Monday, August 26, 2013

Giveaway: What Goes Around by Courtney Summers

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Giveaway: What Goes Around by Courtney SummersWhat Goes Around by Courtney Summers
Published by St. Martin's Griffin on September 3rd 2013
Genres: Contemporary, YA
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Courtney Summers fans are in for a treat! Two of her most critically acclaimed titles bound together for the price of one: Cracked Up To Be and Some Girls Are.

Two girls. Two secrets. Two gritty, critically acclaimed novels in one.

For Parker, perfection is all that matters. No one will know how wrong she is inside if everything she does ends up right. But when the pressure proves too much, she makes a devastating mistake she’ll do anything to keep hidden—even if it means becoming a perfect mess. For Regina, popularity comes with a price. When she’s kicked out of her clique, she finds out what it’s like to be those she’s bullied and destroyed. Everyone says she has it coming . . . but is there something they don’t know?

There is more to these two girls than meets the eye.

With unflinching honesty and a razor sharp voice, Courtney Summers brings the tensions of high school terrifyingly alive in What Goes Around.

Being a big fan of Courtney Summers and her fantastically raw writing style, I’m excited to share her upcoming new book What Goes Around which is a two-in-one featuring both Cracked Up to Be and Some Girls Are. I read Cracked Up to Be just a couple of months ago and it is, for sure, a must-read for any contemporary reader! You can find my review here, if you’re curious! 🙂 And thanks to St. Martin’s Press, I have a pretty copy up for grabs! Also don’t forget to Like Courtney’s page since she’s likeable and all that jazz! 😉

Read an excerpt, here!


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St Martin’s Press has generously offered a paperback of What Goes Around by Courtney Summers for giveaway.


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Stacking the Shelves (68)

Stacking the Shelves (68)

Posted by on 08/25/2013 • 43 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. How is everyone doing this week? I got back from my vacation on Tuesday and I finally met the fabulous Amy from Book Loving Mom! It was so awesome!  Then later today I’m off to see the TMI movie and see what that fuss is all about! Have you all seen it? I haven’t been on Twitter as much since I got back so I haven’t heard much feedback on it. And before you go, have you checked out Xpresso Book Tours lately? I have a few tours and blitzes open if you’d like to sign up – all listed on XBT’s sidebar!…

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Fresh Batch (New Releases August 25th – 31st)

Fresh Batch (New Releases August 25th – 31st)

Posted by on 08/24/2013 • 17 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

The Dark Between Sonia Gensler Publication date: August 27th 2013by Knopf Books for Young Readers

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A supernatural romance about the powers that lie in the shadows of the mind, perfect for fans of Sarah Rees Brennan, Alyxandra Harvey, and Libba Bray.

At the turn of the twentieth century, Spiritualism and séances are all the rage—even in the scholarly town of Cambridge, England. While mediums dupe the grief-stricken, a group of local fringe scientists seeks to bridge the gap to the spirit world by investigating the dark corners of the human mind.

Each running from a shadowed past, Kate, Asher, and Elsie take…

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Review: The Truth About You and Me by Amanda Grace

Review: The Truth About You and Me by Amanda Grace

Posted by on 08/23/2013 • 28 Comments

This was an alright read. I liked it better than I expected based on the early reviews – though maybe my lowered expectations helped. It’s your typical student-slash-professor storyline where you know their relationship is doomed from the start, but like a car accident, you can’t look away.

This book is written in second person letter form, it reads as if you were the recipient – the actual recipient being the love interest and professor, to which the protagonist explains her point of view of why she did what she did. I actually found this compelling, definitely unique, however it reminded me too much of Drowning Instinct by Ilsa J. Bick which has a similar plot as well with an execution that is worlds better, and as such making this…

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Book Girls Don’t Cry: Least Favorite Part of Blogging

Book Girls Don’t Cry: Least Favorite Part of Blogging

Posted by on 08/22/2013 • 67 Comments

Book Girls Don’t Cry is a weekly feature where we each discuss/vent/advise on the chosen weekly bookish topic. Don’t miss Jenni on Mondays, and Amy on Saturdays:

 Topic suggestion by the lovely Christina over at A Reader of Fictions

All the Things I Do Not Love!

I actually cringed at titling this post as such – Least Favorite Part of Blogging – because we should all love everything about our hobby, right? Well if you’ve been around for a little bit, you’ll start noticing that it’s not always unicorns and rainbows up in this hood. Let’s see what I don’t particularly love about blogging. I was initially going to list in bullet points my least favorite aspects, but then they sort of all blended together…

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Waiting on Wednesday (90)

Waiting on Wednesday (90)

Posted by on 08/21/2013 • 42 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:

Whoa how creepy is this cover? Let’s hope it lives up to it! The blurb sounds promising, anyways! 😀

What are you waiting on?

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Review: The Waking Dark by Robin Wasserman

Review: The Waking Dark by Robin Wasserman

Posted by on 08/20/2013 • 27 Comments

Whoa, this was psychotic! Definitely the most violent YA book I’ve yet to read! This is both a warning and a promise. 😉

Another of Robin’s book, The Book of Blood and Shadow was one of my favorites of last year. It was raw and intense, kind of insanely so, so I knew – and hoped – to expect the same kind of brilliance in this one and am happy to not have been let down. The Waking Dark does not lose any time to show you what you’re getting into. Within the first couple of chapters the sheer madness of what is happening grabs you with its two fists and shoves you inside this story in full force. What I first noticed in this book is how there is…

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Review: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black

Posted by on 08/19/2013 • 35 Comments

“What are they? Are they diseased or demonic? Are they citizens who have become ill, deserving hospitals and care, as some have argued? Or are they the bodies of our loved ones animated by some dark force that we ought to seek to destroy?”

And here I thought originality was gone from vampire stories! It takes none other than Holly Black to prove me wrong. Coldest Girl in Coldtown is not only unique, it’s a fun, exciting story full of horror and blood with a little flair of post apocalyptic.

Ever since a sudden outbreak of vampirism spread throughout the world, vampires are out and feared; even though they’re kept quarantined in gated cities, you’re never quite safe from the stray ones. Tana learns how true this is when…

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