Eternally Blue ARC Giveaway

Isn't this cover the best? Email eternallybluegirl@yahoo.com for your chance to win an advance reader edition of Eternally Blue before it goes on sale June 2011!
Here is the description:

Following an early marriage proposal by a high ranking male in her vampire clan, Blue requests for and is given a brief glimpse at humanity as an immortal.
After the ritual to change her the elders in her clan arrange for someone to unceremoniously dump her unconscious and newly changed body to be found by humans, and where she ends up next is up to fate.

Chance to Win Free ARC of Fever by Lauren DeStefano

You heard right, the second book in the amazing Chemical Garden Trilogy hasn't even been printed yet but Lauren DeStefano is giving away a copy as well as a signed copy of Wither!

I did my part to enter, so make sure you go to her site and enter yourself. Good Luck!

Forbidden - Tabitha Suzuma

Cute cover right? There are some great books with simple red covers (Immortal Beloved, The Eternal Ones) and this one is no exception. It's about incest, which at first it's like whoa why would I want to read that? It is actually really good though, really really good. So read it! It's released June 28th.

New Read Books

Here is my list that I can remember off hand reading since the last post. I think it's missing a few but I lost the list where I keep track. Oops. I will eventually find it and update it. Sadly my Nook broke a few weeks ago, thus some of the crappy titles listed (I was stuck with a 'library' here in the Bahama's) Allegedly a library. It was suffering but thankfully my grandma back in the states shipped me another e-reader which I just got so I can begin good reads again. <3 <3 <3 Aren't grandma's the greatest???


Pretty little liars 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
Secret Society Girl 1 - Diana Peterfreud
Maximum Ride 1 - James Patterson
Southern Vampire 1 (Sookie Stackhouse) - Charlaine Harris
Beach Road - James Patterson
My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
Handle With Care - Jodi Picoult
The Gathering - Kelley Armstrong
Mediator book 1 - Meg Cabot -- The ''''''library'''''' here had this gem!! It was their ONLY YA book. How have I never heard of this series? It was great! Too bad I don't have a way to get the rest of the series.


If you'd like to see where I am in the Bahama's here's my blog I share with my husband. (Lately he does all the writing so I can do more reading of course!)
Reading in the Bahama's

Recently Read Books

I haven't been keeping up with book reviews as much as I'd like, because well, if you are reading this for the first time, I am on a sailing trip in the bahamas for 6 - 12 months, but I still want to keep track of what I'm reading in the meantime and keep the site live until I get back, so here are the latest and greatest books. Sadly I cannot download books for my Nook from BN.com out of the country. Gasp right?

Wither - Lauren Destefano - First in Chemical Garden Trilogy. This one I will say was EPIC! It just came out so be sure to get it.


Life As we Knew It 1,2,3 (series) - Susan Beth Pfeffer. This one was so amazing I lent my husband my Nook so he is currently reading it so we can discuss it, he doesn't usually like my books of course,... he will however watch Twilight with me and much to my chargrin is team Jacob. haha

Sleepless - Cyn Balog

Sarah Dessen - The Truth About Forever (boring), Along for the Ride (really good)


Dead Beautiful - Yvonne Woon. This one kinda dragged at the beginning but good plot.

Halo - Alexandra Adronello. Do covers ever speak to you? I know I'm not supposed to 'judge a book by its cover' but sometimes I really can tell and this one of course was as great as the cover was pretty.

Nevermore - Kelly Creagh. Really good!

Stray - Rachel Vincent - Werecats Series 1. This is interesting. It reminds me VERY closely to the Mercy Thompson series, and the cover was pretty cheesy so I was nervous about it, but it was actually good and there's alot in the series so thats a plus.

Peeps - Scott Westerfield

Love You, Hate You, Miss You - Elizabeth Scott

Beautiful - Amy Reed. Wonderful. Reminds me of my favorite, Pretty, Little, Dirty.

Nightshade - Andrea Cremer

River Marked - Patricia Briggs. Mercy Thompson Series Book 6

I may have already got this in a previous blog but, We'll Always Have Summer - Jenny Han Get this, I didn't realize this was a series, so imagine how distraught I was when I started reading The Summer I turned Pretty, AFTER We'll Always Have Summer. Being in the Bahama's also has the disadvantage of less internet time to do my research, but hey, I can hardly complain. Upside is more time to read on the beach!

