Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: Flame In the Mist by Renée Ahdieh Publication Date: May 2, 2017 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wrath and the Dawn, comes a sweeping, action-packed YA adventure set against the backdrop of Feudal Japan where Mulan meets Tamora […]
Welcome to the tenth month of the 2016 Horror Reading Challenge! I hope everyone is meeting their goals so far! Please share your horror book reviews for the month of October in the link-up below using the format Your Name @ Your Blog (Book Name). If you’re new to the challenge, you can see the […]
Welcome to month ten of the 2016 Dystopia Reading Challenge! I hope everyone has met all their goals so far! If you’re new to the challenge, you can see the guidelines and sign up here! Link-up Rules Link up your book reviews under “Review Link-up” as follows: Name of book @ Your blog name, Goodreads, Shelfari, […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Villains I (Shamelessly) Love This week’s topic speaks to me!! I love a good villain more than pretty much anything and there are quite a few, both in books and in movies (and TV) that I absolutely adore! Some are villains who aren’t all that bad and some really are that bad […]
Title: Beast Author: Brie Spangler Publication Date: October 11, 2016Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Pages: 336Add to Goodreads //I received this book at ALA in exchange for an honest review// A witty, wise, and heart-wrenching novel that will appeal to fans of Rainbow Rowell and David Levithan. Tall, meaty, muscle-bound, and hairier than most […]
Happenings Off the Blog… Welcome to the slowest week in the history of forever! (Also known as the week that confirmed that I really need to queue up some posts for slow weeks.) I barely read anything and decided to re-read a book on audio instead of listening to something new that would make for […]
Tender lumplings everywhere. Life’s no fun without a good scare! I mean, um… It’s almost Halloween! As you may know, I’m a pretty big horror fanatic so Halloween is one of my favorite times of year! Every year I vow to read horror all month and every year I fail, but today I’m sharing my […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Books On My Fall TBR List There are so many amazing books coming out that it was honestly hard to narrow this down to ten! These are the ones I’m most excited about reading in the fall. Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo Dark Matter by Blake Crouch The Diabolic S.J. Kincaid […]
Title: Glass Sword (Red Queen #2) Author: Victoria Aveyard Publication Date: February 9, 2016Publisher: HarperTeen Pages: 444Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 1 & book 3 If there’s one thing Mare Barrow knows, it’s that she’s different. Mare Barrow’s blood is red—the color of common folk—but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned […]
Happenings Off the Blog… This week has been completely insane, honestly. I’ve had several extra clients all week, so that has taken up a lot of my time and energy! My husband and I also went to do some house-related stuff this week and then went to Halloween Horror Nights on Friday! I was kind […]
Title: Sleeping Giants (Themis Files #1) Author: Sylvain Neuvel Narrator: Full Cast Publication Date: April 26, 2016 Publisher: Del Rey Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 2 & book 3 A page-turning debut in the tradition of Michael Crichton, World War Z, and The Martian, Sleeping Giants is a thriller fueled by an earthshaking mystery—and a […]
Welcome, horror junkies! It’s the most wonderful time of the year – Halloween! (Okay, honestly I love Christmas most but Halloween is a close second.) This is my second year hosting the Horror Reading Challenge, this year with Lilyn from Sci-Fi and Scary as my co-host! With the help of Michelle @ I Push Books, […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Books I Wouldn’t Have Finished Without the Audio If you’ve spent much time around my blog you already know I’m a huge fan of audiobooks! Often I’ll pick up books on audio that I don’t think I would normally read in text format. For better or worse, these are ten books […]
We’re 3/4 of the way through the 2016 Horror Challenge! Halloween is nearly here and hopefully that will give everyone the motivation they need to close the gap on their challenge goals with some creepy reads. If you aren’t familiar with this challenge, check out all the details and (maybe) sign up here! Otherwise, congrats on […]
Title: Bright Smoke, Cold Fire Author: Rosamund Hodge Publication Date: September 27, 2016 Publisher: Balzer + Bray Pages: 448 Add to Goodreads When the mysterious fog of the Ruining crept over the world, the living died and the dead rose. Only the walled city of Viyara was left untouched. The heirs of the city’s most […]
My Super Exciting Life This week was a lot of work, a lot of binging Survivor, and a little reading because I’m in the middle of a reading slump after finishing Sleeping Giants last week. Man, I hate slumps! I’m hoping I can pull myself out of it soon. It was an amazing week for […]
Goodreads, we all love it. Like many other book bloggers, I review every single book I read on Goodreads as well as my blog and also rely on it for a lot of my bookish information. (I honestly don’t know what I’d do without it.) Something that sets Goodreads apart from a lot of other […]
Title: Captive Prince Trilogy Author: C.S. Pacat Publication Date: 2012 – 2016 Publisher: Berkley Pages: 1045 Add to Goodreads Captive Prince: Damen is a warrior hero to his people, and the rightful heir to the throne of Akielos, but when his half brother seizes power, Damen is captured, stripped of his identity, and sent to serve the […]
Congrats on making it 3/4 of the way through the 2016 Dystopia Challenge! I hope you’re well on your way to meeting your goals for this year! I’m excited to report that I have finally hit 100%! Let me know how you’re doing! If you aren’t familiar with this challenge, check out all the details […]
Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: The X-Files Origins: Agent of Chaos by Kami Garcia Publication Date: January 3, 2017 How did Fox Mulder become a believer? How did Dana Scully become a skeptic? The X-Files Origins has the answers. The X-Files Origins: Agent of Chaos explores the teen […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten ALL TIME Favorite YA Fantasy Books This week’s topic was actually super easy for me because I literally just had to look at my top shelves! Hurray! Yes, these are mostly recent books (with a couple exceptions) and that’s because I only started reading this genre fairly recently. It has very […]
Title: Kingdom of Ash and Briars Author: Hannah West Publication Date: September 15, 2016 Publisher: Holiday House Pages: 352 Add to Goodreads //I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review// Bristal, an orphaned kitchen maid, lands in a gritty fairy tale gone wrong when she discovers she is an elicromancer […]
My Super Exciting Life The week started at Hollywood Studios where I rode Tower of Terror and Rock n Roller Coaster with a friend! I got to roam around the sad half of the park that’s left and gaze longingly at the rest that’s currently closed off as Star Wars is slowly integrated. I’m so […]
I was going to say there are very few things that get under my skin when it comes to books, but that would be a lie. There are a several things that have the ability to get under my skin from time to time while I’m reading, but today I want to focus on just […]
