Show Sunday: My Little Pony, The White Princess, and Horror Movies!

My Little Pony

This past week we finally got to see the first 4 episodes of My Little Pony season 7. We all agree that well this has not been the best that they can do.  We were hoping for some massive excitement but it just didn't work out so far.  

The White Princess

I have to say that I love what they have done with Lizzy's character!  I really loved to find out that in the book Henry did rape her but in the show they wanted Lizzy to be stronger. And well its worked out so far.  I do think its slightly odd that over the course of 2 episodes she gets knocked up and is now over 5 months pregnant. And yup you guessed it episode 3 she has a baby.  I guess they are really trying to get this show on the move on.  

Horror Movies Galore

Since I have been sick this past week (Im doing this post last Sunday, Just FYI) We (the girls and I) have been sitting around watching all the horror movies we can stand.  So far we haven't really found scary ones but we have found some thrillers.  So far we have watched. 

The Boy, Eraser, Bless this Child, Within (those people were stupid), and were still going since its like only 3pm at the time that I am writing this. 

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#BookReview: Touch-And-Feel First Words by Libby Walden, @Fgi2Fhiona via @_AwesomeAnnie @tigertalesbooks

  Learn and discover more than 100 first words in this bright and interactive book. Children will improve motor skills by exploring the fun textures on each page.

Week In Review #3

I think hopefully!! That I will be back to posting here next week. I have almost caught up so here is what I am hoping! I won't be posting again until next Sunday with this meme.  So ill keep you updated.  But reviews should start posting again the week of the 14th!! Starting with the Red Queen series.  

#Shelfie: 27 Teen Books from 2016 That Adult Readers Will Love via @BookBub

Welcome to this weeks Shelfie Saturday!  This week were talking about 27 teen books that adults will love!  This was posted on BookBub and we just had to share it.  I either have read or have these on my TBR shelf. And I think you should check these out!  For the full list please check out the link below! 

#BookReview: Eleanor & Park by @rainbowrowell ‏

  Two misfits.
One extraordinary love.

Eleanor... Red hair, wrong clothes. Standing behind him until he turns his head. Lying beside him until he wakes up. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and never good enough...Eleanor.

Park... He knows she'll love a song before he plays it for her. He laughs at her jokes before she ever gets to the punch line. There's a place on his chest, just below his throat, that makes her want to keep promises...Park.

Set over the course of one school year, this is the story of two star-crossed sixteen-year-olds—smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.

#BookReview: The Reluctant Highlander by Amanda Scott

  An uncertain bride looks for love with a man as wild and mysterious as his Highland home in this new Scottish romance from a USA Today bestselling author.

Ordinarily, Lady Fiona Ormiston wouldn’t think of forming an alliance with an ungroomed, barbaric Highlander, despite the protection he offers. But now, by request of the king, Sir Adham MacFinlagh, a brazen stranger and outsider unlike anyone she has met before, is to be her husband. Torn from solitude and the comfort of her family to make a home with the rugged knight, Fiona surrenders to Adham’s powerfully passionate—and shockingly tender—touch, only to discover her new husband’s family ties may lie with an enemy of the king.

A sense of duty may have brought Adham to the marriage bed, but it’s his powerful feelings for his beautiful, willful wife that will be his undoing. Ultimately, the bold knight will have to decide: Does his allegiance lie with his blood ties to the man who hopes to bring down the king or with the bride who has stolen his heart?

#BookReview: You're Welcome, Universe by Whitney Gardner

  When Julia finds a slur about her best friend scrawled across the back of the Kingston School for the Deaf, she covers it up with a beautiful (albeit illegal) graffiti mural.

Her supposed best friend snitches, the principal expels her, and her two mothers set Julia up with a one-way ticket to a “mainstream” school in the suburbs, where she’s treated like an outcast as the only deaf student. The last thing she has left is her art, and not even Banksy himself could convince her to give that up.

Out in the ’burbs, Julia paints anywhere she can, eager to claim some turf of her own. But Julia soon learns that she might not be the only vandal in town. Someone is adding to her tags, making them better, showing off—and showing Julia up in the process. She expected her art might get painted over by cops. But she never imagined getting dragged into a full-blown graffiti war. 

