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Saturday, April 12, 2014

Fresh Batch (New Releases April 13th – 19th)

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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:

What I Thought Was True
Huntley Fitzpatrick
Publication date: April 15th 2014
by Dial Books for Young Readers

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From the author of My Life Next Door comes a swoony summertime romance full of expectation and regret, humor and hard questions.

Gwen Castle’s Biggest Mistake Ever, Cassidy Somers, is slumming it as a yard boy on her Nantucket-esque island this summer. He’s a rich kid from across the bridge in Stony Bay, and she hails from a family of fishermen and housecleaners who keep the island’s summer people happy. Gwen worries a life of cleaning houses will be her fate too, but just when it looks like she’ll never escape her past—or the island—Gwen’s dad gives her some shocking advice. Sparks fly and secret histories unspool as Gwen spends a gorgeous, restless summer struggling to resolve what she thought was true—about the place she lives, the people she loves, and even herself—with what really is.

A magnetic, push-me-pull-me romance with depth, this is for fans of Sarah Dessen, Jenny Han, and Deb Caletti.


Other releases this week:
* In no particular order *




Rebecca’s Lost Journals (Inside Out #1.1-1.4; 2.5) by Lisa Renee Jones [Purchase]
Out of the Shallows (Into the Deep #2) by Samantha Young
The Geography of You and Me by Jennifer E. Smith [Purchase]
Fighting to Forget (Fighting #3) by J.B. Salsbury


Nova and Quinton: No Regrets (Nova #3) by Jessica Sorensen [Purchase]
Frozen (Taken #2) by Erin Bowman [Purchase]
House of Ivy & Sorrow by Natalie Whipple [Purchase]
A World Without Princes (The School for Good and Evil #2) by Soman Chainani [Purchase]


High and Dry by Sarah Skilton [Purchase]
Open Road Summer by Emery Lord [Purchase]
The Steady Running of the Hour: A Novel by Justin Go [Purchase]
Imaginary Lines (New York Leopards #3) by Allison Parr [Purchase]


The Forbidden Library by Django Wexler [Purchase]
The Forever Song (Blood of Eden #3) by Julie Kagawa [Purchase]
Finding My Way (The Beaumont Series #4) by Heidi McLaughlin [Purchase]
Purple Magic by Lisa Renee Jones [Purchase]


To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before #1) by Jenny Han [Purchase]
Don’t Look Back by Jennifer L. Armentrout [Purchase]
A Shard of Ice (The Black Symphony Saga #1) by Alivia Anders [Purchase]
Sunrise (Ashfall #3) by Mike Mullin [Purchase]


Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek by Maya Van Wagenen [Purchase]
The Looking Glass by Jessica Arnold [Purchase]
You Only Live Once (Snap Decision #2) by Bridie Clark [Purchase]
Count On Me by Melyssa Winchester


There Will Come a Time by Carrie Arcos [Purchase]
The First Book of Ore: The Foundry’s Edge (The Books of Ore #1) by Cam Baity and Benny Zelkowicz [Purchase]
Big Fat Disaster by Beth Fehlbaum [Purchase]
I Know Lucy (A Fugitive Novel, #1) by Melissa Pearl


What’s catching your eye this week?

 

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Review: We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

Review: We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

Posted by on 04/11/2014 • 25 Comments

I have been sitting on writing this review for over a day and a half now. WE WERE LIARS is one of those books that I loved so much as a reader and of course I want to share that love with everyone. But I also want people to go into the book just as blindly as I did so they can be taken by surprise as I was. So this review is going to be quite vague and I won’t be touching on many of the plot points.

