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'After I Do' by Taylor Jenkins Reid

From the BLURB: When Lauren and Ryan’s marriage reaches the breaking point, they come up with an unconventional plan. They decide to take a year off in the hopes of finding a way to fall in love again. One year apart, and only one rule: they cannot contact each other. Aside from that, anything goes. Lauren embarks on a journey of self-discovery, quickly finding that her friends and family have their own ideas about the meaning of marriage. These influences, as well as her own healing process and the challenges of living apart from Ryan, begin to change Lauren’s ideas about monogamy and marriage. She starts to question: When you can have romance without loyalty and commitment without marriage, when love and lust are no longer tied together, what do you value? What are you willing to fight for? This is a love story about what happens when the love fades. It’s about staying in love, seizing love, forsaking love, and committing to love with everything you’ve got. And above all, After I Do ...
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The Secret

The Secret

Cover reveal: NOW THAT YOU’RE HERE by Amy Nichols + GIVEAWAY!!!

I am so ecstatic to be a part of this cover reveal for debut author Amy Nichols! I haven't really read a lot of YA sci-fi recently, but this book makes me want to start again! Ready? Ready? This is the first time I'll be using the "more" tag, so click on the link to see the loveliness of the cover!!! Let me know your thoughts about the cover, okay? Leave me some comments! ABOUT NOW THAT YOU’RE HERE: Danny and Eevee are meant to be together . . . Just not in this universe. Eevee Solomon has high school down to a science. Get the grades. Get the recommendations. Get into an Ivy League college, and eventually land a killer job at NASA. Then Danny Ogden enters the equation. Danny is a street-smart graffiti artist. He’s always managed to stay out of serious trouble, but this time he’s out of luck. One minute he’s running from the cops, and the next, he jolts awake in an unfamiliar body–his own, but different. Somehow, he’s crossed into a parallel universe. Now his friends ...
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Review: Emerald Green (The Ruby Red Trilogy #3) by Kerstin Gier, Anthea Bell

Disclaimer: This post has been sponsored by Grammarly , a writing enhancement app that checks for more than 250 types of spelling, grammar, and punctuation errors, enhances vocabulary usage, and suggests citations. I use Grammarly's plagiarism check because it's a cool tool for hunting copycats. Make no mistake about it, I will find you plagiarizer! Reading this book made me feel a little bit nostalgic. Title: Emerald Green (The Ruby Red Trilogy #3) by Kerstin Gier, translated by Anthea Bell Release Date: October 8th 2013 Published by: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) Source: Publisher Buy: Amazon | Book Depository Summary: Gwen has a destiny to fulfill, but no one will tell her what it is. She’s only recently learned that she is the Ruby, the final member of the time-traveling Circle of Twelve, and since then nothing has been going right. She suspects the founder of the Circle, Count Saint-German, is up to something nefarious, but nobody will believe her. And she’s just learned ...
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Waiting on Wednesday (140): The Girl from the Well + I Become Shadow

Alright! I am featuring two books this week that I am REALLY, REALLY, REALLY excited about! Go on, read below! Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine Title: The Girl from the Well by Rin Chupeco Release Date: August 5th 2014 Published by: Sourcebook Fire Want? Add to your Goodreads list! Summary (from Goodreads): You may think me biased, being murdered myself. But my state of being has nothing to do with the curiosity toward my own species, if we can be called such. We do not go gentle, as your poet encourages, into that good night. A dead girl walks the streets. She hunts murderers. Child killers, much like the man who threw her body down a well three hundred years ago. And when a strange boy bearing stranger tattoos moves into the neighborhood so, she discovers, does something else. And soon both will be drawn into the world of eerie doll rituals and dark Shinto exorcisms that will take them from American suburbia to the remote valleys and shrines of Aomori, ...
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[Feature] RED RISING – RELEASE DAY FLASH GIVEAWAY

