Spring Break #Giveaway Day Three

Welcome to Day 3!

  This year were taking off for Spring Break well be back April 2nd. But we didn't want to leave you guys hanging without something to do. So this giveaway is for 4 preorders of choice! You heard me the winner will win FOUR books that are coming out!  This is open to all. So make sure to come back all week and enter! 

Spring Break #Giveaway Day Two

Welcome to Day 2

This year were taking off for Spring Break well be back April 2nd. But we didn't want to leave you guys hanging without something to do. So this giveaway is for 4 preorders of choice! You heard me the winner will win FOUR books that are coming out!  This is open to all. So make sure to come back all week and enter! 

Spring Break #Giveaway Day One

Welcome to Day 1! 

  This year were taking off for Spring Break well be back April 2nd. But we didn't want to leave you guys hanging without something to do. So this giveaway is for 4 preorders of choice! You heard me the winner will win FOUR books that are coming out!  This is open to all. So make sure to come back all week and enter! 

Break Time! #Giveaway

Hey guys with everything thats been going on and it once again seems i'm getting sick. Knew those water rides in the cold was a bad idea.  Well anyway were going on a much need break!  This break will last from today until April 1st. There will be a giveaway running during this time period!  Each day there will be a new way to enter for each post. So make sure to come back each day and comment!  

#BookReview: Recruits by Thomas Locke

  For a decade now, seventeen-year-old twins Sean and Dillon Kirrell have been drawn to a mysterious alternate world they've translated into hand-drawn images covering their bedroom walls. It's a world they've only seen in their dreams until now--when a stranger recruits them to train for a mind-bending mission of survival.

#BookReview: Blood Rose Rebellion (Blood Rose Rebellion #1) by @RosalynEves @Netgalley

  The thrilling first book in a YA fantasy trilogy for fans of Red Queen. In a world where social prestige derives from a trifecta of blood, money, and magic, one girl has the ability to break the spell that holds the social order in place.

Sixteen-year-old Anna Arden is barred from society by a defect of blood. Though her family is part of the Luminate, powerful users of magic, she is Barren, unable to perform the simplest spells. Anna would do anything to belong. But her fate takes another course when, after inadvertently breaking her sister’s debutante spell—an important chance for a highborn young woman to show her prowess with magic—Anna finds herself exiled to her family’s once powerful but now crumbling native Hungary.

Her life might well be over.

In Hungary, Anna discovers that nothing is quite as it seems. Not the people around her, from her aloof cousin Noémi to the fierce and handsome Romani Gábor. Not the society she’s known all her life, for discontent with the Luminate is sweeping the land. And not her lack of magic. Isolated from the only world she cares about, Anna still can’t seem to stop herself from breaking spells.

As rebellion spreads across the region, Anna’s unique ability becomes the catalyst everyone is seeking. In the company of nobles, revolutionaries, and Romanies, Anna must choose: deny her unique power and cling to the life she’s always wanted, or embrace her ability and change that world forever. 
NOTE: Although I really do LOVE this blue cover which is on my ARC. We are not getting this cover. Our cover is White. 

Shelifies: Its all about the Rainbows!

This week were talking about rainbows!  Although I really love the look of the rainbow bookshelf. I just can't bring myself to do it. At least not in full. At one time I had my TBR shelf as a rainbow but as my TBR grew it became a hassle to keep up with it. And covers these days tend to be many colors vs. just one or two. So trying to put certain books into the right place was horrible.  So here is one rainbow shelfie I found on Pinterest. Its so pretty!!!! It was saved by Cozy Reads. 

#BookReview: The Romeo Catchers (The Casquette Girls #2) by @alysarden with #Giveaway

This title will be released on May 23, 2017.   Is blood thicker than magic in La Nouvelle-Orléans?

