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TBT Reviews|Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout

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My Thoughts

So…my first review was the 4th book in this series. I did a post about the entire series, but I never did an actual review of my favorite book in the series which was the first one. So last week I reread it for the…5th time..DON’T JUDGE ME! And I wanted to make a full blown review of what I love so much about this book. So before I start the reviewing section, I suggest (if you haven’t read this yet) TO FREAKING GO TO THE LIBRARY, GO TO YOUR NEAREST BOOKSTORE, OR GO TO AMAZON, AND JUST BUY IT, READ IT, AND THEN LOVE IT. Now this is a SPOILER-FULL REVIEW!!!

So we start with Katy moving to West Virginia and she needs to buy groceries. Okay…so my smile is already taking up most of my face because we know…WE KNOW…that this is a hot guy next door type of situation. And I LOVE these types of situations! So, Daemon’s all douchebaggy at first..of course, and then we get all that come-backs, and we all get fangirly..and yeah. Then we meet Dee who is the sweetest little thing ever. I would love to have a best friend like Dee! She is so funny, and she loves KAty so much, and even though she is in that situation, she treats Katy like an equal. Now since Daemon is the big brother in the situation, he’s all over-proctetive and ish. So he doesn’t like Katy that much (huh yeah right) and they just don’t get along. SO they are going to that lake and when Daemon went under the water and she couldn’t find him….by that time we all know that there is going to be a paranormal aspect in this book. Now the triplets in this little book here I actually thought were quite a funny addition. Adam was my favorite out of all of them, mostly because he treated Dee right and he was just such a sweety.

Now we are at the truck scene. The scene where we find out that Daemon is a alien. By that time we are thinking of names for Daemon and Katy’s children (Just like Katy’s mother) so the whole thing with her finding out that he is an alien and that she is glowing like a Christmas Tree is going to bring these two lovebirds together as they should. And I was over the moon that Katy found out about the whole alien thing at the beginning of the book. So that way we could see her grow into this situation, and grow more fond of Daemon. Now I have a lot of favorite scenes when it comes to this book. One of them being the Prom scene. So Katy is out with Dee and her other friends and they’re looking for these dresses. And Katy gets a red dress…which is Daemon’s favorite color…*ACTIVATING FANGIRLING SQUEAL!!!* AHH and even though she went with that douchebag of a Simon she still got that dance with Daemon which was swoon worthy. The way he looked at her like she was the only person there was just so sweet and we love that about Daemon. Now Katy wasn’t a smart cookie during that situation so she went to that part with Simon. And why? Just why? You know that he is going to try something so why? WHY DID YOU HAVE TO GO?!? And of course like every other day, Daemon is there to rescue Katy and thats when there is itty bitty problem.

They run into the Arum who are the evil aliens in this series. And Daemon is dying! He is trying to save Katy since she is a human and all that so he tells her to run. But she doesn’t..She goes back to Daemon’s side and kills one of the Arum which makes her look even more like a Christmas Tree at that point. And the whole “you saved my life” thing starts and we get some super cute Daemon + Katy moments. So my absolute favorite scene is next. Katy needs to get rid of this glow so she needs to exercise. She doesn’t exercise. Dameon is tuting her how sex gives off a lot of energy, and she’s saying that she would never do that with him blah blah blah. And they start making out…..making out…making out…TV flickers….light explodes….knocks over lamp…computer breaks…”You barely glowing anymore.”…NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! You just had to ruin it Daemon!!! And Katy now thinks that he is a even bigger douchebag and all that.

The last scene where KAty basically sacrifices herself to save Dee is so sweet but so stupid!!! And again Daemon comes to her rescue but this time it was Katy saving Daemon. So she basically explodes? I didn’t get that scene that much but whatever it was it was awesome. And they find out that Katy and Daemon are connected so that brings….Daemon wanting her. But Katy pushes him away!! Then the book ends…*goes to Amazon and orders the rest of the series!* So much amazingness in a first book! And this amazingness is what made me love the rest of this series, and what made me want to be a bigger part of this Lux Series fandom.

Bookish Quotes

“Beautiful face. Beautiful body. Horrible attitude. It was the holy trinity of hot boys.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Obsidian

“Why are you such an ass?” The words came out before I could think twice.
“Everyone has to excel at something, right?”
“Well, you’re doing a great job.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Obsidian

“My palms itched to have a close encounter of the bitch-slap kind with his face.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Obsidian

“I’ve always found that the most beautiful people, truly beautiful inside and out, are the ones who are quietly unaware of their effect.” His eyes searched mine intently, and for a moment we stood there toe to toe. “The ones who throw their beauty around, waste what they have? Their beauty is only passing. It’s just a shell hiding nothing but shadows and emptiness.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Obsidian

“Remind me,” he paused, drawing in a stuttered gasp, “to never piss you off again. Christ, are you secretly a ninja?”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Obsidian

“I don’t think he meant to kiss me,” I said finally.
“What? Did he slip and fall on your mouth? Those things are known to happen.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Obsidian

“Daemon: I checked out your blog.
Katy: Stalking me again, I see. Do I need to get a restraining order?
Daemon: In your dreams, Kitten. Oh wait, I’m already starring in those, aren’t I?
Katy: Nightmares, Daemon. Nightmares.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Obsidian

“Holy Hawt Chemisty, Batman!”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Obsidian

“Oh, yeah.” Carissa nodded. “They were googley-eyed in class on Friday. It was pretty steamy, the whole ‘I’m
screwing you with my eyes’ thing they had going on.” I choked on my drink. “That was not what we were doing. We were talking!”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Obsidian

“Ash is going to kick your ass, Daemon.”
Daemon’s grin went up a notch. “Nah, she likes my ass too much for that.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Obsidian

“Aliens—if they exist—are little green men with big eyes and spindly arms or…or giant insects or something like a lumpy
little creature.” Daemon let out a loud laugh. “ET?”
“Yes! Like ET, asshole. I’m so glad you find this funny.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Obsidian

Recommendations

If you like Obsidian, you might like…

(Click on the pic for the Goodreads link!)

                                      

Guest Post with Britney Mulliner!

Hellooo fellow book nerds! So today I’m doing something slightly different. This is my first EVER Guest Post here on the blog, and I’m really excited! I asked Britney Mulliner (The author of the Begin Again series) to tell us a little bit about herself, and her book. I as a Gabi still haven’t read it yet but it is on my July/August TBR, so you’ll probably see me do a review on it soon 🙂

     Escaping her past, Aubrey Tate moves to Southern California for a fresh start with her older brother, Brandon. Starting over at a new school seems easy with her cousin, Mckayla, and her two best friends at her side, but handling the new guys is another matter. Aubrey ends up in the middle of three rivals that each wants her to themselves. Mike claims her first and declares himself her friend and protector. Luke is the school heartthrob that stops Aubrey in her tracks, speechless. Gage is the mysterious, dark outsider that Aubrey can be herself around. How will she navigate her new life while she’s still haunted by her past?

I chose to write Young adult books for a simple reason: I read what I write and write what I read. I fell in love with reading at a very young age. In elementary school we had color coded reading levels and I pushed to test through all of them so I could choose any book in the library to read. I hated the thought of missing out on a great story.

Getting lost in an adventure and living through characters from around the world is someone unique to books. I would always choose them over watching TV or a movie. You lose the connection to emotions and situations when you view them through a camera rather than through your own imagination.

Despite my age, Bachelor degree, full time job, and husband I still feel like a teenager. I find that I still relate to the struggles of being a teenager (I still find myself in awkward predicaments and curse hormones for destroying my complexion). I also think that it’s my duty as someone that made it out of the awkward/puberty/high school years alive and somewhat unscathed to spread my knowledge to those that are willing to accept it. I’m not very far removed from being a teen so I can relate better to those characters than trying to understand someone struggling through the career hierarchy or going through a divorce like in adult fiction books.

My first passion is still reading. I think it’s incredible important for writers to never stop reading. It also gives me an excuse for the ridiculous amount of time I spend reading…I’m doing research! I have one author that I follow and countdown to her new releases obsessively, C L Stone. She writes the Ghost Bird and Scarab Beetle Series which are both amazing, fantastic, and completely fangirl worthy. It’s to the point that even my husband knows when a new book is coming because I stare at my kindle and wait for the book to appear around 11pm the night before the official release day (Thank you EST!) and stay up the whole night reading it. Her fan base is huge and by far the most dedicated I’ve ever seen (short of Harry Potter). They’ve been super supportive of me and my books, so I’m really grateful to be one of her ‘Birds’. 

The Madman’s Daughter by Megan Shephard

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My Thoughts

This was probably the scariest book that I have read this year. No joke this scared the living skittles out of me. I’m not a fan of horror. Yes i’m that cliche girl who will pee her pants if she watches a horror movie, but my love for action movies makes up for that. And at the time when I was at the bookstore I was just looking around and I saw this book and remembered one of my friends was telling me how much she wanted to read this book. So I trusted her opinion. Now all in all I enjoyed the book, I for sure am going to read the next ones just to see what happens. BUT I didn’t love it and I didn’t fangirl over it. Plus it made me a wee bit scared. Just a wee bit. But all in all it was good. 1 thumbs up, not two, just one.

So lets convo about Juliet. I admired her in the beginning. She was a girl who lost both of her parents and she was all alone. She was a very confident and brave girl, and I admired her for that. But the indecisiveness!!! Girl you can be a more historical version of America! yes she was a little bit iffy with her romance but her indecisiveness showed through her dad. She went to go with her, but by the time she got there she was thinking it over. And throughout the trip she was deciding, when she was THERE she was deciding and I’m just shaking my head in that corner over there. If I had to be honest, I didn’t trust Montgomery. Yes I am shunned. he is such a sweetie and I didn’t trust him! And I liked Edward better….DON’T JUDGE ME! If you have read the book then you know about that plot twist that happens during the end of the book no the end of the book exactly. I was furious by that point. It had been so long since I had a cliffhanger ending and I just wasn’t prepared. I WASN’T PREPARED PEOPLE!

