Words I Write Crazy: September 2014

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Anna Banks Author Page

The Story: I got Of Poseidon from NetGalley, read it, and yeah, it was just so absolutely good! And I really enjoyed Of Triton, and yeah, I really can't wait to reread the whole series!

Website

Series: The Syrena Legacy, Nemesis.

The Syrena Legacy: The Stranger and my review, Legacy Lost and my review, Of Poseidon and her site, my review, my reread, Hard to Get and my review, Of Triton and her site, my review, my reread, Girl's Day Out and my review, Human Date and my review, Of Neptune and her site, my review.

Nemesis: Nemesis and my review, Ally and my review.

Stand Alone's: Joyride and her site, my review.

Amy Plum Author Page

The Story: I won Die for Me, and yeah, I read it, and absolutely loved it, and I just utterly enjoyed it, and then loved the series! And I can't wait to read more of her books, because they are just so enjoyable!

Website

Series: Revenants, After the End, Dreamfall.

Revenants: Die for Me and her site, my review, Until I Die and her site, my review, Die For Her and her site, my review, If I Should Die and her site, my review, Untitled, Untitled.

After the End: After the End and her site, my review, Until the Beginning and her site, my review.

Dreamfall: Dreamfall and her site, my review, my reread, Neverwake and her site, my review.

Requiem: Book Blitz

From Goodreads:

Her name is Evangeline and she is Nephilim.

Evie is stuck in the Underworld until she can find a way to be released from her newfound role as Hades. And the longer she remains in Hades the more secrets are revealed about her true origins. A confrontation with a Dark Angel brings two revelations to the Evie - the true identity of

Daniel, the Master of the Irin's assistant, and who is he to Evie herself.

While a trip into the depths of Hades leads Evie into the fiery depths of Tartarus and eventually to the eternal peace of Elysium, will Evie find the peace she seeks? And what about the smoking hot Julian, god of Hades? How far is he willing to go to keep Evie at his side?

Author: T.G. Ayer
Publisher: Infinite Ink Books
Published: September 30th 2014

Giveaway:

*Open Internationally*

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Bio:

I have been a writer from the time I was old enough to recognize that reading was a doorway into my imagination. Poetry was my first foray into the art of the written word. Books were my best friends, my escape, my haven. I am essentially a recluse but this part of my personality is impossible to practice given I have two teenage daughters, who are actually my friends, my tea-makers,
my confidantes… I am blessed with a husband who has left me for golf. It’s a fair trade as I have left him for writing. We are both passionate supporters of each others loves – it works wonderfully…

My heart is currently broken in two. One half resides in South Africa where my old roots still remain, and my heart still longs for the endless beaches and the smell of moist soil after a summer downpour. My love for Ma Afrika will never fade. The other half of me has been transplanted to the Land of the Long White Cloud. The land of the Taniwha, beautiful Maraes, and volcanoes. The land of green, pure beauty that truly inspires. And because I am so torn between these two lands – I shall forever
remain cross-eyed.

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Teaser Tuesday #181, September 30th

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
•Grab your current read
•Open to a random page
•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!)
•Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Today's teaser comes from Outlander by Diana Gaboldon, page 530.

"I was so upset at that, I straightened up and whirled round and yelled at him, 'Weel, why did ye no say so in the first place, ye auld fool! OUCH!!'"

Well, this is hilarious! Love it! What about you guys? Happy reading!

Monday, September 29, 2014

Amanda Stevens Author Page

Amy A. Bartol Author Page

The Story: My aunt had read the series, recommended them to me, so of course I read it! And then yeah, I read the whole series, and yeah, I can't wait to read more of her books! Because I've so very much enjoyed them!

Website

Series: The Premonition, Kricket, Secondborn.

The Premonition: Inescapable and her site, my review, my reread, Intuition and her site, my review, my reread, Indebted and her site, my review, my reread, Incendiary and her site, my review, my reread, Iniquity and her site, my review.

Kricket: Under Different Stars and her site, my review, Sea of Stars and her site, my review, Darken the Stars and her site, my review.

