{Memes} they are BACK!!

Ok so after some thought I decided that this sites needed something other than just reviews.  So starting in Jan. I will start doing weekly Memes again.  Now they will not be all done at the same time. Sometimes I will skip and sometimes I won't. So if you love the memes the best thing to do is comment on the ones you want me to do!  Yes you can comment here!

Movie Tv Show Monday is where I will talk about a movie or tv show that I have seen.
It might be old or it might be new.  But it will always be something that caught my eye! 

Monday Note is a short update for that week. I might add what I will be reading, what giveaways are going on. etc.

Ask me a question! Anything goes but please keep it PG 13! 

This is where I will take a second look at titles that I have rated a 3 and under!

This is a meme that is hosted by another site.  I love doing these! The topic changes every week! 

This is when I post a weekly promo post for authors. 

Thursday Thoughts is my list of 5 top wish list titles I want!
Yes you can send them to me! lol

Flipping Friday is a follow list for bloggers looking for more followers! 

Saturdays is of course our weekly web show Read On! So make sure to join us to win!

Stalker Sunday is when I stalk someone! It might be an author, blogger, publisher, or something else! So WATCH OUT!

{Review} {Giveaway} These Broken Stars @AmieKaufman @MeaganSpooner @DisneyHyperion

It's a night like any other on board the Icarus. Then, catastrophe strikes: the massive luxury spaceliner is yanked out of hyperspace and plummets into the nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen survive. And they seem to be alone. 

Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. Tarver comes from nothing, a young war hero who learned long ago that girls like Lilac are more trouble than they’re worth. But with only each other to rely on, Lilac and Tarver must work together, making a tortuous journey across the eerie, deserted terrain to seek help. 

Then, against all odds, Lilac and Tarver find a strange blessing in the tragedy that has thrown them into each other’s arms. Without the hope of a future together in their own world, they begin to wonder—would they be better off staying here forever?

Everything changes when they uncover the truth behind the chilling whispers that haunt their every step. Lilac and Tarver may find a way off this planet. But they won’t be the same people who landed on it.

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A timeless love story, THESE BROKEN STARS sets into motion a sweeping science fiction series of companion novels. The Starbound Trilogy: Three worlds. Three love stories. One enemy.

4 Stars
These Broken Stars thrust readers into the world of Turn of the Century Sci-fi which is a great blend!  This book blew me out of the water from the cover to the last page you will be intrigued with the story, the plot, and the characters.  The authors did a great job creating the Icarus and the world they live in. The story will capture the reader with a plot twist of the Titanic meets Lost In Space with a dash of Land of the Lost all rolled into one.  Tarver and Lilac are wonderful characters.  We don't really get to see who these people are until the perils of the story take hold.   I love that although Lilac is a rich girl born of privilege she also has skills up her puffy sleeves.  While Tarver is the dutiful war hero protecting Lilac in the unknown.  

The only issues I really had in this book came from the excesses of Walking that went on in the middle of the book.  The only other thing was the Knowing that they would be rescued.  At each chapter beginning there is a debriefing dialogue.  It really took away from the suspense of them being on the planet.  I think the book would have been better if I wouldn't have known.  

For those who are scared about the romance. Don't worry there is no insta love here and no love triangles! 



"*I received a copy of this book for free to review, this in no way influenced my review, all opinions are 100% honest and my own."

Disclaimer: Thanks to Goodreads and Amazon for the book cover, about the book, and author information.

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{Review} {Giveaway} Ashes to Ashes @melissacwalker @harperteen

If I Stay meets the movie Ghost in this first book in a teen duology about a teenage-girl-turned-ghost who must cling to the echoes of her former life to save the people she left behind.

Ashes to Ashes is author Melissa Walker's sweeping, romantic, and emotionally rich story about the things that torment and tempt us, even from the Great Beyond. This book is perfect for fans of Die for Me andImaginary Girls, and its breathtaking ending will leave readers anxiously awaiting the series conclusion, Dust to Dust.

