REVIEW: FLAWLESS (PRETTY LITTLE LIARS BOOK #2) by Sara Shepard

Title: Flawless (Pretty Little Liars #2)

Author: Sara Shepard

Published: March 15th 2007 by HarperCollins Publishers

Book Description:
In the exclusive town of Rosewood, Pennsylvania, where the sweetest smiles hide the darkest secrets, four pretty little liars--Spencer, Aria, Emily, and Hanna--have been very bad girls. . . .

Spencer stole her sister's boyfriend. Aria is brokenhearted over her English teacher. Emily likes her new friend Maya . . . as much more than a friend. And Hanna's obsession with looking flawless is literally making her sick. But the most horrible secret of all is something so scandalous it could destroy their perfect little lives.

And someone named "A" is threatening to do just that.

At first they thought A was Alison, their friend who vanished three years ago . . . but then Alison turned up dead. So could A be Melissa, Spencer's ultracompetitive sister? Or Maya, who wants Emily all to herself? What about Toby, the mysterious guy who left town right after Alison went missing?

One thing's for certain: A's got the dirt to bury them all alive, and with every crumpled note, wicked IM, and vindictive text message A sends, the girls get a little closer to losing it all.

Check out our review on Pretty Little Liars #1: Here

Book of the Month August 2012 "This Is Not A Test by Courtney Summers"

One of the best books we've read last August is

This Is Not A Test by Courtney Summers

Review here

"I have many jumpy moments while reading this book. This Is Not A Test is intense; there is nothing like it."

-The Unseelie Nerd

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Tour Stop: My Super Sweet Sixteenth Century by Rachel Harris (Review and Giveaway)

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Title: My Super Sweet Sixteenth Century

Author: Rachel Harris

Published:  Sept 11th 2012 by Entangled Publishing

ARC given by the publisher

Book Description:

On the precipice of her sixteenth birthday, the last thing lone wolf Cat Crawford wants is an extravagant gala thrown by her bubbly stepmother and well-meaning father. So even though Cat knows the family’s trip to Florence, Italy, is a peace offering, she embraces the magical city and all it offers. But when her curiosity leads her to an unusual gypsy tent, she exits . . . right into Renaissance Firenze.                        

                                                                  

Thrust into the sixteenth century armed with only a backpack full of contraband future items, Cat joins up with her ancestors, the sweet Alessandra and protective Cipriano, and soon falls for the gorgeous aspiring artist Lorenzo. But when the much-older Niccolo starts sniffing around, Cat realizes that an unwanted birthday party is nothing compared to an unwanted suitor full of creeptastic amore. 

Can she find her way back to modern times before her Italian adventure turns into an Italian forever?

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REVIEW: PRETTY LITTLE LIARS #1 BY SARA SHEPARD

Title: Pretty Little Liars #1

Author: Sara Shepard

Published: October 1st 2006 by HarperCollins Publishers

Book Description:
Three years ago, Alison disappeared after a slumber party, not to be seen since. Her friends at the elite Pennsylvania school mourned her, but they also breathed secret sighs of relief. Each of them guarded a secret that only Alison had known. Now they have other dirty little secrets, secrets that could sink them in their gossip-hungry world. When each of them begins receiving anonymous emails and text messages, panic sets in. Are they being betrayed by some one in their circle? Worse yet: Is Alison back? A strong launch for a suspenseful series.

Spotlight: The Mist on Bronte Moor by Aviva Orr (Excerpt)

The Mist on Bronte Moor

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Book Description:

When fifteen-year-old Heather Jane Bell is diagnosed with alopecia and her hair starts falling out in clumps, she wants nothing more than to escape her home in London and disappear off the face of the earth. 

Heather gets her wish when her concerned parents send her to stay with her great-aunt in West Yorkshire. But shortly after she arrives, she becomes lost on the moors and is swept through the mist back to the year 1833. There she encounters fifteen-year-old Emily Brontë and is given refuge in the Brontë Parsonage. 

