Monday, September 9, 2013

Blitz& Giveaway: American Girl On Saturn by Nikki Godwin

American Girl On Saturn
by Nikki Godwin
Release Date: 08/24/13

Summary from Goodreads:
The summer after graduation is supposed to be that first real taste of freedom - but not for eighteen-year-old Chloe Branson. Just as that breeze of freedom is making its way into her galaxy, her secret-service-agent dad drops a meteor-sized bomb of bad news on her and her sisters. An attempt has been made on the lives of Canadian boyband, Spaceships Around Saturn, during their USA tour, and the guys have to go into hiding ASAP. The only problem? In the midst of the crisis and media frenzy, their dad volunteered to hide the guys...in their house.

Six-year-old Emery is as ecstatic as any self-proclaimed Saturnite would be, but Chloe and her seventeen-year-old sister Aralie watch their summer plans crash and burn like a falling star. The SAS guys aren't happy with the situation, either. Bad boy Jules picks fights with Aralie about everything from his Twitter followers to his laundry, and heart-throb Benji can't escape Emery's fangirlisms for more than three minutes.

But after the super-cute Milo kisses Chloe during a game of hide-and-seek, she finally understands what Emery means when she talks about SAS being "out of this world." If this is what Saturn feels like, Chloe doesn't want to come back to Earth.

Excerpt
He reaches toward the tray and grabs the lone Oreo. “Okay, this is my last one for the night,” he says. “Half it with me?”
Seriously? If I wasn’t the envy of every Saturnite in the world just by sitting across the table from him, I’m definitely the envy of them now because the Milo Grayson wants to half his precious Oreo with me. And the thing that sucks the most is that no one knows about it to be jealous of me!
He holds the cookie up and waits for a response. 
“Yeah, we can half it,” I say. 
I reach across the table for it, but he jerks his arm back. The sleeve of his T-shirt hugs his bicep tightly, and oh how I wish to be that fabric. 
“Not so fast,” he says. “Let’s make it interesting.”
Could this be any more interesting? Hello – you’re gorgeous and famous and sharing cookies with me! Any more ‘interest’ and I might burst like a firework. 
“If you get the side with the cream, I’ll give you my honest male opinion about your checkout line drama today,” he says. “But if I get the cream side, you have to tell me, honestly, who you think the best looking guy is in Spaceships Around Saturn.”
Oh God. He’s for real. Does he know? He totally knows. He knows I’m lusting for him from behind this glass of milk and tattoo magazine. He knows that his eyes make me melt and that I clearly watch him on Twitter because I know all about amazzzzzing. Now he wants to make me ‘fess up. 
“Deal.” I say it before I can chicken out. 
I can always lie and say Benji’s name. He’s the fan favorite anyway. Benji Baccarini is Spaceships Around Saturn for so many girls.
He leans forward, positions himself over the table, and holds up that fated Oreo. I push my glass of milk aside because the last thing I want is to knock it over with my quivering nerves. Then I lean toward him, grip the cookie with my fingers, and inhale every scent of his body wash that I can while I twist my half of the Oreo away from his half. 

About the Author
Nikki Godwin is a Young Adult author from the southern USA. She is a city girl who can't live without Mountain Dew, black eyeliner, Hawthorne Heights, and candles from Bath & Body Works. When not writing, she's not-so-secretly internet-stalking her favorite bands. She is slightly obsessed with rock stars and surfers. She no longer hides her love for One Direction.

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Sunday, September 8, 2013

My Sunday Post #33






The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer. 
I'm also linking up to Stacking the Shelves by Tynga's Review this week.


Last Week on the Blog
My Sunday Post #32
Sequels Giveaway Hop
Unbreakable by Kami Garcia ~Promo
The Emblazoned Red by Dawn McCullough White ~Review
Waiting on Wednesday #32: The Winner's Curse by Marie Rutkoski

Tenative Schedule for this week 
My Sunday Post #33
American Girl on Saturn ~ Blitz
Waiting on Wednesday #33
Dead Girls Don't Lie Trailer Blast
The Pirate's Wish by Cassandra Rose Clarke~Review
What's Left of Me by Kat Zhang ~ Audio Review
The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater~Review 

New This Week 


Publishers via Edelweiss
Thanks to HarperCollins
Publisher via Audiobookjukebox
Thanks to Macmillan
Tours
October 20-26, 2013

Notes

 Hope you all have a great week! :)


Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Waiting on Wednesday #32: The Winner's Curse by @marierutkoski


"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.




