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Teaser Tuesday #90: The Girl at Midnight

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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly post hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm . Anyone can play along. Just go HERE to learn how to participate. This week my teasers come from  The Girl at Midnight #1 by Melissa Grey: Teasers:  "That was a long time ago," Caius said softly. "Hardly worth remembering." "Those who forget their history," Tanith said, moving to his side so she could gaze at his face, "are doomed to repeat it." (Loc 9%, 383 of 4073) What are you reading this week? Share a teaser with me!

State of Alliance - Review

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State of Alliance (Collapse #5) By: Summer Lane Published: January 27, 2015 by WB Publishing 302 pages Source: Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: There is no such thing as safe.  For Commander Cassidy Hart, staying alive is only one of her day-to-day problems. As a newly minted Senator of the State of California, she must travel to Monterey Bay with the hope of bringing an agreement between the militia forces and the Pacific Northwest Alliance as the United States desperately battles against the shadow invasion forces of Omega.  But Monterey is not what it seems. The threat of another Omega attack is imminent, and Commander Chris Young - the love of Cassidy's life - is not the only important person who is keeping secrets. Assassinations, betrayal and startling revelations lie ahead.  The war is now. Fight or die.  Choose your side.  The fifth installment in the international bestselling YA/NA Post-Apocalyptic Series. ...

Sunday Post #119

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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 covers to be taken to its Goodreads page. The Buy Link , if available, is below each book cover. ~PURCHASED OR FREEBIES~ Burnt Devotion (Imdalind #5) by Rebecca Ethington Buy Link: Amazon ~FOR REVIEW~ World After (Penryn & the End of Days #2) by Susan Ee Buy Link: Amazon RECAP OF WEEK: SUNDAY: Sunday Post #118 MONDAY: Review - Confess by Colleen Hoover (4 stars) WEDNESDAY: Waiting on Light of a Thousand Stars 2015 Series Ender Reading Challenge: March Wrap Up (giveaway) THURSDAY: WHAT'S AHEAD: Tentative Posts: Teaser Tuesday Waiting on Wednesday Feature & Follow Planned Posts: Review - State of Alliance by Summer Lane So this week has both been enjoyable and extremely sad. My kids traveled in one direction with their gran...

Waiting on Light of a Thousand Stars

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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly post hosted by Breaking the Spine . Each week bloggers participate to share a book they can't wait to get their hands on. This week I'm waiting on: Light of a Thousand Stars (True Calling #2.5) by Siobhan Davis Expected Publication: May 30, 2015 Preorder Buy Link: Amazon Ariana Skyee has been the center of Zane Anders’ world for years. They got together as a couple eight months ago; so, Zane finally has the girl of his dreams. Life should be peachy.  But it isn’t. Haunted by a shared secret that threatens to destroy their relationship and claim their sanity, Zane is on a one-man mission to prevent Ari from falling apart. Then Commander Skyee drops the biggest bombshell of all and everything Zane has taken for granted about the future is shattered overnight. Always and Forever: That’s what Zane has promised Ari.  Keeping that promise is about to become the hardest thing he will ever do. *** Special Note from...

2015 Series Ender Reading Challenge: March Wrap Up

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It's time for our third Monthly Wrap Up for the 2015 Series Enders Reading Challenge hosted by Sandy @ Somewhere Only We Know and Holly @ Words Fueled by Love ! Since posting the 2015 Series Enders Reading Challenge - February Wrap Up , Sandy finished one series ender: The Ruby Circle (Bloodlines, # 6) by Richelle Mead. Holly didn't get any series enders finished this month. Which series enders did you finish? Link up below. Don't forget to include the title, your name, & your blog name (Ex: Requiem - Sandy @ Somewhere Only We Know) Also, the February giveaway runs from February 25th - March 25th. On March 25th we will use random.org and the linky entries to pull a winner.

Confess - Review

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Confess By: Colleen Hoover Published: March 10, 2015 by Atria Books 320 pages Source: Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: From #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover, a new novel about risking everything for love—and finding your heart somewhere between the truth and lies.   Auburn Reed has her entire life mapped out. Her goals are in sight and there’s no room for mistakes. But when she walks into a Dallas art studio in search of a job, she doesn’t expect to find a deep attraction to the enigmatic artist who works there, Owen Gentry. For once, Auburn takes a risk and puts her heart in control, only to discover Owen is keeping major secrets from coming out. The magnitude of his past threatens to destroy everything important to Auburn, and the only way to get her life back on track is to cut Owen out of it. The last thing Owen wants is to lose Auburn, but he can’t seem to convince her that truth is sometimes as subjective as ar...

Sunday Post #118

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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 covers to be taken to its Goodreads page. The Buy Link , if available, is below each book cover. It's been 2 weeks since my last Sunday Post, so I'm listing all of the books I've gotten during that time frame. ~PURCHASED OR FREEBIES~ Confess by Colleen Hoover (already read; review scheduled 3/23) Buy Link: Amazon The Pact by Karina Halle Buy Link: Amazon  ($2.99) ~FOR REVIEW~ Deep (Stage Dive #4) by Kylie Scott Buy Link: Not available at time of posting The Girl at Midnight #1 by Melissa Grey Preorder Buy Link:   Amazon Ice Kissed (Kanin Chronicles #2) by Amanda Hocking Preorder Buy Link: Amazon The Truth About Jack by Jody Gehrman Preorder Buy Link: Not available at time of posting RECAP OF WEEK: MONDAY: Review - Have No Mer...

