Between fantasy and reality

Expected publication: August 28th 2012 by Harlequin Summary: Rose Zarelli, self-proclaimed word geek and angry girl, has some CONFESSIONS to make... #1: I'm livid all the time. Why? My dad died. My mom barely talks. My brother abandoned us. I think I'm allowed to be irate, don't you? #2: I make people furious regularly. Want an example? I kissed Jamie Forta, a badass guy who "might" be dating a cheerleader. She is now enraged and out for blood. Mine. #3: High school might as well be Mars. My best friend has been replaced by an alien, and I see red all the time. (Mars is red and "seeing red" means being angry-get it?) Here are some other vocab words that describe my life: Inadequate. Insufferable. Intolerable. (Don't know what they mean? Look them up yourself.) (Sorry. That was rude.) My review: Confessions of an angry girl is the first book in the series Confessions about a girl Rose Zarelli and her high school experiences. This was a fu...

Summary: "I won't tell anyone, Echo. I promise." Noah tucked a curl behind my ear. It had been so long since someone touched me like he did. Why did it have to be Noah Hutchins? His dark brown eyes shifted to my covered arms. "You didn't do that-did you? It was done to you?" No one ever asked that question. They stared. They whispered. They laughed. But they never asked. So wrong for each other...and yet so right. No one knows what happened the night Echo Emerson went from popular girl with jock boyfriend to gossiped-about outsider with "freaky" scars on her arms. Even Echo can't remember the whole truth of that horrible night. All she knows is that she wants everything to go back to normal. But when Noah Hutchins, the smoking-hot, girl-using loner in the black leather jacket, explodes into her life with his tough attitude and surprising understanding, Echo's world shifts in ways she could never have imagined. They should have nothin...

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. This is my choice for this week: Skylark (Skylark #1) by Meagan Spooner Expected publication: August 1st 2012 by Carolrhoda Lab Sixteen year-old Lark Ainsley has never seen the sky. Her world ends at the edge of the vast domed barrier of energy enclosing all that’s left of humanity. For two hundred years the city has sustained this barrier by harvesting its children's innate magical energy when they reach adolescence. When it’s Lark’s turn to be harvested, she finds herself trapped in a nightmarish web of experiments and learns she is something out of legend itself: a Renewable, able to regenerate her own power after it’s been stripped. Forced to flee the only home she knows to avoid life as a human battery, Lark must fight her way through the terrible wilderness beyond the edge of the world. With the city’s clockwor...

Summary: HER WORLD IS CHANGED FOREVER Callie lost her parents when the Spore Wars wiped out everyone between the ages of twenty and sixty. She and her little brother, Tyler, go on the run, living as squatters with their friend Michael and fighting off renegades who would kill them for a cookie. Callie's only hope is Prime Destinations, a disturbing place in Beverly Hills run by a mysterious figure known as the Old Man. He hires teens to rent their bodies to Enders—seniors who want to be young again. Callie, desperate for the money that will keep her, Tyler, and Michael alive, agrees to be a donor. But the neurochip they place in Callie's head malfunctions and she wakes up in the life of her renter, living in her mansion, driving her cars, and going out with a senator's grandson. It feels almost like a fairy tale, until Callie discovers that her renter intends to do more than party—and that Prime Destinations' plans are more evil than Callie could ever have imagine...

Team Daemon FTW Daemon from the Lux series by Jennifer L. Armentrout will be going up against Augustus from The Fault in Our Stars in the Young Adult Crush Tournament today (Monday July 23). Valerie from Stuckinbooks . com is Daemon's advocate. To vote just head on over to YA - Sisterhood . For those who don’t know Daemon is from the Lux series ( Obsidian and Onyx) by Jennifer L. Armentrout. To find out more about the series check out Jennifer’s website, here . Also check out the book trailer for Obsidian on Youtube . The incentives that Jennifer will be offering include: 500 Votes: A Daemon teaser from Onyx 800 Votes: A Daemon POV teaser from Onyx 1000 votes: Signed ARC of Onyx (Pepe, Sztella, and me) 1300 Votes: A juicy teaser from Deity and Cursed. 1550 Votes: Signed Daemon Invasion Tour swag 2000 Votes: A juicy teaser from Deity, Cursed, and Unchained 2500 Votes: A signed copy of Diety 3000 Votes: A reeeeeaaaal...

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by Kristi @ The Story Siren . I will share weekly the books and other book related goodies I got. Zauvijek ( Forever )  by Maggie Stiefvater I saw this awesome bookmark and had to have it. In english it would be A summer without men :P I finally got this book. Beskrajno putovanje ( Across the universe ) by Beth Revis Wonderful swag from Kimberly Sabatini :) A postcard from Kimberly Sabatini :D Love it. <3

Goodreads Touching the Surface by Kimberly Sabatini Experience the afterlife in this lyrical, paranormal debut novel that will send your heart soaring.When Elliot finds herself dead for the third time, she knows she must have messed up, big-time. She doesn't remember how she landed in the afterlife again, but she knows this is her last chance to get things right. Elliot just wants to move on, but first she will be forced to face her past and delve into the painful memories she'd rather keep buried. Memories of people she's hurt, people she's betrayed...and people she's killed. As she pieces together the secrets and mistakes of her past, Elliot must find a way to earn the forgiveness of the person she's hurt most, and reveal the truth about herself to the two boys she loves...even if it means losing them both forever. Expected publication: October 30th 2012 by Simon Pulse I cant wait for this book to come out, how about you? It seems really amazing...

