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12 Dec

Cover Reveal: Hallowed Ground by Rebecca Yarros

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Welcome, Welcome to the cover reveal of Rebecca Yarros’ Hallowed Ground. Hallowed Ground is the fourth book in her Fight and Glory Series and it’s the sort of sequel to the first novel Full Measures.

I love this series – it’s not common that I read New Adult series but I do love to from time to time and let me tell you I love the Fight and Glory. It’s fun, hot, sexy. It makes me cry and laugh and smile. They are so fun to read but I normally end up in tears because hey they are about Military boys.

Anyway check out the beautiful and awesome cover for Hallowed Ground.

Hallowed Ground by Rebecca Yarros

Publish date: 25th January
Publisher: Entangled: Embrace
ASIN: B0191K3HWW
Purchase: Amazon UK – Amazon US

There are some debts you can’t repay.

Josh Walker is loyal, reckless, and every girl’s dream. But he only has eyes for December Howard, the girl he’s craved since his high school hockey days. Together they have survived grief, the military, distance, and time as they’ve fought for stolen weekends between his post at Ft. Rucker and her college at Vanderbilt. Now that Josh is a medevac pilot and Ember is headed toward graduation, they’re moving on—and in—together.

Ember never wanted the Army life, but loving Josh means accepting whatever the army dictates—even when that means saying goodbye as Josh heads to Afghanistan, a country that nearly killed him once before and that took her father. But filling their last days together with love, passion, and plans for their future doesn’t temper Ember’s fear, and if there’s one thing she’s learned from her father’s death, it’s that there are some obstacles even love can’t conquer.

Flight school is over.
This is war.

About the Author

Rebecca Yarros is a hopeless romantic and lover of all things chocolate, coffee, and Paleo. In addition to being a mom, military wife, and blogger, she can never choose between Young Adult and New Adult fiction, so she writes both. She’s a graduate of Troy University, where she studied European history and English, but still holds out hope for an acceptance letter to Hogwarts. Her blog, The Only Girl Among Boys, has been voted the Top Military Mom Blog the last two years, and celebrates the complex issues surrounding the military life she adores.

When she’s not writing, she’s tying on hockey skates for her kids, or sneaking in some guitar time. She is madly in love with her army-aviator husband of eleven years. They finally can call Colorado home along with their gaggle of rambunctious kiddos and snoring English Bulldog.

02 Dec

Event Wrap Up – 2016: The Year Ahead in Youth Literature

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Last night I headed on a train towards the city for the third time in three weeks for book events. It’s been a weeks full of bookish events and I have really loved them all but the Centre for Youth Literature, 2016: The Year Ahead in Youth Literature.

Let me tell you 2016 is going to be an epic year. There is some many amazing books coming out that I just can’t wait to get my hands on everything. I am going to need more money and room to get what is coming out in the new year.

Though they were running a little late it was all worth in the end. Everyone was given a book on the way in and I was lucky enough to grab Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo. Which can I am so excited about. Then they had some tables set up where we pamphlet from most of the publishers, we also got to grab a copy of A Corner Of White by Jaclyn Moriarty.

After everyone was seated the event started. Each publisher had 5 minutes to talk about some books that they have coming on in 2016. I am not going to talk about every single book that was talked about last night because the post about be way too long. But here we go.

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas.

Come on its Sarah J. Maas and it’s the sequel to A Court of Thorns and Roses probably one of my favourite books from 2015 so lets just say I am a little excited for A Court of Mist and Fury. You can check out my review of the first book here. (May)

When We Collided by Emery Lord.

Sounds absolutely incredible and heartbreaking. When We Collided tells the story of Vivi and Jonah. It’s about grief, romance and mental illness and it’s going to be an adventure full of laugh, tears and more. (April)

The Leaving by Tara Altebrando

Six Children were taken and eleven years only 5 return. They have no idea where they have been or what they have been doing. The Leaving is said to be for fans of We Were Liars. (June)

Other Bloomsbury Books: Thorne of Glass 5 by Sarah J. Maas (September), Stealing Snow by Danielle Paige (October)

The Stars of Oktober Bend by Glenda Millard

A girl with a brain injury that writes poems to express her words and a boy soldier who has lost all his family. A beautiful, romantic and heartbreaking and emotional read. (Feb)

Dreaming the Enemy by David Metzenthen

Johnny has returned from war in Vietnam, he doesn’t carry a weapon but carries photos of the dead. Johnny tries to find a way back from the nightmare of war to a sense of hope for the future. A deeply moving exploration of trauma and recovery. (April)

More from Allen and Unwin: The Way We Roll by Scot Gardner (March), Promising Azra by Helen Thurloe (September)

Between Us by Clare Atkins (2016)

Skylarking by Kate Midenhall (August)

My First Lesson: Stories Inspired by Laurinda by Alice Pung (September) A Collection of short stories by teens that have been inspired by Alice Pung’s Laurinda.

