Princess of the Silver Woods

Title: Princess of the Silver Woods
Author: Jessica Day George
Pages: 336


My Review: 5 Stars

When I requested this on Netgalley I didnt relaize that it was a book three.  So after reading the first two books. Which now that I think about I haven't done the reviews for that one.  lol. Bad reviewer. This one was great. I love the cover! So spooky and pretty!  I do state that you should read book one and two before you read this one. 

"*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."

Thanks to Netgalley and Bloomsbury for the review copy! 

Book Description

Publication Date: December 11, 2012 | Series: Twelve Dancing Princesses

When Petunia, the youngest of King Gregor's twelve dancing daughters, is invited to visit an elderly friend in the neighboring country of Westfalin, she welcomes the change of scenery. But in order to reach Westfalin, Petunia must pass through a forest where strange two-legged wolves are rumored to exist. Wolves intent on redistributing the wealth of the noble citizens who have entered their territory. But the bandit-wolves prove more rakishly handsome than truly dangerous, and it's not until Petunia reaches her destination that she realizes the kindly grandmother she has been summoned to visit is really an enemy bent on restoring an age-old curse. The stories of Red Riding Hood and Robin Hood get a twist as Petunia and her many sisters take on bandits, grannies, and the new King Under Stone to end their family curse once and for all.

About the Author

JESSICA DAY GEORGE is the author of Princess of Glass and Princess of the Midnight Ball as well as three novels in the Dragon Slippers series, andTuesdays at the Castle. Originally from Idaho, she studied at Brigham Young University and was a movie store clerk, a bookseller, and a school office lady before becoming a writer. www.jessicadaygeorge.com

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Biography

It's all about the books. Friends, family, school, "real jobs", they were just obstacles to be tackled so that I could return to my true love: books. All I have ever wanted in this world is to read and write books. My criteria for choosing a purse is that it must be able to fit a paperback book inside. I took books on my honeymoon, and bought more while we were there. I picked my major because it looked like I would get to read a lot of books, and also I thought it would provide me with interesting background information for my own books (which it did). From the time I was twelve on up, I told people that I wanted to be a writer. When they said, "So, you'll teach and then maybe try to write a book?" I would just shake my head. No, I was a writer, and that was all I wanted to do. So over the years until I got published, I lived in Idaho, in New Jersey and Delaware, and in Utah, because it didn't matter. I could read and write anywhere. I've worked at a wedding invitation factory (Bet you didn't know they made them in big scary factories, did you?), at a video store (back at the birth of DVD), at libraries and bookstores, and even been an office lady at a school while I waited to get published. I knew that I would be published eventually, because . . . well, I just had to be.

Now, don't get me wrong, I have other interests. I took eight years of German, four of Norwegian, and even studied Old Norse so that I could read the great Viking sagas in the original language. I knit like a maniac: hats, scarves, sweaters, dog sweaters, socks, felted purses, you name it. I play the piano and viola, love to travel and to watch movies.

But mostly, it's about the books.

Visit Jessica at http://www.JessicaDayGeorge.com

Monday Note

• Finished:
• The Critter Club
• Demon's Cure
• My Invented Life
• The Rebels of New Sun
• This is How I Save My Life
• Forbidden Sister
• Darker Still
• Twisted Tragedy
• Pure
• Fuse
• Hysteria
• The Goddess Inheritance
• Stating
• Pivot Point
• Dance of Shadows
• Dualed
• Jack Templar
• Daynight
• Warm Bodies
• TBR
• Beautiful Creatures
• Snow White and the Queen of Mayhem
• The Girl's Guide the Love and Supper Clubs
• Winger
• The Murmuring
• Poison
• The Duff Series
• Elixir
• Devoted
• Ture
• Doll Bones
• The Host
• And the list goes on, and on, and on, and on...........................................................

Followers Giveaway!

