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Review: Sweet Damage by Rebecca James
This is a modern Gothic thriller to put on your radar! Tim Ellison has been in a rut lately. He has spent his time sleeping on his ex-girlfriend’s couch, working in a restaurant, and surfing. Life isn’t quite what he expected. But he does know one thing….it’s time to move out of his ex’s house. Tim finds a cheap room rental at Fairview, when he shows up he is expecting to see a heap but instead he finds a mansion. Built in 1890, Fairview is a beautiful mansion boasting some of the best views in Sydney. It’s owned by Anna London who inherited the house after her parents’ deaths. In exchange for…
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Review: Princess of Thorns by Stacey Jay
I am excited to see all the fairy tale retellings out there, especially for Sleeping Beauty as Aurora is one of my favorite princesses. Princess of Thorns is a different kind of fairy tale retelling. Princess Aurora AKA Ror is actually a warrior princess and Sleeping Beauty’s daughter who must fight to regain her throne. ‘ As a briar born child, Ror and her twin brother Jor have been gifted special powers. Jor has been kidnapped by the evil ogre queen and is being tortured. Ror is the heiress to the fairy lands and she must not only save her brother, but she must regain her kingdom by any means necessary.…
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Book Blast and Excerpt: COLOR SONG by Victoria Stauss
Publication Date: September 16, 2014 | Skyscape (Amazon Children’s Publishing) | Formats: eBook, Paperback, Hardcover Genre: YA Historical READ AN EXCERPT. By the author of the acclaimed Passion Blue, a Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Book of 2012 and “a rare, rewarding, sumptuous exploration of artistic passion,” comes a fascinating companion novel. Artistically brilliant, Giulia is blessed – or cursed – with a spirit’s gift: she can hear the mysterious singing of the colors she creates in the convent workshop of Maestra Humilità. It’s here that Giulia, forced into the convent against her will, has found unexpected happiness, and rekindled her passion to become a painter – an impossible dream for…
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Review: The Kiss of Deception (The Remnant Chronicles #1) by Mary E. Pearson
This book has been flooding my social media feeds for the last month. It seems like everyone has been reading this new YA series. So naturally I needed to see what all the fuss was about. And really, how can you ignore this stunning cover? I’m in love with it….yes I am totally judging a book by it’s cover right now. Princess Lia is a First Daughter of Morrigham and with her regal status comes obligations. One of those obligations is to marry. Her father arranges a marriage with a prince from the neighboring kingdom of Dalbreck to secure a much needed peace in the realm. As a First Daughter, Lia is…
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Review: Tempting Fate (The Immortal Descendants #2) by April White
Since discovering her power as a ‘clocker’, or an Immortal Descendant, life for Saira Elian hasn’t gotten much easier. Being a clocker means Saira can transport herself through time at will. She is currently living at St. Brigid’s school where she is learning about her power as well as the powers of the other Descendants. For the first time in her life she is stable: she has friends, her mother, excelling in school, and her super attractive boyfriend, Archer who happens to be Death’s Descendant–better known as a Sucker, or vampire. But she is struggling with what it means to rely on others and to truly open her heart to her friends…
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Announcement: Winner Steal the North by Heather Brittain Bergstrom
And the winner of Steal the North by Heather Brittain Bergstrom is…. Jessika (subscribes to blog) The winner will be notified via email. Thank you to everyone who entered and a huge thank you to the publisher for making this giveaway possible!
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Giveaway: Steal the North by Heather Brittain Bergstrom
Emmy is a shy, sheltered sixteen-year-old when her mom, Kate, sends her to eastern Washington to an aunt and uncle she never knew she had. Fifteen years earlier, Kate had abandoned her sister, Beth, when she fled her painful past and their fundamentalist church. And now, Beth believes Emmy’s participation in a faith healing is her last hope for having a child. Emmy goes reluctantly, but before long she knows she has come home. She feels tied to the rugged landscape of coulees and scablands. And she meets Reuben, the Native American boy next door. Thanks to the publisher, I am ecstatic to be able to offer a copy of Steal the North…
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Guest Post: Steal the North by Heather Brittain Bergstrom
Even though I couldn’t fit Steal the North by Heather Brittain Bergstrom into my review schedule this month, this book caught my eye for a couple of reasons. First, I liked the idea of a YA novel with a romance between a Native American boy Reuben and a white girl, Emmy. I thought this was something different and new in the YA market. Often the YA market is full of teenage love triangles and dystopian badass female heroines. Emmy sounded different than the ‘normal’ YA heroine and I thought that was a bold move and made me want to know more. The next reason I wanted to feature this book…
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Review: Tiger’s Destiny (The Tiger Saga #4) by Colleen Houck
Kelsey Hayes life has been one wild roller coaster ride over the last two years. She has embarked on an impossible mission to break an ancient curse placed on the two brothers that she loves: Ren and Kishan. She’s fought flying monkeys, krakens, sharks, dragons, and evil sorcerers but yet the brothers remain in tiger form! She has one last task to complete but this task will come at a huge cost. The goddess Durga has one remaining gift The Rope of Fire, hidden on a volcanic island in the Bay of Bengal. Once Kelsey and the brothers retrieve the rope, they will face an epic battle between good and…
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Review: Tiger’s Voyage (The Tiger Saga #3) by Colleen Houck
Kelsey Hayes is once again heartbroken. Her beloved Ren doesn’t remember who she is….at all. In fact her very presence repulses him and makes him physically ill. Kelsey agrees to continue helping Ren and his brother Kishan try and break the tiger’s curse. This time their journey takes them to the Indian Ocean and the dragons that inhabit a parallel world that Ren, Kishan, and Kelsey must navigate in order to break another part of the curse. In the last novel, Tiger’s Quest, Kelsey begins to have stronger feelings for Kishan…stronger than she cares to admit. In this book, she learns that Ren has actually broken the bond that they…