Passenger by Alexandra Bracken

Musicians, Pirates, high seas. Yes please. (February)

The Outliers by Kimberly McCreight

Wired, intriguing and full of Mystery, The Outliers follows Wylie as she tries to find her best friend Cassie paired with Jasper the one guy that sent Cassie off the rails.

More Books for HarperCollins: Lady Helen and the Dark Days Club by Alison Goodman (January), The Yearbook Commitee by Sarah Ayoub (March), Queen of Hearts by Colleen Oakes (May).

This Raging Light by Estelle Laure

Her Dad went crazy, her mum left, she has to look after her little siter and pay the bills and she is about to experience a messy first love. (January)

Book of Lies by Teri Terry

Twins that have never meet. One good, one evil; and one will destroy the other. But who can be trusted when no one is as they seem? (March)

In the Dark, In the Woods by Eliza Wass

A dark, intense, thrilling novel that test the bounders of what is family and what 6 siblings have be brought up to believe. (June)

More books from Hachette: Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard (February), The Crystal Run by Sheila O’Flanagan (June), The Loose Ends List by Carrie Firestone (May), Eight Rivers of Shadow by Leo Hunt (July), Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo (September), The Loneliness of Distant Beings by Kate Ling (September), Blood for Blood by Ryan Graudin

Firstlife by Gena Showalter

Tenley has been locked in the Prynne Asylum for the last thirteen months because she can’t decided where she wants to live when she dies. (March)

What I Saw by Beck Nicholas

King Hit that leaves a town shattered but is anyone ready for the truth. A complicated romance about a girl with everything on the line and a boy with nothing to lose. (March)

More Books for Harlequin: Soldier by Julie Kagawa (May), Valentine by Jodi McAlister (October)

The Special Ones by Em Bailey

Esther is one of the Special Ones – The Special Ones are not allowed to leave. They live under his protection in a remote farmhouse. But Esther knows that she is a fake and she knows that he will get rid of her if he finds out. (April)

More Books from Hardie Grant; Bro by Helen Chebette (February), The Riders of Thunder Realm by Steve Lochran (July), The Secret Science of Magic by Melissa Keil (September).

Coasting by Ben Karwan

This sounds like a nice summer read that is full of fun, laughs and maybe some tears.(January)

Special by Georgia Blain
Sounds like a really intriguing read that is going ot be quite exciting. (April)

More Books from Random House: Anna and the Swallow Man by Gavriel Savit (February), The Other Side of Summer by Emily Gale (June), Black by Fleur Ferris (July).

A Tangle of Gold by Jaclyn Moriarty (March), An Untitled work from Randa Adbel-Fattah (July), Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley (August)

Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare

It’s Cassandra Clare enough said. (March)

How Not to Disappear by Clare Furniss

Hattie is a pregnant teenager who goes on a road trip with her great-aunt that she didn’t know existed. (February)

Thanks for Trouble by Tommy Wallach

Patrick hasn’t spoken in five years. While his friends at school plan their futures, Patrick spends his time in hotels watching guests when he meets Zelda a silver head girl who will show him that maybe there are few things left worth living for. (March)

The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson

I love Morgan Matson and when someone has everything planned out it’s always going to go wrong. (May)

More Books for Simon and Schuster: Girl up by Laura Bates (May)

Waer by Meg Caddy

Lowell Sencha finds the strange girl lying as if dead on the riverbank, he is startled to find that she is like them: waer. Human, but able to assume the form of a wolf.

You Know Me Well by David Levithan and Nina LaCour.

Classmates Mark and Kate have sat next to each other for a year, but have never spoken. One night, far from home, their paths cross, and soon, they realize they know each other better than anyone else.

More books from Text Publishing; Iris and the Tiger by Leanne Hall (January), Elizabeth and Zenobia by Jessica Miller (July), Max by Sarah Cohen-Scali, The Book of Whispers by Kimberley Starr, The Road to Winter by Mark Smith.

House of Witches by Nikki Buick

100 Years, Stories (September)

More books from UQP; Aurora by Elizabath Kasmer (September), Another Night in Mullet Town by Steven Herrick (July), Everything is Changed by Nova Weetman (August), The Secrets We Keep by Nova Weetman (April), One Would think the Deep by Claire Zorn (May).