Tormented by the fate she condemned her mother to, and by the lies she’s forced to tell to cover it up, Adele scours Storm-ravaged New Orleans for the truth about her family’s magical past. But every turn leads her back to the one person she's determined to forget: Niccolò Medici. Not even the multitude of enchanted locks on the attic door trapping Nicco within can break their connection.

Sensing Nicco calling to Adele, Isaac tries relentlessly to keep her from exploring paths too dark that would endanger them all. But a new threat is rising: the Medici’s presence has attracted something else to New Orleans…an older enemy, one that will bring Isaac’s haunted past to life, test the witches’ friendships, and jeopardize Adele and Isaac’s blossoming relationship.

In this spellbinding continuation of The Casquette Girls saga, Adele must draw on the past—from seventeenth-century Florence, a time bubbling with alchemy and fraternal betrayal—and sort history from fantasy if she is to have any chance of saving her mother, her coven, and her magic.

Proof of Lies (Anastasia Phoenix #1) by Diana Rodriguez Wallach #BookReview

  Some secrets are best kept hidden… 

Anastasia Phoenix has always been the odd girl out, whether moving from city to international city with her scientist parents or being the black belt who speaks four languages.

And most definitely as the orphan whose sister is missing, presumed dead.

She’s the only one who believes Keira is still alive, and when new evidence surfaces, Anastasia sets out to follow the trail—and lands in the middle of a massive conspiracy. Now she isn’t sure who she can trust. At her side is Marcus, the bad boy with a sexy accent who’s as secretive as she is. He may have followed her to Rome to help, but something about him seems too good to be true.

Nothing is as it appears, and when everything she’s ever known is revealed to be a lie, Anastasia has to believe in one impossibility.

She will find her sister.

#Fangirl with @Emily_R_King

I am die hard in love with this title! Its not out until June but I just cant stop thinking about it!! It was beyond the best book I've read this year. 

#BookReview: Forbidden Promises (The O'Malleys, #4) by Katee Robert

  New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Katee Robert delivers the next book in her sizzling O'Malleys family series, hailed as "The Godfather meets Romeo & Juliet." FORBIDDEN PROMISES features Sloan O'Malley and her mysterious new next-door neighbor, Jude MacNamara.

#BookReview #Giveaway: Royally Roma (The Royals #1) by @TeriWilsonauthr

  In this charming, modern retelling of the classic Audrey Hepburn film Roman Holiday, a royal prince tries to escape his hectic and rigid life and ends up leading a young graduate student on a chase through the Eternal City.

Julia Costa is too busy trying to complete her PhD while also holding down a full-time job as a private tour guide in Rome to keep up with celebrity gossip. So when she crosses paths with a real, actual prince, she mistakes him for a client and takes him on a daylong tour of the city.

Intrigued by the idea of spending time with someone who obviously has no idea who he is, and delighted at the prospect of a day free of royal obligations, Niccolo La Torre, Crown Prince of Lazaretto, acts on impulse and assumes the role of Julia’s client. He swears to himself that he’ll return to his royal duties after only half a day…but he’s having the time of his life.

Until Julia presents him with the bill. Since he snuck out of the hotel without so much as a dime, he tries to escape, only to discover that she won’t let him out of her sight until he can pay her back. She’s determined to get her money…and perhaps more from the handsome stranger she’s fallen for.

#BookReview of The Taking by @kimberlyderting

  A flash of white light . . . and then . . . nothing. 

When sixteen-year-old Kyra Agnew wakes up behind a Dumpster at the Gas ’n’ Sip, she has no memory of how she got there. With a terrible headache and a major case of déjà vu, she heads home only to discover that five years have passed . . . yet she hasn’t aged a day. 

Everything else about Kyra’s old life is different. Her parents are divorced, her boyfriend, Austin, is in college and dating her best friend, and her dad has changed from an uptight neat-freak to a drunken conspiracy theorist who blames her five-year disappearance on little green men. 

