Deadly Little Secret (Touch #1) - Review

Deadly Little Secret (Touch #1) by Laurie Faria Stolarz My rating: 4 of 5 stars 3.5 Stars I did enjoy the premise of Deadly Little Secret. I liked most of the writing and the main character, Camelia. It is mostly a dialogue-driven story, which leaves the characters under-developed. I did not get to know Camelia all that well, even though she narrates, since not much goes on in her head aside...

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Follow Friday (5)

Follow Friday is a weekly feature hosted by Alison Can Read and Parajunkee. Follow Friday is an opportunity to discover and follow other book related blogs. Question: The New Year is here — and everyone wants to know your New Years Blogging Resolution! What are you going to try to revise, revamp and redo for 2012 on your blog? - I'm not new to blogging, even though this particular...

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Waiting On Wednesday (6)

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking The Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is: Lies Beneath (Lies Beneath #1) by Anne Greenwood Brown Description from Goodreads: Calder White lives in the cold, clear waters of Lake Superior, the only brother in a family of murderous mermaids....

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Top Ten Tuesday (4)

Top Ten Tuesday is an original weekly feature created at The Broke and The Bookish. Top Ten Favorite Books I Read in 2011: (In no particular order) 1. Unearthly (Unearthly #1) by Cynthia Hand 2. Hex Hall (Hex Hall #1) by Rachel Hawkins 3. Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins 4. The Piper's Son by Melina Marchetta 5. Die For Me (Revenants #1) by Amy Plum 6. The Unbecoming of Mara...

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Shatter Me - Review

Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi My rating: 3 of 5 stars The first half of Shatter Me is written with strikethroughs and run-on sentences that are a paragraph long and words and phrases are continuously repeated 3 times. And the metaphors are numerous. Depending on the reader, the writing may either be highly annoying or pure genius. I'm still not sure which it is. Juliette is the protagonist. In the...

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Follow Friday (4)

Follow Friday is a weekly feature hosted by Alison Can Read and Parajunkee. Follow Friday is an opportunity to discover and follow other book related blogs. Question: If you had to spend eternity inside the pages of a book which book would you choose and why? Considering the name of my blog, would I choose anything other than Persuasion? I could stand an eternity of Captain Wentworth...

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Waiting On Wednesday December 21 (5) Destiny and Deception (13 to Life #4) by Shannon Delany

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking The Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is: Destiny and Deception (13 to Life #4) by Shannon Delany 356 pages Expected publication: January 31st 2012 by St. Martin's Griffin Description From Goodreads: The sensational fourth novel in the...

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Top Ten Tuesday (3)

Top Ten Tuesday is an original weekly feature created at The Broke and The Bookish. Top Ten Books I Hope Santa Brings: 1. 2. and 3. The Hunger Games Trilogy Boxed Set. Hardcover, of course. (Am I the only one who hasn't read these yet?!?!) 4. 5. 6. and 7. The Iron Fey Series by Julie Kagawa. The Iron King, The Iron Daughter, The Iron Queen, The Iron Knight. 8. Illuminated by Erica Orloff. 9....

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Follow Friday (3)

Follow Friday is a weekly feature hosted by Alison Can Read and Parajunkee. Follow Friday is an opportunity to discover and follow other book related blogs. Question of the Week: When you've read a book, what do you do with it? (Keep it, give it away, donate it, sell it, swap it..?) I borrow most of my books from the library, so those I return (obviously). If the book is really...

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Waiting On Wednesday December 14

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking The Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is: Illuminate (Gilded Wings #1) by Aimee Agresti Hardcover, 544 pages Expected publication: March 6th 2012 by Harcourt Children's Books Description from Goodreads: "Haven Terra is a brainy, shy high...

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Saving June - Review

Saving June by Hannah Harrington My rating: 3 of 5 stars Saving June was a good story, but I think it could have been much better. It just didn't have enough depth for me and I really didn't connect with the characters at all. Maybe because I am older and the characters were very immature. I especially never understood Harper. She was completely unrelatable to me. The way all of the characters...

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Follow Friday #2

Follow Friday is a weekly feature hosted by Alison Can Read and Parajunkee. Follow Friday is an opportunity to discover and follow other book related blogs. Question: Keeping with the Spirit of Giving this season, what book do you think EVERYONE should read and if you could, you would buy it for all of your family and friends? Not everyone I know reads. In fact, I think some are...

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Third Sentence Thursday

Third Sentence Thursday is a weekly feature that is currently being hosted by Proud Book Nerd. 1) Take the book you are reading now and post the third sentence 2) Review this sentence anyway you want (funny and silly reviews encouraged) 3) Post a link to your sentence here (in the comments) or if you don’t have a blog, just post your sentence in the comments! "It happened on the last day of school." Deadly...

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Waiting On Wednesday December 7

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking The Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is: Enchanted by Alethea Kontis Hardcover, 320 pages Expected publication: May 8th 2012 by Harcourt Children's Books Description from Goodreads: "It isn’t easy being the rather overlooked and unhappy...

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Top Ten Tuesday (2)

Top Ten Tuesday is an original weekly feature created at The Broke and The Bookish. Up this week is Top Ten Childhood Faves. I have been checking out everyone's Top Ten this week, and boy do I feel old. Most of the books I am seeing I read to my kids when they were young. So my Top Ten may not go ever so well. These are my earliest memories of reading. 1st grade circa 1974-ish. We were allowed...

