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December 02, 2017

Mailbox Monday [#9]

Stacking The Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews and Reading Reality as a way to share all the books we got during the week!

The Sunday Post is hosted by Kimberly @ Caffeinated Reviewer. Its a weekly post to showcase what books you got, recap the week, and talk about what will be coming up this week on the blog!

Mailbox Monday is hosted on its own site. It is there to show off the books acquired during the week!

So it was a good week for books!

From NetGalley!

SINthetic (The New Lyons Sequence #1) by J.T. Nicholas - So this is written by Julie Kagawa's husband! I've seen some people posting on Facebook about it and that they enjoyed it so I decided to get on NetGalley and get it! It sounds pretty interesting and I'm excited to read it.

Breaking The Ice (Juniper Falls #2) by Julie Cross - So I actually posted this as my Can't Wait Wednesday after requesting it. I wasn't really expecting to get it but was genuinely surprised when I did. I'm very excited to get into this book as well!!!

The Last Girl On Earth by Alexandra Blogier - So this so far hasn't got the best ratings on Goodreads, however, there's also only 9 reviews. So I wanna give it a chance and form my own opinion on it.

Bought!

Unknown (Unknown #1) by Wendy Higgins

Unrest (Unknown #2) by Wendy Higgins

Unknown is currently 0.99 cents. Unrest is $2.99 and the preorder of Undone is also $2.99 on Amazon. Not sure how long the deals will last.

Weekly Recap:

Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Books On My Winter TBR

New Releases: Week of November 28, 2017

Can't-Wait Wednesday [#5] - Breaking The Ice by Julie Cross

So I didn't get much reading in this week. Not enough to finish a book at least. Lol. I'm getting ready for my math final next Friday (if I pass I officially get my associates degree!!!) And I've been working on preparing for my daughters 3rd birthday party on Sunday! I'll definitely post a few pictures next week of it!

Also, GOOD NEWS!

For those who have seen Top Gear/The Grand Tour, imagine that being said in James May's voice!

Our internet is fixed!!!!! It ended up being mostly out until Thursday! Almost an entire week we had internet issues. Comcast had to send out a tech and they had to fix the actual line going into our building. It wasn't even our stuff that was the problem, it was theirs. UGH! Talk about extremely frustrating! Apparently we weren't the only ones who called about it either. Someone else off our building line also called. But since they fixed it, it hasn't gone out again. Thank god!

Upcoming:

Review of Breaking The Ice by Julie Cross

Review of Unknown by Wendy Higgins

Review of The Forever Song by Julie Kagawa

Review of Monsters by Ilsa J. Bick (Maybe? It's a big book, so it's taking a bit to get through while doing other stuff)

November 29, 2017

Can't-Wait Wednesday [#5]

Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight the books we are eagerly awaiting. It's based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous Jill at Breaking the Spine.

Breaking The Ice (Juniper Falls #2)

Author: Julie Cross

Publisher: Entangled

Publication Date: December 26, 2017

The second book in the Juniper Falls series from NY Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Julie Cross, perfect for fans of Miranda Kennealy and Abbi Glines.

Haley Stevenson seems like she’s got it all together: cheer captain, “Princess” of Juniper Falls, and voted Most Likely to Get Things Done. But below the surface, she’s struggling with a less-than-stellar GPA and still reeling from the loss of her first love. Repeating her Civics class during summer school is her chance to Get Things Done, not angst over boys. In fact, she’s sworn them off completely until college.

Fletcher Scott is happy to keep a low profile around Juniper Falls. He’s always been the invisible guy, warming the bench on the hockey team and moonlighting at a job that would make his grandma blush. Suddenly, though, he’s finding he wants more: more time on the ice, and more time with his infuriatingly perfect summer-school study partner.

But leave it to a girl who requires perfection to shake up a boy who’s ready to break all the rules.

I think this sounds like a good book. I haven't been too interested in a lot of contemporary books lately, so to find one that strikes my interest is good!

July 10, 2012

Cover Reveal: Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare & Vortex by Julie Cross

Blurb from Goodreads:

In Clockwork Princess, Tessa and her companions travel all over the world as they race to stop the clockwork army before it’s too late. As Jem’s health worsens alarmingly and his friends search desperately for a cure, can Tessa choose between the two boys she loves—even if it means never seeing the other one again?

OMG! This cover is epic! I love love love love love it to death! It looks absolutely fantastic and I love the colors on it. I cant even begin to describe how excited I am for this! I need this after all that happened in Clockwork Prince. And not to mention this is just going to be absolutely beautiful next to my hardcovers of Clockwork Angel & Clockwork Prince! Clockwork Princess's expected publication is March 19, 2013!

No blurb yet. Vortex is the second book in the Tempest series by Julie Cross. I really enjoyed Tempest when I read it and I cant wait to see where the story goes in Vortex. I really like this cover! The colors and just how it looks is absolutely fantastic. Vortex's expected publication is January 8, 2013!