The animals/humans wasn’t the reason that I got so paranoid and freaked out. It was Edwards and the father. Mostly the father though. Edward was just towards the end of the book and that is when I began to get really freaked out by him. But the father. I was uncomfortable reading him. It was so freaking scary. I just wanted Juliet to get the eff away from him. Just please…I don’t want to see him in the next book. Pretty please.

So anyways,,yes I enjoyed it. I was mostly scared of the entire concept of it..and the characters..and the book. But I’ll probably read the second book just to see what happens after that cliffhanger, and you never know maybe i like the second book better and want to read the third book. But to end this I would just lke to warn everyone that this ish is scary. I mean you’re probably not scared off it but if you’re like me then this is just my warning.

Bookish Quotes

“The last thing the justice system is, is just.”
― Megan Shepherd, The Madman’s Daughter

“My heartbeat faltered. He pulled away, taking a little piece of my heart with him.”
― Megan Shepherd, The Madman’s Daughter

“The ways of men and women are such a puzzle. And I could barely decipher my own feelings, let along anyone else’s.”
― Megan Shepherd, The Madman’s Daughter

“Dead flesh and sharpened scalpels didn’t bother me. I was my father’s daughter, after all. My nightmares were made of darker things.”
― Megan Shepherd, The Madman’s Daughter

“Analyzing, always analyzing— I couldn’t feel safe until I knew every aspect of what I was facing.”
― Megan Shepherd, The Madman’s Daughter

“Thwack. The nail drove deeper, as if Montgomery was driving it into my very heart. How hard was it to fix a loose nail? He hit it again and again, determined to set that bookshelf straight. Determined to do something right, after so much wrong.”
― Megan Shepherd, The Madman’s Daughter

“I folded my arm. “You know, I suspect you and Edward would be friends if it weren’t for this place.”
His eyes were on fire. “It’s not this island keeping us from being friends.”
My pounding heart stole the words to reply to that.”
― Megan Shepherd, The Madman’s Daughter

“Paranoia had crept into that part of my brain usually reserved for reason.”
― Megan Shepherd, The Madman’s Daughter

 Recommendations

If you like The Madman’s Daughter, then you might like…

(Click the pics for the Goodreads link)

                                                  

MAKE ME READ IT READ-A-THON (VOTING!)

So if you happen to not have heard, Ely @ A Book So Fathomless and Val @ The Innocent Smiley are hosting The Make Me Read It Read-A-Thon! To vote for my books I put the list down below and I NEED you to vote for me. All of these books I have, either digitally or physically, so I have no excuse to not read any of the ones with the most popular votes. Without further ado, START VOTING!!

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What I Think Will Happen in An Ember in The Ashes 2

So I loved An Ember in the Ashes. Is that a surprise?

And when I found out there was going to be a sequel I was like…

Because we were told it was a standalone. But the thing is THE BOOK COULDN’T END LIKE THAT!

Can you see that I am on a FRIENDS theme 😉

So here……are…….my….top….3…predictions for……

AN EMBER IN THE ASHES 2!!!!!

Number 1

The love triangle. We know, we ALL know that this love triangle or square…is just going to keep on going. Keenan, Elias, and Laia. I feel like it’s automatic to ship Elias and laia, because Keenan…you’re just there. But I already could sense something is going to happen with these three. And on a more serious note…I feel like Keenan…is going to die. I don’t know. I have a very strong feeling that he is going to die. Fighting in battle, protecting Laia, someway I thinks he is going to die. While I was reading book 1 I didn’t like him. I already knew that he was keeping something from Laia and that he shouldn’t be trusted. But by the end of the book, I actually started to like him. But not with Laia. I don’t know if I’m the only one, but going back to that love square thing. Am I the only one who ships him and Helene? *raises hands* For some reason I ship it. They haven’t even met and I ship it…so he’s either going to die or end up with Helene.

Number 2

I really really don’t trust that commander guy. You know the one that is Keenan’s boss from the Resistance or something. Yeah I really don’t trust him. I feel like he is siding with the Commandment secretly, and he was one of the main reasons that Laia got killed. Think about it. He was the one that sent Laia into this Commandment without any training or protecting just “Okay you see you are going to go spying for this school, and you are most likely going to die. So if you die we aren’t saving your brother.” Yes yes I know there was a reason for him sending her blah blah blah. But remember before him, Laia’s parents were in charge of the Resistance…..makes you think huh?

Number 3

Its going to be epic and awesomeness. Yes yes I know this isn’t really a prediction..but in all seriousness I practically have NO idea of what’s going to happen in this book. All I know is that its going to be kick-ass and fantastic, and I will ship Laia and Elias forever. And if you happen to have not read An Ember in the Ashes. A. What are you doing with your life? B. Please refer to A

GO EMBERLINGS!!!!

Interview with Melissa Landers!!

So if you have read my Alienated book review you would know that this book was AFREAKINGMAZING, and I love every single bit of it (probably my favorite read so far this year;)) So I needed I needed to know more so I got the amazing chance to interview the author Melissa Landers, and now I just love this series even more so without further adoooo here is my interview with the lovely Melissa Landers.

1. What made you want to write this book?
 In October of 2009, right before NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), I was driving down the interstate thinking, “If I’m going to do this whole NaNo thing, I need a plot. What am I going to write about?” Several ideas came to mind, but I dismissed them because they were boring or clichéd. Then—out of nowhere—I thought, “What if a high school senior had to host an alien exchange student?” Boom! I fell in love with the concept, and the rest is history.
2. What made you want to become an author yourself?
I have an English degree, and I’ve always loved reading, but I didn’t start writing for my own amusement until I left a career in teaching to stay home with my babies. At that point, I needed a creative outlet.
3. Out of all the characters in your book who would you want to be?
Cara Sweeney. Who wouldn’t want to see the galaxy? Besides, having Aelyx as a boyfriend is a pretty nice bonus. 🙂
4. Out of all the characters in your book who would be your BFF?
Believe it or not, Syrine makes an excellent BFF. She really redeems herself in the second book, INVADED.
5. Any fictional boyfriends? (We all have them)
I’m partial to Jamie Fraser (Outlander) and Perry (Under the Never Sky).
6. Which fictional world would you want to live in and why?
Harry Potter, but NOT if I’m a muggle. Otherwise, what’s the point?
7. Any book recommendations for us?
This is tough to answer because everyone’s tastes are different. Some lesser-known recommendations are C. Robert Cargill’s “Dreams and Shadows” and “Queen of the Dark Things.”
8. Any advice for young writers?
My main advice for aspiring authors is to look at publishing like the Olympic games. You wouldn’t lace up a pair of ice skates for the first time, teeter onto the rink, and then expect to make the Olympic team that year, right? And yet SO many people will write one book (or two, or ten) and then give up if a publisher rejects it. Publishing a book isn’t supposed to be easy. Much like the Olympics, you have to practice for many years before you’re ready to compete. So don’t be afraid to try and fail, and be prepared to write as many books as it takes. I believe success is 90% persistence.

The Wrath & The Dawn by Renée Dawn

Rating

On my regular scale this book deserves a 9.0/10.0, but I’m giving it 5 stars in the star rating. I loved this book! The whole thing reminded me of Aladdin (and its my favorite Disney movie/book/musical ever!!) The whole story and the characters! The characters! They were probably the best part of the entire thing!

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My Thoughts

Every single bit of this story  reminded me of the story Aladdin and  I loved Aladdin so it was no surprise that I loved this book. Right of the bat Shahrzad made it to my list of favorite female heroines. She is just so awesome in her own way. She has a slight anger problem, very intelligent (which means tricky), and very easy to love. She cares about people if they earn her trust, which I admire her for. For example Delena. She trusted her and then treated her like she was her own sister.

Yes her main goal was to kill Khalid. He killed her sister, and every bride he ever had. but here’s the thing. Yes you can see him as a beast (Beauty and the Beast reference also made me love this book) but you don’t know the whole story like you did by the end of the book. One other thing *SPOILER WILL BE BROUGHT UPON* Of course he loved him, so why did she leave him. I practically threw my kindle to across the room because of that sentence. Don’t trust Tariq! Don’t trust that weird guy that told you to never come back! Trust your freaking instincts and stay! Lets talk about Tariq for a second. I…hate…him…so…much. I do get that he known ever since she was a kid and loves her and blah blah blah. But when she says trust her your trust! Don’t try to kill the love of her life, just because he is the love of her life. *SPOILERS HAS FINISHED*

No love of her life. Khalid. I felt soooo bad for Khalid the beginning half of the book. I knew there has to been something going on that is making him kill each on of his brides that he’s not only doing this for pleasure. And when Shazi came he began to fall in love and ahhh I just want to hold him and tell him everything’s okay. *wipes tear* It’s just..he’s been through so much so he deserves a freaking break! But the whole connection between Shazi and him was so romantic. The stories that she told him at night just made me cheer for her. Very clever. This was her ticket out of death, but not only did she get that ticket, she got a ticket to Khalid’s heart. *pats self on the back* Good remark. Good remark. Lets get one thing clear. Jalal is the definition of awesomeness. Lets just leave it at that.

So if I want to so anything else about this book I will probably spoil it for the people that haven’t read it yet. So let me just tell you that you need to read this book for yourself. It was an amazing book with so many amazing characters, writing was incredible upon incredible and I am 99.9% sure that you will like it as well if you try to read it. But one more thing before I end. The rose. The rose. For the people who have read this book  😉 😉 😉 The rose yes the rose. Probably my favorite part in the whole entire book would be the rose.

Fangirling Aspects

  • The whole Khalid and Shazi relationship from beginning to end.
  • The stories that Shazi told Khalid during dinner.
  • The rose. The rose. The rose. The rose.

 

Quotes

“We women are a sad lot, aren’t we?”
“What do you mean?”
“Strong enough to take on the world with our bare hands, yet we permit ridiculous boys to make fools of us.”
“I am not a fool.”
“No, you’re not. Not yet.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

“What are you doing to me, you plague of a girl?” he whispered.
“If I’m a plague, then you should keep your distance, unless you plan on being destroyed.” The weapons still in her grasp, she shoved against his chest.
“No.” His hands dropped to her waist. “Destroy me.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

“My soul sees its equal in you.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

“You honestly expect me to breathe in a world without air?”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

“Love is—a shade of what I feel.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

“She was a dangerous, dangerous girl. A plague. A Mountain of Adamant who tore the iron from ships, sinking them to their watery graves without a second thought. With a mere smile and a wrinkle of her nose.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

“So you would have me throw Shazi to the wolves?”
“Shazi?” Jalal’s grin widened. “Honestly, I pity the wolves.”
― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn

Recommendations

If you like The Wrath & The Dawn, you may like…..

