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Each week we will post a characteristic and choose 5 of our favorite cover’s with that characteristic.
Sunday, October 12, 2014
Saturday, October 4, 2014
Top 5 Best Book Covers: October 2014
Title: The Passage
Series: Beyond Two Worlds, Book #1
Author: Nabille De La Luz
Genre: YA, Dystopian, Science Fiction
Release Date: October 6, 2014
It's finally Kino's turn to help The Passage; A virtual world with four zones and four tests that all of Zero's young people have to attempt in order to deserve to live in Lumen, far from the radiation that everyone in the world is exposed to. But there's just one thing... if you die in the game, you die in real life.
In The Passage, Kino meets Axel and the others that will be part of her team. But she is different. Kino is covering up something more than a slight mutation in her eyes. Something that she will discover that can change not just her body, but her life and also the lives of everyone in the world.
KINO:
''The Passage is not anything more than that; a test. And it depends on the score that you ended the Passage with, whether they give you a job or they let you study at the university of Lumen, or if not, you end up being an erotic ballerina or an escort to someone who bought you to avoid your almost certain death in Zone Four. Despite how weird, dirty, and ugly it sounded to have hopes of being acquired by a man, the majority of girls from Zero were anxious for that moment. It was like everyone's fairytale. But, instead of being saved by a prince, it was being bought by one.''
Sunday, September 28, 2014
Book Review: Wallbanger by Alice Clayton
Title: Wallbanger
Series: Cocktail, Book #1
Genres: Contemporary Romance, Humor, New Adult
Format: Audiobook (Audible)
Narrator: Heather Smith
Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
Release Date: May 13, 2013
USA TODAY bestselling indie author Alice Clayton delights readers with the sexy, laugh-out-loud romance of Caroline and Simon in Wallbanger, the first book in the Cocktail series!
The first night after Caroline moves into her fantastic new San Francisco apartment, she realizes she’s gaining an—um—intimate knowledge of her new neighbor’s nocturnal adventures. Thanks to paper-thin walls and the guy’s athletic prowess, she can hear not just his bed banging against the wall but the ecstatic response of what seems (as loud night after loud night goes by) like an endless parade of women. And since Caroline is currently on a self-imposed “dating hiatus,” and her neighbor is clearly lethally attractive to women, she finds her fantasies keep her awake even longer than the noise. So when the wallbanging threatens to literally bounce her out of bed, Caroline, clad in sexual frustration and a pink baby-doll nightie, confronts Simon Parker, her heard-but-never-seen neighbor. The tension between them is as thick as the walls are thin, and the results just as mixed. Suddenly, Caroline is finding she may have discovered a whole new definition of neighborly…
In a delicious mix of silly and steamy, Alice Clayton dishes out a hot and hilarious tale of exasperation at first sight.
FIRST IMPRESSION:: I will have to admit this was a pleasant surprise. it was funny and sweet and sexy and believable. That doesn't always happen. I usually end up liking the main character or the love interest more, but, i actually liked Caroline and Simon pretty equally. Both funny, lovable characters. Can't forget about Clive.
Cover Characteristic: Stilettos
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Each week we will post a characteristic and choose 5 of our favorite cover’s with that characteristic.
Monday, September 22, 2014
Making Up for Monday: Book Bestie
Hosted by An Avid Reader; A Wannabe Writer
Each week, there will be a book-related theme or game, or something fun to do that week. And you can play along! All you have to do is find the question for that week and write a post that day based on that question.
This Week's Topic/Question:
Who is your favorite person to talk to about books?
My Answer:
My Answer:
Mine isn't a person; it's persons. I belong to a book club called, Mocha Girls Read, and I love discussing books with the lovely ladies. Besides discussing our book of the month, we also talk about books everyone's reading—good for me; bad for my ever-expanding TBR ;)
Also, depending on the genre of a book, I also like talking to my mom. After all, I hold her responsible for my book obsession and she also gives awesome synopses of the books she's reading.
Otherwise, my close friends and I don't seem to read the same books... just the A Song of Ice & Fire series, but I've only read book #1.
Sunday, September 21, 2014
Cover Characteristic: Sunglasses
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Each week we will post a characteristic and choose 5 of our favorite cover’s with that characteristic.
Friday, September 19, 2014
Book Beginnings & The Friday 56: Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
My Pick This Week: Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
“There was a boy in her room.
Cath looked up at the number painted on the door, then down at the room assignment in her hand.
Pound Hall, 913.
This was definitely room 913, but maybe it wasn’t Pound Hall—all these dormitories looked alike, like public housing towers for the elderly. Maybe Cath should try to catch her dad before he brought up the rest of her boxes.”
~ p. 1
“Reagan was staring at Cath now, frowning. She was wearing tight black jeans and a black top. Maybe she was going out, not to work.
“Your trash can is full of energy bar wrappers,” Reagan said.
“You were looking through my trash?” Cath felt a rush of anger.
“Levi was looking for a place to spit out his gum.… So? Do you have an eating disorder?”
“No,” Cath said, pretty sure it was exactly what she’d say if she did have an eating disorder.
“Then why don’t you eat real food?”
“I do.” Cath clenched her fists. Her skin felt drawn and tight. “Just. Not here.”
“Are you one of those freaky eaters?”
“No. I—” Cath looked up at the ceiling, deciding that this was one of those times when the truth would be simpler than a lie. “—I don’t know where the dining hall is.”
~ p. 56
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