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Book Recap: Defiance by C.J. Redwine (ARC)

Cover Inspection:
Oh, I love this cover. It's attractive.
And it fits the main character's personality.

SUMMARY (book description based on GoodReads):
Within the walls of Baalboden, beneath the shadow of the city’s brutal leader, Rachel Adams has a secret. While other girls sew dresses, host dinner parties, and obey their male Protectors, Rachel knows how to survive in the wilderness and deftly wield a sword. When her father, Jared, fails to return from a courier mission and is declared dead, the Commander assigns Rachel a new Protector, her father’s apprentice, Logan—the same boy Rachel declared her love for two years ago, and the same boy who handed her heart right back to her. Left with nothing but fierce belief in her father’s survival, Rachel decides to escape and find him herself. But treason against the Commander carries a heavy price, and what awaits her in the Wasteland could destroy her.

At nineteen, Logan McEntire is many things. Orphan. Outcast. Inventor. As apprentice to the city’s top courier, Logan is focused on learning his trade so he can escape the tyranny of Baalboden. But his plan never included being responsible for his mentor’s impulsive daughter. Logan is determined to protect her, but when his escape plan goes wrong and Rachel pays the price, he realizes he has more at stake than disappointing Jared.

As Rachel and Logan battle their way through the Wasteland, stalked by a monster that can’t be killed and an army of assassins out for blood, they discover romance, heartbreak, and a truth that will incite a war decades in the making.

BOOK REPORT CARD:

Cover	3.5
Plot	2.5
Writing	3.0
Characters	3.0
Ending	3.0
Overall Rating	3.0 Very Good! (89% to 92%) * highest rating possible is 4.0

Labels: 3.0, book recap

[Back to the Books Giveaway Hop] Fill-In-The-Blanks Interview with Chloe Kayne, author of SHOWTIME + Giveaway

Everyone please welcome Chloe Kayne, author of SHOWTIME, a 1920s circus romance story!

About Chloe

I'm an ARC-a-holic for no good reason except that I'm impatient. I like parrots, writing, and aerial arts. I'm a pole dancer moonlighting as a writer--sort of inverse, isn't it? I have a business degree that I'll never use and currently teach pole dancing at the Dollhouse Pole Dance Studio in Minneapolis, MN.

Stalk: Website

Fill-In-The-Blanks Interview with Chloe

Her answers are in PINK.

1. I am vegan.

2. I spent 0 nights in Indonesia.

3. I don’t regret anything.

Continue Reading...

Labels: author interview, giveaway

The Nerd's Word #17: Waiting On Gravity by Melissa West + Swooning Over The Lost Prince by Julie Kagawa

"Waiting On"

A book I cannot wait to get my hands on.

hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine

Gravity (The Taking #1)

by Melissa West

Expected publication: October 16th 2012 by Entangled Publishing, LLC

In the future, only one rule will matter:

Don’t. Ever. Peek.

Seventeen-year-old Ari Alexander just broke that rule and saw the last person she expected hovering above her bed — arrogant Jackson Locke, the most popular boy in her school. She expects instant execution or some kind of freak alien punishment, but instead, Jackson issues a challenge: help him, or everyone on Earth will die.

Ari knows she should report him, but everything about Jackson makes her question what she’s been taught about his kind. And against her instincts, she’s falling for him. But Ari isn’t just any girl, and Jackson wants more than her attention. She’s a military legacy who’s been trained by her father and exposed to war strategies and societal information no one can know — especially an alien spy, like Jackson. Giving Jackson the information he needs will betray her father and her country, but keeping silent will start a war.

What caught my attention is this line from the blurb: "... Jackson issues a challenge: help him, or everyone on Earth will die." Don't you just love blackmail? It makes for an interesting story line.

Three more reasons why I cannot wait:

Aliens.
SciFi.
Entangled Publishing.

Swoon:

Lines and/or scenes from a book that made me swoon.

hosted by the girls at YA Bound

Today's swoon comes from The Lost Prince by Julie Kagawa.

Labels: The Nerd's Word

That Tuesday Thingy #17: A Teaser from Eve and Adam (ARC) by Katherine Applegate & Michael Grant + Top Ten Bookish Confessions

Teaser Tuesday:

Teasers from the book I am reading.

hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading

Eve and Adam

by Katherine Applegate & Michael Grant

Expected publication: October 2nd 2012 by Feiwel & Friends

“Not even,” I say. “I didn’t suddenly turn vulnerable to your charm.”

His eyebrows rise. “Oh, you thought I was going to make a move on you?”

* This teaser comes from an advance copy. The final copy may contain changes.

Top Ten Tuesday:

hosted by The Broke & The Bookish

Top Ten Bookish Confessions

ONE. I am JoAnne, and I am a book smeller. I fan the pages of a book on my face and smell it. I get high.

Labels: That Tuesday Thingy

[Madly Blog Tour] An Excerpt + Giveaway

The Madly Blog Tour stops by The Fairytale Nerd for an excerpt.

About The Madly Series

Madly (Madly #1)

by M. Leighton

CURRENTLY FREE ON AMAZON!