January 09, 2012

Review: Tempest by Julie Cross

Tempest (Tempest #1)
Author: Julie Cross
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Publication Date: January 17, 2012
Pages: 352
Source: Galley(E-ARC) from NetGalley & Macmillan

The year is 2009. Nineteen-year-old Jackson Meyer is a normal guy… he’s in college, has a girlfriend… and he can travel back through time. But it’s not like the movies – nothing changes in the present after his jumps, there’s no space-time continuum issues or broken flux capacitors – it’s just harmless fun.

That is… until the day strangers burst in on Jackson and his girlfriend, Holly, and during a struggle with Jackson, Holly is fatally shot. In his panic, Jackson jumps back two years to 2007, but this is not like his previous time jumps. Now he’s stuck in 2007 and can’t get back to the future.

Desperate to somehow return to 2009 to save Holly but unable to return to his rightful year, Jackson settles into 2007 and learns what he can about his abilities.

But it’s not long before the people who shot Holly in 2009 come looking for Jackson in the past, and these “Enemies of Time” will stop at nothing to recruit this powerful young time-traveler. Recruit… or kill him.

Piecing together the clues about his father, the Enemies of Time, and himself, Jackson must decide how far he’s willing to go to save Holly… and possibly the entire world.

Review: I really enjoyed this book! It is the first one I've read involving time traveling so I was very interested in it. First of all, I wanna give props to Julie Cross. For this being the first book I read involving time traveling I though it was very well done! So I give Julie props on that. I also enjoyed how most of the book was written like a journal. It gave you a real insight of what was happening day to day as he jumped through time. Not to mention, a new chapter was started every time he entered a jump so it was really easy to keep track of whether he was in his home-base or a jump. His abilities! He thought himself and his friend Adam were the only ones who knew about his ability to time travel. As we jump through the past with Jackson, we learn that a lot more people knew about his abilities than he thought, and that all the things he thought he knew about his past might not be true or what them seemed to be. Gosh, we learned so much about his past, his family and how long people knew about the Tempest gene before he figured it out himself. It was like everything Jackson thought he knew came apart around him. I couldnt imagine being him and learning all he did, AND being able to deal with it all while trying to get out of the past.

Jackson. He really grew throughout the book. It was like he went from typical careless college student to more mature adult. I can understand why with all he learned and how he processed it. He learned so much about him and his true past (that was hidden from him before) that he then had to make future related decisions based on what would be better for everyone, not just him. I really liked the few times Jackson and Holly were together (besides the time she got shot). Everyone of those times he showed just how much he loved her by trying to protect her! He tried so so hard to protect Holly and in the end it forced him to make a choice. I was so sad at the end!!! I mean his decision was the right one for everyone but it was really sad that he had to do it. But it also showed how much he matured from the beginning of the book.

4 Stars!

November 21, 2011

Teaser Tuesday [#15]

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

Anyone can play along! just do the following:

1. Grab your current read
2. Open to a random page
3. Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page.
BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure that what you share doesn't give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
4. Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR lists if they like your teasers!

1. "I can now confirm that the body of a man has been found on Davenant Street, in a small private car park."

2. "Witnesses who found the body say that the victim had a wound to the neck."

pg. 90 of "The Name of The Star" by Maureen Johnson

1. "Today is the first official day of assuming the role of my seventeen-year-old self."

2. "Damn, this sucks!"

pg. 82 of "Tempest" by Julie Cross*

*Quotes from ARC/Galley of book and are subject to change in final copy

September 07, 2011

Waiting On Wednesday [#3]

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking The Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases we're eagerly anticipating.

Tempest
Author: Julie Cross
Publication Date: January 3, 2012

The year is 2009. Nineteen-year-old Jackson Meyer is a normal guy… he’s in college, has a girlfriend… and he can travel back through time. But it’s not like the movies – nothing changes in the present after his jumps, there’s no space-time continuum issues or broken flux capacitors – it’s just harmless fun.

That is… until the day strangers burst in on Jackson and his girlfriend, Holly, and during a struggle with Jackson, Holly is fatally shot. In his panic, Jackson jumps back two years to 2007, but this is not like his previous time jumps. Now he’s stuck in 2007 and can’t get back to the future.

Desperate to somehow return to 2009 to save Holly but unable to return to his rightful year, Jackson settles into 2007 and learns what he can about his abilities.

But it’s not long before the people who shot Holly in 2009 come looking for Jackson in the past, and these “Enemies of Time” will stop at nothing to recruit this powerful young time-traveler. Recruit… or kill him.

Piecing together the clues about his father, the Enemies of Time, and himself, Jackson must decide how far he’s willing to go to save Holly… and possibly the entire world.

I saw the cover to this book and it made me want to read what the book is about. I like this idea of time travel and getting stuck in the past. I like in general the whole idea of the book. It seems very interesting. Its definitely a book I want to read when it comes out.

What are you waiting on this week?

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