May 12, 2015

Booklover Buys: Harry Potter Themed Party Ideas

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Booklover Buys is a post I do every Tuesday to share all the awesome bookish stuff I see while searching the internet.

Every week, I share book-related items of a certain theme or from a specific website.

This week's theme is: Things to Buy When Hosting a Harry Potter Themed Party.

The list includes decoration, food, and drink ideas.

May 10, 2015

Review: Lost and Found (Lost and Found #1) by Nicole Williams

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Publish Date: May 7th, 2013
Publisher: Smashwords Edition
Rating: 2 / 5
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Downloaded a free copy from Amazon.


Blurb:

There’s complicated. And there’s Rowen Sterling.

After numbing pain for the past five years with boys, alcohol, and all-around apathy, she finds herself on a Greyhound bus to nowhere Montana the summer after she graduates high school. Her mom agreed to front the bill to Rowen’s dream art school only if Rowen proves she can work hard and stay out of trouble at Willow Springs Ranch. Cooking breakfast at the crack of dawn for a couple dozen ranch hands and mucking out horse stalls are the last things in the world Rowen wants to spend her summer doing.

Until Jesse Walker saunters into her life wearing a pair of painted-on jeans, a cowboy hat, and a grin that makes something in her chest she’d thought was frozen go boom-boom. Jesse’s like no one else, and certainly nothing like her. He’s the bright and shiny to her dark and jaded.

Rowen knows there’s no happily-ever-after for the golden boy and the rebel girl—happily-right-now is a stretch—so she tries to forget and ignore the boy who makes her feel things she’s not sure she’s ready to feel. But the more she pushes him away, the closer he seems to get. The more she convinces herself she doesn’t care, the harder she falls.

When her dark secrets refuse to stay locked behind the walls she’s kept up for years, Rowen realizes it’s not just everyone else she needs to be honest with. It’s herself.

May 8, 2015

Review: Eyes Turned Skyward (Flight & Glory #2) by Rebecca Yarros

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Publish Date: December 8th, 2014
Publisher: Entangled Publishing
Rating: 4 / 5

I won a copy via a giveaway. Thank you, Jess @ JessTimeToRead!

Blurb:
Since her sister's death, twenty-year-old Paisley Donovan, who shares her sister’s heart condition, is treated like delicate glass by her parents. But nothing will stop her from completing her Bucket List—even if it kills her. And it almost does, until Jagger Bateman pulls her from the ocean and breathes more than air into her lungs—he sets her soul on fire.

Jagger is enrolled in the country's toughest flight school. He's wickedly hot, reckless, and perfect for a girl looking to live life to the fullest. Except that Paisley is the commanding general's daughter, and her boyfriend is Jagger's biggest rival. Now Paisley must decide just how much to risk for a guy who makes her heart pound a little too hard.

They're flying through dangerous territory—and one wrong move could make them crash and burn...

Feature & Follow: Deciding What Books to Read

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Feature and Follow is a weekly meme hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read.

The point of Feature and Follow is to meet new people & gain followers in the book blog community!

How it works: Each week, Rachel and Alison post a question for bloggers to answer, provide a bloghop link, and choose two lucky participants to feature in their blogs!


May 7, 2015

Review: Bright Side (Bright Side #1) by Kim Holden

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Publish Date: July 4th, 2014
Publisher: Do Epic LLC
Rating: 4 / 5

I purchased a copy on Amazon.

Blurb:
Secrets.
Everyone has one.
Some are bigger than others.
And when secrets are revealed,
Some will heal you ...
And some will end you.

Kate Sedgwick’s life has been anything but typical. She’s endured hardship and tragedy, but throughout it all she remains happy and optimistic (there’s a reason her best friend Gus calls her Bright Side). Kate is strong-willed, funny, smart, and musically gifted. She’s also never believed in love. So when Kate leaves San Diego to attend college in the small town of Grant, Minnesota, the last thing she expects is to fall in love with Keller Banks.

They both feel it.
But they each have a reason to fight it.
They each have a secret.

And when secrets are revealed,
Some will heal you ...
And some will end you.

