{Blitz} Being Hartley by @allison_rushby {Hosted} @NereydaG1003

Being Hartley

by Allison Rushby

Release Date: 11/2013

Summary from Goodreads:

Fifteen-year-old Thea Wallis was born to entertain. Her mother, Oscar winning actress Cassie Hartley, thinks differently and has kept her daughter out of the spotlight since day one. Coming from showbiz royalty, it hasn't been easy to go unnoticed, but mismatched surnames, a family home in Tasmania and a low-key scriptwriter father has made this possible.

Just like her cousin Rory on the hugely popular TV show Saturday Morning Dance, Thea loves to dance. She learns the show's routines off by heart each week, despite her mother's attempts to convince her that dentistry would be a far more fulfilling career choice.

However, when Rory goes off the rails in LA, Thea's mother is suddenly left with no choice at all – Rory needs them and to LA they must go. Within forty-eight hours, Thea finds herself a long way from Tasmania and living her dream – on the road to Las Vegas with the Saturday Morning Dance team.

It doesn't take long before Thea's talents are discovered and she's offered everything she's ever wanted on a plate, including the dance partner she's had a crush on forever. But, as her mother has always told her, Hollywood dreams come at a price. Thea soon realizes she will have to work out just how much she's willing to pay. And, ultimately, discover her own way to be Hartley.

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About the Author

Allison Rushby is the Australian author of a whole lot of books. She is crazy about Mini Coopers, Devon Rex cats, Downton Abbey and corn chips. You can often find her procrastinating on Twitter at @Allison_Rushby or on Facebook.  That is, when she’s not on eBay, or Etsy, or any other place she can shop in secret while looking like she’s writing…

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{Review} Divergent by @VeronicaRoth @EpicReads {Giveaway}

In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue--Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is--she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.

During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are--and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, Tris also learns that her secret might help her save the ones she loves . . . or it might destroy her.

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Biography

Veronica Roth was born in a Chicago suburb, and studied creative writing at Northwestern University. She and her husband currently live in the city that inspired the setting of the Divergent Trilogy.

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#1 in Books > Teens

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So for some reason I think that I had read a really bad review online and decided that the Divergent Series just wasn't for me. Well man was I wrong!  I an never reading another review if I have to read the book because, I know wonder how many really Great books I've missed out on.

Divergent was so different from anything Ive read.  This series is definitely one of a kind. And I loved it!  Tris grows so much in this book!  She starts out as a teen that is scared of herself and turns into a wonderful wonderful woman who doesn't take anyones crap.  Four/Tobis was also a great character and I felt so stupid that I didn't put two and two together at the very start.  As of course I have heard all the stuff about this series via the third book coming out and of course the movie.  So I don't know where my brain was as I didn't see that twist coming.  I was WTF!

I love the fact that I didn't finish this book back when I first had it as I would have had to wait all that time to read the next two and now I can speed read my way through them all. Yippy for me (sorry guys who had to wait I feel your pain with The One by Cass)

So this one was deff. a 5 stars for me.


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I really hope you guys love this giveaway!   Its for two tickets to see Divergent when it comes out via Fandango!  As well as one paperback movie tie in edition of the book!  Fandango doesn't any ties to this giveaway 

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So I broke down and just grabbed a little 11 inch MacBook Air and let me tell you this thing is LITTLE!!  But its ok!  It just makes it more portable. 

{Review} House of Ivy & Sorrow by @nataliewhipple {Published} @HarperTeen

Josephine Hemlock has spent the last 10 years hiding from the Curse that killed her mother. But when a mysterious man arrives at her ivy-covered, magic-fortified home, it’s clear her mother’s killer has finally come to destroy the rest of the Hemlock bloodline. Before Jo can even think about fighting back, she must figure out who she’s fighting in the first place. The more truth Jo uncovers, the deeper she falls into witchcraft darker than she ever imagined. Trapped and running out of time, she begins to wonder if the very Curse that killed her mother is the only way to save everyone she loves.

This title will be released on April 15, 2014.




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Natalie Whipple, sadly, does not have any cool mutations like her characters. Unless you count the ability to watch anime and Korean dramas for hours on end. Or her uncanny knack for sushi consumption.

