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Author: Erica Lorr aine Scheidt Publication: Januray 15, 2013 By: St. Martin's Press 4 Stars  Anna remembers a time before boys, when she was little and everything made sense. When she and her mom were a family, just the two of them against the world. But now her mom is gone most of the time, chasing the next marriage, bringing home the next stepfather. Anna is left on her own—until she discovers that she can make boys her family. From Desmond to Joey, Todd to Sam, Anna learns that if you give boys what they want, you can get what you need. But the price is high—the other kids make fun of her; the girls call her a slut. Anna's new friend, Toy, seems to have found a way around the loneliness, but Toy has her own secrets that even Anna can't know. Then comes Sam. When Anna actually meets a boy who is more than just useful, whose family eats dinner together, laughs, and tells stories, the truth about love becomes clear. And she finally learns how it feels...

COVER REVEAL   Shadow of Time by Jen Minkman Expected release date: January 1, 2013 Genre: Young Adult Paranormal Romance Cover Designer: Jen Minkman Cover reveal organized by: AToMR Tours Book Description: All Hannah needs is a nice and quiet vacation after her first year of teaching French at a high school. She joins her brother Ben for the summer in their mom’s log cabin in Arizona. There, she meets Josh again, Ben’s childhood friend from the Navajo reservation. The little boy from the rez has grown up fast, and Hannah can’t help but feeling more for him than just friendship. But fate apparently has something else in store for her. And it’s not peace and quiet. Night after night, Hannah is plagued by strange nightmares about the past of Navajo Nation and terrifying shadows chasing her. They seem to come closer – and why is Josh always present in her dreams? Sometimes, the past has a way of catching up with you. Click here to learn more a...

Guest Post/Author Interview with Jillian Dodd What do you think makes a good story?  I’ve been an avid reader. Books have always been an amazing way to escape my life and live someone else’s for a little while. For me, if I fall in love with the characters and invest in them emotionally, it’s a good book. What was different while writing STALK ME as compared to other books you’ve written? Challenges?  Because Stalk Me is the first of a six book series, there was a huge amount of planning that went on prior to the first book’s release. My books tend to be character driven and this series has a lot of characters. Each character got their own character profile, their own character arc. I also did a ton of research for this series. My notes and research on real life stalking cases, sociopaths, personal security firms, and boarding schools could fill a book of their own. I traveled to Malibu for more research. I tried to live out a day in Keatyn’s life. I...

Waiting on Wednesday  "Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine , that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.   Just One Day by Gayle Forman Publication: January 8, 2013 By: Dutton Juvenile       From Goodreads: A breathtaking journey toward self-discovery and true love, from the author of If I Stay When sheltered American good girl Allyson "LuLu" Healey first meets laid-back Dutch actor Willem De Ruiter at an underground performance of Twelfth Night in England, there’s an undeniable spark. After just one day together, that spark bursts into a flame, or so it seems to Allyson, until the following morning, when she wakes up after a whirlwind day in Paris to discover that Willem has left. Over the next year, Allyson embarks on a journey to come to terms with the narrow confines of her life, and through Shakespeare, travel, and a quest for her almost-true-love, to break free of th...

Author: Krista McGee Publication: December 11, 2012 By: Thomas Nelson 4 STARS! Pretty cover How do you find your place in the world? Tired of watching her father flit from one wife to another and having formed a true bond with her most recent stepmother, Natalia decides to move with her from Spain to Florida when the divorce papers are finalized. There are a couple things Natalia knows for sure: 1) She's being groomed to take over her father's international business. Success is expected. 2) There is no such thing as true love. Just look at her father. 3) Her stepmother's faith is real. And Natalia wants more of it. Being in a new place, though, has a way of challenging one's preconceived notions. Natalia is still searching but before it's over, she hopes to discover right where she belongs. Thank you to Netgalley and Thomas Nelson for this ARC. Once again, Krista McGee has proven that the message of Christ's love can be presented in a w...

2012 Books to Read My goal for 2012 was to read 100 books and I met that goal but I may or may not have gone over by a smidge. Here is a small sample of 2 012 books I have LOVED so far this year !  Have you read these?  If not, tell Santa to shove ' em in your stocking. (In no particular order, lest any book characters get their feels hurt.) 1. Insurgent (Divergent #2) - Veronica Roth 2. Such A Rush - Jennifer Echols   3. The Evolution of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer #2) - Michelle Hodkin 4. Under The Never Sky - Veronica Rossi  5. False Memory (False Memory #1) - Dan Krokos 6. Shadow and Bone (The Grisha #1) - Leigh Bardugo  7. The Immortal Rules (Blood of Eden #1) - Julie Kagawa  8. Sweet Evil (Sweet Evil Trilogy #1) - Wendy Higgins 9. This is Not A Drill - Beck McDowell  10. Something Like Normal - Trish Doller 11. Timepiece (Hourglass #2) - Myra McEntire 12. The Lux Series & The Covenant Series - Jen...

WANT TO READ OPAL?   (Hint: The correct answer is, OhMyDAEMON YES!!!)       Jennifer L. Armentrout has a contest going on RIGHT NOW because... a) She's got a few copies to share. b) She's AMAZEBALLS! c) Daemon made her do it. d) All of the above (Again correct answer is... d) All of the above ) Head to her website HERE and enter!   