The 13th Sign by Kristin O'Donnell Tubb #BookReview

  What if there was a 13th zodiac sign?

You’re no longer Sagittarius, but Ophiuchus, the healer, the 13th sign.

Your personality has changed. So has your mom’s and your best friend’s.

What about the rest of the world?

What if you were the one who accidentally unlocked the 13th sign, causing this world-altering change—and infuriating the other 12 signs?

Jalen did it, and now she must use every ounce of her strength and cunning to send the signs back where they belong. Lives, including her own, depend on it. 

#Fangirl with @SomanChainani

This is Endy! I really haven't talked about this book enough lately. I really need to finish the series............Sorry had to add it the calendar.  I just wanted to make sure that everyone reads this one! 

#BookReview: Alex and Eliza: A Love Story by Melissa de la Cruz

  From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Witches of East End and The Descendants comes the love story of young Alexander Hamilton and Eliza Schuyler.

1777. Albany, New York.

As battle cries of the American Revolution echo in the distance, servants flutter about preparing for one of New York society’s biggest events: the Schuylers’ grand ball. Descended from two of the oldest and most distinguished bloodlines in New York, the Schuylers are proud to be one of their fledgling country’s founding families, and even prouder still of their three daughters—Angelica, with her razor-sharp wit; Peggy, with her dazzling looks; and Eliza, whose beauty and charm rival that of both her sisters, though she’d rather be aiding the colonists’ cause than dressing up for some silly ball.

Still, she can barely contain her excitement when she hears of the arrival of one Alexander Hamilton, a mysterious, rakish young colonel and General George Washington’s right-hand man. Though Alex has arrived as the bearer of bad news for the Schuylers, he can’t believe his luck—as an orphan, and a bastard one at that—to be in such esteemed company. And when Alex and Eliza meet that fateful night, so begins an epic love story that would forever change the course of American history.

In the pages of Alex and Eliza, #1 New York Times bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz brings to life the romance of young Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler. 

The Peculiar (The Peculiar #1) by Stefan Bachmann #BookReview

  Don't get yourself noticed and you won't get yourself hanged.

In the faery slums of Bath, Bartholomew Kettle and his sister Hettie live by these words. Bartholomew and Hettie are changelings--Peculiars--and neither faeries nor humans want anything to do with them.

One day a mysterious lady in a plum-colored dress comes gliding down Old Crow Alley. Bartholomew watches her through his window. Who is she? What does she want? And when Bartholomew witnesses the lady whisking away, in a whirling ring of feathers, the boy who lives across the alley--Bartholomew forgets the rules and gets himself noticed.

First he's noticed by the lady in plum herself, then by something darkly magical and mysterious, by Jack Box and the Raggedy Man, by the powerful Mr. Lickerish . . . and by Arthur Jelliby, a young man trying to slip through the world unnoticed, too, and who, against all odds, offers Bartholomew friendship and a way to belong.

Part murder mystery, part gothic fantasy, part steampunk adventure, The Peculiar is Stefan Bachmann's riveting, inventive, and unforgettable debut novel.

#BookBirthday with A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses #3) by @SJMaas

 Coming out next week! We would like to wish a GIANT Happy Book Birthday to Sarah J. Maas's newest title! I still have NOT read book two to this. Its sitting on my poor shelf with the rest of the Maas books. :( But I will WILL get to it and this one soon. 

#BookReview: The Shadow Cipher (York #1) by @thatlauraruby @WaldenPondPress

This title will be released on May 16, 2017.   It was 1798 when the Morningstarr twins arrived in New York with a vision for a magnificent city: towering skyscrapers, dazzling machines, and winding train lines, all running on technology no one had ever seen before. Fifty-seven years later, the enigmatic architects disappeared, leaving behind for the people of New York the Old York Cipher—a puzzle laid into the shining city they constructed, at the end of which was promised a treasure beyond all imagining. By the present day, however, the puzzle has never been solved, and the greatest mystery of the modern world is little more than a tourist attraction.

Tess and Theo Biedermann and their friend Jaime Cruz live in a Morningstarr apartment house—until a real estate developer announces that the city has agreed to sell him the five remaining Morningstarr buildings. Their likely destruction means the end of a dream long-held by the people of New York. And if Tess, Theo and Jaime want to save their home, they have to prove that the Old York Cipher is real. Which means they have to solve it.

