Goodreads Monday (6/11/2018)

Goodreads Monday is a meme hosted by Lauren @Page Turner,  and the idea is to post a book that’s on your TBR pile and show it off. This is a great way to show off books I have not yet managed to read!

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This week I have chosen:

Title:  Witch’s Pyre (Worldwalker #3)

Author:  Josephine Angelini (Goodreads Author)

Published: September 20th 2016 by Feiwel & Friends

Goodreads Summary:

Lily Proctor has come a long way from the weak, sickly girl she used to be. She has gained power as a witch and a leader, found her way home, chosen to face battle again, and (after losing her first love and being betrayed by her new love) she has learned more about loss and grief than she ever wanted to know.

Thrust once again into a society different from anything they have ever seen, Lily and her coven are determined to find answers―to find a new path to victory, a way to defeat the monstrous Woven without resorting to nuclear weapons or becoming a tyrannical mass murderer like her alternate self, Lillian. But sometimes winning requires sacrifices . . . and when the only clear path to victory lies at Lillian’s side, what price will Lily be willing to pay?

Internationally bestselling author Josephine Angelini takes us on another emotionally wrenching thrill ride in the stunning conclusion to her Worldwalker Trilogy.

I got this for Christmas two years ago now…Eventually I should take it off of my TBR shelf and actually read it and finish the trilogy! I really enjoyed the first two books, and I would really like to know how it finishes!

What is on your TBR shelf this week?

 

Goodreads Monday (3/19/2018)

Goodreads Monday is a meme hosted by Lauren @Page Turner,  and the idea is to post a book that’s on your TBR pile and show it off. This is a great way to show off books I have not yet managed to read!

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This week I have chosen:

Title:  Everlife (Everlife #3)

Author:Gena Showalter (Goodreads Author)

Published: February 27th 2018 by Harlequin Teen

Goodreads Summary:

STAND TOGETHER OR FALL ALONE.

THE FATE OF THE EVERLIFE HANGS IN THE BALANCE.

At seventeen years old, Tenley “Ten” Lockwood had to make the ultimate choice—where to live after she died. Loyalty to her selected realm has not wavered…until now. She is out of time. Sacrifices must be made, and a terrible price must be paid. But is she too late?

As the Everlife descends into darkness, a single truth becomes clear: Troika and Myriad must unite—or perish. In order to bring sworn enemies together, Ten must enter forbidden territory…and destroy the powerful Prince of Ravens. But there’s only one way inside—bonding with Killian Flynn, a deadly rival who sets her blood aflame.

When nothing goes as planned and betrayal leads to the edge of utter defeat, Ten and Killian will have to rebuild trust from the ashes of their hearts. Victory seems impossible, the odds stacked against them. In the end, how far will they be willing to go for the sake of their realms and the Everlife?

I’ve been following this series since it first came out two years ago. I have the first book on my TBR shelf already and now that this book is out I need to get the 2nd and 3rd. Showalter became one of my favorite authors after I read The White Rabbit Chronicles and I hope that this series lives up to my expectations! I haven’t really heard much about it since the series started, and I don’t know if that is a good thing or a bad thing.

What is on your TBR shelf this week?

Goodreads Monday (3/12/2018)

Goodreads Monday is a meme hosted by Lauren @Page Turner,  and the idea is to post a book that’s on your TBR pile and show it off. This is a great way to show off books I have not yet managed to read!

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This week I have chosen:

Title:  Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

Author: Becky Albertalli (Goodreads Author)

Published: April 7th 2015 by Balzer + Bray

Goodreads Summary:

Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now Simon is actually being blackmailed: if he doesn’t play wingman for class clown Martin, his sexual identity will become everyone’s business. Worse, the privacy of Blue, the pen name of the boy he’s been emailing, will be compromised.

With some messy dynamics emerging in his once tight-knit group of friends, and his email correspondence with Blue growing more flirtatious every day, Simon’s junior year has suddenly gotten all kinds of complicated. Now, change-averse Simon has to find a way to step out of his comfort zone before he’s pushed out—without alienating his friends, compromising himself, or fumbling a shot at happiness with the most confusing, adorable guy he’s never met.

