The Wager (The Bet #2) By: Rachel Van Dyken Published: October 1, 2013 by Forever 256 pages Source: Netgalley ARC, from publisher (Thanks!) ( Goodreads / Amazon  $.99 / Book Depository ) Summary: Lose a bet, lose your heart... What is it about a junior-high crush that can send an otherwise intelligent woman into a tailspin? TV reporter Char Lynn wishes she knew. Jake Titus is too rich, too handsome, too arrogant: a trifecta that once lured Char into the best night-and worst morning-after-of her life. Now they've been thrown together in a wedding party. It's awkward, but survivable . . . until Jake stops acting like a jerk, and starts acting like the man she'd always hoped he could be. If watching your brother marry your best friend is weird, being attracted to your best friend's other best friend is downright bizarre. Unfortunately for Jake, Char hasn't forgotten how he once tossed her aside. Worse still, Jake's already-nutty grandma is even ...

Guest Post by Terra Harmony Books or Movies? Which are better? First a big thank you to Holly for hosting me on her blog! Show hands; who liked the Harry Potter movies better than the books? What about the Twilight series? Hunger Games? Oh - what about Mortal Instruments? Chances are (especially because this is a book blog), most people are going with the book. I am with you. Take Hunger Games for example. They included most events from the book, and they were even spot on with what I imagined the characters to be. But something was off. I didn't get caught up emotionally with the movie as I did in the books (and I have yet to see Catching Fire, just so you know - hope it is a little better). Films introduce new worlds - in intricate detail. They show us everything, even some things the book can't or doesn't. And I love going to movies, sitting in the dark with a giant tub of popcorn and just getting lost in the storyline. But the one thing a film doesn...

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly post hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading . Anyone can play along - just go HERE to learn how to participate. This week my teasers come from The Lives We Lost by Megan Crewe: Teasers: "Or to take what we have. They couldn't overpower us all at once. And they couldn't get into the truck. So they've stopped us from leaving while they decide what to do next." What are you reading this week? Share a teaser with me!

The Way We Fall (Fallen World #1) By: Megan Crewe Published: January 1, 2012 by Disney-Hyperion 336 pages Source: Won paperback copy during Armchair BEA 2013 ( Goodreads / Amazon  / Book Depository ) Summary: It starts with an itch you just can't shake. Then comes a fever and a tickle in your throat. A few days later, you'll be blabbing your secrets and chatting with strangers like they’re old friends. Three more, and the paranoid hallucinations kick in. And then you're dead. When sixteen-year-old Kaelyn lets her best friend leave for school without saying goodbye, she never dreams that she might not see him again. But then a strange virus begins to sweep through her small island community, infecting young and old alike. As the dead pile up, the government quarantines the island: no one can leave, and no one can come back. Those still healthy must fight for the island’s dwindling supplies, or lose all chance of survival. As everything familiar comes cras...

Sunday Post is a weekly post hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer . Each week bloggers participate to share any books received and any news from their week. Click on the book cover to be taken to its Goodreads page. If you would like to purchase one of these the Buy Link , if available, is below each cover. ~AMAZON FREEBIE~ Tragic (Rook and Ronin #1) by J.A. Huss Buy Link: Amazon , Book Depository Rook Walsh is TRAGIC Because life so far – just sucks. Some girls get parents. Rook got the foster care system. Some girls get Prince Charming. Rook got an abusive frog. Some girls get lucky… Rook got a second chance. And she took it. Because when fate throws you a bone – you grab it with both hands and run. Antoine Chaput knows the minute he spies Rook in his photography studio that she’s got The Look. The dark and desperate look he must have to land the exclusive TRAGIC media contract. Rook is paired up with top model, Ronin, and he’s everything her a...

