Feature & Follow Friday #9

Happy Friday, fellow book lovers! Feature & Follow is a blog hop hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. The goal of Feature & Follow is to meet new bloggers, make friends, and gain readers. This Week’s Question:  What is the biggest city you live near?  Show us a postcard picture. Population: 431,746 Not much to see here. Just […]

Book Blitz and Giveaway: Let’s Get Lost by Adi Alsaid

Title: Let’s Get Lost Author: Adi Alsaid Release Date: July 29, 2014 Publisher: Harlequin Teen Pages: 352 Add to Goodreads  Five strangers. Countless adventures. One epic way to get lost. Four teens across the country have only one thing in common: a girl named LEILA. She crashes into their lives in her absurdly red car at the moment they need someone […]

“Waiting on” Wednesday #8: Gates of Thread and Stone

Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is:  Gates of Thread and Stone by Lori M. Lee Publication Date: August 5, 2014 Blurb:  In the Labyrinth, we had a saying: keep silent, keep still, keep safe. In a city of walls and secrets, where only one man is supposed to possess […]

Top Ten Tuesday #4: Authors I Stock Up On

Today’s Topic:   Ten Authors I Own The Most Books From This is actually a difficult topic because most of my books have been in storage for a year and the rest have been in boxes for two weeks. Anyone else have an “out of sight, out of mind” problem? I’m going to try really hard to […]

Book Tour Review: Birth of an Assassin by Rik Stone

Title: Birth of an Assassin Author: Rik Stone Publication Date: July 16, 2013Publisher: Silver Publishing Pages: 430 Add to Goodreads I received this book from the author  in exchange for an honest review.  Set against the backdrop of Soviet, post-war Russia, Birth of an Assassin follows the transformation of Jez Kornfeld from wide-eyed recruit to avenging […]

Feature & Follow Friday #8

Happy Friday, fellow book lovers! Feature & Follow is a blog hop hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. The goal of Feature & Follow is to meet new bloggers, make friends, and gain readers. This Week’s Question:  What is your favorite TV series that you  can watch over and over again on Netflix? Well, I have a […]

Before I Blogged Review: Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King

Title: Dolores Claiborne Author: Stephen King Publication Date: December 1, 1993 Publisher: Signet Books Pages: 384 Add to Goodreads Suspected of killing Vera Donovan, her wealthy employer, Dolores Claiborne tells police the story of her life, harkening back to her disintegrating marriage and the suspicious death of her violent husband, Joe St. George, thirty years […]

“Waiting on” Wednesday #7: Winterspell

Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is:  Winterspell by Claire Legrand Publication Date: September 30, 2014 Blurb:  The clock chimes midnight, a curse breaks, and a girl meets a prince . . . but what follows is not all sweetness and sugarplums. New York City, 1899. Clara Stole, the mayor’s […]

Book Blitz! Author Guest Post & Giveaway: Let’s Get Lost by Adi Alsaid

Title: Let’s Get Lost Author: Adi Alsaid Release Date: July 29, 2014 Publisher: Harlequin Teen Pages: 352 Add to Goodreads  Five strangers. Countless adventures. One epic way to get lost. Four teens across the country have only one thing in common: a girl named LEILA. She crashes into their lives in her absurdly red car at […]

Top Ten Tuesday #3: Deserted Island

Today’s Topic:  Top Ten Characters I Would Want  With Me On A Deserted Island So as it turns out, I would not want anyone on my island who wasn’t useful. Every character I chose has badass character traits. We’d make an awesome colony (though I might be pretty useless, comparatively speaking). Top Ten Tuesday is an […]

Book Review: Cats, Scarves, and Liars by Kathryn White

Title: Cats, Scarves, and Liars Author: Kathryn White Publication Date: April 21, 2014 Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing  Pages: 181 Add to Goodreads I received this book from the author  in exchange for an honest review.  Meet Peppa Grove. Peppa is just your average Australian young woman, really. 23 years old, widowed and owner of a […]

Spine-tingling Saturday #4: Ghostly Messages

Title: My friend randomly messaged me in the middle of the night. I don’t think it was her. Author: vaivaikar Posted on: July 11-15, 2014 Location: Reddit As I’m writing, I’m about to have a fit to get back to Reddit. You may or may not recall last week’s post, Infected Town. In that post I said that I […]

