Jenuine Cupcakes

Welcome, to my stop on The Winner's Kiss blog tour! If you have not read this series yet, do yourself a favor and start it TODAY. Seriously, high fantasy is not usually my jam, but I have SO MUCH love for these books, it's characters and their author. Thank you to Gina, Mary, and Brittany at Macmillan for allowing me the pleasure of being part of this tour. Thank you to Ksenia who handed me an ARC of the first book a few years ago and told me to read it. I'm glad I listened. The Winner's Kiss (The Winner's Curse #3) by Marie Rutkoski On Sale March 29th, 2016 Amazon | B&N | Goodreads  War has begun. Arin is in the thick of it with untrustworthy new allies and the empire as his enemy. Though he has convinced himself that he no longer loves Kestrel, Arin hasn’t forgotten her, or how she became exactly the kind of person he has always despised. She cared more for the empire than she did for the lives of innocent people—and certainly more tha...

Welcome to The Winner's Crime Read-Along! Make sure to follow the HASHTAG #TheWinnersTrilogy on Twitter! March 10th - Chapters 1 - 10 March 17th - Chapters 11 - 20 March 24th - Chapters 21 - 34 March 31st - Chapters 34 - 46 ~ MY THOUGHTS ~ Chapters 34 - 46  I am no longer able to word, so here are my thoughts in gifs... Having to wait an ENTIRE YEAR to find out what happens is going to be torture. Favorite Scene: When Arin shows up in the music room . Favorite Quote: "He sailed home." That noise you heard was the sound of my own heart shattering into a million tiny pieces. ~ PARTICIPATING BLOGGERS ~ Good Choice Reading Shortie Says... ReadingTeen Once Upon A Twilight I *HEART* BIG BOOKS Vi3tBabe Reviews Pivot Book Reviews A Little Bit of R&R Jenuine Cupcakes Ravenous Reader ~ ABOUT THE BOOKS ~ GoodReads † Amazon † B&N As a general's...

Welcome to The Winner's Crime Read-Along! Make sure to follow the HASHTAG #TheWinnersTrilogy on Twitter! March 10th - Chapters 1 - 10 March 17th - Chapters 11 - 20 March 24th - Chapters 21 - 34 March 31st - Chapters 34 - 46 ~ MY THOUGHTS ~ Chapters 11 - 20  Each week this gets increasingly harder for me to talk about WITHOUT divulging spoilers, so let's just say, Kestrel flexes her wings, Arin earns some serious street cred, and there wasn't nearly enough kissing. ;) Favorite Scene: On the bridge. Favorite Quote: "Kestrel imagined: his mouth parting against her skin. The teeth of his smile. And she imagined more, she saw what she would do, how she would forget herself, how everything would slip and unloop, like rich ribbon off it's spool. The dream of this held her. She couldn't move."   Sweet baby Valorians in a palace...THIS, THIS IS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. ~ PARTICIPATING BLOGGERS ~ Good Ch...

Welcome to The Winner's Crime Read-Along! Make sure to follow the HASHTAG #TheWinnersTrilogy on Twitter! March 10th - Chapters 1 - 10 March 17th - Chapters 11 - 20 March 24th - Chapters 21 - 34 March 31st - Chapters 34 - 46 ~ MY THOUGHTS ~ Chapters 1 - 10 I like to call these the P 3 chapters, wherein Kestrel is Planning, Plotting and Preparing. Planning how to be the best Empress when the time comes. Plotting to get the Emperor to postpone her wedding to his son Verex for as long as possible. Preparing for the Engagement Ball her soon-to-be father-in-law insists on throwing, as well as the possibility of seeing Arin again for the first time since agreeing to the Emperor's deal. She tries to distract herself with games in the Palace, visits with Jess and even spends time with her betrothed. But the closer the ball gets, the more anxious Kestrel grows. Her hope that Arin will come and her disappoint that he may not are palpable. E...

I LOVE THIS BOOK SO HARD!  Okay, so now that we've established that, welcome to Jenuine Cupcakes! Follow the rest of the tour HERE .  ~ About the Book ~ Series: THE WINNER'S TRILOGY #2 (AKA THE BEST SERIES IN THE HISTORY OF EVER!)  Publication: March 3rd 2015  By: Farrar Straus Giroux Amazon | B&N | Goodreads Following your heart can be a crime A royal wedding is what most girls dream about. It means one celebration after another: balls, fireworks, and revelry until dawn. But to Kestrel it means living in a cage of her own making. As the wedding approaches, she aches to tell Arin the truth about her engagement: that she agreed to marry the crown prince in exchange for Arin's freedom. But can Kestrel trust Arin? Can she even trust herself? For Kestrel is becoming very good at deception. She's working as a spy in the court. If caught, she'll be exposed as a traitor to her country. Yet she can't ...

Welcome to The Winner's Curse Read-Along! Make sure to follow the HASHTAG #TheWinnersTrilogy on Twitter! February 3rd - Chapters 1 - 10 February 10th - Chapters 11 - 20 February 17th - Chapters 21 - 30 February 24th - Chapters 31 - 42 ~ MY THOUGHTS ~ Chapters 31 - 42 This is the part of the book where I relinquished what little control I had left of my heart-strings to Marie Rutkoski. Because kissing and baking and escaping and THAT ENDING... OHMYARIN! Photo Credit: http://thegodoflieslovesyou.tumblr.com/ Favorite Scene: The kitchen one.  Photo Credit: Katie from Books And Wonderful Things Favorite Quote: "You don't, Kestrel, even though the god of lies love you." ~ PARTICIPATING BLOGGERS ~ Good Choice Reading Shortie Says... ReadingTeen Once Upon A Twilight I *HEART* BIG BOOKS Vi3tBabe Reviews Pivot Book Reviews A Little Bit of R&R Jenuine Cupcakes Ravenous Reader ~ A...

Welcome to The Winner's Curse Read-Along! Make sure to follow the HASHTAG #TheWinnersTrilogy on Twitter! February 3rd - Chapters 1 - 10 February 10th - Chapters 11 - 20 February 17th - Chapters 21 - 30 February 24th - Chapters 31 - 42 ~ MY THOUGHTS ~ Chapters 21 - 30   This is when things start to get good. REALLY good with hair braids and ball gowns and proposals and kissing and---and---and then the poo hits the fan! The rebellion begins, secrets are revealed, and enemies declared. Again. Both are willing to do whatever it takes to protect the ones they love, but at what cost?  Favorite Scene: This is a tie between Kestrel having her hair braided before the ball and THAT MOMENT in the carriage. Because Arin.     Favorite Quote: " You are the god of lies," she hissed. ~ PARTICIPATING BLOGGERS ~ Good Choice Reading Shortie Says... ReadingTeen Once Upon A Twilight I *HEART* BIG BOOKS Vi3tBabe Reviews P...