From National Book Award Finalist Laura Ruby comes a visionary epic set in a New York City at once familiar and wholly unexpected.

#WaitingonWednesday with @NicolaYoon & @pccastauthor @KCastAuthor

 

Welcome to this weeks WOW!  Each week I share what I am currently reading and then a book I just cant wait for! This week we have Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon and Loved by Pc Cast and Kristin Cast.  

Note: Books that I am reading are ones that I was reading at the time of creating this post. 

It Started with Goodbye by @ChristinaJuneYA #BookReview

  Sixteen-year-old Tatum Elsea is bracing for the worst summer of her life. After being falsely accused of a crime, she’s stuck under stepmother-imposed house arrest and her BFF’s gone ghost. Tatum fills her newfound free time with community service by day and working at her covert graphic design business at night (which includes trading emails with a cute cello-playing client). When Tatum discovers she’s not the only one in the house keeping secrets, she finds she has the chance to make amends with her family and friends. Equipped with a new perspective, and assisted by her feisty step-abuela-slash-fairy-godmother, Tatum is ready to start fresh and maybe even get her happy ending along the way.

A modern play on the Cinderella story arc, Christina June’s IT STARTED WITH GOODBYE shows us that sometimes going after what you want means breaking the rules.

Join @MedievalTimesFL for #SpringBreak! All seats are $35 with code SBFANS for all shows thru April 30th!

 

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#ReleaseDay: Her Relentless SEAL (Midnight Delta #10) by @CaitlynOLearyNA @TheNextStepPR

 

ON THE RUN FOR HER LIFE 

 Small-town girl Evie Avery’s dream vacation has become her worst nightmare. Now she's on the run in a foreign country, and has no idea why.  

NO ROOM FOR ERROR

  Navy SEAL, Aiden O’Malley, had his reasons for turning his back on Evie all those months ago, but he hasn’t been able to get her out of his mind. She changed him, for better or worse. When he finds out she's missing, long-pent-up feelings come roaring to life, and he will stop at nothing to bring her home.  

A LOVE WORTH FIGHTING FOR

  Evie finds herself face-to-face with a man she vowed to forget. The flame she thought had burned out months ago suddenly ignites. Storming back to Tennessee, she is mad as hell when he follows her. Worse, she finds that the terror she’d experienced abroad, is still stalking her. Aiden hounds Evie’s every step as he tries to keep her alive, but she doesn’t care, it’s not his protection she wants. If she can’t have his heart, she wants him gone. As the enemy closes in, Aiden wonders if there enough of his battered soul to give to a woman who deserves the world.

#FirstPage with @SomanChainani

This is Endy!  Instead of sharing the first page of a book this week. I found this online and thought I would share it with you.  Its a deleted scene from this story.  I dont read many middle grade books just like my mom.  But this one will always have a special place on my shelf. 

#BookReview: Just Fly Away by Andrew McCarthy

  When fifteen-year-old Lucy Willows discovers that her father has a child from a brief affair, a eight-year-old boy named Thomas who lives in her own suburban New Jersey town, she begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her family and her life. Lucy can’t believe her father betrayed the whole family, or that her mother forgave him, or that her sister isn’t rocked by the news the way Lucy is. Worse, Lucy’s father’s secret is now her own, one that isolates her from her friends, family, and even her boyfriend, Simon, the one person she expected would truly understand. When Lucy escapes to Maine, the home of her mysteriously estranged grandfather, she finally begins to get to the bottom of her family’s secrets and lies.

#BookTour: Into the Light (Chosen Paths #1) by @lbsimmons33 #Playlist #Giveaway

  *****#1 Bestseller in Amazon Inspirational Romance*****

"As long as you continue to travel through life in this darkness, you will never know how beautiful your light truly shines when you let yourself love and be loved. Trust me when I say, it's a breathtaking sight to see. You burn as bright as the sun."

When Aubrey Miller begins her education at Titan University, she is no longer the beautiful, blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl of her youth. In fact, she's no longer even Aubrey Miller. 