This challenge is for all of you series readers who are scared to death of that last book in the series. You anxiously await it. You stalk it. You get your hands on it as soon as possible. But then…you put off reading it for fear that it might not be everything you thought it would be. Or, maybe you just have a backlog of series started and you need to finish that last book. Join us in knocking out those pesky last books in a series. This is your chance. Here’s your motivation. Better than that, we've got prizes! Challenge Guidelines: 1) This challenge will run from January 1, 2014 until December 31, 2014. 2) Anyone can enter. You don’t have to have a blog just as long as you review your books somewhere: on your blog if you have one, Amazon, Goodreads, Shelfari, etc. 3) Any genre, length, or format is acceptable as long as it is the last book in a series where all books in the series have been published and no more books are currently intended to be published in the...

This challenge is for all of you series readers who are scared to death of that last book in the series. You anxiously await it. You stalk it. You get your hands on it as soon as possible. But then…you put off reading it for fear that it might not be everything you thought it would be. Or, maybe you just have a backlog of series started and you need to finish that last book. Join us in knocking out those pesky last books in a series. This is your chance. Here’s your motivation. Better than that, we've got prizes! Challenge Guidelines: 1) This challenge will run from January 1, 2014 until December 31, 2014. 2) Anyone can enter. You don’t have to have a blog just as long as you review your books somewhere: on your blog if you have one, Amazon, Goodreads, Shelfari, etc. 3) Any genre, length, or format is acceptable as long as it is the last book in a series where all books in the series have been published and no more books are currently intended to be published in the...

The Edge of Always (The Edge of Never #2) By: J.A. Redmerski Published: November 5, 2013 464 pages Source: Netgalley ARC from publisher ( Goodreads / Amazon  / Book Depository ) Summary: He was taking the long road. She was taking the road to nowhere. It just so happened that they led to the same place… When everything falls apart, love remains . . . THE EDGE OF ALWAYS Camryn Bennett has never been happier. Five months after meeting on a Greyhound bus, she and her soul mate Andrew Parrish are engaged—and a wedding isn’t the only special event in their future. Nervous but excited, Camryn can’t wait to begin the rest of her life with Andrew – a man she knows in her heart will love her always. They have so much to look forward to—until tragedy blindsides them. Andrew doesn’t understand how this could happen to them. He’s trying to move on, and thought Camryn was doing the same. But when Andrew discovers Camryn is secretly harboring a mountain of pain and attemp...

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly post hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading . Anyone can play along - just go HERE to learn how to participate. My teasers this week come from The Wager (The Bet #2) by Rachel Van Dyken: Teasers: Karma: It was finally coming for him. And it was in the form of an eighty-six-year-old woman with lipstick on her teeth. I love these books.  They are funny and sexy, great combination for a fast read! Check it out. What are you reading this week?  Share a teaser with me!

The Edge of Never By: J.A. Redmerski Published: November 13, 2012 423 pages Source: Netgalley ARC from publisher (Thanks!) ( Goodreads / Amazon  / Book Depository ) Summary: Twenty-year-old Camryn Bennett had always been one to think out-of-the-box, who knew she wanted something more in life than following the same repetitive patterns and growing old with the same repetitive life story. And she thought that her life was going in the right direction until everything fell apart. Determined not to dwell on the negative and push forward, Camryn is set to move in with her best friend and plans to start a new job. But after an unexpected night at the hottest club in downtown North Carolina, she makes the ultimate decision to leave the only life she’s ever known, far behind. With a purse, a cell phone and a small bag with a few necessities, Camryn, with absolutely no direction or purpose boards a Greyhound bus alone and sets out to find herself. What she finds is a guy...

Sunday Post is a weekly post hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer . Each week bloggers participate to share any books received and any news from their week. Click on the book cover to be taken to its Goodreads page. If you would like to purchase one of these the Buy Link , if available, is below each cover. ~WON~ Welcome to Sugartown by Carmen Jenner Buy Link: Amazon ~FOR REVIEW~ Isaura (Aberrant #3) by Ruth Silver Simple Perfection (Perfection #2) by Abbi Glines Buy Link Amazon , Book Depository RECAP OF WEEK: SUNDAY: Sunday Post #53 MONDAY: Review - Carter Reed by Tijan TUESDAY: Teaser Tuesday #41 featuring teasers from The Edge of Always WEDNESDAY: Waiting on Wednesday featuring Waiting on Soul of Flame THURSDAY: ARC Thursday Review - The Rising by Terra Harmony WHAT'S AHEAD: Review - The Edge of Never by J.A. Redmerski ARC Thursday Review - The Edge of Always by J.A. Redmerski Tentative P...