I am so so excited to participate in this flash giveaway! Red Rising was amazing! RED RISING by Pierce Brown Published by Del Rey – Random House Hardcover: 978-0-345-53978-6 Ebook: 978-0-345-53979-3 See what all the buzz is about on Goodreads “Ender, Katniss, and now Darrow.”—Scott Sigler Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and sprawling parks spread across the planet. Darrow—and Reds like him—are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class. Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow sacrifices everything to infi...
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Goddess Offerings (36) / Stacking the Shelves (18)

Forgot to post my StS last week because it was a crazy weekend, but here's my haul, featuring Hello Kitty! :p Check it out! Stacking the Shelves hosted is by Tynga's reviews ! So leave a comment below and share your own haul! For review: Ask Me by Kimberly Pauley Liv, Forever by Amy Talkington No Surrender Soldier by Christine Kohler Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith Twice Upon a Time by Kate Forster Shadow Kiss: The Graphic Novel by Richelle Mead The Fiery Heart (Bloodlines #4) by Richelle Mead Champion (Legend #3) by Marie Lu Unhinged (Splintered #2) by A.G. Howard From the NBS Trade Show: Ask Again Later by Liz Czukas Steadfast (Spellcaster #2) by Claudia Gray Lighthouse Island: A Novel by Paulette Jiles City of Bones by Cassandra Clare (movie tie-in edition) Allegiant (Divergent #3) by Veronica Roth Won: Signed Silence (Hush, Hush #3) by Becca Fitzpatrick Golden Boy by Tara Sullivan Bought: What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell Distant Waves by Suzanne...
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Review: The Trap (The Hunt #3) by Andrew Fukuda

If there's such a thing as  emotional carnage, where every single strand of my emotions were ripped apart and stomped on, then that's what I have just experienced while reading this book. I feel so tired, it's like my emotions were a tangible thing that was tossed around and just disintegrated after I flipped to the last page. Title: The Trap (The Hunt #3) by Andrew Fukuda Release Date: November 5th 2013 Published by: St. Martin's Griffin Source: Publisher Buy: Amazon | Book Depository Summary: After barely escaping the Mission alive, Gene and Sissy face an impossible task: staying alive long enough to stop an entire world bent on their destruction. Bound on a train heading into the unknown with the surviving Mission girls, Gene, Sissy, David, and Epap must stick together and use everything they have to protect each other and their only hope: the cure that will turn the blood-thirsty creatures around them into humans again. Now that they know how to reverse the vi...
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Chapter Reveal: BE WITH ME (Wait for You #2) by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Who's excited for this book? Raise your hand! If you are, then you REALLY have to check out the chapter I'm posting below! BE WITH ME Synopsis: From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Wait for You Do Teresa and Jase have a real shot at getting together or will life get in the way? Teresa Hamilton is having a rough year—she's in love with her big brother's best friend, but he hasn't spoken to her since they shared a truly amazing, mind-blowing, life-changing kiss. Then she got out of a terrible relationship. Now an injury is threatening to end her dance career for good. It's time for plan B: college. And maybe she'll have a chance to convince Jase that what they have together is real. Jase Winstead has a huge secret that he's not telling anyone—especially not his best friend's incredibly beautiful sister. Even though he and Teresa shared the hottest kiss of his life, he knows that his responsibilities must take priority. He certainly doesn...
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Waiting on Wednesday (139): The Three + Subway Love

I feel like it's been ages since I last posted any WoW picks, so I'm back! Not with a vengeance, but with two interesting books I just came across a few weeks ago. Check them out, please! Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine Title: The Three: A Novel by Sarah Lotz Release Date: May 20th 2014 Published by: Little, Brown and Company Want? Add to your Goodreads list! Summary (from Goodreads): Four simultaneous plane crashes. Three child survivors. A religious fanatic who insists the three are harbingers of the apocalypse. What if he's right? The world is stunned when four commuter planes crash within hours of each other on different continents. Facing global panic, officials are under pressure to find the causes. With terrorist attacks and environmental factors ruled out, there doesn't appear to be a correlation between the crashes, except that in three of the four air disasters a child survivor is found in the wreckage. Dubbed 'The Three...
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Gayle Forman signing recap + a giveaway

