Posts By: Giselle

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Cover Reveal: Blood Bond

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Blood Bond
Heather Hildenbrand
Series: Dirty Blood, #3
Release date: August 31st, 2012
by Accendo Press

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Hybrids.

If I had to choose one word to sum up all of my problems, this would be it.
Without hybrids, I wouldn’t have to watch my best friend slowly becoming a monster. Without hybrids, I could let go of the mentality “hunt or be hunted.” CHAS wouldn’t be scouring the Earth, intent on slaughtering and using Alex to do it. Without hybrids, I wouldn’t have to be on guard that losing my temper meant losing my shape. There would be no monster inside me, struggling to get out.

Then again, without hybrids, I wouldn’t have Wesley St. John.

The Dirty Blood series:

Don’t you just LOVE the covers in this series? They just get better and better. They are gorgeous! I haven’t read this series yet but I desperately want to as I’ve heard a million and one fantastic things about it!

What do you think of this pretty?

Waiting on Wednesday (40)

Posted by on 06/13/2012 • 54 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:

The Culling Steven dos Santos Release date: March 8th, 2013 by Flux Add it to your Goodreads

16 year-old Lucian Spark is the sole caretaker of his young brother, Cole, in a bleak and dangerous world that has arisen from the ashes of a devastating global apocalypse. Betrayed and drafted into the ruthless Establishment’s sadistic military boot camp, Lucian is plunged into the ultimate horror known as The Culling. Now, torn away from Cole, perhaps forever, Lucian must compete in a series of deadly challenges designed to purge the recruits of their humanity and transform them into amoral, cold-blooded killers by forcing them to…

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The Last Bastion of the Living Tour Stop

Posted by on 06/12/2012 • 34 Comments

Today is a super epic day at Xpresso Reads with the tour for The Last Bastion of the Living that brings you Rhiannon’s newest mind blowing novel, her dream cast, my gushing review, and a giveaway! Well, what else can I say? Today, Xpresso Reads is the shizz!

The Last Bastion of the LivingRhiannon Frater Release date: June 12th, 2012

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A walled city surrounded by lush land, protected by high mountain summits, and fortified by a massive gate to secure the only pass into the valley, The Bastion remained humanity’s last hope against the fearsome undead creatures known as the Inferi Scourge. On one fateful day, the valley gate failed and the Inferi Scourge overran and destroyed the human settlements outside the walls, trapping the remaining survivors…

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Review: Flirting in Italian

Posted by on 06/11/2012 • 44 Comments

Flirting in ItalianLauren HendersonSeries: Flirting in Italian, #1Release date: June 12th, 2012by Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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Four girls. One magical, and possibly dangerous Italian summer. Family mysteries, ancient castles, long hot nights of dancing under the stars . . . and, of course, plenty of gorgeous Italian boys!

*A copy was provided by Random House Children’s Books for review purposes*

I wanted to love this one. I’m so sad I didn’t. I was super in the mood for a fun, cute, romantic story with an engaging mystery mixed in – and in Italy to boot! It started on a good note, but unfortunately, it didn’t turn out as expected.

Sure it’s got plenty of cute Italian boys, but when these boys go from sweet one minute…

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Xpresso Weekly: Stacking the Shelves (7)

Posted by on 06/10/2012 • 100 Comments

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.

Hey guys! I hope everyone is doing great and resting from BEA! It looks like you all had a blast and guess what? Next year I’M GOING! So stoked. So last Sunday was my lil one’s bday party! He had a blast He’s 2 now:

Yes, I have to show his cuteness! So this week at the blog I had the Crazy Dangerous blog tour stopping by to give you a sneak peek of the book. On my Facebook page I shared the cover for the paperback release of Shatter Me which is gorgeous. If you missed it…

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Review: Saving June by Hannah Harrington

Posted by on 06/09/2012 • 31 Comments

Saving JuneHannah HarringtonRelease date: June 1st, 2012by Mira Ink

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‘If she’d waited less than two weeks, she’d be June who died in June. But I guess my sister didn’t consider that.’

Harper Scott’s older sister has always been the perfect one so when June takes her own life a week before her high school graduation, sixteen-year-old Harper is devastated. Everyone’s sorry, but no one can explain why.

When her divorcing parents decide to split her sister’s ashes into his-and-her urns, Harper takes matters into her own hands. She’ll steal the ashes and drive cross-country with her best friend, Laney, to the one place June always dreamed of going, California.

Enter Jake Tolan. He’s a boy with a bad attitude, a classic-rock obsession and nothing in common with…

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Fresh Batch (June 9th – 15th)

Posted by on 06/08/2012 • 26 Comments

Exclusively titled for Xpresso Reads, Fresh Batch features the hottest releases of this upcoming week.

Flavor of the week:

For Darkness Shows the StarsDiana PeterfreundRelease date: June 12th, 2012by Balzer + Bray

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Generations ago, a genetic experiment gone wrong—the Reduction—decimated humanity, giving rise to a Luddite nobility who outlawed most technology.

Elliot North has always known her place in this world. Four years ago Elliot refused to run away with her childhood sweetheart, the servant Kai, choosing duty to her family’s estate over love. Since then the world has changed: a new class of Post-Reductionists is jumpstarting the wheel of progress, and Elliot’s estate is foundering, forcing her to rent land to the mysterious Cloud Fleet, a group of shipbuilders that includes renowned explorer Captain Malakai Wentforth—an…

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Review: Entangled by Nikki Jefford

Posted by on 06/07/2012 • 37 Comments

EntangledNikki JeffordSeries: Spellbound, #1Release date: February 20th, 2012

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A Resurrection Spell Gone Wrong

Two months after dying, Graylee Perez wakes up in her twin sister Charlene’s body. As a witch, can anyone blame her mother for attempting to bring her daughter back to life? Now Gray is stuck sharing her sister’s body 50/50 in twenty-four-hour shifts.

Raj McKenna is rumored to meddle in the black arts, not to mention he’s after Gray’s invisibility spell, and worse—her heart. But Raj might be the only one powerful enough to save Gray from fading away forever.

The race is on for Gray to find a way back inside her own body before Charlene purges her from existence.

*****

This book is intended for older teens.

 *A copy was provided…

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