The Rising (The Painted Maidens #1) By: Terra Harmony Published: November 7, 2013 by Patchwork Press 271 pages Source: Netgalley ARC, given by publisher for review (Thanks!) ( Goodreads / Smashwords ) Summary: Fifteen-year-old Serena is the youngest member of a dying race. The increasing acidity of the ocean is destroying her home, slowly eating away at the once thriving underwater landscape. But since the night of Serena’s birth, it is an outside force that most threatens their dwindling population. Werewolves, who once served as protectors for mermaids in the Kingdom of the Undine, now seek to eliminate all who dwell in the ocean — and Serena is about to find herself right in the middle of the deadly conflict. Given the title of Werewolf Liaison, Serena is determined to make things right for her people. When she ventures to The Dry, she meets Liam, the werewolf with hazel eyes, and her whole world gets turned upside down. As Serena discovers the real history bet...

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly post hosted by Breaking the Spine . Each week bloggers participate to share a yet-to-be-released-book they can't wait to get their hands on. This week I'm waiting on: Soul of Flame (Imdalind #4) by Rebecca Ethington Expected Publication: December 2, 2013 Book Four in the Imdalind Series, expected release December 2013 The Time for the final battle has come. Edmund's armies have surrounded the Rioseco Abbey, trapping the few survivors inside. The sight that Ilyan was given a thousand years ago is about to come to pass. If only Joclyn was able to fight. Joclyn is tormented by the hallucinations that Cail’s mind has left her with, her magic an uncontrollable torrent that even Ilyan cannot control. Her moments of lucidity are broken by fears of dripping pipes and bleeding walls, and a desire to kill Ryland that she is having trouble trying to ignore. The sight has shown her power, shown her success, but it has also sho...

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly post hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading . Anyone can play along - just go HERE to learn how to participate. This week my teaser's come from The Edge of Always by J.A. Redmerski: Teasers: " I'm not lying to you," he says.  "I'm going to be fine.  I feel like I'm going to be fine, and you have to believe that." (Loc 71%) What are you reading this week?  Leave me a teaser from it!

Carter Reed By: Tijan Published: September 28, 2013 302 pages Source: Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon )   Summary: Emma decided to skip the gym and went home early. It was the last easy decision she made because she found her roommate being raped by the boyfriend. She had two choices. Call the cops and be killed by his family’s mafia connections or kill him first and hope to survive. There was no choice to her. She killed him first and went to the one person who could protect her. Carter Reed. He’s a weapon for the rivaling mafia family, but he’s also Emma’s secret. Not only was he best friends with her brother, but she’s the reason he became that weapon in the first place. MY REVIEW: I can't believe I'm about to discuss this, however briefly, on here (because I've chosen not to get involved in all the opinions about it) but this book was annoyingly similar to Fifty Shades of Grey  in a few ways that I must get off my chest first.  The overb...

Sunday Post is a weekly post hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer . Each week bloggers participate to share any books received and news from their week. Click on the book cover to be taken to its Goodreads page. If you would like to purchase one of these the Buy Link,  if available, is below each cover. ~FOR REVIEW~ Four Seconds to Lose (Ten Tiny Breaths #3) by K.A. Tucker Buy Links: Amazon , Book Depository Elect (Eagle Elite #1) by Rachel Van Dyken Buy Links: Amazon RECAP OF WEEK: SUNDAY: Sunday Post #52 MONDAY: Review - Ruin by Rachel Van Dyken TUESDAY: Teaser Tuesday #40 featuring teasers from The Edge of Never by J.A. Redmerski THURSDAY: ARC Thursday Review - Aberrant by Ruth Silver WHAT'S AHEAD: Review - Carter Reed by Tijan ARC Thursday Review - The Rising by Terra Harmony Tentative Posts: Teaser Tuesday #41 Waiting on Wednesday Feature & Follow {43} This week was another sad one for my ...