#BookSubscription: @UppercaseBox November @lkblackburne #Giveaway

Welcome to our second posting of the Book Subscription Boxes!  This Sunday we have the November Uppercasebox which is based here in Florida.  Sadly my book was slightly damaged and they were kind enough to send a replacement.  So all the better for you because now you get a chance to win a slightly damaged book but a book none the less! 

#BookReview: Layover by Amy Andelson, Emily Meyer

Publisher:  Crown Books for Young Readers

Number of Pages: 272

Fiction Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary 

How I Acquired this book: Netgalley 

Time it took to read: 3H 2M

Overall rating: ★★
Goodreads | Amazon

About the Book:
Flynn: At first we were almost strangers. But ever since I moved to New York, Amos was the one person I could count on. And together we were there for Poppy. (I mean, what kind of parents leave their kid to be raised by a nanny?) I just didn’t expect to fall for him—and I never expected him to leave us.

Amos: I thought I was the only one who felt it. I told myself it was because we were spending so much time together—taking care of Poppy and all. But that night, I could tell she felt it, too. And I freaked out—you’re not supposed to fall for your stepsister. So I ran away to boarding school. I should have told her why I was leaving, but every time I tried, it felt like a lie.

One missed flight was about to change their lives forever….

#BookReview: Little Computer People by Galen Surlak-Ramsey

Publisher:  Tiny Fox Press LLC

Number of Pages: 266

Fiction Genre: Adult, Science Fiction

How I Acquired this book: Sponsored 

Time it took to read: 3H 1M

Overall rating: ★★★★
Goodreads | Amazon

About the Book:
Gabe Erikson has created the world’s first sentient program. Calling her Pi, he loves her like a daughter. He delights in her intelligence and curiosity, and he sees her as the most beautiful thing since 256-color graphics.

Pi, however, only relates to the binary world. Through bad luck and bad logic, she concludes Gabe is a hostile program and decides to erase him. Pi begins hacking the Web, trying to find his location. By the time Gabe realizes what she’s doing and unplugs her modem, she’s already attracted the attention of the FBI.

Sure, Gabe could hand Pi over to the Feds to avoid prison and get a huge payday, but he refuses give up his only daughter, no matter how ornery she is. He’s convinced the sweet program he created is still there, trapped under a mountain of rotten code, and he’ll risk everything to bring her back. 

#StackingTheShelves #49

This week Stacking the Shelves post is going to be fairly short.  This past week I injured my shoulder and I am not supposed to be typing at all. But I had to get college work done so that didn't happen.  I can fully say that speech to text SUCKS!!  I was in the ER for almost 4 hours and then finally got some relief. Currently, I am just trying to read as much as I can so I can catch up on what I have missed via books.  So far it has been going pretty well. 

This week I have done: 
DNFed 5 Books  1-  4-star review 
And that is pretty much it.  I hope to get even more done by the end of today. 

#BookReview: Haven by Mary Lindsey

Publisher: Entangled Publishing

Number of Pages: 371

Fiction Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy 

How I Acquired this book: Publisher

Time it took to read: DNF

Overall rating: ★
Goodreads | Amazon

About the Book:
"We all hold a beast inside. The only difference is what form it takes when freed."

Rain Ryland has never belonged anywhere, He’s used to people judging him for his rough background, his intimidating size, and now, his orphan status. He’s always been on the outside, looking in, and he’s fine with that. Until he moves to New Wurzburg and meets Friederike Burkhart.

Freddie isn’t like normal teen girls, though. And someone wants her dead for it. Freddie warns he’d better stay far away if he wants to stay alive, but Rain’s never been good at running from trouble. For the first time, Rain has something worth fighting for, worth living for. Worth dying for. 

(Former title: Hide from Me.)

#BookReview: The Tombs by Deborah Schaumberg

Publisher: HarperTeen

Number of Pages: 448

Fiction Genre: Young Adult, Historical 

How I Acquired this book: Edelweiss 

Time it took to read: 6H 23M

Overall rating: ★★★
Goodreads | Amazon

About the Book:
Gangs of New York meets Cassandra Clare in this debut YA fantasy set in 1882 Brooklyn

New York, 1882. A dark, forbidding city, and no place for a girl with unexplainable powers.

Sixteen-year-old Avery Kohl pines for the life she had before her mother was taken. She fears the mysterious men in crow masks who locked her mother in the Tombs asylum for being able to see what others couldn’t. Avery denies the signs in herself, focusing instead on her shifts at the ironworks factory and keeping her inventor father out of trouble. Other than secondhand tales of adventure from her best friend, Khan, an ex-slave, and caring for her falcon, Seraphine, Avery spends her days struggling to survive.

Like her mother’s, Avery’s powers refuse to be contained. When she causes a bizarre explosion at the factory, she has no choice but to run from her lies, straight into the darkest corners of the city. Avery must embrace her abilities and learn to wield their power—or join her mother in the cavernous horrors of the Tombs. And the Tombs has secrets of its own: strange experiments are being performed on “patients”…and no one knows why.

