#Nerdblast: Jigsaw Jones: The Case from Outer Space by James Preller @JeanBookNerd

  Jigsaw Jones is back! In this brand new, original mystery from James Preller, Jigsaw and his crew--Mila, Joey, and Danika--find a clue that implies an alien may be about to visit their school! Can it be true? And what does the Little Free Library have that aliens from outer space might want?

(Hint: The school librarian has invited a special guest to talk about space exploration--an astronaut!)

Friendship, mystery, and school-day shenanigans are what make the Jigsaw Jones chapter book mysteries beloved and read over and over. Includes a word jumble (names of planets in solar system), writing prompts, and information on how to start a little free library (which are taking hold in many parts of the country)! 

#CQWeek2017: Kasper Mützenmacher’s Cursed Hat (Life Indigo #1) by @KFentonmiller #Giveaway #BookReview @CuriosityQuills

Welcome to this year's #CQWeek were so excited to share these titles with you!  Here is the last review for this day! \  Check it out and don't forget to enter the giveaway and come back tomorrow for more! 

#CQWeek2017 Bleed Through by @AdriArrington #Giveaway #BookReview @CuriosityQuills

Welcome to the third post of today!  We hope that you enjoyed your time with us and we hope you love this cover!  Its just so simple but EPIC!! This one deals with mental illness and is a total thriller! Make sure to check out the giveaway below and check back tomorrow for another three posts! 

#AuthorInterview with @mscox_fiction #CQWeek2017 @CuriosityQuills #Giveaway

Today we have an interview with Mathew S. Cox who is the author of many books. 

#CQWeek2017: Dawn of the Vie (Immortal Aliens #1) by @DiamondLB #Giveaway #BookReview @CuriosityQuills

Welcome to this year's #CQWeek were so excited to share these titles with you!  Here is the first review for this week! We love this cover and the story was solid!  Check it out and don't forget to enter the giveaway and come back later for more! 

Welcome to #CQWeek2017! @CuriosityQuills #Giveaway

  Welcome to this year's #CQWeek! We are so excited to share each and every one of these titles with you.  Some of them we have read in the past and love that we have the chance to read it again!  These covers are just so GORGEOUS and we know that you will fall in love with each one!  

Its HERE! #CQWeek2017 Officially starts THIS SUNDAY!! @CuriosityQuills Check out all the authors!

We are so over joyed to be able to bring you another year of #CQWeek!  This year is going to be even better because we have some amazing interviews with these authors!  I really can't wait to dive into all of these books and to share them with you!  I know you will love them!! Make sure to follow along on twitter via the #CQWeek2017 for updates!   Get to know the authors below and make sure to give them a follow! 

#BookReview: Bad Romance by @HDemetrios

  Grace wants out. Out of her house, where her stepfather wields fear like a weapon and her mother makes her scrub imaginary dirt off the floors. Out of her California town, too small to contain her big city dreams. Out of her life, and into the role of Parisian artist, New York director—anything but scared and alone.

Enter Gavin: charming, talented, adored. Controlling. Dangerous. When Grace and Gavin fall in love, Grace is sure it's too good to be true. She has no idea their relationship will become a prison she's unable to escape. 

Deeply affecting and unflinchingly honest, this is a story about spiraling into darkness—and emerging into the light again.

#BookReview: Something Real (Something Real, #1) by @HDemetrios

  There’s nothing real about reality TV.

Seventeen-year-old Bonnie™ Baker has grown up on TV—she and her twelve siblings are the stars of one-time hit reality show Baker’s Dozen. Since the show’s cancellation and the scandal surrounding it, Bonnie™ has tried to live a normal life, under the radar and out of the spotlight. But it’s about to fall apart…because Baker’s Dozen is going back on the air. Bonnie™’s mom and the show’s producers won’t let her quit and soon the life she has so carefully built for herself, with real friends (and maybe even a real boyfriend), is in danger of being destroyed by the show. Bonnie™ needs to do something drastic if her life is ever going to be her own—even if it means being more exposed than ever before.