Overcome with guilt and unable to cope with the loss of her beloved family, she has long since buried eight-year old Aubrey along with them and transformed herself into Raven Miller. Now with jet-black hair, multiple sets of eccentric contact lenses, and several facial piercings, she's veiled herself in complete darkness as a form of protection for herself, as well as others. 

As she enters her first year of college, her goal is simple: Earn a degree with the least amount of social interaction as possible. What she never anticipates is the formation of very unlikely relationships with two people who will change her life in ways she never believed possible: Quinn Matthews, the overtly cheerful pageant queen, and Kaeleb McMadden, a childhood friend who never really let her go. 

Over the years, as their connections intertwine and strengthen, a seemingly indestructible bond is formed between the three. And eventually, the ties of friendship and discovery of first love begin to coax her from her darkened path as they slowly bring Aubrey back to life. 

But when faced with the possibility of yet another death, one from which she may never recover, Aubrey finds herself lost again, burying herself deeper than ever before beneath the familiar abyss of her fears. 

Spanning the course of four years, this is the story of a young woman's plight to finally reemerge, finding strength within unbreakable bonds as she delivers herself from her own manufactured darkness and safely back . . . 

Into the Light. 

****WARNING - Due to the graphic nature of some scenes, this book is not recommended for those who are particularly sensitive to the death of a child and/or suicide and is intended for mature audiences only. Contains adult language and themes.****

#ReleaseDayBlitz - Snow - Krissy V @HOB_CBPromotion

 Release Day Blitz  - Snow - Krissy V  

Author - Krissy V

Book - Snow

Event Date - 25th April

Hosted by Hooked on books & Cherry0Blossoms Promotions

#BookReview: Draekora (The Medoran Chronicles #3) by Lynette Noni

  “I swear by the stars that you and the others slain tonight will be the first of many. Of that you have my word.”

With Aven Dalmarta now hiding in the shadows of Meya, Alex is desperate to save Jordan and keep the Rebel Prince from taking more lives.

Training day and night to master the enhanced immortal blood in her veins, Alex undertakes a dangerous Meyarin warrior trial that separates her from those she loves and leaves her stranded in a place where nothing is as it should be.

As friends become enemies and enemies become friends, Alex must decide who to trust as powerful new allies—and adversaries—push her towards a future of either light… or darkness.

One way or another, the world will change…

#BookReview: Stirring Power (Evolution of Magic, #1) by K.C. Blackbyrn

  In young hunter Jacob Wildleaf’s world, magic isn’t a thing of beauty or wonder.

It’s a nightmarish plague.

And it’s crept into his village.

With his loved ones falling prey to the infection, Jacob sets out to find a healer in a nearby city. But before he can, soldiers loyal to Regent of the Blackwood Kingdom catch him using magic and chase him out.

He doesn’t realize they’ve followed him until it’s too late.

The Regent wants to purge all traces of magic from the land. Every village. Every person.

Jacob barely manages to escape the burning of his village, the sole survivor. With every step drawing him unwillingly deeper into battle, he must find a way to survive both the Regent’s soldiers and the magically created beasts to prevent more bloodshed than magic alone could ever cause.

If the magic inside him doesn’t destroy him first. 

#ReleaseDayBlitz: Love after Losing @HOB_CBPromotion

Release Day Blitz - Love after Losing

Author - L Chapman, H.A. Robinson, Maryann Jordan, Karen Frances, Karen Ferry, KL Shandwick , Krissy V

Book - Love after Losing

Event Date - 24th April

Hosted by Hooked on books & Cherry0Blossoms Promotions

#BookTube with Endy and Bleach

This is Endy! I wanted to share with you the amazingness that is Bleach! Here are the top 10 Bleach Episodes that you just have to see! This is a great Manga series as well as show. 

#BookBlitz: True North (True Born Trilogy #2) by @le_sterling @YAReads

  Abandoned by her family in Plague-ridden Dominion City, eighteen-year-old Lucy Fox has no choice but to rely upon the kindness of the True Borns, a renegade group of genetically enhanced humans, to save her twin sister, Margot. But Nolan Storm, their mysterious leader, has his own agenda. When Storm backtracks on his promise to rescue Margot, Lucy takes her fate into her own hands and sets off for Russia with her True Born bodyguard and maybe-something-more, the lethal yet beautiful Jared Price. In Russia, there's been whispered rumors of Plague Cure.