In honor of the movie coming out this Friday, I decided to highlight this book! I haven’t had a chance to read the book yet (I actually have to go purchase it first), but I do plan on going to go see the movie when it comes out! (Actually it’s a toss up between this and Tomb Raider) Even though I plan on seeing the movie first, I will definitely read the book one of these days! Seeing the movie doesn’t deter me from picking up the book.

Do you like to read the book first before going to see the movie or does it matter? For me, if I really didn’t like the movie I will always pick up the book to see if I would have liked it better or not. Did you know that Red Sparrow was a book to movie adaptation? I didn’t until I saw the credits after the movie! Okay, now I am rambling. I’ll stop for now =) Leave me your thoughts on books to movies in the comments!

January Wrap Up and February TBR

January has come and gone and we are in a whole new month of 2018! January went by so quickly, I hope that is not a sign for the rest of the year! I set my Goodreads Challenge to one book a week and I am already failing at it! 🤦🏻‍♀️

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This past month, I read 2/4 books:

These were fairly quick reads, and I still have to write their reviews. It’s on my to do list!

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January was also birthday month!!!! So that means I bought a significant amount of books all thanks to turning another year older and a lot of Christmas gift cards 😂.

I left out Batman: Nightwalker by Marie Lu, I left it on the shelf with Wonder Woman by Leigh Bardugo and completely forgot about it. The book that I am most excited about to start reading is A Darker Shade of Magic, now that I have the first book I can start the series!!

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Now that brings us to my February TBR:

I need to finish reading Wintersong by S Jae Jones, so that’s on the top of my list.

Followed by in no particular order:

How was your January? What books are you planning on reading this month?

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There is one book that I am very excited about that is releasing later this month. Can you guess what it is?

Check out my post tomorrow on Waiting on Wednesday….;)

Goodreads Monday (1/15/2018)

Goodreads Monday is a meme hosted by Lauren @Page Turner,  and the idea is to post a book that’s on your TBR pile and show it off. This is a great way to show off books I have not yet managed to read!

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This week I have chosen:

Title:  A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic #1)

Author: V.E. Schwab

Published: February 24th 2015 by Tor Teen

Goodreads Summary:

Kell is one of the last Antari—magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel Londons; Red, Grey, White, and, once upon a time, Black.

Kell was raised in Arnes—Red London—and officially serves the Maresh Empire as an ambassador, traveling between the frequent bloody regime changes in White London and the court of George III in the dullest of Londons, the one without any magic left to see.

Unofficially, Kell is a smuggler, servicing people willing to pay for even the smallest glimpses of a world they’ll never see. It’s a defiant hobby with dangerous consequences, which Kell is now seeing firsthand.

After an exchange goes awry, Kell escapes to Grey London and runs into Delilah Bard, a cut-purse with lofty aspirations. She first robs him, then saves him from a deadly enemy, and finally forces Kell to spirit her to another world for a proper adventure.

Now perilous magic is afoot, and treachery lurks at every turn. To save all of the worlds, they’ll first need to stay alive.

I am sooo excited to start reading this series! I got my copy in the mail last Friday, and as soon as I finish the two books I need to read this is going to the top of my TBR pile!!!

What is on your TBR shelf this week?

Goodreads Monday (12/4/2017)

Goodreads Monday is a meme hosted by Lauren @Page Turner,  and the idea is to post a book that’s on your TBR pile and show it off. This is a great way to show off books I have not yet managed to read!

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This week I have chosen:

Title:  Nameless (Tales of Beauty & Madness #1)

Author: Lili St. Crow

Published: April 4th 2013 by Razorbill

Goodreads Summary:

When Camille was six years old, she was discovered alone in the snow by Enrico Vultusino, godfather of the Seven—the powerful Families that rule magic-ridden New Haven. Papa Vultusino adopted the mute, scarred child, naming her after his dead wife and raising her in luxury on Haven Hill alongside his own son, Nico.