Sharing Sam - Katherine Applegate

Deadly Little Secret - Laurie Faria Stolarz

Between Here and Forever - Elizabeth Scott

Return to Paradise - Simone Elkeles

Shift - Sequel to Shade, and just as good!

Sixteenth Summer - Michelle Dalton

I was lucky enough to get a gorgeous ARC of Huntress by Melinda Lo which I will be reading soon.

More Just Read's (internet is bad so I'm keeping it short)

We'll Always Have Summer - Jenny Han

The Summer of Skinny Dipping - Amanda Howells

Firespell - Chloe Neill

Plan B - Charnan Simon

Fairy Tale - Cyn Balog

Shine - Lauren Myracle

Evercrossed - Elizabeth Chandler

The Luxe Series

books read since January 1

Once in a full moon - Ellen  Scheiber

The Lying Game - Sara Shepard

Cryers Cross - Lisa McMann



Stay - Deb Caletti

One Hundred Candles -

Haven - Kristi Cook ( really good, but some serious Twilight copying issues)

Here Lies Bridget - Paige Harbison

Stuck in the Middle - Virigina Smith

Awaken - Katie Kacvinsky (really good)

Unearthly - Cynthia HAnd

Ten Miles Past Normal - Frances O'Roark Dowell

 Red Glove - Holly Black

DElirium - Lauren Oliver --- amazing amazing amazing.

Tempestous - Lesley Livingston. -- so boring, I don't know why if the first two were this bad, why I continued reading them. I can only imagine she had writers block and a deadline.

The Luxe - Anna Godbersen - really great series!

The Iron King, The Iron Daughter - Julie Kagawa

Matched - Allie Condie

Anyone read this yet? This was just what I needed to get myself out of my book funk. Amazing storytelling.

School's Out! And I'm Skipping Town - Several Updates

No More Excuses Right?? --- Wrong!

I am currently enjoying very very much suffering through, the remaining Gossip Girl novels. Luckily they are easy reads and I am flying through them. I don't think they deserve individual blog's same as the Private and Privilege series, so reviews will just have to wait.

That said, I am mid two other books as well.
Paranormalcy - Kiersten White



So far so good, but I had to put it down to finish and return these GG novels that are very overdue.

AND

Beastly - Alex Flinn

 

Has anyone else read this? It is just ok and I might not finish it because my good books are VERY backed up.

What do I mean by backed up? Well, I am leaving the country for a year on my sailboat and therefore will mostly have to stick to ebooks. They take up less space and I don't have to return them to the library. Unfortunately that means I will also have to start paying for my expensive habit but that is ok. So anyways, since the library has a slim selection of ebooks I have to hurry through the non ebooks before I leave and save the ones available as an ebook for while I'm cruising. I will still blog as I have time.

I got this gorgeous book as an ARC in the mail that once I start cruising I am going to read, I am saving it for now, but if it is as good as the cover then God help us, please release the next one asap.

Wither (The Chemical Garden Trilogy) - Lauren DeStefano

N00ky!!!!

I got my Nook this weekend. Oh yeahhhh. My husband won't let me have it until my birthday but I am still v. stoked! I decided on the $149 wifi only version - much as I wanted to splurge on the color one I couldn't rationalize it. Now I just have to figure it out and get books on it! I hope it doesn't take awhile to learn because I do NOT want anything slowing me down from reading!!

Speaking of which, the college semester is winding down, only 1 week to go, then I can focus on what's really important : YA vampires<3 <3 <3

Does anyone else have a nook and have any must-have accessories for it?? I need to cute - it- up


 

Almost to Die For [Vampire Princess Series] - Tate Hallaway

This was a fun read! I was hesitant because it involved witches which I usually stay away from, but it actually turned out really great and I can't wait for the second one. (When that will be IDK but keep me updated!). One great thing about this book that I am a sucker for is dual loves. Which should she pick? Nikolai or Elias?

The Haunted- Jessica Verday

Has anyone read this yet? I am doing this awkward thing where I am forced to put it down to like read a school book or go to work (gasp!) or something else equally not as fun as reading Y.A and then... I have no desire to come back to it. I force myself to though because I am like halfway through and then I am sucked back in and wonder 'how could I have ever thought that' and then I repeat the process. Love, put down, forget, drag ass, start reading again, love. wonder why?

This book is utterly forgettable. So while its a good read, don't stay away from it for any length of time or you might be tempted to not pick it back up again and finish.