Unaware of her host family’s genius and future fame, Heather struggles to cope with alopecia amongst strangers in a world completely foreign to her. While Heather finds comfort and strength in her growing friendship with Emily and in the embrace of the close-knit Brontë family, her emotions are stretched to the limit when she falls for Emily’s brilliant but troubled brother, Branwell.

Will Heather return to the comforts and conveniences of the twenty-first century? Or will she choose love and remain in the harsh world of nineteenth-century Haworth?

Aviva Orr

Author behind "The Mist on Bronte Moor"

Bio:

Originally from South Africa, Aviva now lives in Southern California with her husband, two daughters, and two Yorkie terriers (Lucy and Branwell).

Aviva holds a master's degree in English and has a keen interest in early British literature. The Mist on Brontë Moor is her first novel and will be released by WiDo Publishing on January 8, 2013.

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Goddess Offerings #3 (Stacking the Shelves , In My Mailbox)

For Review

Fifty Shades #1-3 by E.L James (Bought)

Rise of Nine by Pittacus Lore (Bought)
The Kill Order by James Dashner (Bought) 
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami (Bought)

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Blood and Feathers (Blood and Feathers #1) by Lou Morgan (Solaris)

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Ebooks

The Lost Prince (Call of the Forgotten #1)  by Julie Kagawa (Netgalley)

Undeadly (The Reaper Diaries #1) by Michele Vail
 (Harlequin Teen)

 "Special Thanks to Michele Vail , Michael @ Solaris Publishing, Shane Morgan and Harlequin Teen."

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Tour Stop: Hollowed by Kelley York (Review and Interview)

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Title: Hollowed

Author: Kelley York

Published: August 15th 2012 by Smashwords

ARC is given by the author

Book Description:

All 18-year-old Briar Greyson wanted was to figure out this whole living-away-from-your-parents thing. Apartment, steady job, cool roommate? Check. Noah, her adorable (albeit elusive) boyfriend? Check. Everything in the life of Briar was pretty good.

Then she and her roommate are attacked on their way home one night. Briar wasn't supposed to survive.
Instead, according to the two guys who saved her, she's turning into the things that attacked her: a vampire. Totally crazy and Not Okay. Now Noah's secrets are coming to light, and he wants Briar dead. Then there are the vampires who attacked Briar to lure out her sister.
Her sister...who died years ago. 

(Didn't she?)
The city's body count is rising, and Briar wants to help put a stop to it. But first, she has to figure out who the real enemy is: the vampires, the boy she loves, or the sister she thought she'd lost.

Kelley York

Author behind "Hollowed"

Interview:

1. Give us 3 interesting facts about you?

(1) I once worked in a funeral home. People seem to find that interesting. I filled out death certificates, helped arrange services and viewings, drove bodies to the crematory for cremation, and sometimes drove them to the airport if they were being shipped out of state.

(2) I got married to by amazing wife on October 30^th, 2008, a few days before Proposition 8 passed.

(3) I used to be an artist. I still doodle from time to time, but it's a hobby that was set aside in favor of my writing. I attended a few anime conventions and sold my artwork and took commissions.

2. Current book/s you have on your shelf?

Well...most of my books are e-books. ;) On my virtual shelf, I have LIVING DEAD GIRL by Elizabeth Scott, and FEED by Mira Grant.

3. What inspired you to write about Hollowed?

I'm not sure if anything inspired it, per se. Just that Briar was this fun character I had in my head, and she had a story I wanted to tell. She's a character I absolutely love to write for.

4. Any advice to aspiring writers?

I never feel qualified to answer this question, because I don't think I'm any different than any other writer out there. If you're writing, you're a writer. You may not be a published writer, but you're still a writer and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

That being said, writing is a passion. At times, it's lonely, heartbreaking, infuriating, depressing, and extremely hard to handle. Write because you don't know how NOT to, not because you want fame and money. It's a long, hard road. Keep learning, and you'll get there.