Ok so it seems that I will be at 700 followers soon.  And ill be at 800 in no time.  So instead of having just one big giveaway!  I decided why not have one every time I reach a new milestone.   

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If You Have A Craving, I Have A Cure

My Review:

I grabbed this one because of the recipes. I love to cook and now that we're living on our own (instead of with family) we have full range over the kitchen. So this month I will be trying a lot of the recipes from the book.  So don't just cure your craving for food! Have fun and cure your craving for life, health, and spirituality!   

I wanted to make a side note.  That although this book is made to be Christian it can work for any religion.  Just switch the deities to your own and your good to go! 

"*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."

Book Description

Publication Date: December 20, 2012

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Tyndale Momentum (December 20, 2012)

Life can be hard . . . but food, faith, and fun are three amazing gifts from God to satisfy and refresh us every day. Yet all too often, we focus primarily on what we can not do, and what we should not eat—which leaves us feeling deprived and depressed. Instead of being energized by following Christ, we waste our days feeling bored and burnt-out on our faith, while battling the guilt that comes from craving the food that we love. In If You Have a Craving, I Have a Cure, best-selling author and speaker Sheri Rose Shepherd encourages you to embark on a new adventure with faith and food. She reveals the food coaching tips that enabled her to lose over 50 pounds and keep it off, and shares fun recipes in celebration of the healthy, delicious food our God created for us to enjoy. It’s time to let go of guilt, grab hold of grace, and recapture the life God craves for us to live! “Taste and see that the Lord is good. Oh, the joys of those who take refuge in him!” (Psalm 34:8)

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HOP: Clean Your Shelf

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Ok so this one is something that I have an extra copy of laying around.  This book was so cute and it is now out.  This ARC is a SIGNED COPY!! And has never been read so it looks very nice. 

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Thursday Thoughts: Reviews?

Every time I do a review I wonder what I should put with it.  Currently I add the following:

1. Book Cover:  via HTML from Amazon
2. About the book
3. About the Author
4. Links to buy book via: Amazon, BAM, BN
5. My Review
6. My Rating
7. Note thanking the publisher/author for sending me the book
8. Note that the review is 100% my honest opinion.  
9. Links to the author stuff if given

I always wonder if I should ad something else.  But in the end doing the following takes me around 2-5 minutes. So not long at all.  Do any of you add anything else to your post?  

I am on the look out for Bloggers to Blog on my Blog (say that three times fast) If you would like to submit a topic for discussion please fill out the form below.  With the discussion I will also post a link to your site.  So you get more traffic yay!!!  

Another Look At Under The Never Sky

Updated Review:  1/3/13

Reading this book for the second time was a joy!  I remembered things I had forgotten and loved the story even more. I think in this series I love Roar he is the witty comedian in this book and he brings a light to a serious story. Aria found herself in a place where she thought she would die and became the woman that she always was. I so love this series. Come back tomorrow for my review of book 2 out this month. Through The Ever Night. 

 My Review from 1/16/12

Ok first off I thought this book was WAY SLOW!  It was good but all the really good stuff started around 200 pages in.  So the last 100 pages was all the REALLY GOOD STORY!

Ok so Aria is a great character and so is Perry!  I fell in love with Roar he is such a great friend and more.

This book takes us on a wild ride under a never sky that can kill you in a heat beat.

This book is told in two pov  that of Aria and Perry and it works out great!  I was kinda mad on where it ended it left at a somewhat big cliffhanger but thats fine.  I hope that the next book is out soon.

Book Description

Publication Date: January 3, 2012

Since she’d been on the outside, she’d survived an Aether storm, she’d had a knife held to her throat, and she’d seen men murdered. This was worse.

Exiled from her home, the enclosed city of Reverie, Aria knows her chances of surviving in the outer wasteland—known as The Death Shop—are slim. If the cannibals don’t get her, the violent, electrified energy storms will. She’s been taught that the very air she breathes can kill her. Then Aria meets an Outsider named Perry. He’s wild—a savage—and her only hope of staying alive.

