Sunday, July 15, 2012

Xpresso Weekly: Stacking the Shelves (12)

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Xpresso Weekly is my edition of Stacking the Shelves hosted by Tynga’s Reviews featuring the books
I got this week, and I also mention blog news/happenings of the past week.

This week at Xpresso Reads

It was another fabulous week weather-wise here so I was pretty absent on Twitter compared to usual. I know you miss me and all >.< So anything exciting happen this week? On the blog, the Lonely Souls blog tour came by for my review and you can win a great grand prize so don’t miss it! There were a lot of cover reveals as usual (is this like cover season!?) I posted a round-up post with six covers here. I was also part of the exclusive cover reveal for Doomed. There’s a link to win an ARC of it at Mundie Moms (I think today is the last day to enter!) You can also find more cover reveals on my Facebook page (be sure to like my page to not miss any! 🙂 – I posted 8 or 9 this week.

On the sidebar you will find FIVE open giveaways at the moment, and all of them are internationally! You will also see a ton of new tour banners that were added (it was a very crazy week for tour invites!) New additions this week: Onyx, Send, My Super Sweet 16th Century, Renegade, Gravity, and Valkyrie Rising that will be stopping by the blog. Yeah… that’s a LOT of tours! O_O I love it!

Reviews this week:
Stacking the Shelves
As some of you can’t or don’t like to watch vlogs, the pictures are below! 

Vlog note: I forgot one ebook on the vlog (Send) which I added below. And yeah, I yammer a lot this week. Sorry >.< And PS – there's an extra vlog bit after I say bye… again.
Bloggers mentionned:
-Tara from Hobbitsies
-Jenni from Alluring Reads 

(Click on cover or title links for Goodreads)
I got for review:

 –One Good Hustle by Billie Livingston
–Ashen Winter by Mike Mullin
–White Lines by Jennifer Banash (Win a copy here)

*A very big thank you to Random House of Canada, St. Martin’s Press, Tanglewood Press, Penguin USA, Patrice Michelle, Entangled Publishing, Sourcebooks Fire, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Thomas Nelson for the review copies *

I also traded:
Thanks so much to Tara from Hobbitsies for this lovely pretty 
(And sorry for slaughtering your blog name in my vlog! >.<)

That’s my week, lovelies!
Leave me a link and I’ll drop by and see what you got! 🙂

Fresh Batch (July 15th – 21st)

Posted by on 07/14/2012 • 24 Comments

Exclusively titled for Xpresso Reads, Fresh Batch features the hottest releases of this upcoming week.

Flavor of the week:

SoulboundHeather BrewerRelease date: July 19th 2012by DIAL

 

Tril is a world where Barrons and Healers are Bound to each other: Barrons fight and Healers cure their Barrons’ wounds in the ongoing war with the evil Graplar King. Seventeen-year-old Kaya was born a Healer, but she wants to fight. In Tril, and at Shadow Academy, where she is sent to learn to heal, it is against Protocol for Healers to fight. So Kaya must learn in secret. Enter two young men: One charming, rule-following Barron who becomes Bound to Kaya and whose life she must protect at all costs. And one with a mysterious past who seems bent on making…

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Review: The Tale of the Vampire Bride

Posted by on 07/13/2012 • 29 Comments

The Tale of the Vampire BrideRhiannon FraterSeries: Vampire Bride, #1Release date: December 7th 2009by Library of Horror Press

 

All Lady Glynis Wright ever wanted was the freedom to live her life as she pleased. When her family becomes guests to one of the most fearsome and powerful vampires of all time, Glynis finds her fate is far more terrible than an arranged marriage. The Tale of the Vampire Bride is sure to thrill fans of the terrible, yet romantic vampires of literary past.

