Sunday, December 08, 2013

Stacking the Shelves (78)

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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.


How’s everyone this weekend? Getting your Christmas shopping done? I’m all about shopping online 😀 But yeah blog people seem to be going quieter and quieter for the holidays. A few are on hiatus and such. I will likely be putting mine on a few day hiatus when it comes close to Christmas. No one really reads blogs those days anyhow, plus I rather spend time with my lil one than worry about posting 🙂 So I went a lil crazy with digital ARCs this week – weeks like these are when my lack of self control shows through >.< Also before you go, don’t forget to put your last entries in for the These Broken Stars giveaway, it ends in a couple of days!

THIS WEEK’S BOOK HAUL:
(Click on covers and links below picture for Goodreads)

I received for review:
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–Four Seconds to Lose by K.A. Tucker
–The Unseemly Education of Anne Merchant by Joanna Wiebe

Also this awesome package from Random House Canada!
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–BZRK Reloaded by Michael Grant
–The Eye of Minds by James Dashner
–Teardrop by Lauren Kate
–Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson (Already read and loved it! read my review here)
–Muckers by Sandra Neil Wallace

On a side note – this is how the above package arrived at my door O_O
The books fared pretty well, considering.

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*Big thanks to Random House Canada, HarperCollins, BenBella Books, Julie Cross, Simon & Schuster Canada, and Disney Hyperion for these awesome pretties!*

 

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Have a great Sunday, lovelies! 🙂

Fresh Batch (New Releases December 8th – 14th)

Fresh Batch (New Releases December 8th – 14th)

Posted by on 12/07/2013 • 10 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

These Broken Stars Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner Series: Starbound #1 Publication date: December 10th 2013 by Disney Hyperion

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It’s a night like any other on board the Icarus. Then, catastrophe strikes: the massive luxury spaceliner is yanked out of hyperspace and plummets into the nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen survive. And they seem to be alone.

Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. Tarver comes from nothing, a young war hero who learned long ago that girls like Lilac are more trouble than they’re worth. But with only each other to rely on, Lilac and…

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Review: Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers

Review: Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers

Posted by on 12/06/2013 • 23 Comments

If you would ask me point blank if I enjoyed reading this novel, my answer would be no. Because can you really enjoy something that hurts so much? Can you find delight in something that pisses you off so much? Now, if you asked me if this novel is one that needs to be read? Not only is that answers yes, but I would also add that this is a story that I’m thoroughly thankful for. It shines the most brutal light on bullying, not giving us a choice to look at it first hand. To experience the pain, the remorse, the emptiness that our protagonist feels. And Courtney does this in a way that ambushes you, with a narrator who was once a bully herself; a girl who has…

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Book Girls Don’t Cry: It’s a Holly Jolly Christmas Story!

Book Girls Don’t Cry: It’s a Holly Jolly Christmas Story!

Posted by on 12/05/2013 • 24 Comments

Book Girls Don’t Cry is a feature where we will discuss/vent/advise on a bookish topic. This feature is hosted by myself along with these pretty ladies:

 

Holiday-themed books: Yay or Nay?

Ever since the holiday season arrived (quite suddenly), I’m sure you’ve noticed those holiday-themed books going around, and I realized I have never read a holiday-themed book, ever! I don’t know exactly why, to be honest, but nothing has really attracted me to them. I figure because most of them are romance stories and that has never been my go-to genre. My go-to genres are darker reads so, yeah, not very Christmassy >.< Though I am curious about them. What’s your opinion on them? Do you love them? Dislike them? Do they really give out that warn, fuzzy, happy…

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Waiting on Wednesday (102)

Waiting on Wednesday (102)

Posted by on 12/04/2013 • 35 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:

At first this blurb sounds like an eye rolling romance story, and then you read the last sentence. Whoa! It’s these kinds of gritty contemporaries that I love!

What are you waiting on, this week?

 

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Review: The Hallowed Ones by Laura Bickle

Review: The Hallowed Ones by Laura Bickle

Posted by on 12/03/2013 • 23 Comments

Whoa! Who knew a story set in an Amish community could be so spine-chillingly gory! The Hallowed Ones is for every post-apocalyptic fan out there. It offers originality in its setting and a freakish paranormal aspect. It offered a lot more than I expected.

Katie is about to get her first taste of the outside world when all of a sudden that world gets dark and creepy. First there’s a helicopter crash where Katie glimpses at something quite eerie. Then she finds the town desolate and empty when she goes to try to find two of their own who never came home. Something is definitely not right. The creep factor makes itself present very early on in this novel, showering each page with this tense uncertainty. Even though things…

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Review: Omens by Kelley Armstrong

Review: Omens by Kelley Armstrong

Posted by on 12/02/2013 • 20 Comments

Omen is very much the first in its series, it is also very much a Kelley Armstrong book. Not to say it’s anything like her other work as it’s actually quite different, but in terms of wonderfully crafted characters, a world you can see yourself walk the grounds of, and an all-around compelling story, its got the Kelley signature on every page. This is what I’ve come to expect of her novels, and Omens was not an exception.

Omens tells the story of a young woman with a seemingly perfect life; wealthy, career-driven, intelligent, about to marry a man with an important political career ahead. She had an incredible life ahead of her. Then she – along with the whole world – finds out who her real parents are:…

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Fresh Batch (New Releases December 1st – 7th)

Fresh Batch (New Releases December 1st – 7th)

Posted by on 11/30/2013 • 15 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Racing Savannah Miranda Kenneally Series: Hundred Oaks #4 Publication date: December 3rd 2013 by Sourcebooks Fire

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They’re from two different worlds.

He lives in the estate house, and she spends most of her time in the stables helping her father train horses. In fact, Savannah has always been much more comfortable around horses than boys. Especially boys like Jack Goodwin—cocky, popular and completely out of her league. She knows the rules: no mixing between the staff and the Goodwin family. But Jack has no such boundaries.

With her dream of becoming a horse jockey, Savannah isn’t exactly one to follow…

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