Audiobook Review: The Royal We by Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan

Title: The Royal We Author: Heather Cocks & Jessica Morgan Narrator: Christine Lakin Publication Date: April 7, 2015 Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Add to Goodreads “I might be Cinderella today, but I dread who they’ll think I am tomorrow. I guess it depends on what I do next.” American Rebecca Porter was never one for fairy […]

Dystopia Reading Challenge: April Link-up

Welcome to the fourth month 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 April book reviews under “Review Link-up” as follows: Name of book @ Your blog name, […]

Horror Reading Challenge: April Link-up

Welcome to the fourth month of the 2016 Horror Reading Challenge! I hope everyone is meeting goals so far! Please share your horror book reviews the month of February 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 guidelines and […]

Movie Review: Allegiant

Title: Allegiant (Divergent #3) Release Date: March 18, 2016 Starring: Shailene Woodley, Theo James Director: Robert Schwentke Runtime: 120 minutes Rated: PG-13 View on IMDB After the earth-shattering revelations of INSURGENT, Tris (Shailene Woodley) must escape with Four (Theo James) and go beyond the wall enclosing Chicago. For the first time ever, they will leave the only […]

Waiting on Wednesday #95: Paper Princess by Erin Watt

Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: Paper Princess by Erin Watt Publication Date: April 4, 2016 From strip clubs and truck stops to southern coast mansions and prep schools, one girl tries to stay true to herself. These Royals will ruin you… Ella Harper is a survivor—a pragmatic optimist. […]

Top Ten Tuesday #89: Recent 5 star reads

Today’s Topic:   Ten Of My Most Recent 5 (& 4.5) Star Reads Hurray!! I love getting to talk about books I love! But… I was a little surprised to find out that I don’t rate as many books 5 stars as I’d thought. Because of that, I’m including recent 4.5 star read in this week’s post […]

Audiobook Review: The Great Hunt by Wendy Higgins

Title: The Great Hunt (Eurona Duology #1) Author: Wendy Higgins Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld Publication Date: March 8, 2016 Publisher: HarperTeen Add to Goodreads “Aerity…” Her father paused as if the words he was forming pained him. “I must ask you to sacrifice the promise of love for the sake of our kingdom.” She could only stare […]

Weekly Recap: 3/20 – 3/26

My Super Exciting Life  This week has, again, been pretty uneventful. Thank goodness. I love those kinds of weeks the most! My mom came into town on Friday night and Saturday was a pretty lazy day. Tomorrow we might go see Allegiant and the rest of the week will consist of me walking about 1280274 […]

Book Review: The Siren by Kiera Cass

Title: The Siren Author: Kiera Cass Publication Date: January 26, 2016 (July 1, 2009) Publisher: HarperTeen Pages: 327 Add to Goodreads From Kiera Cass, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Selection series, comes a sweeping stand-alone fantasy romance. A girl with a secret. The boy of her dreams. An Ocean between them. Years […]

My love/hate relationship with Gossip Girl

I love Gossip Girl, I hate Gossip Girl. I have such mixed feelings about Gossip Girl!! I guess this post might seem a little out of place. I know that this show is a think of the past, but here I am anyway, talking about my love/hate relationship with this amazingly frustrating show. Why? Because […]

Waiting on Wednesday #94: RoseBlood by A.G. Howard

Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: RoseBlood by A.G. Howard Publication Date: January 10, 2017 In this modern day spinoff of Leroux’s gothic tale of unrequited love turned to madness, seventeen-year-old Rune Germain has a mysterious affliction linked to her operatic talent, and a horrifying mistake she’s trying to […]

Top Ten Tuesday #88: Books I don’t rave about enough

Today’s Topic:   Ten Books I Really Love But Feel  Like I Haven’t Talked About Enough I’ll admit, it’s easy to get caught up in all of the amazing new, hyped books that are constantly being released. The reality is, there are just SO MANY great books!! And a lot of them are a few years […]

ARC Review: Stone Field by Christy Lenzi

Title: Stone Field Author: Christy Lenzi Publication Date: March 29, 2016 Publisher: Roaring Brook Press Pages: 320 Add to Goodreads //This book was provided by the author in exchange for an honest review// In a small town on the brink of the Civil War, Catrina finds a man making strange patterns in her family’s sorghum […]

Weekly Recap: 3/13 – 3/19

My Super Exciting Life  This week has been pretty decent, thank goodness. Early this week I had to keep a nine week old Australian Shepherd puppy and she was just the sweetest thing ever! She was the bounciest little dog I have ever seen! I do not hate my job. I also finished up the […]

Mini Book Reviews: Uglies by Scott Westerfeld & Hell House by Richard Matheson

Title: Uglies (Uglies #1) Author: Scott Westerfeld Publication Date: February 8, 2005 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pages: 425 Add to Goodreads Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can’t wait. In just a few weeks she’ll have the operation that will turn her from a repellent ugly into a stunning pretty. And as a pretty, […]

Dystopia Reading Challenge: 1st Quarter Update & Giveaway

We’ve made it a quarter of the way through the 2016 Dystopia Challenge! Can you believe it?? If you aren’t familiar with this challenge, check out all the details and (maybe) sign up here! Otherwise, congrats on hopefully meeting your goals so far! I’m so excited about how much this challenge has grown from last […]

Feature & Follow Friday #58: Top Ten Favorite Book Covers

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:  Top Ten Favorite Book Covers I am 100% guilty of judging books by there covers! What can I say? I […]

Horror Reading Challenge: 1st Quarter Update

We’ve made it a quarter of the way through the 2016 Horror Challenge! Can you believe it?? If you aren’t familiar with this challenge, check out all the details and (maybe) sign up here! Otherwise, congrats on hopefully meeting your goals so far! I’m so excited about how much this challenge has grown from last year […]

Waiting on Wednesday #93: Heir to the Sky by Amanda Sun

Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week’s “can’t wait to read” is: Heir to the Sky by Amanda Sun Publication Date: April 26, 2016 As heir to a kingdom of floating continents, Kali has spent her life bound by limits—by her duties as a member of the royal family; by a forced betrothal to the […]

Top Ten Tuesday #87: Spring TBR

Today’s Topic:  Ten Books On My Spring TBR Every single time the top ten topic is a TBR list I know for a fact that I’ll never stick to it. I’m a mood reader through and through and I can’t change it! But these are the top ten books I most want to read this […]

Audiobook Review: Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor

Title: Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone #1)  Author: Laini Taylor Narrator: Khristine Hvam Publication Date: September 27, 2011 Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Add to Goodreads Around the world, black hand prints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in […]

Weekly Recap: 3/6 – 3/12

My Super Exciting Life  This week was pretty uneventful, which I am totally fine with! I found out that both my mom and my brother will be visiting in the next several weeks, so I have that to look forward to! I also started running again last week. With all the health situations I’ve been […]

Do author interactions influence your reading habits?

Way back when, before I became a book blogger, I never really realized that people actually had the ability to interact with authors. Imagine my surprise when I realized it was within my grasp to actually have conversations with the authors I loved and adored! In my almost two years of book blogging, I have […]

DNF Book Review: Passenger by Alexandra Bracken

Title: Passenger (Passenger #1)  Author: Alexandra Bracken Publication Date: January 5, 2014 Publisher: Disney-Hyperion Pages: 486 Add to Goodreads passage, n. i. A brief section of music composed of a series of notes and flourishes. ii. A journey by water; a voyage. iii. The transition from one place to another, across space and time. In […]