When Callie's life is cut short by a tragic accident, she expects to find nothingness, or maybe some version of heaven.

Instead, her spirit travels to the Prism, an ethereal plane populated by the ghosts she thought were fictional. Here she meets a striking and mysterious ghost named Thatcher, who is meant to guide her as she learns to haunt and bring peace to the loved ones she left behind.

However, Callie uncovers a dark secret about the spirit world: The angry souls who always populate ghost stories are real, dangerous, and willing to do whatever it takes to stay on Earth, threatening the existence of everyone she ever cared about.

As she fights to save them, Callie will learn that while it may no longer beat, her heart can still love-and break

› Visit Amazon's Melissa Walker Page

Biography

I'm a writer and editor (my favorite staff jobs: ELLEgirl Features Editor and Seventeen Prom Editor). All in the name of journalism, I have spent 24 hours with male models and attended an elite finishing school for girls in New Zealand, among other hardships.

My real-girl-meets-the-fashion-world series -- Violet on the Runway, Violet by Design and Violet in Private -- is out now.

Lovestruck Summer -- a teen romance set in Austin, TX -- is out now.

Small Town Sinners -- the story of a girl growing up in an evangelical town who wants to star in her church's Hell House -- is out now.

Unbreak My Heart -- a dual love story about the year that broke Clementine's heart and the summer that healed it -- is out in now.

2 STAR
I was so happy to get this book.  I loved the cover and the synopsis, but when I started to read the story it kind of started to fall apart.  This book is about 100 pages to long and is predictable. The world building of how ghosts live before they move on was interesting but the execution of the story was a fail.  I loved the world of Prism and think that the author could have done an amazing job writing more of that.  I was reading this one with a friend and around 30% in we both figured out where the book was going. We ended up skimming the rest and found out that we were right.  This book had no real bad guys and a half done paranormal plot.  A luke warm love story and a really bad love triangle.  I really didn't care about the characters and the heroine Callie who was supposed to be head over heels about her boyfriend but, as soon as she dies and the ghost guardian comes in she only has eyes for him. Which made me kind of hate Callie. 

"*I received a copy of this book for free to review, this in no way influenced my review, all opinions are 100% honest and my own."

Disclaimer: Thanks to Goodreads and Amazon for the book cover, about the book, and author information.
Update there are now two ARCs up for grabs! Thank HarperCollins!

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{Review} {Giveaway} Everture @brodiashton @harperteen

Now that Nikki has rescued Jack, all she wants is to be with him and graduate high school. But Cole tricked Nikki into feeding off him, and she’s begun the process of turning into an Everliving herself... which means she must feed on a Forfeit soon — or die.

Terrified for her survival, Nikki and Jack begin a desperate attempt to reverse the process using any means possible. Even Cole, who they expected to fight them at every turn, has become an unlikely ally — but how long can it last? Nikki needs to feed on Cole to survive, Cole needs Nikki to gain the throne in the Everneath, Jack needs Nikki because she is everything to him — and together, they must travel back to the Underworld to undo Nikki’s fate and make her mortal once more. But Cole isn’t the only one with plans for Nikki: the Queen has not forgotten Nikki’s treachery, and she wants her destroyed for good. Will Nikki be forced to spend eternity in the Underworld, or does she have what it takes to bring down the Everneath once and for all?

In this stunning conclusion to the Everneath trilogy, Brodi Ashton evokes the resiliency of the human spirit and the indomitable power of true love.

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Biography

First-time author Brodi Ashton received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Utah and a master's degree in international relations from the London School of Economics. Brodi has an active following on her blog, which can be found at www.brodisashton.blogspot.com. She lives in Utah with her family.

5 Stars

When this series started. I had seen reviews from DNFs to 5 stars. Well I was happy to say that I was a 5 star. Now at the end of Nikki's journey I have to say that this is by far one of my favorite series. Evertrue takes us on the continuing story of Nikki's goal to destroy the Everneath and save herself. This story ends in such a way to tie up all lose ends and yes you will be happy. But you will also be sad. One person finds redemption and two others live happily everafter.  