(Click the covers for the Goodreads link!)

     

Significance by Shelly Crane

Rating

On my normal scale it would be a 7.5/10, but as a star rating it would be 4 stars. I like the book. I really did. The characters were easy to love, and overall it was a great story. But there was some predictable moments, some confusing moments, and mostly importantly very cheesy moments and this is what made my rate go down .

My Thoughts

When I read the description of this book, I was a bit iffy. It seemed like a YA book, but it didn’t say there was going to be an paranormal aspects in it. By the way it was described it sounded like one of those lovey-dovey contemporaries (which I do love from time to time) but let me jut say how thankful I was when I read that there was going to be paranormal details in it. I squealed. Not kidding. I squealed. I was so freaking happy! Paranormal and Urban Fantasy are my top favorite genres EVER, and it has been a while (and by a while I mean a week) that I read a paranormal type book, so you could say that my panties were in a twist. But in retrospect I feel like the best part of this book was the entire romance aspect. Don’t get me wrong I also really like the whole background stories of the clans and the paranormal aspects. But admit it. Caleb and Maggie. WOOAHHHHH. The connection between them from that beginning scene all the way to the very end was fangirl worthy.

Let’s talk about Maggie for a second. Now she isn’t my favorite lead character in books, but I don’t really have any problem with her. She does help the story move along, but but but but there isn’t anything unique about her that we usually get from our favorite female characters in books. Of course she has the factor that she can take care of herself. She has been taking care of herself for more than a year ever since her mom moved out and her father became a depressing bum. That’s why she isn’t my favorite female leader in books, but she is not the worst. All I’m saying is she is kinda dull, but this is only the first book you never know what might happen 😉

Now Caleb. I loved him. Ever since Maggie bumped into him in the streets I knew I was going to love him. he is just so funny, smart, and so caring towards other people. i know that he puts everyone else’s needs before his but with maggie. Its life she is the entire world to him and he would do anything to make her happy (which he does just by being him.) Now he is the cheese in the relationship. He is the one that makes the cheesy romantic comments, but I like him for that. He is very protective. Life very. Mostly over the fact that his enemy is trying to steal his girlfriend away. I get it. I would be protective over that too. Buttttttttt he could use some letting loose for a while. He is a very serious guy, and he thinks about the future. but what I really think is that he should focus more on the present and still focus on the future but pay attention to what really is happening.

Now the story buildup by the middle of the book was a bit predictable. That is where my rating started to go down. *SPOILERS DO NOT READ AHEAD* We now know that these people are chasing after Maggie because of Caleb, so whatever chance they get they ARE going to try to kidnap her. So why didn’t they see that coming?! It was a very predictable moment when Marcu captured her, so what I’m thinking is that they coul’ve ran away earlier in the book and have the adventure continue on from there OR they could’ve had Maggie in their sight for the entire time during that party. *SPOILERS HAS FINISHED AND YOU MAY CONTINUE YOU READING* You know who I liked at first and then hated at the end. Kyle. Yeah Kyle. HE ANNOYED THE SOUR SKITTLES OUT OF ME! Kid, she’s NEVER going to like you. Accept that already! Geez you were no help throughout this entire book! If you want her to think of you as a freinds then freaking help her when she is the process of dying. Okay okay I’m done.

Overall I enjoyed this book. This book I would recommend so some people. Would I suggest to buy it? Of course! I liked it, you might even like it better then me 🙂

Fangirling Aspects  

  • The whole relationship between Caleb and Maggie. They were just a adorable couple and ahhh just amde me fangirl like crazy.
  • The paranormal way for them to feel each other’s feelings……….cutest thing EVER!!!!

Quotes

“You don’t love people for what they can give you. You don’t love them because of what they do for you or how good you make them look. Love is blind, love does not boast, love is not vain.”
― Shelly Crane, Significance

“I saw something in you that I couldn’t live without. I chose you, inside of me, and you chose me. It’s not one sided, it only works when both people choose the other. You are perfect for me in every way.”
― Shelly Crane, Significance

“Because you are my significant, my soul mate. And I’m yours.”
― Shelly Crane, Significance

“His eyes opened and he smiled at me like he understood everything, like I was everything.”
― Shelly Crane, Significance
“Gran, I’m only gonna ask this once. Please don’t have sex talks with me, ok? Especially with Maggie in the room. Do you think we could do that?”
― Shelly Crane, Significance
“Why not get married and get started on your life?”
“You’ve thought about this already, haven’t you?”
“Of course I have. Caleb leaned to hover over me on his elbows and looked seriously at me. “I’ve thought about it every since you first touched me and I knew you were mine.”
― Shelly Crane, Significance

Recommendations
If you like Significance, you may like….
(Click the cover for the Goodreads link!)
               

My Heart and Other Black Holes by Jasmine Warga

My Heart and Other Black Holes

Author: Jasmine Warga

Genre: Contemporary

Pages: 302

Publisher: HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray

Sixteen-year-old physics nerd Aysel is obsessed with plotting her own death. With a mother who can barely look at her without wincing, classmates who whisper behind h
er back, and a father whose violent crime rocked her small town, Aysel is ready to turn her potential energy into nothingness.

There’s only one problem: she’s not sure she has the courage to do it alone. But once she discovers a website with a section called Suicide Partners, Aysel’s convinced she’s found her solution: a teen boy with the username FrozenRobot (aka Roman) who’s haunted by a family tragedy is looking for a partner.

Even though Aysel and Roman have nothing in common, they slowly start to fill in each other’s broken lives. But as their suicide pact becomes more concrete, Aysel begins to question whether she really wants to go through with it. Ultimately, she must choose between wanting to die or trying to convince Roman to live so they can discover the potential of their energy together. Except that Roman may not be so easy to convince.

Rate: 10.0/10.0

I don’t usually read stories like this. Depressing. Suicidal. Sadness stories. But I did read this one. Beautiful, Eye-Opening, Jaw-Dropping. This book amazed me in so many way. It was a beautiful book with so many beautiful characters in it. Even though this book did have the serious topics of depression and suicide there was so much humor in this book that it didn’t really seem like a sad sort of book. Throughout each scene in this book I was practically tearing up. I loved how much the characters had grown throughout the book, it was just an amazing book in general. Now I’m going to stop right here with non-spoilery section of my review because beyond this paragraph will all be spoilery details. SO just so you know this book was absolutely incredible and I now that you all will probably love it as much as I did.

Starting off with Aysel. By the first page we know that this girl is very sad. We know that this sadness was caused by the murder that her father committed. She was very close to him. And because of that her ;life got particularly ruined, because she never had thought that he would do something like this. And ever since he committed this crime she feel like she is going to do the exact same things. She feels that one day she is going to hurt someone because she is like this man. Had this feeling that she will probably hurt someone makes her feel like she’s is a danger to everyone around her and the best way to solve this problem would be to kill herself, so that he would have to hurt anyone. Now we know that this is the main source of all that sadness that is seeping through her but the people surround her knowns that she has been though this traumatizing experience and they’re not doing anything about it. There aren’t asking her if she’s okay, or she wants if talk, if she needs anything. Nothing. And this is just adding onto the sadness because now she feels less than a normal human being. Her friends turned on her even though she wasn’t the source of this problem. Kids are making fun of her at school because of her father. This is all happening because they think that she is going to end up like her dad.

Now at first I thought that her mother was just like those kids. She is is afraid of her own daughter because she thinks that she is going to end up like her father when that really isn’t the case. Her mother was afraid that she would say something wrong, but she should’ve realized that her own daughter was depressed. They first of all didn’t have a close relationship throughout the entire book but it would’ve helped if her mother did try to reach out her at some point, or if she could have invited her to join things more often. In fact Aysel thinks that nobody really cares about her. So in fact she thinks that would make it easier to kill herself. But that scene where her sister tries to talk to her that is the scene that you know that her family genuinely does care about her, because right after she has that talk with her sister she sees her mother making pancakes and her brother telling the mother to add roe chocolate nt her pancakes because that is hat make her happy. Going to her brother. he was the sweetest thing ever. He was the one with the strongest relationship even though Aysel tried pushing him away. even though she could maybe confide to him I wouldn’t imagine confiding in a younger sibling, and this younger sibling was the one she was most connected to so she was a bit iffy about that.

Roman was the exact same thing, except he felt guilt instead of someone else’s. The way he said that is was his own fault that his sister died really brought me close to tearing up because it wasn’t his fault sure he could’ve been more careful with the situation but that doesn’t mean that it was his own fault. But what made this book special is the way that these two characters just join together and talked about their problems really made them forget everything what was going around them and that made them not want to kill themselves because they were getting closer and closer together. Sure that pact was that they would kill each other on the same date together without being alone to do so, but this relationship that they had because of this pack just made them forget and that is the real meaning behind this. If you have people to surround yourself with that are good for you, to help you, then you’ll overcome your problems and that is what these two characters did.They had a conversation  first on how they were exactly going to do this but this lead on to talking about their feelings and how they felt and this helped them overcome the sensation they had of suicide especially Aysel.

It was kind of hard to crack Roman sure he still talked but he still wanted to go on with this pact. At the end of the book he did try but he tried without Aysel because he didn’t want to hurt her so he decided to hurt him himself. When that scene happen I was bawling inside because we had so many unanswered questions. Was he going to be okay? Was he going to die? What would happen to her if he did? Was she going to do the exact same thing? But thankfully at the end we found out that he just landed himself in the hospital and that is when he realized that he shouldn’t have done this thing because he had her and his family and all the other people that cared for him. He had college and basketball and all these things that he could’ve missed out on if he died.