*ARC* The Duff: Book and Movie Review

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The Duff: Designated Ugly Fat Friend By: Kody Keplinger Published: February 25, 2015 300 pages Source: Netgalley ARC from publisher ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper is cynical and loyal, and she doesn’t think she’s the prettiest of her friends by a long shot. She’s also way too smart to fall for the charms of man-slut and slimy school hottie Wesley Rush. In fact, Bianca hates him. And when he nicknames her “Duffy,” she throws her Coke in his face. But things aren’t so great at home right now. Desperate for a distraction, Bianca ends up kissing Wesley. And likes it. Eager for escape, she throws herself into a closeted enemies-with-benefits relationship with Wesley. Until it all goes horribly awry. It turns out that Wesley isn’t such a bad listener, and his life is pretty screwed up, too. Suddenly Bianca realizes with absolute horror that she’s falling for the guy she thought she hated more than anyone.   MY REVIEW: I try really h...

Have No Mercy - Review

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Have No Mercy (Cambion #4) By: Shannon Dermott Published: December 11, 2014 by Wicked Truth Publishing ebook Source: Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: Mercy’s actions may have finally caught up with her and the consequences dire. The demon she freed with her dagger may prove to be more dangerous dead than alive.  With determination that has no bounds, Mercy sets out on a quest to make things right. No matter the price or at the cost of her own life, she will persevere and is determined to have no mercy for anyone who gets in her way.  Thrust into another realm on a promise that seems meaningless now, she will find her heart in an unexpected place. Love will conquer all, and the two will become one if they are all to survive.  But… one decision may derail her plans. MY REVIEW: Dang, dang, dang!!! What started out as a favorite series of mine has been dwindling in my favor recently. I've been waiting for this fourth installmen...

*ARC* The Thorn and the Sinking Stone - Review

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The Thorn and the Sinking Stone (Thorn & Dagger #1) By: CJ Dushinski Published: March 10, 2015 by Entangled Teen Kindle, 247 pages Source: Netgalley ARC from publisher ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: Warring families. Forbidden love. And danger they can’t escape… Daggers. Roses. Cowboys. Boat Men. Survivors of Earth's Last War, four “families” vie to rule the dreary streets of Rain City through violence and blood. Valencia Hara, Princess of the wealthy Black Roses, is raised in warrior ways with sharpened steel. But she is no ordinary Rose. She is Cursed—tainted with the ability to see seconds into the future… To avenge his father's death, Sebastian Leold, of the rival gang Two Daggers, must face off against the Black Princess, he with his dagger, she with her katana sword. Yet a secret from a shared past leaves him unable to kill beautiful Valencia; nor can she kill him. For they once knew each other beyond their blood feud…and they have more secrets in c...

Waiting on Walk on Earth a Stranger

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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly post hosted by Breaking the Spine . Each week bloggers participate to share a book they can't wait to get their hands on. This week I'm waiting on: Walk on Earth a Stranger (The Gold Seer Trilogy #1) by Rae Carson Expected Publication: September 22, 2015 by Greenwillow Books Preorder Buy Link: Amazon The first book in a new trilogy from acclaimed  New York Times  bestselling author Rae Carson. A young woman with the magical ability to sense the presence of gold must flee her home, taking her on a sweeping and dangerous journey across Gold Rush–era America. Lee Westfall has a secret. She can sense the presence of gold in the world around her. Veins deep beneath the earth, pebbles in the river, nuggets dug up from the forest floor. The buzz of gold means warmth and life and home—until everything is ripped away by a man who wants to control her. Left with nothing, Lee disguises herself as a boy and takes to the trail acr...

Teaser Tuesday #89: Have No Mercy

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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly post hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm . Anyone can play along. Just go HERE to learn how to participate. This week my teasers come from  Have No Mercy (Cambion #4) by Shannon Dermott: Teasers: "You want her to seduce your son and get him to go with her. And that's never going to happen. Mercy is no slut for hire." (Loc 4%, 170 of 4182) What are you reading this week? Share a teaser with me!

Beautiful Oblivion - Review

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Beautiful Oblivion (The Maddox Brothers #1) By: Jamie McGuire Published: July 1, 2014 by Atria Books 337 pages Source: Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: Fiercely independent Camille "Cami" Camlin gladly moved on from her childhood before it was over. She has held down a job since before she could drive, and moved into her own apartment after her freshman year of college. Now tending bar at The Red Door, Cami doesn’t have time for much else besides work and classes, until a trip to see her boyfriend is cancelled, leaving her with a first weekend off in almost a year. Trenton Maddox was the king of Eastern State University, dating co-eds before he even graduated high school. His friends wanted to be him, and women wanted to tame him, but after a tragic accident turned his world upside down, Trenton leaves campus to come to grips with the crushing guilt.  Eighteen months later, Trenton is living at home with his widower father, and wor...

Sunday Post #117

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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 covers to be taken to its Goodreads page. The Buy Link , if available, is below each book cover. ~NO NEW BOOKS~ RECAP OF WEEK: SUNDAY: Sunday Post #116 MONDAY: DNF Review - Carter Finally Gets It TUESDAY: Teaser Tuesday #88: Beyond Reach WEDNESDAY: 2015 Series Ender Reading Challenge: February Wrap Up THURSDAY: WHAT'S AHEAD: Planned Posts:   ARC Thursday Review - The Thorn and The Sinking Stone by CJ Dushinski Due to a previous obligation I am posting an ARC review this week but other than that and this Sunday Post I'm taking blogging off as I travel to NYC for a girl's vacation. I'll share all about that with ya'll when I return. Thanks for stopping by!