Secondborn: Secondborn and her site, my review, Traitor Born and her site, my review, Rebel Born and her site, my review.

Anthology: Take Me to Your Reader, and her site, my review.

Amanda Hocking Author Page

The Story: I'd heard about the Trylle series, and when I got a chance to, I read it. And was absolutely captivated by this world, these characters, because it was so amazing. And then the same thing happening in the Watersong series! I guess that's just a writing talent of Amanda Hocking! I can't wait to read her other books, especially the upcoming Kanin Chronicles!

Website

Series: Trylle Trilogy, Kanin Chronicles, The Omte Origins, Watersong, Valkyrie, My Blood Approves, The Hollows.

Trylle Trilogy: Switched and my review, my reread, The Vittra Attacks and my review, Torn and my review, my reread, One Day: Three Ways and my review, Ascend and my review, my reread, Ever After and my review.

Kanin Chronicles (Spin Off Series of *Trylle Trilogy*): The King's Games and my review, my reread, Frostfire and my review, my reread, Ice Kissed and my review, my reread, Crystal Kingdom and my review, my reread.

The Omte Origins (Spin Off Series of *Trylle Trilogy*): The Lost City and my review, The Morning Flower and my review, The Ever After and my review.

Watersong: Forgotten Lyrics and my review, Wake and my review, Lullaby and my review, Tidal and my review, Elegy and my review.

Valkyrie: Between the Blade and the Heart and my review, From the Earth to the Shadows and my review.

My Blood Approves: My Blood Approves and my review, Fate and my review, Flutter and my review, Wisdom and my review, Letters to Elise and my review, Swear and my review.

The Hollows: Hollowland and my review, Hollowman and my review.

Stand Alone's: Virtue and my review.

Amy Kathleen Ryan Author Page

The Story: I saw Glow, and I knew I had to have it! And I got it, and I absolutely loved it, it was one of my favourite books of 2011, and yeah, I can't wait to read the whole series, because yeah, I want to have the whole thing!

Website

Series: Sky Chasers.

Sky Chasers: Glow and her site, my review, my reread, Spark and her site, my review, my reread, Flame and her site, my review.

Holly Hearts Hollywood: Review

From Goodreads:
Seventeen-year-old Holly Hart wants to be a star. She moves to Los Angeles from the small town of Cedar Junction, only to hear she’s too fat and ugly to be a famous singer.

But when Shell Shocked Records looks past Holly’s plus-size and less-than-graceful-personality to offer her a recording contract, Holly cannot believe her good fortune. On closer inspection, however, the the record execs want Holly to do all the singing, and a thinner and more beautiful girl, Lacey, would lip-sync and get all the credit. Holly goes for it because after all, she wanted to sing.

Contractually bound to secrecy, Holly is more than happy to sit backstage while Lacey shimmies in the limelight and basks in the fame. Before she knows it, Holly is friends with Serena, the pop-star daughter of a music-mogul, flirting with an intern, and developing a strange half-friendship with Lacey.

When Grayson Frost, the biggest country star in America, and coincidentally, a former school bully begins dating Lacey, Holly hopes that he won’t recognize or torment her.

Through a series of embarrassing and weird events, Holly gets to know Grayson and learns that he is much nicer and more mature than he was four years ago. Holly is horrified when she starts falling for him. When Grayson admits he fell for Lacey's voice, what is a girl to do when she can’t legally tell the truth at the moment when the truth matters the most?

My Review:
I really identified with Holly. I'm plus sized, I'm shy, and I retreat into books, like music is her sanctuary-though I like to sing too, it's just for fun, not a dream like it is for her. And yeah, this was a nice, light book, one that I enjoyed!

I had a bad feeling about the contract, because it reminded me of the one scene in the musical Cinderella Story that stars Lucy Hale, where Hale's character sings, and her stepsister takes the credit, but on a much larger scale, and on contract, and she wasn't forced to do so, she made a decision between signing and doing what it said, or not signing, and probably not making it like she wanted. But really, signing it meant that it wasn't her that was making it, it was her voice.

And that's part of what she struggles with in the book, between fame and being nobody in the eyes of the world who nobody cares about you but your friends and family. And if it was the right decision for her to make, if she could've done things differently.