Goodreads The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories by Maggie Stiefvater , Tessa Gratton , Brenna Yovanoff From acclaimed YA authors Maggie Stiefvater, Tessa Gratton, and Brenna Yovanoff comes The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories. - A vampire locked in a cage in the basement, for good luck. - Bad guys, clever girls, and the various reasons why the guys have to stop breathing. - A world where fires never go out (with references to vanilla ice cream). These are but a few of the curiosities collected in this volume of short stories by three acclaimed practitioners of paranormal fiction. But The Curiosities is more than the stories. Since 2008, Maggie, Tessa, and Brenna have posted more than 250 works of short fiction to their website merryfates.com. Their goal was simple: create a space for experimentation and improvisation in their writing—all in public and without a backspace key. In that spirit, The Curiosities includes the stories and each author's comments, crit...

Summary: Starting over sucks. When we moved to West Virginia right before my senior year, I'd pretty much resigned myself to thick accents, dodgy internet access, and a whole lot of boring.... until I spotted my hot neighbor, with his looming height and eerie green eyes. Things were looking up. And then he opened his mouth. Daemon is infuriating. Arrogant. Stab-worthy. We do not get along. At all. But when a stranger attacks me and Daemon literally freezes time with a wave of his hand, well, something...unexpected happens.  The hot alien living next door marks me. You heard me. Alien. Turns out Daemon and his sister have a galaxy of enemies wanting to steal their abilities, and Daemon's touch has me lit up like the Vegas Strip. The only way I'm getting out of this alive is by sticking close to Daemon until my alien mojo fades.  If I don't kill him first, that is. My review: This book, when I first read it, was a pleasant surprise for me. I dont usually go fo...

The challenge is to (re)read all of JLA's books and post a NEW review/post about it from August 1st-December 31st, 2012. Jen has got FIVE, (plus a novella) coming out in the latter half of the year and wouldn't you just love the challenge of reading all her books and talking about them with other fans?! In case you didn't know, her upcoming releases for the year will be Onyx (Lux Series #2), Cursed, Unchained, Deity (Covenant Series #3), Elixir (Covenant Series - Aiden's novella), and Opal (Lux Series #3). Got to Deity island and sign up. They are hosting this challenge and everything you need to know could be found there. You could win: Physical copies of Onyx, Unchained, Cursed, Deity, and Opal - eBook copies of Tempting the Best Man - Preorder of ONE of Jen's 2013 releases (TBD as release dates are announced, details subject to change) I am really looking forward to this. Are you?

Summary: The sky is dark with wings . . . . Like sand in an hourglass, time is running out for Luce and Daniel. To stop Lucifer from erasing the past they must find the place where the angels fell to earth. Dark forces are after them, and Daniel doesn’t know if he can do this—live only to lose Luce again and again. Yet together they will face an epic battle that will end with lifeless bodies . . . and angel dust. Great sacrifices are made. Hearts are destroyed. And suddenly Luce knows what must happen. For she was meant to be with someone other than Daniel. The curse they’ve borne has always and only been about her—and the love she cast aside. The choice she makes now will be the only one that truly matters. In the fight for Luce, who will win? The astonishing conclusion to the FALLEN series. Heaven can’t wait any longer. My Review: I was with this series from the beggining so I am sorry it has to end but after so many things that was went wrong for Luce and Daniel for thou...

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by Kristi @  The Story Siren  . I will share weekly the books and other book related goodies I got. I got these today, I orederd them from Algoritam. Dead man rising ( Dante Valentine #2) by Lilith Saintcrow Chill factor (Weather warden #3) by Rachel Caine Masquerade (Blue bloods #2) by Melissa de la Cruz Melissa Buel sent me her signed bookmark and a signed ARC of The Crown of embers by Rae Carson Megan Crewe sent me a set of her bookmarks for the giveaway coming by the end of July on the blog.  Lily Crusell sent me a bunch of her bookmarks to be given away on my blog. Signed bookplate by Amy Plum I won by Jean Booknerd

So, this was my first read-a - thon and it was so much fun. I tweeted with the hashtag #OUreadathon my updates with challenges and my progress with my reading pile. There were many other bloggers participating in this read-a-thon and it was very interesting to see their progress compared to mine and to see what everyone was reading. Like I said, very fun. I read 6 books for this read-a-thon in 3 days, like I wanted to. I read them in this order: Daimon by Jennifer L. Armentrout Rapture by Lauren Kate Shadow and bone by Leigh Bardugo Degrees of wrong by Anna Scarlett Starters by Lissa Price Shadow bound by Rachel Vincent All of the books are amazing and you can expect reviews soon but for Degrees of wrong I will post the review in August for the blog tour for the book. Also, keep your eyes open and check my blog often because a fun giveaway is coming soon. I also participated in 3 mini challenges for the read-a-thon which were very interesting and also fun...