New Years Resolutions for 2015

I'm really excited to be sharing an excerpt from the newest LGBTQ+ anthology being released this month. I support this book, because ALL PROCEEDS from the sale will be donated to The Trevor Project.

$500 YA Signed Book Giveaway + Gift Card

Derek Murphy, YA author and founder of the YA Author Alliance, is running a giveaway this month, 10 signed books by bestselling authors and a $200 giftcard.

Once Upon A Series

I have way too many series that I've started, but haven't finished for whatever reason and this is a list of those I plan to finish this year.

Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley

Lies We Tell Ourselves is an eye-opening, heartbreaking, and beautifully written novel that will leave an everlasting impression on you.

Showing posts with label #012 third sentence thursday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #012 third sentence thursday. Show all posts

Thursday, June 23, 2011

#012 Third Sentence Thursday

Third Sentence Thursday


Third Sentence Thursday is a nifty little weekly meme hosted by Sniffly Kitty's Mostly Books.

1) Take the book you are reading now and post the third sentence
2) Review this sentence anyway you want (funny and silly reviews encouraged)
3) Post a link to your sentence here or if you don't have a blog, just post it in the comments!

This week's Third Setence Thursday comes from my most current read, Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma and despite it's controversial subject matter, it is a quite cleverly and quite brilliantly written and well developed story told of a romance forbidden, but one of the most beautifully illustrated and self-sacrificing variety. Please, I strongly implore you, when this novel becomes avaialble on store shelves - RUN - do not walk to your nearest bookstore and purchase this. Take it home and give it a chance, I promise you, you will not be disappointed in the slightest bit.

I realize the little snippet is longer than it probably should be, but I really did not want to break that up, as the love depicted was so beautifully illustrated between the two main character's of the novel. You cannot help, but want them to be together, even though it's all somehow wrong and the universe is perverse and so very effed up. It's their world and it's beautiful and compassionate and it belongs to them, so very fragile that even the slightest touch could send either one of them careening over the edge.

I can only imagine how delicious it would be, to ache like this for just one moment etched in time, one moment where my own heartbeat so wildly in my chest that I found myself so encompassed with nothing but a deep longing love literally eating me from the inside out and threatening to swallow me whole. How beautiful, it must feel to bask in the amazing glow for even just one second, shutting away the outside world and their ignorance that accompanies to shed nothing but darkness upon something so beautiful, so natural as loving someone else in such a pure and simple, honest way.


FORBIDDEN BY TABITHA SUZUMAForbidden
By: Tabitha Suzuma
E-ARC From S&S Galley Grab
b&n // amazon
Published Date: June 28, 2011
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Book Format: Hardback; pp 464
Age Demographic: Young Adult

"Loving him like this has become a deep physical ache. I am overcome by a kalaidescope of conflicting emotions: on the one hand fizzing with so much adrenaline and excitement that I find it difficult to eat; on the other, consumed with terror that Lochan is suddenly going to say we cannot do this because it is wrong. Or that someone may find out and force us apart. I will not listen to the ticking timebomb inside my head, will not think of the future, that gaping dark hole in which neither of us can exist, together or apart...I refuse to let all my fears of the future ruin the present. All that matters right now is that Lochan is here with me and that we love each other. I have never felt so happy in my life." (pp 227)

Seventeen-year-old Lochan and sixteen-year-old Maya have always felt more like friends than siblings. Together they have stepped in for their alcoholic, wayward mother to take care of their three younger siblings. As defacto parents to the little ones, Lochan and Maya have had to grow up fast. And the stress of their lives—and the way they understand each other so completely—has also also brought them closer than two siblings would ordinarily be. So close, in fact, that they have fallen in love.

Their clandestine romance quickly blooms into deep, desperate love. They know their relationship is wrong and cannot possibly continue. And yet, they cannot stop what feels so incredibly right. As the novel careens toward an explosive and shocking finale, only one thing is certain: a love this devastating has no happy ending.

*Summary taken from Goodreads.