#BookBloggerHop: via @EveryFreeChance

 

This week’s question:

Do you ever go “way back” to when you first started blogging and look at your old review posts? Do you see any differences from then to now?

#BookReview: Exquisite Captive (Dark Caravan Cycle, #1) by @HDemetrios

  For fans of Laini Taylor’s Daughter of Smoke and Bone series and Leigh Bardugo’s Grisha Trilogy comes the first book in the Dark Caravan Cycle, a modern fantasy-adventure trilogy about a gorgeous, fierce eighteen-year-old jinni who is pitted against two magnetic adversaries, both of whom want her—and need her—to make their wishes come true.

Nalia is a jinni of tremendous ancient power, the only survivor of a coup that killed nearly everyone she loved. Now in hiding on the dark caravan—the lucrative jinni slave trade between Arjinna and Earth, where jinn are forced to grant wishes and obey their human masters’ every command—she’d give almost anything to be free of the golden shackles that bind her to Malek, her handsome, cruel master, and his lavish Hollywood lifestyle. Enter Raif, the enigmatic leader of Arjinna’s revolution and Nalia’s sworn enemy. He promises to release Nalia from her master so she can return to her ravaged homeland and free her imprisoned brother. There’s just one catch: for Raif’s unbinding magic to work, Nalia must gain possession of her bottle . . . and convince the dangerously persuasive Malek that she truly loves him.

#BookReview: I'll Meet You There by @HDemetrios

  If Skylar Evans were a typical Creek View girl, her future would involve a double-wide trailer, a baby on her hip, and the graveyard shift at Taco Bell. But after graduation, the only thing separating Skylar from art school is three months of summer…until Skylar’s mother loses her job, and Skylar realizes her dreams may be slipping out of reach.

Josh had a different escape route: the Marines. But after losing his leg in Afghanistan, he returns home, a shell of the cocksure boy he used to be.

What brings Skylar and Josh together is working at the Paradise—a quirky motel off California’s Highway 99. Despite their differences, their shared isolation turns into an unexpected friendship and, soon, something deeper.

Compelling and ultimately hopeful, this is a powerful examination of love, loss, and resilience.

My Week in Review #10: #BookEvents are coming! @HDemetrios #CQWeek2017 @CuriosityQuills

Man this past week has been crazy and yes I know this is posting on a Thursday and not a Sunday but there is a good reason for that. Its because I wanted to make sure you know what was coming!  

#BookReview: The One That Got Away by @melispim ‏@StMartinsPress

  A smart, funny, and modern retelling of Jane Austen's Persuasion, where a young woman comes face-to-face with a lost love, proving that the one that got away is sometimes the one you get back.

Ruby and Ethan were perfect for each other. Until the day they suddenly weren't.

Ten years later, Ruby's single, having spent the last decade focusing on her demanding career and hectic life in Manhattan. There's barely time for a trip to England for her little sister's wedding. And there's certainly not time to think about seeing Ethan there for the first time in years.

But as the family frantically prepare for the big day, Ruby can't help but wonder if she made the right choice all those years ago? Because there's nothing like a wedding for stirring up the past . . 

#BookTour: Killing Is My Business (Ray Electromatic Mysteries, #2) by @ghostfinder @JeanBookNerd @TorBooks

  A blend of science fiction and stylish mystery noir featuring a robot detective: the stand alone sequel to Made to Kill

Another golden morning in a seedy town, and a new memory tape for intrepid PI-turned-hitman--and last robot left in working order-- Raymond Electromatic. When his comrade-in-electronic-arms, Ada, assigns a new morning roster of clientele, Ray heads out into the LA sun, only to find that his skills might be a bit rustier than he expected....

Killing is My Business is the latest in Christopher's noir oeuvre, hot on the heels of the acclaimed Made to Kill.

