Top Ten Tuesday #6: Impulse Buys

Today’s Topic:   Top Ten Books I Bought  But Probably Won’t Read I have a tendency to impulsively buy books at library book sales and then proceed to stare at them on my shelves for several years before finally donating them to Goodwill or back to the library. Here are ten of them! The Autobiography of […]

Book Tour Review: Bound by Duty by Stormy Smith

Title: Bound by Duty (Bound #1) Author: Stormy Smith Publication Date: July 24, 2014 Publisher: Perfect Storm Publishing Pages: 390 Add to Goodreads Buy on Amazon Review for 2 I received this book from the author  in exchange for an honest review. Amelia grew up in a world of half-truths. She knows she’s an Elder […]

Spine Tingling Saturday #5: Who was in my bed?

Title: That wasn’t my husband who slept next to me last night.  Author: TorontoScared1 Posted on: August 2, 2014 Location: Reddit What would you do if you discovered that person in your bed last night wasn’t your husband? Then what if I told you that the person you’d thought was your husband had the same voice, the […]

Feature & Follow Friday #10

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:  Social Share! What is your favorite social network and leave us a link so we can join you! My favorite […]

Audiobook Review: The Fires of Heaven by Robert Jordan

Title: The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time #5) Author: Robert Jordan Narrator: Kate Reading & Michael Kramer Publication Date: October 15, 1994 Publisher: Tor Books Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 6 & book 7 In this sequel to the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Shadow Rising, Robert Jordan again plunges us into […]

“Waiting on” Wednesday #9: Creed

Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is:  Creed by Trisha Leaver and Lindsay Currie Publication Date: November 8, 2014 Blurb:  Three went in. Three came out. None even a shadow of who they once were. When their car breaks down, Dee, her boyfriend Luke, and his brother Mike walk through […]

Top Ten Tuesday #5: Horror I’d Give to Noobs

Today’s Topic:   Top Ten Books I’d Give To Readers  Who Have Never Read Horror At first I was going to do a post on dystopian fiction, but I realized that’s probably going to be a popular subject for today. Instead, I’ve decided to write about horror – my other love. It should come as no surprise […]

Book Blitz & TWO Giveaways: Accession by Terah Edun

Title: Accession Author: Terah Edun Publication Date: August 5, 2014 Publisher: Amazon Digital Pages: 395 Add to Goodreads 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 has no choice. After […]

Book Review: House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Title: House of Leaves Author: Mark Z. Danielewski  Publication Date: March 7, 2000 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pages: 709 (528) Add to Goodreads Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could […]

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 […]