Saturday, January 23, 2016

Fresh Batch (January 24th – 30th)

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

Flavor of the week:

The Dark Days Club
Alison Goodman
Series: Lady Helen #1
Publication date: January 26th 2016
by Viking Books for Young Readers

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New York Times bestseller Alison Goodman’s eagerly awaited new project: a Regency adventure starring a stylish and intrepid demon-hunter!

London, April 1812. On the eve of eighteen-year-old Lady Helen Wrexhall’s presentation to the queen, one of her family’s housemaids disappears-and Helen is drawn into the shadows of Regency London. There, she meets Lord Carlston, one of the few who can stop the perpetrators: a cabal of demons infiltrating every level of society. Dare she ask for his help, when his reputation is almost as black as his lingering eyes? And will her intelligence and headstrong curiosity wind up leading them into a death trap?

Other releases this week:
* In no particular order *


– Night Study (Soulfinders #2) by Maria V. Snyder [Purchase]
– The Bands of Mourning (Mistborn #6) by Brandon Sanderson [Purchase]
– All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders [Purchase]
– The Love That Split the World by Emily Henry [Purchase]


– Shallow Graves by Kali Wallace [Purchase]
– Otherworld Secrets (Otherworld Stories IV) by Kelley Armstrong [Purchase]
– City of Blades (The Divine Cities #2) by Robert Jackson Bennett [Purchase]
– Sin & Suffer (Pure Corruption MC #2) by Pepper Winters [Purchase]


– The Siren by Kiera Cass [Purchase]
– Front Lines (Soldier Girl #1) by Michael Grant [Purchase]
– The Year We Fell Apart by Emily Martin [Purchase]
– The Mystery of Hollow Places by Rebecca Podos [Purchase]


– The Prophecy of Shadows (Elementals #1) by Michelle Madow [Purchase]
– Boiling Point (Crossing the Line #3) by Tessa Bailey [Purchase]
– Mercury Striking (The Scorpius Syndrome #1) by Rebecca Zanetti [Purchase]
– It’s All Your Fault by Paul Rudnick [Purchase]


– Hallowed Ground (Flight & Glory #4) by Rebecca Yarros [Purchase]
– Rise of the Wolf (Mark of the Thief #2) by Jennifer A. Nielsen [Purchase]
– Anna and the Swallow Man by Gavriel Savit [Purchase]
– Arrows by Melissa Gorzelanczyk [Purchase]


– Staked (The Iron Druid Chronicles #8) by Kevin Hearne [Purchase]
– The Memory of Light by Francisco X. Stork [Purchase]
– The Last Stop by Michael H Burnam [Purchase]
– Any Other Girl by Rebecca Phillips [Purchase]


– The Zodiac Legacy: The Dragon’s Return (Zodiac #2) by Stan Lee [Purchase]
– I’m from Nowhere by Suzanne Myers [Purchase]


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Interview with Laurie Elizabeth Flynn + Giveaway!

Posted by on 01/22/2016 • 2 Comments

I’m happy to have the Firsts blog tour stop by today for an author interview plus a chance to win! Let’s see what this book is all about first:

Interview with Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

Hi Laurie! Thanks so much for visiting this little blog of mine! Let’s start with telling us a little something about your book that might surprise us:

Hi Giselle! Thank you so much for having me on your blog. That’s a great question! I think readers may be surprised to find out the reasons behind why Mercedes tries to help the boys. While she puts on a tough front and can be even cruel at times in her incisiveness, Mercedes is soft and vulnerable in a lot of ways, and things that happened…

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Review: Passenger by Alexandra Bracken

Posted by on 01/20/2016 • 9 Comments

Passenger AKA the much awaited, highly anticipated time travel romance. I had hoped it would be everything I wanted, I had hoped I would swoon and die because cuteness, but unfortunately that didn’t happen. Passenger was by no means a bad book, I just had a hard time relating to the character and getting behind the romance (which is kind of a big deal given that it is a time-travel romance.)

Etta is really my biggest problem with the book. It isn’t that she is fundamentally flawed, I just couldn’t get behind her as a character. Her privilege, growing up the way she did and in the century she did, is so blatant and her ignorance of it really bothered me. Being with Nicholas did make her realize that she was…

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Blog Tour: Teen Frankenstein by Chandler Baker (High School Horror #1) Review and Guest Post

Posted by on 01/18/2016 • 3 Comments

Hello everyone!! I am happy to be participating in the blog tour for this book. Right when I read the synopsis, I knew that I had to read the book. So I will be doing my review and I have a great guest post with a real life high school horror story from Charlotte Huang, a friend of the author who is also an author.

To start, I really liked the characters. They were great. Especially Tor and her best friend Owen. They really were what pulled me into the story. I did enjoy this book, but had to ignore all of the things that just didn’t make sense to me. As with all things fiction, not everything has to make sense or be logical right? I can’t go into…

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Fresh Batch (January 17th – 23rd)

Fresh Batch (January 17th – 23rd)

Posted by on 01/16/2016 • 4 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Up to This Pointe Jennifer Longo Publication date: January 19th 2016by Random House Books for Young Readers

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A refreshingly original contemporary YA, unlike anything readers have seen before. Perfect for fans of Jandy Nelson, John Corey Whaley, and Libba Bray.   She had a plan. It went south.

Harper is a dancer. She and her best friend, Kate, have one goal: becoming professional ballerinas. And Harper won’t let anything—or anyone—get in the way of The Plan, not even the boy she and Kate are both drawn to.

Harper is a Scott. She’s related to Robert Falcon Scott, the explorer who…

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Review: The Mystery of Hollow Places by Rebecca Podos

Posted by on 01/13/2016 • 2 Comments

So I’m not really sure what to think of this book. It wasn’t bad, and it had the potential to be really good, but it missed the mark. I’m all about background information and learning the history of the character and their lives, but this one was to the point that is was very disruptive to the story and it really just disconnected me from the whole thing. It was hard to really care abou the story and what was happening when it was interrupted for long stretches explaining something about the past. I get that it’s the thought process of the main character as she is the one telling the story, but it just did’t quite work for me.

Imogene is the MC and she was just okay…

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Diverse Books to Look Out For in 2016

Posted by on 01/11/2016 • 11 Comments

As some of you might know, diversity is super important to me and I strive to promote it whatever chance I can get. So today, I am presenting you with a list of some really cool diverse books coming out in the year 2016. PREPARE TO ADD EVERYTHING TO YOUR SHELF if you haven’t already. Not only do all of these have stunning covers, but they sound pretty awesome too!

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We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson

The Forbidden Wish by Jessica Khoury

Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton

This Is Where it Ends by Marieke Nijkamp

Saving Montgomery Sole by Mariko Tamaki

Outrun the Moon by Stacey Lee

Vicarious by Paula…

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Fresh Batch (January 10th – 16th)

Fresh Batch (January 10th – 16th)

Posted by on 01/09/2016 • 3 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Other Broken Things Christa Desir Publication date: January 12th 2016by Simon Pulse

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Nat’s not an alcoholic. She doesn’t have a problem. Everybody parties, everybody does stupid things, like get in their car when they can barely see. Still, with six months of court-ordered AA meetings required, her days of vodka-filled water bottles are over.

Unfortunately her old friends want the party girl or nothing. Even her up-for-anything ex seems more interested in rehashing the past than actually helping Nat.

But then a recovering alcoholic named Joe inserts himself into Nat’s life and things start looking up. Joe is funny,…

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