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Waiting on Wednesday #17

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly post started by Breaking the Spine, to show books that we are patiently waiting for.  

The book we're waiting for this week is:

Paper Valentine by Brenna Yovanoff

Expected publication: January 8th 2013 by Razorbill

(first published January 3rd 2013) 

 Book description:

The city of Ludlow is gripped by the hottest July on record.  The asphalt is melting, the birds are dying, petty crime is on the rise, and someone in Hannah Wagnor’s peaceful suburban community is killing girls.

For Hannah, the summer is a complicated one.  Her best friend Lillian died six months ago, and Hannah just wants her life to go back to normal. But how can things be normal when Lillian’s ghost is haunting her bedroom, pushing her to investigate the mysterious string of murders?  Hannah’s just trying to understand why her friend self-destructed, and where she fits now that Lillian isn’t there to save her a place among the social elite. And she must stop thinking about Finny Boone, the big, enigmatic delinquent whose main hobbies seem to include petty larceny and surprising acts of kindness.

With the entire city in a panic, Hannah soon finds herself drawn into a world of ghost girls and horrifying secrets.  She realizes that only by confronting the Valentine Killer will she be able move on with her life—and it’s up to her to put together the pieces before he strikes again.

Paper Valentine is a hauntingly poetic tale of love and death by the New York Times bestselling author of The Replacement and The Space Between.

Why I'm excited for this:

First of all, it's a book about murder mystery and ghosts 

which is a big, BIG plus for me! 

I just love books in that genre.

 (And it's gonna be released on my birthday as well! :D)

REVIEW: 1Q84 BOOK 1 BY HARUKI MURAKAMI, JAY RUBIN AND PHILLIP GABRIEL

Title: 1Q84

Author: Haruki Murakami,  Jay Rubin and Phillip Gabriel (Translators)

Published: October 25th 2011 by Knopf

Book Description:
The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.

A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that bears a question.” Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project. He becomes so wrapped up with the work and its unusual author that, soon, his previously placid life begins to come unraveled. 

As Aomame’s and Tengo’s narratives converge over the course of this single year, we learn of the profound and tangled connections that bind them ever closer: a beautiful, dyslexic teenage girl with a unique vision; a mysterious religious cult that instigated a shoot-out with the metropolitan police; a reclusive, wealthy dowager who runs a shelter for abused women; a hideously ugly private investigator; a mild-mannered yet ruthlessly efficient bodyguard; and a peculiarly insistent television-fee collector.

A love story, a mystery, a fantasy, a novel of self-discovery, a dystopia to rival George Orwell’s—1Q84 is Haruki Murakami’s most ambitious undertaking yet: an instant best seller in his native Japan, and a tremendous feat of imagination from one of our most revered contemporary writers.

Spotlight: Night Creatures Series by Marianne de Pierres

Shine Light (Night Creatures #3)

Angel Arias (Night Creatures #2)

Burn Bright (Night Creatures #1)

Marianne de Pierres

Author behind "Night Creatures Series"

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1.    Give us 3 interesting facts about you?

I’m 186 cms. I haven’t had alcohol or caffeine for 4 years. I have a TV crush on Alexander Skarsgard.

2.    Who designed the covers (They are absolutely BREATHTAKING)?

The cover art is by JarolsawKubicki an amazing European digital artist. We were able to get permission to use some of his work. We love it and it fitted so perfectly with the stories.

3.    What inspired you to write about “The Night Creature Series”?

The story came to me about eight years ago after I’d finished my first novel Nylon Angel. It was inspired by a number of things I was interested in; Gothic architecture, nocturnal habits of creatures and the fact that I’d spent several years living on an island.

