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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Today’s Topic: Top Ten Eight Favorite Manga & Graphic Novels I don’t read a ton of manga or graphic novels but there was a time when I read quite a few! In all the ones I had the chance to read, these are my favorites. I’ll totally admit that I haven’t finished most of these series yet, […]
Title: Wintersong Author: S. Jae-Jones Publication Date: February 7, 2017 Publisher: Thomas DunnePages: 448 Add to Goodreads //I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review// Beware the goblin men and the wares they sell. All her life, nineteen-year-old Liesl has heard tales of the beautiful, mysterious Goblin King. He is […]
Tracy’s Happenings Off the Blog This week’s recap is going to be short because I’m really, really exhausted and there’s a new BBC show waiting on my TV! This week was largely recovering from ALA, which was a lot of fun, but very hectic. I spent the first few days of the week unpacking books […]
Before I blogged I picked 99% of the books I read on a whim. I’d walk through the library or the bookstore and pick up whatever looked good. Sure, it took me hours to decide on my next read, but I had no one to blame when I hated it except myself. These days I […]
Title: Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles #2) Author: Marissa Meyer Narrator: Rebecca Soler Publication Date: February 5, 2013 Publisher: Feiwel and Friends Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 1, book 3, book 3.5, & book 4 Cinder, the cyborg mechanic, returns in the second thrilling installment of the bestselling Lunar Chronicles. She’s trying to break out […]
Today’s Topic: Ten ALAMW Books I Can’t Wait To Read I’m back from ALA Midwinter! It has been a crazy weekend and I got a lot of amazing things, so I decided to use my haul for this week’s top ten freebie! Since I haven’t fully unpacked and looked at what I brought home, I’m not calling […]
Title: Gilded Cage (Dark Gifts #1) Author: Vic James Publication Date: February 14, 2017 Publisher: Del Rey Books Pages: 368 Add to Goodreads //I received this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review// Not all are free. Not all are equal. Not all will be saved. Our world belongs to the Equals […]
Tracy’s Happenings Off the Blog We’re at ALA! As you’re reading this, I am probably wandering around somewhere in Atlanta, although our trip is coming to a close soon. This week was pretty much all preparing for ALA, so there isn’t much to tell. I had to find a dog sitter, stop stressing over leaving […]
Title: Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles #1) Author: Marissa Meyer Narrator: Rebecca Soler Publication Date: January 3, 2012Publisher: Feiwel and Friends Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 2, book 3, book 3.5, & book 4 Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, […]
Today’s Topic: Ten Eight Underrated Books I’ve Read In The Past Year Or So Although there are a ton of underrated books out there, I haven’t found very many of them in the last year! These are the eight that I feel are either literally underrated or just under-hyped. I can’t wait to see what all […]
Title: Caraval (Caraval #1) Author: Stephanie Garber Publication Date: January 31, 2017 Publisher: Flatiron Books Pages: 416 Add to Goodreads Review for book 2 Before you enter the world of Caraval, you must remember that it’s all a game . . . Scarlett has never left the tiny island where she and her beloved sister, […]
Tracy’s Happenings Off the Blog Well, this has (thankfully) been a pretty low key week. I spent some of it catching up on Supernatural (I just got to the season 11 reveal!). Unfortunately, I didn’t feel great for part of the week, but I seem to be over whatever it was, thank goodness. I got […]
Title: Blair Witch Release Date: September 16, 2016 Starring: James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez Director: Adam Wingard Runtime: 1hr 29min Rating: R View on IMDB A young man and his friends venture into the Black Hills Forest in Maryland to uncover the mystery surrounding his missing sister. Many believe her disappearance 20 years earlier is […]
Ahh movies, my loves. There are so many great ones based on books that I couldn’t fit them all into one post! Last week I shared with you my favorite movies based on kids’ books. This week, as promised, I’m back with my favorite movies based on adult (non-kid?) books! While I haven’t actually read all […]
Title: The Girl From Everywhere (The Girl From Everywhere #1) Author: Heidi Heilig Publication Date: February 16, 2016Publisher: Greenwillow BooksPages: 464Add to Goodreads //I received this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review// Nix has spent her entire life aboard her father’s ship, sailing across the centuries, across the world, across myth and […]