Madly is your average nearly-eighteen year old girl—for a princess, that is.

Madly James is thoroughly enjoying her internship in the small town of Slumber when the unthinkable happens—there’s a prison break in Atlas, the magically-protected home of Madly’s race. A traitor has set free eight Lore, the spirits of what humans know as fairy tales, and they are making their way to Slumber to awaken their descendants.

In order to save her home, the lives of her family, and all of humanity, Madly must learn to wield her exceptional powers and recapture the Lore before it’s too late and all is lost. But Madly’s only help are her two best friends and the Sentinel, Jackson Hamilton, that threatens both her heart and her destiny. Madly has loved Jackson as long as she can remember, but he is the one thing even a princess can’t have. Can she resist love to become the queen she was fated to be? Or can she find a way to have both?

This novelette introduces you to Madly and prepares you for the quest of a lifetime.

Madly & Wolfhardt (Madly #2)

by M. Leighton

Madly is your average nearly-eighteen year old girl—for a princess, that is.

Madly James is thoroughly enjoying her internship in the small town of Slumber when the unthinkable happens—there’s a prison break in Atlas, the magically-protected home of Madly’s race. A traitor has set free eight Lore, the spirits of what humans know as fairy tales, and they are making their way to Slumber to awaken their descendants.

The first spirit to arrive is that of Ulrich Wolfhardt, a man that was once obsessed with wolves and a young maiden he would follow through the woods. After a bite from a wolf, Wolfhardt’s obsession with the girl became an unnatural hunger and the young maiden’s grandmother cursed him with a fate worse than death. And now he’s back…with a vengeance and a bite that can infect others as well.

Madly must learn the identity of Wolfhardt’s descendant and stop him before he kills again and spreads his curse across the earth. But the only person strong enough to help Madly is Jackson, the Sentinel who vowed to protect her and the one person capable of breaking her heart. Can Madly resist forbidden love long enough to save the world from Wolfhardt? Or will she have to sacrifice her heart and her destiny to save the ones she loves?

Madly & the Jackal (Madly #3)

by M. Leighton

How deep does love run? Deeper than the ocean? Deeper than memory? Deeper than magic?

Following their plan to save Atlas, Madly and Jackson return the spirit of Wolfhardt to his prison beneath the sea. But even the best laid plans couldn’t account for the surprises they find. This time, Lore aren’t their only challenges.

Madly is special in ways no one could have guessed and dark forces seek to control her. They want her power, but first they must weaken her. They need her beaten. Vulnerable. Near death. And alone. But that task isn’t an easy one with Jackson at her side. The strongest of their kind, the only way to separate Jackson from Madly is to destroy his love for her, to erase it from his mind. And his heart.

Is it possible to steal Jackson’s love from Madly? Or is their love the only truly unbreakable thing?

An Excerpt

In the quiet of the room, I heard nothing but the smack of Jersey’s lips as she chomped on her gum.

“Jersey, shh,” I whispered over my shoulder.

Labels: blog tour

The Sunday Story #18

Mailbox:

The books I got this week.

Sunday Post hosted by Kimba at Kimba The Caffeinated Book Reviewer, and Stacking the Shelves hosted by Tynga’s Reviews.

Crewel (Crewel World #1) by Gennifer Albin (ARC)

Eve and Adam by Katherine Applegate & Michael Grant (ARC)

The Shadow Society by Marie Rutkoski (ARC)

Madly (Madly #1) by M. Leighton (A novellete; FREE on Amazon)

Death and the Girl Next Door (Darklight #1) by Darynda Jones (ARC)

The Hallowed Ones by Laura Bickle (ARC)

Immortal Lycanthropes by Hal Johnson , Teagan White (ARC)

Thank you Macmillan, St. Martin's Press, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for the review copies!

It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

The book/s I have read the past week, and the book/s I plan to read throughout the week.

hosted by Shiela at Book Journey

Last week, I finished reading:

Rift by Andrea Cremer
Madly by M. Leighton

Labels: The Sunday Story

Book Recap: Losing Lila by Sarah Alderson

Cover Inspection:
I have to say that I am liking these Lila Covers,
especially the red shoes in the first one.

SUMMARY (book description based on GoodReads):

Alex and Lila are on the run, desperately trying to stay one step ahead of the Unit, which somehow is managing to track their every move. Whilst Alex is determined to keep Lila safe and her ability secret at any cost, Lila’s only thought is of finding a way back to California so that she can rescue her brother and mother from the military base where they’re being held.

Struggling to control both her growing power and her deepening feelings for Alex, Lila decides the time has finally come to stop running and start fighting. Together with Alex, Demos, and the people she’s come to think of as family, Lila plans not just to save her brother and mother, but to completely destroy the Unit and everything it stands for.

But the plan requires Lila to return alone to California, make friends with the enemy, and to risk losing everything – Alex, her family, and even her life.

BOOK REPORT CARD:

Cover	3.0
Plot	3.5
Writing	3.0
Characters	3.0
Ending	3.0
Overall Rating	3.0 Very Good! (89% to 92%) * highest rating possible is 4.0

Labels: 3.0, book recap, page turner, romantic