Also I am reallly confused because I thought in the first one the author spent a lot of time making her character like you know a major goth. and possibly her twin (see back cover insert thing). Ok So I get that. Slightly overweight, unruly (yet gorgeous curls) and goth. cool. But in this book, I have mention of unruly curls only once so far and no goth mentions. She is wearing white sundresses with like daisy's on them? I can't picture this girl anymore. Maybe that's why this book is so forgettable. idk.

Immortal Beloved - Cate Tiernan

This book was so amazing! I was devastated that on the last page it showed that we would have to wait until Sept 2011 for the next in the series. This is one of my favorites, but having to wait a year is not cool. By then I'll have forgotten how in love with the first one I was. :(

Extraordinary - Nancy Werlin

This book started out strong, a nice good fairy tale that kept me engaged and wanting to find out how it ended, but then I was kind of disappointed at the ending. Anyone else read this and have an opinion? That cover sure is pretty though and I would still recommend reading it.

I'm Sorry Guys, but you are going to be so jealous (I'm even jealous of myself)

I was able to receive digital ARC's of several awesome looking books, but the one I am most excited about is Afterlife by Claudia Gray. I am a huge fan of the series Evernight and after Twilight it is probably the best series I have found yet. The book doesn't come out until March 2011 so I am of course strutting my cool stuff all over the place but anyways, I will read it asap and the others. In the meantime check out the hot covers of these books I got (digitally of course but still)

EDIT: I have found out I am supposed to wait to post reviews until closer to the release of these books, but I have almost finished Afterlife and it does not disappoint! 


Afterlife - Claudia Gray

The Lying Game - Sara Shepard



One in a Full Moon - Ellen Schreiber (another favorite author of mine ---squeeealll!!!!)



Unearthly - Cynthia Hand

Angelfire- Courtney Allison Moulton

This is relevant because I say it is

So we all have the New Moon soundtrack and love Anya Marina's Satellite Heart. RIGHT?!!!

Check out her latest geniusness.
(It's a cover of T.I's version for those of you who live under a rock....)

Shade - Jeri Smith-Ready

OK I finished this book last night and I just have a few things to say. First of all, this book was amazing. I'm now just sad it took me so long to read. I guess because its cover is so similar to Swoon, and Bleeding violet and even kind of The Dark Divine. I dunno. Anyways so this book was sooo great it had all of the elements,

1. Love triangle
2. Me crying
3. Me caring when the sequel comes out

and as an added bonus it takes place in Baltimore and surrounding areas and I am from MD also so hearing the names of all those places I know about was cool -- however, I wonder how it would be for a non-local. Like... she talked about places so much (or maybe I just noticed them alot since I know where they are) that I wonder if non locals are like wtheck is she talking about or more importantly WHY is she talking about that, as in: why do I care what the street name is? Does that make sense? Who knows, and like I said maybe I only noticed because I know the area and all books are like that.

Anyways so this is freaky.... I finished it last night ... Oct 19th, the same day Logan was born AND died. (He died on his birthday) so that is weird right? I had chills when I finished, and also today (the 20th) is my husbands birthday. oooOOOOoooo.

No I'm not old I just got married young!!! : P

Delirium - Lauren Oliver

This book won't be released until early next year but doesn't it's description sound a lot like Scott Westerfield's Uglies series? Granted, in Uglies, being ugly was what the government cured and here it is love, but you get the idea....

Love has been declared a dangerous disease, and the government forces everyone who reaches eighteen to have a procedure called "the Cure," in Lauren Oliver's stunning second novel, DELIRIUM. Lena Haloway is very much looking forward to being cured and living a safe, predictable life.She will be evaluated by the government, which will choose her husband for her. But then she meets Alex, a boy from the Wilds who is living under the government's radar, and she falls in love, threatening both their lives.

In this world, affection is prohibited. Touching and hugging are suspicious behaviors, even among family members. But despite government obtrusiveness, people find ways to connect and to be together. Hana finds like-minded people through embedded links on websites. And after meeting Alex, Lena understands that an emotional connection to another person is something she's always been missing--and now it's something she won't live without.

Extraordinary - Nancy Werlin

Has anyone gotten this yet? I have it at home and I cannot wait to read it! This cover is gorgeous! I hope it is as hard to put down as it is to stop looking at.

Bitten & Smitten - Michelle Rowen

This book sat on my shelf awhile because of the cheesy cover but it was actually a good read. By good, I mean I was able to finish it which is more than I can say for some of the books I have read recently, but don't expect any teen angst here, this is a little more saucy and grownup love. Good news is it's part of an established series so you don't have to wait for the next one to come out!