A Darker Shade of Magic by V. E. Schwab Publisher: Tor Publication Date: February 24th, 2015 Pages: 398 Song(s) I Played While Reading: Lean On by Major Lazer & Outside by Calvin Harris Rating: 4 stars Kell is one of the last travelers- magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel universes connected by one magical city. There's Grey London, dirty...

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The Winners Crime by Marie Rutkoski

The Winners Crime by Marie Rutkoski  Publisher: Ferrars Straus Giroux Publication Date: January 1st, 2015 Pages: 402 Song I Played While Reading: Talking Body by Tove Lo Rating: 3 stars A royal wedding means one celebration after another: balls, fireworks, and revelry until dawn. But to Kestrel it means living in a cage of her own making. As the wedding approaches she aches to tell...

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Happy Monday!

Hello, lovely internet friends! I hope you had a fabulous weekend and are ready to kick some butt this week! For some reason, I can't read after I work. I'm just too exhausted and want to eat something and stare into space and go to bed. Sometimes in that order. Hopefully I can get over this weird phase! Finished This Week Just One Day by Gayle Forman Just One Night by Gayle Forman (novella) The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon Currently Reading The Winners Crime by Marie Rutkoski To Read  A...

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The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon

The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon Publisher: Bloomsbury Publication Date: August 20th, 2013 Pages: 452 Song I Read While Reading: Addicted To A Memory by Zed Rating: 3 stars The year is 2059. Paige Mahoney is working in the criminal underworld of Scion London. Her job: to scout for information by breaking into people's minds. For Paige is a dream walker, a rare kind...

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Top Ten All Time Favorite Authors

This meme is hosted by the lovely ladies at The Broke and the Bookish Richelle Mead One of the few authors I've loved since I was young, and also my auto-buy and the author I own the most books from, Mead had to be my number one all time favorite author. Everything she writes is amazing and well-developed and hilarious and just awesome. Vampire Academy was one of the first fantasy books I...

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Just One Day by Gayle Forman

Just One Day by Gayle Forman Publisher: Speak (Penguin Group) Publication Date: January 8th, 2013 Pages: 369 Song I Played While Reading: Anna Sun by Walk The Moon Rating: 4 stars Allyson Healey's life is exactly like her suitcase- packed, planned, ordered. Then on the last day of her three-week post-graduation European tour, she meets Willem. A free-spirited, roving actor, Willem...

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Happy Monday!

Hi everybody! So usually I do the It's Monday, What Are You Reading? meme, but Sheila, also known as Book Journey, is currently going through a huge personal issue and will not be blogging for awhile. So I won't be doing that meme anymore but still like the idea behind it, so I'll just be posting something similar to it every Monday and just call it "Happy Monday!". Why not brighten the otherwise dull Monday's everyone seems to have? I for one love Monday's since I work the weekend but have the...

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Book Boyfriend: Chaol Westfall

I hold a special place in my heart for fictional boys. I'm very picky, so not just any guy with a sense of humor can waltz in and snag a piece of my heart (though that definitely is one of my requirements). As they added up I realized they all had things in common; they're thoughtful, trustworthy, open-minded, determined (usually when getting the girl *sigh*), they have a sense of humor, are loyal, and protective. For all my talk of every boy I read in a book or series being my favorite, I have...

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The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen

The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen  Publisher: HarperCollins Publication Date: July 8th, 2014 Pages: 434 Song I Played While Reading: Never Sleep Alone by Kaskade Rating: 4.5 stars Young Kelsea Raleigh was raised in hiding after the death of her mother, Queen Elyssa, far from the intrigues of the royal Keep and in the care of two devotes servants who pledged their lives...

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Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon (ARC review)

Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon Publisher: Delacorte Press/ Random House Publication Date: September 1st, 2015 Pages: 307 Song I Played While Reading: Aquaman by Walk The Moon Rating: 4 stars My disease is as rare as it is famous. Basically, I'm allergic to the world. I don't leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my...

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YALLWEST 2015

Hi guys! This past weekend I was fortunate enough to attend Yallwest in Santa Monica, the sister book festival to Yallfest in South Carolina. This was the first year and they rolled out the red carpet for some crazy awesome authors: Veronica Roth, Richelle Mead, Leigh Bardugo, Tahereh Mafi, Ransom Riggs, Marie Lu, Victoria Aveyard, and waaaaay more! It was insane. This was my first book festival...

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Vanishing Girls by Lauren Oliver

Vanishing Girls by Lauren Oliver Publisher: HarperCollins Publication Date: March 10th, 2015 Pages: 368 Song I Played While Reading: Wildest Dreams by Taylor Swift Rating: 2.5 stars Dara and Nick used to be inseparable, but that was before – before Dara kissed Parker, before Nick lost him as her best friend, before the accident that left Dara’s beautiful face scarred.  Now...

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The Wrong Side of Right By Jenn Marie Thorne

The Wrong Side of Right By Jenn Marie Thorne Publisher: Dial Books Publication Date: March 17, 2015 Pages: 400 Song I Played While Reading: Sun Goes Down by Robin Schulz Rating: 5 stars Kate Quinn's mom died last year, leaving Kate parentless and reeling. So when the unexpected shows up in her living room, Kate must confront a reality she never thought possible. She does have...

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Top Ten Characters I'd Like To Check In With

This meme is hosted by the lovely ladies at The Broke and the Bookish Rose Hathaway I know we get scenes of Rose in the Bloodlines series, but I'm talking Rose in her 20's. How's Lissa and Christian? What other laws has she passed? Are they married? ARE YOU AND DIMITRI MARRIED? Tell me about your craziest guardian stories! Where do you live? Does it look like that one fantasy you had in Blood...

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It's Monday! What Are You Reading?

Hello everyone! It was quiet on the blog over the weekend cause I started my first weekend of work, which went really well. And no offense to spring, but I'm counting down the days until its over because this whole itchy eyes, can't-breathe-out-of-my-nose thing? Yeah, its getting old. GO AWAY POLLEN. This meme is hosted by the lovely ladies at Book Journey :) Finished This Week Even in...

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Volition by Lily Paradis

Volition by Lily Paradis  Publisher: Empire Books Publication Date: January 16th, 2015 Pages: 394 Song I Played While Reading: Faded by ZHU Rating: 4 stars You know that feeling in the pit of your stomach that stays with you, then tears you apart slowly at first, and all at once shreds every fiber of your being? It’s because you’re contradicting the universe. Everything...

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March 2015 Wrap Up

Who can believe that its already April?! I can't! I don't think a month has ever flown by so fast for me. It was an okay reading month, in the beginning I read some incredible books but it kind of went downhill. The last 3 books I've read have only been 3 stars or below, so heres to hoping April brings some kick ass books with it :) - Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover - Maybe Someday by Colleen...

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