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This week is the first post for our new BFF Blogger Follow Thursday!  This is a great way for new and old sites to get more activity!  Each week I will host a few bloggers and a giveaway!  If you would like to join all you need to do is click the above button.  It will take you to the form.

This week we have Jennifer from Hello Jenny Reviews.
My name is Jenn, I'm 24 and I love to read! I want to become a writer/editor some day, but for now I'm going to stick with writing reviews and learning as much as I can about Young Adult books.  You can follow Jenny at Twitter | Facebook | Website
Q and A with Jenny Where do you call home?  Maryland How long have you been a blogger?  A little over a year  What is the name of the book you most recently blogged about?  How did you rate this book? 

If you could ask the author 3 questions about this book, what would they be? Why did you choose to write in verse?
Do you personally read YA books?
Do you think Annaleah would have stayed the way she was if she hadn't et Ethan?

Was this a review book or something that you picked out to read?

If you were shipwrecked on a desert island what 3 books would you want with you and why?

These are my three favorite books that I know I could reread over and over again and be completely fine with it.  Do you prefer ebooks, paperbacks, or hardcovers? Paperbacks and Hardcovers  I love print books because they are easier to read and tend not to die like my kindle right now.  What book are you about to start?

What book do you know that you will never read? Why?
I will never read 

The Harry Potter series as it is just not my thing.
Name 3 of your favorite book covers? How many books do you read in a month? I tend to read around 6-15 books each month.  Name your 3 current book crushes: Chase Jennings (Article 5) | Warner (Shatter Me) | Lucus (Easy)

Thanks so much Jenny for coming on my site!  If you want to be featured next Thursday please click the button above!  

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{Review} The Geography of You and Me by @JenESmith {Published} @HachetteBooks

Lucy and Owen meet somewhere between the tenth and eleventh floors of a New York City 
apartment building, on an elevator rendered useless by a citywide blackout. After they're rescued, they spend a single night together, wandering the darkened streets and marveling at the rare appearance of stars above Manhattan. But once the power is restored, so is reality. Lucy soon moves to Edinburgh with her parents, while Owen heads out west with his father.

Lucy and Owen's relationship plays out across the globe as they stay in touch through postcards, occasional e-mails, and -- finally -- a reunion in the city where they first met.

A carefully charted map of a long-distance relationship, Jennifer E. Smith's new novel shows that the center of the world isn't necessarily a place. It can be a person, too.

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Jennifer E. Smith is the author of This Is What Happy Looks Like, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, The Storm Makers, You Are Here, and The Comeback Season. She earned a master's degree in creative writing from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and her work has been translated into twenty-nine languages.

Another great read by author Jennifer E. Smith.  I have all of her other books and I will deff. be buying this one.  This adorable book will challenge you on your thoughts of home.  Like the old saying goes ' You can never go home again ' this book will challage you to think more of the saying ' Home is where the heart is ' vs. where you are.  This is a great little book about showing you that home isn't where you are but who you are with. 

"*I received a copy of this book for free to review, this in no way influenced my review, all opinions are 100% honest and my own. OR I purchased the book on my own."

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{Blitz} Uncovering Cobbogoth by @hannieclark {Giveaway} @NereydaG1003

Uncovering Cobbogoth (Cobbogoth #1)

by Hannah L. Clark

Release Date: 05/13/14

Summary from Goodreads:

Norah Lukens needs to uncover the truth about the fabled lost city of Cobbogoth. After her archaeologist uncle’s murder, Norah is asked to translate his old research journal for evidence and discovers that his murder was a cover-up for something far more sinister.

When she turns to neighbor and only friend James Riley for help, she realizes that not only is their bitter-sweet past haunting her every step, but James is keeping dangerous secrets. Can Norah discover what they are before its too late to share her own.

About the Author

Hannah L. Clark is the author of the YA fantasy-adventure "Uncovering Cobbogoth." It is the first book in a planned 7 book series. It will be released by Cedar Fort Publishing on May 13, 2014.

Hannah lives in Pleasant Grove, UT with her husband and son.

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{Review} Deep Blue by @JenWritesBooks {Giveaway} @DisneyHyperion

The first in a series of four epic tales set in the depths of the ocean, where six mermaids seek to protect and save their hidden world.

