Shadow Fall #1 By: Audrey Grey Published: November 22, 2016 by Blaze Publishing 302 pages Source: Netgalley ARC from publisher ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: The asteroid hurtling toward the earth will kill billions.  The Emperor and his Gold Court will be safe in their space station, watching from the stars. The Silvers will be protected underground. But the Bronzes must fight it out at the Shadow Trials for the few remaining spots left on the space station.  When an enigmatic benefactor hands Maia Graystone a spot in the Trials, she won’t just get a chance at salvation for her and her baby brother, Max: She gets to confront the mother who abandoned her in prison, the mad Emperor who murdered her father, and the Gold prince who once loved her. But it’s the dark bastard prince she’s partnered with that will make her question everything, including her own heart. With the asteroid racing closer every day, Maia must trust someone to survive.  The qu...

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Books and a Beat . Anyone can play along. Just go HERE to learn how to participate. This week my teasers come from  Shadow Fall #1 by Audrey Grey: Teasers: I am a monster now, just like him. A beautiful, vengeful monster. And in this game of monsters Nicolai has constructed, becoming something else, something that feels, means I lose. (Loc 34%, 2020 of 5876) What are you reading this week? Share a teaser with me!

The Other Side of Gravity (Oxygen #1) By: Shelly Crane Published: March 15, 2016 by Kiss Me Publications, LLC  262 pages Source: Netgalley ARC from publisher ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: My name is Maxton and I’m a trader.  I live on a soulless planet where gravity, oxygen, and everything else are sold to the highest bidder on the black market. People are sold on the black market, too. You have to work really hard not to become one of those people. Pay your taxes, keep your friends and family close, and more than anything else—don’t get caught by the Militia. But all the rules changed for me the day I found her.  My name is Sophelia and I’m a stowaway.  I’ve been a slave for almost as long as I can remember. Waiting for the one day, one second, for my proprietor to turn his head so I could run and never look back. Now I'm on the run. And on a planet where no one is on your side and people would turn you in for a good meal or a piece of a s...

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Books and a Beat . Anyone can play along. Just go HERE to learn how to participate. This week my teasers come from  The Other Side of Gravity (Oxygen # 1)  by Shelly Crane: Teasers: "Red," he said, his voice low and graveled. "I've realized how much I love red," he practically growled. (Loc 48%, 1883 of 3902) What are you reading this week? Share a teaser with me!

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: Empress of a Thousand Skies by Rhoda Belleza Expected Publication: February 7, 2017 by Razorbill Preorder Buy Link: Amazon Empress Rhee, better known as Crown Princess Rhiannon Ta’an, is the sole surviving heir to a powerful dynasty. She’ll stop at nothing to avenge her family and claim her throne. Fugitive Aly has risen above his war refugee origins to find fame as the dashing star of a holo-vision show. But when he’s falsely accused of killing Rhee, he's forced to prove his innocence to save his reputation – and his life. Madman With planets on the brink of war, Rhee and Aly are thrown together to confront a ruthless evil that threatens the fate of the entire galaxy. *** Rhoda Belleza crafts a powerful saga of vengeance, warfare, and the true meaning of legac...

The Last Star (The 5th Wave #3) By: Rick Yancey Published: May 24, 2016 by G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers 339 pages Source: Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: The heart-stopping finale to the  New York Times  bestselling 5th Wave series, just in time for the major motion picture release. We’re here, then we’re gone, and that was true before they came. That’s always been true. The Others didn’t invent death; they just perfected it. Gave death a face to put back in our face, because they knew that was the only way to crush us. It won’t end on any continent or ocean, no mountain or plain, jungle or desert. It will end where it began, where it had been from the beginning, on the battlefield of the last beating human heart. Master storyteller Rick Yancey invokes triumph, loss, and unrelenting action as the fate of the planet is decided in the conclusion to this epic series. MY REVIEW: I've been putting off reading this. Had it ...

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Books and a Beat . Anyone can play along. Just go HERE to learn how to participate. This week my teasers come from  The Last Star (The 5th Wave #3) by Rick Yancey: Teasers: "One smile," he whispers. "One smile and I'll let you go." (63%, Page 210 of 339) What are you reading this week? Share a teaser with me!