While Lucy fights her magnetic attraction to Jared, anxious that his loyalty to Storm will hurt her chances of finding her sister, they quickly discover that not all is as it appears…and discovering the secrets contained in the Fox sisters' blood before they wind up dead is just the beginning.?? 

As they say in Dominion, sometimes it’s not you…it’s your DNA.

#Shows with #StevenUniverse

This is Endy! I dont watch much tv but I have been addicted to Steven Universe. I really hope that my mom allows me to grab this on DVD or Digital so I can watch them all at once.  I love how the characters are all based on crystals. 

#BookBlitz: Forgotten (The Deception Game #2) by @SwordsStilettos @CleanTeenPub @XpressoTours #Giveaway

 

Forgotten
Kristin Smith
(The Deception Game #2)
Published by: Clean Teen Publishing
Publication date: April 25th 2017
Genres: Dystopian, Young Adult

The epic tale of Sienna Preston continues in this second installment of the exhilarating Deception Game series.
Seventeen-year-old Sienna is no stranger to heartache and loss. But this time, it’s different; someone―or something―has tampered with a loved one’s memories, and she’s determined to get answers.
The trail leads her to the glittering skyscrapers and modern luxuries of Rubex, the Capital of Pacifica, where she infiltrates the government’s Agency for Intelligence and Genetics. But answers are not always easy to come by, especially when her own memories may have been altered. Luckily, Zane Ryder is there to help her put the pieces back together, his devotion and concern muddying the waters between friendship and something more.
When Sienna gets too close to uncovering dark Agency secrets, she’s framed for the murder of a prominent government official, sending her on the run. Sienna’s heart may be torn about who she loves, but none of that really matters anymore―because the only thing that awaits her now is a death sentence.

Week In Review #2: I am SO SICK right now!

Hello guys and thanks for checking out my site.  This week has been killer. As in I am going to die!! Not really but that is how it feels.  This past week I got a cold and it just doesnt want to go away.  Because of that I will not be posting this week which is all scheduled.  BUT I won't be posting again until May 13th.  So dont worry you will have posts all this week!! 

#BookReview: Like a Love Song by @singh-nikita #Giveaway

  Love is a many-flavoured thing: it can go from vanilla to rainbow sprinkles in the blink of an eye.

Four years ago, Maahi s heart was broken into so many pieces that it looked like she might never put it back together again. Yet time has healed her wounds, and she has found her true calling and even a dash or romance. But when the past comes knocking on her door, threatening to shatter a life she has carefully rebuilt, her world is turned upside-down. What will Maahi do when she is torn between her head and her heart?

Emotionally charged and vivid, Like a Love Song is about the sort of love that consumes and sears you ... and the healing powers of true passion. 

#BookReview: Hunted by @MeaganSpooner @Uppercase

  Beauty knows the Beast’s forest in her bones—and in her blood. Though she grew up with the city’s highest aristocrats, far from her father’s old lodge, she knows that the forest holds secrets and that her father is the only hunter who’s ever come close to discovering them. 

So when her father loses his fortune and moves Yeva and her sisters back to the outskirts of town, Yeva is secretly relieved. Out in the wilderness, there’s no pressure to make idle chatter with vapid baronessas…or to submit to marrying a wealthy gentleman. But Yeva’s father’s misfortune may have cost him his mind, and when he goes missing in the woods, Yeva sets her sights on one prey: the creature he’d been obsessively tracking just before his disappearance. 

Deaf to her sisters’ protests, Yeva hunts this strange Beast back into his own territory—a cursed valley, a ruined castle, and a world of creatures that Yeva’s only heard about in fairy tales. A world that can bring her ruin or salvation. Who will survive: the Beauty, or the Beast?

#Shelfie: White Shelves and Swag Control

Thanks for checking out this weeks Shelfie picture. We hope you enjoy it! Want to submit yours?  Just email it over subject Shelfie! Jessica@crossroadreviews.com 

#ReleaseDay: Where Words Fail Music Speaks Anthology

  Where Words Fail, Music Speaks is a collection of short stories and poetry by writers from all walks of life. 