Even though the story was mainly about this there was still some humor behind the story. The carnival and the camping trip just made this contemporary more contemporary. In it was also the lovely romance between our two characters which we also loved very much. The only thing that I wish they did have in this book was a conversation between her dad and herself.I feel like that scene would really make the book amazing even though it was absolutely amazing. I wanted to see her mend the relationship between her and her father.  wanted to read that she forgave him and that he still loved her. Okay so if you did make it to this point please tell me what you felt about this book. I love this book in general and I hope you did as well.

“Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.”
― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

“You’re like a grey sky. You’re beautiful, even though you don’t want to be.”
― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

“Depression is like a heaviness that you can’t ever escape. It crushes down on you, making even the smallest things like tying your shoes or chewing on toast seem like a twenty-mile hike uphill. Depression is a part of you; it’s in your bones and your blood.”
― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

“Sometimes I wonder if my heart is like a black hole–it’s so dense that there’s no room for light, but that doesn’t mean it can’t still suck me in.”
― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

“I will be stronger than my sadness.”
― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

“I once read in my physics book that the universe begs to be observed, that energy travels and transfers when people pay attention. Maybe that’s what love really boils down to–having someone who cares enough to pay attention so that you’re encouraged to travel and transfer, to make your potential energy spark into kinetic energy.”
― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

“Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there’s nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.”
― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

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Interview with Tiffany Schmidt! + Giveaway!

So as you all know I LOVED Hold You Like A Breath by Tiffany Schmidt. And I loved it so much, I wanted to know more about the series. So I interviewed the great Tiffany Schmidt (the author of this amazing book) and she added a little giveaway along with the interview 🙂

1. What made you decide to sit down and actually start something like this book?

I’ve been fascinated by the fairy tale The Princess and the Pea since I was a little girl. Not so much the story that is told, but the story that isn’t, the parts of the princess’s story that never made it on the paper. Why was she alone at night in a rainstorm? Where is her family? Why is it appealing that she bruises.

Hold Me Like a Breath is not a retelling. It’s a re-imagining—it’s my chance, all these decades later, to take my childhood fascination and tell the story I wanted to read.

2. What made you want to become author yourself?

Stories have always held their own sort of magic for me. I’ve always cared a whole lot less about what actually happened and more about what else could happen.  This made me a challenging child—it wasn’t that I wanted to lie, I just didn’t particularly see the value in the truth. I’d much rather tell the story of the dragon that attacked my classroom and clawed my leg, than tell my mom I’d ripped by tights because they got snagged on a pointy part of my desk.

Stories on the TV, stories in books, and the stories I made my friends and siblings act out in the backyard were all equally fascinating. Woe on anyone who was stuck with me on a long car ride, because I was going to use the time to tell them some epic adventure: 1% truth and the rest pure fantasy.

Learning to read and write my stories down was a great outlet for all my creative energies. I don’t remember a time before I was a storyteller and I can’t ever see myself wanting to stop.

3. Are we going to see more of Penelope and Char in the next book? *she asks hopefully ☺*

Absolutely. The next book is told from Magnolia Vicker’s, point of view, however, so you’ll be seeing them from her perspective.

4. What fairy tale retelling are you using for the next book?

I can’t answer that yet… (sorry!) but, I will give you two hints.

  1. It’s been made into a Disney movie
  2. It’s a Grimm fairy tale (whereas Hold Me Like a Breath is based off The Princess and the Pea by Hans Christian Andersen)

5. Who is your favorite character in the book?

Carter Landlow. Growing up, I though having a big brother would be the coolest thing in the world and I imbued Carter with the traits I wished for in my imaginary brother: protective, impulsive, adventurous, loyal, and possessing  a hot best friend for me to crush on 🙂

6. Which character do you think would mostly like to be your BFF?

I’m sure that Magnolia Grace and I could get in some serious hijinks together. Both of us have ‘Trouble Magnet’ coded in our DNA.

7. Any fictional boyfriends (We all have them.)

Gilbert Blythe from Anne of Green Gables

Fitzwilliam Darcy from Pride and Prejudice

Wes from The Truth About Forever

Wes from The Archived

Mal from The Grisha trilogy

8. Any favorite books/series’?

Series:

Curseworkers by Holly Black

Gallagher Girls & Heist Society by Ally Carter

Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

Summer series by Jenny Han

Other books:

Anything by David Levithan, Sarah Dessen, Libba Bray, Courtney Summers, or Stephanie Perkins

9. Any recommendation for us?

If you mean book recommendations, ALL of the ones I listed above.

General recommendations: Wear sunscreen. Look both ways before you cross the street. It’s okay to ask for help—this is a sign of courage, not weakness. Occasionally say ‘yes’ to things that scare you (not dangerous things, but things that will stretch you as a person).  Don’t judge things by their covers—try out books and movies and people you don’t think you’ll like; they may surprise you. Naps are always a good idea. Eat your veggies.

10. Do you have any advice for young writers who would like to be authors in the future?

Keep reading and keep writing. Keep improving your craft. Don’t ever let anyone tell you your ideas aren’t good enough or don’t have value. They may not be good enough YET, but they always have value. Your stories are unique. Only you can tell them.

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Thank you again for doing an interview with me! Let me know when you have your next book coming out ☺

 

Alienated by Melissa Landers

Alienated

Author: Melissa Landers

Genre: Sci-Fi

Pages: 344

Publisher: Disney Hyperion

Two years ago, the aliens made contact. Now Cara Sweeney is going to be sharing a bathroom with one of them.

Handpicked to host the first-ever L’eihr exchange student, Cara thinks her future is set. Not only does she get a free ride to her dream college, she’ll have inside information about the mysterious L’eihrs that every journalist would kill for. Cara’s blog following is about to skyrocket.

Still, Cara isn’t sure what to think when she meets Aelyx. Humans and L’eihrs have nearly identical DNA, but cold, infuriatingly brilliant Aelyx couldn’t seem more alien. She’s certain about one thing, though: no human boy is this good-looking.

But when Cara’s classmates get swept up by anti-L’eihr paranoia, Midtown High School suddenly isn’t safe anymore. Threatening notes appear in Cara’s locker, and a police officer has to escort her and Aelyx to class.

Cara finds support in the last person she expected. She realizes that Aelyx isn’t just her only friend; she’s fallen hard for him. But Aelyx has been hiding the truth about the purpose of his exchange, and its potentially deadly consequences. Soon Cara will be in for the fight of her life—not just for herself and the boy she loves, but for the future of her planet.

Rate: 10.0/10.0

I feel like every single alien book that I read I just love. I’ve been wanting to read this book for such a long time because…aliens…(plus Sasha recommended it so I knew it was going to be good) And this one was no exception. I freaking LOVED this book with all my heart. The plot, the characters, the story, the development, the relationships, the twists, AND THE CONSTANT FANGIRLING made me absolutely adore this book. AND as soon as I finished this one I RAN to my kindle for me to get the second book. And before I continue with this review I need to tell you that this series is now in the top 10 AND that I need that third book. Come on Disney Hyperion us fangirls need that third book!!

So as always starting off with the characters. I loved Cara. She was a hilarious character to read about. And the book was partly her POV so it just made the book even better than it was. The characters go through a lot of character development throughout the books and Cara was one of the most developed. She started off with a sort of hatred towards the aliens just like everyone else. She was a smarty-pants. And she was very untrusting when it came to people. But by the end of the book, I loved her character. She was one funny, smart, and full of ambition. She knew that the aliens were harmless because well Aelyx (We’ll get to him in a second.) And what made me really love her, was her love for Aelyx. How she would give up everything that she has for him. She got turned by her friends so that she could stay friends with him, and it’s just made my little fangirling heart squeal.

You could probably guess that Aelyx had made it to my official Fictional Boyfriend List, but what you may not know is that he is in the top 10 🙂 Now going back to that character development thing. Oh my. I feel like he was the one that was the most developed in the book. At first he was this robotic aliens who didn’t have any feelings and had hatred for the planet Earth..well I guess not Earth but the beings that were on it. But by the middle of the book he was added to the list. He was so cute. He was the cutest little thing that I ever read about. SO adorable. But more importantly him and Cara. OTP!! Shipping it by the time they met. Now I have to admit I was a bit annoyed with him for the reason that he kept pushing Cara away. Cara wanted to be friends with. Have a relationship that they communicate. But he kept pushing her away because they were different. And that really annoyed me, but I got over it because he got over it and everything was hunky dory.

The ex and the best friend. I was ALOT annoyed with them throughout the course of the book. But at the end they both won me back. *SPOILER DO NOT BEYOND THIS POINT IF YOU HAVEN’T READ THE BOOK* Them together. I did not see coming at all. I thought they were pure enemies at the beginning of the book. But when they said they were together I was like “Ohhhh. Okay um thats awkward. You’re awful. Du-bye” but I get it. They like each other so why not? *SPOILERY IS FENITO*  I loved the parents. If i had to pick a favorite for fictional parents it would be these ones. They were just so understanding and loving, and they cared about everyone including Aelyx and I just love…love.

Now the whole story itself was nail biting. Every single scene I was fangirling. I had to take breaks between chapters. It was amazing. And the whole writing contributed to the amazingness that was this book. (I have to say something. The makeout scenes. Were written spectacularly. Amazing! I love them. They were my favorite part of the book *smiles sheepishly*) I feel like now that I have read this book I would make this one of the top book that’s I would recommend to people. You know who Obsidian is the book that I recommend to EVERYONE well I think that this book will be along Obsidian. So if you haven’t read this book yet I have no idea what you’re doing with your life. READ IT!!! I twas spectacular and awesome and just fangirl worthy.

“He prepared the richest, most indulgent and disgusting dish imaginable – a bowl of fudge ripple ice-cream topped with chocolate syrup, semi-sweet chocolate morsels, chocolate sprinkles, and, for good measure, a chocolate brownie from the pantry. He even garnished it with a handful of M&M’s.