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by MizB of Books and a Beat . Anyone can play along. Just go HERE to learn how to participate. This week my teasers come from  The Last Star (The 5th Wave #3) by Rick Yancey: Teasers: "And there was only one way to save him; Vosch knew that, too. I had to kill Evan Walker. (8%, Page 16 of 339, Loc 299 of 4069) What are you reading this week? Share a teaser with me!

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: Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth Expected Publication: January 17, 2017 by Katherine Tegen Books Preorder Buy Link: Amazon Fans of Star Wars and  Divergent  will revel in internationally bestselling author Veronica Roth’s stunning new science-fiction fantasy series. On a planet where violence and vengeance rule, in a galaxy where some are favored by fate, everyone develops a currentgift, a unique power meant to shape the future. While most benefit from their currentgifts, Akos and Cyra do not—their gifts make them vulnerable to others’ control. Can they reclaim their gifts, their fates, and their lives, and reset the balance of power in this world? Cyra is the sister of the brutal tyrant who rules the Shotet people. Cyra’s currentgift gives her pain and power—something h...

The Infinite Sea (The 5th Wave #2) By: Rick Yancey Published: September 16, 2014 by Putnam Juvenile 320 pages Source: Personal Kindle Library ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: How do you rid the Earth of seven billion humans? Rid the humans of their humanity. Surviving the first four waves was nearly impossible. Now Cassie Sullivan finds herself in a new world, a world in which the fundamental trust that binds us together is gone. As the 5th Wave rolls across the landscape, Cassie, Ben, and Ringer are forced to confront the Others’ ultimate goal: the extermination of the human race. Cassie and her friends haven’t seen the depths to which the Others will sink, nor have the Others seen the heights to which humanity will rise, in the ultimate battle between life and death, hope and despair, love and hate. MY REVIEW: As eager as I was for this release, and rushed to preorder a hardback copy, it then sat on my night stand for a year and a half. That has nothing to do 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: Alight (The Generations Trilogy #2) by Scott Sigler Expected Publication: April 5, 2016 by Del Rey Preorder Buy Link: Amazon Alight  is the second installment in the YA sci-fi adventure trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Scott Sigler, hot on the heels of  Alive . Alight  reveals to readers the further adventures of Em, Spingate, O’Malley, Bishop, and the other young heroes introduced in Alive . In  Alive , Em fought to assert herself as leader and her friends tried to comprehend their own mysterious identity; now she must wrestle not with the challenge of winning power but the grave responsibility of having assumed it, and she and her friends must contend with a grim fact: the revelation of their identity is not an answer but another question—and one wi...

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 Last Star (The 5th Wave #3) by Rick Yancey Expected Publication: May 17, 2016 by G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers Preorder Buy Link: Amazon We’re here, then we’re gone, and that was true before they came. That’s always been true. The Others didn’t invent death; they just perfected it. Gave death a face to put back in our face, because they knew that was the only way to crush us. It won’t end on any continent or ocean, no mountain or plain, jungle or desert. It will end where it began, where it had been from the beginning, on the battlefield of the last beating human heart. Master storyteller Rick Yancey invokes triumph, loss, and unrelenting action as the fate of the planet is decided in the conclusion to this epic series. What are you waiting on this we...

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: Passenger #1 by Alexandra Bracken Expected Publication: January 5, 2016 by Disney-Hyperion Preorder Buy Link: Amazon passage , n. i. A brief section of music composed of a series of notes and flourishes. ii. A journey by water; a voyage. iii. The transition from one place to another, across space and time. In one devastating night, violin prodigy Etta Spencer loses everything she knows and loves. Thrust into an unfamiliar world by a stranger with a dangerous agenda, Etta is certain of only one thing: she has traveled not just miles but years from home. And she’s inherited a legacy she knows nothing about from a family whose existence she’s never heard of. Until now. Nicholas Carter is content with his life at sea, free from the Ironwoods—a powerful family in the coloni...