A hunter for his tribe in a merciless landscape, Perry views Aria as sheltered and fragile—everything he would expect from a Dweller. But he needs Aria’s help too; she alone holds the key to his redemption. Opposites in nearly every way, Aria and Perry must accept each other to survive. Their unlikely alliance forges a bond that will determine the fate of all who live under the never sky.

In her enthralling debut, Veronica Rossi sends readers on an unforgettable adventure set in a world brimming with harshness and beauty.

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     About the Author

Veronica Rossi graduated from UCLA and studied fine art at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. She began writing fiction for teens and received first-place awards in the Pacific Northwest Writers Association and SouthWest Writers annual contests before completing Under the Never Sky. It’s since captivated publishers in more than twenty countries worldwide and been optioned for film by Warner Bros. Veronica lives in northern California with her husband and two sons.

Release Day Party! The Exemeus

We’re celebrating the release day party of YA fantasy novel The Exemeus. Come celebrate with us and get your chance to win a paperback copy of The Exemeus!

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About The Exemeus

Title: The Exemeus 

Authors: Folami and Abeni Morris 

Genre: YA Fantasy Romance

 

Hyalee Smith is dead, she just doesn’t know it yet.

Her short life was devoted to love and to hate. Love of the man who stole her heart, hate for the man who stole the world. Murdered by the government she swore to destroy, fate has given her another chance to make it right. But to save the planet, she needs the help of the most powerful mystic the world has ever seen—unfortunately he hasn’t been born yet.

In a world where fear is the only currency, Dephon has committed the ultimate crime: inspiring hope.

His only goal is to make it safely through ninth grade, but on a post-apocalyptic Earth run by the Treptonian government, it isn’t that simple. Heir to a legendary power, Dephon Johnson is the only threat to the government’s rule. And on Trepton, all threats must be eliminated. When hundreds of assassins are dispatched to neutralize him, Dephon is forced to fight back. His only chance of survival is to enlist the aid of the greatest warrior the world has ever known. The only problem is, she's been dead for 13 years.

Author Bio

Folami and Abeni Morris are a sister-sister writing team. Together they wrote (and rewrote) The Exemeus series, somehow managing to accomplish it without murdering one another. Despite their tendency to finish each others thoughts and stick up for each other constantly, no, they’re not twins and thus deserve their own individual bio. 

  Folami Morris

Folami grew up in the tiny city of San Mateo Ca, where nothing ever happens and no one ever leaves. She went to Xavier University for undergraduate, getting her B.A in physics and her B.S in Biology. After graduation she returned to California, to live in an even smaller city, where even less happens, Antioch Ca. During this time she escaped the monotony by hanging out with her imaginary friends Hyalee and Dephon, and by writing the Exemeus. She finally escaped to Queens NY and now realizes that quiet and tiny aren’t so bad. 

  Abeni Morris

As luck (and logic) would have it, Abeni grew up in the same tiny little town as her sister, then she too escaped to the tinier town of Antioch. She has yet to leave. She received her bachelor’s degree in early childhood development from Cal State East Bay. She is the mom of two amazing kids, who swear that they deserve a percentage of the book proceeds and a ton of the credit. At least she raised dreamers.

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Author Wednesday!

Thank you for stopping by on our first ever! Author Wednesdays!  

These days we will be hosting authors! 

 They will get to choose their own questions and share with us their thoughts on any subject!  

This week we have non other than Megan Thomason author of Daynight!  

Book Description

Publication Date: November 12, 2012
Print Length: 320 pages

BlueInk Review * (starred review): "gripping young adult dystopian novel; compelling conflicts; high stakes; powerful narrative; surprises keep coming; strong writing; page-turner; engaging characters; Readers will be hungry for the sequels.”

