Stacking The Shelves (51)

Stacking The Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga's Reviews. It is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course e books!

Dangerous Girls l The Rain l The Concubine

A Thief Before Christmas l Bright Young Things l Confessions of a Shopaholic

Fire Country l The Au Pairs l  City of Savages

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Feature and Follow (33)

The Feature and and and Follow is hosted by TWO hosts,  of Parajunkee's View and Alison Can Read. Each host will have their own Feature Blog and this way it’ll allow us to show off more new blogs!

This week's Feature:

Do you read more than one book at a time? If so, how?

I do read more than one book at a time, the most I've read at once is fourteen (an experiment of mine), the main reason I read many books at once is to pace myself and not finish a book in one sitting, it make take me more time to finish a series but I definitely have enjoyed more books when it takes more time to finish them.

Courtlight and Crown Service by Terah Edun Book Blitz

The Courtlight Series

When peasant girl Ciardis is chosen for a position at court, she travels across the empire to begin a new life. To survive, she’ll need to master intrigue, befriend a crown prince, and learn to control magical abilities she never knew existed.

The Crown Service Series

As an unstoppable war breaks out between the mages of the Algardis Empire, young Sara Fairchild enlists in the empress’s army to find out exactly what everyone’s trying to hide. But there are secrets on both sides of the battle that will make her question everything…

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Terah Edun's next YA Fantasy novel, BLADES OF MAGIC - Crown Service Book #1 (set in the Algardis Universe), will release on March 31, 2014. Book Five of Courtlight, SWORN TO DEFIANCE, will release in April 2014.

Her favorite writers include Mercedes Lackey, Tamora Pierce, Kristin Cashore, Robin Hobb and Maria Snyder.

Check out Terah's author website (teedun.com) for more information about her books, find her online @TEdunWrites and subscribe to her newsletter (bit.ly/SubscribetoTerahsNewsletter) to be notified of upcoming releases.

Author links: 

http://teedun.com/

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https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6517970.Terah_Edun

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Blitz-wide giveaway (INTL)

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• PLUS every person who enters will get a FREE copy of BLADES OF MAGIC and SWORN TO RAISE audiobooks from Audible.com

Waiting on Wednesday (60)

Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

My pick this week is:

The Ruby Circle 

by Richelle Mead

The epic conclusion to Richelle Mead's New York Times bestselling Bloodlines series is finally here...

Sydney Sage is an Alchemist, one of a group of humans who dabble in magic and serve to bridge the worlds of humans and vampires. They protect vampire secrets—and human lives.

After their secret romance is exposed, Sydney and Adrian find themselves facing the wrath of both the Alchemists and the Moroi in this electrifying conclusion to Richelle Mead’s New York Times bestselling Bloodlines series. When the life of someone they both love is put on the line, Sydney risks everything to hunt down a deadly former nemesis. Meanwhile, Adrian becomes enmeshed in a puzzle that could hold the key to a shocking secret about spirit magic, a secret that could shake the entire Moroi world.

I really have mixed feelings about this book because I really really want to read it but at the same I don't want to read it since it's the last book in the series and i'm not ready to say goodbye to Sydney and Adrian.

Top Ten Tuesday (52)

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at The Broke and The Bookish.  Each week a new top ten list is posted, and to participate all you have to do is fill in YOUR top ten for the list.

This week is Top Ten Books I Can't Believe I Haven't/Want To Read From X Genre

The Genre I chose was Contemporary YA since it's my least

 favorite YA Genre I'm pretty far behind with the staples 

1) Most books by John Green: Yes I've read The Fault In Our Stars and liked it but I wasn't blown away or reduced to tears, and I think I'm a bit wary of his books because they have all been incredibly hyped so my main fear is that the expectations I have for them are too big.