She grew up in the Bay Area and relocated to Utah for high school, which was quite the culture shock for her anime-loving teen self. But the Rocky Mountains eventually won her over, and she stuck around to earn her degree in English linguistics at BYU. Natalie still lives in Utah with her husband and three kids, and keeps the local Asian market in business with all her attempts to cook Thai curry, Pho, and “real” ramen.

This one is Witchy!! It will knock off you witchy socks!!  There was very few things I didn't like about this one.  The main thing was about all magic being dark and bad and that it was up to the witch to control it or be consumed by it.  Although I do understand that take on it I do not agree with it.  Ive been pagan for almost 30 years lol.  (sorry for the rant)  But even with that I loved this book!! So glad that I got to read it!!



This book is for those who love twisting, turning, creepy, magical stories!  This one will keep you reading until the last page and you will fall in love with everything about it!  I loved it and the cover! So go read it!  Oops sorry it doesn't come out until April!  Ok go pre-order it and drool and whine until it comes!


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{Review} Beyond the Door by @maureenmcquerry {Giveaway} @ABRAMSbooks

When mythical creatures appear, a mystery of unparalleled proportions begins to unfold for Timothy, his sister Sarah, and school bully Jessica, who must defeat the powers of the Darkness.

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Biography

Maureen decided she wanted to be a writer when she was six. If that failed she wanted to be a detective. Poetry was her doorway into fiction writing.

Fiction includes: The Peculiars (Abrams/Amulet 2012) A YASLA and Bank Street best book, and the Time Out of Time duet: Beyond the Door, May (Abrams 2014) and The Stone of Destiny.

This one was very cute.  Not only does the reader give you a great story.  She also teaches you how to translate Ogham into English.  Although not the traditional way but a way that you could use it as a secret code with friends.  I did this with Runes when I was in High School.  It was really fun and if anyone got a hold of the note book no one would know what you were doing.  This one is deff worth the read!


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{Review} Summer of Yesterday by #GabyTriana @SimonPulse

This title will be released on June 17, 2014

Back to the Future meets Fast Times at Ridgemont High when Haley’s summer vacation takes a turn for the retro in this totally rad romantic fantasy.

Summer officially sucks. Thanks to a stupid seizure she had a few months earlier, Haley’s stuck going on vacation with her dad and his new family to Disney’s Fort Wilderness instead of enjoying the last session of summer camp back home with her friends. Fort Wilderness holds lots of childhood memories for her father, but surely nothing for Haley. But then a new seizure triggers something she’s never before experienced—time travel—and she ends up in River Country, the campground’s long-abandoned water park, during its heyday.

The year? 1982.

And there—with its amusing fashion, “oldies” music, and primitive technology—she runs into familiar faces: teenage Dad and Mom before they’d even met. Somehow, Haley must find her way back to the twenty-first century before her present-day parents anguish over her disappearance, a difficult feat now that she’s met Jason, one of the park’s summer residents and employees, who takes the strangely dressed stowaway under his wing.

Seizures aside, Haley’s used to controlling her life, and she has no idea how to deal with this dilemma. How can she be falling for a boy whose future she can’t share?

This was a cool book! No I'm not saying that because I was born in 1982........ ok maybe a little!  This one didn't disappoint one bit!  It was a wonderful middle school book if you ask me.  It was cute and wonderful. This author is just so amazing I have the fortune to meet her last year in Tampa!  (Wish I would have had enough money to get her books lol)


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{Update} Computer Issues

Well it seems that my poor computer is going to give me issues again ugh.  Double Ugh.  So the poor thing is going in this coming Sunday.  I want to make sure that everyone knows what is going on.  So if you peek at the calendar you will see the I have nothing scheduled for Feb 23-28th this is a caution just in case.  I moved everything to the first week in March.  

We have our first Read On at 4pm on March 8th and Book Babble at 6pm If by chance I do not have the computer back by then (really don't want that to happen)  I have already emailed the authors about moving them to the 15th.  

I am in the process of getting a second computer so if this one dies on me I have a back up.  So its just a work in progress.