#TakeControlTBR: The Arrivals by Melissa Marr

Heres another update on my picks for April so far it hasn't been good!  This one The Arrivals would have been much much better if the world that the people were tossed into would have had a better explanation. World building is a must in my book for the most part and this one lacked that in spades.   The other thing was that it was pretty boring once it got started.  So for me this one won't be sticking around. 

You can check it out here on Goodreads 

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#TakeControlTBR: Becoming Jinn (Becoming Jinn #1) by Lori Goldstein

Well first up for this month was Becoming Jinn (Becoming Jinn #1) by Lori Goldstein  and well that one just didnt work out for me.  I needed up DNFing it shortly after chapter 5.  
If you want a great book about Jinn's then check out Exquisite Captive (Dark Caravan Cycle #1) by Heather Demetrios its got snark and well just a better story if you ask me.  
So next up on the chopping block for Aprils TBR is I Am Number Four (Lorien Legacies #1) by Pittacus Lore Im so excited to read this!! Really REALLY hoping that I love it!!!  
So ill see ya next week! 

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Haunting then turns boring in The Summoning (Darkest Powers #1) by Kelley Armstrong {Review & TakeControlTBR}

  The Summoning (Darkest Powers #1) by Kelley Armstrong Add it to Goodreads My name is Chloe Saunders and my life will never be the same again.

All I wanted was to make friends, meet boys, and keep on being ordinary. I don't even know what that means anymore. It all started on the day that I saw my first ghost - and the ghost saw me.

Now there are ghosts everywhere and they won't leave me alone. To top it all off, I somehow got myself locked up in Lyle House, a "special home" for troubled teens. Yet the home isn't what it seems. Don't tell anyone, but I think there might be more to my housemates than meets the eye. The question is, whose side are they on? It's up to me to figure out the dangerous secrets behind Lyle House... before its skeletons come back to haunt me.

#TakeControlTBR: Updates with A Thousand Pieces of You

So this past week has been crazy were finalizing things for BEA/Bookcon and I'm trying to get through as many books as I own so I can take the ones I don't want to the used bookstore to sell them off grab some others I might want and well have some extra money for the trip to Chicago. 

#TakeControlTBR The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer #1) by Michelle Hodkin

So this week I did a book that ive had for a long long time.  I had both books one and two and well. Lets just say it didnt work out so well for me.  This one I didnt get far in it before I just decided it wasnt for me.  It really reminded me of the Fallen series but where that one in gaged me. This one just bored me to death.  So for me the start of this one was amazing but once the story got going it fell apart pretty quickly. 

#TakeControlTBR : Vote for April #Giveaway

Well March is here and now its time to vote for April!  So check out the video below to see who won for March's picks and to see what books are up next to vote on! 

#TakeControlTBR: Updates

Well theres only 1 more week to get your votes in for Aprils choices!  As for May I will only be doing 2 books total!  This is because I'm going to BEA and BookCon and I don't want to have a ton of books to read that month.  

You can vote in the giveaway here! 

#TakeControlTBR : Vote for April #Giveaway

So updates for which books ive read.  While I'm writing this I'm currently on Starflight by Melissa Landers now this is a twofer book.  1. its what was chosen for one of the three books for March's Bookclub (@ReadBookclub)  2. Its mine I own it so it was part of my TBR lol I'm not that far into it. So I did get to 1 more book via my TBR!  Whoop 1 down 200 some odd books to go! 

Remember any books I don't want end up on my twitter account @GoEcoBooks Things are for sale and trade. 

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#TakeControlTBR Update

Well here is a little update about March's books.  So this month's TBR winners havent been doing very well. 

For the site the winners were 

Entwined

The Fire Opal

The Naturalists

All of these for me ended up being DNFs so they are currently posted on the twitter account - @GoEcoBooks for sale/trade. 

As for Youtube the winners were 
Pure the Unbecoming of Mara Dyer Birthmark
So far ive done Birthmarked and well it didnt work for me either. So I still have two more to do. 
Birthmark has joined the other books I'm not keeping over on twitter. 


Its so strange going through some of these books seeing how Young Adult books have changed over the years.  

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#TakeControlTBR: Nightshade (Nightshade #1) by Andrea Cremer

 
Source: Purchased  Add it to Goodreads Calla Tor has always known her destiny: After graduating from the Mountain School, she'll be the mate of sexy alpha wolf Ren Laroche and fight with him, side by side, ruling their pack and guarding sacred sites for the Keepers. But when she violates her masters' laws by saving a beautiful human boy out for a hike, Calla begins to question her fate, her existence, and the very essence of the world she has known. By following her heart, she might lose everything- including her own life. Is forbidden love worth the ultimate sacrifice? 

#TakeControlTBR #Giveaway

So after much thought I decided to make this a monthly challenge vs. a weekly one.  So each month Ill run this for 1 week then ill read the top 3 books chosen!  

#TakeControlTBR with @marissa_meyer @veschwab #Giveaway

So last week I had a change of heart and decided to start doing this via colors.  Last week the two books had the same name!  So the poll was black and blue. So here are this weeks books.  Is it bad I kinda want to read both of them? 

#TakeControlTBR #Giveaway: Alive with @scottsigler & @chandlerbakerYA

So last week we had RED!  This week I have two book both with the title Alive!  So I thought it would be a great thing to just post these two!  So which one will win?  

#TakeControlTBR: The Wrath and the Dawn (The Wrath and the Dawn #1) by @rahdieh @PenguinTeen

Author: Renee Ahdieh Published By: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers Release Date: May 12th 2015 Genres: Fantasy, Retellings Pages: 388 Source: Owned Add it to Goodreads One Life to One Dawn.