(…) “Look what I made for you. A bowl of diabetes.”
― Melissa Landers, Alienated

“It’s common knowledge that shiny rocks are preferred among human females.”
― Melissa Landers, Alienated

“Her dad’s voice boomed from inside the house. “I’ve got a Glock, a shovel, and five acres of woods, Johnson!”
― Melissa Landers, Alienated

“I don’t like the way he looks at you.”
“How does he look at me?”
“Like he wants to dock his ship inside your spaceport.”
“You’ve cracked.”
― Melissa Landers, Alienated

“Can I borrow the car today, Mom? We’ll get soaked if we walk-”
“Hmph,” Dad interrupted. “When I was a boy-”
“Yeah, yeah,” Cara interrupted back. “You walked to school naked in the snow or something. So can I?”
― Melissa Landers, Alienated

“I won’t be your intergalactic booty call.”
― Melissa Landers, Alienated

“To be honest, I don’t know what qualities you ever saw in him. I can tell why he chose you, but-”
“Oh yeah?” Cara’s spirits lifted as she sensed a compliment coming on. “Why do you think he chose me?”
“It’s obvious.” He swept a hand to indicate her loose curls. “Your long, shiny hair, healthy skin, and bright eyes show that you’re well-nourished.”
“Uh, thank you?”
“I’m not finished.”
“Go on then.”
“You’re clearly intelligent.” Then he felt the need to add, “For a human.”
“Gee. That’s so sweet.”
“But Eric was probably most attracted to your wait-to-hip ratio.” For a split second, Aelyx resembled a human boy as he leaned back and peered at her caboose. “Hips of that width are likely to pass life offspring without complication.”
Cara nearly swallowed her own tongue. She didn’t have big hips did she?”
― Melissa Landers, Alienated

“Jerkwagon.”
― Melissa Landers, Alienated

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An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tarir

An Ember In the Ashes

Author: Sabaa Tarir

Genre: Dystopian

Pages: 446

Publisher: Razorbill

Laia is a slave. Elias is a soldier. Neither is free.

Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. Those who do not vow their blood and bodies to the Emperor risk the execution of their loved ones and the destruction of all they hold dear.

It is in this brutal world, inspired by ancient Rome, that Laia lives with her grandparents and older brother. The family ekes out an existence in the Empire’s impoverished backstreets. They do not challenge the Empire. They’ve seen what happens to those who do.

But when Laia’s brother is arrested for treason, Laia is forced to make a decision. In exchange for help from rebels who promise to rescue her brother, she will risk her life to spy for them from within the Empire’s greatest military academy.

There, Laia meets Elias, the school’s finest soldier—and secretly, its most unwilling. Elias wants only to be free of the tyranny he’s being trained to enforce. He and Laia will soon realize that their destinies are intertwined—and that their choices will change the fate of the Empire itself.

10.0/10.0

My mind is blown! I loved this book, and I was just so afraid that it would be too high fantasy for me. I freaking loved this book. It was amazing on top.of amazing. The characters were brilliant and the story itself was spectacular. So I’ve been really procrastinating this post. I read the book about two and half weeks ago and I still haven’t made a post for it. It was sooo much for me to handle. SO many incredible and fascinating things happened throughout the course of this book that I just blanked out while I was writing this post. SO I’m going to start again for what feels like the millionth time.

SOOOO Laia. Its unbelievable how much she changed throughout the book. At the beginning she was a shy girl who never thought she would ever be in danger, but look at her now. She is one kickass badass. But I’m still amazed of how much she grew. I loved every single part of Laia. It was so nice seeing a character change so much throughout the course of the book.

Elias. I LOVED ELIS. I loved him. I was jut waiting for that moment. Waiting very patiently for that moment with him and Laia. WAITING PATIENTLY. And it only came around the middle of the book, when I really wish it came before. But that other guy. I forgot his name……Yeah I liked him at the beginning. I loved him in the beginning. I wanted him to be with Laia. But then we met Elias, and I was like buh-bye. Buh-bye because Elias.

Then we have that other girl. That I forgot the name of….you know this is what I get for procrastinating my post. I don’t really like her……Yeah she was going to steal Elias away from Laia, so I didn’t like her. Of course,. But now the story itself. AMAZING!. The characters mixed together perfectly with the story. The battles, the games and the moments mixed spectacularly.AND NOW THERE IS GOING TO BE A SECOND BOOK!!!! YIPPEEEE! So do I recommend this book? YES!! If you can’t tel million times YES!!!! it was amazing and amazing and just so freaking amazing. READ IT!!!!!

 

“Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after. Such moments are tests of courage, of strength.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“There are two kinds of guilt. The kind that’s a burden and the kind that gives you purpose. Let your guilt be your fuel. Let it remind you of who you want to be. Draw a line in your mind. Never cross it again. You have a soul. It’s damaged but it’s there. Don’t let them take it from you.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“Fear is only your enemy if you allow it to be.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“You are an ember in the ashes, Elias Veturius. You will spark and burn, ravage and destroy. You cannot change it. You cannot stop it.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“You are full, Laia. Full of life and dark and strength and spirit. You are in our dreams. You will burn, for you are an ember in the ashes.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“The field of battle is my temple. I mentally chant a saying my grandfather taught me the day he met me, when I was six. He insists it sharpens the mind the way a whetstone sharpens a blade. The swordpoint is my priest. The dance of death is my prayer. The killing blow is my release.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

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June TBR List!

 Tomorrow is the first day of June. In 5 days I’ll be in Brazil. In 6 days will be officially the first day of Summer. WOAHHHH!!!! It practically June already! And since it is the Summer my TBR list for the next two months will be realllllly yyyy long. I am expecting to read AT LEAST 20 books this Summer. That is my goal. Another goal would be to read books from authors that are going to YallFest, since I want to have those books signed. Which one of you are going to YallFest this year. I might be going!!! *does happy dance* SO without further ado here is my June TBR List.

1. Shadow Kiss by Richelle Mead  (Vampire Academy #3)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        It’s springtime at St. Vladimir’s Academy, and Rose Hathaway is this close to graduation. Since making her first Strigoi kills, Rose hasn’t been feeling quite right. She’s having dark thoughts, behaving erratically, and worst of all… might be seeing ghosts.

As Rose questions her sanity, new complications arise. Lissa has begun experimenting with her magic once more, their enemy Victor Dashkov might be set free, and Rose’s forbidden relationship with Dimitri is starting to heat up again. But when a deadly threat no one saw coming changes their entire world, Rose must put her own life on the line – and choose between the two people she loves most.

2. Charmed by Michelle Krys (The Witch Hunter #2)

Indie has spent the last few weeks frantically searching for Paige. She’s tried every spell imaginable, but witchcraft has gotten her nowhere, and she’s going crazy with guilt. Despite what her warlock boyfriend, Bishop, tells her, Indie knows it’s her fault her best friend was kidnapped by the Priory. And with the Priory destroyed, finding Paige feels more hopeless than ever-especially when Indie discovers that Paige isn’t even on Earth. She’s trapped in Los Demonios, an alternate dimension of Los Angeles filled with evil paranormals. No one who has gone there has ever come out.

Fueled by terror and loyalty, Indie is desperate to find a way into the underworld prison. She’ll worry about getting out later. But facing the dark world’s most dangerous witches and warlocks on her own means keeping her plan hush-hush-and forging alliances with some sketchy people, including a seriously sexy sorcerer.

Sometimes a witch must keep secrets from the people she cares about most. And sometimes she isn’t the only one with secrets…

3. The Evil We Love by Cassandra Clare and Robin Wasserman (Tales of Shadowhunter Academy #5)

The story of Valentine’s Circle at the Shadowhunter Academy.

4. The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting

    Violet Ambrose is grappling with two major issues: Jay Heaton and her morbid secret ability. While the sixteen-year-old is confused by her new feelings for her best friend since childhood, she is more disturbed by her “power” to sense dead bodies—or at least those that have been murdered. Since she was a little girl, she has felt the echoes that the dead leave behind in the world… and the imprints that attach to their killers.

Violet has never considered her strange talent to be a gift; it mostly just led her to find the dead birds her cat had tired of playing with. But now that a serial killer has begun terrorizing her small town, and the echoes of the local girls he’s claimed haunt her daily, she realizes she might be the only person who can stop him.

Despite his fierce protectiveness over her, Jay reluctantly agrees to help Violet on her quest to find the murderer—and Violet is unnerved to find herself hoping that Jay’s intentions are much more than friendly. But even as she’s falling intensely in love, Violet is getting closer and closer to discovering a killer… and becoming his prey herself.

5. White Cat by Holly Black

Cassel comes from a shady, magical family of con artists and grifters. He doesn’t fit in at home or at school, so he’s used to feeling like an outsider. He’s also used to feeling guilty; he killed his best friend, Lila, years ago.

But when Cassel begins to have strange dreams about a white cat, and people around him are losing their memories, he starts to wonder what really happened to Lila. In his search for answers, he discovers a wicked plot for power that seems certain to succeed. But Cassel has other ideas and a plan to con the conmen.

6. Snow Like Ashes by Sara Raasch

A heartbroken girl. A fierce warrior. A hero in the making.

Sixteen years ago the Kingdom of Winter was conquered and its citizens enslaved, leaving them without magic or a monarch. Now, the Winterians’ only hope for freedom is the eight survivors who managed to escape, and who have been waiting for the opportunity to steal back Winter’s magic and rebuild the kingdom ever since.

Orphaned as an infant during Winter’s defeat, Meira has lived her whole life as a refugee, raised by the Winterians’ general, Sir. Training to be a warrior—and desperately in love with her best friend, and future king, Mather — she would do anything to help her kingdom rise to power again.

So when scouts discover the location of the ancient locket that can restore Winter’s magic, Meira decides to go after it herself. Finally, she’s scaling towers, fighting enemy soldiers, and serving her kingdom just as she’s always dreamed she would. But the mission doesn’t go as planned, and Meira soon finds herself thrust into a world of evil magic and dangerous politics – and ultimately comes to realize that her destiny is not, never has been, her own.

7. The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh

A sumptuous and epically told love story inspired by A Thousand and One Nights
Every dawn brings horror to a different family in a land ruled by a killer. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, takes a new bride each night only to have her executed at sunrise. So it is a suspicious surprise when sixteen-year-old Shahrzad volunteers to marry Khalid. But she does so with a clever plan to stay alive and exact revenge on the Caliph for the murder of her best friend and countless other girls. Shazi’s wit and will, indeed, get her through to the dawn that no others have seen, but with a catch . . . she’s falling in love with the very boy who killed her dearest friend.