Yellow by Megan Jacobson

A teenage ghost is speaking to Fourteen-year-old Kirra through a broken phone booth. Kirra and the ghost make a pact. She’ll prove who murdered him almost twenty years ago if he does three things for her. He makes her popular, he gets her parents back together, and he doesn’t haunt her

Things I Didn’t Say by Kylie Fornasier

Piper Rhodes doesn’t talk once she steps outside her house. She changes school and hopes that everything will be different. Then she meets West school captain, star soccer player, the boy everyone talks about.

More Books from Penguin: Frankie by Shuvaun Plozza (April), We Were Never Here by Krystal Sutherland, The Last Star by Rick Yancey (May), The Sidekicks by Will Kostakis.

And there we go! There is so many amazing books coming out in 2016. What are some that you are looking forward to?

26 Nov

Book Review: Emmy and Oliver by Robin Benway

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Emmy and Oliver by Robin Benway

Pages: 320
Publish date: July 16, 2015
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9781471144134
Purchase: Book Depository – Amazon UK – Amazon US – Amazon AU

Oliver’s absence split us wide open, dividing our neighborhood along a fault line strong enough to cause an earthquake. An earthquake would have been better. At least during an earthquake, you understand why you’re shaking.
Emmy and Oliver were going to be best friends forever, or maybe even more, before their futures were ripped apart. But now Oliver is back, and he’s not the skinny boy-next-door that used to be Emmy’s best friend. Now he’s the boy who got kidnapped. A stranger – a totally hot stranger! – with a whole history that Emmy knows nothing about.
But is their story still meant to be? Or are they like the pieces of two different puzzles – impossible to fit together?

Emmy and Oliver:

I received a review copy of Emmy & Oliver by Robin Benway from Simon and Schuster in exchange for a review. This has in no way influenced my thoughts and feelings about the book.

I heard about this book for a while. It sounded interesting and I was hearing really good things about it. So when it arrived in my PO I couldn’t wait to read it.

Emmy & Oliver follows Emmy as she deals with the return of her best friend Oliver after he was kidnapped all those years ago. They were best friends before he disappeared and as the years went on they could have been something more. But when he returns he is a stranger – a very hot stranger at that.

If you are looking for a not so dramatic contemporary that will put a smile on your face, than this is the book for you.

I first thought that this book would be full of drama, a book full or running from the bad guys, guns, police, but it wasn’t and It’s what I liked about it. It was a fun read that had me smiling way too much and I am going to admit there was some tears shed as well.

“The more you start to love someone, the more you ache when they’re gone, and maybe it’s that middle ground that hurts the most, when you can see them and still not feel like you’re near enough.”

One of the things that I liked about Emmy & Oliver is that it all felt real. I truly liked Emmy as a character, like the story, she felt real. She was fun to read. She had this nature about her that I just loved. She was easy to read.

From the get go we see a strong friendship between Emmy and her two friends. It’s rare that we see such a strong bond in YA, but their friendship is also real. They have their fights but they are also there for each other. But there is something missing. It’s like Oliver is the missing piece of the puzzle.

When he returns everything doesn’t just go back to normal like a snappy romanced novel, it’s real. Everything is awkward, they don’t know how to treat each other, and they don’t really know who the other is. I loved seeing their friendship grow, between both Emmy and Oliver and the group of 4 friends.

The book was honest with everything. The way that the friends interact, the way that Emmy and her family are with each other, how Emmy and Oliver are with each other.

He looked like a stranger, and then he met my glance, and it was like I had never stopped seeing him.

Robin Benway is a brilliant writer. Emmy & Oliver took me away. It was such an easy read that I was able to read it in a day. She was able to capture what it was like for a teenage who both has protective parents and wants to be free. I connected with Emmy in that way; I just wanted to hug her and tell her that everything is going to be alright.

The romance was just so cute. It was the slow burning kind that I love – Emmy and Oliver have known each other for years but when he comes back and they have to start from the start all over again. It’s sweet seeing them interact with each other.

Even though this book seems light hearted most of the time, it’s not. Oliver was kidnapped as a child and he has to come to terms with that most of this life was a lie. There are some pretty heartbreaking scenes that had me chocked up, especially the ending.

That’s when I first learned about true frustration, that wrenching ache when the thing that matters most to you barely makes a ripple in other people’s lives.

Emmy & Oliver is full of feels. It will take you on a journey that makes you laugh and cry. You will want to hold both Emmy and Oliver in your arms and you will want a friendship that they have within their groups of friends. Emmy & Oliver is honest, real and bittersweet. It tells an important story of growing up, friendship and family. This book is for every contemporary lover and those who are not.