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Monday, June 23, 2014

Will from Dream Boy’s Top Ten T-shirts + Giveaway!

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I’m excited to have the Dream Boy blog tour drop by the blog today. This book sounds like a lot of fun, and after reading this post you’ll know that Will has a great sense of humor, too 😉

Will from Dream Boy’s Top Ten T-shirts + Giveaway!Dream Boy by Madelyn Rosenberg, Mary Crockett
Published by Sourcebooks Fire on July 1st 2014
Genres: Paranormal, YA
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Annabelle Manning feels like she’s doing time at her high school in Chilton, Virginia. She has her friends at her lunchtime table of nobodies. What she doesn’t have are possibilities. Or a date for Homecoming. Things get more interesting at night, when she spends time with the boy of her dreams. But the blue-eyed boy with the fairytale smile is just that—a dream. Until the Friday afternoon he walks into her chemistry class.

One of friends suspects he’s an alien. Another is pretty sure it’s all one big case of deja vu. While Annabelle doesn’t know what to think, she’s willing to believe that the charming Martin Zirkle may just be her dream come true. But as Annabelle discovers the truth behind dreams—where they come from and what they mean—she is forced to face a dark reality she had not expected. More than just Martin has arrived in Chilton. As Annabelle learns, if dreams can come true, so can nightmares.



Guest Post



Will from Dream Boy’s Top Ten T-shirts
by Mary Crockett

In Dream Boy, Annabelle’s best friend Will has a collection of wise-crack T-shirts. Here are some that appear in the book (and a few that could have).

1 I-listen-to-bands-

2 Great-things-are-not

3 Dear-Math-Im-not-your

4 Free-Shrugs

5 I-dream-of-a-better-world

6 Carpe-Weekend

7 ItsTuesday
(TO BE WORN ONLY ON WEDNESDAYS)

8 Who-are-you-and-why-are-you

9 Dear Optimist

And one that may only make sense to those who read Dream Boy….
10 My-other-shirt-is-a

If you’d like to see more, check out Will’s shirts on Pinterest!

 

 

About the Authors




Mary Crockett likes turtles, licorice, and the Yankees. Madelyn Rosenberg likes cats, avocados, and the Red Sox. Luckily they both like the weirdness of dreams (and each other) enough to write novels together. The friendship has survived three moves, six kids and countless manuscript revisions. Madelyn lives just outside of Washington, D.C. Mary remains in the mountains near their hometowns in southwestern Virginia. You can find them on Twitter @marylovesbooks and @madrosenberg or their blogs at www.marycrockett.com and www.madelynrosenberg.com.


This post is part of the Dream Boy blog tour.


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Giselle’s Stacking the Shelves [June 22nd]

Giselle’s Stacking the Shelves [June 22nd]

Posted by on 06/22/2014 • 19 Comments

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. SUMMER IS HEEEEERE! WHOOO! How’s everyone feeling? I’m finally getting after this mother of a flu – hence the skipped Fresh Batch post last week and general absence from the online world. So this week Jenni and I shared our summer reading list, and also you can win a copy of The Stepsister’s Tale and more right here! 😉 Oh and this is the LAST WEEK to sign-up for our Cover Madness giveaway hop!

THIS WEEK’S BOOK HAUL: (Click on covers for Goodreads)

I received for review: –The Vault of Dreamers by Caragh M. O’Brien –Lailah by Nikki Kelly…

Fresh Batch (New Releases June 22nd – 28th)

Fresh Batch (New Releases June 22nd – 28th)

Posted by on 06/21/2014 • 10 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Complicit Stephanie Kuehn Publication date: June 24th 2014by St. Martin’s Griffin

Goodreads Purchase

Two years ago, sixteen-year-old Jamie Henry breathed a sigh of relief when a judge sentenced his older sister to juvenile detention for burning down their neighbor’s fancy horse barn. The whole town did. Because Crazy Cate Henry used to be a nice girl. Until she did a lot of bad things. Like drinking. And stealing. And lying. Like playing weird mind games in the woods with other children. Like making sure she always got her way. Or else.

But today Cate got out. And now she’s coming back for…

Review: We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

Review: We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

Posted by on 06/20/2014 • 22 Comments

We Were Liars is an incredible, heartbreaking read that really messes with your mind until the very end. The writing, while not for everyone I’m sure, had me mesmerized. It’s so different and poetic and full of carefully crafted imagery. It’s a writing style that’s really out of the box, you’ll either love it or hate it. Me, I was thoroughly compelled.

The plot itself is one you can’t talk about or read about as you’re bound to find out spoilers. It’s the kind of story where the story itself is a spoiler from very early on. There are hints floating in every corner, pieces of this carefully constructed puzzle laid out for you to put together. My advice: go into this with zero expectations and you might find…

Review: Sinner by Maggie Stiefvater

Review: Sinner by Maggie Stiefvater

Posted by on 06/19/2014 • 24 Comments

It has been a while since I read the Wolves of Mercy Falls series, so I was a bit worried that remembering next to no details about it would make reading this a flop, but it was not a problem at all. If you want to refresh your memory there’s a convenient Wikipedia page that reminds you who’s who. But everything you need to know is recapped (albeit briefly) as we go along.

Sinner is narrated by our beloved Cole and Isabel, a couple of characters who you won’t soon forget. Cole is somewhat of an arrogant ass, yet charming and hilarious, and Isabel is a bit psychotic with quick wit and, to be honest, she scares me a little >.< I love her, though. She's sarcastic and may...

Our Summer Reading List!

Our Summer Reading List!

Posted by on 06/17/2014 • 38 Comments

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish where we list top bookish things. Note that Giselle and Jenni often decide to split it and each do a Top 5.

A hot TBR list for a hot summer! Jenni

I’ll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson: The blurb makes this one sound like it’s packed with ALL the emotions. Great family dynamics, great relationships, I’m so there. CAN. NOT. WAIT. Don’t Touch by Rachel M. Wilson: I’m always fascinated by stories that deal with OCD and this one sounds like it won’t disappoint.  I’m very curious to see how the MC deals with her obsession in the face of it harming her chances of being an actress….

Review: Fan Art by Sarah Tregay

Review: Fan Art by Sarah Tregay

Posted by on 06/16/2014 • 25 Comments

Adorable and very light; a perfect book for reading while I was on the road to BEA. While I had minor problems with this one, it was overall a real heartwarming love story that left me with a smile on my face.

Jamie is gay, and it seems like everyone knows it except his crush, Mason – who also happens to be his best friend. From the beginning, I could tell this was going to be a fun-frustrating kind of read with a lot of longing and a lot of heart. Although it’s not exactly the most unique book out there – it’s a simple angst-filled LGBT story I’ve seen a few times, now – it has a lot to offer with its charismatic characters and the adoption of…

Review: The Merciless by Danielle Vega

Review: The Merciless by Danielle Vega

Posted by on 06/12/2014 • 23 Comments

AAAAAAAAAAH!

This was my reaction to much of this novel’s… happenings. It’s a horror through and through, and definitely not for the wussies or faint of hearts. After a quick introduction to our protagonist and the setting, we’re thrust into a house-of-torture kind of read where these girls have it in their head that one is a demon that must be exorcised.

“Most girls would just start a burn book.”

But not these girls! These girls opt for pulling hairs out of scalps and taking fingernails out. Yeah.. Excuse me while I go barf!

The book itself is more for the horror and shock value than substance. Character development is not especially strong, for instance. And I found myself frustrated by the number of times the protagonist “almost”…