Feature & Follow (9)

Feature and Follow Friday is a weekly bloghop hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read.

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This weeks Question:

Q: Bookselling Time: Go to your biggest bookcases. Go to the second shelf from the top and pick out the sixth book from the left. Handsell that book to us - even if you haven’t read it or if you hated it. (if you don’t have bookcases, done have six books on one shelf, etc, pick a book at random)

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Is it cheating if I put the book I wanted to handsell there last week? Yeah, I think it is, but oh well.
So...mine is Heart-Shaped Bruise by Tanya Byrne.

Why?

Simply because it's a challenging book, it's not an easy read, it's quite an emotional one actually, and about the lengths someone would go to for payback, and getting tied up in something that wasn't her fault. I wasn't expecting it to be anything like it was. I wasn't expecting to like Emily as much as I did, either, but I did, and I understood her. So, if you like a challenge, a mature YA main character, or even watch Revenge. This books yours.

EARC Review: No One Else Can Have You.

No One Else Can Have You
Author: Kathleen Hale

Publication Date: January 7th 2014             

~A huge thank you to HarperTeen, and Edelweiss, who provided a copy in exchange for an honest review.~

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Small towns are nothing if not friendly. Friendship, Wisconsin (population: 688) is no different. Around here, everyone wears a smile. And no one ever locks their doors. Until, that is, high school sweetheart Ruth Fried is found murdered. Strung up like a scarecrow in the middle of a cornfield.

Unfortunately, Friendship’s police are more adept at looking for lost pets than catching killers. So Ruth’s best friend, Kippy Bushman, armed with only her tenacious Midwestern spirit and Ruth’s secret diary (which Ruth’s mother had asked her to read in order to redact any, you know, sex parts), sets out to find the murderer. But in a quiet town like Friendship—where no one is a suspect—anyone could be the killer.
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Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.

The first thing you need to know about No One Else Can Have You is that it's weird, and kind of like Humpty, you're immediately sucked in, you start on a creepy ladder climbing high, and then it starts to fall, and it never really gets put back together. 

The town Friendship, population 689 is a small closed knit town where everybody knows one another, everybody is too friendly and nice and sickly like cough syrup. They talk to one another with first and last names. Polite. Happy. Nothing-bad-happens-here-no-sirry-don'tcha know. Did I mention they're friendly? sociopathic. They don't like bad things, they sweep things under the rug and take a happy pill.

Waiting on Wednesday (#23)

 "Waiting on" Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases.

 

The Geography of You and Me by Jennifer E. Smith

Expected publication: April 15th 2014 (which, is mean.) by Poppy

 

 

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Lucy and Owen meet somewhere between the tenth and eleventh floors of a New York City apartment building, on an elevator rendered useless by a citywide blackout. After they're rescued, they spend a single night together, wandering the darkened streets and marveling at the rare appearance of stars above Manhattan. But once the power is restored, so is reality. Lucy soon moves to Edinburgh with her parents, while Owen heads out west with his father.

Lucy and Owen's relationship plays out across the globe as they stay in touch through postcards, occasional e-mails, and -- finally -- a reunion in the city where they first met.

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I really liked The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight and I've almost finished This is What Happy Looks Like and loving it. Pretty much an auto-buy author now.

 

What're you waiting on? :)

Teaser Tuesday (21)

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

 

 

 

Title: Valkyrie Rising

Author: Ingrid Paulson

Release date: October 9th 2012               

Publisher:  HarperTeen    

Place: 47%

Nothing ever happens in Norway. But at least Ellie knows what to expect when she visits her grandmother: a tranquil fishing village and long, slow summer days. And maybe she’ll finally get out from under the shadow of her way-too-perfect big brother, Graham, while she’s there.

What Ellie doesn’t anticipate is Graham’s infuriating best friend, Tuck, tagging along for the trip. Nor did she imagine boys going missing amid rumours of impossible kidnappings. Least of all does she expect something powerful and ancient to awaken in her and that strange whispers would urge Ellie to claim her place among mythological warriors. Instead of peace and quiet, there’s suddenly there’s a lot for a girl from L.A. to handle on a summer sojourn in Norway! And when Graham vanishes, it’s up to Ellie—and the ever-sarcastic, if undeniably alluring Tuck—to uncover the truth about all the disappearances and thwart the nefarious plan behind them.



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"Without asking another question, he grabbed my hand and we started running down the alley in the opposite direction, toward the older part of town, where the roads snaked their way up into foothills. It was the long route home, weaving through the residential area, but we had no other choice."

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What're you reading?

EARC-Review: Witch Finder

Witch Finder
Author: Ruth Warburton

Publication Date: January 2nd 2014        

~A huge thank you to Hodder Children's Books, and Netgalley, who provided a copy in exchange for an honest review.~  




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London. 1880. In the slums of Spitalfields apprentice blacksmith Luke is facing initiation into the Malleus Maleficorum, the fearsome brotherhood dedicated to hunting and killing witches.

Luke’s final test is to pick a name at random from the Book of Witches, a name he must track down and kill within a month, or face death himself. Luke knows that tonight will change his life forever. But when he picks out sixteen-year-old Rosa Greenwood, Luke has no idea that his task will be harder than he could ever imagine.

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I am very indecisive about Witch Finder. I would love to say I loved it. But I can't. I didn't. I would love to say I hated it. But I can't. I didn't. Though there are some aspects of both that I did love and did hate. Of which I'll discuss later on in detail, but one of the main thing Witch Finder has going for it is the fact it is very well done and authentic. Written in third person, and split into two perspectives you have two stories to contend with, that has to be seamlessly in sync with one another, which, for the most part, were. Needless to say, Witch Finder wasn't exactly what I was expecting. With historicals, it's all about the execution. Though it was executed well, there was something that didn't sit well.

Stacking the Shelves (#22) & Recap

Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews.

 It's that time again, yes, I'm talking about the Harper Collins additions. I haven't had a longer StS since the last Harper edition, I also snagged a few from Netgalley, but I'll leave them until next time. :) I also bought one, but I'll include it with my preorder next week. :)

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 For review:

  

 

 

 

 

After The End, The Eighth Day, The Murder Complex , Vivian Divine is Dead, Wicked Games, Sleep No More and (Don't You) Forget About Me,   

(Thanks to Harper Collins, Harper Teen, Katherine Tegen Books, Greenwillow Books and Edelweiss)

 

 

 

So that's it! What did you get this week? :)

 

  



 A recap of posts this week

 

• Monday I reviewed  The Rules by Stacey Kade 
• Teaser Tuesday from White Space by Ilsa J. Bick (Don't even get me started.)
• Waiting on Wednesday: The Secret Diamond Sisters by Michelle Madow
• Booking Through Thursday: Otherwise
• Friday I reviewed Staying Strong- 365 Days a Year by Demi Lovato  
•  Feature & Follow (#8)  
• Saturday I reviewed A Breath of Frost by Alyxandra Harvey

This week I have read:

Staying Strong- 365 Days a Year by Demi Lovato   
• White Space by Ilsa J. Bick
• The Academy: Love Match by Monica Seles