#Shadowhunters : @cassieclare Episode 11 Pirates @Bookcon and the lasted Discussion via @emmmabooks

Episode 11:

Thanks for checking out this Saturdays post all about Shadowhunters! This past Tuesday episode 11 aired and with it we were told the wonderful lie about Jace and Clary being brother and sister.  Of course any fan of the books knows its not true.  What do you guys think of this episode?  

I kinda wished that of all the things they have cut and added that this although it was a major plot in the books. I wished they would have skipped it.   

Pirates: 

In other Shadowhunter news I found a Facebook group that is all Shadowunters pirating Clare's books so that was reported. 

BookCon:
Well if you are going to BookCon this year in Chicago you will get to hopefully see Cassandra Clare as she is going to be there!  We so can't wait!!!

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#Review of Mystery of the Map (Poptropica #1) by Jack Chabert, Kory Merritt, Jeff Kinney & #Giveaway via @abramskids

Add it to Goodreads Based on a concept by Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney comes Poptropica, a brand-new graphic novel adventure series by Jack Chabert and Kory Merritt. In "Mystery of the Map," Oliver, Mya, and Jorge take a ride in a hot-air balloon, only to crash-land on an unknown island filled with extinct animals and a horde of angry Vikings. Welcome to Poptropica, an uncharted group of islands whose existence is hidden from the rest of the world. As the three friends embark on a perilous search for a way home, they quickly discover the shocking reason they were brought there something that threatens the very existence of Poptropica and their ability to ever make it off the island!" 

#Review of Dream House: A Novel by CutiePieMarzia by Marzia Bisognin

Add it to Goodreads From YouTube sensation Marzia “CutiePieMarzia” Bisognin comes a debut young adult paranormal thriller about a girl whose dream house quickly becomes a nightmare.

When Amethyst stumbles upon the house of her dreams, she can’t help but be enchanted by it, even if there’s something a little…off about the place.

It’s everything she’s ever wanted in a home, so when the Blooms invite her to stay the night to avoid an impending storm, she instantly accepts.

Yet when she awakes the next morning, alone and unable to bring herself to leave, Amethyst comes face-to-face with unexpected twists and turns—like Alfred, the creepy gardener; Avery, the handsome but secretive neighbor, and a little girl who keeps appearing and vanishing within the house.

As Amethyst searches for the Blooms and tries to unravel the truth, her connection to the house only grows stronger. Will she be able to break free of the house’s allure, or will its secrets keep her trapped forever?

#Review of The Girl From Home by Adam Mitzner

Add it to Goodreads The acclaimed author, whose recent novel of suspense Losing Faith was declared “startling…a well-crafted story” (Kirkus Reviews), takes you on a gripping psychological thrill ride in this electrifying tale of a millionaire who will go to deadly lengths to get what he wants.

Jonathan Caine is a true master of the universe—a currency wizard with a trophy wife, a penthouse condo with a view of the Statue of Liberty, and the desire for more—when his world comes crashing down, spiraling him into a relentless fall from grace. Devastated, Jonathan returns to his hometown to care for his ailing father and attend his twenty-fifth high school reunion, where he becomes reacquainted with former prom queen Jacqueline Williams. Back in the day, Jackie didn’t even know Jonathan existed. Now she is intrigued by the man he has become. But their budding relationship has problems, not the least of which is Jackie’s jealous and abusive husband. Jonathan is determined to learn from his mistakes, but is he capable of complete transformation? Or will a shocking temptation test his desire for redemption beyond anything he could have imagined?

#Review of No One Knows by @thrillerchick

Add it to Goodreads In an obsessive mystery as thrilling as The Girl on the Train andThe Husband’s Secret, New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison will make you question every twist in her page-turning novel—and wonder which of her vividly drawn characters you should trust.

The day Aubrey Hamilton’s husband is declared dead by the state of Tennessee should bring closure so she can move on with her life. But Aubrey doesn’t want to move on; she wants Josh back. It’s been five years since he disappeared, since their blissfully happy marriage—they were happy, weren’t they?—screeched to a halt and Aubrey became the prime suspect in his disappearance. Five years of emptiness, solitude, loneliness, questions. Why didn’t Josh show up at his friend’s bachelor party? Was he murdered? Did he run away? And now, all this time later, who is the mysterious yet strangely familiar figure suddenly haunting her new life?

In No One Knows, the New York Times bestselling coauthor of the Nicholas Drummond series expertly peels back the layers of a complex woman who is hiding dark secrets beneath her unassuming exterior. This masterful thriller for fans of Gillian Flynn, Liane Moriarty, and Paula Hawkins will pull readers into a you’ll-never-guess merry-go-round of danger and deception. Round and round and round it goes, where it stops…no one knows.

#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. 