Review: Full Measures (Flight & Glory #1) by Rebecca Yarros

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Publish Date: February 10th, 2014
Publisher: Entangled Publishing
Rating: 4 / 5

I won a copy via a giveaway. Thank you, Jess @ JessTimeToRead!

Blurb:
Three knocks can change everything...

"She knew. That’s why Mom hadn’t opened the door. She knew he was dead."

Twenty years as an army brat and Ember Howard knew, too. The soldiers at the door meant her dad was never coming home. What she didn’t know was how she would find the strength to singlehandedly care for her crumbling family when her mom falls apart.

Then Josh Walker enters her life. Hockey star, her new next-door neighbor, and not to mention the most delicious hands that insist on saving her over and over again. He has a way of erasing the pain with a single look, a single touch. As much as she wants to turn off her feelings and endure the heartache on her own, she can’t deny their intense attraction.

Until Josh’s secret shatters their world. And Ember must decide if he’s worth the risk that comes with loving a man who could strip her bare.

May 6, 2015

ARC Review: From the Ashes (Legend of the Liberator #1) by Shelby K Morrison

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Publish Date: May 3rd, 2015
Publisher: Self-Published
Rating: 3.5 / 5
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I received an Advance Reader Copy from the author in exchange for my honest review.

Blurb:
For eighteen years Aia Wynnald has lived a lie. Raised as a highborn in the Kingdom of Tharien, she’s filled her days with tutors and archery lessons. But simmering beneath her polite surface is a dangerous gift, one which she must keep a secret. Aia is a Bender. And in Tharien, Benders are feared and hunted.

When her unruly power breaks free with dire repercussions, Aia’s lifelong goal of independence shatters. As she scrambles to piece her life back together while evading capture, she disturbs a vengeful force intent on destroying the kingdom.

Now, with the help of an unlikely ally, Aia will decide the fate of Tharien. To rescue those she cares about will require accepting what she is. But can she risk becoming the monster she’s dreaded to save the very citizens baying for her blood?

ARC Review: Undertow (Undertow #1) by Michael Buckley

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Publish Date: May 5th, 2015
Publisher: HMH Children's Book Group
Rating: 4.5 / 5

I received an Advance Reader Copy from the publisher in exchange for my honest review.

Blurb:
Sixteen-year-old Lyric Walker’s life is forever changed when she witnesses the arrival of 30,000 Alpha, a five-nation race of ocean-dwelling warriors, on her beach in Coney Island. The world’s initial wonder and awe over the Alpha quickly turns ugly and paranoid and violent, and Lyric’s small town transforms into a military zone with humans on one side and Alpha on the other. When Lyric is recruited to help the crown prince, a boy named Fathom, assimilate, she begins to fall for him. But their love is a dangerous one, and there are forces on both sides working to keep them apart. Only, what if the Alpha are not actually the enemy? What if they are in fact humanity’s only hope of survival? Because the real enemy is coming. And it’s more terrifying than anything the world has ever seen.

Action, suspense, and romance whirlpool dangerously in this cinematic saga, a blend of District 9 and The Outsiders.

Let's Discuss: #bookwormproblems (Oh, & I'm Back From My Honeymoon!)

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Wedding stress is finally over and I'm back from Hawaii, you guys! There were a few hiccups before the wedding- like accidentally shattering my phone on the concrete while trying to call my parents who got lost with my wedding dress!- Other than that, what a beautiful day!

Hawaii was amazing, too! The Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort was absolutely gorgeous! I'll try to post some pictures soon!

Also, thank you for visiting the posts I scheduled for while I was gone! I appreciate every comment and I will respond and visit your blogs throughout the rest of this week!



On another note, while I was daydreaming by the pool during my honeymoon, I started thinking of how relaxing it was to be free of book struggles for the week. For example, spending hours adding new books on Goodreads, having a whole list of books to read next but never abiding by it, etc.
If you're a bookworm like me,
you can probably relate to these #bookwormproblems I've experienced:

May 4, 2015

Booklover Buys: Society6 Finds

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Booklover Buys is a post I do every Tuesday to share all the awesome bookish stuff I see while searching the internet.

Every week, I share book-related items of a certain theme or from a specific website.

This week's theme is bookish finds from the website Society6.