What I can talk about here is the wonderful writing. I have an update on my Goodreads at 7% where I say that I loved the writing already. The words literally grabbed me at page 1 and did not let go…

Review: Pointe by Brandy Colbert

Review: Pointe by Brandy Colbert

Posted by on 04/10/2014 • 24 Comments

I have mixed feelings towards Pointe and it leans closer to a 3.5 read. For one, it ended up being an incredibly heartbreaking, tragic, and important story. For another, it’s well written with a compelling narrator who’s a realistic portrayal of a teenager with a shattered self-esteem. And all of it is very very gritty. But, before you realize what it all has to do with the heart of the story, the book feels like it’s dodging the real issue at hand with the introduction of tons of others. It kept circling around the actual kidnapping for so long – which was what attracted me to this book in the first place – that I started to feel let down at about the half way mark. It makes us wait…

Review: The Fault In Our Stars by John Green

Posted by on 04/09/2014 • 33 Comments

I bought The Fault In Our Stars nearly a year ago and had been holding off on reading it because it just hit too close to home for a while.  Upon seeing all of the excitement for the movie trailer I knew it was time to pick it up and make my way through it. In the end, I’m not even sure what to say other than “WOW!” There isn’t much that I can say about this amazing book that hasn’t already been said so this is probably going to be short but this is a must read for everyone. EVERYONE.

The writing in this book is stunning. I loved the voice that Green gave to Hazel Grace Lancaster; it was honest, it was intelligent and it was beautiful.  The…

Some of the Most Unique Books I’ve Read!

Some of the Most Unique Books I’ve Read!

Posted by on 04/08/2014 • 37 Comments

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish where we list top bookish things. Note that Giselle and Jenni often decide to split it and each do a Top 5.

Originality is not dead yet! Giselle

Now I didn’t go through ALL of the books I read, so these are just the first ones that came to mind for this week’s Top 10 Tuesday. And yep, it’s just me this week! J-dog isn’t feeling her best.

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor: The world inside this novel is insanely creative, but the characters, the twists, the story, are all so unique. I would love to get a glimpse inside this woman’s mind! All the…

Book Girls Don’t Cry… or Fall For All The Romance

Book Girls Don’t Cry… or Fall For All The Romance

Posted by on 04/07/2014 • 28 Comments

Book Girls Don’t Cry is a feature where we will discuss/vent/advise on a bookish topic. This feature is co-hosted with the lovely Amy at Book Loving Mom.

Okay, so this is just starting to be far too much fun.  I got together with Stella (It’s Too Late To Apologize) again recently and we decided to talk about romance in novels.  No, not about the romance genre, but more so romance within books of multiple genres.  We ended up rambling about NA (could the people in these books get any more dysfunctional?), Insta-Love and even went into some erotica talk.  I hope you guys enjoy!

For those who don’t like to or can’t watch the video, here is a rundown of some of the points touched upon:

New Adult romances seem…

Giselle’s Stacking the Shelves [April 6]

Giselle’s Stacking the Shelves [April 6]

Posted by on 04/06/2014 • 25 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 bookish friends! Are you all ready for BEA? Man I can’t believe it’s already less than 2 months away SO MUCH EXCITE!! Hopefully the weather will be just as awesome as last year especially that I’m driving up. Did you stop by the blog this week? We have a new giveaway for a hardcopy of Sekret, as well as the book’s dream cast which is all kinds of hot! So let’s see what new books I got! The last 2 weeks for me have all been ebooks – I think the mailman can’t even get to our mailbox due to all the…

Fresh Batch (New Releases April 6th – 12th)

Fresh Batch (New Releases April 6th – 12th)

Posted by on 04/05/2014 • 19 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Dreams of Gods and Monsters Laini Taylor Series: Daughter of Smoke and Bone #3 Publication date: April 8th 2014by Little, Brown & Company

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By way of a staggering deception, Karou has taken control of the chimaera rebellion and is intent on steering its course away from dead-end vengeance. The future rests on her, if there can even be a future for the chimaera in war-ravaged Eretz.

Common enemy, common cause.

When Jael’s brutal seraph army trespasses into the human world, the unthinkable becomes essential, and Karou and Akiva must ally their enemy armies against the threat. It is a twisted…