**OPAL Trailer Reveal** Opal (The third book in the Lux Series) Available in both print and digital version on December 18, 2012 Amazon Barnes and Noble Official Opal Book Trailer  Let the *FLAIL ING * begin... Amazeballs, right?! Check out Jennifer L. Armentrout on the following sites: Facebook Twitter Official Website

Ten Bookish Things I'm Thankful For 1. Book Boys . *shrugs*  Especially the ones who Tweet me. ;) 2. Author Interviews . Thank you to all of the authors who've taken the time to do an interview with me! I had fun getting to know more about the brain behind the book. :) 3. Author Signings/Meet & Greets . I went to several of these this year and it's a little like meeting a celebrity. There's that sense of awe and of course, awkwardness because if I'm around, I can guarantee "awkward" isn't too far behind. 4. Author Assistants/Publicists. These are the hard working people behind the scenes who help make an author's job a little easier and help fans connect through fansites, contests, and giveaways. I owe a special thanks to a certain taco making angel for the friendships I've made with Jenn and Rebecca from FallenArchangel.com. ;) 5. YABC . Besides getting to know amazeball people like M.G, Jill, Claire, C.J., Erica, Christina a...

Author: Cheryl Rainfield Publication: November 15, 2012 By: Rain and Sun Press   4 Stars A new YA fantasy from award-winning author of SCARS and HUNTED Cheryl Rainfield. Visions can kill you. Would you risk your life to save someone else’s? Kate sees psychic visions of the future and the past—but only when she's having an asthma attack. When she "sees" her sister being beaten, she needs more visions to try to save her, along with a suicidal classmate—but triggering her asthma could kill her. Parallel Visions is the story of one brave, caring girl whose unusual gifts put her own life in danger. This is a quick read about Kate, a lifelong asthma sufferer who sees visions whenever an attack strikes.  She's able to see the past as well as the future, but her ability doesn't do a lot of good when no one believes that what she sees is real. She longs to be a normal teen whose family doesn't hover 24/7 and whose not always known as the "sick girl...

Author: Cindi Madsen Publication: December 11, 2012 By: Entagled Teen 4.5 Stars! How cool is this cover?! What if your life wasn’t your own? Liv comes out of a coma with no memory of her past and two distinct, warring voices inside her head. Nothing, not even her reflection, seems familiar. As she stumbles through her junior year, the voices get louder, insisting she please the popular group while simultaneously despising them. But when Liv starts hanging around with Spencer, whose own mysterious past also has him on the fringe, life feels complete for the first time in, well, as long as she can remember. Liv knows the details of the car accident that put her in the coma, but as the voices invade her dreams, and her dreams start feeling like memories, she and Spencer seek out answers. Yet the deeper they dig, the less things make sense. Can Liv rebuild the pieces of her broken past, when it means questioning not just who she is, but what she is? Thank you Ent...

AToMR Tours Present The Edge of Never by J.A. Redmerski Release date: November 15, 2012 Genre: Contemporary Romance    Age Group: New Adult Twenty-year-old Camryn Bennett had always been one to think out-of-the-box, who knew she wanted something more in life than following the same repetitive patterns and growing old with the same repetitive life story. And she thought that her life was going in the right direction until everything fell apart. Determined not to dwell on the negative and push forward, Camryn is set to move in with her best friend and plans to start a new job. But after an unexpected night at the hottest club in downtown North Carolina, she makes the ultimate decision to leave the only life she’s ever known, far behind. With a purse, a cell phone and a small bag with a few necessities, Camryn, with absolutely no direction or purpose boards a Greyhound bus alone and sets out to find herself. What she finds is a guy named Andrew Parrish,...

Thanks for stopping by Jenuine Cupcakes!  I'm excited to be a part of the Once Upon a Second Chance Blog Tour and I'm really looking forward to reading it . Check out the excerpt below, add it to your goodreads shelf and don't forget to enter the giveaway! Excerpt : Group memos like this one find their way into my inbox almost every day and are typically filled with nothing more than boring office news. An announcement about Sally-so-and-so’s upcoming retirement, or a notice about Joe-shmoe’s birthday next week. Nothing unusual or earth shattering. This particular memo started out that way, nothing worth panicking over. That is, until I arrived at the second paragraph and came to the two little words that currently have me in a choke hold. Two. Little. Words. Nicholas Kerkley. Okay — dream or hallucination? If I’m expected to live until the end of this e-mail, it has to be one of the two. A dream is easy enough to check, right? If this is a dream then something ...

Waiting on Wednesday  "Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine , that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. Apollyon (Covenant #4) by Jennifer L. Armentrout Publication: April 9, 2013 Spencer Hill Press Alex is now 18...and nothing will ever be the same again; War is coming,and when the gods are involved, no one is safe.    Click here to read the teaser Jenni fer tweeted .   What's y o u r W.O.W.?

Author: Ally Condie Publication: November 13, 2012 By: Dutton Children's Books 4 Stars! I love this cover! Cassia faces the ultimate choices in the long-anticipated conclusion to the "New York Times" bestselling Matched Trilogy After leaving Society and desperately searching for the Rising--and each other--Cassia and Ky have found what they were looking for, but at the cost of losing each other yet again: Cassia has been assigned to work for the Rising from within Society, while Ky has been stationed outside its borders. But nothing is as predicted, and all too soon the veil lifts and things shift once again. In this gripping conclusion to the #1 "New York Times" bestselling Matched Trilogy, Cassia will reconcile the difficulties of challenging a life too confining, seeking a freedom she never dreamed possible, and honoring a love she cannot live without. I was so excited when I found out I was going to have a chance to read this early!  Than...