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Saturday, June 14, 2014

Jenni’s Stacking the Shelves [June 14]

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Stacking the Shelves is a meme hosted by Tynga’s Reviews featuring new additions to our bookshelves.

I know what you’re thinking, “It’s Saturday! What am I doing staring at Jenni’s mug when it’s supposed to be Fresh Batch day?!” I apologize for the disappointment, I do.  Unfortunately Giselle is sick and even sitting on the computer makes her feel like barfing. Seriously, she said to let everyone know that “Fresh Batch might not happen this weekend because barf.” Her words exactly, I swear.  I don’t have the awesome skills it takes to pull of the weekly FB post so I am here a day early with my STS! I even made a video, so here goes:

Books Mentioned in Vlog (click title for Goodreads):
Bird Box by Josh Malerman
I Swear by Lane Davis
The Disenchantments by Nina LaCour
Breathe, Annie, Breathe (Hundred Oaks #5) by Miranda Kenneally
The Moment Collector by Jodi Lynn Anderson
Between The Lives by Jessica Shirvington
Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld
Broken Monsters by Lauren Beukes
This Shattered World (Starbound #2) by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
Falling Into Place by Amy Zhang
The Swap by Megan Shull
Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley
Skink–No Surrender by Carl Hiaasen
Black Ice by Becca Fitzpatrick
We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarrassingly, A True Story by Josh Sundquist
Jessica Darling’s IT List #2 by Megan McCafferty
Something Real by Heather Demitrios
Fiendish by Brenna Yovonoff

eBook Haul (click cover for Goodreads):
17235026 20359661
20518922 20646933

Big thank you’s go out to Hachette UK, Miranda Kenneally, Giselle, HarperTeen, Orbit and Macmillan this week! Also, thanks to Christina of A Reader of Fictions for recommending I grab The Girl With All The Gifts, I can’t wait to read it!

Review: 17 First Kisses by Rachael Allen

Review: 17 First Kisses by Rachael Allen

Posted by on 06/13/2014 • 25 Comments

The fact that I even read 17 First Kisses at all is a testament to what book bloggers can accomplish. I had written this one off and didn’t think it was going to be for me at all until I saw Blythe’s (Finding Bliss In Books) review. As soon as I saw that she recommended it for fans of Courtney Summers I knew that it was going to be so much more than the blurb let on. And it was, this one has become close to, if not my favourite contemporary read of 2014 so far.

What I loved so much about this book is that it was so much more than a romance. There were friendships here that were so interesting, secondary characters that were perfectly fleshed out and…

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Review: The Merciless by Danielle Vega

Review: The Merciless by Danielle Vega

Posted by on 06/12/2014 • 23 Comments

AAAAAAAAAAH!

This was my reaction to much of this novel’s… happenings. It’s a horror through and through, and definitely not for the wussies or faint of hearts. After a quick introduction to our protagonist and the setting, we’re thrust into a house-of-torture kind of read where these girls have it in their head that one is a demon that must be exorcised.

“Most girls would just start a burn book.”

But not these girls! These girls opt for pulling hairs out of scalps and taking fingernails out. Yeah.. Excuse me while I go barf!

The book itself is more for the horror and shock value than substance. Character development is not especially strong, for instance. And I found myself frustrated by the number of times the protagonist “almost”…

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The Stepsister’s Tale Tour Stop: Guest Post + Giveaway!

The Stepsister’s Tale Tour Stop: Guest Post + Giveaway!

Posted by on 06/11/2014 • 34 Comments

Today we’ve got the author of The Stepsister’s Tale on the blog to talk to us about the challenges she had while writing this book, then you can enter to win! 😉

Guest Post by Tracy Barrett

The biggest challenges of writing this book

The Stepsister’s Tale took me a long, long time to write. I think that from the time I started it to the time when I signed the publishing contract was seven years! I don’t mean that I wrote all day, every day for seven years, though—I’d write for a while and hit a snag and put it away for a few months, and then take it out and delete a lot of it and write some more and hit another snag….

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Review: Dark Metropolis by Jaclyn Dolamore

Posted by on 06/10/2014 • 23 Comments

An enjoyable plot with a very unique zombie story, but it was missing… something. Many aspects about this world and its happenings were explained only briefly to make the plot move forward, which made it hard to invest myself fully. But it was fun, nonetheless!

We begin by following Thea, whose mother’s strange illness has left her in charge of supporting the family. This is where we begin to see the part that magic has in the story, when we learn of this magical connection between her mother and father that has caused the illness. I found this was really intriguing and a great start that compels you to read more. Especially when combined with the glamorous setting of a Telephone Club we’re lured into by its enchanting atmosphere and…

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Review: The Body In The Woods by April Henry

Review: The Body In The Woods by April Henry

Posted by on 06/09/2014 • 21 Comments

The Body In The Woods is a fast paced thriller that is able to pass off as enjoyable if you suspend logic and just go along for the ride. But, when you sit down and really think about the details there is so much that is unbelievable that I can’t really recommend it to fellow readers.

In this novel we get the three main perspectives of Ruby, Alexis and Nick but we also get a few random chapters that are told from the ominous perspective of the killer himself. As far as the 3 kids go, I can’t say that I connected with any of them in any way. This is in part due to the fact that the story is told in the third person (which always leaves me…

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Giselle’s Stacking the Shelves [June 8th]

Giselle’s Stacking the Shelves [June 8th]

Posted by on 06/08/2014 • 28 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 everyone! I figure many of you are still recuperating from BEA. I almost need a vacation from that vacation >.< I did a recap post both on the blog here, and a Facebook photo recap here as well if you missed it. We also got a couple of new giveaways on the blog: you can win a copy of The Fever and Take Me On (which also has a prize pack grand prize!). Also don’t forget to sign-up for our Cover Madness giveaway hop! It was a blast last year and we’re already at over 40 sign-ups! 🙂

THIS WEEK’S…

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Fresh Batch (New Releases June 8th-14th)

Fresh Batch (New Releases June 8th-14th)

Posted by on 06/07/2014 • 6 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Don’t You Forget About Me Kate Karyus Quinn Publication date: June 10th 2014by HarperTeen

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Welcome to Gardnerville.

A place where no one gets sick. And no one ever dies.

Except… There’s a price to pay for paradise. Every fourth year, the strange power that fuels the town exacts its payment by infecting teens with deadly urges. In a normal year in Gardnerville, teens might stop talking to their best friends. In a fourth year, they’d kill them.

Four years ago, Skylar’s sister, Piper, was locked away after leading sixteen of her classmates to a watery grave. Since then, Skylar has lived…

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