She discovers that the murderous boy-king is not all that he seems and neither are the deaths of so many girls. Shazi is determined to uncover the reason for the murders and to break the cycle once and for all.

 

Hexed by Michelle Krys

Hexed

Author: Michelle Krys

Genre: Paranormal

Pages: 384

Publisher: Delacorte Press

If high school is all about social status, Indigo Blackwood has it made. Sure, her quirky mom owns an occult shop, and a nerd just won’t stop trying to be her friend, but Indie is a popular cheerleader with a football-star boyfriend and a social circle powerful enough to ruin everyone at school. Who wouldn’t want to be her?

Then a guy dies right before her eyes. And the dusty old family Bible her mom is freakishly possessive of is stolen. But it’s when a frustratingly sexy stranger named Bishop enters Indie’s world that she learns her destiny involves a lot more than pom-poms and parties. If she doesn’t get the Bible back, every witch on the planet will die. And that’s seriously bad news for Indie, because according to Bishop, she’s a witch too.

Suddenly forced into a centuries-old war between witches and sorcerers, Indie’s about to uncover the many dark truths about her life—and a future unlike any she ever imagined on top of the cheer pyramid.

Rate: 8.5/10.0

Indigo….you’re awesome. WICKED! For me thats only the word that can describe this book 😉 Haha see what I did there. Of course you did. So this book was…..I loved it. It was fantastic. It has been such a long time since I’ve read a witch book, but I am so glad that I found it. The last really great witch book that I read with Residue Laury Falter and since you all know that I loved that book, I am officially saying that I think (I think) that I like this book better than Residue (even though Residue what fantastic) It was funny, wicked, and witty. And one of the great things about this story was the characters. they were just so complex and all had their own very unique personalities that makes you love every single one (except the cheerleader and Indie’s boyfriend.)

Lets start with Indigo. I loved her. She had so much characters development throughout the entire book and  loved every single thing she faced. She started out as the perky cheerleaders who wouldn’t be in danger for her life. and by the end of the book she turned out to be such a funny girly badass. Girly badass. She was also so smart. If you read the book and you saw what happened at the end with that plan. You know that plan. Yeah that one. The one that was ALL Indie’s idea. SO SMART! I did not see that coming. I’m so proud *wipes tear* she’s grown up so fast.

Then there is Bishop. Bishop. Bishop. You have been added to the fictional boyfriend list. First I have to admit he was a bit. Just a tiny bit. To self-centered for me, but he grew on me. He turned out so sweet and witty and just plain awesomeness. Plus him and Indie together. I SHIP THEM SOOOOO HARD!!! I was a bit annoyed with them during the course of the middle of the book because of what happened while they were training but then they fixed everything and everything turned out to be okay and everything I read turned out to be fantastic and it was just a very happy meal.

Now for the rest of the characters. The cheerleader and the boyfriend. Just stop okay. I don’t like them. AT ALL. Annoying since the first page. The mother was just the sweetest thing ever, I really wish we got see more of her in the book. I loved Aunt Penny. She was amazing. But as I continued to read the book I started to dislike her even more. I was a bit mixed with her, and I don’t know how I’m going to feel about her in the second book.

Overall the book was fantastic and I am so excited for the rest of the series. There is so many people I would recommend this book too especially all of you. just read it! Take a chance on it. It was amazing for me maybe it will be amazing for you too 🙂

“And I just know that this memory will be forever burned into my brain, because this kind of magic – the kind that can’t be conjured with a spell, where everything is just right, and all your problems vanish for three perfect minutes – doesn’t happen everyday.”
― Michelle Krys, Hexed

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The Keys of Watchmen by Kathleen C. Perrin

The Keys of Watchmen

Author: Kathleen C. Perrin

Genre: Historical Fiction

Pages:  394

Publisher: Langon House

Katelyn Michaels plans on hating every moment of her visit to Mont Saint Michel with her father’s new French wife. Once there, she is confused when she experiences sensations of déjà vu as she and her younger brother explore the medieval village and abbey. She is even more disturbed when she is confronted by two unusual young men, one who insists she has a sacred mission, and the other who will stop at nothing, even murder, to prevent her from fulfilling her destiny.

When the oddly-dressed but alluring Nicolas slips Katelyn a strange medallion, she is whisked back through time where her Watchmen hosts tell her she is the only hope to save Mont Saint Michel. Even worse, she learns that those trying to destroy the mount are led by a fallen angel intent on learning the mount’s closely-guarded secret.

Katelyn is torn by feelings of anger at being taken back in time, inadequacy at finding a modern solution for a medieval problem, and responsibility for the mount’s starving inhabitants. She is also perturbed by her surprising attraction to the ill-tempered Nicolas. Will she stay to learn why she was chosen by the Archangel Michael and find a way to save his mount?

Rate: 8.0/10.0

I loved this book! Usually I am not a real big fan of historical fiction but this book…woah. I will have to admit it did start of kinda slow but it did turn around and now I just need to share it with the world. Awesomness on top of awesomeness. The characters, the story, the characters, the world, and oh did I mention the characters!

I had so much fun with all these characters, i was just over the moon. I LOVED EVERY SINGLE CHARACTERS! This is a first. No character annoys me. Yes you heard right there isn’t one character that I dislike. Katelyn is just kick-ass. She is amazing and the perfect definition of heroin. She is just 21st century, unique, and she wants to protect everyone that she loves which I think is a very key factor in being a good character. Nicolas. Oh Nicolas. You were just a bag of sweet tarts with spicy sauce on it. THE SASS! Nicolas is practically a second less glittery Magnus. Oh my love. Plus him and Katelyn together….a kickass OTP.

Now in this book there is a lot of french phrases and with just this one book, I’m pretty sure I learned a whole bunch of french. When I finished the book, I practically finished a French class. Just wanted to point that out. So as you know I don’t read that much historical fiction that isn’t 1800’s this was WAYYYYY back before the 1800 and I have to say I really did enjoy it. With this book I am 99% sure that one of my next reads will be a historical fiction novel.

I would recommend this book t =o SO many people I lost count. Thank you so much CBB Book Promotion for letting me join this blog tour. I really loved this book and I can not wait any longer for the next one 🙂

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The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks

The Longest Ride

Author: Nicholas Sparks

Genre: Romance

Pages: 568

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Ira Levinson is in trouble. At ninety-one years old, in poor health and alone in the world, he finds himself stranded on an isolated embankment after a car crash. Suffering multiple injuries, he struggles to retain consciousness until a blurry image materializes and comes into focus beside him: his beloved wife Ruth, who passed away nine years ago. Urging him to hang on, she forces him to remain alert by recounting the stories of their lifetime together – how they met, the precious paintings they collected together, the dark days of WWII and its effect on them and their families. Ira knows that Ruth can’t possibly be in the car with him, but he clings to her words and his memories, reliving the sorrows and everyday joys that defined their marriage.

A few miles away, at a local bull-riding event, a Wake Forest College senior’s life is about to change. Recovering from a recent break-up, Sophia Danko meets a young cowboy named Luke, who bears little resemblance to the privileged frat boys she has encountered at school. Through Luke, Sophia is introduced to a world in which the stakes of survival and success, ruin and reward — even life and death – loom large in everyday life. As she and Luke fall in love, Sophia finds herself imagining a future far removed from her plans — a future that Luke has the power to rewrite . . . if the secret he’s keeping doesn’t destroy it first.

Ira and Ruth. Sophia and Luke. Two couples who have little in common, and who are separated by years and experience. Yet their lives will converge with unexpected poignancy, reminding us all that even the most difficult decisions can yield extraordinary journeys: beyond despair, beyond death, to the farthest reaches of the human heart.

Rate: 10.0/10.0

The love stories in The Longest Ride were filled with romance and mystery. The characters and the way the story was retold is amazing! The characters are narrated so well that it is as if I know them personally. 

I loved this book. I was totally engrossed in it. It is thrilling, romantic, passionate and most of all, different from anything I have ever read before. It is amazing, the characters well explained and formed. The book is very interesting and well written.

This book was phenomenal! I read it prior to the film, and although it is my first Nicholas Sparks novel, I was amazed at the suspense that he created from a romance novel! Sparks is so talented and accomplished. He creates real-life characters from a book, or how they feel to me. The collection of characters showed the different personalities and ways of life of people who lead distinct lives. Let me begin with Ira; he is a sweet old man (91) who loved his wife more than anything that ever walked this earth. His life is retold by him when he is semi-concious after a car accident that occurred in the winter of North Carolina. Ruth is his loving wife who has been dead for nine years. She is beautiful,strong and a feminist that has a love for art. She appears by Ira’s side when he is injured and is in between life and death. She strongly encourages that he has a life to continue living. 

I see Ira and Ruth as a loving old couple of over 50 years who enjoy being with each other. Although they are both rich, they are so humble. Their relationship is so strong! All of the bumps and turns will not dent their strong bond. Daniel was a minor character that was extremely important in the development of their story. This couple did not have children, Ira was barren after an accident during the Holocaust. Ruth is a school teacher who loves her young student Daniel, mistreated by his family. She wants to adopt Daniel; after this idea does not succeed, Ruth and Ira’s relationship is damaged for a while. Thankfully, they mend their love and relationship, realizing that being together is better than being apart. 

Sophia and Luke’s love story was steady, sweet, and slow; a classic college love story with a twist. Sophia is a young college lady who is majoring in art history. She attends a bull ridding show with her friend after her friend convinces her to go to get her mind off of a painful break up. Luke is a professional bull rider who experiences a large head injury a year before this event. He and Sophia meet when he defends her from her drunk ex-boyfriend. They soon begin to date, and it becomes a serious love story. I was compelled to read on because I wanted to know what Luke was hiding from Sophia (the fact that if he continued to ride he would die because of his injury.) The added stress from Luke trying to maintain the farm also add drawbacks in the relationship. The obstacles in their relationship also added mystery and reality to the love story. 

