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7 Of My Most Recent 5 Star Reads

Mar 29, 2016

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. Each week they post a new Top Ten list that members at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. All bloggers are then welcomed to join. This week’s Top Ten Tuesday is: 7 Of My Most Recent 5 Star Reads

Okay, so not all of these are 5 stars, but if they have come very close.

Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys: One of my favourite books of the year. Beautiful, captivating, extraordinary. Salt to the Sea is a gorgeous novel that brings to light a catastrophe that seems to be forgotten. With stunning writing and intriguing characters Ruta Sepetys brings a novel that tells a story that everyone needs to read. | Review

The Winner’s Kiss by Marie Rutkoski: A beautiful way to end the series. The Winner’s Kiss is about love, betrayal, friendship and what would people do to do for their empire. The Winner’s Kiss takes you on a journey like no other, it captures your heart, but wreaks your emotions, and it will break you and put you together over and over again until the last page. | Review

Walk the Edge by Katie McGarry: A steamy romance, dark issues, sweet love and protagonists that pulls you right in. Walk the Edge by Katie MaGarry is a brilliant second novel in the Thunder Road series that is for lovers of YA Contemporary and anyone else who loves romance in dark times| Review

Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare: Clare’s best yet. Cassandra Clare brings the magic of the shadow world into a new light, in a gripping first novel of a series, Lady Midnight is dark, fun and full of ups and down, it is going to rip your heart apart.| Review

The Darkest Corners by Kata Thomas: The Darkest Corners is mind-blowing, heartbreaking and shows us that family is not always family, not matter what you believe | Review coming soon.

Winter by Marissa Meyer: What an amazing way to finish off the series. it was full of adventure, heartbreaking moments, beautiful moments that had me grinning ear to ear. Winter has all the characters that we all know and love and brings in some new ones; some we hate and some that we might just like. I adored Winter, it was just so beautiful.

The Things I Didn’t Say by Kylie Fornasier: A gorgeous novel that breaks you down. It pulls at your heart and slowly rips it. With beautiful writing and a slowburning romance that starts off quick, but takes it’s time. | Full Review Soon

What are some of your recent 5 Star reads? Do we share any? Let’s Chat!

Book Review: Walk the Edge by Katie McGarry – Blog Tour

Mar 25, 2016

Walk the Edge by Katie McGarry

Pages: 384
Publish date: 29th March 2016
Publisher: Harlequin TEEN
ISBN: 0373211627
Purchase: Book Depository – Amazon UK – Amazon US – Amazon AU

One moment of recklessness will change their worlds.

Smart. Responsible. That’s seventeen-year-old Breanna’s role in her large family, and heaven forbid she put a toe out of line. Until one night of shockingly un-Breanna-like behavior puts her into a vicious cyber-bully’s line of fire—and brings fellow senior Thomas “Razor” Turner into her life.

Razor lives for the Reign of Terror motorcycle club, and good girls like Breanna just don’t belong. But when he learns she’s being blackmailed over a compromising picture of the two of them—a picture that turns one unexpected and beautiful moment into ugliness—he knows it’s time to step outside the rules.

And so they make a pact: he’ll help her track down her blackmailer, and in return she’ll help him seek answers to the mystery that’s haunted him—one that not even his club brothers have been willing to discuss. But the more time they spend together, the more their feelings grow. And suddenly they’re both walking the edge of discovering who they really are, what they want, and where they’re going from here.

Walk the Edge:

I received an e-arc of Walk the Edge by Katie McGarry from Harlequin Teen Via Inkslinger PR in conjunction with the Walk the Edge Blog Tour. This has in no way influenced my thoughts and feelings about the book.

If you know me well enough then you would know that I love Katie McGarry’s books, her books were one of the first contemporary novels that I read and I let me tell you, I am so glad that I did.

Last year when I read Nowhere but Here, I fell in love with the characters and the world. There is something have guys and bikes that is so fun to read.

Walk the Edge is quite different in relation to the themes that it contains compared to Nowhere but Here. It is quite dark at times, but that is what I love about Katie McGarry’s writing, she can talk about things that are dark, but do it beautifully.

Walk the Edge follows protagonists Breanna, who is quite, shy and hella smart and Razor member of The Reign of Terror motorcycle club. Brought together by something that was a beautiful moment, but made to look like something more. Breanna and Razor join forces and make a pact; find out who is blackmailing Breanna and what really happened to Razors mother.

I adored both protagonists in Walk the Edge. They are both so different, but just work together so well.

Breanna is the shy type. She does what she has to do and is always there for her family, even when they are not there for her. And as the novel went on we get to see her grow. I enjoyed Breanna a lot, she wasn’t annoying or whiny, and she felt normal.

I cannot explain how much I loved Razor. You just feel for him so much. He had this fire about him, however he also had a wall and we slowly see him soften as the book went on.

I really enjoyed the plot of Walk the Edge. It was intriguing and had me turning page after page. I wanted to know what happened to Razors mother, why the club was being so secretive.

