Waiting On Wednesday is a meme hosted by Jill at Breaking The Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that everyone’s excited about! A shadowy figure. An intense roar. The sensation of falling—fast. That’s all Callum Harris remembers from his tumble over the waterfall. But when he wakes up in a hospital bed and finds his best…
HALF LIVES by Sara Grant (Little Brown, July 9th 2013) is described as high-stakes and thought-provoking. And today, I’m revealing the mutely intense cover for both HALF LIVES and the matching paperback cover of DARK PARTIES (which I loved)! I learned that surviving isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. If you survive, you’ve got…
ALICE IN ZOMBIELANDGena Showalter404 pagesPublisher: Harlequin TeenRelease Date: September 25th, 2012Source: ARC from PublisherRating: Meh She won’t rest until she’s sent every walking corpse back to its grave. Forever. Had anyone told Alice Bell that her entire life would change course between one heartbeat and the next, she would have laughed. From blissful to tragic,…
I’ll still be doing In My Mailbox, BUT I’ll also have a weekly roundup post along with it. So. Check out the books I got in the mail this week, and see what happened at IceyBooks this week too! Crash by Lisa McMann (Requested Review Copy)The Gathering Dark by Christine Johnson (Requested Review Copy)Renegade by J….
VENOMFiona Paul432 pagesPublisher: Philomel (Penguin)Release Date: October 30th, 2012Source: ARC from PublisherRating: LOVED Cassandra Caravello is one of Renaissance Venice’s lucky elite: with elegant gowns, sparkling jewels, her own lady’s maid, and a wealthy fiancé, she has everything a girl could desire. Yet ever since her parents’ death, Cassandra has felt trapped, alone in a…
Today I’ve got Beck McDowell, author of THIS IS NOT A DRILL, a contemporary young adult debut. Beck will be talking about how her cover design – and how worrying the wait was. Without further ado, here’s Beck! (Oh, and be sure enter the giveaway at the end!) I was SO nervous about how the…
Welcome back to the eleventh month of the first annual Standalone Reading Challenge! If you’re not familiar with the challenge I am co-hosting with Britta from I Like These Books You can read the full introductory post here. Once you sign up, be sure to pick up one of ten buttons here. The 2012 Standalone…