In this last installment of the Everneath series we get a closer looks at all the characters. But, mainly we get to see Nikki and Jack individually (no not changing POVs) In the first two books we were told mostly about their relationship but in this one we get to connect with them as people and not just them loving each other.  

"*I received a copy of this book for free to review, this in no way influenced my review, all opinions are 100% honest and my own."

Disclaimer: Thanks to Goodreads and Amazon for the book cover, about the book, and author information.

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{Spotlight} A Season Without Rain

A Season without Rain by Joe Schwartz

Title: A Season Without Rain
Author: Joe Schwartz
Genre: Fiction
Length: 348 pages
Release Date: November 2013
ISBN-13: 978-1493513390
Imprint: GMTA Publishing

Book Description

Jacob Miller is angry with himself, the world, and God. Life seems so unfair, so cruel, that he can’t imagine why anyone even tries. After having a nervous breakdown, selling his business, filing for bankruptcy, having a baby, and finding out he owes over twenty grand in taxes, he is hardly happy to be alive.

In the span of a year, Jacob will discover three very important things about life. Things can always be worse. There really is a God. And if you wait long enough anything can change.

A Season Without Rain explores that gray area between poverty and middle class life, the struggling underclass for whom there are no advocates. A powerful story told in a modern, everyday voice that will entrench readers in Jacob Miller’s black world of anger, hate, resentment, lies, and violence.

A Season Without Rain is Joe Schwartz’s first novel. His previous short story collections Joe’s Black T-Shirt, The Games Men Play, and The Veiled Prophet of St. Louis have been acclaimed vulgar as Bukowski and visceral as Carver. Joe lives and works in St. Louis happily writing stories exclusively about the Gateway City.

About the Author
Joe Schwartz

A St. Louis native, I write exclusively about the Gateway City. I prefer the style of fiction deemed transgressive fiction. That is my stories protagonists generally find a solution to their problems through either illicit or illegal means. I personally prefer stories told through a criminal's point-of-view. It is never the crime that fascinates me so much as the motivation to do it and the terrible, almost predictable outcomes to such actions. Just as I have an expectation of writing to be read I believe that it is as important, if not more so, that you as a reader should have the expectation of being entertained as you read. Anything less is such a disappointment.

Life is short. Stories are forever. –Joe

Connect with Joe
https://www.facebook.com/Joesblacktshirt
ttps://www.goodreads.com/author/show/445708.Joe_Schwartz

Links to buy the novel:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-season-without-rain-joe-schwartz/1117380015?ean=2940149003860

http://www.amazon.com/Season-Without-Rain-Joe-Schwartz-ebook/dp/B00GM7O0F6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1384286360&sr=8-1&keywords=A+Season+Without+Rain

Giveaway!!!

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A Season without Rain's Tour Dates

Wednesday the 4^th of December Crossroad Reviews
http://www.crossroadreviews.com  A spotlight with Jessica

Friday the 6th December:  Paperback Hero Aaron
http://paperbackheroaaron.blogspot.com/  Spotlight and Guest post with Aaron

Tuesday the 10th December: The One Saga
www.theonesaga.com  Spotlight and Interview with Matthew

Wednesday 11^th December Donna
http://bookloversparadise.blogspot.com Spotlight with Donna

Thursday the 12^th December: Adrienne Woods
http://woodsadrienne.wordpress.com Review and spotlight with Adrienne

Tuesday the 17^th December:  Indie Author: How To
http://indieauthor-howto.blogspot.com Spotlight and Excerpt with Kisha

Thursday 19^th December: Have You Heard Book Review
http://haveyouheardbookreview.blogspot.com/ Spotlight and Guest post with Melanie

Tuesday the 24^th December: From the Land of Empyrean
http://empyricaltales.blogspot.com Spotlight and Guest Post with Mark

Thursday the 26^st December: The Dragonian Series
http://thedragonianseries.blogspot.com Spotlight with Adrienne

Tuesday the 31st December: Fantasy Ultimate
http://www.fantasy-ultimate.blogspot.com/  Spotlight and Guest post with Grace

 

{Blitz} Submerged @NicoleSometimes

Sorry guys for this being late.  I just got my computer back in working order!  

