Top Ten Tuesday #15: Bookish Travels

Today’s Topic:  Ten Places Books Have  Made Me Want To Visit Another fun topic! Hurray! I’ve rarely read a book and thought “I want to go there!” so I kind of had to think about it… I should probably preface my answers with a disclaimer: I have a really weird mind. When I looked at […]

Audiobook Review: Eve by Anna Carey

Title: Eve (Eve #1) Author: Anna Carey Publication Date: October 4, 2011 Publisher: Harper Collins Pages: 336 Add to Goodreads Review for 2 Where do you go when nowhere is safe? Sixteen years after a deadly virus wiped out most of Earth’s population, the world is a perilous place. Eighteen-year-old Eve has never been beyond […]

Feature & Follow Friday #19

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:  Book Merchandise – show off some of your stuff – posters, t-shirts. Whatever you got! Ooooh! This is a super […]

Waiting on Wednesday #18: Frostfire by Amanda Hocking

Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is:  Frostfire by Amanda Hocking Publication Date: January 6, 2015 Bryn Aven is an outcast among the Kanin, the most powerful of the troll tribes. Set apart by her heritage and her past, Bryn is a tracker who’s determined to become a respected part […]

Top Ten Tuesday #14: Character driven adult books

Today’s Topic:  Ten Books For Readers Who  Like Character Driven Novels This was honestly a really hard topic for me to work with. I really have never thought about what makes a character driven novel and I had to think about it a lot to figure this one out. I decided to go with chacter […]

Audiobook Review: The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter

Title: The Goddess Test Author: Aimée Carter Publication Date: April 19, 2011 Publisher: Harlequin Teen Pages: 293 Add to Goodreads Every girl who had taken the test has died. Now it’s Kate’s turn. It’s always been just Kate and her mom – and her mother is dying. Her last wish? To move back to her childhood home. […]

Feature and Follow Friday #18

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:  Book looks – Your favorite fashions from the books you’ve read Well, this is an interesting question for me… I […]

Book Tour Excerpt and Giveaway: Violet Storm by Anna Soliveres

Title: Violet Storm Author: Anna Soliveres Publication Date: March 28, 2014 Publisher: Anna Soliveres Pages: 305 Add to Goodreads “You shouldn’t be here!” growls Ruven. “What would possess you to risk yourself? Why didn’t you listen to me?” “Let me go!” I struggle hard against his strong grip pinning me against the wall. Ruven’s eyes […]

Waiting on Wednesday #17: The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black

Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is:  The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black Publication Date: January 13, 2015 Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill a monster and feel quite proud of themselves. A girl can look at her brother and believe […]

Top Ten Tuesday #13: Hard to read books

Today’s Topic:  Top Ten Books That Were  Hard For Me To Read Today I’m going to be talking about books that I just could not get through. While this can happen for a number of reasons and I’m not going to try to narrow it down. As always, here they are in alphabetical order! A.I. […]

Book Review: Suspicion by Alexandra Monir

Title: Suspicion Author: Alexandra Monir Publication Date: December 9, 2014 Publisher: Delacorte Press Pages: 368 Add to Goodreads //I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review// Mysterious. Magnificent. Creepy. Welcome to Rockford Manor. “There’s something hidden in the Maze.” Seventeen-year-old Imogen has never forgotten the last words her father said […]

Feature and Follow Friday #17

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:  Book character(s) you’d like to see with their own Twitter page. This is such a weird question… I do enjoy […]

Book Blitz: Orenda by Ruth Silver

Title: Orenda Author: Ruth Silver Publication Date: April 13, 2014 Publisher: Patchwork Press Pages: 232 Add to Goodreads Join forces with a parallel universe. Dark forces, magical creatures, and the world Lil thought she knew collide when a dream transports her to the strange world of Orenda. Stunned and terrified, Lil comes face to face […]

Before I Blogged Book Review: Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Title: Obsidian (Lux #1) Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout Publication Date: May 8, 2012 Publisher: Entangled Teen Pages: 335 Add to Goodreads Starting over sucks. When we moved to West Virginia right before my senior year, I’d pretty much resigned myself to thick accents, dodgy internet access, and a whole lot of boring… until I spotted my hot neighbor, […]

Waiting on Wednesday #16: Neil Patrick Harris Autobiography

Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is:  Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography by Neil Patrick Harris Publication Date: October 14, 2014 Tired of memoirs that only tell you what really happened? Sick of deeply personal accounts written in the first person? Seeking an exciting, interactive read that puts […]

Top Ten Tuesday #12: Fall reading list

Today’s Topic:  Top Ten Books On My  Fall To-Be-Read list Bird Box by Josh Malerman  Most people ignored the outrageous reports on the news. But they became too frequent, they became too real. And soon, they began happening down the street. Then the Internet died. The television and radio went silent. The phones stopped ringing. […]

Audiobook Review: The Evolution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

Title: The Evolution of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer #2) Author: Michelle Hodkin Narrator: Christy Romano Publication Date: October 23, 2012 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 1 & book 3 Mara Dyer once believed she could run from her past. She can’t. She used to think her problems were all in her head. […]

Why TV shows are almost as good as books

Over the last three days of suffering from what has become known as the “Carolina Plague” at UNC (also known as what is, most likely, the common cold) I have spent every possible moment in my recliner with Netflix. More specifically, I’ve been binging season three of Once Upon a Time. If you don’t watch […]

Feature & Follow Friday #16

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:  Blogger pet peeves? When I finish an entry, schedule the post date, hit “publish,” and, for whatever reason, it posts […]

Waiting on Wednesday #15: Revival by Stephen King

Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is:  Revival by Stephen King Publication Date: November 11, 2014 In a small New England town, in the early 60s, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister. […]

Top Ten Tuesday #11: Authors I should read more of

Today’s Topic:  Top Authors I’ve Only Read One  Book From But NEED to Read More  I had kind of a hard time finding authors to talk about for this topic. My usual M.O. if I find an author I love is to dig up everything he or she has written and devour it within a […]

Book Review: Spartacus: Swords and Ashes by J.M. Clements

Title: Spartacus: Swords and Ashes Author: J.M. Clements Publication Date: January 3, 2012 Publisher: Titan Books Pages: 320 Add to Goodreads Betrayed by the Romans. Forced into slavery. Reborn as a Gladiator. The classic tale of the Republic’s most infamous rebel comes alive in the graphic and visceral Starz tv show, Spartacus. Torn from his […]

Feature & Follow Friday #15

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:  Before blogging (dark times people!) how would you find out about new books or did you? Before I started blogging […]

Blog Tour Guest Post: Had to be You by Juliet Chatham

Title: Had to be You Author: Juliet Chatham Publication Date: August 5, 2014 Publisher: Swoon Romance Pages: 360 Add to Goodreads Buy at Amazon When Rory Finn first left behind the familiarity of her quiet, picturesque hometown to pursue a professional career in the city after college, her intention was to focus on the future—until […]