The first signing of the year, and judging from how it went, I'm pretty sure 2014 is going to be an awesome year for us YA readers and bookworms! Best selling author Gayle Forman is the first author to visit the Philippines this year for a signing, and she's just lovely! As always, I'm starstruck whenever I get to see an author whom I admired up close. And Gayle Forman is one of them. One of the things I love about signings, aside from meeting my favorite authors, is meeting my book blogger friends. We don't get to see each other that often, but when we do, it's always a spazzfest of books and authors and fictional hot boys! I love these people here. Gayle answering questions. I was lucky to get a chance to ask Gayle a question, and I was so nervous that I didn't even get to say hi. I felt like I was mumbling as well, but it turned out fine in the end. I really need to compose myself during Q&As. A quick rundown of some of her answers to some of the question...
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ARC Review: Defy by Sarah B. Larson

My 2014 started in a good fashion because of this book. Title: Defy (Defy #1) by Sara B. Larson Release Date: January 7th 2014 Published by: Scholastic Press Source: Publisher Buy: Amazon | Book Depository Summary: Alexa Hollen is a fighter. Forced to disguise herself as a boy and serve in the king's army, Alex uses her quick wit and fierce sword-fighting skills to earn a spot on the elite prince's guard. But when a powerful sorcerer sneaks into the palace in the dead of night, even Alex, who is virtually unbeatable, can't prevent him from abducting her, her fellow guard and friend Rylan, and Prince Damian, taking them through the treacherous wilds of the jungle and deep into enemy territory. The longer Alex is held captive with both Rylan and the prince, the more she realizes that she is not the only one who has been keeping dangerous secrets. And suddenly, after her own secret is revealed, Alex finds herself confronted with two men vying for her heart: the safe and stea...
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My Roomie story + Roomies Survival Kit Giveaway!

This is probably one of the most fun ways to do a giveaway. The giveaway is in conjunction with the lovely book Roomies by Sara Zarr and Tara Altebrando, which went on sale Christmas Eve last year. About the book: Roomies by Sara Zarr and Tara Altebrando Little, Brown Books for Young Readers December 24, 2013 The countdown to college has begun. When Elizabeth receives her freshman-year roommate assignment at the beginning of summer, she shoots off an email to coordinate the basics: TV, microwave, mini-fridge. She can't wait to escape her New Jersey beach town, and her mom, and start life over in California. The first note to Lauren in San Francisco comes as a surprise; she had requested a single. But if Lauren's learned anything from being the oldest of six, it's that you can't always get what you want, especially when what you want is privacy. Soon the girls are emailing back and forth, sharing secrets even though they've never met. With family relationships and ch...
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Book Blitz: AFTERPARTY by Ann Stampler + Giveaway!

I've yet to post my review for this book but I am so glad to be able to participate in this book blitz! Ann is an absolutely wonderful writer and I loved Where It Began, and now Afterparty is here! I was able to ask Ann a This or That question for this blitz. Wanna know what it is and what her answer was? Scroll down! This Or That with Ann Redisch Stampler Question: Action or Drama? Oh dear, can’t I have both? Because plot and feeling are both necessary elements. Because action without drama can get kind of tedious. And while I suppose you could have drama if you emoted enough while sitting in a chair, at least a tiny bit of action is always a good thing. What do you think? I'm not really a drama kind of person, but what Ann said makes sense. It's all in the plot and the feeling! ----- About Afterparty: A toxic friendship takes a dangerous turn in this riveting novel from the author of Where It Began. Emma is tired of being good. Always the dutiful daughter to an overpro...
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