4.    Can you share a little of your current work with us (Shine Light)?

Shine Light is set back on Ixion as Naif returns to enlighten her friends about their situation. Things have become dire; people are dying, the Ripers have split. The story also progresses Naif’s relationships with both Markes and Lenoir to their natural conclusion.

5.    Any message to aspiring writers?

My best tips are right here on this page of my website: http://www.mariannedepierres.com/extras/writing-tips/

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Review: Earth Girl by Janet Edwards

Title: Earth Girl

Author: Janet Edwards

Published:  August 16th 2012 by Harper Voyager
ARC copy was provided by the publisher

Book Description:

2788. Only the handicapped live on Earth. While everyone else portals between worlds, 18-year-old Jarra is among the one in a thousand people born with an immune system that cannot survive on other planets. Sent to Earth at birth to save her life, she has been abandoned by her parents. She can’t travel to other worlds, but she can watch their vids, and she knows all the jokes they make. She’s an ‘ape’, a ‘throwback’, but this is one ape girl who won’t give in.

Jarra invents a fake background for herself – as a normal child of Military parents – and joins a class of norms that is on Earth to excavate the ruins of the old cities. When an ancient skyscraper collapses, burying another research team, Jarra’s role in their rescue puts her in the spotlight. No hiding at back of class now. To make life more complicated, she finds herself falling in love with one of her classmates – a norm from another planet. Somehow, she has to keep the deception going.

A freak solar storm strikes the atmosphere, and the class is ordered to portal off-world for safety – no problem for a real child of military parents, but fatal for Jarra. The storm is so bad that the crews of the orbiting solar arrays have to escape to planet below: the first landing from space in 600 years. And one is on collision course with their shelter.

Spotlight: Masks of the Lost Kings by Tom Bane (Trailer and Author's Bio)

Masks of the Lost Kings by Tom Bane

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Book Description:

Following the sudden disappearance of treasure hunter Ben Sanders in Mexico, beautiful archaeologist Suzy da Silva is snatched from the cloistered environs of Oxford University and thrust into a deadly maelstrom of intrigue and discovery. Joining forces with astrophysicist Tom Brooking she crosses four continents, to unlock the dark secrets of Tutankhamun's tomb, the Holy Sepulchre and the mysterious Mayan Temple of Inscriptions to reveal a mysterious truth. Together they risk their lives, pursued by martial assassins and renegade special forces, fighting the forces of evil to discover hidden knowledge so precious that it has lain dormant for over a thousand years...

"The cover reminds us a bit of Indiana Jones"

Tom Bane

Author behind "Masks of the Lost Kinds"

Bio:

Tom Bane grew up in England. He studied physical chemistry at University and went on to work in the energy industry before becoming a writer. The son of an engineer and a school teacher, he has always had a fascination for the interplay between science and beliefs, and these themes provided the backdrop to his novels. He had the idea for the Suzy da Silva series one day in 2008 whilst out walking with his dog in Cornwall near Tintagel Castle. His first novel “Masks of the Lost Kings” took him over two years to write and research, visiting the ancient ruins of Egypt and South and Central America. His first novel was published in 2012, and has exceeded all expectations. Since then, he has been busy on his second novel in the Suzy da Silva series, with more novels in the series already in the pipeline. Tom appears regularly in the media and is highly rated by fans and booklovers alike. He spends his time living and writing in the USA, UK and Thailand.

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Waiting on Wednesday: Pathfinder (Exodus/ Raging Earth #1) by Julie Bertagna

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly post started by Breaking the Spine, to show books that we are patiently waiting for.  

The book we're waiting for this week is:

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Pathfinder (Exodus/ Raging Earth #1) by Julie Bertagna

Expected publication: February 5th 2013 by Walker Childrens

Book Description:

Less than a hundred years from now, the world as we know it no longer exists. Cities have disappeared beneath the sea, technology no longer functions, and human civilization has reverted to a much more primitive state. On an isolated northern island, the people of Wing are trying to hold onto their way of life—even as the sea continues to claim precious acres and threatens to claim their very lives. Only fifteen-year-old Mara has the vision and the will to lead her people in search of a new beginning in this harsh, unfamiliar world.