#BookBoxWarriors: January Boxes theme is Space Travel

👽🚀We are so excited to share our first box with you! The theme for January is Space Travel! 

It’s time to catch a spaceship and travel the galaxy! 

The January ‘Space Travel’ Box will feature items inspired by the planets and space itself! 

This month’s book is one that we personally 💗 and couldn’t put down and we know you won’t be able to either! 

This book is from a best selling author as well as someone else known within the bookish community!

 We know you're going to love it! 

The January Box is available for pre order right now!!

 It is $50 with shipping within the USA and will ship out by the 20th of January! 

Get yours NOW!! All boxes are a one time purchase! 

#BookReview: Nearly Gone (Nearly Gone #1) by Elle Cosimano

Publisher: Kathy Dawson Books

Number of Pages: 386

Fiction Genre: Young Adult, Mystery

How I Acquired this book: Amazon

Time it took to read: DNF

Overall rating: ★
Goodreads | Amazon

About the Book:
He revved the engine and I held tight with both hands as the bike lurched forward, We zoomed down streets, leaning into the curves, wind whipping over me. I pressed into his back until all I could smell was the leather tang of his jacket, and all I could taste was the sweet thrill of flying away.

Keeping secrets is second nature to Nearly Boswell. Living in a trailer park outside Washington, DC, with a mom who works as an exotic dancer, she knows better than to share anything that would make her a target with her classmates. Only her best friends know about her obsession with the personal ads, and Nearly hasn't told anyone about the emotions she can taste when she brushes against someone's skin.

Then a serial killer goes on a murder spree and starts attacking students, leaving cryptic ads in the newspaper. Nearly might be the one person who can put all the clues together, and if she doesn't figure it out soon - she'll be next.

Big, dark, scary, and brilliantly plotted, Nearly Gone will leave you guessing until the very end.

#BookReview: If There's No Tomorrow by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Publisher: Harlequin Teen

Number of Pages: 384

Fiction Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary

How I Acquired this book: Review & Library

Overall rating: ★
Goodreads | Amazon

About the Book:

Lena Wise is always looking forward to tomorrow, especially at the start of her senior year. She's ready to pack in as much friend time as possible, to finish college applications and to maybe let her childhood best friend Sebastian know how she really feels about him. For Lena, the upcoming year is going to be epic—one of opportunities and chances. 

Until one choice, one moment, destroys everything. 

Now Lena isn't looking forward to tomorrow. Not when friend time may never be the same. Not when college applications feel all but impossible. Not when Sebastian might never forgive her for what happened. 

For what she let happen. 

With the guilt growing each day, Lena knows that her only hope is to move on. But how can she move on when her and her friends' entire existences have been redefined? How can she move on when tomorrow isn't even guaranteed?

#BookReview: Losing It (Losing It #1) by Cora Carmack

Publisher: HarperCollins

Number of Pages: 189

Fiction Genre: New Adult, Contemporary

How I Acquired this book: BookOutlet

Time it took to read: DNF

Overall rating: ★
Goodreads | Amazon

About the Book:
Sick of being the only virgin among her friends, Bliss Edwards decides the best way to deal with the problem is to lose it as quickly and simply as possible - a one-night stand. But her plan turns out to be anything but simple when she freaks out and leaves a gorgeous guy alone and naked in her bed with an excuse that no one with half-a-brain would ever believe. And as if that weren't embarrassing enough, when she arrives for her first class of her last college semester, she recognizes her new theatre professor. She'd left him naked in her bed about 8 hours earlier.

#HarryPotter #MoTW: What's a word or expression from the books/movies that you use in every day life?

Hello and welcome to our Harry Potter Moment of the Week! This meme is hosted by Uncorked Thoughts!  This weeks topic is 

What's a word or expression from the books/movies that you use in every day life?

#BookReview: Sweet Revenge: Passive-Aggressive Desserts for Your Exes & Enemies by Heather Kim @BookishHQ #SweetRevenge

Publisher: Switch Press

Number of Pages: 224

Fiction Genre: Cookbook

How I Acquired this book: BookishFirst

Time it took to read: 2H 4M

Overall rating: ★★★★★
Goodreads | Amazon

About the Book:
50+ killer cakes, cookies, and candies for your exes and enemies. Dumped by your beefcake boyfriend? BFF steal your one-and-only? Lab partner a more-than-periodic no-show? Don't take these battles online. (Seriously, don't do that, okay?). Get out your heaviest rolling pins, sharpest cleavers, and most blistering torches, and kill your enemies and exes . . . with kindness. That's right - bake that loser ex a pan of Go Fudge Yourself. Gift your former friend a You're the Devil Cake. And give that annoying admirer a Donut Call Me Again. Let them taste your over-them happiness and see what comes next . . . Pastry chef and tattoo artist Heather Kim serves up sinfully delicious recipes and bittersweet advice.

