[teaser/review] DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE SERIES BY LAINI TAYLOR

Even if you haven’t read this series you've heard people raving about the awesomeness of it.
I thought of writing a review – I have so much to say: about the world building, about the characters, about the writing… but everything I would writhe it will be just fancy phrasing of the ultimate conclusion that THIS WAS F***ING AWESOME.

So instead of repeating what other people already said ill just show you three of my favorite teaser-quotes from this series (one for each book) with a hope that they will entice you into reading it sooner.

[blog tour] BIGGEST FLIRTS BY JENNIFER ECHOLS and GIVEAWAY

[blog tour] TORN AWAY BY JENNIFER BROWN

[review] THREE BY KRISTEN SIMMONS

Book: Three
Series: (Article 5, #3)
Author: Kristen Simmons
Rating:

Ember Miller and Chase Jennings are ready to stop running. After weeks spent in hiding as two of the Bureau of Reformation’s most wanted criminals, they have finally arrived at the safe house, where they hope to live a safe and quiet existence. And all that’s left is smoking ruins.
Devastated by the demolition of their last hope, Ember and Chase follow the only thing left to them—tracks leading away from the wreckage. The only sign that there may have been survivors.
With their high profile, they know they can’t stay out in the open for long. They take shelter in the wilderness and amidst the ruins of abandoned cities as they follow the tracks down the coast, eventually finding refugees from the destroyed safe house. Among them is someone from Chase’s past—someone he never thought he’d see again.;

[blog tour] CAPTIVATE ME BY S.J. PIERCE

[review] RUINS BY DAN WELLS

Book: Ruins
Series: (Partials #3)
Author: Dan Wells
Rating:

Kira, Samm, and Marcus fight to prevent a final war between Partials and humans.

There is no avoiding it—the war to decide the fate of both humans and Partials is at hand. Both sides hold in their possession a weapon that could destroy the other, and Kira Walker has precious little time to prevent that from happening. She has one chance to save both species and the world with them, but it will only come at great personal cost.

[blog tour] BROKEN SKIES BY THERESA KAY

[blog tour] ILLUMINATING GRACIE BY LISA C. TEMPLE

[review] DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT BY SARAH MLYNOWSKI

Book: Don't Even Think About It
Author: Sarah Mlynowski
Rating:

We weren't always like this.
We used to be average New York City high school sophomores.Until our homeroom went for flu shots. We were prepared for some side effects. Maybe a headache. Maybe a sore arm. We definitely didn't expect to get telepathic powers. But suddenly we could hear what everyone was thinking. Our friends. Our parents. Our crushes. Now we all know that Tess is in love with her best friend, Teddy. That Mackenzie cheated on Cooper. That, um, Nurse Carmichael used to be a stripper.Since we've kept our freakish skill a secret, we can sit next to the class brainiac and ace our tests. We can dump our boyfriends right before they dump us. We know what our friends really think of our jeans, our breath, our new bangs. We always know what's coming. Some of us will thrive. Some of us will crack. None of us will ever be the same.So stop obsessing about your ex. We're always listening.

[review] SOMETHING REAL BY HEATHER DEMETRIOS

Book: Something Real
Author: Heather Demetrios
Rating:

Winner of the 2012 PEN New England Discovery Award! There’s nothing real about reality TV.
Seventeen-year-old Bonnie™ Baker has grown up on TV—she and her twelve siblings are the stars of one-time hit reality show Baker’s Dozen.
Since the show’s cancellation and the scandal surrounding it, Bonnie™ has tried to live a normal life, under the radar and out of the spotlight. But it’s about to fall apart…because Baker’s Dozen is going back on the air. Bonnie™’s mom and the show’s producers won’t let her quit and soon the life she has so carefully built for herself, with real friends (and maybe even a real boyfriend), is in danger of being destroyed by the show.
Bonnie™ needs to do something drastic if her life is ever going to be her own—even if it means being more exposed than ever before.

[review] RED RISING BY PIERCE BROWN

Book: Red Rising
Series: (Red Rising Trilogy #1)
Author: Pierce Brown
Rating:

Darrow is a Helldiver, one of a thousand men and women who live in the vast caves beneath the surface of Mars. Generations of Helldivers have spent their lives toiling to mine the precious elements that will allow the planet to be terraformed. Just knowing that one day people will be able to walk the surface of the planet is enough to justify their sacrifice. The Earth is dying, and Darrow and his people are the only hope humanity has left.
Until the day Darrow learns that it is all a lie. Mars is habitable - and indeed has been inhabited for generations by a class of people calling themselves the Golds. The Golds regard Darrow and his fellows as slave labour, to be exploited and worked to death without a second thought.
With the help of a mysterious group of rebels, Darrow disguises himself as a Gold and infiltrates their command school, intent on taking down his oppressors from the inside.
But the command school is a battlefield. And Darrow isn't the only student with an agenda...

