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Giveaway: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
It’s one week of the year that we dedicate to all things spooky, and I can’t think of a better time to host a giveaway of this classic story! For those of you who don’t know, Penguin Classics has recently released The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories. It’s a new package for Washington Irving’s classic stories, with an added introduction and notes by Elizabeth L. Bradley. ABOUT THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW AND OTHER STORIES: Perhaps the marker of a true mythos is when the stories themselves overshadow their creator. Originally published under a pseudonym as The Sketch…
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Book Review: Love Thy Neighbor by Sophie Wintner
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Love Thy Neighbor Author: Sophie Wintner Publisher: Entangled: Lovestruck Pages: Ebook; 199 Release Date: October 27, 2014 Source: Publisher ——————————————- Genre: Romance HDB Rating: 2 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy characters that start out broken and slowly change. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes He’s designed for delicious trouble… Interior designer Nikki Norris is at the end of her rope. She’s lost her business, and her fiancé who called off their engagement. Now she’s broke and on her own, living in a loft apartment she can barely afford. But…
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Book Blitz + Giveaway: Crushed by Gina Robinson
Are you ready for some more bookish goodness this week? I hope so, because this blitz is definitely ready for you. In the spotlight today is Crushed, the second book in The Rushed series by Gina Robinson. Make sure to read all the way to the bottom! There’s a giveaway down there for you! Goodreads | Amazon Some loves can’t be… Crushed Morgan Have you ever done something stupid? Like get drunk and hookup with a guy because your heart was broken by someone else? Like his best friend. And then done something really dumb, like fall in love with…
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Book Review: The Bodies We Wear by Jeyn Roberts
Media Type: Ebook Title: The Bodies We Wear Author: Jeyn Roberts Publisher: Knopf Books For Young Readers Pages: Hardcover; 368 Release Date: September 23, 2014 Source: Publisher ———————————————————- Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 2 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy darker reads with twists and turns. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes A streetwise girl trains to take on a gang of drug dealers and avenge her best friend’s death in this thriller for fans of Scott Westerfeld and Robin Wasserman. People say when you take Heam, your body momentarily dies and you catch a…
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Giveaway: The Bodies We Wear by Jeyn Roberts
I hope your weekend was fabulous, all you bookish people! I know things have been a little spotty over here. I’m currently on vacation and, as I’m currently residing with my blogger partner in crime, we’ve been more lax on keeping up with this :). Sometimes vacation just needs to be filled with slacking off and enjoying yourselves. I do, however, have a giveaway for you! The review for The Bodies We Wear by Jeyn Roberts will be up tomorrow, but in the meantime here’s a giveaway of that same book for you to win! …
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Cover Reveal: Magic of the Gargoyles by Rebecca Chastain
For most of you, it’s extremely close to Friday. The weekend is almost here! Let me ease that transition a bit with a lovely cover reveal, shall I? I have to say, when I first saw this cover I had a serious case of cover love. Magic of the Gargoyles is right up my alley, and might be up yours too. I’ll be reviewing this in a few days as well, but here it is! Someone has kidnapped a nest of helpless baby gargoyles and is using them as pentagram focuses, devouring their magic—and their lives—for a horrific, illegal power boost. Swept…
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Book Blitz + Giveaway: Day Zero by Summer Lane
Listen up bookish people! It’s time for another book spotlight, complete with excerpt and giveaway! Are you a fan of dystopia fiction? Love your YA with a little drama? Well here’s a book that you might just want to add to your reading list. Goodreads | Amazon Elle is a survivor. Since the collapse of modern society, she’s been living in the remains of downtown Hollywood, California, foraging for food and fighting for her life. And then everything changes. After she is forced out of her home, she heads north. What she finds is a group of bunker survivors, unlikely…
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Author Interview + Giveaway: IMPOSSIBLE by C.A. Gray
Welcome to another lovely Friday morning, my bookish friends! I’m pleased to share an interview with author C.A. Gray today. An author who writes the genre of books I absolutely adore: YA Fantasy. There’s something about being swept up in a new world that never gets old! That’s why I couldn’t wait to add C.A. Gray’s Piercing The Veil Series to my reading list. It’s a great time to start too! Book three, Impossible, releases on October 15th. Clicking on the photos below will take you to their matching Goodreads pages! For more links, check the bottom of this post.…
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Book Review: The Demeter Code by Russell Brooks
Media Type: Ebook Title: The Demeter Code *Series: Ridley Fox/Nita Parris Spy Series #3 Author: Russell Brooks Publisher: Self-published Pages: Paperback; 422 Release Date: July 4, 2014 Source: Author —————————————————– Genre: Crime Thriller HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of high stakes thrillers with vividly written characters. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes CRACK THE CODE AND YOU’LL SAVE LIVES…BUT KNOWING IT EXISTS COULD GET YOU KILLED. When two American embassies in northern Africa are bombed, CIA operatives, Ridley Fox and Nita Parris, are assigned to track down the perpetrators. However, when their…
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Cover Reveal: GEARS OF BRASS (A Steampunk Anthology)
Gear up for GEARS OF BRASS! A world like ours, but filled with gears of brass, where the beating heart is fueled by steam and the simplest creation is a complex clockwork device. Within this tome, you’ll find steampunk fairy tale re-tellings, as well as original stories that will send your gears turning. Welcome to the steampunk realm, with eleven authors guiding your path. *** GEARS OF BRASS is a steampunk anthology published through Curiosity Quills. It will be available for purchase on November 10, 2014. Within the pages, you’ll come across clockwork inventions and steampunk-ified fairy tale retellings. Eleven…