Posts By: Giselle

Sunday, January 11, 2015

Giselle’s Stacking the Shelves [January 11th]

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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 everyone! I hope you all had a great holiday and new year! I hope 2015 has been treating you well so far! 🙂 This is my first STS since Christmas vacation so I have a pile of books to show today. It was a very merry bookish Christmas for me this year! Also before you go, don’t forget to enter to win my New Year giveaway if you missed it!

BOOK HAUL:

I received for review:
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–Black Dog Summer by Miranda Sherry
–Golden Son by Pierce Brown
–The Tragic Age by Stephen Metcalfe
–Half Wild by Sally Green
–Walking on Trampolines by Frances Whiting

eBook haul:
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*Thanks to HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Penguin Books, and Macmillan for these pretties!*

I also got a fab bookish gift from my sexy co-blogger, Amy! Thanks, ladypants!
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–Smashed by Lisa Luedeke
–The Farm & The Lair by Emily McKay
–The Other Side of Dark by Joan Lowery Nixon
–Girl, Stolen by April Henry

I also got this awesomesauce mug from my mom! She knows me so well! <3
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That’s all, folks!
XOXO

Fresh Batch (New Releases January 11th – 17th)

Fresh Batch (New Releases January 11th – 17th)

Posted by on 01/10/2015 • 10 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

The Conspiracy of Us Maggie Hall Publication date: January 13th 2015by Putnam Juvenile

Goodreads Purchase

To fight her destiny as the missing heir to a powerful and dangerous secret society, sixteen-year-old Avery West must solve an ancient puzzle in a deadly race across Europe. Forbidden love and code-breaking, masked balls and explosions, destiny and dark secrets collide in this romantic thriller, in the vein of a YA DaVinci Code.

Avery West’s newfound family can shut down Prada at the Champs-Elysees when they want to shop in peace, and can just as easily order a bombing when they want to start a war.

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Review: Beware the Wild by Natalie Parker

Review: Beware the Wild by Natalie Parker

Posted by on 01/09/2015 • 9 Comments

Objectively, Beware the Wild is really good. Subjectively, while I found it decent, I couldn’t really connect to it very much.

Don’t get me wrong, the writing is gorgeous. It’s very showing than telling, moving the plot along in a great pace while portraying the heroine’s personality and flaws exceptionally well. There were a lot of inner thoughts and monologues that give you front-row seats of the turmoils being stirred within her as Sterling finds herself in a situation where nobody suddenly remembers who her brother is, except, perhaps, the Swamp where magic and danger lie within. There is flow, and you could even say things happen “naturally” and nothing feels forced, but… 

I don’t know. It just… fell flat, for me, characterisation-wise. Is it normal to recognize the beauty…

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Review: Bird Box by Josh Malerman

Review: Bird Box by Josh Malerman

Posted by on 01/08/2015 • 16 Comments

I was up til 3am to finish this. Holy fuuuuuu…! This was one hell of a crazy ride. I love horror and thriller novels, and this one kept me on the edge of insanity from beginning to end.

It began with strange news stories of sudden killing sprees ending in suicide. A LOT of suicides. From people who were good, happy, full of life. When more and more stories started to pop up, Malorie, once skeptical, started to get very very nervous. She only knows one thing, and it’s that it’s all caused by something you see. Something that your mind either can’t process or understand to such a degree that you lose your sanity. Which means to survive, you need to learn how to live…

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My Most Anticipated Debut Novels For 2015!

My Most Anticipated Debut Novels For 2015!

Posted by on 01/06/2015 • 26 Comments

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish where we list top bookish things.

Debut Author Lovin’!

Even When You Lie to Me by Jessica Alcott: Oh, taboo love! I’m a sucker for unconventional romances, and teacher/student romance falls into that – unless it’s creepy or the age gap is way big, then no. But I’m curious about this one. The Night We Said Yes by Lauren Gibaldi: I just grabbed this one off EW and was checking out the early reviews earlier – people are loving it so far and it sounds like a great romance. Spanning over the course of one night, too. Scarlett Undercover by Jennifer Latham: Being used to adult mysteries, YA mysteries can…

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What NOT to Do If You Meet a Devil: Guest Post by Gina Damico + Giveaway!

What NOT to Do If You Meet a Devil: Guest Post by Gina Damico + Giveaway!

Posted by on 01/05/2015 • 41 Comments

Hi guys! I’m happy to be a part of the Hellhole tour which is stopping by the blog today. I’ve got Gina Damico here with a funny guest post along with a giveaway! First, here’s what this book is all about:

Book Trailer:

Guest Post by Gina Damico

What NOT to do if you meet a devil

If you meet a devil, I would advise against giving him snacks.

(That is, of course, assuming the devil you meet is a “he”. If you meet a female devil, nothing can help you. Just sit back, let her disembowel you, and call it a day.)

If you give a devil a Cheez-It, it won’t end there. He’ll want Cheetos. He’ll want Fritos. He’ll want…

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Fresh Batch (New Releases January 4th – 10th)

Fresh Batch (New Releases January 4th – 10th)

Posted by on 01/03/2015 • 16 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

All the Bright Places Jennifer Niven Publication date: January 6th 2015by Knopf Books for Young Readers

Goodreads Purchase

The Fault in Our Stars meets Eleanor and Park in this compelling, exhilarating, and beautiful story about a girl who learns to live from a boy who intends to die.

Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him.

Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of…

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Happy New Year! 2014 Highlights + Giveaway!

Happy New Year! 2014 Highlights + Giveaway!

Posted by on 01/01/2015 • 19 Comments

Whoooo! Happy New Year!! I hope you all had a fantastic holiday and new year’s eve. I’m currently on vacation so things are fab, here. First I just want to thank all my followers and bookish friends for being generally awesome and supportive and easily the best part of this blogging experience for yet another year. I hope 2015 is just as wonderful! Even though there’s been some drama in the book world this past year, I don’t let it get me down and try to focus on the people who rock it in this community – which is most of you, really. We can’t get the bad apples ruin in! Let’s take 2015 by the balls… or whatever >.<

So okay, today let’s check…

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