February 10, 2018

Stacking The Shelves [#86]/Sunday Post [#18]

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!

• Nyxia Unleashed (The Nyxia Triad #2) by Scott Reintgen

Thank you Random House & NetGalley!!! I'm seriously so freaking thrilled I got approved for this!!! Like I'm all kinds of excited for this! 

2018 Dystopia Reading Challenge: February Link-Up

So the February Link-Up went live this past Monday. Remember, there's still lots of time to sign up! And I promise, you don't have to be super hardcore into Dystopia to participate. One of the badges is to read like 1-5 books. That's not too bad if your just wanting to try out a few books eh? Come join the fun!

New Releases: Week of February 6, 2018

Top Ten Tuesday: Books That Have Been On My TBR The Longest and I Still Haven't Read

Book Blogger Hop: February 9th-15th - What authors have you met?

So book related news first. If anyone needs a good sale. Barnes & Noble is offering a 3 for $30 sale on a lot of teen books. I browsed through and found a number of great books included in the sale. Including some just released books, in hardcover. Totally worth a look! The sale ends at the beginning of March.

For those of you that saw last weeks post, you'll remember I talked about how I was gonna start eating healthier and start working out. Well, I have been working on portion control (which is really one of my big issues with food). So far so good on that front. And I started working out this week. OMG guys. I swear I'm literally dying. I'm so out of shape!!! Lol. My body is so sore from the muscles not being worked out much. Hey, no pain no gain though right?? I'm gonna keep at it!

Another fun tidbit. I don't know how to drive a manual (stick shift). A few months ago James and his mom started teaching me the basics with the clutch and timing and whatnot. So since then, we haven't had a chance to go practicing. Well, this week I got back in the drivers seat. Not for long. Just to move our jeep from a random spot in the parking lot back to our assigned covered spot (which someone stole like 5 mins before James got home from work, hence having to move the jeep). But OMG. I didn't stall it!!! I may have slightly peeled out a bit, but I didn't stall it!! That's the important bit. I'll take it! It felt good not stalling it on the first try after not practicing for about 3 months!

Review of Just One Year by Gayle Forman
Review of Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins

Since this week coming up is Valentines week, I'm gonna take the opportunity to read a few contemporaries I need to catch up on. Also, look out for a favorite couples (love themed) Top Ten Tuesday post!!

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June 01, 2012

Review: Uglies: Shay's Story by Scott Westerfeld

Uglies: Shay's Story
Authors: Scott Westerfeld & Devin Grayson
Illustrator: Steven Cummings
Publisher: Random House
Publication Date: March 6, 2012
Pages: 208
Source: Paperback/Library

“This whole game is just designed to make us hate ourselves.”—Shay

Uglies told Tally Youngblood’s version of life in Uglyville and the budding rebellion against the Specials. Now comes an exciting graphic novel revealing new adventures in the Uglies world—as seen through the eyes of Shay, Tally’s rebellious best friend who’s not afraid to break the rules, no matter the cost.

A few months shy of her sixteenth birthday, Shay eagerly awaits her turn to become a Pretty—a rite-of-passage operation called “the Surge” that transforms ordinary Uglies into paragons of beauty. Yet after befriending the Crims, a group of fellow teens who refuse to take anything in society at face value, Shay starts to question the whole concept. And as the Crims explore beyond the monitored borders of Uglyville into the forbidden, ungoverned wild, Shay must choose between the perks of being Pretty and the rewards of being real.

Review: We all know I am absolutely in love with The Uglies Series, so it was a no brainer I'd read this at some point! So since this is a graphic novel my review is gonna be short but OMG! I loved this. I loved reading Shay's version of things and what happened with her before she met Tally! I also thought the drawings were very well done. Except I did think there could have been more of a difference between the Uglies and Pretties. But besides that I thought the drawings were great. I really loved how Shay described things as she started changing her mind about the operation. About how she could either be Pretty or be real. I thought that was an accurate description of things. Because we all know how the Pretties seemed to lose a few brain cells (or at the very least, acted like it) after the operation. I thought it was accurate the choice of being Pretty or being real and keeping your head even if that meant you'd be considered an "Ugly" all your life. I really loved this novel and I definitely cant wait for the next one!

4 Stars!

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July 16, 2011

Review: Passion by Lauren Kate

Passion (Fallen #3)
Author: Lauren Kate
Publisher: Delacorte Press/Random House
Publication Date: June 14, 2011
Pages:420
Source: Hardcover/Own

Luce would die for Daniel.

And she has. Over and over again. Throughout time, Luce and Daniel have found each other, only to be painfully torn apart: Luce dead, Daniel left broken and alone. But perhaps it doesn’t need to be that way…

Luce is certain that something—or someone—in a past life can help her in her present one. So she begins the most important journey of this lifetime… going back eternities to witness firsthand her romances with Daniel . . . and finally unlock the key to making their love last.

Cam and the legions of angels and Outcasts are desperate to catch Luce, but none are as frantic as Daniel. He chases Luce through their shared pasts, terrified of what might happen if she rewrites history.

Because their romance for the ages could go up in flames… forever.

Sweeping across centuries, PASSION is the third novel in the unforgettably epic FALLEN series.


Review: Luce starts traveling through announcers to her past lives, hoping to find the source of the curse and change it. Along the way she learns just how deep Daniels love for her is and what happens each time she dies. The farther back she travels the more she learns but what exactly happens in the end may shock you.


OMG! I LOVED the ending. I didn't expect it to end quite like that but it was definitely enjoyable. I got a little bored reading the stories of her past lives but in the end it was worth it. Its obvious that a lot of research was done just for this book alone. It was pretty interesting learning certain things from her past lives and all the different ways things happened. I also loved how real the love seemed to be in every lifetime. I liked how the book wasn't only from Luce's perspective but also from Daniel's as he was chasing after her through each life time. It really gave you a sense of what he was thinking and feeling at the same time she was experiencing each life. Things that were referenced and questions people had from the other books suddenly made sense and were answered. A fair amount of times while i was reading, I read something and I was like "Oh" because I finally understood things. I love the cover of the book. It is beautiful. I cant wait for Rapture to come out. :) 

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