Beyond Reach (True Calling #2) By: Siobhan Davis Published: April 30, 2015 ebook Source: ARC from publisher via Netgalley ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: Back on Earth, Ariana is caught in a dangerous crossfire between clandestine rebel organization Clementia and the power-hungry government. Refusing to divulge the location of the secret information entrusted to her by her late father, she desperately tries to bargain for her Mom, Lily, and Cal’s rescue. She’s fighting a losing battle, and the clock is ticking. Presented with evidence of her fiancé Cal’s apparent betrayal, she loyally defends him despite her concerns. With her emotions in turmoil, matters become even more complicated as she grows closer to her ex-boyfriend Zane. When the stakes are raised, a succession of shocking revelations rocks her world, setting her on a path that will not only change her destiny but the fate of humanity.  Confronted by a memory so abhorrent comes a truth she would do...

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: Beautiful Sacrifice (Maddox Brothers #3) by Jamie McGuire Expected Publication: May 31, 2015 by Amazon Digital Services Preorder Buy Link: Amazon Falyn Fairchild can walk away from anything. Having already left her car, her education, and even her parents, the daughter of the next governor of Colorado is back in her hometown, broke and waiting tables for the Bucksaw Café. After every shift, Falyn adds to her shoebox of cash, hoping to one day save enough to buy her a plane ticket to the only place she can find forgiveness: Eakins, Illinois. The moment Taylor Maddox is seated in Falyn’s section at the Bucksaw, she knows he’s trouble. Taylor is charming, breaks promises, and gorgeous even when covered in filth—making him everything Falyn believes a hotshot firefighter to be. Fa...

Clean Sweep ARC Challenge hosted by Caffeinated Book Reviewer For a list of rules and to sign up to participate, go  HERE . Whenever I seem to be lacking in inspiration to get through the way too many books I have, I find participating in a challenge can help. This challenge is perfect! I currently have 24 ebook ARC's from Netgalley and 1 ebook ARC from an author that are unread. I'm under no false allusion that I'll even make it through half of these...but if I can get 4 or 5 read I'll be happy. So, here are my goals for this May challenge (listed in no particular order): 1. Light of a Thousand Stars , True Calling #2.5 by Siobhan Davis, publish date: May 1, 2015   - read & reviewed 5/14/15 2. Lovestruck (True Calling short story) by Siobhan Davis, publish date: March 20, 2015 - read and reviewed 5/21/15 3. Ice Kissed by Amanda Hocking, publish date: May 5, 2015 (participating in blog tour on May 11, 2015   - read 5/20/15 4. The Shattered Court ...

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~ Snow Like Ashes #1 by Sara Raasch Buy Link: Amazon  ($1.99 at time of purchase) ~FOR REVIEW~ Alive by Scott Sigler Preorder Buy Link: Amazon RECAP OF WEEK: SUNDAY: Sunday Post #122 MONDAY: Review - Burnt Devotion (Imdalind #5) by Rebecca Ethington (3 stars) WEDNESDAY: Waiting on Until Friday Night THURSDAY: ARC Thursday Review - The Girl at Midnight by Melissa Grey (4 stars) FRIDAY: Feature & Follow #58 : Blog Title story SATURDAY: 2015 Series Ender Reading Challenge - April Wrap Up (giveaway) WHAT'S AHEAD: Tentative Posts: Teaser Tuesday Waiting on Wednesday Feature & Follow Planned Posts: ARC...

It's time for our fourth 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 - March Wrap Up , Sandy finished two series enders: Ignite Me (Shatter Me, # 3) by Tahereh Mafi & Asa (Marked Men, # 6) by Jay Crownover. Holly's been a slacker since January and didn't get any series enders finished again 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 April giveaway runs from April 25th - May 25th. On May 25th we will use random.org and the linky entries to pull a winner.

Feature & Follow is a weekly post hosted by  Parakunkee's View  and  Alison Can Read . "The goal is to increase followers and make new friends." The Rules: Follow the 2 hosts. Follow the 2 features (new each week). Hop around and follow others that are participating, leaving a comment to let them know. Answer this week's question in your own blog post. This week's question: How did you come up with your blog title and address? Does it have a special meaning for you? - suggested by The Paperback Princesses So I started my blog back in October 2012 and wrote my second post on my blog title, originally posted  here . Here is what I had/have to say about my blog title: I find that I am always interested to know the story behind how one chooses a blog title or webpage title.  It’s always a glimpse into that person’s creative side, however small or large that may be.  So for those curious in nature, like myself, here’s the “sto...