“Sure to win over YA readers looking for a dangerous, dystopian adventure story... A sci-fi adventure with a sweet YA love story at its center… richly imagined alternate world… distinctive voices and conflicting motivations” —Kirkus Reviews

Meet The Second Chance Institute (SCI): Earth’s benevolent non-profit by day, Thera’s totalitarian regime by night. Their motto: Because Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Life(TM). Reality: the SCI subjects Second Chancers to strict controls and politically motivated science experiments like Cleaving—forced lifetime union between two people who have sex.

Meet Kira Donovan. Fiercely loyal, overly optimistic, and ensnared by the promise of a full-ride college scholarship, Kira signs the SCI Recruit contract to escape memories of a tragedy that left her boyfriend and friends dead.

Meet Blake Sundry. Bitter about being raised in Exile and his mother’s death, Blake’s been trained to infiltrate and destroy the SCI. Current barrier to success? His Recruit partner—Miss Goody Two Shoes Kira Donovan.

Meet Ethan Darcton. Born with a defective heart and resulting inferiority complex, Ethan’s forced to do his SCI elite family’s bidding. Cleave-worthy Kira Donovan catches his eye, but the presiding powers give defect-free Blake Sundry first dibs.

Full of competing agendas, romantic entanglements, twists and turns, daynight is Megan Thomason’s debut young adult dystopian novel and first in the daynight series.

   

About The Author

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Biography

Megan Thomason lives in paradise aka San Diego, CA with her husband and five children. A former software manager, Megan vastly prefers writing twisted tales to business, product, and marketing plans. When she isn't typing away on her laptop, she's reading books on her phone--over 600 in the last year--or attending to the needs of her family. Megan's fluent in sarcasm, could potentially benefit from a 12-step program for road rage, struggles with a Hot Tamales addiction, loves world travel & fast cars and hates paperwork & being an insomniac. Daynight is Megan's first published novel, but fourth written one.

Why should we read daynight?

Highly rated by professional, Amazon and Goodreads reviewers, daynight will grip you from the first page and take you on a wild ride: “a dangerous, dystopian adventure story”-Kirkus Reviews. “A must read for Hunger Games and Divergent lovers”-Amazon reviewer. “Delicious humor, intelligence, and sparkling dialogue”-Amazon reviewer. Full of competing agendas, romantic entanglements, twists and turns, daynight transpires in a modern-day society that fully intends on extending its dominion to Earth.

Read a sample and/or buy daynight 

Where did you get the inspiration for daynight?

As I was hiking in one of the many canyons during San Diego on a particularly hot day, I pondered what it would be like if things were so hot that there would be no choice but to switch days and nights. This was the impetus for Thera, the setting for most of daynight. I had fun researching all the various ways this would impact the Theran people--from differing lingo 'daymares,' 'daygowns,' 'Monnight, Tuesnight, etc.', to environmental (landscape, weather shifts).

The Second Chance Institute, benevolent non-profit on Earth by day, and totalitarian ruler on Thera by night, and their messed up agendas and methods, are purely a figment of my twisted imagination.

Tell us about the characters in daynight. Who is your favorite character in daynight? Least favorite?

daynight rotates between three main characters’ point of views—Kira, Ethan and Blake. I assigned physical and character attributes much like I’d do a job description:

Kira-pretty; athletic; willing to put up with a whole lot of crap; naïve; loyal; great poker face; always asking questions; internal strength and resiliency

Blake-rebellious; loyal to the Exilers he grew up with, yet resentful for having to take on their cause; doesn’t trust anyone or want to have to depend on anyone; judgmental; rough around the edges

Ethan-gorgeous; self-esteem damaged from having been born with a heart defect and continually told he isn’t worthy of his birthright; protects those he cares about; funny; listens well; very close-lipped about his past

Physically, I started with pictures to inspire me for each character. You can see some of these pictures here

Favorite character: Jax. Ethan’s best friend, excellent comic relief in a dark story, communicates in double speak, and more important to the story than many may realize.

