Yearly Archives:: 2015

Saturday, September 26, 2015

Fresh Batch (Sept 27th – Oct 3rd)

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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:

Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo
Series: Six of Crows #1
Publication date: September 29th 2015
by Henry Holt and Company

Goodreads Purchase

Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price—and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can’t pull it off alone…

A convict with a thirst for revenge.

A sharpshooter who can’t walk away from a wager.

A runaway with a privileged past.

A spy known as the Wraith.

A Heartrender using her magic to survive the slums.

A thief with a gift for unlikely escapes.

Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz’s crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction—if they don’t kill each other first.

Other releases this week:
* In no particular order *


– Once Upon a Zombie, Book One: The Color of Fear by Billy Phillips and Jenny Nissenson [Purchase]
– The Anatomy of Curiosity by Maggie Stiefvater, Tessa Gratton, and Brenna Yovanoff [Purchase]
– After You (Me Before You #2) by Jojo Moyes [Purchase]
– Forever with You (Wait for You #5) by Jennifer L. Armentrout [Purchase]


– Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter [Purchase]
– Until Jax (Until Him #1) by Aurora Rose Reynolds [Purchase]
– The Heart Goes Last (Positron 0) by Margaret Atwood [Purchase]
– The Epic Adventures of Lydia Bennet by Kate Rorick and Rachel Kiley [Purchase]


– Rules for Stealing Stars by Corey Ann Haydu [Purchase]
– The Shrunken Head (The Curiosity House #1) by Lauren Oliver and H.C. Chester [Purchase]
– Spiral of Need (The Mercury Pack #1) by Suzanne Wright [Purchase]
– Early One Morning by Virginia Baily [Purchase]


– Daughters unto Devils by Amy Lukavics [Purchase]
– Menagerie (Menagerie #1) by Rachel Vincent [Purchase]
– This Ordinary Life by Jennifer Walkup [Purchase]
– A Mad Zombie Party (White Rabbit Chronicles #4) by Gena Showalter [Purchase]


– Madly (Potion #1) by Amy Alward [Purchase]
– Untwine by Edwidge Danticat [Purchase]
– Becoming Darkness by Lindsay Francis Brambles [Purchase]
– Zeroes (Zeroes #1) by Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan, and Deborah Biancotti [Purchase]


– The Lost Girl (Fear Street Relaunch #3) by R.L. Stine [Purchase]
– All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely [Purchase]
– Faceless by Alyssa B. Sheinmel [Purchase]
– Sanctuary by Jennifer McKissack [Purchase]


– Very in Pieces by Megan Frazer Blakemore [Purchase]
– Carefully Everywhere Descending by L.B. Bedford [Purchase]
– The Keepsake (The Empress Chronicles #2) by Suzy Vitello [Purchase]
– Until Beth by Lisa Amowitz [Purchase]


– The Unquiet Past (Secrets) by Kelley Armstrong [Purchase]
– The Doldrums by Nicholas Gannon [Purchase]
– Dead Boy by Laurel Gale [Purchase]


What are you most excited for this week?

 

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Audiobook Review: Paperweight by Meg Haston

Audiobook Review: Paperweight by Meg Haston

Posted by on 09/25/2015 • 5 Comments

I really enjoyed this book as much as you can enjoy something about such a topic. I listened to this on audio and at first I was having a hard time getting into it, but the longer I listened, the more the narrator really did fit with the story. She voiced Stevie so well, that I was able to really feel for her and get that emotional impact from the book. Although this book appears to be about a girl with an eating disorder, it was really so much more. This is one of those rare instances when I really don’t like the MC, at least at for most of the book, but it actually made me like the book more.

