Bloggiesta 2012!

Its my first time taking part in Bloggiesta!! In all my 3 years of blogging, I guess that shows how much I procrastinate lol. The Ditts: Bloggiesta from March 30-April 1 hosted by Danielle at There’s A Book and Suey at It’s All About Books. An event where all these blogs participate in to improve their websites and cross items off of their blogging to do list.

What do I plan on doing?

• Write and Schedule reviews
• Update goodreads reviews
• Reformat some older reviews
• Getting caught up on Top Ten Tuesdays
• Update Book Reviews Achieve
• Add tags
• Comment on new/fave blogs!

"Waiting On" Wednesday (71)

For fan's of Anna and the French Kiss & Lola and the Boy Next Door: 

 

Flirting in Italian

by Lauren Henderson

Four girls. One magical, and possibly dangerous Italian summer. Family mysteries, ancient castles, long hot nights of dancing under the stars . . . and, of course, plenty of gorgeous Italian boys!

Expected publication: June 12th 2012 by Delacorte Books for Young Readers

more books by Lauren Henderson

Scarlett Wakefield series

   

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"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights
upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

Top Ten Tuesday: Do I have to go...

 Top  Ten  Eleven Books (On My Shelf) That I'd Play Hooky With

Top Ten Tuesday is an original meme at The Broke and the Bookish.

I think we've ALL played hooky every once in a while and instead of "studying" we ended up laying in bed and READING! lol  

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What books would you play hooky with?

In My Mailbox(55)

FOR REVIEW:

Unraveling by Elizabeth Norris

The Lost Code by Kevin Emerson

Hemlock by Kathleen Peacock
Until I Die by Amy Plum

The Selection (The Selection, #1) by Kiera Cass

Dark Kiss (Nightwatchers, #1) by Michelle Rowen 

Something Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard, from HarperCollins

Masque of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin

BOUGHT:

Bewitching by Alex Flinn

Exiled by M.R. Merrick

A Temptation of Angels by Michelle Zink

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What Did You Get In You Mailbox This Week? ;))

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Giveaway: Infinity (Chronicles of Nick, #1) by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Sherrilyn Kenyon recently celebrated the release of Infamous, the 3rd book in her Chronicles of Nick series! To help celebrate, I am giving away a copy of Infinity (book #1) to get you started on this awesome series!

About the books:

The world has fallen in love with Nick Gautier and the Dark-Hunters. Now Nick’s saga continues in...Infinity is where it begins, followed by Invincible, and now Infamous is the third book in the Chronicles of Nick series by Sherrilyn Kenyon.
www.sherrilynkenyon.com 

Giveaway Info:

- (1) Winner will receive a Infinity (Chronicles of Nick, #1) 
- Open to US/CA only.

- Fill out the form below to enter.

- The winner will be notified by email and will have 72 hours to reply or a new winner will be chosen.

- Good Luck!

At 14, Nick Gautier is an average kid who runs with the wrong crowd. But on the night he decides to go straight and refuses to mug an innocent tourist, his crew turns on him and just as he thinks his life is over… a new one begins.
Kyrian of Thrace isn’t just a vampire slayer, he’s a Dark-Hunter and he introduces Nick to a world that he never imagined.
With new enemies who make his old ones look like wimps, Nick must either measure up or get sized for a body bag. It’s kill or be killed and this kid who was born on the wrong side finds a strength inside him that he never knew existed.
Now if he can only find someone to help battle the demons that don’t reside inside...

Book Review: A Temptation of Angels by Michelle Zink + Giveaway

A Temptation of Angels by Michelle Zink

Release Date: March 20, 2012

Publisher: Dial Books for Young Readers

Age Group: Young Adult

Pages: 400

Overall:

♥♥♥♥♥

Even angels make mistakes in this page-turning epic romance

When her parents are murdered before her eyes, sixteen-year-old Helen Cartwright finds herself launched into an underground London where a mysterious organization called the Dictata controls the balance of good and evil. Helen learns that she is one of three remaining angelic descendants charged with protecting the world's past, present, and future. Unbeknownst to her, she has been trained her whole life to accept this responsibility. Now, as she finds herself torn between the angelic brothers protecting her and the devastatingly handsome childhood friend who wants to destroy her, she must prepare to be brave, to be hunted, and above all to be strong, because temptation will be hard to resist, even for an angel.

