Feature & Follow (#2)

Feature and Follow Friday is a weekly bloghop hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. I participated last week and discovered a lot of great blogs, so I'm really looking forward to doing the same this week!

 

This weeks Question:

If you could only have ONE – one book – for the rest of your life. Don’t cheat…what would it be?

Awh, crap. Now that's just cruel.

No, seriously, I've been sat here thinking for ten minutes....

Uh, okay, alright, alright. I'll choose.

I'm going to type the name with my eyes closed.

1...
2...
3...

The Fault In Our Stars.

If a book can get me crying like that, it's a winner.

Happy Friday!

Booking Through Thursday: Quantity or Quality?

Booking Through Thursday is a weekly meme, hosted by btt2, about (mostly) books and reading.

Which is more important? Quality for your reading? Or quantity?

Though I do hate starting a book that's maybe only 100-200 pages, there's no doubt quality is more important. You could have a 500 page book that could be completely boring and therefore won't finish. What's important to me, is mainly the quality of the writing and the characters. Everything else like genre, is optional.

What do you prefer?

Waiting on Wednesday (#8)

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

 

Last week I had a near publication pick, so this week's a little further afield. Just to torture myself.

I was really surprised by Prep School Confidential, in the best way possible. It was nothing like I thought it would be, and I loved it.

 

Wicked Little Secrets (Prep School Confidential #2) by Kara Taylor
Expected publication: March 4th 2014 by St. Martin's Griffin




Anne Dowling becomes entangled in a web of secrets involving a missing student and a conspiracy at Wheatley Prep in this fast-paced, juicy follow-up to Prep School Confidential

Anne Dowling—a fresh, original, and funny new YA heroine whose knowing, irreverent voice will remind readers of Pretty Little Liars and Private—is back for her second semester at Wheatley Prep. Although things have settled (somewhat) since her roommate Isabella’s death, Anne's still kind of obsessed with the disappearance of Wheatley student Matthew Weaver thirty years ago, since she found a picture of him and his crewmates with the words “they killed him” scrawled on the back among Isabella’s things.

When Anne learns that her boyfriend Brent’s dad is one of the now-powerful Wheatley alumni who rowed crew with Matthew, and that the crew team continues to induct new members with a creepy-sounding ritual called “The Drop,” she knows further investigation could put her relationship with Brent in danger. Determined to discover the truth, she reaches out to Anthony, Isabella’s townie brother, who helps her delve deeper into the secrets in Wheatley’s past. Secrets someone would kill to keep hidden. As the school’s Spring Formal—and its notorious afterparty—approaches, Anne sees the perfect opportunity to do some off-campus digging into the lives of Wheatley’s VIPs in this thrilling, unputdownable read—but if she’s not careful, she’ll be the next student who never comes back.



What's on yours this week? :)

 

 

Teaser Tuesday (7)

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

Right, my Teaser Tuesday is going to be early since I'm going to England tomorrow! On three hours sleep, I really hate my insomniac tendencies sometimes.

Title: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
Author: Ally Carter

Release date: August 20th 2009  

Publisher:  Disney Hyperion

Page: 29 on ADE 


Cammie Morgan is a student at the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women, a fairly typical all-girls school-that is, if every school taught advanced martial arts in PE and the latest in chemical warfare in science, and students received extra credit for breaking CIA codes in computer class. The Gallagher Academy might claim to be a school for geniuses but it's really a school for spies. Even though Cammie is fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man in seven different ways, she has no idea what to do when she meets an ordinary boy who thinks she's an ordinary girl. Sure, she can tap his phone, hack into his computer, or track him through town with the skill of a real "pavement artist"-but can she manoeuvre a relationship with someone who can never know the truth about her?

Cammie Morgan may be an elite spy-in-training, but in her sophomore year, she's on her most dangerous mission-falling in love.

"Hello." It was the exact same thing Mr. Mosckowitz had said, but oh was it different. "Welcome to the Gallagher Academy. I hope you're considering joining us," he said, but I'm pretty sure Macey, Bex, and I all heard, I think you're the most beautiful woman in the world, and I'd be honored if you'd bear my children. (Really, truly, I think he said that.)

Did I mention how much I love this book?  Link me, and I'll check yours out when I get back. :)

Review: The Originals

The Originals
Author: Cat Patrick

Publication Date: May 7th 2013        

Publisher:  Little Brown Books for Young Readers     

 

17-year-olds Lizzie, Ella, and Betsey Best grew up as identical triplets... until they discovered a shocking family secret. They're actually closer than sisters, they're clones. Hiding from a government agency that would expose them, the Best family appears to consist of a single mother with one daughter named Elizabeth. Lizzie, Ella, and Betsey take turns going to school, attending social engagements, and a group mind-set has always been a de facto part of life...

Then Lizzie meets Sean Kelly, a guy who seems to see into her very soul. As their relationship develops, Lizzie realizes that she's not a carbon copy of her sisters; she's an individual with unique dreams and desires, and digging deeper into her background, Lizzie begins to dismantle the delicate balance of an unusual family that only science could have created

     

When they were younger, Lizzie, Ella and Betsey Best lived as triplets with their Mother, and believed they were so. Until they have to run and their Mother tells them the truth. They're identical, carbon copies of a supposed baby that had died, and used the DNA to clone the three. Now on the run for years,  Lizzie, Ella and Betsey live as one, one whole person, Elizabeth Best, and take a third of the day each, from school, to afternoon, to night work and college classes Lizzie takes the first half, Ella the second, which leaves Betsey to the night. They wear the same clothes, have to have the same hairstyle, everyday so nobody suspects they're anything but one person.

Stacking The Shelves (#7) & Recap

Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews.

 

Netgalley

(Click on covers for goodreads!)

 

 

Oh. My. God. So after reading Prep School Confidential, I needed to read something like it, so on a whim I Bought...

 

 

 

Started it last night, where the hell was I? And why didn't anybody tell me about this series?! This morning, I proceeded to buy the other four and pre-ordered the 6th. Obsessed.

 

I'm also on my 4th book this week. My brain hurts.

 

What did you get this week? :) Link me!
 

 

A recap of posts this week

• Monday I reviewed In the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat Winters
• Teaser Tuesday from Poison by Bridget Zinn
• Waiting on Wednesday, Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson 
• Booking Through Thursday: Second First Time
• Friday I reviewed Chantress by Amy Butler Greenfield  Cover Reveal: Immagica by K.A. Last  

This week I have read:

• Prep School Confidential  by Kara Taylor
• Poison by Bridget Zinn
• Skulk by Rosie Best