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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

YA Paranormal Giveaway~! Win DARK EDEN by PATRICK CARMAN







Welcome to the RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS Giveaway Hop! 


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There are over 100 blogs participating and each has their own entry rules and geographic limits, so be sure to read the rules for each one.  This hop starts February 21st  and and ends on February 27th,  midnight. 




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Contest ends on 2.27.13 Winner will be chosen by Random.org 
WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN THE COMMENTS OF THIS POST
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"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at  Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:







Book Description

May 7, 2013


Your heart beats only with their permission.

Everything changed on The Day. The day the windows shattered. The day the power stopped. The day Dol's family dropped dead. The day Earth lost a war it didn't know it was fighting.

Since then, Dol has lived a simple life in the countryside -- safe from the shadow of the Icon and its terrifying power. Hiding from the one truth she can't avoid.

She's different. She survived. Why?

When Dol and her best friend, Ro, are captured and taken to the Embassy, off the coast of the sprawling metropolis once known as the City of Angels, they find only more questions. While Ro and fellow hostage Tima rage against their captors, Dol finds herself drawn to Lucas, the Ambassador's privileged son. But the four teens are more alike than they might think, and the timing of their meeting isn't a coincidence. It's a conspiracy.

Within the Icon's reach, Dol, Ro, Tima, and Lucas discover that their uncontrollable emotions -- which they've always thought to be their greatest weaknesses -- may actually be their greatest strengths.

Bestselling author Margaret Stohl delivers the first book in a heart-pounding series set in a haunting new world where four teens must piece together the mysteries of their pasts -- in order to save the future.







Monday, February 18, 2013

Review MIND GAMES by KIERSTEN WHITE @kierstenwhite @HarperTeen



Book Description

February 19, 2013 Mind Games

Fia was born with flawless instincts. Her first impulse, her gut feeling, is always exactly right. Her sister, Annie, is blind to the world around her—except when her mind is gripped by strange visions of the future. 

Trapped in a school that uses girls with extraordinary powers as tools for corporate espionage, Annie and Fia are forced to choose over and over between using their abilities in twisted, unthinkable ways… or risking each other’s lives by refusing to obey.

In a stunning departure from her New York Times bestselling Paranormalcy trilogy, Kiersten White delivers a slick, edgy, heartstoppingly intense psychological thriller about two sisters determined to protect each other—no matter the cost.


Details

  • Reading level: Ages 13 and up
  • Hardcover: 304 pages
  • Publisher: HarperTeen (February 19, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0062135317
  • ISBN-13: 978-0062135315

About the Author
Kiersten White is the New York Times bestselling author of Paranormalcy and Supernaturally. She has one tall husband and two small children. She lives near the ocean in San Diego, where her days are perfectly normal. This abundance of normal led her to a fascination with all things paranormal, including but not limited to faeries, vampires, and pop culture.

SOURCE:  AROUND THE WORLD ARC TOURS

MY THOUGHTS
LOVED IT

Weird.  

Fia, short for Sophia, and her sister, Annabelle,  have been abandon by their aunt to a special boarding school where they have been offered a full scholarship.  With their parents dead and their aunt constantly traveling, the girls are have been on their own for the last few years.  The school they attend uses the girls for their special gifts.  Anna can see others in her mind and even though she is blind, she can picture the future perfectly.  Fia can always make the right choice whether it is a killing in the stock market or the perfect way to kill someone.  Their lives come tumbling apart when Fia cannot follow though on a plan to kill someone.  

In her short life, Fia has killed several times and she should have been able to kill Adam without hesitation but then he deviates from her plan and becomes human by showing concern for her.  Adam has his own strange history as a medical prodigy, he is trying to map the brains of girls just like Fia to discover why they have such unique abilities.  James Keane is the son of the man that forces the girls to a life of crime although he has some dark secrets of his own.  Fia dumps Adam and tells Keane everything went according to plan and forces Anna to lie about it as well.  When Fia has had enough, she tries to escape but knows that Keane's father will kill Anna if she leaves.  

I read this book in one sitting and it reminded me a bit of La Femme Nikita with lots of running, action and violence.  Fia and Anna share a strong bond and the bad guys use it to their advantage.  There are a few surprising twists and turns in the story that made me really feel for Fia and the fact that she is so alone. It is told in alternating points of view between Anna and Fia which really added to the background. Also, there are lots of flashbacks to explain things.  The smart and snappy dialogue is all there, just like Paranormalcy as well as the non stop action.  Parents:  there is a lot of violence, drinking and kissing. 

Giveaway~! THE UGLY STEPSISTER STRIKES BACK by SARIAH WILSON win $50 #BookBlast @sariahwilson


The Ugly Stepsister Strikes Back by Sariah Wilson 

Everyone knows how all those fairy tales go. The princess gets beautiful, nabs her prince, falls instantly in love, lives happily ever after and leaves her evil stepsisters in the dust.

But what happens when you’re the ugly stepsister and your obnoxiously perfect—read pretty, smart, and, worst of all, sickeningly nice—stepsister is dating the charming, tall, devastatingly handsome guy you’ve had a thing for since you were nine years old?

Quirky, artistic and snarky Mattie Lowe does not lead a charmed life. Her mother is constantly belittling her on Skype. Mercedes, the school mean girl, has made it her personal mission to torment Mattie. But worst of all? Her stepsister Ella is the most beautiful, popular girl in school and is dating Mattie’s secret longtime crush, Jake Kingston.

