Wednesday, April 16, 2014

#Wednesday Like This Try That: Shatter Me vs. Blackout


Thanks for coming and taking a look at our first Wednesday Like This Try That!
It took me a few to decide on which two books I should post for today.
Where Shatter Me is more for the girl crowed. Blackout is kinda more for the boys.  But they are both amazing books!  

#Review The Burning Dark by @GhostFinder #Published @torbooks

The Burning DarkAdam Christopher’s dazzling first novel, Empire State, was named the Best Book of 2012 by SciFi Now magazine. Now he explores new dimensions of time and space in The Burning Dark.

Back in the day, Captain Abraham Idaho Cleveland had led the Fleet into battle against an implacable machine intelligence capable of devouring entire worlds. But after saving a planet, and getting a bum robot knee in the process, he finds himself relegated to one of the most remote backwaters in Fleetspace to oversee the decommissioning of a semi-deserted space station well past its use-by date.

But all is not well aboard the U-Star Coast City. The station’s reclusive Commandant is nowhere to be seen, leaving Cleveland to deal with a hostile crew on his own. Persistent malfunctions plague the station’s systems while interference from a toxic purple star makes even ordinary communications problematic. Alien shadows and whispers seem to haunt the lonely corridors and airlocks, fraying the nerves of everyone aboard.

Isolated and friendless, Cleveland reaches out to the universe via an old-fashioned space radio, only to tune in to a strange, enigmatic signal: a woman’s voice that seems to echo across a thousand light-years of space. But is the transmission just a random bit of static from the past—or a warning of an undying menace beyond mortal comprehension?



Adam Christopher was born in Auckland, New Zealand. In 2006, he moved to the sunny North West of England, where he lives in domestic bliss with wife and cat in a house next to a canal. Adam’s short fiction has appeared in Pantechnicon, Hub, and Dark Fiction Magazine. Adam's debut novel, Empire State, is due from Angry Robot in January 2012.
Adam Christopher

When not writing Adam can be found drinking tea and obsessing over Dark Shadows, DC Comics, and 1960s Doctor Who. Adam is also very bad at ÊpÊe but knows that Thibault cancels out Capa Ferro, unless the enemy has studied his Agrippa. Which he has.



Although I had a few issues half way through the book. The book was still a good read.  It is deff one to keep an eye on while you are reading.  Or you might miss something. 

"*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."


Disclaimer: Thanks to Goodreads and Amazon for the book cover, about the book, and author information.

#Review of Minnie and Moo: Hooves of Fire by Denys Cazet #Published @CrestonBooks


Minnie and Moo: Hooves of FireThis title will be released July 15, 2014                      It's a perfect day for the First Annual Hoot, Holler, and Moo Talent Festival. The sun is shining in a warm autumn sky and the stage is set. Mr. and Mrs. Farmer are away on vacation, Minnie and Moo are dressed in their togas, Elvis has his bagpipe, the hyenas their jokes, the fox his magic tricks, the sheep a protest poem, and the cash box is stuffed with money from ticket sales. A perfect day. Wait a minute . . . Where is the cash box? Why are those coyotes on motorcycles? And who pushed those Porta Potties down the hill?

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

#TMITusday Negalley Reviews and More

Each week or bi week I will post an answer to a question.  Sometimes it will just be a post and others it will be a video. 
I have had a few people wanting me to do a video about how to post a review via Netgalley. 

#Review of The Rules For Breaking by @Ashley_Elston #Published @DisneyHyperion #Thanks @Netgalley


Anna Boyd almost lost her life to get what she wanted most in the world: freedom.
The Rules for Breaking (The Rules for Disappearing, #2)

But just when it seems that her family has finally escaped Witness Protection, the illusion that Anna could resume a normal life comes crashing down.

The deadly man Anna knows as Thomas is still on the loose, and now he's using her as a pawn in a dangerous game with the drug cartel determined to silence her forever. When Thomas and a mysterious masked man capture not only Anna but also her fragile younger sister and her boyfriend, Anna decides it's time to break all the rules-even if it means teaming up with the lesser of two evils.

Anna will do whatever it takes to protect the people she loves and win her life back once and for all. But her true enemies are hidden in plain sight. Before long, Anna will learn that putting her trust in anyone may be the last mistake she ever makes.

#Review of Curses and Smoke: A Novel of Pompeii by @valvearshecter @NetGalley

Curses and Smoke: A Novel of PompeiiThis title will be released on May 27, 2014.                 When your world blows apart, what will you hold onto?

TAG is a medical slave, doomed to spend his life healing his master's injured gladiators. But his warrior's heart yearns to fight in the gladiator ring himself and earn enough money to win his freedom.

LUCIA is the daughter of Tag's owner, doomed by her father's greed to marry a much older Roman man. But she loves studying the natural world around her home in Pompeii, and lately she's been noticing some odd occurrences in the landscape: small lakes disappearing; a sulfurous smell in the air. . . . 

When the two childhood friends reconnect, each with their own longings, they fall passionately in love. But as they plot their escape from the city, a patrician fighter reveals his own plans for them -- to Lucia's father, who imprisons Tag as punishment. Then an earthquake shakes Pompeii, in the first sign of the chaos to come. Will they be able to find each other again before the volcano destroys their whole world?

Monday, April 14, 2014

Join #ReadOn Q & A #Authors @dljensen_ & @lbcrompton @daniellempaige April 19 4pm EST. #Enter to #Win #Books RSVP: http://www.spreecast.com/events/q-a-danielle-jensen-laurie-crompton

This week we have a surprise for all of you!  We got Danielle Paige on the show! She is a drop in author of Dorothy Must Die that just released April 1.  
We also have Laurie Boyle Crompton author of Blaze as well as her new book The Real Prom Queens of Westfield High!  
As well as Danielle L. Jensen author of Stolen Songbird! 
Click the above button to be taken to the show! 
Make sure you RSVP NOW! 
There will be another post on Saturday with the Giveaway! 
Enter this Giveaway to win an Ecopy of one of these great books! All you have to do is RSVP!