Least favorite character: Blake’s father, Hank. Terrible dad. Not only does he steal Blake’s childhood to further his own agenda, he’s too bull-headed to see his own stupidity.

Why did you decide to self publish?

I had originally planned to go the traditional publishing route with daynight. But without any contacts in the publishing industry, I didn’t like the odds of sending a one paragraph description in a one page letter to the dozen young adult agents in the country… who each get up to 20,000 letters a year and can only take on a couple new authors. And even if an agent did pick me up, it would take a couple years to get published. The process seemed rather antiquated and slow and I wanted to begin writing the next book. So, I decided to self publish and focus on getting a) great professional reviews (so far, so good here) and b) success as an indie author (working on it… it’s only been 6 weeks). Making it as an indie author takes a ton of work. But I don’t shy away from hard work. In my last career, I often worked 80-100 hour weeks. I can live on very little sleep for long periods of time and am extremely productive.

How do you go about the writing and editing process?

I plot, plain and simple. Given daynight has 3 main characters who tell their story in the present and by flashback; a dystopian entity with a presence on both Earth and Earth’s sister planet, Thera; multiple ‘bad guys’; a band of Exilers split into two factions; and several other more minor, but highly important characters, each with a rich backstory… I had to plot it. That said, to me a book is like a living entity that continually evolves. I revise said plot as often as I have better ideas—which is all the time!

Tell us your most rewarding experience since being published.

Having thousands download daynight during two days of ‘free’ promotion and positive reviews start to pour in!

Any other books in the works? 

Book two of the daynight series, arbitrate is fully plotted and well under way. I’m targeting to have it out the summer of 2013.

I also have another book, B*Lies, in the works, the story of a girl who makes the decision to run from her abusive father.

Any advice for other authors?

1) Read! If every author read every book in their genre (or at least the highly rated ones), there would be a lot less rehashed stories, better writing, and fresh concepts. I read 600 books in the last year. You can find my top 50+ favorites here

2) Plot! Certainly, there have been some successful books written off the cuff, but to have good pacing, story development, character development, building of tension, etc. it typically takes good plotting.

3) Flexibility! Revise, revise, revise. Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite. Don’t get so stuck on your initial concept that you reject an even better idea.

4) Edit! Editing is hard. I typically go through my book over a hundred times, looking for something different each pass.

5) Proofread! Yes, I list this separately from editing. Have someone (or even better, many someones)—other than you—someone with a sharp eye and very keen grasp of the English language, proofread your book. The brain compensates for missing words, extra words, etc. and they are very hard to find. If problems are found after publishing, fix and update.

6) Work hard! If you thought the writing was time-consuming and hard, promoting your book takes as much, if not more time. Put in the hours.
7) Thicken your skin! It is unlikely you like every book you read, so you can’t expect everyone to like your book. I’ve adopted the saying: "If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run."--Viggo Mortensen.

8) Start writing the next book. Your chances increase exponentially of having a ‘hit’, the more offerings you have.

     What experiences have you had that inspire your writing?

My oldest daughter told me not to elaborate; that my back-story is “too dark”. Suffice it to say that I have a wide array of emotions and experiences to draw from—from humorous, to heart-breaking. Not everyone can say their (violent) dad left their family to go to Peru to get picked up by a spaceship, had to watch their 9 year-old daughter go through cancer treatments with less than a 25% chance of making it (thankfully, she defied the odds), or has a teenage son who has gone off the rails in a spectacular way.

What’s the weirdest book you have ever read?

I got put on bed rest with child #4, and a friend brought me the strangest trilogy of books—one was about a conjoined set of twins and the issues they had having relationships (disturbing); one was about bondage (even more disturbing); and the last was about an elephant tribe and their 'relations' (intriguing, but again, disturbing). I don’t remember the names, but the themes have stuck with (haunted?) me to this day.