Tired of being left out and done with waiting for her own stupid fairy godmother to show up, Mattie decides to change her life. She’ll start by running for senior class president against wildly popular Jake.

Ella can keep her Prince Annoying. Mattie’s going to rule the school.

And no one, not even a cute and suddenly flirty Jake, is going to stop her.


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Praise

“My top pick of 2012 YA… This book is just. plain. fun.”
~Jordan McCollum, author of Saints & Spies and I, Spy

“Sariah Wilson's new book, The Ugly Stepsister Strikes Back, is hilarious…What follows is a story of fun and romance with some good non-preachy life lessons thrown in.  The voice in the main character, Mattie, makes the whole thing.  I thought it was definitely a book I'd recommend to anyone with teenagers or who just want to read a good teen romance.”
~Julie Coulter Bellon, author of All Fall Down and All’s Fair

“Sariah [Wilson] has written one of the funniest stories I've read in such a long, long time. I literally couldn't put it down. Yes, my poor Kindle's battery died and I was attached to a short power cord, contorted in a very uncomfortable position while I read to the end…. Sariah Wilson captured the back-biting, insecure, hormone-driven, clique-riddled high school atmosphere so perfectly you'd think she never grew up. I dare you not to laugh as you read this witty and oh, so, romantic story.”
~Debra Erfert of Windows into Writing

“Sariah Wilson writes like the best of/most popular YA teen fiction/teen romance authors - Sarah Dessen, Jennifer Echols, Susanne Collins, Cassandra Clare.  She sucks you in and never lets you go.  I finished the ~194 novel in one night because I just couldn't go to sleep without knowing the ending!  I hope that Sariah comes out with more novels, I know I'll be re-reading this one all the time!  She's extremely talented and needs to be talked about.  I highly recommend The Ugly Stepsister Strikes Back! to anyone (over the age of 12) who wants a YA novel that's a real modern-day fairy tale.”
~Hilary at Novel d’Tales

“This was such an entertaining story! I shouldn't have started reading it so late in the evening, because I didn't want to put it down to go to sleep…This is a book I can see myself reading several times. It's a fast, clean read with great characters, and I highly recommend it.”
~Andrea of Literary Time Out

The book is wonderful.  It’s quirky and fun.  The story makes you laugh and you fall in love with the characters right from the beginning…This is a well-written book.  It is one that will make you smile and sigh as you remember your first love.  And it has a moral…be yourself, believe in yourself and maybe, just maybe, your fairytale will come true.  Pick up this book.”
~Ana of The Book Hookup



Author Sariah Wilson

Sariah Wilson has never jumped out of an airplane, never climbed Mt. Everest, and is not a former CIA operative. She has, however, been madly, passionately in love with her soulmate and is a fervent believer in happily ever afters—which is why she writes romance. The Ugly Stepsister Strikes Back is her fourth happily ever after novel. She grew up in southern California, graduated from Brigham Young University (go Cougars!) with a semi-useless degree in history, and is the oldest of nine (yes, nine) children. She currently lives with the aforementioned soulmate and their four children in Utah, along with three tiger barb fish, a cat named Tiger, and a recently departed hamster that is buried in the backyard (and has nothing at all to do with tigers).



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Saturday, February 16, 2013

Random Acts of Kindness Giveaway~! WIN Love Sucks and Bite Me by Melissa Frances







Welcome to the RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS Giveaway Hop! 


This hop is hosted by: 
I Am a Reader, Not a Writer (HERE
Read For Your Future (HERE)




There are over 100 blogs participating and each has their own entry rules and geographic limits, so be sure to read the rules for each one.  This hop starts February 17th  and and ends on February 21st,  midnight. 




HERE IS WHAT I HAVE FOR ONE LUCKY WINNER:







Want to win these ARC  books?

Contest is open to anyone over 13 years old with a reliable mailing address within the free shipping areas of The Book Depository.
Contest ends on 2.21.13 Winner will be chosen by Random.org 
WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN THE COMMENTS OF THIS POST
Winner will have 48 hours to respond to email or a new winner will be chosen.
Duplicate entries will be deleted.  Void where prohibited.
This giveaway is sponsored by me and ONE book is available.

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Friday, February 15, 2013

GIVEAWAY~! February Mystery Book










WELCOME TO THE February MYSTERY BOOK GIVEAWAY!

Here are your blurbs - right from Amazon.  If there are characters mentioned, I have Xd out the names.  



XXX, XXX, and XXX—three of XXX XXX’s five children—live in different homes, with different guardians and different last names. They share only a predisposition for addiction and a host of troubled feelings toward the mother who barely knows them, a mother who has been riding with the monster, crank, for twenty years.

PLEASE DON'T POST THE TITLE IN THE COMMENTS - THERE IS A PLACE ON THE ENTRY FORM FOR YOUR GUESS.   OOPS!  I FORGOT THE SPACE FOR GUESSES.  




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Contest is open to anyone with a reliable US  mailing address and ends 2.28.13
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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Cover Reveal SWEET LEGACY by TERA LYNN CHILDS @teralynnchilds @HarperTeen


Book Description

September 3, 2013 Sweet Venom

Isn't this gorgeous!  I can't find a description yet, but as part of THE VENOM SQUAD, I hope to bring you more news soon!




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