Ali Novak Author Page

The Story: I got My Life With the Walter Boys from NetGalley, and yeah, it sounded good, so I read it, and yeah, now I can't wait for the sequel, because yeah, I really enjoyed the first book!

There was no website that I could find.

Series: My Life With the Walter Boys, The Heartbreakers Chronicles.

My Life With the Walter Boys: My Life With the Walter Boys and my review, Untitled.

The Heartbreakers Chronicles: The Heartbreakers and my review, The Queen of Hearts and my review.

Emergency Review-a-Thon Part 2 Update 19

So I've written the review for My Life With the Walter Boys and next I want to review The Dark Discovery of Jack Dandy, The Girl With the Iron Touch, The Wild Adventures of Jasper Renn. Well, I had to review Walter Boys, because it's NetGalley, and I had just done the review for Of Monsters and Madness, which was close to it, plus, my review ratio is like, 6.3%. So need to improve it!!!

Reviewed Part 2: The French Executioner, Inheritance, Bonnie, The Thirteen Hollows, Beauty Queens, Awaken, Tithe, Mercy and Exile, The Power of Six, Beautiful Chaos, Speak No Evil, The Hunt, Trusting an Angel, Champion, The Shadow Prince, Of Monsters and Madness, Community Service, Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me, My Life With the Walter Boys.

Week 19 Reviews: The Hunt, Champion, The Shadow Prince, Of Monsters and Madness.

Reviewed All: Rebel Spring, Sacrifice, Cast in Shadow, Cast in Courtlight, Cast in Secret and Cast in Fury, Cast in Silence and Cast in Chaos and Cast in Ruin, Cast in Peril and Cast in Sorrow, Up From the Grave, Magic Graves, This Side of the Grave, One Grave at a Time, Home for the Holidays, Once Burned and Twice Tempted, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown, Phantom of the Night, Size 12 is Not Fat, Size 14 Is Not Fat Either, Big Boned, The French Executioner, Inheritance, Bonnie, The Thirteen Hollows, Beauty Queens, Awaken, Tithe, Mercy and Exile, The Power of Six, Beautiful Chaos, Speak No Evil, The Hunt, Trusting an Angel, Champion, The Shadow Prince, Of Monsters and Madness, Community Service, Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me, My Life With the Walter Boys.

It's Monday! What Are You Reading #142, February 24th

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 #141
Teaser Tuesday #149
WWW Wednesday #149
WOW #146
Will the Time Come #132
Third Sentence Thursday #132
Random Reads #117
First Lines Friday #137
The Reward Challenge Round 93 Part 1
Follow Friday #120
LLFL Reading Challenge Update 39

Week 8 Reviews:
Devil to Pay
Destined for an Early Grave
First Drop of Crimson
Eternal Kiss of Darkness
The Girl in the Clockwork Collar
Dreamless
Phoenix Island
Trial by Fire
Bad Attitude
My Life With the Walter Boys
Wicked Nights

OK, so I got 20 posts in 7 days, and yeah, can't wait for more! The Undead Pool comes out this week, hope to read it this week! What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read Grave Mercy, The Alpha Alternative, Darkfever, Beyond the Highland Mist, The Undead Pool, Legacy, and Allegiance.

Bonus sex scene from Barrons' POV found on Karen Marie Moning's website.

He would sell his warrior soul to possess her. . . .

An alluring laird...

He was known throughout the kingdom as Hawk, legendary predator of the battlefield and the boudoir. No woman could refuse his touch, but no woman ever stirred his heart—until a vengeful fairy tumbled Adrienne de Simone out of modern-day Seattle and into medieval Scotland. Captive in a century not her own, entirely too bold, too outspoken, she was an irresistible challenge to the sixteenth-century rogue. Coerced into a marriage with Hawk, Adrienne vowed to keep him at arm's length—but his sweet seduction played havoc with her resolve.

A prisoner in time...

She had a perfect "no" on her perfect lips for the notorious laird, but Hawk swore she would whisper his name with desire, begging for the passion he longed to ignite within her. Not even the barriers of time and space would keep him from winning her love. Despite her uncertainty about following the promptings of her own passionate heart, Adrienne's reservations were no match for Hawk's determination to keep her by his side. . .

Witch and day-walking demon Rachel Morgan has managed to save the demonic ever after from shrinking, but at a high cost. Now strange magic is attacking Cincinnati and the Hollows, causing spells to backfire or go horribly wrong, and the truce between the races, between Inderlander and human, is shattering.

Rachel must stop the occurrences before the undead vampire masters who keep the rest of the undead under control are lost and it becomes all-out supernatural war. However, the only way to do so is through the ancient elven wild magic, which carries its own perils.

Week 8 Review: My Life With the Walter Boys

From Goodreads:
Sixteen-year old Jackie Howard knows nothing about her new guardian Katherine Walter when she moves from New York to Colorado. After discovering that Katherine has twelve boys, Jackie fears that living in the Walter house isn't going to be easy. It's just icing on the cake that the boys look like Abercrombie models...

My Review:
Oh, wow, this was such a fantastic book! Funny, light, with great characters, and a big complication-2 of those Walter boys are romantic interests. And while the Walter boys (and one tomboy) where hard to place at first, and then matching their interests to what they actually did, I figured out enough by the middle.

I loved all the characters, because they were real, and Jackie just had her whole family die, and since he was rich, well, it was on the news a lot, and since she didn't have any surviving relatives who could have her stay with them, she's sent to her mom's friend, Katherine Walter. Who has the 12 Walter boys!

This family was real, complicated, their traditions (like the party, the camping) and they are pretty crowded, even with the eldest brother moved out, and getting married. Speaking of, that was pretty awesome, when Jackie took charge of the wedding stuff when Katherine was panicking the day of. It was epic!

I think my most favourite scene, was either the take the clothing and see what she (Jackie) would do dare, or the first supper, where it was a series of accidents, that was pretty hilarious! Because yeah, that was what kind of book this was!

And the ending, with the mural? With Jackie part of the family? That was so sweet, and I just loved it to bits, and it just added the sweet note to her leaving for the summer to go back to New York, and leaving most of the Walter boys there.

I just loved this book, and I can't wait for the 2nd book to be edited and reposted fully on Wattpad!!

Author: Ali Novak
Series:  My Life With the Walter Boys #1
Read: February 21st, 2014
Source: NetGalley
Reason Why: Sounded good, and it's a DAC Book!
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Expected Publication: March 1st 2014

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

First Lines Friday #137, February 21st

First Lines Friday is a bookish meme hosted by Literary Marie of Precision Reviews. We encourage all of our fellow book bloggers and bookhearts to play along.

-Grab your current read(s)
-Share the first line(s)
-Include the title and author so that other FLF participants can add the book to their TBR Lists!

"I never felt bad for Romeo and Juliet. Don’t get me wrong. The play's a classic, and Shakespeare was by all means a literary genius, but I just don't understand how two people who barely knew each other could give up their lives so willingly."-My Life With the Walter Boys by Ali Novak

Very true, and I agree! I mean, sure, they could love each other, but did they really have to die for one another? Just seemed a bit over dramatic! What about you guys? Happy reading!