Waiting on Wednesday (11)

Title: Dare You To
Author: Katie McGarry Pushing the Limits #2 Release Date: June 7, 2013
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
Pre-Order: Amazon|Barnes & Noble

Ryan lowers his lips to my ear. "Dance with me, Beth."

"No." I whisper the reply. I hate him and I hate myself for wanting him to touch me again....

"I dare you..."
If anyone knew the truth about Beth Risk's home life, they'd send her mother to jail and seventeen-year-old Beth who knows where. So she protects her mom at all costs. Until the day her uncle swoops in and forces Beth to choose between her mom's freedom and her own happiness. That's how Beth finds herself living with an aunt who doesn't want her and going to a school that doesn't understand her. At all. Except for the one guy who shouldn't get her, but does....

Ryan Stone is the town golden boy, a popular baseball star jock-with secrets he can't tell anyone. Not even the friends he shares everything with, including the constant dares to do crazy things. The craziest? Asking out the Skater girl who couldn't be less interested in him.

But what begins as a dare becomes an intense attraction neither Ryan nor Beth expected. Suddenly, the boy with the flawless image risks his dreams-and his life-for the girl he loves, and the girl who won't let anyone get too close is daring herself to want it all....

I am so stoked for this book’s release. Katie McGarry’s first book Pushing the Limits blew me away. I am not usually the one for contemporary romance but that doesn’t apply when it comes to McGarry.

What are you looking forward to this Wednesday? Please leave me the link to your post and I will be sure to check it out! Thanks so much for stopping by!

Teaser Tuesday (4)

Title: Thirst No.5
Author: Christopher Pike Thirst #5
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Purchase Here: Amazon|Barnes & Noble
It's no dream.
At last the truth of what happened during those hellish days has come back to her.
In her five thousand years as a vampire, Alisa - or Sita, as she was originally called - has experienced the equivalent of fifty lifetimes. Every moment of her immortal life is seared deep into her being. Every person she has loved, every victim she has killed - their faces are forever part of her.

Yet, strangely, a handful of memories have been lost to Alisa. As she and her friends embark on a search for the location of a sacred artifact - an ancient veil that may hold the key to mankind's salvation - Alisa soon realizes that her own mind may be her greatest enemy.

The memories she is blocking deal with the most horrifying period in mankind's history, a time when she was tortured by a madman responsible for the deaths of millions. But what information did her torture yield?

"While I'm taking care of the body, go through her things," Matt says. "You never know what you might find."
"Good idea." I had already planned to do that.
"Are you sure you don't want help?"
"It's not necessary. I have a shovel in the trunk."
"What made you bring a shovel?"
"Times like this."

Matt holds up his hand. "We'll get to that in a minute. For now I want to finish discussing this program. Cindy, exactly when did it become active?"

I have never heard Matt call Brutran by her first name before. The woman appears to respond well to his questions, to his command. With me, she has always been a little snide.

Lost and Found by Nicole Williams (Cover Reveal)

Title: LOST AND FOUND

Author: Nicole Williams

Expected release date: May 7, 2013

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Age Group: Mature Young Adult, New Adult/Adult crossover

Cover Designer: Okay Creations

Cover reveal organized by: AToMR Tours

There’s complicated. And there’s Rowen Sterling. After numbing pain for the past five years with boys, alcohol, and all-around apathy, she finds herself on a Greyhound bus to nowhere Montana the summer after she graduates high school. Her mom agreed to front the bill to Rowen’s dream art school only if Rowen proves she can work hard and stay out of trouble at Willow Springs Ranch. Cooking breakfast at the crack of dawn for a couple dozen ranch hands and mucking out horse stalls are the last things in the world Rowen wants to spend her summer doing. Until Jesse Walker saunters into her life wearing a pair of painted-on jeans, a cowboy hat, and a grin that makes something in her chest she’d thought was frozen go boom-boom. Jesse’s like no one else, and certainly nothing like her. He’s the bright and shiny to her dark and jaded. Rowen knows there’s no happily-ever-after for the golden boy and the rebel girl—happily-right-now is a stretch—so she tries to forget and ignore the boy who makes her feel things she’s not sure she’s ready to feel. But the more she pushes him away, the closer he seems to get. The more she convinces herself she doesn’t care, the harder she falls. When her dark secrets refuse to stay locked behind the walls she’s kept up for years, Rowen realizes it’s not just everyone else she needs to be honest with. It’s herself.  

About the Author
I'm a wife, a mom, a writer. I started writing because I loved it and I'm still writing because I love it. I write young adult because I still believe in true love, kindred spirits, and happy endings. Here's to staying young at heart *raises champagne glass* . . . care to join me?  

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The Slacking Blogger

I have come to admit that I have been a slacking blogger lately. When I say lately I mean I have been slacking for a while now. You guys have probably noticed this. While some of this may be due to work and school, most of it is due to the fact that lately I haven’t felt like blogging. Although I haven’t felt like it, there are reasons as to why I haven’t felt like it.

Let me start off by saying that I love blogging and I love reading. When I stumbled upon book blogs in November of 2011 my life changed forever. I knew I had come across something special… something that I wanted to become apart of. When I joined the book blogging community I realized that everyone was friendly and their blogs were full of life and I couldn’t wait to accomplish that with my blog.