Michelle Zink masterfully weaves historical fantasy with paranormal romance to create a gripping tale of love and betrayal.

My Thoughts:                                                                                                                         

Michelle Zink (Prophecy of the Sisters Series) continues to write beautiful, tantalizing novels. Her latest; A Temptation of Angels is a wicked combination of Angels, a Strong female protag, and Historical Fiction that you won't be able to put it down. You'll love Helen Cartwright!

Helen has good head on her shoulders, she doesn’t fall head over heels for a guy or let it clutter up her thoughts. She’s a girl on a mission.  I’m just gonna say it, she is AWESOME! Loved her bravery and tenacity. She’s up there with the other fierce leading ladies. There is a guy...well three! Griffin and his brother Darius. Think of them as Sam and Dean from The TV show Supernatural.They’re just as clever and tough as them. But then we have Raum, who I’m kind of on the fence about, his intentions aren’t clear but actions speak louder then words and he’s is good in my book(for now.) I really liked Zink’s secondary characters as well, Anna. Which I’m sure there’s something going on between her and Darius. There’s more to their story and I dying to know!

I’ve always loved Zink’s writing and story telling. She never disappoints, with A Temptation of Angels I was totally surprised and blown away. The plot is exhilarating, fulled with dynamic characters and an intriguing new world. The awesome-ness will appeal to teens across the board, I’m sure of it. The 1st book in a riveting new series, introducing the strong heroine Helen Cartwright, which will satisfy teens looking for action, romance and adventure. It's addicting!

To find out more about this author and her books, visit the following links:
-Visit Michelle around the web here: Website |Facebook| Twitter 

-Order your own copy: Amazon | B&N  | BookDepository | IndieBound

- Add to your GoodReads

Giveaway: Hunger Games Prize Pack!

OK you guys, HOW EXCITED ARE YOU FOR THE HUNGER GAMES MOVE PREMIERE?!?!

It's only a few days away while I was ordering my Hunger Games "gear" for the midnight showing on Friday(March 23rd.) I was like, you know it'd be awesome to  host a giveaway too! It's been a long wait, and FINALLY THG has been made into a movie! 

So to celebrate 

Fill out the form below for a chance to win the Hunger Games Giveaway Bundle, which includes the following:

• Hunger Games T-Shirt
• The Hunger Games Soundtrack(featuring Taylor Swifts 'Safe & Sound')
• THG Mockingjay Pin/Brooch

Giveaway: THE TAKER by Alma Katsu

I'm excited to be to introduction you guys to THE TAKER by Alma Katsu. The Taker was selected by ALA/Booklist as one of the top ten debut novels of 2011. the trade paperback will be available on Tuesday, March 27th. From what I'm hearing 'The timing couldn’t be better,' as the buzz around 50 Shades of Grey continues to build - readers are eager for more sexytimes!

About The Takers
True love can last an eternity . . . but immortality comes at a price. On the midnight shift at a hospital in rural St. Andrew, Maine, Dr. Luke Findley is expecting a quiet evening. Until a mysterious woman arrives in his ER, escorted by police—Lanore McIlvrae is a murder suspect—and Luke is inexplicably drawn to her. As Lanny tells him her story, an impassioned account of love and betrayal that transcends time and mortality, she changes his life forever. . . . At the turn of the nineteenth century, when St. Andrew was a Puritan settlement, Lanny was consumed as a child by her love for the son of the town’s founder, and she will do anything to be with him forever. But the price she pays is steep—an immortal bond that chains her to a terrible fate for eternity. 

The tale of eternal love, betrayal and atonement continues in: 

-Visit Alma around the web here: Facebook| Twitter | Blog

Giveaway Info:
- (1) Winner will receive an paperback of The Taker
- Open to US only.
- Fill out the form below to enter.
- The winner will be notified by email and will have 72 hours to reply or a new winner will be chosen.
- Good Luck!

 

READ A STEAMY EXCERPT FROM THE TAKER.
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In My Mailbox(54)

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FOR REVIEW:                                                                                                             
Yesterday by C.K. Kelly Martin 
Breaking Beautiful by Jennifer Shaw Wolf 
Something Like Normal by Trish Doller  

Struck by Jennifer Bosworth 
Monstrous Beauty by Elizabeth Fama  
Of Poseidon by Anna Banks   


BOUGHT:
Balthazar by Claudia Gray  

"Waiting On" Wednesday (70)

Velveteen

by Daniel Marks

  

Velveteen Monroe is dead. At 16, she was kidnapped and murdered by a madman named Bonesaw. But that's not the problem. 

