WWW Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Should Be Reading. To participate, answer the following three questions: 1. What are you currently reading? 2. What did you recently finish reading? 3. What do you think you’ll read next? Here are my answers: Currently Reading: I’m currently reading Gone by Michael Grant. It’s been on my to-read list...
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Book Review: Eve by Anna Carey
The year is 2032, sixteen years after a deadly virus—and the vaccine intended to protect against it—wiped out most of the earth’s population. The night before eighteen-year-old Eve’s graduation from her all-girls school she discovers what really happens to new graduates, and the horrifying fate that awaits her. Fleeing the only home she’s ever known, Eve sets off...
Waiting On Wednesday (July 10)
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine, which spotlights upcoming releases that are eagerly anticipated. This week’s release that I’m (not so) patiently awaiting is The Princess in the Opal Mask by Jenny Lundquist, which has an expected publication date of October 22. One Legend Determines the Fate of Two Lives In the...
Top Ten Best/Worst Movie Adaptations
It’s Tuesday, which means that it’s time for Top Ten Tuesday, a book meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s theme of top ten best/worst movie adaptation is a bit difficult for me, as I will either avoid watching the movie if I loved the book or will avoid reading the book if I loved...
Teaser Tuesday (July 9)
Teaser Tuesday is a weekly event hosted by Should Be Reading, which asks you to grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences. This week’s teaser comes from Eve by Anna Carey. The year is 2032, sixteen years after a deadly virus—and the vaccine intended to protect against it—wiped out most of...
ARC Review: Life In Outer Space by Melissa Keil
Sam Kinnison is a geek, and he’s totally fine with that. He has his horror movies, his nerdy friends, World of Warcraft – and until Princess Leia turns up in his bedroom, he doesn’t have to worry about girls. Then Sam meets Camilla. She’s beautiful, friendly and completely irrelevant to his life. Sam is determined to ignore her,...
Book Review: The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson
Who is Jenna Fox? Seventeen-year-old Jenna has been told that is her name. She has just awoken from a coma, they tell her, and she is still recovering from a terrible accident in which she was involved a year ago. But what happened before that? Jenna doesn’t remember her life. Or does she? And are the memories really...
Book Review: Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince. Prince Dorian offers her her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin. Her opponents are men-thieves and assassins and...
Book Review: Adorkable by Sarra Manning
Welcome to the dorkside. It’s going to be a bumpy ride. Jeane Smith’s a blogger, a dreamer, a jumble sale queen, CEO of her own lifestyle brand, and has half a million followers on Twitter. Michael Lee’s a star of school, stage, and playing field. A golden boy in a Jack Wills hoodie. They have nothing in common but...
Friday Finds (July 5)
Friday Finds is a weekly event hosted by Should Be Reading, where you discuss books that you’ve discovered and added to your to-read list over the course of the week. These books don’t have to be ones that you’ve purchased – they can be books that you’ve borrowed, found online, heard about from a friend, etc. Books I...