#BookTalks with the cover of @sabaatahir newest Book A Torch Against the Night (An Ember in the Ashes #2)

  Welcome!  Each Tuesday well be bringing you a topic on books!  So welcome to #BookTalks!  This week were talking about the cover of Sabaa Tahir's newest book A Torch Against the Night!  I have to say that I can't wait to read this later this month!  It was one of the top 5 books I so can't wait to read.  So check it out below and let us know what you think! 

#Review #Giveaway of Dark Matter by Blake Crouch #thanks @CrownPublishing #BEA16

    “Are you happy with your life?” Those are the last words Jason Dessen hears before the masked abductor knocks him unconscious. Before he awakens to find himself strapped to a gurney, surrounded by strangers in hazmat suits. Before a man Jason’s never met smiles down at him and says, “Welcome back, my friend.” 

In this world he’s woken up to, Jason’s life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college physics professor but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable--something impossible.

Is it this world or the other that’s the dream? And even if the home he remembers is real, how can Jason possibly make it back to the family he loves? The answers lie in a journey more wondrous and horrifying than anything he could’ve imagined—one that will force him to confront the darkest parts of himself even as he battles a terrifying, seemingly unbeatable foe.

#Review #Giveaway of Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty #Thanks @Flatironbooks via #BEA16

    Six responsible adults. Three cute kids. One small dog. It’s just a normal weekend. What could possibly go wrong?

Sam and Clementine have a wonderful, albeit, busy life: they have two little girls, Sam has just started a new dream job, and Clementine, a cellist, is busy preparing for the audition of a lifetime. If there’s anything they can count on, it’s each other.

Clementine and Erika are each other’s oldest friends. A single look between them can convey an entire conversation. But theirs is a complicated relationship, so when Erika mentions a last minute invitation to a barbecue with her neighbors, Tiffany and Vid, Clementine and Sam don’t hesitate. Having Tiffany and Vid’s larger than life personalities there will be a welcome respite.

Two months later, it won’t stop raining, and Clementine and Sam can’t stop asking themselves the question: What if we hadn’t gone?

In Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty takes on the foundations of our lives: marriage, sex, parenthood, and friendship. She shows how guilt can expose the fault lines in the most seemingly strong relationships, how what we don’t say can be more powerful than what we do, and how sometimes it is the most innocent of moments that can do the greatest harm.

#Review #Giveaway of What's Your Color Story? by @mollanderson #MyColorStory

    Color yourself happy and ignite your love of color with this pocket journal and coloring book. 

In What’s Your Color Story? author Moll Anderson takes you on a journey to discover your true love of color. More than a coloring book, this unique pocket journal is filled with inspirational quotes, questions and journal pages designed to guide you to explore your own personal relationship with color. Have you ever wondered why you love certain colors and strongly dislike others? Are you ready to take a leap and open up your world to a kaleidoscope of colors?

With an abundance of pages filled with whimsical designs, swirling lines and intricate patterns you are free to experiment with color and color combinations that will stimulate your senses, unleash your creative energy and open up your world to the endless possibilities that color can bring.  Share #MyColorStory @mollanderson

#Booktube with @sashaalsberg: Belle Recommends: Beauty & The Beast Retellings!

    Welcome to BookTube Mondays! We haven't done one of these in a while but were back and alive.  So this week its Belle Recommends.  I though thats video was so cute! We love Sasha around here! And were so excited for her new book coming out.  So please check out this video and don't forget to subscribe to her channel! 

#Giveaway for Tacky Goblin by T. Sean Steele

    An aimless twenty-something struggles to make sense of reality after he moves to Los Angeles to live with his older sister. His legs are rotting, his apartment is haunted, and he’s in charge of taking care of a human baby that might actually be a dog. On top of it all, he has trouble making friends. Tacky Goblin blunders through particularly strange but familiar misadventures to remind us that, ultimately, learning to take care of yourself is hard.

#Review #Giveaway of The Society by @2000_words #Thanks @EntangledTeen

    Welcome to Trinity Academy’s best-kept secret.

The Society.

You’ve been handpicked by the elite of the elite to become a member. But first you’ll have to prove your worth by making it through Hell Week.

Do you have what it takes?

It’s time to find out.

Samantha Evans knows she’d never get an invite to rush the Society—not after her dad went to jail for insider trading. But after years of relentless bullying at the hands of the Society’s queen bee, Jessica, she’s ready to take down Jessica and the Society one peg at a time from the inside out.

All it’ll take is a bit of computer hacking, a few fake invitations, some eager rushees…and Sam will get her revenge.

Let the games begin. 

#Review #Giveaway of Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge: A Novel by @notlikefreddy #thanks @quirkbooks

    A sharp and funny urban fantasy for “new adults” about a secret society of bartenders who fight monsters with alcohol fueled magic.

College grad Bailey Chen has a few demons: no job, no parental support, and a rocky relationship with Zane, the only friend who’s around when she moves back home. But when Zane introduces Bailey to his cadre of monster-fighting bartenders, her demons get a lot more literal. Like, soul-sucking hell-beast literal. Soon, it’s up to Bailey and the ragtag band of magical mixologists to take on whatever—or whoever—is behind the mysterious rash of gruesome deaths in Chicago, and complete the lost recipes of an ancient tome of cocktail lore.

#Review of Gena/Finn by @hannahmosk and @katmankat & #Giveaway via @ChronicleBooks

The story follows the unlikely friendship of two young women forged via fan fiction and message boards, and is told entirely in texts, chats, and blog posts.

Gena (short for Genevieve) and Finn (short for Stephanie) have little in common. Book-smart Gena is preparing to leave her posh boarding school for college; down-to-earth Finn is a twenty-something struggling to make ends meet in the big city. Gena’s romantic life is a series of reluctant one-night-stands; Finn is making a go of it with long-term boyfriend Charlie. But they share a passion for Up Below, a buddy cop TV show with a cult fan following. Gena is a darling of the fangirl scene, keeping a popular blog and writing fan fiction. Finn’s online life is a secret, even from Charlie. The pair spark an unlikely online friendship that deepens quickly (so quickly it scares them both), and as their individual “real” lives begin to fall apart, they increasingly seek shelter online, and with each other.

#Review & #Giveaway of Empire of Dust (Blood of Gods and Royals #2) by Eleanor Herman

In Macedon, war rises like smoke, forbidden romance blooms and ancient magic tempered with rage threatens to turn an empire to dust 

After winning his first battle, Prince Alexander fights to become the ruler his kingdom demands—but the line between leader and tyrant blurs with each new threat. 

Meanwhile, Hephaestion, cast aside by Alexander for killing the wrong man, must conceal the devastating secret of a divine prophecy from Katerina even as the two of them are thrust together on a dangerous mission to Egypt. 

The warrior, Jacob, determined to forget his first love, vows to eradicate the ancient Blood Magics and believes that royal prisoner Cynane holds the key to Macedon's undoing. 

And in chains, the Persian princess Zofia still longs to find the Spirit Eaters, but first must grapple with the secrets of her handsome—and deadly—captor. 

New York Times bestselling author Eleanor Herman entwines the real scandals of history with epic fantasy to reimagine the world's most brilliant ruler, Alexander the Great, in the second book of the Blood of Gods and Royals series.

#Review of Scarlet Rain by @KCastAuthor via @netgalley

The co-author of the "New York Times" bestselling House of Night series returns with the mesmerizing second book in The Escaped series. 
In "Amber Smoke," Kristin Cast introduced her legions of readers to Alek and Eva. Alek, immortal son of the Furies, has been charged to save his home and recapture the souls of the damned, evil creatures who escaped Tartarus into the Mortal Realm. He can't, however, do it alone... 
Eva has discovered that she has been both blessed and cursed with powers beyond her comprehension. With a destiny to fulfill, she cannot escape the beings who will stop at nothing to destroy her. 
Now, in "Scarlet Rain," the Nosoi spirits of plague have been unleashed on the Mortal Realm, releasing a pandemic as clever and adaptable as it is insidious. Alek and Eva must capture and banish the Nosoi back to their Underworld prison but Eva has yet to harness the abilities needed to defeat such a powerful enemy, and Alek sustains catastrophic wounds in the attempt. They must rely on detective James Graham, and Eva s best friend Bridget, if they are to even slow down the plague. But can mere mortals come through in the face of such overwhelming peril?"

Wont you Join us? #Boostit Thursday is coming!

After some thought we decided to make our own Boost It meme.  There is one for tuesdays via Every Free Chance, Candace’s Book Blog & If These Books Could Talk  whom is currently on break for the summer.  We loved the meme so much that we thought we would do one for Thursdays while that one is on break.  

Please make sure to check out their sites!  They are pretty cool!! 

Did someone say SWAG? Yes Yes we did! #BookSwag #Giveaway

 

We said it folks!  Swag!!!   Sorry this didn't go up yesterday with all the rain etc. I was about to fall into a coma.  Not sure why rain makes me so freaking tired.  But were back and ready to do THIS!!   I went through all my swag and took out things that I wanted to keep.   This giveaway will be open to all.   You can check out the video below to see some of the swag that will be up for grabs!  

#Review of The Only Thing Worse Than Me Is You by @ms_lilyanderson via @netgalley

Trixie Watson has two very important goals for senior year: to finally save enough to buy the set of Doctor Who figurines at the local comic books store, and to place third in her class and knock Ben West--and his horrendous new mustache that he spent all summer growing--down to number four.

Trixie will do anything to get her name ranked over Ben's, including give up sleep and comic books--well, maybe not comic books--but definitely sleep. After all, the war of Watson v. West is as vicious as the Doctor v. Daleks and Browncoats v. Alliance combined, and it goes all the way back to the infamous monkey bars incident in the first grade. Over a decade later, it's time to declare a champion once and for all.

The war is Trixie's for the winning, until her best friend starts dating Ben's best friend and the two are unceremoniously dumped together and told to play nice. Finding common ground is odious and tooth-pullingly-painful, but Trixie and Ben's cautious truce slowly transforms into a fandom-based tentative friendship. When Trixie's best friend gets expelled for cheating and Trixie cries foul play, however, they have to choose who to believe and which side they're on--and they might not pick the same side.

#Review of Life Moves Pretty Fast:The Lessons We Learned From Eighties Movies by Hadley Freeman & #Giveaway via @4thEstateBooks

'Mail-order ham' - New York Times on Steel Magnolias, 1989

'Not worth cutting class' - Chicago Tribune on Ferris Bueller's Day Off, 1986

'Full of canned romance' - New York Times on When Harry Met Sally..., 1989

'A lot of dancing that is comparatively erotic' - New York Times on Dirty Dancing, 1987

Hadley Freeman begs to differ.

For her, American movies of the 1980s have simply got it all.

'I know people who have changed their entire lives because of a line of dialogue from When Harry Met Sally..., and when I say "people" I obviously mean "me".'

Life Moves Pretty Fast is a clever, hilarious and charming defence of our best-loved cult classics - and a much-welcome nostalgia hit.

#Review of The Starriest Summer (The Cycle of the Six Moons #1) by Adelle Yeung via @netgalley

Fifteen-year-old Michelle saves the world on a daily basis…with her trusty video game controller, of course! Naturally, she jumps at the chance to play an experimental virtual reality game. 

The beautiful fantasy world of Starrs? Check. The power to mold matter? Check. No reset button? Wait, she didn’t sign up for this! 

Turns out Starrs is really real, and to make matters worse, Michelle’s interference awakens the Cycle of the Six Moons, a series of devastating trials that will devour the universe. 

Fighting the apocalypse was way easier when danger stayed on the other side of the screen, but Michelle finds a secret weapon in her new-found powers. She uses them to rescue the crown prince of a powerful magic kingdom from their sworn enemies, a technologically-advanced cult that strives to eradicate magical blood. 

Michelle starts to fall for Prince Jayse, the only one who believes Michelle to be a savior rather than a curse. But not even video games could prepare her for what the cult has in store for them…

#Review of Snakewood Adrian Selby via @netgalley

Once they were a band of mercenaries who shook the pillars of the world through cunning, alchemical brews, and cold steel. Whoever met their price won.
Now, their glory days behind them, scattered to the wind, and their genius leader in hiding, they are being hunted down and eliminated one by one. 
A lifetime of enemies has its own price. 
Adrian Selby brings us into an unforgettable new world filled with magic, mystery, intrigue, bloodshed and betrayal.

#Review of The Full Catastrophe by Karen Elizabeth Lee & #Giveaway via @shewritesdotcom

In 1998, after having been married to Duncan, a bully who'd been controlling her for the fourteen years they'd been together, Karen E. Lee thought divorce was in the cards. But ten months after telling him that she wanted that divorce, Duncan was diagnosed with cancer and eight months later, he was gone. Karen hoped her problems would be solved after Duncan's death but instead, she found that, without his ranting, raving, and screaming taking up space in her life, she had her own demons to face. Luckily, Duncan had inadvertently left her the keys to her own salvation and healing a love of Jungian psychology and a book that was to be her guide through the following years. In "The Full Catastrophe," Karen explores Jungian analysis, the dreams she had during this period, the intuitive messages she learned to trust in order to heal, and her own emotional journey including romances, travel adventures, and friends. Insightful and brutally honest, "The Full Catastrophe" is the story of a well educated, professional woman who, after marrying the wrong kind of man twice finally resurrects her life." 

#Review & #Giveaway of Cheatting Lesons by Nan Willard Cappo

Can honesty be the worst policy?

Bernadette Terrell has always known the right thing to do. Not the most popular girl in school, her focus has always been on academic, not social, success. When her favorite teacher names her to Wickham High School's state championship quiz bowl team, she believes that she has reached the pinnacle of her high school academic career. However, her elation quickly fades as she begins to suspect that perhaps someone cheated to get Wickham into the contest and is cheating still.

In her search for answers, Bernadette must contend with a situation that isn't black and white, where a community's hope, hard work, and pride are on the line. Is a team -- and a school -- implicated by one person's behavior?

Cappo's blend of suspense and humor makes Cheating Lessons a riveting story about right and wrong -- and the downside of trust.

#Review of This Is Not a Werewolf Story by @sandraevans111

A fresh, heartwarming, and fascinating debut that two-time Newbery Honor winner Gary Schmidt calls “a journey that every reader needs to go on.”

This is the story of Raul, a boy of few words, fewer friends, and almost no family. He is a loner—but he isn’t lonely. All week long he looks after the younger boys at One Of Our Kind Boarding School while dodging the barbs of terrible Tuffman, the mean gym teacher.

Like every other kid in the world, he longs for Fridays, but not for the usual reasons. The woods have secrets...and so does Raul. As soon as the other students go home for the weekend, Raul makes his way to a lighthouse deep in the heart of the woods. There he waits for sunset—and the mysterious, marvelous shapeshifting phenomenon that allows him to go home, too.