So I will be giving away 2 ecopies of this book! 

This giveaway has nothing to do with YA Bound Tours. 

Submerged (Outbreak #1)

by Nicole Sobon

Release Date: 02/14/13

Summary from Goodreads:

After a mysterious virus makes its way into the United States, the government demands that states seal themselves off from one another and do their best to protect their surviving residents. When the state of Florida is bordered off from the surrounding states, Taylen Fincher, a seventeen-year-old girl with a yearning for her former life finds herself wondering how much of what they’ve been told is true.

When Troum took control of the state, he told the residents that the other states had fallen to the virus and that he wouldn’t allow the same thing to happen to them. But Taylen doesn’t believe it. She insists that there is still life outside of the state, and she is going to do whatever it takes to prove it… but her actions will cost her more than she ever expected.

Troum kidnaps Taylen’s sister, Penelope, in hopes of coaxing her into behaving – into being a submissive resident, much like the others. But Taylen isn’t one to give in that easily.

Eager to rescue her sister, Taylen will set out on an adventure that’ll force her to open her heart to the unexpected and to uncover secrets that will change everything.

SUBMERGED is the first book in a YA dystopian duology.

  

About the Author

Nicole Sobon is the author of the Emile Reed Chronicles, Capture, No Place Like Home, and various short stories.

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{WereBack} The Computer Has Returned!

Just wanted to give all of my followers an update!  That the computer was picked up last night and is back in working order!  I really hope I never have to go through that ever again!  Its crazy not having it around.  Ill make sure that I have a back up laptop next year!  

So posts will start to be posted again regularly as of tomorrow!  This month will be full of giveaways per post so make sure you follow and subscribe by email so you know about them

Also if you aren't following me via Facebook and Twitter you need to!  I do a ton of Facebook and Twitter only giveaways!

So make sure to check it out!  

Also our Book Babble spreecast will go as planed for this Sat. and our Read On will be active again next Sat. 

4Blogoversary {Giveaway} @cjredwine @marimancusi @simonteen @CindaChima @imogenhowson @suzanne_young @lisa_amowitz

Welcome to my 4th Blogoversary Giveaway!
This giveaway will have 4 parts! And each part will feature a Rafflecopter and 7 NEW BOOKS!
All books are ARCs and were sent to me for review by the publisher.


This giveaway is for the USA only unless you cover shipping and all books are of course in print! 

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{Review} The Devil's Flower @LisaCollicutt

In a town called Nowhere, angels and demons battle for salvation—who will win—and what will be the cost?

 Killing isn’t exactly on Rosalie Lockwood’s list of things to do when she runs away from home. But despite her search for peace; guns and motorcycles become her latest fashion accessories as Divine interference leads her to Steele, co-leader of the Fallen Paladins motorcycle club.
Leathered and tattooed, Steele’s presence scares off most people he comes in contact with — but not Rosalie. She’s immediately drawn into the dangers of his biker world—and into his heart.
But Steele guards a secret that if Rosalie knew, could shatter their new love — along with destroy the human race. And the truth comes at a price.
Will Rosalie risks her soul to prove her loyalty to Steele?
The Dark and Light Realms collide as Rosalie chooses between life, death, and the ever-after to become that which she is fated to destroy.

Teaser - Chapter One - Divine Union:

Darkness descended over the freeway. Rosalie turned the key in the ignition a final time. Nothing. A string of unladylike words flew from her mouth as she bashed the side of her fist on the steering wheel. Her only result was pain. Two states from home, her car had run out of gas, her cell phone was dead, and she had to pee so badly she could taste it.