But where she ends up is a pretty good place, she's happy, things are going well, and yeah, the journey that her romance took, that was just incredible, and I really enjoyed them, and it was almost guy likes girl so he shows his affections through teasing, though some of it wasn't very nice at all, but they made it to a good place!

Yeah, this was a pretty great book, one I really enjoyed! Go on, go check it out!

Author: Kenley Conrad
Read: September 298th, 2014
Source: YA Bound Book Tours Review Copy
Reason Why: Sounded good! And it's a SAC 2014 Book!
Publisher: Swoon Romance
Published: September 23rd 2014

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

Bio:
I'm the author of YA novel, Holly Hearts Hollywood, which is currently available on Amazon! I'm a twenty-something cat lady who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. When I'm not working my office day job or writing books, you can find me either singing and dancing or binge-watching TV shows on Netflix.

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It's Monday! What Are You Reading #173, September 29th

It's Monday! What Are You Reading is a weekly meme hosted by Book Journey where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week...and anything in between! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well...you never know where that next "must read" book will come from!

What happened in the past week:

Weekly Memes:
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #172
Teaser Tuesday #180
WWW Wednesday #180
WOW #177
Will the Time Come #173
Third Sentence Thursday #163
Random Reads #148
First Lines Friday #168
The Reward Challenge Round 104 Part 3
Follow Friday #151
How Well I Stuck Too It #2

Week 39 Reviews:
Innocent Prey
Deadly Obsession
Festive in Death
The Good, The Bad, and The Undead
Dates From Hell
Blackbird
Robin in the Hood
The Memory Coder
Undiscovered
Unremembered
Glass Heart

Tours:
Black Hole Bounty: Review
Deep in the Meadows: Review
Stone of Thieves: Review

Write on Review-a-Thon:
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Random:
Iris Johansen Author Page
J.D. Robb Author Page
J.T. Ellison Author Page
Some of My Goals
Jamie McGuire Author Page
Julie Kagawa Author Page
Kathy Reichs Author Page
Laini Taylor Author Page
Lauren DeStefano Author Page
Lauren Kate Author Page
I'm Exhaused!

Lauren Oliver Author Page
Lynn Viehl Author Page
Aimee Carter Author Page
Alyssa Rose Ivy Author Page

OK, so I got 57 posts in 7 days, and yeah, I did a few things, and I made my goals, so yeah, I'm happy! Though now I have just over 400 author pages to do now! (And I counted. Though I might be a bit off, I got a bit lost with some authors with similar or the same first name.) What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read Holly Hearts Hollywood, Unrequited, H2O.

Seventeen-year-old Holly Hart wants to be a star. She moves to Los Angeles from the small town of Cedar Junction, only to hear she’s too fat and ugly to be a famous singer.

But when Shell Shocked Records looks past Holly’s plus-size and less-than-graceful-personality to offer her a recording contract, Holly cannot believe her good fortune. On closer inspection, however, the the record execs want Holly to do all the singing, and a thinner and more beautiful girl, Lacey, would lip-sync and get all the credit. Holly goes for it because after all, she wanted to sing.

Contractually bound to secrecy, Holly is more than happy to sit backstage while Lacey shimmies in the limelight and basks in the fame. Before she knows it, Holly is friends with Serena, the pop-star daughter of a music-mogul, flirting with an intern, and developing a strange half-friendship with Lacey.

When Grayson Frost, the biggest country star in America, and coincidentally, a former school bully begins dating Lacey, Holly hopes that he won’t recognize or torment her.

Through a series of embarrassing and weird events, Holly gets to know Grayson and learns that he is much nicer and more mature than he was four years ago. Holly is horrified when she starts falling for him. When Grayson admits he fell for Lacey's voice, what is a girl to do when she can’t legally tell the truth at the moment when the truth matters the most?

Seventeen-year-old Kat Hartland loathes Unrequited, the world's biggest boy band. Is she the only girl in Sydney who can't be bothered with perfect-looking Angus Marsden?

Give her 5 Seconds of Summer. Now.