[review] SECRET BY BRIGID KEMMERER

Book: Secret
Series: (Elemental #4)
Author: Brigid Kemmerer
Rating:

Nowhere is safe. Not even home…
Nick Merrick is stretched to the breaking point.
Keep his grades sky-high or he’ll never escape his hometown.
Keep his brother’s business going or the Merricks will be out on the street.
Keep the secret of where he’s going in the evenings from his own twin—-or he’ll lose his family.
Keep his mind off the hot, self-assured dancer who’s supposed to be his “girlfriend’s” partner.
Of course there’s also the homicidal freak Quinn has taken to hanging around, and the Elemental Guide counting the hours until he can try again to kill the Merrick brothers.
There’s a storm coming. From all sides. And then some.
Nick Merrick, can you keep it together?

[review] AVALON BY MINDEE ARNETT

Book: Avalon
Series: (Avalon #1)
Author: Mindee Arnett
Rating:

Of the various star systems that make up the Confederation, most lie thousands of light-years from First Earth-and out here, no one is free. The agencies that govern the Confederation are as corrupt as the crime bosses who patrol it, and power is held by anyone with enough greed and ruthlessness to claim it. That power is derived from one thing: metatech, the devices that allow people to travel great distances faster than the speed of light.
Jeth Seagrave and his crew of teenage mercenaries have survived in this world by stealing unsecured metatech, and they're damn good at it. Jeth doesn't care about the politics or the law; all he cares about is earning enough money to buy back his parents' ship, Avalon, from his crime-boss employer and getting himself and his sister, Lizzie, the heck out of Dodge. But when Jeth finds himself in possession of information that both the crime bosses and the government are willing to kill for, he is going to have to ask himself how far he'll go to get the freedom he's wanted for so long.

[review] UNHINGED BY A.G. HOWARD

Book: Unhinged
Series: (Splintered #2) by
Author: A.G. Howard
Rating:

Alyssa Gardner has been down the rabbit hole and faced the bandersnatch. She saved the life of Jeb, the guy she loves, and escaped the machinations of the disturbingly seductive Morpheus and the vindictive Queen Red.
Now all she has to do is graduate high school and make it through prom so she can attend the prestigious art school in London she's always dreamed of.
That would be easier  if the mysterious Morpheus didn’t show up for school one day to tempt her with another dangerous quest in the dark, challenging Wonderland—where she (partly) belongs. Glimpses of Wonderland start to bleed through her art and into her world in very disturbing ways, and Morpheus warns that Queen Red won’t be far behind. If Alyssa stays in the human realm, she could endanger Jeb, her parents, and everyone she loves. But if she steps through the rabbit hole again, she'll face a deadly battle that could cost more than just her head..

[challenge] REVIEW PILE CLEANUP for 2014

Need we say it?
We've all been there at one point, went a little wild, clicking on books, so sure we need to have them! Only when they come to put them aside for the next ones we just NEED to read!?

Here is a challenge to help you break that cycle! Its Review Pile Reading Challenge and its hosted by Phantasmic Reads. If you feel like joining click the button on the left.


We are aiming for 31-40 read/reviewed books (Grand Master level! Yay!)
We will use this post to track and catalog our reading progress, which means it will be updated and edited frequently.

Happy Reading!

January Reads:
1. UNHINGED by A.G. Howard [04.Jan.2014]
2. AVALON by Mindee Arnett [21.Jan.2014]
3. SECRET by Brigid Kemmerer [26.Jan.2014]
4. RED RISING by Pierce Brown [28.Jan.2014]
5. SOMETHING REAL by Heather Demetrios [31.Jan.2014]

February Reads:
6. DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT by Sarah Mlynowski [17.Feb.2014]

March Reads:
7. ILLUMINATING GRACIE by Lisa C. Temple [04.Mar.2014]
8. BROKEN SKIES by Theresa Kay [19.Mar.2014]
9. RUINS by Dan Wells [29.Mar.2014]
10. CAPTIVATE ME by S.J. Pierce [31.Mar.2014]

April Reads:
11. THREE by Kristen Simmons [08.Apr.2014]

May Reads:
12. TORN AWAY by Jennifer Brown [06.May.2014]
13. BIGGEST FLIRTS by Jennifer Echols [14.May.2014]
14. DAUGHTER OF SMOKE AND BONE SERIES by Laini Taylor [16.May.2014]

14/40 books