Now Cami is turning sixteen. She’s no longer mute, though she keeps her faded scars hidden under her school uniform, and though she opens up only to her two best friends, Ruby and Ellie, and to Nico, who has become more than a brother to her. But even though Cami is a pampered Vultusino heiress, she knows that she is not really Family. Unlike them, she is a mortal with a past that lies buried in trauma. And it’s not until she meets the mysterious Tor, who reveals scars of his own, that Cami begins to uncover the secrets of her birth… to find out where she comes from and why her past is threatening her now.

How is it already December already?!?!?! This year has just flown by and I’ve had so many life changes in just this year alone, it has been a whirlwind!

This week I have chosen Nameless by Lili St. Crow for Goodreads Monday. This has been physically on my TBR shelf since one of my book hauls from BookOutlet back in October. I have read St. Crow’s Strange Angels series and really loved it, so now I’m going to dive into her other series. I have been on a retelling kick lately, and this fits right in with the other books I have read this past month.

What is on your TBR shelf this week?

Goodreads Monday (11/27/2017)

Goodreads Monday is a meme hosted by Lauren @Page Turner,  and the idea is to post a book that’s on your TBR pile and show it off. This is a great way to show off books I have not yet managed to read!

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This week I have chosen:

Title:  Our Dark Duet (Monsters of Verity #2)

Author: Victoria Schwab

Published: June 13th 2017 by Greenwillow Books

Goodreads Summary:

THE WORLD IS BREAKING. AND SO ARE THEY.

KATE HARKER isn’t afraid of monsters. She hunts them. And she’s good at it.

AUGUST FLYNN once yearned to be human. He has a part to play. And he will play it, no matter the cost.

THE WAR HAS BEGUN.

THE MONSTERS ARE WINNING.

Kate will have to return to Verity. August will have to let her back in. And a new monster is waiting—one that feeds on chaos and brings out its victims’ inner demons.

Which will be harder to conquer: the monsters they face, or the monsters within?

Happy Cyber Monday!!! I waited all weekend to see if Amazon would have this book on sale, but alas they didn’t =( But I ordered it anyway and I can’t wait for it to come in so that I can finally start reading it! I loved the first book, and I can’t wait to be able to dive into the second one.

What is on your TBR shelf this week?

Goodreads Monday (11/13/2017)

Goodreads Monday is a meme hosted by Lauren @Page Turner, and the idea is to post a book that’s on your TBR pile and show it off. This is a great way to show off books I have not yet managed to read!

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This week I have chosen:

Title: One Dark Throne (Three Dark Crowns #2)
Author: Kendare Blake
Published: September 19th 2017 by HarperTeen
Goodreads Summary:

The battle for the Crown has begun, but which of the three sisters will prevail?

With the unforgettable events of the Quickening behind them and the Ascension Year underway, all bets are off. Katharine, once the weak and feeble sister, is stronger than ever before. Arsinoe, after discovering the truth about her powers, must figure out how to make her secret talent work in her favor without anyone finding out. And Mirabella, once thought to be the strongest sister of all and the certain Queen Crowned, faces attacks like never before—ones that put those around her in danger she can’t seem to prevent.

In this enthralling sequel to Kendare Blake’s New York Times bestselling Three Dark Crowns, Fennbirn’s deadliest queens must face the one thing standing in their way of the crown: each other.

I forgot to post last week (oops)!! A little update, so I decided to dress baby Sophia as Cinderella and Tinkerbell for Halloween! She was so cute in her little outfits, I had a hard time deciding which one she should wear all day. Well she solved that problem for me when she had an accident in the Cinderella costume…oh well.

I bought this book last month, and it is currently sitting next to the first one just waiting to be read! I’m debating on waiting until the final book comes out before starting to read it.

How do you read a series? Do you wait for all of it to be released or read it as it comes out? Typically, I read them as they are released and if I am discovering them a few years later I will binge read the whole series. Sometimes I like being able to binge read!