Or maybe the seriously-hot med student who rescued her on a train—and who could be Douglas Booth's twin! Perfect formal partner, much?

But when Kat comes face to face with Angus Marsden himself, things start to get complicated. Very. Throw in a deranged female popstar, final exams, a part in the musical and a mum who just doesn't get it—and where is her best friend?

When did life get so crazy? Kat's just an ordinary schoolgirl.

Isn't she?

It's in the rain...and just one drop will kill you.

They don't believe it at first. Crowded in Zach's kitchen, Ruby and the rest of the partygoers laugh at Zach's parents' frenzied push to get them all inside as it starts to drizzle. But then the radio comes on with the warning, "It's in the rain! It's fatal, it's contagious, and there's no cure."

Two weeks later, Ruby is alone. Anyone who's been touched by rain or washed their hands with tap water is dead. The only drinkable water is quickly running out. Ruby's only chance for survival is a treacherous hike across the country to find her father-if he's even still alive.

Sunday, September 28, 2014

Lauren Oliver Author Page

The Story: I saw Delirium, and yeah, I had to read it, and I did, and I absolutely loved the series, and all the books of hers I've read, because yeah, they were just that freaking good!

Website

Series: Delirium, Panic, Replica.

Delirium: Annabel and her site, my review, my reread, Delirium and her site, my review, my reread, Hana and her site, my review, my reread, Pandemonium and her site, my review, my reread, Raven and her site, my review, my reread, Requiem and her site, my review, my reread, Alex and her site, my review.

Panic: Panic Origin Story and her site, my review, Panic and her site, my review, my reread.

Replica: Replica and her site, my review, Ringer and her site, my review.

Stand Alone's: Before I Fall and her site, my review, my reread, Rooms and her site, my review, Vanishing Girls and her site, my review, Broken Things and her site, my review.

Alyssa Rose Ivy Author Page

The Story: I signed up to review Flight, and yeah, I just really enjoyed it, because yeah, it was just so good! And yeah, I just had to read the rest of the series, and when I finally make the time, the rest of her books! And I really can't wait, because I've really enjoyed them!

Website

Series: The Crescent Chronicles, The Empire Chronicles, The Dire Wolves Chronicles, Hazards, The Afterglow Trilogy, Clayton Falls, Mixology.

The Crescent Chronicles: Flight and her site, my review, my reread, Focus and her site, my review, my reread, Found and her site, my review, my reread, First and Forever and her site, my review.

The Empire Chronicles: Soar and her site, my review, Search and her site, my review, Stay and her site, my review.

The Dire Wolves Chronicles: Dire and her site, my review, Dusk and her site, my review, Dawn and her site, my review.

Hazards: The Hazards of Skinny Dipping and her site, my review, my reread, The Hazards of a One Night Stand and her site, The Hazards of Sex on the Beach and her site, my review, The Hazards of Mistletoe and her site, The Hazards of Sleeping With a Friend and her site.

The Afterglow Trilogy: Beckoning Light and her site, my review, Perilous Light and her site, my review, Enduring Light and her site, my review.

Clayton Falls: Derailed and her site, my review, my reread, Veer and her site, my review, Wrecked and her site, my review.

Mixology: Shaken Not Stirred and her site, my review, On the Rocks and her site, my review.

Stand Alone's: Full Moons and Mistletoe and her site, my review.

Aimee Carter Author Page

The Story: The Goddess Test, I got it in New York, and yeah, absolutely loved it, and yeah, got the other books from NetGalley, and yeah, such an amazing series that I absolutely loved, and yeah, I've enjoyed her first book since then, and I can't wait to read more!

Website

Series: The Goddess Test, Blackcoat Rebellion.

The Goddess Test: The Goddess Test and her site, my review, my reread, The Goddess Hunt and her site, my review, Goddess Interrupted and her site, my review, my reread, The Goddess Legacy and her site, my review, my reread, The Goddess Inheritance and her site, my review, my reread.

Blackcoat Rebellion: Pawn and her site, my review, Captive and her site, my review, Queen and her site, my review.

