Meme/Waiting on Wednesday #7

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“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme hosted by Jill over at Breaking The Spine and its spotlights upcoming books that we are eagerly waiting for. I plan on including upcoming releases and books that are already released.

This week I am featuring:

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Seventeen-year-old Twylla lives in the castle. But although she’s engaged to the prince, Twylla isn’t exactly a member of the court.

She’s the executioner.

As the Goddess embodied, Twylla instantly kills anyone she touches. Each month, she’s taken to the prison and forced to lay her hands on those accused of treason. No one will ever love a girl with murder in her veins. Even the prince, whose royal blood supposedly makes him immune to Twylla’s fatal touch, avoids her company.

But then a new guard arrives, a boy whose easy smile belies his deadly swordsmanship. And unlike the others, he’s able to look past Twylla’s executioner robes and see the girl, not the Goddess. Yet Twylla’s been promised to the prince, and knows what happens to people who cross the  queen.

However, a treasonous secret is the least of Twylla’s problems. The queen has a plan to destroy her enemies, a plan that requires a stomach-churning, unthinkable sacrifice. Will Twylla do what it takes to protect her kingdom? Or will she abandon her duty in favor of a doomed love?

On sale February 24th from Scholastic

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Meme/Waiting on Wednesday #6

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“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme hosted by Jill over at Breaking The Spine and its spotlights upcoming books that we are eagerly waiting for. I plan on including upcoming releases and books that are already released.

This week I am featuring:

AWickedThing

 

From the Back Cover

A spinning wheel.
A prick of a finger.
A Terrible curse.

One hundred years after falling asleep, Princess Aurora wakes up to the kiss of a handsome prince and a broken kingdom that has been dreaming of her return. All the books say that she should be living happily ever after. But as Aurora understands all too well, the truth is nothing like the fairy tale.

Her family is long dead. Her “true love” is a kind stranger. And her whole life has been planned out by political foes while she slept. Everyone expects Aurora to marry her betrothed and restore magic and peace to the kingdom before revolution tears it apart. But after a lifetime spent locked in a tower for her own safety, Aurora longs for the freedom to make her own choices. When she meets a handsome rebel, she is tempted to abandon everything for a different kind of life.

As Aurora struggles to make sense of her new world, she begins to fear that the curse has left its mark on her, a fiery and dangerous thing that might be as wicked as the witch who once ensnared her. With her wedding day drawing near, Aurora must make the ultimate decision on how to save her kingdom: marry the prince or run.

A Wicked Thing is a surprising, spellbinding reimagining of what happens after happily ever after.

On sale February 24th from HarperTeen.

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January Book Un-Hauling #1

Good morning everyone. Today I thought I would start a new monthly feature on my blog and its going to be all the books I un-haul for that month and it will be posted at the end of each month.

I know I have shown in the past the books I have released but you never really got to see what books they were and why I was releasing them so I thought I would start 2015 with that.

If you know me IRL you know that I don’t tend to keep the books I have read unless I really like it or I love the covers, but once the fall came around and I was cleaning up for Christmas and preparing my background for my YouTube show, I realized that I have way to many books as you can see from this photo below and everything just looked cluttered and overwhelming. (This has already been purged in the fall and alot of books were given away then)

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That is just what is on the book cases image having boxes and boxes and more boxes fulled with books in your basement just sitting there and that will be tackled this summer.

So, for now I thought I would just tackle what I can physically see around me. This week I ended up tidying up the book cases behind me just because it didn’t look right on camera so these are the books from the book case and that huge stack beside it. I will post a photo at the end of this post showing the new look.

Books Read:

  1. Budapest Romance by Rozsa Gaston (Read and Review will be up in February)
  2. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
  3. Can’t Look Away by Donna Cooner
  4. Captivated by You by Sylvia Day
  5. Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
  6. We Should Hang Out Sometime by Josh Sundquist
  7. The Maze Runner by James Dashner
  8. Defriended by Ruth Baron
  9. Cure For The Common Break Up by Beth Kendrick
  10. Good Riddance by Cythina Copeland
  11. Beginning Pearls by Stephan T Pastis
  12. Blaze by Laurie Boyle Crompton
  13. In Real Life (Love, Lies & Identity in the Digital Age) by Nev Schulman
  14. The Silversix by AJ Lieberman & Darren Rawlings
  15. Smile by Raina Telgemeier
  16. Letting Ana Go
  17. Fakebook (A true story based on actual lies) by Dave Cicirelli
  18. Reflected in You by Sylvia Day
  19. Big Girl Panties by Stephanie Evanovich
  20. Prodigy by Marie Lu
  21. Fever by Megan Abbott
  22. Level 2 by Lenore Appelhans
  23. Mia’s Dairy Home Sweet Rome by Marissa Moss
  24. Teen Boat by Dave roman and John Green
  25. Send by Patty Blount

Those were all the books I have read and enjoyed and with the amount of books on my TBR I know I will never re-read them so why not pass them along to others who will enjoy the books just as much as I did, right?

The following books are books that I didn’t like/enjoy or didn’t finish. The have been sitting on my shelf for the longest time in hopes that I would re pick it up to try again but honestly I think that if I couldn’t get into them the first time I probably won’t get into them again. So its time to take them off the shelf and share them with people who will actually read and enjoy them. Sorry if this list upsets anyone but its only my personal taste and not everyone likes what everyone is reading or has read.

  1. Dog On It by Spencer Quinn
  2. To Fetch a Thief by Spencer Quinn
  3. Return To Sender by Julia Alvarez
  4. Hedge Fund Wives by Tatianna Boncompagni
  5. Feminista by Erica Kennedy
  6. The Beef Princess of Practical County by Michelle Houts
  7. The Tear Collector by Patrick Jones
  8. Just One Kiss by Susan Mallery
  9. Forever an Eaton by Rochelle Alers
  10. The Night is Watching by Heather Graham
  11. Rescue My Heart by Jill Shalvis
  12. Deas is a Killer Tune by Marlene Perez
  13. The Book of Mormon Girl by Joanna Brooks
  14. Between You and Me by Emma McLaughlin & Nicole Kraus
  15. Shelter by Frances Greenslade
  16. Some Kind of Peace by Camilla Grebec & Asa Traff
  17. The Broken Lands by Kate Milford
  18. Farewell to Freedom by Sara Blaedel
  19. Only One Life by Sara Blaedel
  20. What Came From The Stars by Gary D Schmidt
  21. Beach Season by Lisa Jackson

 

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This is what it currently looks like. As you can see I still have alot of books and I am trying to avoid having them double or triple stacking apart from the bottom shelves and I am going to make it a point to read those one firsts.

The total of un-hauled books for January is 46.