#WOW with @CoraCarmack & #AlexRKahler

This week we have a little different WOW post. So both of these books are currently out but I so cant wait for them.  This will be only my second Cora Carmack title and as for the the other one it LOOKS AMAZING!! I am just waiting until I can find it on discount as were kinda trying to save money this month as much as possible. 

(#CoverReveal) Tuesday's at Six by @kjlewisbooks

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: January 9, 2018

Cover Designer: Kj Lewis & K Yarwood 

Amazon | Goodreads

About the Book: To say his life has been turned upside down would be laughable at best. 

 In a business where people's livelihoods depend on the decisions he makes every day, Walt Nelson never wanted a life built around anyone but himself. With a fiancée equally versed in self-centeredness, he is living the life he created, until the call that changed everything. Forty-eight hours later, he buried his best friend and became the guardian of his two daughters. 

 Forced to admit his life is no longer just about him, he hires his brother's personal assistant in a moment of desperation. His goal, to survive this new normal until he can arrange a boarding school for the girls.

  The last ten years have kept Samantha Abbott in an endless cycle of regret and sorrow as she slowly rebuilt a life she never wanted- a life alone. When her boss's brother offers her a job that solves her money troubles, her only goal is to put her past behind her. What she gets is a head-on collision between a loss she has yet to survive and a love she doesn’t think she deserves.

#BookReview: Flame in the Mist (Flame in the Mist, #1) by Renee Ahdieh #YABC

This month's title was Flame in the Mist by Renee Ahdieh and I can say how excited I was to dive right in! This book also came from the Fairyloot box a few months ago. So again it made it high on my expectation list! 

#Top10Tuesday: Ten #BookishSettings I'd Love to Visit

This week its all about Bookish Settings!! So here is our list of 10 places we would love to visit!  Man this was a lot easier than I thought it was going to be.  What are yours?  We want to know yours in the comments!! We cant wait to see what you choose!! 

Happy New Year #Sponsor Sign Ups are Open! #Giveaway

Welcome to our first ever sponsored gift card or paypal cash giveaway!  This will be open to join until Dec. 31st.  The total amount of winnings will be added to the banner at the end of Dec. 31st.  The idea of this giveaway is to help get your name, book, website, blog, or social media account out there to more people.  Each spot on the rafflecopter costs $15. And you may add up to three different entries. This way we do not have a giveaway with over 1000 ways to follow. I have noticed in the past that if the people who are entering the giveaway have to jump through a million hoops we don't get as well of a turn out. 

Bloggers Wanted

We are once again looking for some extra help! The below has been thoroughly updated with the new parameters that we are looking for. 

At this time this is only open to those who live in the US Only.

We're currently looking for 1-3 people

Co-Bloggers 1. You must be able to learn how to create a post.  2.  You must be able to keep in contact with me weekly at the least. Via Facebook messenger and the group.  3.  You need to be able to complete at minimum 7 books. However, you will have 8 weeks in advance to complete. (you may do more if you like)  4. During your week you must be able to do all posts. This will include at least 2 reviews and 1 meme post a day.  5. You must have all posts done in advance (at least 2 weeks before they are due to post) 
Cost Yes, there is a cost.  There is a sign-up cost, to start. This fee will cover a Kindle that will be signed into our Amazon account. This will give you access to all books downloaded via NetGalley, Edelweiss, and other sites. 
This Kindle is yours to keep.  The reason we do this is that the Kindle will be locked out for purchases.  (in the event you decide to leave us I can remotely remove the Kindle from our account) 
All site fees are split via all reviewers. This amount will not change! We have set up a flat fee for each month. This fee covers, giveaways, shipping, etc.  And will be due by the second week of each month via PayPal friends and family (so there is no fee)  Current costs:  To Start: $70.00 to start this will cover the cost Kindle that will be logged in to our account and shipped to you.  Monthly: $30 this covers shipping, covers the cost of buying prizes, site costs (pic monkey, etc. ), etc.  Books

Although we accept books in Audio, eBook, and Print formats.  You will have the choice each month on the books you review.  Each book will have a deadline. So please make sure you keep that in mind when you request the titles. If you choose print book, you will need to cover shipping books to you via flat rate.

Benefits 

You will get to work with bookish people, publishers, etc.
You will be able to use the site name to obtain review copies on your own.
You will get to make friends in the bookish community.
You will also have the chance to get ARC's and other books before they are released.  (however, this should not be the only reason to join.)

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Currently Looking for:
Reviewers who love audiobooks, LGBT, and Erotica

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#BookRecommendations: All That Glows (All That Glows #1) by @RyanGraudin

This week we have an oldie but a goodie!! This is one of my all-time favorite duologies that I wish was a large series. If you haven't tried this one you should.