This book contains two different love stories, that of Luke and Sophie and that of Ira and Ruth. These stories are separated by experience and age. In the beginning I wanted to skip some of Ira’s parts in the book, but as the book progressed I understood the meaning behind his and Ruth’s story. I enjoyed both of these parallel love stories which eventually merged to form one large one. What I loved most about both of these stories is that they have a sense of realism in them. They are not fantasy couples but those who are represented in real life relationships today. I liked the ending, although Ira dies, he dies in peace and is able to be reunited with Ruth, the love of his life. Sophia and Luke stay together and the stories merge when Sophia attends an art collection (Ira’s) and receives the entire collection in the end. This story is so magical and emotional, honestly one of my favorite books of all times. I recommend it to anyone who like romance novels.  

“If we’d never met, I think I would have known my life wasn’t complete. And I would have wandered the world in search of you, even if I didn’t know who I was looking for.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Longest Ride

“After all, if there is a heaven, we will find each other again, for there is no heaven without you.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Longest Ride

“Trust people, until they give you a reason not to. And then never turn your back”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Longest Ride

“I know I’m not going to be able to change the world, but I think it’s important to try to make a difference”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Longest Ride

“I wish I had the talent to paint the way I feel about you, for my words always feel inadequate. I imagine using red for your passion and pale blue for your kindness; forest green to reflect the depth of your empathy and bright yellow for your unflagging optimism. And still I wonder: can even an artist’s palette capture the full range of what you mean to me?”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Longest Ride

“You should not complain, it’s not attractive.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Longest Ride

“With you, my life felt indeed like a fantastic adventure – despite our ordinary circumstances, your love imbued everything we did with secret riches.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Longest Ride


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A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Author: Sarah J. Maas

Genre: Fantasy

Pages: 416

Publisher: Bloomsbury Children’s

A thrilling, seductive new series from New York Timesbestselling author Sarah J. Maas, blending Beauty and the Beast with faerie lore.

When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand retribution for it. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin—one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled their world.

As she dwells on his estate, her feelings for Tamlin transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every lie and warning she’s been told about the beautiful, dangerous world of the Fae. But an ancient, wicked shadow grows over the faerie lands, and Feyre must find a way to stop it . . . or doom Tamlin—and his world—forever.

Perfect for fans of Kristin Cashore and George R. R. Martin, this first book in a sexy and action-packed new series is impossible to put down!

Rate: 10.0/10.0

BOW DOWN TO SARAH J. MAAS!!!! This book was just incredible on top of incredible. The characters, the story, the retelling, the way it makes me scream, the way it makes me confused, the way it makes me think. Just perfection. I applaud you Sarah.

SO many things that I love. So few words to describe it. Starting with the characters. Feyre was just……….kickass with a side of rainbow skittles. She protected her loved ones, she does the man’s job, she likes comfortable clothing. AWESOMENESS. SO this book was a Beauty and the Best retelling and you know I’m all up on that Beauty and the Beast. Belle is my second favorite Disney Princess and the only way that I could imagine Feyre was Belle with darker hair. Feyre has been added to my favorite heroines’ list. She has been through painful times and I mean painful. But she doesn’t look back at her past, she keeps on goig and she will still be keep on going. Now she can be quite moody at times. Not talking to anybody, having a bad mood practically the whole first half of the book, but that’s probably what I care most about her. She just doesn’t give.

Now we have the beast in the story. Tamlin. By their first encounter I was like “OTP”. The only thing that I just couldn’t. Was the way I imagined him. How do you imagine him? I see him well very “firelike” and then with a mask over his face. A wolf mask specifically. I know that he is magical and all so why can’t he turn into a wolf but he can turn others. But whatever he can also be VERY moody at times. So he’s basically a guy version of Feyre just you OTP them and not see them as siblings. Now Tam’s BFF. You know the one that wear the eyepatch. Lucien. He is awesome. I love him, he was probably my favorite character in the entire book. He was just so funny, witty, and at serious times he just makes you laugh.

The amount of times that I fangirled during this book is embarrassing. I was in bed, and I was reading my book. Then came this one part that I HAD to scream. HAD. My parents were probably asleep so what do I do? Scream into my pillow, scream internally, rant on a piece of paper. EVERYTHING I could possibly do to now actually scream. It was a very intense scene.  Now after all that do you really think I wouldn’t recommend this book to everyone in the world. Yeah READ THE DARN BOOK. It was amazing, and wonderful and just perfection. SO why not read it? better yet read all of Sarah J. Maas books. She write the best fantasy books EVER. Her Throne of Glass series is just s magical *caugh caugh* #TEAM DELORIAN #TEAM DELORIAN I AM A DELORIAN FANGIRL/SHIPPER. IT WILL HAPPEN PEOPLE. TRUST MY INSTINCTS! * caugh *caugh

-‘Tamlin straightened a bit and said, “You look…better than before.”

Was that a compliment? I could have sworn Lucien gave Tamlin an encouraging nod.

“And your hair is…clean.”

Perhaps it was my raging hunger making me hallucinate the piss-poor attempt at flattery.’ – ACOTAR

 

-Tamlin blinked. “You like – art? You like to paint?” – ACOTAR

 

-I couldn’t come up with any words when we arrived – and knew that even if I had been able to paint it, nothing would have done it justice. It wasn’t simply that it was the most beautiful place I’d ever been to, or that it filled me with both longing and mirth, but it just seemed…right. As if colours and lights and patterns of the world had come together to form one perfect place – one true kind of beauty.’ -ACOTAR


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Top 10 Favorite Quotes

One of my favorite parts of reviewing books is putting that little section on the bottom of each page telling some of my favorite quotes. Here is my top 10 most favorite quotes of ALL TIME! I also if you didn’t know have a little page called BookQuotables where I put some of these favorite quotes (which I will be updating soon) 🙂

  1. “So many books, so little time.”
    ― Frank Zappa

  2. “Oh holy alien babies everywhere!”
    ― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Onyx
  3. “The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.”
    ― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen
  4. “One must always be careful of books,” said Tessa, “and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

  5. “I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”    ― Marilyn Monroe

  6. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
  7. “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
    ― Mark Twain

  8. “Maybe I should think of nothing at all? But that was passion impossible. As soon as I tried to thinking of anything, millions of ideas flooded my brain.”                                                                                 ― Kerstin Gier, Ruby Red

  9. “We all know interspecies romance is weird.” ― Tim Burton

  10. “She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.”  ― Henry James

Summer by Summer by Heather Burch

Summer by Summer

Author: Heather Burch

Genre: Contemporary

Pages: 288

Publisher: Blink

*received this book from BookSneeze in exchange for a honest review*

When Summer took a job as a nanny for a couple vacationing in Belize, she imagined it would be a fresh start before starting college in the fall. And while she adores her charge, Josh, she can’t say the same for her employers’ oldest son, Bray. He’s cocky, inconsiderate, and makes her feel she’s a chore he has to put up with. In short, he’s everything she dislikes in a guy.

Bray had a plan for the summer: party, hang out with friends, and forget all the responsibilities waiting for him back home. But every time he’s forced to be around Summer, her dour, serious mood sets him off. Not to mention she has a habit of picking up on what he already knows is wrong with him.

Then the two find themselves on a dive trip gone wrong, stranded on a remote island. As they focus on survival, their differences melt away, and they find being together may be what both needed all along.

Rate: 5.0/10.0

The word that comes to mind when I think about this book is cliche. I was really close to DFN’ing this book. The story wasn’t intriguing, the characters were bland, and the whole concept itself was cliche. BUT there is a reason why I gave it a 5 instead of a 4. This book did make me smile at times, very little, but it still made me smile. The beginning of the book was when I was actually enjoying it, but as the book progressed it slowly became uninteresting to me. One of the MAIN MAIN MAIN problems with this book was the alternating POV’s. I’m not a big fan of either of the characters so having to hear from both of their POV’s was kinda annoying on my part. I think if the book stuck to one POV I would’ve liked the book a whole lot better.

Summer was a very bland character to me. She wasn’t exciting, she wasn’t that relatable to me, and she acted like an adult. Which means she is basically the opposite of me 🙂 She took her job WAY to seriously. Ven the parents of the kid she was babysitting said that she should lay it off a bit, you know have some fun. But no. What’s fun? Thats why I didn’t really have fun while reading from her POV. If she let go for a bit then maybe just maybe I would actually enjoy her characters.

Bray was a typical player with a cocky side to me. He didn’t have anything unique going for him to he was also pretty bland to me. Most Wattpad stories have a interesting bad boy/player with a side that nobody sees. Bray is the exact opposite. Sure he has the player thing down, but he just isn’t interesting enough to read about. The relationship between Bray and Summer was probably the only thing that I actually enjoyed out of this book. I could see the progression, and how at first they didn’t even want to be in the same room together and by the end of it well you know.

Overall I would give this book a solid 3 stars. Nothing special, nothing bad. It was cliche for sure but it wasn’t a terrible book. It was ordinary. Something that you shouldn’t take your time to read. I wouldn’t really recommend this book to anyone really. I feel like its to dull, even for beginner readers. 

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May TBR List

Its May. 

Where did April go?!?

Funny thing I have actually read DOUBLE the amount of books that I had for my April TBR so that means EVEN MORE BOOKS TO READ THIS MONTH TO BEAT MY RECORD!

1. Broken Skies

Thirty years ago, civilization collapsed. Few survived.20764638
Ten years ago, the aliens arrived…and stayed.
One year ago, I killed two men and went a little crazy.
Today, the aliens took my brother and I will do anything to get him back.

In seventeen-year-old Jax Mitchell’s world, humans are nearly extinct and alien settlers have arrived.

Until recently, the E’rikon have remained segregated in their city and ignored the few humans who have tried to engage them… but now they have taken Jax’s brother. To rescue him, she forms an uneasy alliance with a teenage E’rikon left stranded in the woods. She agrees to guide him to the city if he sneaks her past the human-proof barrier. Too bad it’s not that simple.

Jax, who cannot stand to be touched, finds that she’s drawn to the alien boy with bright green hair and jewel-like scales on his back. And he’s equally affected by her, the courageous redhead with haunted eyes. But she doesn’t know the alien’s true motives and he has no idea that she is much more than she seems.