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Everbound

My Review:

Ok I'm writing this like seconds after finishing the book! And I must say that the first 100 pages didn't have me going, I almost put it down. But then the book really started taking off. And the ending was such a cliff hanger that I am going to be dying until I can finish the series. As I really didn't see it coming when I probably should have. This book will pull you in and you will feed of it for a 100 years. For those who do teams. I'm so team Jack and Cole needs to be sucked dry by a shade if you ask me. I did like him before this book and in the middle of this book. But now he needs to die (a horrible painful death)  I can't wait to see what Ashton has in store for Nik and Jack. 

"*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."

Book Description

Release Date: January 22, 2013 | Series: Everneath

Nikki Beckett could only watch as her boyfriend, Jack, sacrificed himself to save her, taking her place in the Tunnels of the Everneath for eternity—a debt that should've been hers. Now she is living a borrowed life, and she doesn't know what to do with the guilt. And every night, Jack appears in her dreams, lost and confused and wasting away. No matter how she tries to reach for his hand, she can never find it.
Desperate for answers, Nikki turns to Cole, the immortal bad boy who wants to make her his queen—and the one person least likely to help. But his heart has been touched by everything about Nikki, and he agrees to help in the only way he can: by taking her to the Everneath himself.
Nikki and Cole, along with Cole's bandmate Max, descend into the Everneath, only to discover that their journey will be more difficult than they'd anticipated—and more deadly. From a Lake of Blood and Guilt to Sirens' alluring tricks to insurmountable walls of rock and flame, the trio is given every reason to turn back and give up. But Nikki vows to stop at nothing to save Jack—even if it means making an incredible sacrifice of her own.
In this breathtaking sequel to Everneath, Brodi Ashton tests the bonds of destiny and explores the lengths we'll go to for the ones we love.

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Biography

First-time author Brodi Ashton received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Utah and a master's degree in international relations from the London School of Economics. Brodi has an active following on her blog, which can be found at www.brodisashton.blogspot.com. She lives in Utah with her family.

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Another Look At Everneath!

My Review:

I was reading this a second time so I could refresh my brain on what happened. I don't know if I liked it more this time or the first time around. Right before reading this book again. I had just finished The Goddess Inheritance. Which is also a story of the Greek gods and Persephone. The differences is that while The Goddess Inheritance is serious it brings with it a humor that Everneath just doesn't have a lot of. Now that isn't to say Everneath wasn't good. Because it was. I love this series to pieces and I'm so happy that they sent me an ARC of Everbound (review to post tomorrow). Everneath just brings more drama and mystery vs. humor. This is defiantly a book I will read again in the future and I can't wait to hear more from Nik, Jack, and even Cole. I have been sucked into the Everneath and its not letting me go anytime soon. If you would like to see my first review please go HERE 

"*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."

Book Description

Release Date: January 24, 2012

• Reading level: Ages 13 and up
• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: Balzer + Bray (January 24, 2012)

Last spring, Nikki Beckett vanished, sucked into an underworld known as the Everneath. Now she’s returned—to her old life, her family, her boyfriend—before she’s banished back to the underworld . . . this time forever. She has six months before the Everneath comes to claim her, six months for good-byes she can’t find the words for, six months to find redemption, if it exists.
Nikki longs to spend these precious months forgetting the Everneath and trying to reconnect with her boyfriend, Jack, the person most devastated by her disappearance—and the one person she loves more than anything. But there’s just one problem: Cole, the smoldering immortal who enticed her to the Everneath in the first place, has followed Nikki home. Cole wants to take over the throne in the underworld and is convinced Nikki is the key to making it happen. And he’ll do whatever it takes to bring her back, this time as his queen.
As Nikki’s time on the Surface draws to a close and her relationships begin slipping from her grasp, she is forced to make the hardest decision of her life: find a way to cheat fate and remain on the Surface with Jack or return to the Everneath and become Cole’s queen.
Everneath is a captivating story of love, loss, and immortality from debut author Brodi Ashton.

