We Were Liars: Read-Along #lliarsliveread

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hey, you...psst, yes, you...

 

 

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A beautiful and distinguished family.
A private island.
A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy.
A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive.
A revolution. An accident. A secret.
Lies upon lies.
True love.
The truth.

We Were Liars is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel from National Book Award finalist and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart.

Read it.
And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE

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Have you read We Were Liars by E. Lockhart yet, or just want to read it for the second, third, fourth...time? (Come on, you know you want to.) I'm joining HotKeyBooks, other bloggers and readers in a read-along under #liarsliveread this Saturday (17th) at 1PM (BST)/ 5AM (PDT) on twitter.

So join, come say hello, laugh at our reactions (because you know, that's going to be fun). Plus, my review for it is going to mainly be a reaction review because you obviously need to read the book to understand it. So. Go. Do. It. Read. Now. (Or Saturday) ;)

So, see you there! Or read you there? I don't know, I'm leaving now.

 

Waiting on Wednesday (#44)

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

Diamonds in the Rough by Michelle Madow

Expected publication:  October 28th 2014 by Harlequin Teen


 

 

 

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All-access doesn't mean no problems.

The three Diamond sisters survived the summer in style after coming to live with their long-lost billionaire father. But making a place for themselves at their exclusive new Las Vegas private school is throwing them any number of gold-plated curves. Savannah's YouTube stardom turns into a Sweet Sixteen reality show extravaganza with complimentary enemies on the side. Dangerous flirtations don't keep Peyton from a gamble that will risk far more than she planned to bet. And when Courtney and the sisters' archenemy, Madison, uncover two explosive secrets, it will rock even this town of glittering illusion and turn their lives upside down all over again.
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You know the thing I loved about The Secret Diamond Sisters? Reading about Vegas. And how happy am I that there's blue on the cover this time. Favourite colour.
 

What're you waiting on?

Review: Life By Committee

Life by Committee Life by Whatever strangers tell me to do next because I don't have one.
Author: Corey Ann Haydu

Publication Date:  May 13th 2014        

~A copy was provided by Katherine Tegen Books in exchange for an honest review~

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Some secrets are too good to keep.
Tabitha might be the only girl in the history of the world who actually gets less popular when she gets hot. But her so-called friends say she’s changed, and they’ve dropped her flat.

Now Tab has no one to tell about the best and worst thing that has ever happened to her: Joe, who spills his most intimate secrets to her in their nightly online chats. Joe, whose touch is so electric, it makes Tab wonder if she could survive an actual kiss. Joe, who has Tabitha brimming with the restless energy of falling in love. Joe, who is someone else’s boyfriend.

Just when Tab is afraid she’ll burst from keeping the secret of Joe inside, she finds Life by Committee. The rules of LBC are simple: tell a secret, receive an assignment. Complete the assignment to keep your secret safe.

Tab likes it that the assignments push her to her limits, empowering her to live boldly and go further than she’d ever go on her own.

But in the name of truth and bravery, how far is too far to go?

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Secret: I want to hit this book.

Assignment: Do it.

Ohhh, there are a lot of things I have to say about Life By Committee. So, the good news or bad news first? Hmm.

The good news? It's short, and for a fraction there, you might think it has some deeper meaning.  Kudos.

Review: Cuckoo Song

Cuckoo Song
Author:  Frances Hardinge

Publication Date:  May 8th 2014 

~A copy was provided by Macmillan Children's in exchange for an honest review~

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The first things to shift were the doll's eyes, the beautiful grey-green glass eyes. Slowly they swivelled, until their gaze was resting on Triss's face. Then the tiny mouth moved, opened to speak.
'What are you doing here?' It was uttered in tones of outrage and surprise, and in a voice as cold and musical as the clinking of cups. 'Who do you think you are? This is my family.'
When Triss wakes up after an accident, she knows that something is very wrong. She is insatiably hungry; her sister seems scared of her and her parents whisper behind closed doors. She looks through her diary to try to remember, but the pages have been ripped out.

Soon Triss discovers that what happened to her is more strange and terrible than she could ever have imagined, and that she is quite literally not herself. In a quest find the truth she must travel into the terrifying Underbelly of the city to meet a twisted architect who has dark designs on her family - before it's too late...

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This was one crazy ride my Cuckoo's.

By the synopsis you know it's going to be creepy, along with the creepy cover itself, and of course it's that kind of creepy that drew me in, because creepy is my thing. I'm going to be using creepy a lot.

Stacking the Shelves (#43) & Recap

Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews.

How was everybody's week? So, I had my third auto-approval last week from Hachette Childrens, and I got my first approval from Tor, which I'm super excited about because it's one I was really hoping I'd get approved for, so yay! :)

 

For Review

Edelweiss:

 

 

 

 

Behind the Scenes  and  Jackaby.

(Thanks to  Spencer Hill Contemporary, Algonquin Books and Edelweiss)

 

For Review

Netgalley:

Unwept, Sweet Unrest and Of Scars and Stardust
(Thanks to Tor books, Flux and Netgalley)



  What did you get this week? :)

   



 A recap of posts this week

• Monday I reviewed: Deep Blue by Jennifer Donnelly 
• Tuesday I reviewed: Don't Even Think About It by Sarah Mlynowski
• Waiting on Wednesday: Very Bad Things by Susan McBride
• Thursday I reviewed: Mutant City by Steve Feasey
• Friday: DNF Round-Up: April

DNF Round-Up: April

I thought I DNF'D a lot more in April, but only three! I've been good.

 

 



 

 

 

 

•  Sea of Shadows by Kelley Armstrong - DNF'D at 10% because zzzzzzzzz.

• Salvage by Alexandra Duncan

02/21

10.0%

"Me Tarzan. You Jane. God, I'm going back to Half Bad."

02/22

15.0%

"And we're DNF'D.

 

•  The Best Last Kiss by  Claire LaZebnik - Anna's voice annoyed the hell out of me.