With the aliens and the humans at odds, the connection forming between the two teens has consequences. What started off as a rescue mission sets a chain of events in motion which threatens not only the remaining humans and the growing alien society, but Earth itself.

2.  Fangirls Guide to the GalaxyFangirl_final_72dpi

Fanfic, cosplay, cons, books, memes, podcasts, vlogs, OTPs and RPGs and MMOs and more—it’s never been a better time to be a girl geek. The Fangirl’s Guide to the Galaxy is the ultimate handbook for ladies living the nerdy life, a fun and feminist take on the often male-dominated world of geekdom. With delightful illustrations and an unabashed love for all the in(ternet)s and outs of geek culture, this book is packed with tips, playthroughs, and cheat codes for everything from starting an online fan community to planning a convention visit to supporting fellow female geeks in the wild.

3. The Heir

23019291Princess Eadlyn has grown up hearing endless stories about how her mother and father met. Twenty years ago, America Singer entered the Selection and won the heart of Prince Maxon—and they lived happily ever after. Eadlyn has always found their fairy-tale story romantic, but she has no interest in trying to repeat it. If it were up to her, she’d put off marriage for as long as possible.

But a princess’s life is never entirely her own, and Eadlyn can’t escape her very own Selection—no matter how fervently she protests.

Eadlyn doesn’t expect her story to end in romance. But as the competition begins, one entry may just capture Eadlyn’s heart, showing her all the possibilities that lie in front of her . . . and proving that finding her own happily ever after isn’t as impossible as she’s always thought.

 

4.  P.S. I Still Love You

Lara Jean didn’t expect to really fall for Peter.22840858
She and Peter were just pretending. Except suddenly they weren’t. Now Lara Jean is more confused than ever.
When another boy from her past returns to her life, Lara Jean’s feelings for him return too. Can a girl be in love with two boys at once?

In this charming and heartfelt sequel to the New York Times bestseller To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, we see first love through the eyes of the unforgettable Lara Jean. Love is never easy, but maybe that’s part of what makes it so amazing.

 

5. Gravity 

In the future, only one rule will matter:12844575

Don’t. Ever. Peek.

Seventeen-year-old Ari Alexander just broke that rule and saw the last person she expected hovering above her bed — arrogant Jackson Locke, the most popular boy in her school. She expects instant execution or some kind of freak alien punishment, but instead, Jackson issues a challenge: help him, or everyone on Earth will die.

Ari knows she should report him, but everything about Jackson makes her question what she’s been taught about his kind. And against her instincts, she’s falling for him. But Ari isn’t just any girl, and Jackson wants more than her attention. She’s a military legacy who’s been trained by her father and exposed to war strategies and societal information no one can know — especially an alien spy, like Jackson. Giving Jackson the information he needs will betray her father and her country, but keeping silent will start a war.

CHALLENGE BOOK!

The Sin Eater’s Daughter

I am the perfect weapon.24853140
I kill with a single touch.

Twylla is blessed. The Gods have chosen her to marry a prince, and rule the kingdom. But the favour of the Gods has it’s price. A deadly poison infuses her skin. Those who anger the queen must die under Twylla’s fatal touch.

Only Lief, an outspoken new guard, can see past Twylla’s chilling role to the girls she truly is.

Yet in a court as dangerous and the queen’s, some truths should not be told…

 

 

 

 

ARC Hold Me Like A Breath by Tiffany Schmidt

Hold Me Like A Breath (Once Upon A Crime Family #1)

Author: Tiffany Schmidt

Genre: Contemporary/Thriller

Pages: 400

Publisher: Bloomsbury

Publishing Date: May 19th, 2015

*Thank you Tiffany Schmidt for holding a ARC giveaway for this book :)*

Penelope Landlow has grown up with the knowledge that almost anything can be bought or sold—including body parts. She’s the daughter of one of the three crime families that control the black market for organ transplants.

Penelope’s surrounded by all the suffocating privilege and protection her family can provide, but they can’t protect her from the autoimmune disorder that causes her to bruise so easily.

And in her family’s line of work no one can be safe forever.

All Penelope has ever wanted is freedom and independence. But when she’s caught in the crossfire as rival families scramble for prominence, she learns that her wishes come with casualties, that betrayal hurts worse than bruises, that love is a risk worth taking . . . and maybe she’s not as fragile as everyone thinks.

 

Rate: 9.0/10.0

 

      I LOVED THIS BOOK. IT WAS AMAZING IN SO MANY WAYS. THE STORY. THE CHARACTERS. THElarge MYSTERY. THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA RETELLING. CUE CRYING GIF! I NEED MORE OF THIS SERIES. I KNOW THERE IS A SECOND BOOK AND I WILL WAIT UNTIL THE SECOND BOOK COMES OUT. MY SHIP HAS SAILED AND IT WON’T BE TURNING BACK UNTIL THE DAY THAT THE SECOND BOOK IS RELEASED. OKAY? OKAY.

     First lets start with the characters, it the best way to start. Penelope. For the first half of the book I just felt SO bad for her. Her life is just awful. It like she’s a princess locked up in a tower. Everybody thinks that she is the most fragile person ever just because she has this disorder that makes her bruise easily and yes she is a fragile person on the outside but nobody has ever took the time to see the un-fragile person on the inside (except her brother, Char, and Garrett-ish) She has a mind of her own but she just doesn’t use it for half the book and for the other half she is just kick-ass. Except that she does have some trouble trusting people less in the second half of the book. She is trying to solve the mystery which is her family and all trying to be a “normal girl”. But everybody has different definitions of the word normal. I feel like everybody has a crazy side just that these “normal” people hide it better 🙂 For Penelope normal is going to school, having a boyfriend, getting out of the house, which is for me also normal. Does she do this stuff? Nope. So I could see why she herself would say that her family is mysterious with her.

     Now usually I would go to the person we meet secondly, but I REALLY want to talk about Char, and how he is perfection. Char doesn’t think Pen as the fragile girl she is made to be. EVERY SINGLE PERSON that she meets knows about her disorder but Char doesn’t so he does have a bonus to actually thinking that she isn’t fragile. Char is a gentleman. Thats all i have to say about him. He asks permission, he asks if you’re okay, he lets you take charge. All gentleman inside that handsome guy. Not only that but he is also a pretty smart guy. He knows a little about science fiction which you know I adore. You can tell he has officially been added to my never ending fictional boyfriend list.

    Then we have Garrett. Oh Garrett. How you made me head hurt. You were just confusing to me. One time you know what you wanted, then you didn’t, then everything messed up, then you confuse more people it was just a big confuzzle with you. Thats why I am certainly not your biggest fan for this book, and if the story continues you will have to have a very solid reason and evidence for me to like you again.

    Now the story itself was AMAZING! It was mysterious, thriller-ish, and it did have the fairytale retelling vibe that you get while reading fairy tales. This book was supposed to be shown as a Princess and the Pea retelling and I could see what TIffany was trying to do with the characters and the story, and in my opinion she did it perfectly. I cannot wait for the second book to come out. I recommend to this to all. If you’re not a big fan of thriller or mystery this is a great starter book for that genre. You will definitely see me post more about this series as soon as I hear news 🙂

“You’re my reason for breathing.” -Tiffany Schmidt, Hold Me Like A Breath

“Don’t hang up I’m still here.” -Tiffany Schmidt, Hold Me Like A Breath

“Waking up in a hospital bed wasn’t a new experience for me.” -Tiffany Schmidt, Hold Me Like A Breath

“I couldn’t wait” he said. “Not even one more Mississippi.” -Tiffany Schmidt, Hold Me Like A Breath

 

 

An Ember in the Ashes Release Day Blitz

I am so excited that AN EMBER IN THE ASHES by Sabaa Tahir releases today and that I get to share the news, along with a special introduction from Sabaa herself!

If you haven’t yet heard about this wonderful book by Author Sabaa Tahir, be sure to check out all the details below.

This blitz also includes a giveaway for a signed copies of the book and some of those awesome sword letter openers we’ve seen around courtesy of Sabaa, Penguin Teen, and Rockstar Book Tours. So if you’d like a chance to win, enter in the Rafflecopter at the bottom of this post.

A letter from Sabaa Tahir.

Dear Readers,

Today, my “baby” AN EMBER IN THE ASHES is finally out in the world! From inception to pub date, this journey took eight years. And what a journey it was: writing, rewriting, revising, editing, querying, submitting; Meeting other debuts, bloggers, booksellers and librarians, and hearing their thoughts on EMBER. There aren’t enough superlatives to describe the radness.

And now, the book is here! I am so excited to see it in the hands of readers. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. To celebrate release day, I’m giving away two signed, first-edition hardcovers of the book. Details below!

All my best,

Sabaa

 

AN EMBER IN THE ASHES    Title: AN EMBER IN THE ASHES

     Author: Sabaa Tahir

     Pub. Date: April 28, 2015

     Publisher: Razorbill

     Pages: 464

     Find it: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Goodreads

      Set in a terrifyingly brutal Rome-like world, An Ember in the             Ashes is an epic fantasy debut about an orphan fighting for her family and a soldier fighting for his freedom. It’s a story that’s literally burning to be told.

LAIA is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire’s greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution.

ELIAS is the academy’s finest soldier—and secretly, its most unwilling. Elias is considering deserting the military, but before he can, he’s ordered to participate in a ruthless contest to choose the next Martial emperor.

When Laia and Elias’s paths cross at the academy, they find that their destinies are more intertwined than either could have imagined and that their choices will change the future of the empire itself.

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About Sabaa:

Sabaa-Tahir-200x300   Sabaa Tahir grew up in California’s Mojave Desert at her family’s 18-room            motel. There, she spent her time devouring fantasy novels, raiding her                  brother’s comic book stash and playing guitar badly. She began writing An          Ember in the Ashes while working nights as a newspaper editor. She likes            thunderous indie rock, garish socks and all things nerd. Sabaa currently lives      in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family.

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Giveaway Details:

2 winners will receive a signed hardcover of AN EMBER IN THE ASHES. US Only.

3 winners will receive a hardcover of AN EMBER IN THE ASHES and a Sword Letter Opener! US Only.

Ends on May 9th at Midnight EST!

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