2) Anna and the French Kiss by  Stephanie Perkins: A lot of people love this book but the summary tells me the romance is between a girl named Anna and some guy named Etienne, everything was ok until I found out Etienne has a girlfriend, the thing is I have an issue with people that are in a relationship and still flirt with other people so I don't get what's romantic about that, another thing that bothers me is that Anna is aware that the guy is taken and apparently doesn't mind.

3) The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky   I actually own this book but I haven't been able to read it just yet, nothing against it I just keep forgetting it's somewhere in my bookshelf.

4) If I Stay by  Gayle Forman: I bought this along with Just One Day and the authors style and I just didn't get along very well so I'm procrastinating with this one.

5) Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell: This is similar to my problem with John Green, I read too many amazing reviews for Fangirl and when I finally read it I felt weird since I didn't love it as much as everyone else, so I'm kind of worried the same thing will happen with Eleanor and Park.

6)DUFF by Kody Keplinger

7)Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry

8)Amy and Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan Matson 

9)Forbidden  by Tabitha Suzuma

10) Dash & Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn 

6, 7 , 8, 9 & 10: I seriously don't have a reason for not reading these books other than I still haven't bough them but I plan to so I can see if I'll like them.

Monday Book Recommendations (26)

Monday is the day I choose what new books I’m going to start reading but I have so many books in my To Read Pile that sometimes it’s hard to choose so I have decided that on Monday mornings I’ll recommend some  of  my favorite books.

He's So/She's So Trilogy by Kieran Scott

I usually don't go for contemporary YA but I found this series to be a perfect read for a rainy day or a lazy Sunday.

2015 Challenges January Wrap Up

The first month of the year has gone by already!! I'm pretty happy with the books I've read, 2015 is promising to be a better reading year than 2014. Today I'm updating two challenges I'm doing:

 A-Z Challenge

For this Challenge I have to choose either the first word in the title of the books or the author’s name (first or last) should correspond with a letter in the alphabet. You should omit “a” and “the” in the titles; letters Q, X and Z can be positioned anywhere in the titles or author names.

I'm actually pretty proud of myself since I'm almost done with this one! 

Completes 22/26

A- Suspicion by Alexandra Monir

B- The Book of Ivy by Amy Engel

C- City 1 by Gregg Rosenblum

D-

E- Empire of Shadows by Miriam Forester 

F- The Fugitive by Pittacus Lore

G- The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman

H- Fire with Fire by Jenny Han

I- Infected by Sophie Littlefield 

J- Reborn by Jennifer Rush 

K-The Flame in the Mists by Kit Grindstaff 

L- The Lying Game by Sara Shepard

M- The Conspiracy of Us by Maggie Hall

N- Never Have I Ever by Sara Shepard

O-

P-Please Remain Calm by Courtney Summers 

Q-The Queen by Kiera Cass

R-Revolution by Jenna Black

S-Stolen by Melissa de la Cruz

T- A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray 

U

V-The Vault by Emily McKay

W-The Witch Mus Burn by Danielle Paige

X- Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix 

Y

Z-Zodiac by Romina Russell

 2015 TBR Challenge

This challenge is hosted by the lovely ladies over at Bookish and it is designed to help reduce the massive To Be Read piles we all have at home, the rules only ask you read books that have been published before 2015

                                           Asylum by Madeleine Roux  (2013)

The Au-Pairs by Melissa de la Cruz (2013)

Bright Young Things (2010)

Beautiful Things by Anna Godbersen (2011)

Casting Off by Hugh Howey (2011)

The Concubine by Norah Lofts (1963)

Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella (2003)

Dangerous Girls by Abigail Haas (2013)

Two Truths and a Lie by Sara Shepard (2012)

Restoring Harmony by Joelle Anthony (2010)

The List by Siobhan Vivian (2012)

Proper Gauge by Hugh Howey (2011)

Skinny-Dipping by Melissa de la Cruz (2013)

Hide and Seek by Sara Shepard (2012)

To Die For by Sandra Byrd (2011)

Pines by Blake Crouch (2012)