Confused and lost, Kyra isn’t sure how to move forward unless she uncovers the truth. With Austin gone, she turns to Tyler, Austin’s annoying kid brother, who is now seventeen and who she has a sudden undeniable attraction to. As Tyler and Kyra retrace her steps from the fateful night of her disappearance, they discover strange phenomena that no one can explain, and they begin to wonder if Kyra’s father is not as crazy as he seems. There are others like her who have been taken . . . and returned. Kyra races to find an explanation and reclaim the life she once had, but what if the life she wants back is not her own?

#WOW: #Reading with @LoriMLee & #Waiting for @pccastauthor & @KCastAuthor

\   I've been so busy with school (sadly) that getting through books has been waaaay too slow. I'm finally finished with The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi. Time to slowly move on to the rest of my TBR list. lol

#BookTour: Fanning The Flames (Going Down in Flames #4) by Chris Cannon

  Bryn McKenna has it all. Even though she’s a hybrid dragon, she’s finally fitting in the new shape-shifting dragon world that’s become her own. But her grandparent’s want to ruin everything by making Bryn’s nightmare of an arranged marriage to Jaxon Westgate a reality. It doesn’t help that Jaxon’s father is on a witch hunt for Rebel sympathizers and Bryn finds herself in his line of fire.

If she doesn’t say “I do,” she’ll lose everything. Good-bye flying. Good-bye best friends. Good-bye magic. But if she bends to her grandparents’ will and agrees to marry Jaxon she’ll lose the love of her life—her knight.

Unfolding by Jonathan Friesen #BookReview

  Jonah wishes he could get the girl, but he’s an outcast and she’s the most perfect girl he knows.

And their futures seemed destined to fork apart: Jonah’s physical condition is debilitating, and epileptic seizures fill his life with frustration. Whereas Stormi is seemingly carefree, and navigates life by sensing things before they happen. And her most recent premonition is urging her to leave town.

When Stormi begs Jonah for help, he finds himself swept into a dark mystery his small town has been keeping for years. And the answers Stormi needs about her own past could possibly destroy everything Jonah has ever known—including his growing relationship with Stormi herself.

Slightly South of Simple Kristy Woodson Harvey #BookReview

  From the next “major voice in Southern fiction” (New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand) comes the first in an all-new series chronicling the journeys of three sisters and their mother—and a secret from their past that has the potential to tear them apart and reshape their very definition of what it means to be a family.

Caroline Murphy swore she’d never set foot back in the small Southern town of Peachtree Bluff; she was a New York girl born and bred and the worst day of her life was when, in the wake of her father’s death, her mother selfishly forced her to move—during her senior year of high school, no less—back to that hick-infested rat trap where she'd spent her childhood summers. But now that her marriage to a New York high society heir has fallen apart in a very public, very embarrassing fashion, a pregnant Caroline decides to escape the gossipmongers with her nine-year-old daughter and head home to her mother, Ansley.

Ansley has always put her three daughters first, especially when she found out that her late husband, despite what he had always promised, left her with next to nothing. Now the proud owner of a charming waterfront design business and finally standing on her own two feet, Ansley welcomes Caroline and her brood back with open arms. But when her second daughter Sloane, whose military husband is overseas, and youngest daughter and successful actress Emerson join the fray, Ansley begins to feel like the piece of herself she had finally found might be slipping from her grasp. Even more discomfiting, when someone from her past reappears in Ansley's life, the secret she’s harbored from her daughters their entire lives might finally be forced into the open.

Exploring the powerful bonds between sisters and mothers and daughters, this engaging novel is filled with Southern charm, emotional drama, and plenty of heart.

#FirstPage with Catalyst (The Deception Game #1) by @Kristin Smith

This is one that was sent for review and I just fell in-love with the cover so much that I wanted to share the first page with you! 

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#Booktube with @beourguest for Beauty and the Beast

 

Make sure to join us and the millions of other fans of beauty and the beast this upcoming Friday for the live action Beauty and the Beast. Because we sure can't wait to see it! Be sure to check out the official trailer below!