Stacking the Shelves (#52) & Recap

Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews.

How was everybody's week? I was supposed to be going to YALC but something come up.
 :( Hopefully next year, but hope everyone who's gone is having fun! I'm stalking checking twitter for updates.
 

For Review

Netgalley

 

 

 

Frozen and A Song for Ella Grey 

(Thanks to Hachette and Netgalley )

 

 

 

What did you get this week? :)

   



 A recap of posts this week

• Monday I reviewed: The Half Life of Molly Pierce by Katrina Leno 
• Teaser Tuesday: Feral  by Holly Schindler
• Waiting on Wednesday: Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
• Wedenesday Cover Reveal: Phobic
• Thursday Cover Reveal: Crossing the Ice 
• Friday I reviewed: On the Fence by Kasie West

Review: On the Fence

 

 

 

 

 

On the Fence

Author: Kasie West

Publication Date: July 1st 2014        

Publisher: HarperTeen

~A copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review~  

She's a tomboy. He's the boy next door…

Charlie Reynolds can outrun, outscore, and outwit every boy she knows. But when it comes to being a girl, Charlie doesn't know the first thing about anything. So when she starts working at a chichi boutique to pay off a speeding ticket, she finds herself in a strange new world. To cope with the stress of her new reality, Charlie takes to spending nights chatting with her neighbor Braden through the fence between their yards. As she grows to depend on their nightly Fence Chats, she realizes she's got a bigger problem than speeding tickets-she's falling for Braden. She knows what it means to go for the win, but if spilling her secret means losing him for good, the stakes just got too high.

Fun, original, and endearing, On the Fence is a romantic comedy about finding yourself and finding love where you least expect.

 

 

 

Hey, seen all the squeals and happy happy reviews over On the Fence? Well this is another one. First, I have a confession. This is my first Kasie West book, yes, I know.  I feel slap-yourself-in-the-face-stupid that I've waited this long to read one, and ohmygod cuteness overload. I think it's my quota for the month. I'm not a cutesy reader, only when it's Jennifer E Smith, but even I was smiling all the way through it. LOOK WHAT YOU DID BOOK. And I get it now, I do.

Cover Reveal: Crossing the Ice & Giveaway

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 Synopsis

 

 

 

Falling hard never felt so good.

Pair skaters Courtney and Mark have one shot left at their Olympic dream. They vow not to let anything get in their way, especially not Josh and Stephanie, the wealthy and talented brother and sister team.

The heart doesn’t always listen to reason, though...

The more time Courtney spends with sweet, shy Josh, the harder she falls for him. But they are on opposite sides of the competition, and their futures are headed in opposite directions. Will their friendship blossom into more or are their paths too different to cross?

 

 

 

 

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Crossing the Ice

Cover Reveal: Phobic & Giveaway

 

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 Synopsis

   

 

 

Fifteen-year-old Piper Crenshaw knows her house is strange. It’s never needed repairs since it was built in the 1800s, and the lights flicker in response to things she says. As if those things aren’t creepy enough, it’s also the place where her mother committed murder.

To prove she’s not afraid of where she lives, Piper opens a forbidden door, which hides a staircase that leads to the ceiling. That’s when the flashbacks of the original residents from 1875 start, including a love affair between two young servants. Each vision pulls Piper deeper into not only their story, but also her house. Piper confides in her best friend, Todd, whom she's gradually falling for, but even he doesn't believe her. At least, not until her house gets axed during a prank, and the act injures Piper instead, cutting a gash the size of Texas into her stomach.

Piper realizes her house isn’t haunted—it’s alive. To sever her link to it, she must unravel the clues in the flashbacks and uncover the truth about her mother’s crime, before she becomes part of her house for good.

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Phobic

Waiting on Wednesday (#52)

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

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
 

Expected publication:   February 10th 2015 by Harper Teen
                                 March 26th 2015 by Orion (UK)

 

 



 

Mare Barrow’s world is divided by blood—those with red and those with silver. Mare and her family are lowly Reds, destined to serve the Silver elite whose supernatural abilities make them nearly gods. Mare steals what she can to help her family survive, but when her best friend is conscripted into the army, she gambles everything to win his freedom. A twist of fate leads her to the royal palace itself where, in front of the king and all his nobles, she discovers a superhuman ability she didn’t know she had.

Except . . . her blood is Red.

To hide this impossibility, the king forces her into the role of a lost Silver princess and betroths her to one of his own sons. As Mare is drawn further into the Silver world, she risks her new position to aid the Scarlet Guard—the leaders of a budding Red rebellion. Her actions put into motion a deadly and violent dance, pitting prince against prince and Mare against her own heart

 

 

So, I saw this everywhere last week, and it sounds freaking amazing, so why not? 2015 though, WHY?!

 

 

 

What are you waiting on? :)

Teaser Tuesday (#32)

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

 

 

 

 

 

Title: Feral

Author: Holly Schindler

Release date:  August 26th 2014              

Publisher: HarperTeen 

The Lovely Bones meets Black Swan in this haunting psychological thriller with twists and turns that will make you question everything you think you know.
It’s too late for you. You’re dead. Those words continue to haunt Claire Cain months after she barely survived a brutal beating in Chicago. So when her father is offered a job in another state, Claire is hopeful that getting out will offer her a way to start anew.

But when she arrives in Peculiar, Missouri, Claire feels an overwhelming sense of danger, and her fears are confirmed when she discovers the body of a popular high school student in the icy woods behind the school, surrounded by the town’s feral cats. While everyone is quick to say it was an accident, Claire knows there’s more to it, and vows to learn the truth about what happened. But the closer she gets to uncovering the mystery, the closer she also gets to realizing a frightening reality about herself and the damage she truly sustained in that Chicago alley….

Holly Schindler’s gripping story is filled with heart-stopping twists and turns that will keep readers guessing until the very last page

More than an hour after her heart had stopped, she found herself staring at the blue tips of her fingers, the wavy end of her long brown hair, the dusty top of an old wooden desk, and the fractured title of the janitors' office.
                                                                     -Page 7 in ADE

Funny to think it, now- a little over three years ago, the ER doctors had all talked about how strong she was. Earlier today, she'd been overtaken as quickly as an utter weakling. How was that possible?
                                                  -Page 9 in ADE

 

 

 

 

 

I'm 30% in so far and it's really good, had me right from the beginning and it's damn creepy.

 

What're you reading?