch of gases and faraway echoes of things that used to be on fire.

When I read the first few paragraphs of this book, I initially thought it was the diary of a self-absorbed girl who thought she was the shit. After finishing the first two chapters, I ate my words and realized that the heroine was actually exploding with a certain kind of wisdom only a mature person who…