The Winner's Curse by Marie Rutkoski
Expected Release: March 2014

Goodreads Synopsis
In the tradition of Kristin Cashore and Cassandra Clare comes this brilliant, unputdownable, star-crossed romance about the curse of winning.

Seventeen-year-old Kestrel is an aristocratic citizen of Valoria, a vast empire that revels in war and enslaves those it conquers. Here, a girl like Kestrel has two choices: join the military or get married. Despite her skills in military strategy, Kestrel’s real passion is music.Which is why she feels compelled to buy Arin, a slave with a talent for singing, at auction. It’s not long before she finds herself falling in love with Arin, and he seems to feel the same for her. But Kestrel quickly learns that the price she paid for Arin is much higher than she ever could have imagined.

Set in a new world, The Winner’s Curse is a story of wicked rumors, dirty secrets, and games where everything is at stake, and the gamble is whether you will keep your head or lose your heart.

I'm loving this cover!

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

The Emblazoned Red by Dawn McCullough White

About the Book

Once, in another world—a dark world, the world of Faetta—there lived paladins and pirates, tyrants and scallywags, vampires and the undead. In this world a revolution is brewing. The royalty of Sieunes are in chains, and those priests and paladins who follow the holy word of the gods are under attack. In the west, the kingdom of Kellerhald receives the fleeing priests in their temples of the paladins of Silvius, god of the Sky. Here, a young woman has just passed her tests to become a paladin. A pirate crew raids along the Azez Sea. An undead creature, wielding great power, roams the graveyard of Yetta. And a lost soul, crying out from beyond the veil, seeks out a pure hearted warrior to hear its plea.

Amid the turmoil of the revolution, Ilka’s mettle is tested. Rescued by pirates, she ends up with an unlikely ally: the pirate captain himself. The newly trained paladin finds herself collaborating with the undead, working with a vampire, and worst of all, longing for revenge against the man who has ignited the revolution in Sieunes: Francois Mond…

 Death of an Innocent. Rise of a Paladin.


Ilka' s first mission leads to disaster. Continued by angry revolutionaries determined to kill all the clergy and paladins. Life is no longer safe for her people. After a mob attacks her and some other people in Shandow, Ilka finds herself at the mercy of a pirate. Nate knows he has to figure out how to keep the crew away from her and cons a ruse that benefits them both though she is unaware. Battered and bruised Ilka knows something is wrong but his kindness seems to work is way into her thoughts and as get closer to get home, she discovers the truth about the captain. 

I liked the chemistry between Nate and Ilka, though he's a little old. He's not all bad and he becomes important to helping her cope with her grief. This story has supernatural aspects with vampires, zombies and the magic of Ilka' s people. She has the ability to communicate with the dead but it costs her. I think this book is about Nate and Ilka mostly but I find myself confused about what transpires in the rest of the book. It ends nicely but it's left open for the next book because there are many things unresolved. Overall, an okay read about grief and love with a bit of paranormal in the mix.


Monday, September 2, 2013

Giveaway & Promo: Unbreakable by Kami Garcia


About the Book
I never  believed in ghosts.  Until one tried to kill me.

When  Kennedy Waters  finds  her mother dead,  she doesn't realize paranormal forces are responsible-not until mysterious identical twins Jared  and Lukas Lockhart break into her room  and destroy a deadly spirit sent to kill her.

Kennedy learns that her mother's death was no accident, and now  Kennedy has to take her place  in the Legion of the Black  Dove-a secret society of ghost hunters formed to protect the world from a vengeful demon. A society whose five members were all murdered on the same night, leaving the Legion in the hands of the next generation: a misfit  group with unique skills.