We also get to see how the town feels about the club in this book. We see the hatred that most of the town has and gosh, it broke me at times. They all have this outlook on how the club or they liked to call it sometimes gang work.

Walk the Edge has a sense of family. Good and bad, mostly bad. I love how Breanna had a big family, but they were just horrible. They were never there for Breanna and again, it broke me. Breanna has given up so much for them and they give nothing back. They infuriated me, I wanted to throw my book (well phone) across the room, whenever they were in scenes.

We also see a side of the club that we didn’t see in the previous books and I didn’t like it at all. They way that they treated Razor at times…no please.

I love the writing style of Katie McGarry, it’s easy to read and flows so nicely. You are never confused about what was going on. You just along on the ride.

I adored the romance in Walk the Edge. It was slow burning at first, but we could also see the attraction between the two and I loved it.

This has to be one of the most intense endings of a Katie McGarry book, and that is saying something, because the ending of Nowhere but Here is pretty heavy. There was just something about the ending that made it more jarring.

Overall, I loved Walk the Edge by Katie McGarry. It has a steamy romance, dark issues, sweet love and protagonists that pulls you right in. Walk the Edge by Katie MaGarry is a brilliant second novel in the Thunder Road series that is for lovers of YA Contemporary and anyone else who loves romance in dark times.

Have you read Walk the Edge yet? What did you think of it? Are you going to? Let’s chat!

Katie McGarry was a teenager during the age of grunge and boy bands and remembers those years as the best and worst of her life. She is a lover of music, happy endings, reality television, and is a secret University of Kentucky basketball fan.

Katie is the author of full length YA novels, PUSHING THE LIMITS, DARE YOU TO, CRASH INTO YOU, TAKE ME ON, BREAKING THE RULES, and NOWHERE BUT HERE and the e-novellas, CROSSING THE LINE and RED AT NIGHT. Her debut YA novel, PUSHING THE LIMITS was a 2012 Goodreads Choice Finalist for YA Fiction, a RT Magazine’s 2012 Reviewer’s Choice Awards Nominee for Young Adult Contemporary Novel, a double Rita Finalist, and a 2013 YALSA Top Ten Teen Pick. DARE YOU TO was also a Goodreads Choice Finalist for YA Fiction and won RT Magazine’s Reviewer’s Choice Best Book Award for Young Adult Contemporary fiction in 2013.

Discussion: Same World Authors

Mar 23, 2016

The one thing I hate more than people rating/reviewing books before they have read them, is when people hate on authors for writing in the same universe/world.

Ever since it was announced that Cassandra Clare would be writing more series in the Shadowhunter universe (The Dark Artifices and The Last Hours) people have gone mental. I have seen so much hate towards her on Goodreads and other platforms – that she should not be writing more books in this world, that she is only doing it for the money and that it is all the same. As a writer and reader this makes my blood boil.

However, the thing is I haven’t just seen it with Clare, recently I have seen hate angled towards Rick Riordan with the announcement that he is writing a new series in the same world as his other books.

I seriously don’t understand, why this concerns some people. You are not the author, no one is forcing you to read it, so why hate on someone.

There are many reasons as to why I am totally okay, with authors writing in that same world;

1.They are the author! If the author decides they want to write in the same world, then I say good on them. They can do whatever they like. They are the ones writing the books, so they can do whatever they want.

Maybe they like the world so much, and they have so many ideas and characters, that they cannot fit into one series. Both Clare and Riordan have been writing for quite a while and they both know what they are doing.

2. The author’s world isn’t all we see. When an author starts creating a world – they don’t just create the one that we read, they create so much more and sometimes, those characters and stories need to be heard.

3. They could be contacted to write a certain amount of book. Sometimes authors have contracts for a certain amount of books and I can bet you anything that some of these authors are contracted to write books in the same world. Publishers know that they will make money off them.

4. Money. This is a massive thing that I am seeing. That, all the author wants to do is to make money. But the thing is, you kind of need money to survive in this world and if an author knows that people like a world so much that they will get money from it – they why not. Why not make money from doing something that you love.

5. People want it. Even though I am writing this post about people hating on same world authors, there are so many people who would read these books. There are people who want more. They are so invested into the characters that, they will take anything from the world.

When I see people hate on these authors, my blood boils. Not because I like them or their world, but because I think it’s unfair that people are doing this. They could easily not comment about it. They could leave it alone. But no, they have to say their opinion, which isn’t an opinion, but more of a hateful comment.

No one is forcing them to go online or a book shop and buy the book. No one is forcing them to read it. No one is doing anything that would make the person need to say that the author shouldn’t be writing in the same world.

Furthermore, sometimes they say that the books are all the same. I am seeing it quite a bit with Cassandra Clare, anyone can back me up on this, her latest novel Lady Midnight, is nothing like her previous books – I also think that both her other series are different too.

Nevertheless, it is all up to the author; they are the ones writing the books, promoting the books, creating the world – They can do what they like.

What do you think of all this? Lets Chat.