In a land ruled by a murderous boy-king, each dawn brings heartache to a new family. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, is a monster. Each night he takes a new bride only to have a silk cord wrapped around her throat come morning. When sixteen-year-old Shahrzad's dearest friend falls victim to Khalid, Shahrzad vows vengeance and volunteers to be his next bride. Shahrzad is determined not only to stay alive, but to end the caliph's reign of terror once and for all.

Night after night, Shahrzad beguiles Khalid, weaving stories that enchant, ensuring her survival, though she knows each dawn could be her last. But something she never expected begins to happen: Khalid is nothing like what she'd imagined him to be. This monster is a boy with a tormented heart. Incredibly, Shahrzad finds herself falling in love. How is this possible? It's an unforgivable betrayal. Still, Shahrzad has come to understand all is not as it seems in this palace of marble and stone. She resolves to uncover whatever secrets lurk and, despite her love, be ready to take Khalid's life as retribution for the many lives he's stolen. Can their love survive this world of stories and secrets?

Inspired by A Thousand and One Nights, The Wrath and the Dawn is a sumptuous and enthralling read from beginning to end.

#TBR #ReadingChallenge: Week of RED! #Giveaway #TakeControlTBR

Welcome to my TBR Reading Challenge!  Each week I give you a list of books to vote on then on Monday I close voting to read the winning book and then that review will post on Friday with the new list!   So last week I had given you a few books that were signed to vote on.  This week its all about RED!   Sorry I might be just a little obsessed with Taylor Swift music! 

#TBR Winner: An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes #1) by @sabaatahir

Author: Sabaa Tahir Published By: Razorbill  Release Date: April 28th 2015 Genres: Fantasy Pages: 446 Source: Purchased  Add it to Goodreads Laia is a slave.

Elias is a soldier.

Neither is free.

Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. Those who do not vow their blood and bodies to the Emperor risk the execution of their loved ones and the destruction of all they hold dear.

It is in this brutal world, inspired by ancient Rome, that Laia lives with her grandparents and older brother. The family ekes out an existence in the Empire’s impoverished backstreets. They do not challenge the Empire. They’ve seen what happens to those who do.

But when Laia’s brother is arrested for treason, Laia is forced to make a decision. In exchange for help from rebels who promise to rescue her brother, she will risk her life to spy for them from within the Empire’s greatest military academy.

There, Laia meets Elias, the school’s finest soldier—and secretly, its most unwilling. Elias wants only to be free of the tyranny he’s being trained to enforce. He and Laia will soon realize that their destinies are intertwined—and that their choices will change the fate of the Empire itself.

#TBR Challenge Winner: Dead Beautiful (Dead Beautiful #1) by Yvonne Woon

Author: Yvonne Woon Published By: Disney-Hyperion Release Date: September 21st 2010 Genres: Teen Pages: 464 Source: Purchased Add it to Goodreads On the morning of her sixteenth birthday, Renée Winters was still an ordinary girl. She spent her summers at the beach, had the perfect best friend, and had just started dating the cutest guy at school. No one she'd ever known had died. But all that changes when she finds her parents dead in the Redwood Forest, in what appears to be a strange double murder.

After the funeral Renée’s wealthy grandfather sends her to Gottfried Academy, a remote and mysterious boarding school in Maine, where she finds herself studying subjects like Philosophy, Latin, and the “Crude Sciences.”

It’s there that she meets Dante Berlin, a handsome and elusive boy to whom she feels inexplicably drawn. As they grow closer, unexplainable things begin to happen, but Renée can’t stop herself from falling in love. It’s only when she discovers a dark tragedy in Gottfried’s past that she begins to wonder if the Academy is everything it seems.

Little does she know, Dante is the one hiding a dangerous secret, one that has him fearing for her life.

Dead Beautiful is both a compelling romance and thought-provoking read, bringing shocking new meaning to life, death, love, and the nature of the soul.

#TBR Reading Challenge with #Giveaway

Welcome to my next vote to win giveaway!  This week ive got 4 new books for you to vote on!   The cool thing is all of these are signed!  Some are signed to me some are not.  But they are signed!   So which one should I read this week coming?   Comment to Vote!   You only have until Monday to vote!  Then on Friday ill let you know how won and what book won!   And of course post another collection of books to vote on! 

#TBR Reading Challenge with #Giveaway

So the new year is here and well if you were watching the pictures via my social networks you would have seen that last year my goal was to get through the some odd hundred of books I had but had not even looked at.  Most of that came to pass and I even sold those books that I didnt want off.  And yes of course got some new goodies.  Well unfortunately I still have a few............Ok a LOT left!  So I'm hoping to get the rest of these done this year.  Most of them are series. So here is how this is going to work!   Each week ill post a picture here of the books via 1 shelf!   Then you my followers can comment on the book you think I should read!  Then whatever book gets the most votes is the winner!   And then I will pick one person to win some goodies.  Each goodie will differ from books to swag to special swag I use for special occasions.  This will be open to everyone!  So I hope you guys will have some fun with this!   This will post every Friday!  

March 2015 #TakeControlTBR

For the month of March I am going to be doing this challenge.  What does this mean?  Well it means that all books I read will be ones that I own!  Now unfortunately I already have some tours going so those have to post as I can't change my day.  As well as some reviews that are already done to.  But everything from here on out will be things that I

1. Own and 2. have been published before March 2015!

Now some of these books I have ARCs for.  So there will be giveaways!!!