#Tour: @The_FFBC Siren's Song (The Storm Siren Trilogy #3) by @mchristineweber #Review

Siren's Song (The Storm Siren Trilogy #3)
by Mary Weber
Publisher: Thomas Nelson / HarperCollins
Release Date: March 1st 2016

Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Magic, Fiction, Paranormal
Rate: 5

Synopsis:

Nym and Draewulf prepare to face off in a battle destined to destroy more lives than it saves.

With the loss of Tulla still fresh in mind, Rasha’s fate unknown, and Lord Myles taken over by the dark ability, Nym and the few Bron soldiers rush to warn Cashlin’s queen. Only to discover it may already be too late for the monarch and her eerie kingdom. As the Luminescents are sifting through Nym’s past memories and the queen is reading into her future, Nym is given a choice of how to defeat Draewulf, but the cost may be more than she can bear. And even then there are no guarantees.

With that reality burrowing into her bones—along with the guilt of the lives she will sacrifice—Nym returns to her homeland of Faelen to raise an army of peasants through promises of freedom. But when the few friends she has left, along with the world and citizens she loves, are staring down the face of a monster and his undead army, will Nym summon every element her blood is capable of controlling . . . or surrender to a different strength—one of sacrifice?

Because in the end, death may be more merciful for them all.

#BookTalks: Reading Giveaways Trades & Sales

 

Welcome to this weeks Book Talks.  We have been asked about how many books we read as well as some questions about trades, giveaways, and sale.  so we wanted to clear some things up.  Each year we read hundreds of books so here is the break down on how we do this.  We also get hundreds of books a year via publishers and authors. So here is a break down on what we do etc.  

#handyarmor iPhone 6/6s Clear Case

So I don't do many product reviews but here is one I was sent via Tomoson and Handy Armor!  

Really wish they made this for the plus :( 

#WOW: Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

Twilight was the first book in the YA genre I read...and I don't regret it. I had a friend in 8th grade (2008) suggest it to me and I loved it. I literally read the book in one sitting and then when I got the other books, there was no stopping me. 
TEAM JACOB!! 

#Review of The Haters by Jesse Andrews & #Giveaway via @abramskids

Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary Pages: 352 Source: Publisher Add it to Goodreads From Jesse Andrews, author of the New York Times bestselling Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and screenwriter of the Sundance award–winning motion picture of the same name, comes a groundbreaking young adult novel about music, love, friendship, and freedom as three young musicians follow a quest to escape the law long enough to play the amazing show they hope (but also doubt) they have in them.

Inspired by the years he spent playing bass in a band himself, The Haters is Jesse Andrews’s road trip adventure about a trio of jazz-camp escapees who, against every realistic expectation, become a band. 

For Wes and his best friend, Corey, jazz camp turns out to be lame. It’s pretty much all dudes talking in Jazz Voice. But then they jam with Ash, a charismatic girl with an unusual sound, and the three just click. It’s three and a half hours of pure musical magic, and Ash makes a decision: They need to hit the road. Because the road, not summer camp, is where bands get good. Before Wes and Corey know it, they’re in Ash’s SUV heading south, and The Haters Summer of Hate Tour has begun.

In his second novel, Andrews again brings his brilliant and distinctive voice to YA, in the perfect book for music lovers, fans of The Commitments and High Fidelity, or anyone who has ever loved—and hated—a song or a band. This witty, funny coming-of-age novel is contemporary fiction at its best.

#Review of Stormswept by @SabrinaJeffries & #Giveaway via @Pocket_Books

Genres: Adult Romance Pages: 400 Source: Publisher Add it to Goodreads New York Times bestseller Sabrina Jeffries reignites a daring love affair in this intriguing tale of desire and deception—originally written as Deborah Martin and newly revised for today’s audience.

The first wedding night that Lady Juliana St. Albans spent with the dark and daring Rhys Vaughan was intoxicating, the heady culmination of her new husband’s driving hunger and her own awakened sensuality. When he mysteriously disappeared the next morning, she waited for him in hope and desperation. And when he was finally proclaimed dead in a shipwreck, she bitterly mourned the loss of her love.

The second wedding night that Juliana spent with Rhys Vaughan was six years later, after he returned to claim her just as she was about to wed another. This Rhys was different—bolder, harder, and convinced that she’d betrayed him. Only their blazing passion remains from their years apart. But is it enough to light their way through the maze of mystery, menace, and mistrust—to the love they once shared and would have to find again?

3 Books to Watch For! with @Melissa_Landers @ThatEmilyMartin @Janet_B_Taylor

Welcome to this weeks posting of 3 books you should look out for.  These are books we have read and well if you havent you need to!  

Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch #Review

Add it to Goodreads Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isn’t in the mood for Italy’s famous sunshine and fairy-tale landscape. She’s only there because it was her mother’s dying wish that she get to know her father. But what kind of father isn’t around for sixteen years? All Lina wants to do is get back home.

But then Lina is given a journal that her mom had kept when she lived in Italy. Suddenly Lina’s uncovering a magical world of secret romances, art, and hidden bakeries. A world that inspires Lina, along with the ever-so-charming Ren, to follow in her mother’s footsteps and unearth a secret that has been kept from Lina for far too long. It’s a secret that will change everything she knew about her mother, her father—and even herself.

People come to Italy for love and gelato, someone tells her, but sometimes they discover much more. 

#Tour: I Woke Up Dead at the Mall by Judy Sheehan

Add it to Goodreads When Sarah wakes up dead at the Mall of America, she learns that not only was she murdered, her killer is still on the loose.   
When you’re sixteen, you have your whole life ahead of you. Unless you’re Sarah. Not to give anything away, but . . . she’s dead. Murdered, in fact. Sarah’s murder is shocking because she couldn’t be any more average. No enemies. No risky behavior. She’s just the girl on the sidelines.

It looks like her afterlife, on the other hand, will be pretty exciting. Sarah has woken up dead at the Mall of America—where the universe sends teens who are murdered—and with the help of her death coach, she must learn to move on or she could meet a fate totally worse than death: becoming a mall walker.

As she tries to finish her unfinished business alongside her fellow dead teens, Sarah falls hard for a cute boy named Nick. And she discovers an uncanny ability to haunt the living. While she has no idea who killed her, or why, someone she loves is in grave danger. Sarah can’t lose focus or she’ll be doomed to relive her final moments again and again forever. But can she live with herself if she doesn’t make her death matter?

Soul Crossed (Of Demons and Angels #1) by Lisa Gail Green #Review

Add it to Goodreads One Demon.

One Angel.

One Soul.

Josh lived a reckless, selfish life, so upon his death, escaping the eternal torments of Hell by assuming the role of a powerful, soul-corrupting demon is an easy choice. His first soul assignment doesn’t seem too hard: the mortal Camden is already obsessed with weapons, pain, and torture. If only Josh wasn’t distracted by Cam's beautiful friend, Grace.

Grace never expected to die violently at age sixteen, but now she’s an Angel, responsible for saving a soul. She can already see past Camden’s earthly flaws, so the job should be be easy. If only that handsome, playboy Josh would stop getting in the way.

It’s forbidden for an Angel to be with a Demon, so if Josh and Grace stop resisting each other, the results would be disastrous.

And only one can claim Cam’s soul. 

The Red Queen Dies: A Mystery (Detective Hannah McCabe #1) by Frankie Y. Bailey #Review

Add it to Goodreads Frankie Bailey introduces readers to a fabulous new protagonist and an Alice in Wonderland-infused crime in this stunning mystery, which kicks off an exciting new series set in the near future.

The year is 2019, and a drug used to treat soldiers for post-traumatic stress disorder, nicknamed "Lullaby," has hit the streets. Swallowing a little pill erases traumatic memories, but what happens to a criminal trial when the star witness takes a pill and can't remember the crime? When two women are murdered in quick succession, biracial police detective Hannah McCabe is charged with solving the case. In spite of the advanced technology, including a city-wide surveillance program, a third woman is soon killed, and the police begin to suspect that a serial killer is on the loose. But the third victim, a Broadway actress known as "The Red Queen," doesn't fit the pattern set by the first two murders.

With the late September heat sizzling, Detective Hannah McCabe and her colleagues on the police force have to race to find the killer in a tangled web of clues that involve Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, and Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Fast-paced and original, this is a one-of-a-kind mystery from an extremely talented crime writer.

#BookTube with @daniellempaige @AprilynnePike @kimberlyderting @AmyPlumOhLaLa

So this week we thought we would share one of our past #AuthorChat - #ReadOn shows. 

I really loved doing these shows and really hope to do a few more this year!  So here are 4 amazing authors! Check it out! 

#BEA16: Travel

So last week we talked about how its going with our hotel. So far as I'm writing this the hotel issue is still somewhat up in the air. Hopefully we can find one more person to split at least a few days with. 

As for travel. We were going to be driving ok well I was going to be driving while Rachael navigated but after some thought we decided it would be around the same cost (actually a little cheaper) to just take the train.  I haven't been on a train since I was 25 and I was heading out west to meet family for the first time.  So this will be an interesting thing!  

No the next question is am I going to kill my 5 year old before we go? (JK kinda of) She is going with us and well I am kinda of already starting to regret that decision.  I guess I can always change my mind and go without her. I guess well see as the event gets closer. 

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#Shadowhunter Saturday: Welcome! @emmmabooks

So wer were trying to add a dedicated day to all things Shadowhunter and well Saturday just ended up working!  So each Saturday well share something via the show and books etc. Pretty much anything Shadowhunter.  

Now the twist will be that some Saturdays it might be a different show.  I just havent made icons for those lol.  But things well be talking about are Outlander, Shadowhunters, and well let you know if we add anything else. Ok so welcome to the first post for Shadowhunter Saturday!  To kick off this week were going to share with you one of the youtube channels that does some of the best recaps that ive ever seen!