Then I encountered a problem, a problem that I have had in every aspect of my life. I have a very hard time COMMITTING, to anything. Being consistent is not my strong suit. I hate this about myself. I often start a project and have a hard time finishing it, or I start a project have another brilliant idea and start a new project while leaving the other one unfinished. You see a pattern here? I have problems sticking with things and seeing them through and I want to work on changing this.

The reason why I haven’t worked on this before now is because one thing I hate more than committing is feeling like I’m starting over. When I don’t post for a while I feel like a failure and when I go to post for the first time after a month I feel like I’m starting all over again.
Yes, all of this may sound stupid and I’m not sure if anyone else has went through this but this has always been the way I am. I wanted to confess this to get it off of my chest in a sense.
This stemmed from reading a brilliant, brave post from Megan @ The Book Bratz. She just did a post called Confessions of a Jealous Book Blogger and it got me thinking about my faults as a book blogger. I want to change my non-committing ways and become a kick ass book blogger because this does mean a lot to me and I owe this to all of my viewers.

Witch World by Christopher Pike (Book Review)

Title: Witch World
Author: Christopher Pike Witch World #1 Publisher: Simon Pulse
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Purchase Here: Amazon|Barnes & Noble

Witches are real—and each of us may be one—in this all-new paranormal suspense novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christopher Pike.
Heading off for a weekend in Las Vegas with her friends, Jessie Ralle has only one worry—how to make it through the road trip in the same car with her Ex, Jimmy Kelter. The guy who broke her heart five months ago when he dumped her for no reason. The guy who’s finally ready to tell her why he did it, because he wants her back.

But what Jessie doesn’t realize is that Jimmy is the least of her problems.
 
In Las Vegas she meets Russ, a mesmerizing stranger who shows her how to gamble, and who never seems to lose. Curious, Jessie wants to know his secret, and in response, alone in his hotel room, he teaches her a game that opens a door to another reality.
To Witch World.

Suddenly Jessie discovers that she’s stumbled into a world where some people can do the impossible, and others may not even be human. For a time she fears she’s lost her mind. Are there really witches? Is she one of them?
#1 Bestselling author Christopher Pike offers up another classic edge-of-your-seat thrill ride that keeps you guessing right until the last page.

It has been a while since I have read a Christopher Pike book. Since Thirst No.4 I have been anticipating the release of a new book by this author and was pleasantly delighted when I received this book for Christmas. It has taken me a while to get to it because I have so many wonderful books to choose from, but I am very glad that I read this.

This book follows a girl named Jessie whom is going on a vacation with her friends to Las Vegas for the weekend. Upon arrival things start to get a little crazy. Jessie’s ex boyfriend Jimmy also came along which made things kind of awkward seeing as he rode in the same car as her the whole way there. Jimmy broke Jessie’s heart when he left her for his ex girlfriend. Typical teenage drama, right? NO. The reason why he went back to his ex is heartbreaking, and you’ll just have to read to find out. I know it blew my mind.

Jessie is captivated by this man named Russ one night while her and her friend are gambling. Jessie ends up going back to the hotel with this man after winning a lot of money, and unbelievable and impossible things start to happen. Jessie stumbles upon this unknown world and discovers many secrets about herself and the rest of her friends.

Jessie begins to question her whole life, and struggles with accepting that there are really witches and they have a whole different plane of existence than what she has known her whole life. This book is very complex and you have to give it all of your attention to be able to follow it.
While this book isn’t my favorite of Christopher Pike’s books, this is definitely a good one. I would recommend you read this if you are a Christopher Pike fan, and like complex YA. Jessie is an amazing main character, while she continues to get into heaps of unfortunate situations she still holds her own. Jimmy is also a very respectable guy and I grew to like him a lot. I look forward to reading Pike’s newest release, Thirst No. 5. I am sure that it will be a treat!

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Title: Star Cursed
Author: Jessica Spotswood The Cahill Witch Chronicles #2 Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Pre-Order Here: Amazon|Barnes & Noble

With the Brotherhood persecuting witches like never before, a divided Sisterhood desperately needs Cate to come into her Prophesied powers. And after Cate's friend Sachi is arrested for using magic, a war-thirsty Sister offers to help her find answers—if Cate is willing to endanger everyone she loves.

Cate doesn't want to be a weapon, and she doesn't want to involve her friends and Finn in the Sisterhood's schemes. But when Maura and Tess join the Sisterhood, Maura makes it clear that she'll do whatever it takes to lead the witches to victory. Even if it means sacrifices. Even if it means overthrowing Cate. Even if it means all-out war.

In the highly anticipated sequel to Born Wicked, the Cahill Witch Chronicles continue Cate, Maura and Tess's quest to find love, protect family, and explore their magic against all odds in an alternate history of New England.

Another witch book right? Yeah, I told you I am on a witch book kick. The first book, Born Wicked was amazing and I can’t wait to get my hands on Star Cursed. If you would like to read my raving review of Born Wicked “Click Here”.
What are you waiting on this Wednesday? I’d love to know!