Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini TaylorSeries: Daughter of Smoke & Bone #2Published by Little, Brown BYRPublish Date: November 6, 2012517 PagesSource: Library Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love and dared to imagine a world free of bloodshed and war. This is not that world.Art student and monster’s […]

Click HERE to check out Top Ten Tuesdayat The Broke and the Bookish Ten of the Most Frustrating Characters Ever!Keep in mind that what frustrates me may not frustrate you!And on a different day, these may be totally different! 1. Katsa fromGraceling by Kristin Cashore Katsa frustrates me partly for the same reason I LOVE her. She’s extremely […]

Unearthly by Cynthia HandSeries: Unearthly #1Published by HarperTeenPublish Date: January 4, 2011435 PagesSource: Kindle purchase (I also read from a library copy.) In the beginning, there’s a boy standing in the trees . . . .Clara Gardner has recently learned that she’s part angel. Having angel blood run through her veins not only makes her […]

Golden by Jessi KirbyPublished by Simon & Schuster BYRPublish Date: May 14, 2013288 PagesSource: ARC tour Seventeen-year-old Parker Frost may be a distant relative of Robert Frost, but she has never taken the road less traveled. Valedictorian and quintessential good girl, she’s about to graduate high school without ever having kissed her crush or broken […]

I’m over the moon to be hosting today’s stop on theScarlet by Marissa Meyer Blog Tour! I think we can pretty much all agree that if we’ve read and loved Cinder, it feels like forever that we’ve been waiting for it’s follow-up, Scarlet. Thank goodness the wait is almost over, everyone! Like many of you, […]

Scarlet by Marissa MeyerSeries: The Lunar Chronicles #2Published by Feiwel and FriendsPublish Date: February 5, 2013 464 pagesSource:  Publisher for Review Cinder returns in the second thrilling installment of the New York Times-bestselling Lunar Chronicles. She’s trying to break out of prison—even though if she succeeds, she’ll be the Commonwealth’s most wanted fugitive.Halfway around the world, Scarlet […]

A few days ago, I was alerted by a great blogging friend that my blog content had been stolen when she tweeted me a link to this blog post: Auntie Spinelli Reads – Plagiarism Sucks I clicked over, read the post, and found that my thoughts on Exiled by M.R. Merrick had been plagiarized. At the […]

Shatter Me by Tahereh MafiSeries: Shatter Me #1Published by HarperTeenPublish Date: November 15, 2011338 PagesSource: Audio – Library, Book – Won Juliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days.The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal. As long as […]

This picture belongs to me. So does this coffee.I’m gonna drink it while I tell y’all about my bookish stresses. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy I’m audiobooking this and following along in print because 1) I want to read more classics and 2) I really want to see the movie. I had no idea when […]