♥ Valentines Day Review: ♥ This is What Happy Looks Like ♥

This is What Happy Looks Like
Author: Jennifer E. Smith

Publication Date:  April 2nd 2013           
Publisher: Headline                        

 

 

 

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  If fate sent you an email, would you answer?

When teenage movie star Graham Larkin accidentally sends small town girl Ellie O'Neill an email about his pet pig, the two seventeen-year-olds strike up a witty and unforgettable correspondence, discussing everything under the sun, except for their names or backgrounds.

Then Graham finds out that Ellie's Maine hometown is the perfect location for his latest film, and he decides to take their relationship from online to in-person. But can a star as famous as Graham really start a relationship with an ordinary girl like Ellie? And why does Ellie want to avoid the media's spotlight at all costs?

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After reading The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight and loved it, I knew This is What Happy Looks Like would be around the same calibre and it was. Jennifer E. Smith has a way of seamlessly writing well endowed characters. Pulling both of those characters views and lives into one without a break. She also makes you care about the characters, and I really did get lost in the story, wanting to know what would happen to them because they felt real.

Cover Reveal: The Beast of Callaire

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The Beast of Callaire

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And now for the cover, and it is a pretty one!

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The Beast of Callaire by Saruuh Kelsey

(The Legend Mirror, #1)
Publication date: May 20th 2014
Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy, LGBT

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Yasmin is a descendant of the Manticore. A creature of Persian mythology. A Legendary.

But she doesn’t want to be. Unlike the Legendaries in The Red, Yasmin wants nothing more than an ordinary life. She tries to fool herself into believing that she doesn’t change into a beast every full moon and savagely kill innocent people.

But when Yasmin starts hearing a voice in her head and is drawn into dreams that aren’t her own, she is led to Fray—a girl who once saved Yasmin from hunters, who has shadowy memories that hint at her having Legendary magic—and Yasmin is catapulted into a life of Majick and malevolence.

Despite the danger around her and Fray, Yasmin might finally have a chance at being a normal girl with a normal girlfriend. But with Legendaries being killed, a war between the Gods brewing, and the beast inside Yasmin becoming stronger each moon, her mundane life is little more than a dream.

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Saruuh Kelsey is the author of the Lux Guardians series. Her debut and the first in series, THE FORGOTTEN, a YA science fiction set in Victorian London and London 25 years in the future, is out now for free. Book two, THE REVELATION, releases October 7th. THE BEAST OF CALLAIRE, the first novel of a new YA fantasy series, with a same sex paranormal romance, is out May 20th.

You can find Saruuh at;

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Waiting on Wednesday (#31)

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

Don't Look Back by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Expected publication: April 10th 2014 by Hodder Paperbacks

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Samantha is a stranger in her own life. Until the night she disappeared with her best friend, Cassie, everyone said Sam had it all-popularity, wealth, and a dream boyfriend.

Sam has resurfaced, but she has no recollection of who she was or what happened to her that night. As she tries to piece together her life from before, she realizes it's one she no longer wants any part of. The old Sam took "mean girl" to a whole new level, and it's clear she and Cassie were more like best enemies. Sam is pretty sure that losing her memories is like winning the lottery. She's getting a second chance at being a better daughter, sister, and friend, and she's falling hard for Carson Ortiz, a boy who has always looked out for her-even if the old Sam treated him like trash.

But Cassie is still missing, and the facts about what happened to her that night isn't just buried deep inside of Sam's memory-someone else knows, someone who wants to make sure Sam stays quiet. All Sam wants is the truth, and if she can unlock her clouded memories of that fateful night, she can finally move on. But what if not remembering is the only thing keeping Sam alive?

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Okay, okay, while I really love the US cover and the awesome creepiness of it, I really like the mysteriousness of the UK one. So pretty! Which cover do you prefer?

What're you waiting on?

Teaser Tuesday (28)

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

 

 

 

Title: Prince of Shadows

Author: Rachel Caine

Release date:  February 4th 2014            

Publisher: NAL    


 

 



A thrilling retelling of the star-crossed tale of Romeo and Juliet, from the New York Times bestselling author of the Morganville Vampires series.

In the Houses of Montague and Capulet, there is only one goal: power. The boys are born to fight and die for honor and—if they survive—marry for influence and money, not love. The girls are assets, to be spent wisely. Their wishes are of no import. Their fates are written on the day they are born.

Benvolio Montague, cousin to Romeo, knows all this. He expects to die for his cousin, for his house, but a spark of rebellion still lives inside him. At night, he is the Prince of Shadows, the greatest thief in Verona—and he risks all as he steals from House Capulet. In doing so, he sets eyes on convent-bound Rosaline, and a terrible curse begins that will claim the lives of many in Verona…

…And will rewrite all their fates, forever

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 "I stood in the dark corner of my enemy's house, and thought of murder." -Page 9

"Pinned to it was a ribald verse that detailed a highly entertaining story about Tybalt, a pig, and acts not generally condoned by either the Church or right-thinking sheepherders.

          It was a good day.

It was the beginning of the end of the good days."- Page 15

 

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I'm almost halfway through this and really enjoying it so far. It's very different than what Rachel Caine's done before, but it's good.

What're you reading? :)

Review: The Academy: Love Match

The Academy: Love Match
Author:  Monica Seles

Publication Date: February 25th 2014  (February 14h  UK)           

~A copy was provided by Bloomsbury Childrens  via Netgalely in exchange for an honest review~

 

 

What cover do you prefer?

 

 

 

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The Academy is the sports school everyone is talking about. But for Maya, it seems getting in was the easy part. It’s staying there that’s tough. To succeed it takes more than just talent. You need fame . . .

After a star performance in the semi-finals at a tennis competition, Maya is labelled The Next Big Thing and books a high-profile modelling job. The only problem is her co-star in the campaign is her super-hot ex-boyfriend, Jake Reed – and this is a job that her rival, Nicole, wants! Maya’s only just put the betrayal by Jake and Nicole behind her and now Maya is being drawn back into a circle of jealousy and desire. Luckily, she knows Nicole’s latest secret and gossip is a powerful weapon at The Academy!

If you adore Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars and Ally Carter’s Gallagher Girls, you’ll be mad about the sassy new series The Academy.

 

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 Personally, I prefer the first, it looks less...childish.

The Academy: Love Match was not what I was expecting, and in a bad way. I liked the first one okay, though It wasn't my favourite, I did enjoy the drama. So because of that I wanted to see where the second one took us. Love Match being the second in the series I was expecting progression, and that's where it failed.

Stacking the Shelves (#30) & Recap

How's everyone's week? My lovely neighbours from hell woke me up waaaay to early in the AM with Karaoke. Joy.

I've decided only to do a physical edition from what I've bought/received once a month or so, and this is Part 1 from before Christmas.

 

   



(All bought)

• The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson
• Minders by Michele Jaffe
• Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge (I already read this back in November, just had to get a hardback though, so pretty. <3
• The shiny editions of The Hunger Games trilogy.