Deep in the ocean, in a world not so different from our own, live the merpeople. Their communities are spread throughout the oceans, seas, and freshwaters all over the globe.

When Serafina, a mermaid of the Mediterranean Sea, awakens on the morning of her betrothal, her biggest worry should be winning the love of handsome Prince Mahdi. And yet Sera finds herself haunted by strange dreams that foretell the return of an ancient evil. Her dark premonitions are confirmed when an assassin's arrow poisons Sera's mother. Now, Serafina must embark on a quest to find the assassin's master and prevent a war between the Mer nations. Led only by her shadowy dreams, Sera searches for five other mermaid heroines who are scattered across the six seas. Together, they will form an unbreakable bond of sisterhood and uncover a conspiracy that threatens their world's very existence.

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Biography

My first childhood memories are of dad trying to get me to eat lima beans, and my mom telling me stories. I still won't eat lima beans, but the stories have stuck with me, and these days, I'm telling a few of my own.

I've written three novels so far: A Northern Light, The Tea Rose, The Winter Rose, and Humble Pie, a picture book for children.

My first novel, The Tea Rose, an epic set in London and New York in the late 19th century, was called 'exquisite' by Booklist, 'so much fun' by the Washington Post, a 'guilty pleasure' by People and was named a Top Pick by the Romantic Times.

My second novel, A Northern Light, set in the Adirondack Mountains of 1906, against the backdrop of an infamous murder, won the Carnegie Medal, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Borders Original Voices Award, and was named a Printz Honor book. Described as 'rich and true' by The New York Times, the book was named to the Best Book lists of The Times (London), The Irish Times, The Financial Times, Publishers Weekly, Booklist and the School Library Journal.

The Winter Rose, my third novel and the second book in the The Tea Rose trilogy, is out now in the United Kingdom and will be published in the United States in January 2008.

Humble Pie, illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Stephen Gammell, tells the story of a selfish little boy named Theo who ultimately gets his just desserts.

I live in New York's Hudson Valley with my husband, our daughter, and Hannibal Lecter, our snapping turtle, whom we love dearly, but from a distance.

I am so sorry for this one.  I have milked this book for two months.  Since I got it in the mail and after today I am sorry but I can't give it anymore time.  I was so excited to read this book.  It was about mermaids I mean I LOVE mermaids.  But, when I started reading. I found it a hard to follow story.  The author did a little to much word building.  As giving everything a new name.  And although I think some of it was find.  I just think it was a little over the top.  Which made the book very hard to follow.  Esp. when you have to go back or write down what every creature is called.  I found myself having to do just that. The other thing that was a turn off was the whinny heroin.  I just couldn't stand her.    So this one is a DNF for me.

"*I received a copy of this book for free to review, this in no way influenced my review, all opinions are 100% honest and my own. OR I purchased the book on my own."

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{Review} Witchfall by @VictoriaLamb1 {Published} @HarlequinTEEN

Her darkest dreams are coming true 

In Tudor England, 1555, Meg Lytton has learned how powerful her magick gift can be. But danger surrounds her and her mistress, the outcast Princess Elizabeth. Nowhere is safe in the court of Elizabeth's fanatical sister, Queen Mary. And as the Spanish Inquisition's merciless priests slowly tighten their grip on the court, Meg's very dreams are disturbed by the ever-vengeful witchfinder Marcus Dent. 

Even as Meg tries to use her powers to find guidance, something evil arises, impervious to Meg's spells and hungry to control England's fate. As Meg desperately tries to keep her secret betrothed, the Spanish priest Alejandro de Castillo, out of harm's way, caution wars with their forbidden desire. And with her most powerful enemy poised to strike, Meg's only chance is a heartbreaking sacrifice.

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Biography

Daughter of the bestselling novelist Charlotte Lamb, Victoria Lamb grew up in the Isle of Man off the north-west coast of England. There she enjoyed a vast library of books and a family of writers from which to take inspiration. She now lives with her own family in a three-hundred year old farmhouse on Cornwall's Bodmin Moor, where she walks every day and writes in a study overlooking fields of moorland ponies.

The Lucy Morgan series, beginning with The Queen's Secret, revolves around the intriguing life of Shakespeare's "Dark Lady of the Sonnets" and is set against the backdrop of theatrical London and the Elizabethan court.

