Feature & Follow is a weekly post hosted by  Parakunkee  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 do you write your reviews? I don't have any set complicated method to writing my reviews. I write them pretty much immediately after I've finished reading the book because I am likely to forget details and my initial thoughts, reactions and feelings if I wait more than a day. I go with my gut instinct when it comes to my final rating. I try to be honest about what I did and didn't like. So yeah, that pretty much sums up how I write my reviews. What about you? Do you have a method? I'm curious to see the various ways others interpreted this question....

Feature & Follow is a weekly post hosted by  Parakunkee  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 do you decide what books to read? Typically it boils down to 2 main factors: is the cover appealing and is there a love story involved? A close second to these reasons would be: am I a fan of the author; is the synopsis unique and/or intriguing, and is the rating above 3.75 stars on Goodreads?  What about you? Are you a cover snob like me? Do you have some method for weeding through the gazillions of books at your disposal? As this is a follow blog hop, please don't forget to follow and leave a comment letting me know how you did. I prefer GFC, Email, FB an...

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...

Feature & Follow is a weekly post hosted by  Parakunkee  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: Do you like fantasy or realistic books? If realistic fiction equates to contemporary fiction, then I would say I like both fantasy and realistic books equally. I go through spurts where I'm craving all things fantasy...and then things get boring for me and I switch back to contemporary fiction and eat up a bunch of those. Back and forth I constantly go. But there's a bunch of labels that fall in between those, isn't there? Sci-Fi, Dystopian, Paranormal, etc... I'm all over the map with what I enjoy reading. It's more about the characters and how I relate ...

Feature & Follow is a weekly post hosted by  Parakunkee  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: Do you read more than 1 book at a time, and if so, how, like a certain number of pages per book before moving on to the next one in the queue? I have attempted this in the past, maybe reading one book on my Kindle app, and one hard print book and switching in between the two depending on where I was reading and which was more convenient. Inevitably though, one book would always take up more of time than another and I found that I wasn't really making faster progress by reading multiple books at a time. So for probably the last 2 years I've been a one-book-at-a-time k...

The hosts of the Best of 2014 Giveaway Hop this year are I Am A Reader  & Bookhounds . This giveaway lasts from December 11th to December 18th. My giveaway is open only in the U.S.A and is for one print book or eBook of your choice, valued up to $10. Of the 77 books I've read so far in 2014, only 25 have made it into my "favorites" list. Of those 25, I'm narrowing it down even further to give you my top 8 2014 Favorites (so far).  Check out my reviews of each book to learn a bit more about why it was a favorite of mine by clicking on the book title. 1. Bitter Sweet Love (The Dark Elements #0.5) by Jennifer L. Armentrout 2. Mud Vein by Tarryn Fisher 3. Push by Claire Wallis 4. V is For Virgin (#1) by Kelly Oram 5. The Kiss of Deception (The Remnant Chronicles #1) by Mary E. Pearson 6. State of Emergency (Collapse Series #1) by Summer Lane 7. Dark Triumph (His Fair Assassin #2) by Robin LaFevers  8. The Horde Without End ...

In honor of Black Friday, I'm participating in the 4th Annual Black Friday book hop. The hosts this year are BookShelfery.com and Caffeinated Book Reviewer . This giveaway lasts from 12:01am November 28th - 12:01am December 1st.  My giveaway is open internationally and is for one Ebook, chosen from my personal list of  2014 favorites, listed below.  *The only exception to this prize is if you'd rather have a different book in one of the series listed below* Of the 75 books I've read so far in 2014, only 25 have made it into my "favorites" list. Of those 25, I'm narrowing it down even further to give you my top 8 2014 Favorites (so far). There are gargoyles, thriller/mystery, Young Adult, New Adult, stand alone, series books, Historical Fantasy, Post-Apocalyptic and Zombies. Literally something for everyone. Check out my reviews of each book to learn a bit more about why it's a favorite of mine by clicking on the book title. 1. Bit...

Feature and Follow is a weekly post hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read . "The goal is to increase blog followers and make new friends." Rules: Follow the 2 hosts. Follow the 2 featured bloggers. Hop around and follow others who are participating, leaving a comment to let them know. This week's question: IF YOU COULD READ A BOOK FOR THE FIRST TIME AGAIN, WHAT WOULD IT BE AND WHY? Hmmm.....I'm going to go with Slammed by Colleen Hoover.  Ya'll - this story (and when I say "this story" I really mean books one and two) made me WEEP . Yes, literally, snot nosed crying. The story of Layken and Will really touched me deeply. I haven't read it a second time yet, and I know that when I do it will probably have me tearing up, but my initial reaction probably won't be the same.  What about you? What one book would you choose? For follows, I recently added my blog to Facebook , so I would appreciate any "likes...

Something Wicked Returns Blog Hop is hosted by Rainy Day Ramblings , The Nocturnal Library , Candace's Book Blog and My Guilty Obsession . This giveaway hop runs the whole month of October!   My Giveaway is International. For full giveaway rules, go here . Now for the good stuff!   Here's what one winner will receive: Three books, that's right 3 , that I L-O-V-E right now!  It has magic in it - so technically it's Supernatural themed.   The winner will receive these in Kindle version OR Nook version - whichever you'd prefer between those two options.  The best part - after you read these 3 you can anxiously wait (like me) for the release of book 4 (Soul of Flame), which is set for December 2! a Rafflecopter giveaway The winner will be notified via email (and Twitter if this applies).  They will have 72 hours to reply to claim their prize before another winner is chosen.  Entries will be validated so please be honest...

The Apocalypse Blog Hop is hosted by Rainy Day Ramblings , Love of Books , and The Nocturnal Library . This giveaway officially lasts July 13-20, 2013. My giveaway is open internationally as long as The Book Depository ships to your country (please verify this before entering).   The lucky winner will win 1 (one) print book from the list of 10 books below.  All of these books have a dystopian or apocalyptic theme.  Some of these have not yet published so it will be pre-ordered for you should you pick it. 1. Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis 2. The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey 3. Inhuman (Fetch #1) by Kat Falls 4. The Ward by Jordana Frankel 5. Rush (The Game #1) by Eve Silver 6. The Lives We Lost (Fallen World #2) by Megan Crewe 7. Breaking Point (Article 5 #2) by Kristen Simmons  8. Icons by Margaret Stohl 9. The End Games by T. Michael Martin 10. Fragments (Partials Sequence #2) by Dan Wells  The winner wil...