Lynn Viehl Author Page

The Story: I saw If Angels Burn on Goodreads, it sounded good, so I got it out from the library, and I just read right through the series! It was just fantastic, and I had to read more! Now I get to reread it!

Website

Series: Darklyn, Kyndred, Lords of the Darklyn, The Youngbloods, Disenchanted & Co.

Darklyn: If Angels Burn and her site, my review, my reread, Private Demon and her site, my review, Dark Need and her site, my review, Night Lost and her site, my review, Evermore and her site, my review, Twilight Fall and her site, my review, Midnight Blues and her site, my review, Stay the Night and her site, my review, Master of the Shadows and her site, my review, Incarnatio and her site, my review.

Kyndred (Spin Off Series of Darklyn): Shadowlight and her site, my review, Rain Lashed and her site, my review, Dreamveil and her site, my review, Frostfire and her site, my review, Nightshine and her site, my review.

Lords of the Darklyn (Spin Off Series of Darklyn): Nightborn and her site, my review, Nightbred and her site, my review, Nightbound and her site, my review.

The Youngbloods: Dark of Heart and her site, my review, After Midnight and her site, my review, Dead of Night and her site, my review.

Disenchanted & Co.: My Lord Mayhem and her site, my review, Her Ladyship's Curse and her site, (part of *Disenchanted & Co,*), His Lordship Possessed and her site, (part of *Disenchanted & Co,*), Three Gifts and her site, my review, Forget-Me-Knot and her site, my review, The Clockwork Wolf and her site, my review.

Her Ladyship's Curse and His Lordship Possessed are short stories in the book called Disenchanted and Co., and it is set in the Disenchanted & Co. world, here's my review.

I'm Exhausted!

So if you watch my blog with any regularity, you might notice that I have a lot more labels. Well, that's because yesterday, after I had finished doing regular Saturday stuff for me (Doing my WAYR post, all the links for reviews, and what I want to read this week) and writing 15 reviews, I was working on Author Pages.

And I was working on the page for Lynn Viehl, when I noticed I only had If Angels Burn popping up, and I was sure that I had read most of the series, and that there should be more. So I went to the start of my reviews, and looked at them.

And somehow, that turned into me opening every single review that was a book written by an author who I thought should have a label/tag. And I added it. So now I have 171 author pages to create, and to finish the Lynn Viehl one.

But I'm not done quite yet. I'm only in November 2012, and I know there's some more author label tags to create, which is going to up the number of author pages even more. So yeah, I'm exhausted, after yesterday, and what today's going to be like, because I still need to write at least 3 more reviews!

Plus, I'm going to be going back and editing all back reviews, up to 2012, at least, for spelling, since apparently my first computer didn't have a good spell check, and to add my now usual review things, author, series if there is one, date read, and potentially date reread, reason why I read the book, the publisher, date it was published, and my rating. So that's another thing of work.

Plus I might be adding to the reviews, and then writing the ones that I haven't quite, yet. Seeing as there's still a crap ton load of them to actually write, as well! So even more work to do, and I just don't have that much time. But creating the author label tags and adding it to the list of links, I have a system in which it's going pretty quickly, so I hope to finish doing that today! Wish me luck! Happy reading!

How Well I Stuck to It #2, September 29th

So I decided that I should have accountability on sticking to what should be in a week, so I'm doing How Well I Stuck to It every Sunday, because my schedule should be fixed in by now!

Week 40:
Saturday: Nothing
Sunday: Holly Hearts Hollywood by Kenley Conrad, Unrequited by Emma Grey, H2O by Virginia Bergin
Monday: Nothing
Tuesday: Nothing
Wednesday: Nothing
Thursday: Nothing
Friday: Nothing

Tour Books: Holly Hearts Hollywood, Unrequited. Check.

Review Books: NA.

NetGalley: H2O. No check.

Edelweiss: NA.

Meme Books: NA

Rereads: NA.

New Books: NA.

So that's funny for the 2nd official of this, that I picked to have a pretty empty week, which means that these don't count, so yeah, while I didn't stick to it, this is pretty much a freebie week! What about you guys? Happy reading!