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Review: Unearthly (Unearthly #1) by Cynthia Hand

Unearthly (Unearthly #1) by Cynthia Hand Hardcover, 435 pages Published January 4th 2011 by HarperTeen Source: Library Synopsis from Goodreads: In the beginning, there's a boy standing in the trees . . . . Clara Gardner has recently learned that she's part angel. Having angel blood run through her veins not only makes her smarter, stronger, and faster than humans (a word, she realizes, that no...

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Follow Friday #1

Follow Friday is a weekly feature hosted by Alison Can Read and Parajunkee. Question: What is your biggest pet peeve when it comes to books? Maybe you don't like love triangles or thin plots? Tell us about it! As a parent of 2 teenagers, I really don't like when parents or guardians in books are conveniently absent or just plain clueless to what is going on. I like to think...

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Dash & Lily's Book Of Dares - Review

Dash & Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn My rating: 3 of 5 stars I wanted to read something Christmas related, so I chose Dash & Lily's Book of Dares. I really liked how it started. Lily purposefully leaves a notebook on a shelf in a bookstore. Dash finds the notebook and follows the dares written inside. He then leaves the notebook where instructed. Lily gets the notebook back and discovers...

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Waiting On Wednesday - November 30

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking The Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is: Zero by Tom Leveen Hardcover, 304 pages Expected publication: April 24th 2012 by Random House Books for Young Readers Description from Goodreads: "For aspiring artist Amanda Walsh, who only half-jokingly...

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Top Ten Tuesday - Top 10 Books on My TBR For Winter

Top Ten Tuesday is an original weekly feature created at The Broke and The Bookish. Top Ten List of Books on my TBR for Winter (in no particular order). 1. Hallowed by Cynthia Hand. I am currently in the middle of reading Unearthly. I can't wait to read the second in this series. 2. Dreaming Awake (Falling Under #2) by Gwen Hayes. I may have to read the first book again since it was slightly...

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The Juliet Spell - Review

The Juliet Spell by Douglas Rees My rating: 2 of 5 stars Thanks to NetGalley and Harlequin Teen for the eArc. The Juliet Spell was cute and all, but not very deep. The characters didn't really get a chance to develop personalities at all. There was very little emotion in the story - the characters did and said things, but we never got a chance to know what they were thinking and feeling. For me,...

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In My Mailbox (1)

In My Mailbox is a weekly feature hosted by The Story Siren that allows bloggers to showcase the books they have received, bought or borrowed from the library. Bought: Silence (Hush, Hush #3) by Becca Fitzpatrick Bought: Nocturne (Claire de Lune #2) by Christine Johnson Borrowed from library: Unearthly (Unearthly #1) by Cynthia Ha...

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Waiting On Wednesday (November 23) Try Not to Breathe by Jennifer R. Hubbard

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking The Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:   Original Cover: Try Not to Breathe by Jennifer R. Hubbard Hardcover, 272 pages Expected publication: January 19th 2012 by Viking Juvenile Synopsis from Goodreads: "Ryan spends...

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Review: Touch (Denazen #1) by Jus Accardo

Touch (Denazen #1) by Jus Accardo Publication Date: November 1, 2011 Page Count: 284 Published by: Entangled Publishing Source: eArc received from publisher in exchange for an honest review Synopsis from Goodreads: When a strange boy tumbles down a river embankment and lands at her feet, seventeen-year-old adrenaline junkie Deznee Cross snatches the opportunity to piss off her father by bringing...

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Die For Me by Amy Plum - Review

Warning: This Review is Spoilerific!! Die for Me (Revenants #1) by Amy Plum Library copy read by me on August 7, 2011 First, let me say how much I liked this book. Secondly, let me tell you just how much this book reminds me of Twilight. Okay, to be fair, it doesn't 'remind' me of Twilight. It almost IS Twilight. (And I like Twilight.) Just like Twilight, Die For Me is not literary genius, but...

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There You'll Find Me - Review

There You'll Find Me by Jenny B. Jones My rating: 3 of 5 stars Wonderfully written with diverse characters, There You'll Find Me is very heartfelt. I am not a religious person, so I was leery about reading this, but I am glad I did. While there were a few Bible verses, it wasn't overly preachy. Although I did find it odd that ALL of the secondary characters in this story had such firm religious...

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Hereafter - Review

Hereafter by Tara Hudson My rating: 3 of 5 stars While I enjoyed reading Hereafter, it was a little lacking. The writing didn't have enough depth, at least as far as the characters go. I would have loved to learn more of what Amelia and Joshua were thinking and feeling. Especially after Joshua saw Amelia for the first time. While I think their need for each other was a little quick, I can understand...

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What Happened to Goodbye - Review

What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen My rating: 3 of 5 stars I just finished reading What Happened to Goodbye, and I must say it's typical Sarah Dessen. Only this time it's a little boring. Nothing exciting happened at all. It just sort of rolls along. The protagonist, Mclean, while likable, wasn't very deep. Since her parent's divorce, she has lived with her father, which means moving...

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Where She Went - Review

Where She Went by Gayle Forman My rating: 4 of 5 stars 4.5 Stars I really enjoyed If I Stay, and I was looking forward to reading Adam's POV in Where She Went. I started reading and could not stop. I was about 88% finished when I was just overwhelmed and had to stop. My heart was breaking for Adam. It has taken me several weeks to have enough courage to pick up this book and finish it. I went...

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