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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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Sunday Funday
Terra Mystica Happy Sunday my lovely bookworms! I don’t know about you, but by the time Monday rolls around I almost always ♫ ♬ wish it were Sunday, ’cause that’s my Funday ♫ ♬ There are many reasons to love Sundays: the promise of a new week, the relaxation of a day off, or extra reading time. If you are like me, you enjoy several hobbies, Sunday can quickly become a board game filled, rum cake baking extravaganza Whenever I find myself waist-deep in a reading slump I tend to spend a day or two indulging myself with a host of other diversions…
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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: Debt Collector Season 1 by Susan Kaye Quinn
Media Type: Ebook Title: The Debt Collector: Season 1 *Series: The Debt Collector Author: Susan Kaye Quinn Publisher: Self-published Pages: Paperback; 430 Release Date: December 31, 2013 Source: Purchased —————————————————– Genre: Science Fiction HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of Science Fiction with vividly written characters. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes What’s your life worth on the open market? A debt collector can tell you precisely. Lirium plays the part of the grim reaper well, with his dark trenchcoat, jackboots, and the black marks on his soul that every debt collector carries. He’s just in it for his cut, the ten percent of the…
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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…
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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? (10/6/14)
Click above to join in the fun! Let the countdown begin! It’s the last week before I go on vacation and I couldn’t be happier! Well, except maybe if I won a million dollars. Here’s my week in reading. I was browsing the library shelves last week and one of the displays was books about unicorns! Okay, so I’m 30 and I still love unicorns. What’s wrong with that? I grabbed Into The Land of Unicorns on a whim. Final verdict? Young Jessica, the Jessica who this book was intended for, would have loved the heck out of this. I only…
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Book Review: The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place by Julie Berry
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place Author: Julie Berry Publisher: Roaring Brook Press Pages: Kindle; 368 Release Date: September 23, 2014 Source: NetGalley / Publisher ——————————————————————– Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy witty banter, mixed with mystery and farce. Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes There’s a murderer on the loose—but that doesn’t stop the girls of St. Etheldreda’s from attempting to hide the death of their headmistress in this rollicking farce. The students of St. Etheldreda’s School for Girls face a bothersome…
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Book Review: Revealed by Britni Hill
Media Type: Ebook Title: Revealed *Series: Western Palm Author: Britni Hill Publisher: Self-published Pages: Ebook; 161 Release Date: September 14, 2014 Source: Won —————————————— Genre: Contemporary Romance HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of New Adult Romance Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes Recommended for 17+ due to language and sexual situations. Angry and jealous. That’s the perfect way to describe Jason Parker. After feeling that way for so long, Jason’s had enough. He’s starting to hate who he’s become and his perfect facade is cracking. Jason’s blaming everyone but himself, he’s lashing out and the only thing that matters is…
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Book Review: Hushed by Britni Hill
Media Type: Ebook Title: Hushed *Series: Western Palm Author: Britni Hill Publisher: Self-published Pages: Ebook; 299 Release Date: March 16, 2014 Source: Purchased —————————————— Genre: Contemporary Romance HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of New Adult Romance Add it on: Goodreads / Amazon / BookLikes When Tess meets step-brothers Blake and Jason, their differences and her past push her toward Jason even though she’s instantly drawn to Blake. Tess quickly learns people aren’t always who they seem to be when her relationship with Jason ends. A spring break trip pushes Blake and Tess together leaving…