Posts By: Giselle

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Xpresso Weekly: Stacking the Shelves (44)

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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

Is anyone else buried in the snow? Gah it won’t stop! This is the Ice age! *mean face* Ok so this week I will be going on a short leave for a few days (nothing serious no worries!) but just so you know I won’t be online much in case you think I’m ignoring you if I don’t reply to tweets etc. I have posts scheduled so the blog will still have content. I also have trained Jenni to be me for the week so when you see tweets from me it’s actually her being an imposter (though for real she’s taking care of my tours ;)–big thanks, muffin). Anywho! I will probably go into online withdrawal mode and figure out how to make an appearance or two. 😉

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:

 

 –Neferet’s Curse by PC Cast + Kristin Cast (not sure why I got this O_O)
–Breaking Point by Kristen Simmons (Loved it! Review here)

*Big thanks to Hachette Book Group Canada, Random House UK, Penguin Group, St Martin’s Press, Tor Teen, and Macmillan for the pretties!*
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I also got these below gifted for my birthday which I tried so hard to keep quiet but then a little birdy, and another little birdie, told the world >.<

I got these from Amypoo at Book Loving Mom. These look so good! I’m really loving contemps lately so I was super excited to get these! Thanks so much, dollface!

And these from Jenni Peepee at Alluring Reads (plus the epic card). Eek! I’m so excited to finally get my hands on these–though she did have to twist my arm for Easy so I guess I have no choice now! 😛 Thanks, love muffin!

And inside it says “The stiffer the better” Bwahahaha. It’s so us in our past life!

That’s all for me this week!
Ciao, pretty people!
XOXO!

Fresh Batch (February 24th – March 2nd)

Posted by on 02/23/2013 • 17 Comments

Exclusively titled for Xpresso Reads, Fresh Batch features the hottest releases of this upcoming week. Flavor of the week: Things I Can’t Forget Miranda Kenneally Series: Hundred Oaks #3 Genre: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 gone from a geeky songwriter who loved The Hardy Boys to a buff lifeguard who loves to…

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Review: Dualed by Elsie Chapman

Posted by on 02/22/2013 • 30 Comments

DualedElsie Chapman Genre: YA DystopianPublication date: February 26th 2013by Random House BFYR

You or your Alt? Only one will survive.

The city of Kersh is a safe haven, but the price of safety is high. Everyone has a genetic Alternate—a twin raised by another family—and citizens must prove their worth by eliminating their Alts before their twentieth birthday. Survival means advanced schooling, a good job, marriage—life.

Fifteen-year-old West Grayer has trained as a fighter, preparing for the day when her assignment arrives and she will have one month to hunt down and kill her Alt. But then a tragic misstep shakes West’s confidence. Stricken with grief and guilt, she’s no longer certain that she’s the best version of herself, the version worthy of a future. If she is…

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Book Girls Don’t Cry: Guilt Over Negative Reviews

Posted by on 02/21/2013 • 72 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:  

Negative Reviews: You Know I Love You, But…

You know what’s great about blogging? Aside from the obvious love of books, the community is the best. Sure there’s some drama and bad apples like anywhere, but the friends you will make while blogging are all well worth it. Even more special in this particular field is how we can become so friendly with the creators of our passion–the authors. Without them, where would we be? Probably drunk, but that story’s for another day.

So you have made friends with an author! Isn’t it awesome, sometimes even a…

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Giveaway: If You Find Me by Emily Murdoch

Posted by on 02/20/2013 • 8 Comments

If You Find Me Emily Murdoch Genre: YA ContemporaryPublication date: March 26th 2013by St. Martin’s Griffin

There are some things you can’t leave behind… A broken-down camper hidden deep in a national forest is the only home fifteen year-old Carey can remember. The trees keep guard over her threadbare existence, with the one bright spot being Carey’s younger sister, Jenessa, who depends on Carey for her very survival. All they have is each other, as their mentally ill mother comes and goes with greater frequency. Until that one fateful day their mother disappears for good, and two strangers arrive. Suddenly, the girls are taken from the woods and thrust into a bright and perplexing new world of high school, clothes and boys.

Now, Carey must face the truth of…

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Waiting on Wednesday (74)

Posted by on 02/20/2013 • 50 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:

Delia‘s Shadow Jaime Lee Moyer Release date: September 1st 2013by Tor

Advance word on Delia’s Shadow:

“Like fog creeping in from the Bay, this ghostly, romantic tale of San Francisco past made the outside world disappear and sent shivery tendrils into my soul. A gorgeous and haunting book.” –Rae Carson, author of The Girl of Fire and Thorns and The Crown of Embers

“Spirits seek vengeance while the young try to build a future in a fog-shrouded San Francisco shaken by more than the great earthquake. This bravura mix of ghost story and historical mystery will chill and grip its readers from…

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Review: Teeth by Hannah Moskowitz

Posted by on 02/19/2013 • 23 Comments

Teeth Hannah Moskowitz Genre: YA Fantasy/Magical RealismPublication date: January 1st 2013by Simon Pulse

A gritty, romantic modern fairy tale from the author of Break and Gone, Gone, Gone.

Be careful what you believe in.

Rudy’s life is flipped upside-down when his family moves to a remote island in a last attempt to save his sick younger brother. With nothing to do but worry, Rudy sinks deeper and deeper into loneliness and lies awake at night listening to the screams of the ocean beneath his family’s rickety house.

Then he meets Diana, who makes him wonder what he even knows about love, and Teeth, who makes him question what he knows about anything. Rudy can’t remember the last time he felt so connected to someone, but being friends with Teeth…

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Review: The Nightmare Affair by Mindee Arnett

Posted by on 02/18/2013 • 25 Comments

The Nightmare Affair Mindee Arnett Series: The Arkwell Academy, #1 Genre: YA ParanormalPublication date: March 5th 2013by Tor Teen

Sixteen-year-old Dusty Everhart breaks into houses late at night, but not because she’s a criminal. No, she’s a Nightmare.

Literally.

Being the only Nightmare at Arkwell Academy, a boarding school for magickind, and living in the shadow of her mother’s infamy, is hard enough. But when Dusty sneaks into Eli Booker’s house, things get a whole lot more complicated. He’s hot, which means sitting on his chest and invading his dreams couldn’t get much more embarrassing. But it does. Eli is dreaming of a murder.

Then Eli’s dream comes true.

Now Dusty has to follow the clues—both within Eli’s dreams and out of them—to stop the killer before more people…

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