Mini-Review: Unhinged by A.G. Howard

Title: Unhinged (Splintered #2) Author: A.G. Howard Publication Date: January 7, 2014 Publisher: Amulet Pages: 400 Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 1, book 3, and book 3.5 Alyssa Gardner has been down the rabbit hole and faced the bandersnatch. She saved the life of Jeb, the guy she loves, and escaped the machinations of the […]

Feature & Follow Friday #7

Happy Friday, fellow book lovers! Feature & Follow is a blog hop hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. The goal of Feature & Follow is to meet new bloggers, make friends, and gain readers. This Week’s Question:  Post a funny Youtube video (doesn’t have to be book related). I love, love, LOVE Honest Trailers by Screen Junkies! […]

“Waiting on” Wednesday #6: Ensnared

Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is:  Ensnared by A.G. Howard Publication Date: January 13, 2015 Blurb:  After surviving a disastrous battle at prom, Alyssa has embraced her madness and gained perspective. She’s determined to rescue her two worlds and the people and netherlings she loves. Even if it means […]

Book Blitz! Excerpt & Giveaway – Tortured Souls by Kimber Wheaton

Title: Tortured Souls (Orion Circle #1) Author: Kimber Leigh Wheaton Release Date: July 2014 Publisher: Sea Dragon Press Pages: 227 Add to Goodreads Sometimes Rest in Peace isn’t an option. Kacie Ramsey sees ghosts—and it’s ruining her life. Her mother left, her father blames her, and no matter how hard she tries, she can’t keep the […]

Top Ten Tuesday #2: Favorite Movies and TV Shows

Today’s Topic:  Top Ten Favorite Movies & TV Shows I’m just warning you in advance, this list is going to be all over the place… I’ve decided to divide it up into top five movies and top five TV shows, each with honorable mentions because ohmygod I love so many (and basically I can’t decide).  […]

Book Review: Splintered by A.G. Howard

Title: Splintered (Splintered #1) Author: A.G. Howard Publication Date: January 1, 2013 Publisher: Amulet Books Pages: 371 Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 2, book 3, and book 3.5 This stunning debut captures the grotesque madness of a mystical under-land, as well as a girl’s pangs of first love and independence. Alyssa Gardner hears the whispers […]

Spine-tingling Saturday #3: Infected Town

Title: My friend hasn’t been in contact since this series of weird text messages. I don’t know what to think… | Woke Up with Amnesia in Chicago. Any ideas? |  Infected Town Author: HelpMeNoSleep | AlanPWtf | VainerCupid Posted on: July 2013 – April 2014 Location: Reddit As you can tell, it was difficult to list the title and author of this spine-tingling feature. […]

Potter Fans Unite!

While I doubt I’ll be the first to tell you this, I still want to shout it from the rooftops:  Harry Potter is back! When I saw a post in my news feed telling me that J.K. Rowling had decided to grace us with a new Harry Potter story, I almost came out of my […]

Feature & Follow #6

Happy Friday, fellow book lovers! Feature & Follow is a blog hop hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. The goal of Feature & Follow is to meet new bloggers, make friends, and gain readers. This Week’s Question:  If you had a time machine (i.e. a TARDIS), where would you go? Holy crap. Are we combining Doctor Who […]

“Waiting on” Wednesday #5: Accession

Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is:  Accession by Terah Edun Publication Date: August 5, 2014 Blurb:  Sixteen-year-old Katherine Thompson wasn’t trained to rule a coven. That was her sister – perfect, beautiful Rose. But when a mysterious plane crash kills off the heir presumptive of the Sandersville coven she […]

Top Ten Tuesday #1: Blogging Confessions

I’ve decided to start participating in a new Tuesday meme (well, new to me) – Top Ten Tuesday – instead of Teaser Tuesdays. Because of my blogging schedule, the teasers on Tuesday followed by the corresponding review the following Monday was getting repetitive, so I think this is going to be more fun for me! […]

Book Review: The Montauk Monster by Hunter Shea

Title: The Montauk Monster Author: Hunter Shea Publication Date: June 3, 2014 Publisher: Pinnacle Pages: 352 Add to Goodreads I received this book from the author  in exchange for an honest review! It Kills. . . On a hot summer night in Montauk, the bodies of two local bar patrons are discovered in the dunes, torn […]