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January 24, 2015
Review: Second Star, by Alyssa B. Sheinmel
A twisty story about love, loss, and lies, this contemporary oceanside adventure is tinged with a touch of dark magic as it follows seventeen-year-old Wendy Darling on a search for her missing surfer brothers. Wendy’s journey leads her to a mysterious hidden cove inhabited by a tribe of young renegade surfers, most of them runaways like her brothers. Wendy is instantly drawn to the cove’s charismatic leader, Pete, but her search also points her toward Pete’s nemesis, the drug-dealing Jas. Eni...
January 23, 2015
Review: Beast of Venery, by Isabell Lawless
N
ot wasting a second, the moving truck with its crew packed up all her belongings, and she finally hit the road away from hell, once and for all.
At least that was her plan.
Years later; in a new town, with a new job, and a wonderful hot contractor as a husband, an email shakes up the happy life she has manage to rebuild for herself. A life far away from denigrating accusations, cruel demands, and sexual domination.
Now her ex Brian has found her, and won’t accept anything less than for her to...
January 22, 2015
Cover Reveal: Never Never, by Brianna Shrum
James Hook is a child who only wants to grow up.
When he meets Peter Pan, a boy who loves to pretend and is intent on never becoming a man, James decides he could try being a child—at least briefly. James joins Peter Pan on a holiday to Neverland, a place of adventure created by children’s dreams, but Neverland is not for the faint of heart. Soon James finds himself longing for home, determined that he is destined to be a man. But Peter refuses to take him back, leaving James trapped in a worl...
January 21, 2015
I Ship… Bellamy and Clarke -The 100
The 100 is a TV show based on the book, by Kass Morgan,that has recently risenabove your run of the mill showand has won over the heart of hundreds of peopleall over the world, including mine. While it does have its flaws, the plotlinealways has youat the edge of your seat, wand wanting to sticka fork into something from the tension.
And,as with most things nowadays, we just can’t help but ship.
The Hint
Um… yeah, excuse me while I die of feels.
Scene that Tore my Heart
Fan Art You gotta Love
Fan a...
January 20, 2015
Top Ten Tuesday (7): Books That Have Left Me Empty
Hosted by The Broke and the Bookish
It’s been a while since I last posted one of these :/ Missed it!
For today’s one, I’m telling you about the top ten books that have left me empty and like I couldn’t go on -That is, until I found another one to help me.
1. Angelfall, by Susan Ee
With that cliffhanger at the end… It wasn’t the bite your nails to the bone kind at first glance, but it had the same effect in how it was done. I was barely coherent after I finished it.
2. The Iron Knight, by Julie Kag...
January 17, 2015
Review: Let The Sky Fall, by Shannon Messenger
Vane Weston should have died in the category-five tornado that killed his parents. Instead, he woke up in a pile of rubble with no memories of his past – except one: a beautiful, dark-haired girl standing in the winds. She swept through his dreams ever since, and he clings to the hope that she’s real.
Audra is real, but she isn’t human. She’s a sylph, an air elemental who can walk on the wind, translate its alluring songs, even twist it into a weapon. She’s also a guardian – Vane’s guardian –...
January 15, 2015
Blog Tour: Birth of a Destiny by T.R. Milne
Title: Birth of a Destiny by T.R. Milne
Genres: YA Fantasy/Adventure
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Evil stalks her. True love finds her. Destiny claims her.
Rose wakes from a coma to find her life has changed forever.
Her parents were killed in the accident that nearly claimed her life. Now orphaned, her mother’s sister brings her to live in the country with her cousins, who quickly make their resentment known.
Once courageous and full of life, she only wants to be left alone to...
January 13, 2015
Review: The Wicked Within (Gods & Monsters #3), by Kelly Keaton
Her fate is not set in stone.
Having temporarily defeated Athena, Ari races to break the gorgon curse that has plagued the women in her family for centuries. Her one lead sends her on a quest for the Hands of Zeus, an ancient relic last seen in the charge of New 2’s ruling elite, the Novem. But if there is one thing that Athena desires as much as revenge, it’s the Hands of Zeus—and Athena always gets what she wants.
Before either can locate the Hands, the statue goes missing, and a trail of blo...
January 10, 2015
Our Crazy Love for Endearing Secondary Characters
Main charactersare meant toattract ourattentionand make us be sucked bone deep into their storyand their conflicts. But, sometimes, they fail to do so,and weare instead drawn to the potential of other characters. We feel compelled to know everythingabout them. Their backstory, their motivations,and even goaround looking for fanfics featuring them.
Sometimes,authorsare so intent in making the MC sucha dashing hero(ine), that they unknowingly make him/her boringand the charactersaround, people w...
January 8, 2015
Review: Princess of Thorns, by Stacey Jay
Game of Thrones meets the Grimm’s fairy tales in this twisted, fast-paced romantic fantasy-adventure about Sleeping Beauty’s daughter, a warrior princess who must fight to reclaim her throne.
Though she looks like a mere mortal, Princess Aurora is a fairy blessed with enhanced strength, bravery, and mercy yet cursed to destroy the free will of any male who kisses her. Disguised as a boy, she enlists the help of the handsome but also cursed Prince Niklaas to fight legions of evil and free her b...