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: Saven Deception (The Saven Series #1) by Siobhan Davis Expected Publication: December 15, 2015 Preorder Buy Link: Amazon I’ve fallen hard for an alien. But he’s harboring secrets. Massive ones that threaten the very essence of humanity. How can I give him my heart when his race plans on taking my future? Sadie Owens has been slowly dying inside. Bit by bit, piece by piece, day by day. Trapped in a life she hates, she relies on only one person: Herself. Despised by her family, and betrayed by an unscrupulous government, Sadie dreams of a different life. When she is chosen to participate in the government’s new social experiment, she is ecstatic at the prospect of spending six months in Thalassic City, the shiny new city under the sea. Immediately drawn to Logan Chandler,...

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: Starflight #1 by Melissa Landers Expected Publication: February 2, 2016 by Disney-Hyperion Preorder Buy Link: Amazon Life in the outer realm is a lawless, dirty, hard existence, and Solara Brooks is hungry for it. Just out of the orphanage, she needs a fresh start in a place where nobody cares about the engine grease beneath her fingernails or the felony tattoos across her knuckles. She's so desperate to reach the realm that she's willing to indenture herself to Doran Spaulding, the rich and popular quarterback who made her life miserable all through high school, in exchange for passage aboard the spaceliner Zenith. When a twist of fate lands them instead on the Banshee, a vessel of dubious repute, Doran learns he's been framed on Earth for conspiracy. As he pur...

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: Undaunted (Fetch #2) by Kat Falls Expected Publication: April 26, 2016 by Scholastic Press Preorder Buy Link: Not available at time of posting Acclaimed author Kat Falls returns for another breathless, genre-bending adventure. First love is the most dangerous game in this fast-paced adventure perfect for fans of Marie Lu, Veronica Rossi, and Sarah J. Maas. Lane Everson barely survived her first journey to the Feral Zone. The forbidden, overgrown landscape east of the Mississippi River was abandoned years ago when a virus spread through the population, bringing civilization to its knees. But Lane has crossed the quarantine line, and she knows the truth. There are survivors on the other side of the wall -- people who were not killed by the virus, but changed by it, their ...

Destiny Rising (True Calling #3) By: Siobhan Davis Published: August 30, 2015 349 pages Source: ARC from author ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: EVERY CHOICE HAS A CONSEQUENCE  Once again, the world is on the brink of momentous change. As revolutionary organization Saoirse prepares to battle the government for control of Earth and Novo, Ariana and those she loves must join humanity's fight for justice and freedom.  As haunted memories resurface, old discoveries and new realities conspire to shatter her world forever.  Torn in one direction by her unique connection to childhood sweetheart Zane, and pulled in the other by a relentless passion for her fiery fiancé Cal, she must make the hardest decision of all. While embarking on a road to self-discovery, her psychic gift evolves and the full extent of her powerful ability is revealed.  Then fate lands another savage blow and she faces the most horrific choice of all. Forced into striking a d...

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  Destiny Rising (True Calling #3) by Siobhan Davis: Teasers: I hope he understands the wealth of emotion behind that one simple statement. How sorry I am for all the harsh words, for toying with his feelings, for constantly shutting him out, and for caving to my inherent need for Zane. (Loc 27%, 1467 of 5336) What are you reading this week? Share a teaser with me!

Alive (Generations #1) By: Scott Sigler Published: July 14, 2015 by Del Rey 368 pages Source: Netgalley ARC from publisher ( Goodreads / Amazon ) Summary: 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. A young woman awakes trapped in an enclosed space. She has no idea who she is or how she got there. With only her instincts to guide her, she escapes her own confinement—and finds she’s not alone. She frees the others in the room and leads them into a corridor filled with the remains of a war long past. The farther these survivors travel, the worse are the horrors they confront. And as they slowly come to understand what this prison is, they...

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: Destiny Rising (True Calling #3) by Siobhan Davis Expected Publication: August 30, 2015 Preorder Buy Link: Amazon EVERY CHOICE HAS A CONSEQUENCE Once again, the world is on the brink of momentous change. As revolutionary organization Saoirse prepares to battle the government for control of Earth and Novo, Ariana and those she loves must join humanity's fight for justice and freedom. As haunted memories resurface, old discoveries and new realities conspire to shatter her world forever. Torn in one direction by her unique connection to childhood sweetheart Zane, and pulled in the other by a relentless passion for her fiery fiancé Cal, she must make the hardest decision of all. While embarking on a road to self-discovery, her psychic gift evolves and the full extent of...