Time for our seventh Monthly Wrap Up for the 2017 Series Enders Reading Challenge hosted by Sandy @ Somewhere Only We Know and Holly @ Words Fueled by Love ! Since the June Wrap Up , Holly hasn't finished any series enders this month. Sandy finished A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, # 3) by Sarah J Maas. Announcements/Reminders: Please make sure we have a valid email address or other means of contacting you if you choose to participate. Linking up to Goodreads is perfectly fine, but we have found that Goodreads is not a reliable source for contacting someone should you be selected as one of the monthly giveaway winners. This could be due to your Goodreads notification settings or Goodreads themselves could be at fault. We're not sure which. And since we want to make sure that everyone who is eligible for one of the giveaways will receive their prize should they win one month or the grand prize at the end of the year, it is up to you to e...

How to Save a Life (Dreamcatcher #1) By: Emma Scott Published: February 9, 2016 by Trillian 274 pages Genre: New Adult, Romance, Paranormal Source: Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: Josephine Clark is trapped. A harrowing past haunts her every time she looks in the mirror, and she can’t escape the violence of her everyday life. More and more, her thoughts turn to Evan Salinger, the boy she knew in high school. The boy they called a mental case. A loner. A freak. The boy who seemed to know things no one could know. For a few short weeks, Jo had found perfect solace in Evan’s company, sneaking every night to meet him at the local pool. In the cool of the water and the warmth of Evan’s arms around her, Jo had tasted something close to happiness.  Cruel circumstances tore them apart, and four years later, the sweet memory of their time together is dissolving under the punishing reality of Jo’s life now. Evan seems like a fading dream…until he...

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. ~FOR REVIEW~ RECAP OF WEEK: SUNDAY: Sunday Post #116 THURSDAY: ARC Thursday Review - The Sound of Light by Claire Wallis (3.5 stars) Things are getting back to normal. Daughter's ankle is still not 100% but the orthopedic appointment and (second) xray this week showed no fracture. With a strong anti-inflammatory and strict instructions to work her ankle and strengthen it with PT exercises, she's walking with a brace and slowly getting back the activities she enjoys most! Band camp starts for my oldest this week. 8:00-5:00 all week for two weeks. It's a tiring time for him but he LOVES it! I can't believe we are 5 Friday's away from the start of high school football games! It's one of our most favorite season...

The Sound of Light By: Claire Wallis Published: July 17, 2017 320 pages Genre: Contemporary, Romance, New Adult Source: ebook, ARC from author ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: My littlest girl has always been a bit peculiar. It was nothing I could ever put a finger on, but I always knew there was something inside her that made her a different kind of special. A deeper kind.  K'acy's got a light around her, one that'll just about knock you over, especially if you don't see her coming. She's got music in her soul, too. Deep, resonating music that echoes and hums, just like the notes that come from the bass guitar she's had attached to her hip since the day she turned thirteen years old.  She's got a heck of a secret, yes, but she does what she's got to do to make it one worth having. She takes care of people. She changes their stories. I spent my life telling both of my girls that you always gotta do what's right, even when it h...

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. ~NO NEW BOOKS~ After last week's haul, I think a week off with no new books was VITAL! RECAP OF WEEK: SUNDAY: Sunday Post #115 MONDAY: Review - Long Way Home (Thunder Road #3) by Katie McGarry (4 stars) WEDNESDAY: Can't Wait Wednesday: Say You'll Remember Me by Katie McGarry Thank you for the well wishes for my daughter's ankle injury and for the birthday wishes for me last Sunday! As an update on her, her volleyball coach asked me on Thursday if the school trainer could take a look at it. So we met with her after volleyball camp (which my daughter went to support her teammates even though she herself could not participate). Long story much shorter, her recommendation was for us to have it re-xray'ed. Basicall...

