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Saturday, November 22, 2014

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

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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:

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

As one shocking revelation leads to the next, Kitty learns the hard way that she can trust no one, not even the people she thought were on her side. With her back against the wall, Kitty wants to believe she’ll do whatever it takes to support the rebellion she believes in—but is she prepared to pay the ultimate price?


Other releases this week:
* In no particular order *




On the Edge by Allison van Diepen [Purchase]
Hard to Come By (Hard Ink #3) by Laura Kaye [Purchase]
Girl Online by Zoe Sugg [Purchase]
Hope to Die (Alex Cross #22) by James Patterson [Purchase]


Unraveling You (Unraveling You #1) by Jessica Sorensen [Purchase]
Symbiont (Parasitology #2) by Mira Grant [Purchase]
Black Widow (Elemental Assassin #12) by Jennifer Estep [Purchase]
Endsinger (The Lotus War #3) by Jay Kristoff [Purchase]


Perfect Chaos (Unyielding #1) by Nashoda Rose
The Shape of My Heart (2B Trilogy #3) by Ann Aguirre [Purchase]
The King (The Original Sinners #6) by Tiffany Reisz [Purchase]
Anomaly (Schrodinger’s Consortium #1) by Tonya Kuper [Purchase]


Betrayed (Rosato & DiNunzio Series #2) by Lisa Scottoline [Purchase]
Trashed (Stripped #2) by Jasinda Wilder [Purchase]
The Red Winter (The Tapestry #5) by Henry H. Neff [Purchase]
Lovely Wild by Megan Hart [Purchase]


The Darkest Touch (Lords of the Underworld #11) by Gena Showalter [Purchase]
Night Shift (Kate Daniels #7.5) by Nalini Singh, Ilona Andrews, Lisa Shearin, Milla Vane [Purchase]
Misdirected by Ali Berman [Purchase]


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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…

Review: Breathe, Annie, Breathe by Miranda Kenneally

Review: Breathe, Annie, Breathe by Miranda Kenneally

Posted by on 11/19/2014 • 16 Comments

It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of this series. With every new book I fall a little bit more in love with this town and its characters, which I thought was impossible by now. What I appreciate the most is how even though it’s a series, each book is a stand-alone with new main characters who tell us their story, and if you have read the others, you get a kick out of the familiar faces that return for secondary roles. I love hearing what Jordan and the others are up to, and they’re all so grown up now *sniff*.

In Breathe, Annie, Breathe, we meet a girl who’s dealing with grief and self-blame after the death of her boyfriend. A boyfriend she knew she was eventually going…

Review: On the Edge by Allison van Diepen

Review: On the Edge by Allison van Diepen

Posted by on 11/18/2014 • 9 Comments

This book was a bit different than I expected, but not in a bad way. I suppose when you just barely skim the synopsis that’s bound to happen. In short, it is a book about a girl who lives in a shitty area with her mom, hasn’t had the best life, and wants something more. Oh, and add in the super hot “bad boy” who is actually not really all that bad. And gangs and trafficking too. So, now that we’ve covered that, I will say that I enjoyed this book. While I didn’t love it, it wasn’t a book that I thought about putting down at any point. The characters were done pretty well and it kept me wanting to know what would happen with them, but I didn’t…

Top 10 List with Chelsea M. Cameron + Giveaway!

Top 10 List with Chelsea M. Cameron + Giveaway!

Posted by on 11/17/2014 • 19 Comments

I’ve got the lovely Chelsea Cameron on the blog today for her upcoming book’s blog tour. Read on for fun top 10 list along with a giveaway! 🙂 And in case you hadn’t heard of For Now yet, have a look at what it’s all about:

Top 10 List with Chelsea M. Cameron

Top Ten Reasons Javier and Hazel Belong Together

1) He drives her crazy: “You’re disgusting,” I say, narrowing my eyes. “And I’m busy. Go find someone else to annoy with your presence.”

2) Chemistry, baby: We sit down and everything shifts. It feels so… domestic. Not like we’re married or anything, but almost like we’re a couple having dinner together like we do every night. “So how was your day, dear?” Javi says, as…

Giselle’s Stacking the Shelves [November 16th]

Giselle’s Stacking the Shelves [November 16th]

Posted by on 11/16/2014 • 18 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 guys! Hope you’re all doing great and getting read for the holidays! I can’t believe Christmas is almost here already O_O We got our first snow this week but I don’t think it will be sticking around. So in case you missed the news, there are a couple of new reviewers on Xpresso Reads! It’s been great so far and I’m happy I could find such awesome ladies to join me! 🙂 It’s been a slow haul month for me so I’ve only got a few new nooks to show you, but I’m still very excited about them!

BOOK HAUL:

Fresh Batch (New Releases November 16th – 22nd)

Fresh Batch (New Releases November 16th – 22nd)

Posted by on 11/15/2014 • 3 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Wild Sophie Jordan Series: The Ivy Chronicles #3 Publication date: November 18thby Avon

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A good girl goes fabulously bad in the final book in New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan’s sexy New Adult romance series, in which three Ivy League suite-mates seek higher knowledge of just how far they can go.

Months after her boyfriend dumped her, Georgia can still hear the insults he hurled at her. Boring. Predictable. Tame. Tired of feeling bad, she’s ready to change her image, and go a little wild. What better way to prove her ex wrong than a hot night of sexual adventure…

Review: A Wicked Thing by Rhiannon Thomas

Review: A Wicked Thing by Rhiannon Thomas

Posted by on 11/14/2014 • 25 Comments

Have you ever wondered what happened after Sleeping Beauty woke up from her slumber? Pondered if she really did live a “happily ever after”?

Well, A Wicked Thing is here to tell you that story. At least… one of the possibilities, anyway.

And it ain’t exactly pretty.

Retellings can be awesome and it can be a pain in the rear. Awesome, because you’re already familiar with the basic elements, so there’s already a pre-established connection to certain characters, and there’s already the excitement for the new things the author will add to it. And it can result to a disaster, too… because, you know… the new things may screw everything up, OR, worst-case scenario, nothing new gets added and we’re left with a dull, boring story pathetically trailing in the shadows of the original. This is…