June Wrap Up

Hey all, I know it’s already almost a week into July, but with the holiday it was a little busy at my house. I had to play protector to my dogs who were terrified of the fireworks. Thankfully, my neighborhood didn’t go all out like they normally do, so we only had to really deal with it for two days. Other than that, it was nice just being able to stand in my living room and watch fireworks without having to deal with mosquitos and the summer heat! How did you spend your fourth?

This month was a good reading month for me. I was able to read a good amount of books, but then I hit a reading slump near the end of the month. =/ I’m going on vacation soon (and we’re driving, ugh) so hopefully I’ll be able to read a bunch of books on the road.

This month I read:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34511974-quinsey-wolfe-s-glass-vault

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27277008-rook

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34227709-house-of-ash

Not bad considering I’ve been reading like one book a month during the Spring semester. I feel like now that it’s summer I have more time to do things, but I just have no motivation to do so, especially since I am supposed to be writing my thesis which is due at the end of the month!

1. 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher 4 out of 5 stars
2. Bad Blood by Demitria Lunetta 3 out of 5 stars
3. Quinsey Wolfe’s Glass Vault by Candace Robinson 4 out of 5 stars
4. Fallen Flame by J.M. Miller 3 out of 5 stars
5. Rook by Sharon Cameron 4 out of 5 stars
6. House of Ash by Hope Cook 4 out of 5 stars

I really suck at giving myself a monthly TBR pile, so I’m not going to make one the month of July. I’ll just read whatever book I pick up, because honestly it’s probably been on my TBR shelf for awhile. I’ll just set a goal of reading 5 books this month! I think that will be more obtainable!

In June, other than reading and my normal weekly blog posts, I started an ARC TBR Takedown Read-A-Thon hosted by Sam @RiverMoose-Reads. You can check out my first post with all of the info below. If you have a bunch of unread ARCs you can still join! It goes until the end of the month!

ARC TBR Takedown Read-A-Thon

I am on a book buying ban, so I haven’t bought a single book since probably April! Which I am very proud of myself for. Although I really want Sarah Dessen’s new book that just came out earlier in June, and of course when Leigh Bardugo release’s her book all bets are off!

How was your month of June? Did you accomplish any reading or blogging goals?

ARC TBR Takedown Read-A-Thon Week 5

I started Sam @RiverMoose-Reads ARC TBR Read-A-Thon reading challenge earlier this month, and I’m excited that it’s time for another weekly blog post!

The first week we were to do our list of ARCs we currently had and I also explained the read-a-thon a little bit more fully, you can see my original post here.

On my list of TBR Arcs are:

1. Metaltown by Kristen Simmons
2. Bad Blood by Dimitria Lunetta
3. Quinsey Wolfe’s Glass Vault by Candace Robinson
4. Fallen Flame by J.M. Miller
5. Dragon Redeemer by Amy Bearce
6. House of Ash by Hope Cooke
7. Fall of Thrones and Thorns by Jennifer Ellision
8. Riot of Storm and Smoke by Jennifer Ellision
9. The Ghost King by Jeff Altabef

So far, I still haven’t received any news on whether or not I’ve been approved for any more eARCs from NetGalley.

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Week of June 29th: When/Why Do You Request Arcs

I normally only request ARCs if the premise intrigues me. To me if it has a good one, then I’ll just go ahead and request it regardless of who the author is or where it’s being published. I would rather read a good book by a new up and coming author, than a book that might just be okay by a well established author.

I typically only request ARCs if I don’t have any pending reviews in my NetGalley account, or if I am just looking for a new book in general. Since NetGalley can sometimes take a few days or longer to approve or deny, I try to anticipate my reading needs and my availability to read them. Although, my physical TBR shelves are overflowing, I like to read at least one ARC in between my other books. Sometimes, I just also read a bunch of eARCS back to back because they are on my Kindle and I tend to do a lot of reading at night before bed.

When do you typically request ARCS?