WHERE TO FIND EVERNEATH 

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Biography

First-time author Brodi Ashton received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Utah and a master's degree in international relations from the London School of Economics. Brodi has an active following on her blog, which can be found at www.brodisashton.blogspot.com. She lives in Utah with her family.

"Thanks to the publisher or author for sending me this copy!"

January 2013 Giveaway

For January 2013 my first giveaway will be a signed ARC of Across the Universe.  I don't remember where I got it from. But it has been sitting on my shelf for some time now.  So I thought that this month was the time to give it a new home.  So enter below!  And thanks for checking out my site!  Hope to see you back soon! 

Book Description

Release Date: January 11, 2011 | Series: Across the Universe

Book 1 in the New York Times bestselling trilogy, perfect for fans of Battlestar Gallactica and Prometheus!
WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO SURVIVE ABOARD A SPACESHIP FUELED BY LIES?

Amy is a cryogenically frozen passenger aboard the spaceship Godspeed. She has left her boyfriend, friends--and planet--behind to join her parents as a member of Project Ark Ship. Amy and her parents believe they will wake on a new planet, Centauri-Earth, three hundred years in the future. But fifty years before Godspeed's scheduled landing, cryo chamber 42 is mysteriously unplugged, and Amy is violently woken from her frozen slumber.

Someone tried to murder her.

Now, Amy is caught inside an enclosed world where nothing makes sense. Godspeed's 2,312 passengers have forfeited all control to Eldest, a tyrannical and frightening leader. And Elder, Eldest's rebellious teenage heir, is both fascinated with Amy and eager to discover whether he has what it takes to lead.

Amy desperately wants to trust Elder. But should she put her faith in a boy who has never seen life outside the ship's cold metal walls? All Amy knows is that she and Elder must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets before whoever woke her tries to kill again.

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Biography

Beth Revis grew up in western North Carolina reading CS Lewis and Madeleine L'Engle. Her debut novel, a sci fi novel for teens who don't like sci fi, is ACROSS THE UNIVERSE (Penguin). The first of a trilogy, it tells the story of a girl born of Earth but cryogenically frozen for a centuries-long trip across the universe and the boy born on the ship who she meets when she's woken up fifty years too early. The sequel, A MILLION SUNS, will be published in January 2012, followed by the third in the trilogy in 2013.

WINNER IS  LAURIE M. FL, USA

TMI Tuesday!: In-Laws

So with the new year finally here. I thought that is was time to get off my butt and start posting my Featured Days again!  So I have skipped Monday since I wanted to start these now on the first! 

 So here is TMI Tuesday!  

 For this TMI Tuesday we are going to be going to my husband's grandmother's house.  

Yes the Dreaded In Laws. (hope they aren't reading this) We don't see them very often as

1. they live in Orlando which is about 2 hours away on a good day.

2. Gas its costly

3. The house is always baking hot

 4. Well we just don't get a long.

 I don't think anyone really gets along with their in-laws.  They don't like my mother (sometimes I don't her either but hey she is my mom)  I don't know. I don't think they like me cause well for one thing I'm Pagan. For another I have tattoos. lol (now my husband has one and wants more).   They don't like that my husband doesn't call them. But they don't call him either.  It's a very bad cycle and I don't see an ending to it any time soon.  Well thats my TMI for this week.  

How do all of you deal with your in-laws?  Comment below and 1 lucky winner will win this! 

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 2009

As every couple discovers when they get married, you don't just acquire a spouse when you wed — you get the whole family! Whether it’s navigating a culture clash, kibitzing in marital squabbles, spoiling the grandkids, or ducking out on the holidays, this book can help. Those who’ve lived to tell about it weigh in here. Packed with stories, advice, humor, and the hard-won wisdom of hundreds of others who’ve survived those problems and more, this fun, fast-paced book is a perfect — and useful — engagement or wedding gift.

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