Wednesday, June 15, 2011

#014 Waiting On Wednesday + #012 Third Sentence Thursday

Waiting On Wednesday or WoW! "Waiting On" Wednesday (or ya know WoW!) is a nifty little weekly event, hosted by the ever so lovely Jill at Breaking The Spine that puts the spotlight on various new and upcoming book releases that have become the"ohmigod! i gotta have this or i'll just die," eagerly anticipated novels to adorn your shelves.


COLD KISS BY AMY GARVEYCold Kiss
By Amy Garvey
Publisher: Harper Teen
Publish Date: September 20, 2011
Format: Hardback, pp 304
Age Demographic: Young Adult
b&n // amazon

“It seemed so right. Danny was mine, I was his, and that wasn’t going to work if he was dead. So I would make him not dead, not anymore. I didn’t think any further than what it would feel like to kiss him again, to wrap my arms around him and bury my head against his shoulder.

That was my first mistake. It also turned out to be the biggest.”


When her boyfriend, Danny, is killed in a car accident, Wren can’t imagine living without him. Wild with grief, she uses the untamed powers she’s inherited to bring him back. But the Danny who returns is just a shell of the boy she once loved.

Wren has spent four months keeping Danny hidden, while her life slowly unravels around her. Then Gabriel DeMarnes transfers to her school and somehow, inexplicably, he can sense her secret. Wren finds herself drawn to Gabriel, who is so much more alive than the ghost of the boy she loved. But Wren can’t turn her back on Danny or the choice she made for him—and she realizes she must find a way to make things right, even if it means breaking her own heart.

Amy Garvey’s transcendent teen debut is perfect for fans of Shiver and Beautiful Creatures. Wren’s unforgettable voice and story will stay with readers long after the last page is turned.

*Summary taken from Goodreads.



For starters, I love how the cover has a blue-ish tint to it and what looks to be frost-bitten lips. It's really kind of pretty, plus I love the font the used for the title. It looks sort of shiny grungey crystalized, if that makes any sense. Also, I really love the teaser they give you in the synopsis, that's the second thing that really stood out to me and made me want to read this book. Also, how much do I love the main character's name, Wren. It's so different from the standard names that you see showing up in books, it stands out and then the fact that she has to break her own heart to make things right, you know this is going to be an amazing read that's definitely going to be heartbreakingly emotional.


Third Sentence Thursday


Third Sentence Thursday is a nifty little weekly meme hosted by Sniffly Kitty's Mostly Books.

1) Take the book you are reading now and post the third sentence
2) Review this sentence anyway you want (funny and silly reviews encouraged)
3) Post a link to your sentence here or if you don't have a blog, just post it in the comments!

So, this week's Third Sentence Thursday comes from Michelle Hodkin's debut novel, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer for which I am so happy to have finally gotten an ARC of this, thanks to Simon&Schuster, Paul Crichton, and Siena for making sure my two copies arrived in the mail to me after two different snaphoo's that occurred the first and second time around (ie. getting lost in the mail both times. now what are the odd's of that?! really.) and this time literally making sure there would be absolutely no way for the mail to lose these two. I finally have one of the top five books I've been dying to read all year and I'm going to be starting it soon. Also, look for a giveaway with the other ARC at some point within the next month or so.


THE UNBECOMING OF MARA DYER BY MICHELLE HODKINThe Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
By: Michelle Hodkin
ARC From Publisher: S&S Children's Publishing
b&n // amazon
Published Date: September 27, 2011
Publisher: Simon&Schuster Children's Publishing
Book Format: Hardback; pp 464
Age Demographic: Young Adult

"I know that having a fake name is strange, but trust me--it's the most normal thing about my life right now. Even tell you this much probably isn't smart. But without my big mouth, no would know that a seventeen-year-old who likes Death Cab For Cutie was responsible for the murders." (The letter before the first chapter.)

Mara Dyer doesn't think life can get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there.
It can.

She believes there must be more to the accident she can't remember that killed her friends and left her mysteriously unharmed.

There is.

She doesn't believe that after everything she's been through, she can fall in love.

She's wrong.

*Summary taken from Goodreads.


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