"Robot noir in 60s Los Angeles? You had me at 'Hello.'" —John Scalzi, New York Times bestselling novelist on Made to Kill

#BookReview: Where Darkness Hides by Aaron Avari

  One Spirit separated into three parts. Trying to fight their way back together. Three brothers who have been separated by time and distance, trying everything they can to find their way back to each other. Their youngest brother Kyle is the key to all of them being a family again. His long journey to reconnect them is filled with danger and adventure.

#BookReview: Magpie's Song (IronHeart Chronicles) by @Allison_Pang @Netgalley

  In the slums of BrightStone, Moon Children are worth less than the scrap they must collect to survive. It doesn’t matter that these abandoned half-breeds are part-Meridian with their ancestors hailing from the technologically advanced city that floats above the once-thriving, now plague-ridden BrightStone. Instead they are rejected by both their ancestral societies and forced to live on the outskirts of civilization, joining clans simply to survive. Not to mention their role as Tithe, leading the city’s infected citizens deep into the Pits where their disease can be controlled.

Nineteen-year-old Raggy Maggy is no different, despite the mysterious heart-shaped panel that covers her chest. Or at least she wasn’t… Not until her chance discovery of a Meridian-built clockwork dragon—and its murdered owner. When the Inquestors policing the city find Maggy at the scene of the crime, she quickly turns into their prime suspect. Now she’s all anyone can talk about. Even her clan leader turns his back on her, leading her to rely on an exiled doctor and a clanless Moon Child named Ghost to keep her hidden. In return, all she has to do is help them find a cure for the plague they believe was not exactly accidental. Yet doing so might mean risking more than just her life. It also might be the only key to uncovering the truth about the parents—and the past—she knows nothing about. 

#BookTour: Bad Girl Gone by Temple Mathews

  Sixteen year-old Echo Stone awakens in a cold sweat in a dark room, having no idea where she is or how she got there. But she soon finds out she s in Middle House, an orphanage filled with mysteriously troubled kids.

There s just one problem: she s not an orphan. Her parents are very much alive.

She explains this to everyone, but no one will listen. After befriending a sympathetic (and handsome) boy, Echo is able to escape Middle House and rush home, only to discover it sealed off by crime scene tape and covered in the evidence of a terrible and violent crime. As Echo grapples with this world-shattering information, she spots her parents driving by and rushes to flag them down. Standing in the middle of street, waving her arms to get their attention, her parents car drives right through her.

She was right. Her parents are alive but she s not.

She s a ghost, just like all the other denizens of Middle House. Desperate to somehow get her life back and reconnect with her still-alive boyfriend, Echo embarks on a quest to solve her own murder. As the list of suspects grows, the quest evolves into a journey of self-discovery in which she learns she wasn t quite the girl she thought she was. In a twist of fate, she s presented with one last chance to reclaim her life and must make a decision which will either haunt her or bless her forever.

#WOW: @CLLFirestone & @MaryTaranta ‏

  Man this week is amazing! I can't believe I got so many books done and I can't wait for Shimmer and Burn! I mean just look at that cover! 

#BookReview: The Breakdown by @BAParisAuthor @StMartinsPress

  If you can’t trust yourself, who can you trust?

Cass is having a hard time since the night she saw the car in the woods, on the winding rural road, in the middle of a downpour, with the woman sitting inside―the woman who was killed. She’s been trying to put the crime out of her mind; what could she have done, really? It’s a dangerous road to be on in the middle of a storm. Her husband would be furious if he knew she’d broken her promise not to take that shortcut home. And she probably would only have been hurt herself if she’d stopped.

But since then, she’s been forgetting every little thing: where she left the car, if she took her pills, the alarm code, why she ordered a pram when she doesn’t have a baby.

The only thing she can’t forget is that woman, the woman she might have saved, and the terrible nagging guilt.

Or the silent calls she’s receiving, or the feeling that someone’s watching her…