• Book Blitzes/Promo Posts

    This or That? with Charles Benoit

    Please welcome Charles Benoit, author of the new book Fall From Grace. Chances are you might have heard his name in 2010 when his wildly popular YA book You came out! Let me give you a peek at what you can look forward to. Grace always has a plan. There’s her plan to get famous, her plan to get rich, and—above all—her plan to have fun. Sawyer has plenty of plans too. Plans made for him by his mother, his father, his girlfriend. Maybe they aren’t his plans, but they are plans. When Sawyer meets Grace, he wonders if he should come…

  • Book Blitzes/Promo Posts

    Win a copy of HELL’S GAME!

    If you missed it earlier, Teresa Lo is the focus of my blog today! Hell’s Game is her first book and she was kind enough to do an interview with me. Check it out, it just so happens to be an extra entry in the giveaway that she has offered up! Up for grabs is one digital copy of Hell’s Game, to be delivered via Amazon. This of course means that the giveaway is open internationally! Fill out the Rafflecopter form below to enter, and good luck. /*{literal}{/literal}*/ a Rafflecopter giveaway <a href=”http://rafl.es/enable-js”>You need javascript enabled to see this giveaway</a>.

  • Book Blitzes/Promo Posts

    An Interview with Teresa Lo, author of HELL’S GAME!

    On the blog today, a book that I’m particularly excited to check out! Featured today is Teresa Lo, author of Hell’s Game. If you know me at all, you know I’m a huge fan of horror. There’s something about that shivery feeling you get when you read a particularly good one…oooh. Amazon / Goodreads On Halloween night in Deer Creek, Kansas, Jake Victor, Ashley and Ashton Gemini, and Kristin Grace convince Ronnie Smalls to meet them at the town cemetery, which local folklore has always rumored to be the Gateway to Hell. Their intention was only to scare him, but soon the…

  • Book Reviews

    Book Review: Altered

    Media Type: Ebook Title: Altered Author: Aubrey Coletti Publisher: Escape Artist Press Pages: Paperback; 272 Release Date: August 19, 2011 Source: Author / Lightning Book Promotions ———————————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Violence, Harsh Language ———————————————— HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers looking for an adventure with dark twists and turns, but are okay with some grittier content. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N When Toni, Joseph and Charlie arrive at their new boarding school, they are glad to leave their families — and respective problems — behind. Isolated as boarders,…

  • Book Blitzes/Promo Posts

    Pre-Order FATED and receive a gift!

    Hello my dear readers! It’s me again, back to share with another fabulous promotion. I’m always excited when I hear about these. After all, if you’re already going to buy an amazing book, why not do it early and get an extra gift in the process?   St. Martin’s Press is having a pre-order promotion for Fated (Soul Seeker #1) by Alyson Noel! The first 3,000 readers who pre-order Fated in any format (ebooks count too), and submit their receipt, will receive a free pair of earrings! I’ll even make it easier for you: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N…

  • Book Reviews

    Book Review: The Immortal Rules

    Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: The Immortal Rules Author: Julie Kagawa Publisher: Harlequin Teen Pages: Hardcover; 485 Release Date: April 24, 2012 Source: Publisher / Media Masters Publicity ———————————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Violence, Mild Language ———————————————— HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love a good vampire story, complete with a feisty heroine! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N In a future world, Vampires reign. Humans are blood cattle. And one girl will search for the key to save humanity. Allison Sekemoto survives in the Fringe, the…

  • Book Reviews

    Book Review: Silver and Stone

    Media Type: Ebook Title: Silver and Stone    * Series: Bloodlines Series #1 Author: J.D. Thompson Publisher: Self-published Pages: Paperback; 142 Release Date: August 3, 2011 Source: Author ————————————- Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild Language ————————————– HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy star-crossed lovers and a good amount of suspense. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Welcome to high school high society hell, where last season’s slingbacks can warrant a lunch table demotion, the wrong date will knock you off the it-list and behind every pair of…

  • Book Reviews

    Book Review: Wanted

    Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: Wanted Author: Heidi Ayarbe Publisher: Balzer + Bray Pages: Hardcover; 400 Release Date: May 1, 2012 Source: Publisher / Teen Book Scene —————————————– Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Violence, Mild Language —————————————— HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers looking for a different type of contemporary that is gritty and honest. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N A one-word text message: That’s all Michal “Mike” Garcia needs to gather a crowd. Mike is a seventeen-year-old bookie, and Sanctuary is where she takes bets for anyone…

  • Feature Posts/Weekly Memes

    And…Discuss! To Finish, Or Not To Finish?

    It’s about that time again! Time for me to choose a topic, ramble about it for a bit, and then open the floor to your opinions. I just want to shout out a huge thank you to everyone who takes part in these discussions! I think they are a ton of fun, and I look forward to them. This time the topic is…. To Finish, Or Not To Finish? I will be the first to admit that I sometimes don’t finish books. There are just some books out there that I pick up, start to read, and can’t get into…

  • Book Reviews

    Book Review: White Horse

    Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: White Horse Author: Alex Adams Publisher: Atria / Emily Bestler Books Pages: Hardcover; 292 Release Date: April 17, 2012 Source: Publisher —————————————— Genre: Science Fiction / Dystopian HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy a dark story, with plenty of humanity and hope thrown in. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Thirty-year-old Zoe leads an ordinary life until the end of the world arrives. She is cleaning cages and floors at Pope Pharmaceuticals when the President of the United States announces that human beings are…