Posts By: Giselle

Sunday, March 03, 2013

Xpresso Weekly: Stacking the Shelves (45)

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Xpresso Weekly is my edition of Stacking the Shelves hosted by Tynga’s Reviews featuring the books I got this week, and I also mention blog news/happenings of the past week.
This week at Xpresso Reads

Happy March! I hope everyone had a great week! I was out pretty much all week but I’m back now and trying to return all the comment love! 😉 I don’t have much to highlight this week since I wasn’t really here so let’s just move to more interesting things.. >.<

Reviews on the blog this week:

copyrightNew at Xpresso Book Tours

Stacking the Shelves

 (Click on covers or title links for Goodreads)
I received for review:

–Game by Barry Lyga
–Thousand Words by Jennifer Brown
–Icons by Margaret Stohl

*Thanks so much Hachette Book Group Canada for these pretties!*
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Gifted:

 I also got some more birthday prezzies this week:

From the hot and fabulous Kara at Great Imaginations (thanks, darling!)

–Audrey, Wait! by Robin Benway
–Babe in Boyland by Jody Gehrman

 And from the sexy and sassy Christina from A Reader of Fictions (thanks, dollface!):

–My Life As a White Trash Zombie by Diana Rowland

Thanks so much, ladies! You both know me so well! 😉 Muah!!
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Bought:
I also got this on audiobook and I’m listening the it now it’s really good! The narrator is super sassy/bitchy and perfect for the MC!

That’s all, folks!
Ciao! Link me to your book haul in the comments! 🙂
XOXO!

Fresh Batch (March 3rd – 9th)

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Exclusively titled for Xpresso Reads, Fresh Batch features the hottest releases of this upcoming week. Flavor of the week: Requiem Lauren Oliver Series: Delirium #3 Genre:YA DystopianPublication date: March 5th 2013by HarperTeen

They have tried to squeeze us out, to stamp us into the past.

But we are still here.

And there are more of us every day.

Now an active member of the resistance, Lena has been transformed. The nascent rebellion that was under way in Pandemonium has ignited into an all-out revolution in Requiem, and Lena is at the center of the fight.

After rescuing Julian from a death sentence, Lena and her friends fled to the Wilds. But the Wilds are no longer a safe haven—pockets of rebellion have opened throughout the country, and the…

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Review: When We Wake by Karen Healey

Posted by on 03/01/2013 • 22 Comments

When We WakeKaren Healey Genre: YA Science FictionPublication date: March 5th 2013by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

My name is Tegan Oglietti, and on the last day of my first lifetime, I was so, so happy.

Sixteen-year-old Tegan is just like every other girl living in 2027—she’s happiest when playing the guitar, she’s falling in love for the first time, and she’s joining her friends to protest the wrongs of the world: environmental collapse, social discrimination, and political injustice.

But on what should have been the best day of Tegan’s life, she dies—and wakes up a hundred years in the future, locked in a government facility with no idea what happened.

Tegan is the first government guinea pig to be cryonically frozen and successfully revived, which makes…

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Book Girls Don’t Cry: Annoying Characters are Annoying

Posted by on 02/28/2013 • 31 Comments

Inspired by Book Buzzers, Book Girls Don’t Cry is a weekly feature where we each discuss/vent/advise on the chosen weekly bookish topic. Don’t miss Jenni on Mondays, and Amy on Saturdays:  

I CURSE THE DAY YOU WERE BORN!

What is a story without a villain? A love without heartbreak? Light without dark? Every story needs balance, every book needs characters, or situations, that will bring about negative feelings, sympathy, or even hate. This is great in many ways: it brings our emotions to the surface, as well as leading to character growth from this villain they have to defeat. May it be the government, paranormal “monsters”, zombies (can’t leave them out can we? ;), grief, or even the protagonists’ own broken selves; the basis of every story usually commences…

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Waiting on Wednesday (75)

Posted by on 02/27/2013 • 40 Comments

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event that is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine  and spotlights upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating.  My pick this week: 3:59Gretchen McNeil Genre: YA ParanormalPublication date: September 17th 2013by Balzer & Bray

Josie Byrne’s life is spiraling out of control. Her parents are divorcing, her boyfriend Nick has grown distant, and her physics teacher has it in for her. When she’s betrayed by the two people she trusts most, Josie thinks things can’t get worse.

Until she starts having dreams about a girl named Jo. Every night at the same time—3:59 a.m.

Jo’s life is everything Josie wants: she’s popular, her parents are happily married, and Nick adores her. It all seems real, but they’re just dreams, right? Josie thinks so,…

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Things I Can’t Forget Tour: Review + Giveaway

Posted by on 02/26/2013 • 151 Comments

Today I’m kicking off the Things I Can’t Forget blog tour that will run from Feb 26th to March 19th! You will find my review below, and then a pretty fab giveaway that you cannot miss!

Things I Can’t Forget Miranda Kenneally Series: Hundred Oaks, #3Genre:YA ContemporaryPublication date: March 1st 2013by Sourcebooks Fire

Companion to Catching Jordan and Stealing Parker.

Kate has always been the good girl. Too good, according to some people at school—although they have no idea the guilty secret she carries. But this summer, everything is different…

This summer she’s a counselor at Cumberland Creek summer camp, and she wants to put the past behind her. This summer Matt is back as a counselor too. He’s the first guy she ever kissed, and he’s…

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Review: Unremembered by Jessica Brody

Posted by on 02/25/2013 • 0 Comments

UnrememberedJessica BrodySeries: Unremembered #1Publication date: March 5th 2013by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux (BYR)

 

The only thing worse than forgetting her past… is remembering it.

When Freedom Airlines flight 121 went down over the Pacific Ocean, no one ever expected to find survivors. Which is why the sixteen-year-old girl discovered floating among the wreckage—alive—is making headlines across the globe.

Even more strange is that her body is miraculously unharmed and she has no memories of boarding the plane. She has no memories of her life before the crash. She has no memories period. No one knows how she survived. No one knows why she wasn’t on the passenger manifest. And no one can explain why her DNA and fingerprints can’t be found in a single database in the…

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Review: White Crow by Marcus Sedgwick

Posted by on 02/25/2013 • 31 Comments

White CrowMarcus Sedgwick Genre: YA HorrorPublication date: September 18th 2012by Square Fish (Macmillan)

You or your Alt? Only one will survive.

Some secrets are better left buried; some secrets are so frightening they might make angels weep and the devil crow.

Thought provoking as well as intensely scary, White Crow unfolds in three voices. There’s Rebecca, who has come to a small seaside village to spend the summer, and there’s Ferelith, who offers to show Rebecca the secrets of the town . . . but at a price. Finally, there’s a priest whose descent into darkness illuminates the girls’ frightening story. White Crow is as beautifully written as it is horrifically gripping.

-A copy was provided by Macmillan for review-

With its creepy cover and synopsis, I…

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