Each story is based on the titles of 90s Britpop songs, including Come Back To What You Know, Bittersweet Symphony, Animal Nitrate, Disco 2000, and more.

Our list of authors is: Ker Dukey, Kyra Lennon, Clare Dugmore, Annalisa Crawford, Wesley Copeland, Robb Turburville, D H Sidebottom, Audrina Lane, M.B. Feeney, Karen Frances, S.J Warner, Scout Dawson, Kimberly Morgan, Maddie Wade, Rebeccalou Heronpontin, Andrea Coventry

All proceeds from the sales of this anthology will go to Clusterbusters.

#BookReview: Shadow Run (Kaitan Chronicles, #1) by AdriAnne Strickland, Michael Miller

  Firefly meets Dune in this action-packed sci-fi adventure about a close-knit, found family of a crew navigating a galaxy of political intrigue and resource-driven power games.

Nev has just joined the crew of the starship Kaitan Heritage as the cargo loader. His captain, Qole, is the youngest-ever person to command her own ship, but she brooks no argument from her crew of orphans, fugitives, and con men. Nev can't resist her, even if her ship is an antique.

As for Nev, he's a prince, in hiding on the ship. He believes Qole holds the key to changing galactic civilization, and when her cooperation proves difficult to obtain, Nev resolves to get her to his home planet by any means necessary.

But before they know it, a rival royal family is after Qole too, and they're more interested in stealing her abilities than in keeping her alive.

Nev's mission to manipulate Qole becomes one to save her, and to survive, she'll have to trust her would-be kidnapper. He may be royalty, but Qole is discovering a deep reservoir of power--and stars have mercy on whoever tries to hurt her ship or her crew. 

#Fangirl with Tales from a Not-So-Friendly Frenemy (Dork Diaries #11) by @DorkDiaries

I am getting closer and closer with being able to read these.  My mom picked this one book 11 up for me a few weeks ago.  

#BookTour: Two Times Slain (Burdened #3) by @PeiriAnn @Barclay_PR

  Loyalty, deception, honesty, and death. These factors in Tracey’s life have taken her from an innocent teenager to a strong-minded young adult when she took the leap that no human or Sephlem would dare to. And while none of the promised perils have materialized, her strength has yet to be tested. Now, the secrets behind the midnight eyes of her mate have started to come to light, and this unbalanced truth affects her, her parents, and what’s left of her friends.

When her mate’s mother gets abducted and everyone leaves to find her, Tracey’s left to fend for herself. She finds peace in finally being alone without the bond of her mate overwhelming her. She revels in a freedom that she has tried to obtain since mating. But it is short lived. She wakes, bound and blindfolded, awaiting a torturous greeting from an unlikely foe... Someone who has an appetite for vengeance.

The Burdened has rule over Nathan's life, over him, and the more he fights it, it prevails. But rescuing his mate and his mother is a dead cert, and Nathan will destroy anything and anyone who stands in his way. 

A prophecy has set the fate of Nathan and Tracey's relationship and the Sephlem race—their union more significant than either realizes. As the future unfolds and their love is tested, will it endure the deepest pain of their loss?

#BlogTour: Fragile Chaos by @AmberR_Duell @YABoundToursPR

  A GOD OF WAR SEEKING RESTORATION.

AN UNWILLING SACRIFICIAL BRIDE.

BETRAYAL THAT COULD DESTROY THEM BOTH.

“[E]very fiber of my being is woven from the rage of mortals.”

Theodric, the young God of War, has a talent for inciting conflict and bloodshed. After being stripped of his powers by his older brother, King of Gods, he sets out to instigate a mortal war to prove himself worthy of being restored to power.

“I loved Kisk once; it was my home… But that was before. This is now.”

Sixteen-year-old Cassia, like many in the modern era, believes gods and goddesses to be just a myth. Enemy to her country and an orphan of the war, she has no time for fairy tales. That’s until religious zealots from Theo’s sect offer her up as a sacrifice.

Can Cassia and Theo end the mortal war and return balance to the earth and heavens? Or, will their game of fate lead down a path of destruction, betrayal, and romance neither of them saw coming?