As the new members race to find the only weapon capable of destroying the demon, each uses their individual skills to battle paranormal entities and earn their  rightful place in the Legion-except for Kennedy.

If she is truly the missing piece of the puzzle, can she stay alive long enough to find out-without losing her heart in the process?

Protect yourself.
What you can't see can hurt you.
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Author Bio
Kami Garcia  is the #1  New  York Times & international bestselling coauthor of the Beautiful Creatures Series and the author of UNBREAKABLE, the first book in the Legion Series, releasing on October 1, 2013.

BEAUTIFUL CREATURES has been published in 50 countries and translated in 39 languages. The film adaptation of Beautiful Creatures released in theaters on February 14, 2013, from  Warner  Brothers, starring: Viola  Davis, Jeremy Irons, Emma Thompson, Emmy Rossum, Alice  Englert, and Alden Ehrenrich.

Kami is fascinated by the paranormal, and she's very  superstitious. When she isn't writing, Kami can usually be found watching disaster movies, listening to Soundgarden, or drinking Diet  Coke. She lives  in Maryland with  her family, and their  dogs  Spike  and Oz (named after  characters from the TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer).
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Praise for Unbreakable:

"'Supernatural' meets 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.' Kami Garcia is Joss Whedon's talent-sister! I didn't just read Unbreakable; I lived it. When it comes to supernatural suspense, Garcia is the Slayer." -Nancy Holder, New York Times bestselling author of Buffy: the Making of a Slayer & the Wicked saga

"Tense and deliciously twisty, Unbreakable is a breath-stealing midnight run through some of the creepiest locales I've seen rendered in fiction. . . . It's about forgiveness and redemption, love and loss, and it's anything but predictable. I loved it." -Ransom Riggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

"Unbreakable is a fantastic adventure -- strong, engaging characters and a romance to die for. The twists will leave you breathless." -Rachel Caine, New York Timesbestselling author of the Morganville Vampires series

"Unbreakable is a fast-paced, relentless race through a world of demons and spirits, darkness and light -- and the finish line comes when you least expect it. I can't wait for the next book!" -Ally Condie, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Matched trilogy

"Paranormal action, secret societies, and romantic suspense! The Legion series is now definitely on my must-read list." -Richelle Mead, #1 international bestselling author of Vampire Acadamy


"Unbreakable keeps you engaged and on edge. I found myself intrigued in Kennedy Waters' world and not wanting to put this book down. Looking forward to Book 2!" -Jason Hawes, co-creator and star of "Ghost Hunters" and a New York Times bestselling author

"An eerily fun and emotionally accurate venture into the complex layers of paranormal encounters from both sides. Looking forward to Book 2!" -Grant Wilson, co-creator of "Ghost Hunters" and a New York Times bestselling author

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Sunday, September 1, 2013

My Sunday Post #32






The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer. 
I'm also linking up to Stacking the Shelves by Tynga's Review this week.


Last Week on the Blog
My Sunday Post #31
Antigoddess by Kendare Blake ~Review
Books to Movie Giveaway Hop
Waiting On Wednesday #31: Evertrue by Brodi Ashton
The Outside by Laura Bickle ~ Review

Tenative Schedule for this week 
My Sunday Post #32
Unbreakable by Kami Garcia ~Promo
The Pirate's Wish by Cassandra Rose Clarke~Review
Sequels Giveaway Hop
The Emblazoned Red by Dawn McCullough White ~Review
Waiting on Wednesday #32
What's Left of Me by Kat Zhang ~ Audio Review


New This Week 

Publishers via Edelweiss
Thanks to Balzer + Bray and HarperTeen

Tours
September 3, 2013 ~ Review

October 20-26, 2013

Notes
I haven't gotten much reading done as I've been working on a Cosplay program at my job. It's taking up any extra time or brain function but I did just start reading Divergent, finally. Football season has begun and I love the weather and miss the thrill of marching on the field during half-time. Maybe, I'll get some reading done this week.

 Hope you all have a great week! :)


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