This compelling and powerful story set in the near future will hit home with teens, especially those who are ever more aware of the increasingly controversial climate crisis we face in our world today

REVIEW: THE MYSTERIOUS BENEDICT SOCIETY BY TRENTON LEE STEWART

Title: The Mysterious Benedict Society

Author: Trenton Lee Stewart

Published: March 7 2007 by Little Brown Company

Book Description:
Dozens of children respond to this peculiar ad in the newspaper and are then put through a series of mind-bending tests, which readers take along with them. Only four children-two boys and two girls-succeed. Their challenge: to go on a secret mission that only the most intelligent and inventive children could complete. To accomplish it they will have to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules. But what they'll find in the hidden underground tunnels of the school is more than your average school supplies. So, if you're gifted, creative, or happen to know Morse Code, they could probably use your help

REVIEW: DUST & DECAY (BENNY IMURA # 2) BY JONATHAN MABERRY

Title: Dust & Decay

Author: Jonathan Maberry

Published:  August 30, 2011 by Simon and Schuster for Young Readers

Book Description:

Six months have passed since the terrifying battle with Charlie Pink-eye and the Motor City Hammer in the zombie-infested mountains of the Rot & Ruin. It’s also six months since Benny Imura and Nix Riley saw something in the air that changed their lives. Now, after months of rigorous training with Benny’s zombie-hunter brother Tom, Benny and Nix are ready to leave their home forever and search for a better future. Lilah the Lost Girl and Benny’s best friend Lou Chong are going with them. Sounds easy. Sounds wonderful. Except that everything that can go wrong does. Before they can even leave there is a shocking zombie attack in town. But as soon as they step into the Rot & Ruin they are pursued by the living dead, wild animals, insane murderers and the horrors of Gameland –where teenagers are forced to fight for their lives in the zombie pits. Worst of all…could the evil Charlie Pink-eye still be alive?

In the great Rot & Ruin everything wants to kill you. Everything…and not everyone in Benny’s small band of travelers will make it out alive.

Spotlight: Blood and Feathers by Lou Morgan (Cover and Excerpt)

Blood and Feathers by Lou Morgan

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Book Description:

(Mature YA Readers)

“What’s the first thing you think of when I say ‘angel’?” asked Mallory.
Alice shrugged. “I don’t know... guns?”

Alice isn’t having the best of days. She was late for work, she missed her bus, and now she’s getting rained on. What she doesn’t know is that her day’s about to get worse: the epic, grand-scale kind of worse that comes from the arrival of two angels who claim everything about her life is a lie.
The war between the angels and the Fallen is escalating; the age-old balance is tipping, and innocent civilians are getting caught in the cross-fire. If the balance is to be restored, the angels must act—or risk the Fallen taking control. Forever.

That’s where Alice comes in. Hunted by the Fallen and guided by Mallory—a disgraced angel with a drinking problem and a whole load of secrets—Alice will learn the truth about her own history... and why the angels want to send her to hell.
What do the Fallen want from her? How does Mallory know so much about her past? What is it the angels are hiding—and can she trust either side?
Caught between the power plays of the angels and Lucifer himself, it isn’t just hell’s demons that Alice will have to defeat...

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Lou Morgan

Author behind "Blood and Feathers"

Bio:

Born in Wales in the UK, Lou Morgan grew up in a house with an attic full of spiders and now lives on the south coast of England with her husband, son and obligatory cat.

She drinks a lot of tea, is very mouthy about longbow archery and firmly believes that teaching cephalopods to use tools is a Very Bad Idea (but as she also has a strong sense of self-preservation, she'll still be one of the first to welcome our new squid overlords when they rise.

                -Goodreads Profile

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