#BookReview: Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly

  In one day, four lives weave together in unexpected ways. Virgil Salinas is shy and kindhearted and feels out of place in his loud and boisterous family. Valencia Somerset, who is deaf, is smart, brave, and secretly lonely, and loves everything about nature. Kaori Tanaka is a self-proclaimed psychic, whose little sister Gen is always following her around. And Chet Bullens wishes the weird kids would just act normal so that he can concentrate on basketball. They aren’t friends -- at least not until Chet pulls a prank that traps Virgil and his pet guinea pig at the bottom of a well. This disaster leads Kaori, Gen, and Valencia on an epic quest to find the missing Virgil. Through luck, smarts, bravery, and a little help from the universe, a rescue is performed, a bully is put in his place, and friendship blooms.

Someone Else's Summer by @rachelbateman @RP_Kids #BookReview #Netgalley

  Anna's always idolized her older sister, Storm. So when Storm dies in a tragic car accident on the night of her high school graduation, Anna is completely lost and her family is torn apart. That is, until she finds Storm's summer bucket list and decides to honor her sister by having the best summer ever—which includes taking an epic road trip to the coast from her sleepy Iowa town. Setting out to do everything on Storm's list along with her sisters best friend Cameron—the boy next door—who knew that Storm's dream summer would eventually lead to Anna's own self-discovery?

#BookBirthday: Pawns by Willo Davis Roberts @simonteen

So can't wait to dive into this one. I really love the cover. This is a reprint from an older book of the same name.  I really love when they take older titles and redo them as fresh new faces. 

#NerdBlast: The Librarians and the Mother Goose Chase (The Librarians #2) by Greg Cox #Giveaway @JeanBookNerd

  For millennia, the Librarians have secretly protected the world by keeping watch over dangerous magical relics. Cataloging and safeguarding everything from Excalibur to Pandora’s Box, they stand between humanity and those who would use the relics for evil.

Stories can be powerful. In 1719, Elizabeth Goose of Boston Massachusetts published a collection of rhyming spells as a children's book, creating a spellbook of terrifying power. The Librarian of that age managed to dispose of all copies of the book except one, which remained in the possession of Elizabeth Goose and her family, temporarily averting any potential disaster.

However, strange things are happening, A window washer in San Diego who was blown off his elevated perch by a freak gust of wind, but miraculously survived by landing on a canopy over the building entrance. A woman in rural Pennsylvania who was attacked by mutant rodents without any eyes. And, a college professor in England who somehow found herself trapped inside a prize pumpkin at a local farmer’s market. Baird and her team of Librarians suspect that the magic of Mother Goose is again loose in the world, and with Fynn Carson AWOL once again, it is up to Cassandra, Ezekiel, and Stone to track down the missing spellbook before the true power of the rhymes can be unleashed.

#BookReview: Maud: A Novel Inspired by the Life of L.M. Montgomery by Melanie J. Fishbane

This title will be released on April 25, 2017.   For the first time ever, a young adult novel about the teen years of L.M. Montgomery, the author who brought us ANNE OF GREEN GABLES.

Fourteen-year-old Lucy Maud Montgomery — Maud to her friends — has a dream: to go to college and become a writer, just like her idol, Louisa May Alcott. But living with her grandparents on Prince Edward Island, she worries that this dream will never come true. Her grandfather has strong opinions about a woman's place in the world, and they do not include spending good money on college. Luckily, she has a teacher to believe in her, and good friends to support her, including Nate, the Baptist minister's stepson and the smartest boy in the class. If only he weren't a Baptist; her Presbyterian grandparents would never approve. Then again, Maud isn't sure she wants to settle down with a boy — her dreams of being a writer are much more important.

But life changes for Maud when she goes out West to live with her father and his new wife and daughter. Her new home offers her another chance at love, as well as attending school, but tensions increase as Maud discovers her stepmother's plans for her, which threaten Maud's future — and her happiness forever.

#WaitingonWednesday with @KatBaldwin & @TeriTerryWrites

 

Welcome to this week's WOW post.  This week I'm reading book three from Kathleen Baldwin Refuge for Masterminds. And man this book is amazing! I really love this series and I really hope we get more!  

The book I'm waiting for is one from Teri Terry and man it looks really good.