Lisa likes to write dark and twisted tales of magic and romance. She has a passion for Young Adult and New Adult Paranormal

When she's not conjuring tales about witches, demons, and other magical beings, she can be found leathered, and bound to the back of her husband's Harley, touring her homeland of Nova Scotia, Canada.

Enter Lisa's imagination where light ends and fantasy begins. But heed these warnings . . . it's dark, it's magical, you may experience tingles.

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Coming 2014 - Books two and three of The Eternal Beings Trinity - The Demon's Wrath & The Angel's Retribution.

5STARS
Lisa Collicutt's other book The Gathering Darkness blew me away!  Made for teen/ya.  Well with Devil's Flower she does it again this time for the New Adult crowd!  I don't know what to say other than stop reading this and go buy this book!  Its a deff must read!


"*I received a copy of this book for free to review, this in no way influenced my review, all opinions are 100% honest and my own."

{Review} {Giveaway} @litfuse Win a “Bonding Spa Day” from Deb DeArmond | Related by Chance, Family by Choice! @DebDeArmond

Transforming Mother-in-Law and Daughter-in-Law Relationships. What does it take to create true family unity between moms and the women who marry their sons?

The caricatures are everywhere, the jokes are inexhaustible, and the stereotypes fill the screens. From Marie Barone (Everyone Loves Raymond) to Viola Fields (Monster-in-Law) to Internet sites and social media pages like ihatemyinlaws.com and a Facebook page for ihatemymotherinlaw there is no shortage of examples of the caustic relationships that can develop between the two women in a man’s life.

Deb DeArmond and her three daughters-in-law have conducted their own exhaustive research into the status of the women-in-law relationship. Their research, which incorporated online surveys, interviews, and discussions, included asking about the faith factor in the relationships they studied. Of the respondents, nearly 90 percent claimed they were Christians, and 79 percent said their faith was foundational and guided their actions and decisions. As discouraging as it may be, the numbers of those they surveyed who reported that their women-in-law relationships were “bad” were nearly identical to those in a survey conducted by a popular secular website that recorded no statistics on faith.

Beyond the statistics and their analysis, Deb brings to this book more than thirty years working with adults to improve communications and deal constructively with conflict. Aside from her research and her professional expertise, perhaps the most important asset Deb brings to this work is her own relationship with her three daughters-in-law that is so obviously and unusually positive that she—and they—are often asked to explain the secret of the relationships they share.

This practical and unapologetically scriptural book covers issues of personal perceptions, strained communication, the roles of sons and fathers in the relationship’s success, how to begin these relationships on the right foot, and the necessity of trust and love. Deb’s one motivating objective is to help women-in-law move from women who are simply related to strong and confident members of a truly spiritual family.

Purchase a copy here.

Learn more at Deb’s website.

5 STARS
This was a great book for me since I don't really get along with my mother-in-law.  Its a great read for this relationship and it give wonderful advice.  This is a deff must read!

"*I received a copy of this book for free to review, this in no way influenced my review, all opinions are 100% honest and my own."

Deb DeArmond has owned her own leadership training and executive coaching practice for fifteen years. She is an experienced speaker and writer with work appearing in "WHOA" Magazine and "Dallas Family" Magazine and a cofounder of mypurposenow.org—an online community for Christian women 50+. Deb and her husband, Ron, have three married sons and three grandchildren, and live in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Find out more at debdearmond.com.

Deb DeArmond is celebrating the release of her book, Related by Chance, Family by Choice, with a "Day of Bonding" Spa giveaway!

One winner will receive:

• A $200 SpaFinder gift card (perfect for a pampering day of bonding)
• Related by Chance, Family by Choice by Deb DeArmond (2 copies)

Enter today by clicking one of the icons below. But hurry, the giveaway ends on November 30th. Winner will be announced December 2nd at Deb's blog.

Don't miss a moment of the fun; enter today and be sure to stop by Deb's blog on December 2nd to see if you won.