Can't Wait Wednesday is a weekly post hosted by Wishful Endings . Each week bloggers participate to spotlight and discuss a book they have yet to read, generally one that hasn't released yet. Can't Wait Wednesday is based on Waiting on Wednesday, previously hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine . This week I'm waiting on: Say You'll Remember Me by Katie McGarry Expected Publication: January 30, 2018 by Harlequin Teen Preorder Buy Link: Amazon When Drix was convicted of a crime--one he didn't commit--he thought his life was over. But opportunity came with the new Second Chance Program, the governor's newest pet project to get delinquents off the streets, rehabilitated and back into society. Drix knows this is his chance to get his life back on track, even if it means being paraded in front of reporters for a while. Elle knows she lives a life of privilege. As the governor's daughter, she can open doors with her name alone. But the ex...

Long Way Home (Thunder Road #3) By: Katie McGarry Published: January 31, 2017 by Harlequin Teen 448 pages Source: Kindle version, Borrowed from Sandy ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: Seventeen-year-old Violet has always been expected to sit back and let the boys do all the saving. It’s the code her father, a member of the Reign of Terror motorcycle club, raised her to live by. Yet when her dad is killed carrying out Terror business, Violet knows it’s up to her to do the saving. To protect herself, and her vulnerable younger brother, she needs to cut all ties with the club—including Chevy, the boy she’s known and loved her whole life. But when a rival club comes after Violet, exposing old secrets and making new threats, she’s forced to question what she thought she knew about her father, the Reign of Terror, and what she thinks she wants. Which means re-evaluating everything: love, family, friends . . . and forgiveness. Caught in the crosshairs between loyalty an...

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. ~PURCHASED/FREEBIES~ ~FOR REVIEW~ RECAP OF WEEK: MONDAY: Review - Boys South of the Mason Dixon #1 by Abbi Glines (3.5 stars) THURSDAY: ARC Thursday Review: The Butterfly Project by Emma Scott (4 stars) So my last Sunday Post was May 21st. I had not realized it had been so long! Initially it was because I wasn't getting any new books for awhile and didn't feel I had much to say other than that we were thoroughly enjoying summer break. But then I think time got away from me. I have got quite the number of books over the summer, many of which are ARC's. We haven't done anything major this summer but it's been an enjoyable one and in June I was able to read more books than normal. My daughter recently sprai...

The Butterfly Project By: Emma Scott Published: February 21, 2017 by Trillian 256 pages Genre: New Adult, Contemporary, Romance Source: ebook, Netgalley ARC from publisher ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: "Where you are is home..." At age fourteen, Zelda Rossi witnessed the unthinkable, and has spent the last ten years hardening her heart against the guilt and grief. She channels her pain into her art: a dystopian graphic novel where vigilantes travel back in time to stop heinous crimes—like child abduction—before they happen. Zelda pitches her graphic novel to several big-time comic book publishers in New York City, only to have her hopes crash and burn. Circumstances leave her stranded in an unfamiliar city, and in an embarrassing moment of weakness, she meets a guarded young man with a past he’d do anything to change... Beckett Copeland spent two years in prison for armed robbery, and is now struggling to keep his head above water. A bike messenger b...

Boys South of the Mason Dixon #1 By: Abbi Glines Published: May 15, 2017 by Abbi Glines Publishing 204 pages Genre: Contemporary, Romance, Young Adult, New Adult Source: Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: The only thing hotter than the weather South of the Mason Dixon line are the boys. Worn, faded blue jeans, slow Southern drawls, and those naughty moments in the back of pickup trucks a girl never forgets.  Welcome to the world of the Sutton boys.  Five brothers who fight, party, drink a little too much, but more importantly, they love their momma. Nothing can tear them apart… until the girl next door wins more than one of their hearts. MY REVIEW: I've read a fair amount of books by Abbi Glines and they are usually a great fast read after I finish a heavy book or series. That was the situation I found myself in when I picked this one up to read. I purchased it during a one day $.99 sale. I figured, since it's short, that I could ...