Stevie is sent away to a treatment center for…

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Review: PIXU by Gabriel Bá, Fábio Moon (Illustrations), Becky Cloonan (Illustrations)

Review: PIXU by Gabriel Bá, Fábio Moon (Illustrations), Becky Cloonan (Illustrations)

Posted by on 09/23/2015 • 1 Comment

I don’t read a lot of Graphic Novels, but I do enjoy them once in a while. I have come across a lot of really great ones, but unfortunately this was not one of them. The artwork was beautiful, and the story was creepy and disturbing, but it left a lot to be desired. I understand that with this type of novel, you are a bit limited, though there is no reason that it couldn’t have been a more fully developed story. Others I have read are plenty well rounded. Anyways, this is a great creepy novel for going into Halloween season. It was a short and quick read. Be forewarned though, there is much adult content in this. Not just in the blood and gore, but the subject matter…

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Fresh Batch (September 20th – 26th)

Fresh Batch (September 20th – 26th)

Posted by on 09/19/2015 • 5 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Walk on Earth a Stranger Rae Carson Series: The Gold Seer Trilogy #1 Publication date: September 22nd 2015by Greenwillow Books

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Lee Westfall has a secret. She can sense the presence of gold in the world around her. Veins deep beneath the earth, pebbles in the river, nuggets dug up from the forest floor. The buzz of gold means warmth and life and home—until everything is ripped away by a man who wants to control her. Left with nothing, Lee disguises herself as a boy and takes to the trail across the country. Gold was discovered in California, and where else…

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Review: Ice Like Fire by Sara Raasch

Review: Ice Like Fire by Sara Raasch

Posted by on 09/18/2015 • 8 Comments

Have you ever had one of those days where you feel like something was… incomplete? That things dragged on more than they should have had? Like the story could’ve been tighter, could’ve had the same essential elements and plot points, AND still give a sense of completeness, as if this small story arc of a bigger story arc has been reached?

This is one of those days – those days where I felt nothing but underwhelmed.

You guys might be well-aware of my love for the first book. I flailed over it, gave it 5-fantastic-stars, and shoved the book (and its pretty cover!) pretty much to everyone’s faces, imploring them, demanding them, that they read Snow Like Ashes as soon as they could, and that I wouldn’t be accepting any flimsy excuses. It was…

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Giveaway: A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston

Giveaway: A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston

Posted by on 09/15/2015 • 3 Comments

Thanks to the lovely people at Disney-Hyperion, we’ve got a copy of A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston up for giveaway today! A THOUSAND NIGHTS is a dazzling retelling of Arabian Nights by E.K. Johnston – in stores October 6th! All samples and prizing are provided by Disney-Hyperion.

Make sure to: Learn more on un-requiredreading.com Check out the first four chapters of A THOUSAND NIGHTS here. #AThousandNights

Giveaway!

PRETTY THINGS IN A DANGEROUS PLACE prize pack One (1) winner receives: · Copy of A Thousand Nights; · Branded nail polish set & tea bag dispenser.

 

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Review: The Sleepwalker Tonic (Nightmares! #2) by Jason Segel and Kirsten Miller

Review: The Sleepwalker Tonic (Nightmares! #2) by Jason Segel and Kirsten Miller

Posted by on 09/14/2015 • 1 Comment

I really enjoyed the first book, so I was eager to get to this one right away. Just when Charlie is finally happy with his family and life, things start to get weird again. Him and his brother Jack have sealed the portal to the nightmare realm, but now he has discovered that Jack has been visiting, and with the odd stuff happening in the waking world his little brother may become the one they blame. Things aren’t going so well with Charlotte’s business either, and they may lose their house.The purple mansion with the portal that they must protect. Charlie starts to discover that the weird events, and the pending doom of Charlotte’s store are connected. Now it’s up to him and Jack to save the nightmare world again,…

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Fresh Batch (September 13th – 19th)

Fresh Batch (September 13th – 19th)

Posted by on 09/13/2015 • 8 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Dumplin’ Julie Murphy Publication date: September 15th 2015by Balzer + Bray

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Self-proclaimed fat girl Willowdean Dickson (dubbed “Dumplin’” by her former beauty queen mom) has always been at home in her own skin. Her thoughts on having the ultimate bikini body? Put a bikini on your body. With her all-American beauty best friend, Ellen, by her side, things have always worked . . . until Will takes a job at Harpy’s, the local fast-food joint. There she meets Private School Bo, a hot former jock. Will isn’t surprised to find herself attracted to Bo. But she is surprised when he…

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