Witchstruck is the first in the Tudor Witch trilogy published by Harlequin Teen in the States. It follows Meg Lytton, a teen witch in Tudor England struggling to serve the princess Elizabeth, imprisoned under suspicion of treason, and avoid the attentions of the witchfinder.

So many books these days suffer from book two suckitis.  I am glad that this one DIDNT! I wasn't to sure if I was really going to like Meg in book one. But I have to say that she won me over in book two.  She is just so interesting.  In this book two we have more deception, jealousy, heartache, and betrayal.  Fans of the show Reign and the Tudors will love this book even more.  I love how the magic use just blends so nicely with this story.  So if you love the supernatural and you love historical then this is deff the book for you.

"*I received a copy of this book for free to review, this in no way influenced my review, all opinions are 100% honest and my own. OR I purchased the book on my own."

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{Cover} Sleeping Jenny by @authoraubrie {Giveaway} @SpencerHillP

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ABOUT SLEEPING JENNY...

As the daughter of multimillionaires, Jennifer has everything she's ever needed, except time. Diagnosed with a form of incurable cancer, she has only months to live, and her dreams of working for National Geographic to save African elephants and polar bears are shattered. Her only hope is an experimental cryogenic freezing program, which will keep her in stasis until doctors can find a cure. The cure comes three hundred years too late, and she wakes to a futuristic world where animals are all but forgotten.

Descendants of her brother adopt her, and she's thrown back into high school. Exara, the class beauty, calls Jenny the Neanderthal girl, and she becomes more of a sideshow than a member of the senior class. Only Exara's gorgeous boyfriend, Maxim sympathizes with her. Her developing feelings for Maxim are only the beginning of her problems. There aren't any more animals to save, so Jenny involves herself with a rebel group called the Timesurfers, explorers searching the galaxy for another planet to inhabit to clone long-dead animal species. Soon, she must choose between her blossoming feelings for Maxim and her lifelong dream.

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Aubrie grew up watching the original Star Wars movies over and over again until she could recite and reenact every single scene in her backyard. She also loved The Goonies, Star Trek the Next Generation-favorite character was Data by far-, and Indiana Jones. But, her all time favorite movie was The Last Unicorn. She still wonders why the unicorn decided to change back to a unicorn in the end.

Aubrie wrote in her junior high yearbook that she wanted to be "A concert flutist" when she grew up. When she made that happen, she decided one career was not enough and embarked as a fantasy, sci fi author. Two careers seems to keep her busy. For now.

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{Review} Children of the Revolution by #PeterRobinson {Giveaway} @HarperCollins

Multiple award-winning, New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author Peter Robinson returns with a superb tale of mystery and murder that takes acclaimed British Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks back to the early 1970s-a turbulent time of politics, change, and radical student activism

"Robinson rolls out a police procedural with exquisite precision."-USA Today

The body of a disgraced college lecturer is found on an abandoned railway line. In the four years since his dismissal for sexual misconduct, he'd been living like a hermit. So where did he get the 5,000 pounds found in his pocket?

Leading the investigation, Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks begins to suspect that the victim's past may be connected to his death. Forty years ago the dead man attended a university that was a hotbed of militant protest and divisive, bitter politics. And as the seasoned detective well knows, some grudges are never forgotten-or forgiven. 

Just as he's about to break the case open, his superior warns him to back off. Yet Banks isn't about to stop, even if it means risking his career. He's certain there's more to the mystery than meets the eye . . . and more skeletons to uncover before the case can finally be closed.

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Biography

Peter Robinson's award-winning novels have been named a Best-Book-of-the-Year by Publishers Weekly, a Notable Book by the New York Times, and a Page-Turner-of-the-Week by People magazine. Robinson was born and raised in Yorkshire but has lived in North America for over twenty-five years. He now divides his time between North America and the U.K. 

Well this is the first book that I have read by this author. And although this is book 21 in the Inspector Banks series I didn't feel that I missed out on to much. I loved the setting of Yorkshire, England.  The story was very good the characters interesting and the ending was even better as there was no cliff hanger and everything was tied up pretty well.  This is a fast to start crime novel that will grab the reader with a finely tunes plot that they will find is hard to put down.

"*I received a copy of this book for free to review, this in no way influenced my review, all opinions are 100% honest and my own."

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