I don’t give 5-stars often, in fact, half of the ones I gave this year are all for Rhiannon’s As the World Dies series, so I was a bit afraid to give this a 5 and have you think it’s only because I heart…

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Review & Giveaway: Lonely Souls

Posted by on 07/12/2012 • 64 Comments

Lonely SoulsKarice BoltonSeries: The Witch Avenue Series, #1Release date: June 29th 2012by Bulldog Press

 

It’s two weeks before Triss turns 18, and her world is about to change into the most magical one imaginable as she readies herself to enter The Witch Avenue Order… that is until her mother’s disappearance. Instead of celebrating her transformation, she finds herself spreading rose petals into her mother’s empty grave.

When Logan, her best friend from junior high, moves back to town for college, he vows to help her find the answers she so desperately seeks surrounding her mother’s disappearance. As they begin uncovering clues, it becomes apparent that the life of white magic they both grew up loving is not what the majority practices, and their lives are in danger.

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Cover Reveal: Doomed by Tracy Deebs

Posted by on 07/12/2012 • 20 Comments

DoomedTracy DeebsRelease date: January 8th, 2013by Bloomsbury Walker

 

Beat the game. Save the world.

Pandora’s just your average teen, glued to her cell phone and laptop, surfing Facebook and e-mailing with her friends, until the day her long-lost father sends her a link to a mysterious site featuring twelve photos of her as a child. Unable to contain her curiosity, Pandora enters the site, where she is prompted to play her favorite virtual-reality game, Zero Day. This unleashes a global computer virus that plunges the whole world into panic: suddenly, there is no Internet. No cell phones. No utilities, traffic lights, hospitals, law enforcement. Pandora teams up with handsome stepbrothers Eli and Theo to enter the virtual world of Zero Day. Simultaneously, she continues to follow the photographs…

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Giveaway: Semi-Charmed Life

Posted by on 07/11/2012 • 0 Comments

Gossip Girl meets The Roommate

Semi-Charmed LifeNora Zelevansky Release date: July 3rd 2012by St. Martin’s Press

 

Having spent years secretly dreaming of a life filled with Hostess Cupcakes and pop culture thrills in her parents’ immaculately modern Upper West Side apartment, Beatrice is disappointed to find that college is not the great life-changing experience she had hoped. Bored by her predictable world, Beatrice has all but resigned herself to the expected path that has been set out before her, but everything changes with one unexpected encounter with a new classmate, the beautiful socialite Veruca Pfeffernoose. In just a few days, Beatrice’s life goes from mundane to extraordinary when she takes the job of ghost writing Veruca’s blog.

In this Gossip girl meets The Roommate story, Beatrice is quickly…

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Waiting on Wednesday (44)

Posted by on 07/11/2012 • 54 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:

The Murmurings Carly Anne West Release date: March 5th, 2013 by Simon Pulse  

After her older sister dies from an apparent suicide and her body is found hanging upside down by one toe from a tree, sixteen-year-old Sophie starts to hear the same voices that drove her sister to a psychotic break.

DID YOU SEE THIS!!!! Holy frack balls this cover freaks me out. Love! It! (The Grudge, anybody? That movie scared me FOR LIFE!). Anything about hearing voices, unexplained freaky, and psychological creepiness – WANT so hard!!

PS: Tagline says “The voices in her head are not her own…”

What…

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Review: Lost Girls by Ann Kelley

Posted by on 07/10/2012 • 42 Comments

Lost GirlsAnn KelleyRelease date: July 10th 2012by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

 

No parents. No rules. No way home.  Fourteen-year-old Bonnie MacDonald couldn’t be more excited for a camping trip on an island off the coast of Thailand with her fellow Amelia Earhart Cadets-the daughters of the men and women stationed there during the Vietnam War. But when a strong current deposits the girls on what their boatman calls the “forbidden island,” things take a turn for the worse: A powerful storm comes to destroy their campsite, the smallest of the junior cadets is found dead, and their boatman never returns. What once seemed like a vacation in paradise has become a battle against the elements.  Peppered with short, frantic entries from Bonnie’s journal, Lost Girls is a…

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