The Girl at Midnight #1 By: Melissa Grey Published: April 28, 2015 by Delacorte Press 368  pages Source: Netgalley ARC from publisher ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: For readers of Cassandra Clare's  City of Bones  and Leigh Bardugo's Shadow and Bone ,  The Girl at Midnight  is the story of a modern girl caught in an ancient war.    Beneath the streets of New York City live the Avicen, an ancient race of people with feathers for hair and magic running through their veins. Age-old enchantments keep them hidden from humans. All but one. Echo is a runaway pickpocket who survives by selling stolen treasures on the black market, and the Avicen are the only family she's ever known.    Echo is clever and daring, and at times she can be brash, but above all else she's fiercely loyal. So when a centuries-old war crests on the borders of her home, she decides it's time to act.    Legend has it that there is a way to end the...

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: Until Friday Night (The Field Party #1) by Abbi Glines Expected Publication: September 25, 2015 by Simon Pulse Preorder Buy Link: Amazon To everyone who knows him, West Ashby has always been that guy: the cocky, popular, way-too-handsome-for-his-own-good football god who led Lawton High to the state championships. But while West may be Big Man on Campus on the outside, on the inside he’s battling the grief that comes with watching his father slowly die of cancer. Two years ago, Maggie Carleton’s life fell apart when her father murdered her mother. And after she told the police what happened, she stopped speaking and hasn’t spoken since. Even the move to Lawton, Alabama, couldn’t draw Maggie back out. So she stayed quiet, keeping her sorrow and her fractured heart hidden awa...

Burnt Devotion (Imdalind #5) By: Rebecca Ethington Published: March 22, 2015 by Imdalind Press 158 pages Source: Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: It was supposed to be the final battle, the one to end Edmund’s line, his life, and free the magic Edmund had taken from the world. That was how it was foreseen. The end of the battle that has raged for centuries, unbeknownst to the mortals around them, the battle that would end with Joclyn’s death. But it did neither. The battle still reigns, Joclyn still lives, and the sight that was given eight hundred years ago is broken. And it’s not the only one. Sights that were once thought infallible have become nothing more than scattered glass, with broken pieces shattering into incorrect visages. Sain clings to the magic that he knows to be true, but there is something else, something that he is not saying. And what he does say is no longer adding up. Something is wrong. Ilyan and his people mov...

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. ~FOR REVIEW~ The Shattered Court (A Novel of the Four Arts #1) by M.J. Scott Preorder Buy Link: Amazon Through Fire & Sea by Nicole Luiken Preorder Buy Link: Amazon RECAP OF WEEK: SUNDAY: Sunday Post #121 TUESDAY: Teaser Tuesday #92: Burnt Devotion WEDNESDAY: Waiting on Alive SATURDAY: Fashionable or Not? - Fringe Trend WHAT'S AHEAD: Tentative Posts: Teaser Tuesday Waiting on Wednesday Feature & Follow Planned Posts: Review - Burnt Devotion by Rebecca Ethington ARC Thursday Review - The Girl at Midnight by Melissa Grey This week has been a rainy one. Every day. Rain. Rain all day. Gloomy. Blah. And so by the end of the week I wa...

Fashionable or Not? Fringe Trend Today I want to talk about a fashion trend that I'm totally digging, though don't own any pieces currently. That is the trend of fringe. I've seen it everywhere - from purses, to shoes, to bathing suits, to tops and vests and dresses. Lots and lots of dangling pieces of fabric abound everywhere you look right now in stores and online. I don't really know what it is about fringe that draws me in so much. There are a few reasons that come to mind though. It reminds me of Springtime and Summer, those dangling strings are fun to run your fingers through, the bohemian chic style they typically have and just the way they blow in the breeze gives me this free feeling. The bottom line for me is that I absolutely must add some fringe items to my wardrobe. Here's a few styles I've got my eye on. Fringe Shoes:   In order as shown:  1. Minnetonka Ashley wedge: comes in 3 colors, and retails for $64.95 2. Minnetonka Mo...

