Stacking The Shelves (52)

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!

 

The Ruby Circle l Collide l Because You Exist

Bird Box l Wool 3 l Played

Red Queen l Shopaholic Takes Manhattan l Skinny-Dipping

Soulprint 

Feature and Follow (34)

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 use the # FF on twitter on Fridays? If you do, are you afraid you’ll forget someone and they’ll be sad? - Suggested by Unconventional Book Views. 

I've never used the # FF, I have to admit that I suck at using Twitter, I gorget I even have an account, forget to use hashtags and when I do use one I tend to misspell things.

Anything to Have You by Paige Harbison Mini Review

Anything to Have You

by Paige Harbison

Nothing should come between best friends, not even boys. ESPECIALLY not boys.

Natalie and Brooke have had each other's backs forever. Natalie is the quiet one, college bound and happy to stay home and watch old movies. Brooke is the movie—the life of every party, the girl everyone wants to be.

Then it happens—one crazy night that Natalie can't remember and Brooke's boyfriend, Aiden, can't forget. Suddenly there's a question mark in Natalie and Brooke's friendship that tests everything they thought they knew about each other and has both girls discovering what true friendship really means.

I've read a few of Paige Harbison's books, and I tend to struggle with them but they usually have an interesting topics and surprising endings but Anything To Have You had a very interesting premise, we've all had that toxic friend that we couldn't let go if because of habit or we just couldn't see that they were bad for us but it kind of fell flat, mix that with a random change of point of view in the middle of the book totally turned me off and made it really hard for me to finish the book.

Waiting on Wednesday (61)

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 Fates are cackling their bony asses off…

It’s been a year since Seth made the deal with the gods that pledged his life to them. And so far, the jobs they’ve given him have been violent and bloody–which is kind of all right with him. But now Apollo has something else in mind for Seth. He’s got to play protector while keeping his hands and fingers off, and for someone who really has a problem with restraint, this new assignment might be the most challenging yet.

Josie has no idea what this crazy hot guy’s deal might be, but it’s a good bet that his arrival means the new life she started after leaving home is about to be thrown into an Olympian-sized blender turned up to puree. Either Josie is going insane or a nightmare straight out of ancient myth is gunning for her.

But it might be the unlikely attraction simmering between her and the golden-eyed, secret-keeping Seth that may prove to be the most dangerous thing of all.

Because history has once again been flipped to repeat.

Book 1 in the new adult paranormal TITAN series, spin-off to the best selling COVENANT series. 

I really enjoyed the Covenant series and Seth was always a very interesting character and I'm anxious to see his new adventures. My only concern with this is that overtime I read a series by this author I'm strongly reminded of other popular series.

Top Ten Tuesday (53)

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's topic is Top Ten Things I like/dislike in Romance Books

First come the dislikes:

1) Insta-Love: I certainly believe that you can be incredibly attracted to someone the second you lay eyes on them but I don't believe in loving them and needing them in your life after just one short interaction.

2)Cheating: I hate when the main character is in a relationship and has feelings for someone else and kisses/has sex with the person that is not her significant other; or the other situation when the main character falls for someone married/in a relationship and the official significant other is somehow at fault for getting in the way of true love.

3) The use of the phrase "Ever so softly", I don't know if it's that the phrase has been over used but I always roll my eyes when I read it.

4)Love triangles and /or love quadrangles: I hate it when Person A loves person B but has a lot of  chemistry with person C, even worse if person C likes person D who is having an affair with person E and person E is dating person A.

5)When the female lear or female love interest is different special and unlike another woman in the world, I hate it even more if she is incredibly beautiful but didn't know it.

6)When the male lead is an asshole and treats everyone like trash but he has the right to be this way because of his tragic backstory. Newsflash: Your past explains your actions but dos not justify them.

Things I like:

7) Slow-burn romance: Wether they have known each other a long time or you just met I love seeing two characters get to know each other before saying I love you.

8) When the male lead is a gentleman. I know that as a woman that I'm perfectly capable of opening doors and putting on my jacket but it is nice when my boyfriend does these things for me and it's wonderful reading about them.

9)Good communication. Many romance novels I've read have conflicts that could have been solved with a simple phone call or a conversation instead of all the problems and baggage that the assumptions the main couples make.

10)Happy Endings: Even when the ending seems like something Disney might write.

Monday Book Recommendations (27)

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.

The Darkest Minds

When I read the summary for the first book I was a bit worried that it might be similar to Shatter Me series but they focus on totally different worlds and issues, the first books especially shook me a lot, I constantly find myself re-reading this series

The Wonder by Colleen Oakes Review

Title: The Wonder

Series: Queen of Hearts #2

Author: Colleen Oakes

Date Published: September 4th 2014

Publisher: Spark Press

An Exiled Princess.
An Ancient Tribe.
A Dangerous Stranger with Unknown Loyalties.

Dinah, the former Princess of Wonderland Palace, has been chased into the wilds of Wonderland after the brutal murder of her brother and the ruin of her impending crown. Now, as her half-sister Vittiore sits on the throne beside her Father, the brutal King of Hearts, Dinah finds herself alone in the forbidding Twisted Wood with only Morte, a homicidal beast, for company.

Hunted by the King and his army of Cards, Dinah struggles to evade those who long for her head, including Cheshire, the King’s clever advisor, who is slowly tightening his grasp around her. Spurred on by her rising terror, the former Princess finds herself at the center of a web of conspiracy reaching far beyond the Palace and deep into the mysterious Yurkei mountain tribes.
Even with the balance of an entire Kingdom at stake, Dinah knows something that her allies and enemies do not: that the most dangerous conflict of all has already begun as she battles the enticing rage that beckons her ever closer as love slips further from her grasp.

The second book in the bestselling and award-winning Queen of Hearts Saga, The Wonder takes readers back to the most wondrous and curious places in Wonderland, and continues this darkly addictive tale featuring one of the most infamous villains of all time.

But be warned…not every fairy tale has a happy ending.
This is the story of a princess who became a villain. 

*I received this book for free via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review*

This series doesn't stop surprising me; I don’t think I can stress enough how I’m not a huge fan of the original Alice in Wonderland be it the book or movies, they’re just not my cup of tea, I’ve never wanted to go to wonderland and the disney version of the movie (The one with Johnny Depp) gives me nightmares. So no one is more surprised than me on how this series has become one of my favorites.

The Things I loved:

-The cover, I have a weakness for covers with pretty dresses on them especially if they look like something a princess might wear.

-Dinah: I usually find myself not liking the main characters and at the end of the first my feelings for Dinah were definitely mixed she blew me away in this book. This is how character growth should be done, not so sudden that it’s not believable and with the person going through the growth having a tough time because let’s face it change is not easy but it took Dinah two books to go from a spoiled insecure Princess to a strong leader that is willing to fight for Wonderland.

-Cheshire: Although Dinah stole the title of favorite character, he is a close second, he is one of the most complex and intriguing characters that I’ve read about, I can’t wait to see all the schemes he has in store for the next book.

World Building: I really liked that we got to see more of the life outside of the palace, and how the other inhabitants of Dinah’s world lived.

Things I didn’t love:

-The fact that I have to wait for the next book, especially after the ending, why do authors do this to me???

Final Rating: