Today’s Topic: Top Ten Favorite Covers Sadly… sadly, Top Ten Tuesday is on a short hiatus until March. But I can totally sympathize with needing a break! In the meantime, I’ve decided to take some from the Top Ten archives that I never got a chance to participate in. This week it’s my ten favorite […]
Title: 100 Hours Author: Rachel Vincent Publication Date: March 28, 2017Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books Pages: 368Add to Goodreads A decadent spring break getaway on an exotic beach becomes a terrifying survival story when six Miami teens are kidnapped and ransomed. Maddie is beyond done with her cousin Genesis’s entitled and shallow entourage. Genesis is so […]
Tracy’s Happenings Off the Blog What. A. Week. You may have noticed that things have been a bit quieter around the blog lately and that’s honestly just because there has been A LOT going on! Currently my husband and I are preparing to move to our new home in a couple weeks and as you […]
Title: Legend (Legend #1) Author: Marie Lu Narrator: Mariel Stern Publication Date: November 29, 2011 Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers Add to Goodreads What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of […]
You may have noticed (or maybe you haven’t) that I’ve been a little scarce around the blog in the last week or so. I’ll admit I’ve been in a bit of a slump and a lot of it has to do with the insanity that has been my life lately. Today I’ve found a tag […]
Today’s Topic: Ten Books I Loved Less Than I Thought I Would I am usually a pretty good judge of what I’ll like or not, but every now and then I’m surprised by how wrong I am! These are ten books I totally expected to love and ended up really not liking at all. The […]
Tracy’s Happenings Off the Blog This has been a fairly uneventful week. I got a little packing done for our upcoming move and started a new show on Netflix – Shameless! I don’t know if any of you have watched this but it’s gold. I’ve already blown through season one this week and I am […]
Running, I hate it. I used to get a little bit of pleasure (a little) from running long distances, years ago before I hurt my knee somehow. Now I can’t really do much running without that throbbing pain coming back to haunt me. Shockingly, I wasn’t all that devastated that I couldn’t run anymore! These […]
Title: The 100 Author: Kass Morgan Narrator: Justin Torres & Phoebe Strole Publication Date: September 3, 2013Publisher: Little, Brown and CompanyAdd to Goodreads No one has set foot on Earth in centuries — until now. Ever since a devastating nuclear war, humanity has lived on spaceships far above Earth’s radioactive surface. Now, one hundred juvenile […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Love Triangles I Actually Really Enjoyed I hate love triangles as much as the next person… or so I thought. When I saw today’s topic I had no idea which way I would go with it. Then I looked at several Goodreads trope lists and realized there were actually quite a few […]
Title: The Star-Touched Queen (The Star-Touched Queen #1) Author: Roshani Chokshi Publication Date: April 26, 2016 Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin Pages: 342 Add to Goodreads Fate and fortune. Power and passion. What does it take to be the queen of a kingdom when you’re only seventeen? Maya is cursed. With a horoscope that promises a […]
Tracy’s Happenings Off the Blog Hi everyone! I hope you all had a fantastic week and are enjoying your weekends! I have personally been crazy stressed out, but all for good reason! I haven’t talked about it much, but I’m in the process of getting a new home! (I don’t like to talk about things […]
Today I want to discuss something near and dear to my heart: fan fiction. Okay, to be honest I don’t read a ton of fanfic, but when I do they’re always really lengthy and well done. As you may know, I love retellings. My absolute favorite are Peter Pan retellings. More specifically, Hook retellings. Unfortunately, […]
Title: Under the Never Sky (Under the Never Sky #1) Author: Veronica Rossi Narrator: Bernadette Dunne Flagler Publication Date: December 1, 2011 Publisher: HarperCollins Add to Goodreads Since she’d been on the outside, she’d survived an Aether storm, she’d had a knife held to her throat, and she’d seen men murdered. This was worse. Exiled […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Eight YA Books I Wish Were A Little More Adult I love YA fiction for so many reasons. I prefer it to adult fiction in just about every single case, with the exception of horror. However, there are just sometimes when I wish the YA book I’m reading, usually with a […]
Title: The Beauty of Darkness (The Remnant Chronicles #3) Author: Mary E. Pearson Publication Date: August 2, 2016Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.Pages: 679Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 1 & book 2 Chelcie’s Review Lia has survived Venda—but so has a great evil bent on the destruction of Morrighan. And only Lia can stop it. […]
Tracy’s Happenings Off the Blog Happy Super Bowl Sunday! I’m not sure what that means for everyone else, but for me it means that I get to go shopping with virtually no crowds. Hurray! This has been an incredibly slow week for me. I read The Star-Touched Queen (finally) at the beginning of the week […]
Welcome to the second link-up of the 2017 Dystopia Reading Challenge! I hope everyone had a great first month and that you’re all right on track! Each month we will be posting a link-up for all of your Dystopia Challenge reviews as a way to keep up with your challenge as well as to give […]
Title: Frostblood (Frostblood Saga #1) Author: Elly Blake Publication Date: January 10, 2017Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Pages: 367Add to Goodreads //I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review// The frost king will burn. Seventeen-year-old Ruby is a Fireblood who has concealed her powers of heat and flame […]