The problem is she landed in purgatory. And while it's not a fiery inferno, it's certainly no heaven. It's gray, ashen, and crumbling more and more by the day, and everyone has a job to do. Which doesn't leave Velveteen much time to do anything about what's really on her mind. 

Bonesaw. 

Velveteen aches to deliver the bloody punishment her killer deserves. And she's figured out just how to do it. She'll haunt him for the rest of his days. It'll be brutal . . . and awesome. 

But crossing the divide between the living and the dead has devastating consequences. Velveteen's obsessive haunting cracks the foundations of purgatory and jeopardizes her very soul. A risk she's willing to take—except fate has just given her reason to stick around: an unreasonably hot and completely off-limits coworker. 

Velveteen can't help herself when it comes to breaking rules . . . or getting revenge. And she just might be angry enough to take everyone down with her.

Expected publication: October 9th 2012 by Random House Children's Books

add to your goodreads

Daniel is holding a contest, 3 chances to win an ARC of this book! Stop by The Mod Podge

Bookshelf , A Good Addiction, and Novel Thoughts for a chance to win (Novel Thoughts has

the International contest, btw!) 

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"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights 

upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

Book Trailer Premiere: INFAMOUS by Sherrilyn Kenyon

 

Today celebrates the release of the latest book in Sherrilyn Kenyon's The Chronicles of Nick series, INFAMOUS!

The world has fallen in love with Nick Gautier and the Dark-Hunters. Now Nick's saga continues in the next eagerly anticipated volume...

Go to school. Get good grades. Stay out of trouble. That's the mandate for most kids. But Nick Gautier isn't the average teenager. He's a boy with a destiny not even he fully understands. And his first mandate is to stay alive while everyone, even his own father, tries to kill him.

He's learned to annihilate zombies and raise the dead, divination and clairvoyance, so why is learning to drive such a difficulty? But that isn't the primary skill he has to master. Survival is.

And in order to survive, his next lesson makes all the others pale in comparison. He is on the brink of becoming either the greatest hero mankind has ever known. 

READ THE FIRST TWO CHAPTERS:
http://www.sherrilynkenyon.com/book/infamous/


SHERRILYN KENNYON LINKS:
Website:
http://www.officialsanctuary.com/
http://www.sherrilynkenyon.com/ for more about SHERRILYN KENYON, INFAMOUS, and all of her novels.

IN MY MAILBOX(53)

FOR REVIEW:

This Is Not a Test by Courtney Summers
The Immortal Rules (Blood of Eden, #1) by Julie Kagawa
Shadow and Bone (The Grisha, #1) by Leigh Bardugo

Innocent Darkness (The Aether Chronicles, #1) by Suzanne Lazear 

Dark Frost (Mythos Academy, #3) by Jennifer Estep
Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy, #1) by Sarah Rees Brennan  

BOUGHT:

Hana by Lauren Oliver

Pandemonium (Delirium, #2) by Lauren Oliver

What do you guys get? Any titles you anxiously waiting to get your hands on lol

"The Dish:" This Week in YA(3/5-3/10)

So here's the Dish of the week! Where I highlight a few cover reveals and book trailers and other bookish news, You know the important stuff lol 

Cover Reals

Favorite cover is far...it is so HOT:

  

The Dark Light

by Sara Walsh

Mysterious lights have flickered above Crownsville for as long as Mia can remember. And as far as she’s concerned, that’s about the only interesting thing to happen in her small town.

That is, until Sol arrives. Mia’s not one to fall for just any guy, but she can’t get intense Sol—or the brilliant tattoo on his back—out of her mind.

Then Mia’s brother goes missing, and Mia’s convinced that Sol knows more than he’s sharing. But getting closer to Sol means reevaluating everything she once believed to be true. Because Sol’s not who Mia thought he was—and neither is she.

Venom (Dark Waters #1) by Fiona Paul

Origin by Jessica Khoury

The Other Normals by Ned Vizzini

Beta by Rachel Cohn

 

My Super Sweet 16th Century by Rachel Harris
Transcendence by C.J. Omololu

 Book Trailer Premiere

'Unraveling': Watch the book trailer here! -- EXCLUSIVE VIDEO http://shelf-life.ew.com/2012/03/05/unraveling-book-trailer-elizabeth-norri/ via @EW