Feature & Follow is a weekly post hosted by  Parakunkee's View  and  Alison Can Read . "The goal is to increase followers and make new friends." The Rules: Follow the 2 hosts. Follow the 2 features (new each week). Hop around and follow others that are participating, leaving a comment to let them know. Answer this week's question in your own blog post. This week's question: Here is $100,000 (*Words Fueled by Love is in the US so ya'll change it to your currency) . Buy something. Anything at all! What would be the first thing you choose and why? Husband and I are pretty practical when it comes to spending and saving. More than likely we would save a large chunk of this kind of money and invest it. Boring, I know. Second to that would probably be using part of it as a down payment on a bigger house with at least an acre of space that we'd one day like to have. I have quite the wide variety of what I like, but here's a few...

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: Alive by Scott Sigler Expected Publication: July 14, 2015 by Del Rey Preorder Buy Link: Amazon From New York Times bestselling author Scott Sigler comes something utterly new: a gripping sci-fi adventure trilogy in the vein of The Hunger Games, Divergent, and The Maze Runner. A group of young adults awake in a mysterious enclosed space with no knowledge of who they are or how they got there…and an indomitable young woman must lead them not only to answers but to survival. “I open my eyes to darkness. Total darkness. I hear my own breathing, but nothing else. I lift my head . . . it thumps against something solid and unmoving. There is a board right in front of my face. No, not a board . . . a lid.” A teenage girl awakens to find herself trapped in a coffin. She has no idea ...

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  Burnt Devotion (Imdalind #5) by Rebecca Ethington: Teasers: "And, because I love her, I would give her the choice. I would let her return to you if that's what she wished." (Loc 24%, 1215 of 5377) What are you reading this week? Share a teaser with me!

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~ Abel (5th Street #4) by Elizabeth Reyes Buy Link: Amazon  (Freebie at the time of posting) RECAP OF WEEK: SUNDAY: Sunday Post #120 MONDAY: Review - The Pact by Karina Halle (4 stars) TUESDAY: Teaser Tuesday #91: The Girl at Midnight WEDNESDAY: Waiting on The Shattered Court WHAT'S AHEAD: Tentative Posts: Teaser Tuesday Waiting on Wednesday Feature & Follow Planned Posts: Review - TBD (none currently planned this week) March, April and May around our house brings softball. With two games a week and at least one practice a week usually on Sunday afternoons, with a hitting or pitching lesson thrown in occasionally, our w...

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: The Shattered Court (A Novel of the Four Arts #1) by M.J. Scott Expected Publication: April 28, 2015 by Roc Preorder Buy Link: Amazon First in a new fantasy series from the author of the Novels of the Half-Light City. Entangled in a court ruled by tradition and intrigue, a young witch must come to terms with newfound power and desire—and a choice between loyalty and survival.… The royal witches of Anglion have bowed to tradition for centuries. If a woman of royal blood manifests powers, she is immediately bound by rites of marriage. She will serve her lord by practicing the tamer magics of the earth—ensuring good harvests and predicting the weather. Any magic more dangerous is forbidden. Lady Sophia Kendall, thirty-second in line to the throne, is only days away from fi...

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 by Melissa Grey: Teasers: "There's always a choice, Echo. Even if it's a bad one." (Loc 54%, Loc 2189 of 4073) What are you reading this week? Share a teaser with me!

The Pact By: Karina Halle Published: December 27, 2014 by Metal Blonde Books 290 pages Source: Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: *The Pact is a FULL-LENGTH  *STANDALONE (not part of a series, no cliffhanger, fully wrapped-up novel)  *"FRIENDS-TO-LOVERS" CONTEMPORARY ADULT ROMANCE  It all started with a pinky swear…  Linden McGregor is tall, rugged, and gunslinger handsome; a helicopter pilot with a Scottish brogue and charm to spare. He’s also one of Stephanie Robson’s best friends and has fit into that box for as long as she’s known him.  Beautiful, funny and an ambitious businesswoman, Stephanie Robson is one of Linden McGregor’s best friends and has fit into that box for as long as he’s known her.  But some relationships can’t be boxed, can’t be classified, can’t be tamed.  Back in their mid-twenties and tired of the competitive hit-or-miss dating scene of San Francisco, Steph and Linden made a pac...