Posts By: Giselle

Sunday, February 09, 2014

Giselle’s Stacking the Shelves [Feb 9]

Posted by Giselle • 38 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.

Hi guys! Is everyone watching the Olympics? I don’t watch sports at all but the Olympics is the one exception. Bring it Canada! Whooo! Now on the blog this week there were a couple of giveaways posted, I especially hope you all have entered our Birthday giveaway – plus you can even see our baby faces so you can’t miss that!! Also on that note, this is Jenni’s bday weekend so HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JENNI! *Throws confetti party*

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

I received for review:

–Three by Kristen Simmons
–The Geography of You and Me by Jennifer E. Smith
–Sea of Shadows by Kelley Armstrong
–The Merciless by Gabrielle Vega
–Fiendish by Brenna Yovanoff
–Torn Away by Jennifer Brown

Ebooks:

*Big thanks to Hachette Children’s Books Canada, Razorbill, Random House Canada, Tor Teen, HarperCollins, St. Martin’s Griffin, and Sourcebooks Fire for these pretties!*

Purchased:
I finally got myself a copy of this – been waiting for the hype to die down before I read it.

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That’s all for me this week!
XOXO

Fresh Batch (New Releases February 9th – 15th)

Posted by Giselle on 02/08/2014 • 10 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Split Second Kasie West Series: Pivot Point #2 Publication date: February 11th 2014by HarperTeen

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Life can change in a split second.

Addie hardly recognizes her life since her parents divorced. Her boyfriend used her. Her best friend betrayed her. She can’t believe this is the future she chose. On top of that, her ability is acting up. She’s always been able to Search the future when presented with a choice. Now she can manipulate and slow down time, too . . . but not without a price.

When Addie’s dad invites her to spend her winter break with him, she jumps…

Giveaway: A Midsummer’s Nightmare by Kody Keplinger

Posted by Giselle on 02/06/2014 • 11 Comments

We both really enjoyed this book when we read it back in 2012, so we’re happy to have a chance to share the awesome with our fellow book lovers! The wonderful people at Hachette Children’s UK is offering a pretty finished copy of the UK release of A Midsummer’s Nightmare to one of our lucky blog readers!

What did we think of A Midsummer’s Nightmare? -Find Giselle’s review here! -Find Jenni’s review here!

Giveaway

Hachette Children’s Books UK has generously offered a finished copy of A Midsummer’s Nightmare (UK Edition) for giveaway.

Open internationally Giveaway ends February 18th, 2014 Full contest terms and conditions found on Rafflecopter

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Review: Alienated by Melissa Landers

Posted by Giselle on 02/04/2014 • 35 Comments

Alienated brings us a good mix of humor and romance. It’s easy to read, and touches on serious themes including discrimination and tolerance. What I enjoyed the most was how Landers describes the aliens; from the physical to the emotional, they differ very much from humans. The L’eihr culture is described as emotionally cold for the sake of survival. They’re cloned from the best, born and raised without parents, affection, or even touch. Their government system would make many of us fear their ways. Aelyx’s perspective allows us to experience our own culture through his foreign, often overwhelmed, eyes. We get to see his reactions to certain stimuli like our apparently overpowering flavors and colors. Then their difference in thought process for things like affection and modesty – the latter…

Happy Birthday Cover Madness Giveaway!

Posted by Giselle on 02/03/2014 • 40 Comments

February is clearly one of the most awesome months of the year because guess what? Both of us are celebrating a birthday this month! Only 11 days apart! So since that is way too awesome to not share, we decided to throw another of our famous Cover Madness giveaways! But first! Since we’re both getting old and all (one more than the other but we won’t point fingers >.<), let’s reminisce on the good old times as young’uns! Let’s see if you can guess who is who! 😉

I grew up in the 90’s and 00’s (is that right?) I can remember vividly dancing in my room to Britney Spears and even singing on my Spice Girls branded microphone (the neighbours thought my parents killed cats for a…

Fresh Batch (New Releases February 2nd – 8th)

Posted by Giselle on 02/01/2014 • 18 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Cress Marissa Meyer Series: Lunar Chronicles #3 Publication date: February 4th 2014 by Feiwel & Friends

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Rapunzel’s tower is a satellite. She can’t let down her hair—or her guard.

In this third book in the bestselling Lunar Chronicles series, Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they’re plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and her army.

Their best hope lies with Cress, who has been trapped on a satellite since childhood with only her netscreens as company. All that screen time has made Cress an excellent hacker—unfortunately, she’s just received orders from…

Review & Dream Cast: Deeper by Robin York

Posted by Giselle on 01/31/2014 • 13 Comments

A slow budding romance, loads of chemistry, and highly character driven; Deeper has a lot to offer. Revenge porn is something that happens all too often, and unfortunately continues to be legal in most States. Finding those sex pictures of herself after a break-up was only the beginning of a very long, very dark chapter in Caroline’s life. Not only is she plagued with the knowledge of everyone having seen her during such an intimate act, she’s ashamed, haunted by the voices of the men who call her vile names, describe the repulsive things they’d do to her in comments, making her wary of anyone that looks her way. This is not something that ever goes away.

Deeper is not a fast paced read. It’s a slow character-oriented story that…

Worlds We’d Never Want To Live In

Posted by Giselle on 01/28/2014 • 35 Comments

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme that is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish where every week there is a new top 10 topic where we list bookish things.

Worlds We’d Never Want To Live In

Giselle

Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis: Reading this book made me so thirsty and exhausted while lounging on my couch reading, I couldn’t imagine actually having to live like that at all! Very bleak, very sad world. Wither by Lauren DeStefano: Women only live to be 20 in this series. And well, I’m 29 so really I’d already be dead and typing this from beyond the grave! Blood Red Road by Moira Young: This world is terrifying in so many ways! Not…