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Sunday, February 09, 2014

Giselle’s Stacking the Shelves [Feb 9]

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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 guys! Is everyone watching the Olympics? I don’t watch sports at all but the Olympics is the one exception. Bring it Canada! Whooo! Now on the blog this week there were a couple of giveaways posted, I especially hope you all have entered our Birthday giveaway – plus you can even see our baby faces so you can’t miss that!! Also on that note, this is Jenni’s bday weekend so HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JENNI! *Throws confetti party*

THIS WEEK’S BOOK HAUL:
(Click on covers for Goodreads)

I received for review:

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–Three by Kristen Simmons
–The Geography of You and Me by Jennifer E. Smith
–Sea of Shadows by Kelley Armstrong
–The Merciless by Gabrielle Vega
–Fiendish by Brenna Yovanoff
–Torn Away by Jennifer Brown

Ebooks:
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*Big thanks to Hachette Children’s Books Canada, Razorbill, Random House Canada, Tor Teen, HarperCollins, St. Martin’s Griffin, and Sourcebooks Fire for these pretties!*


Purchased:
I finally got myself a copy of this – been waiting for the hype to die down before I read it.

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That’s all for me this week!
XOXO

Fresh Batch (New Releases February 9th – 15th)

Fresh Batch (New Releases February 9th – 15th)

Posted by on 02/08/2014 • 10 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Split Second Kasie West Series: Pivot Point #2 Publication date: February 11th 2014by HarperTeen

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Life can change in a split second.

Addie hardly recognizes her life since her parents divorced. Her boyfriend used her. Her best friend betrayed her. She can’t believe this is the future she chose. On top of that, her ability is acting up. She’s always been able to Search the future when presented with a choice. Now she can manipulate and slow down time, too . . . but not without a price.

When Addie’s dad invites her to spend her winter break with him, she jumps…

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Review: Three by Kristen Simmons

Review: Three by Kristen Simmons

Posted by on 02/07/2014 • 13 Comments

I used to say that there was nothing worse than reviewing sequels, but I officially take that statement back because reviewing the third book in a series is definitely worse. There are people who can manage without spoiling anything and I just don’t get how they do it. So be prepared, there will probably be spoilers up ahead. Note: Scratch that, I actually managed to make this spoiler free!!!

What can I say about Three that I haven’t already said about Breaking Point and Article 5 hmm… Well, I can say that the action in this one is pretty constant just like the first two books in the series. The pacing of these books is always a highlight for me because it just never lets up. Even in the calmest…

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Review: Faking Normal by Courtney C. Stevens

Review: Faking Normal by Courtney C. Stevens

Posted by on 02/06/2014 • 30 Comments

“Me: a girl who was raped. Him: a boy whose dad killed his mom. Us: a girl and boy who survive.” – quoted from an uncorrected ARC

Faking Normal is the gut wrenching tale of two teens, who have been through some terrible things, coming together to help each other fight off their demons. It’s an intensely dark tale that still manages to have hope, and most importantly love, shine through it’s pages.

I have to say that after reading this one I am a little worried that I am becoming a one-trick pony. I have read some hotly anticipated titles lately in genres other than contemporary and they have all failed to have any sort of spark that would have made me love them intensely. Here I…

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Giveaway: A Midsummer’s Nightmare by Kody Keplinger

Giveaway: A Midsummer’s Nightmare by Kody Keplinger

Posted by on 02/06/2014 • 11 Comments

We both really enjoyed this book when we read it back in 2012, so we’re happy to have a chance to share the awesome with our fellow book lovers! The wonderful people at Hachette Children’s UK is offering a pretty finished copy of the UK release of A Midsummer’s Nightmare to one of our lucky blog readers!

What did we think of A Midsummer’s Nightmare? -Find Giselle’s review here! -Find Jenni’s review here!

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Hachette Children’s Books UK has generously offered a finished copy of A Midsummer’s Nightmare (UK Edition) for giveaway.

Open internationally Giveaway ends February 18th, 2014 Full contest terms and conditions found on Rafflecopter

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Review: Cress by Marissa Meyer

Review: Cress by Marissa Meyer

Posted by on 02/05/2014 • 22 Comments

When I read Cinder in 2012 I came out of it feeling like we had a rocky love/hate relationship. In the end I rated it 3 stars and then bumped it up to 4 stars a few weeks later. Then Meyer put out Scarlet and the novel came into my life like a wrecking ball (cue Miley singalong here) and tore me apart. Scarlet completely immersed me in the character’s lives and it literally had me on the edge of my seat the entire time. I believe I ended up rating that one 5 stars x1000 on my blog. Now that I have read Cress I am sad to say that the reading experience was much more like the one I had with Cinder rather than the completely perfect one…

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Review: Alienated by Melissa Landers

Review: Alienated by Melissa Landers

Posted by on 02/04/2014 • 35 Comments

Alienated brings us a good mix of humor and romance. It’s easy to read, and touches on serious themes including discrimination and tolerance. What I enjoyed the most was how Landers describes the aliens; from the physical to the emotional, they differ very much from humans. The L’eihr culture is described as emotionally cold for the sake of survival. They’re cloned from the best, born and raised without parents, affection, or even touch. Their government system would make many of us fear their ways. Aelyx’s perspective allows us to experience our own culture through his foreign, often overwhelmed, eyes. We get to see his reactions to certain stimuli like our apparently overpowering flavors and colors. Then their difference in thought process for things like affection and modesty – the latter…

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Happy Birthday Cover Madness Giveaway!

Happy Birthday Cover Madness Giveaway!

Posted by on 02/03/2014 • 40 Comments

February is clearly one of the most awesome months of the year because guess what? Both of us are celebrating a birthday this month! Only 11 days apart! So since that is way too awesome to not share, we decided to throw another of our famous Cover Madness giveaways! But first! Since we’re both getting old and all (one more than the other but we won’t point fingers >.<), let’s reminisce on the good old times as young’uns! Let’s see if you can guess who is who! 😉

I grew up in the 90’s and 00’s (is that right?) I can remember vividly dancing in my room to Britney Spears and even singing on my Spice Girls branded microphone (the neighbours thought my parents killed cats for a…

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