Write on Review-a-Thon Update 26

So I wrote my next review, Some Boys, and I'll be reviewing Dreaming of Antigone!

Reviews: Apprentice in Death, Rapture Untamed, The Moth & The Flame, The Crown & The Arrow, The Mirror & The Maze, The Rose & The Dagger, Touch of the Demon, Fury of the Demon, Vengeance of the Demon, Legacy of the Demon, One Lucky Vampire, Vampire Most Wanted, The Immortal Who Loved Me, A Love Untamed, The Boy is Back, Late Eclipses, Through This House, One Salt Sea, In Sea-Salt Tears, Ashes of Honor, No Sooner Met, Rat-Catcher, Chimes at Midnight, Full of Briars, Never Shines the Sun, Forbid the Sea, The Winter Long, The Fixed Stars, A Red-Rose Chain, Heaps of Pearl, Once Broken Faith, Dreams and Slumbers, Rosemary and Rue, A Local Habitation, An Artificial Night, Exile, Encore to an Empty Room, Finding Abbey Road, This Savage Song, The Night is Alive and The Night is Forever, Avenged, In a Handful of Dust, The Cresswell Plot, Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit, The Thousandth Floor, The Fixes, A Perilous Undertaking, Magic Binds, Replica, Nothing Left to Burn, Judas Kiss and The Cold Room, Gone Too Far, Some Boys.

Goals: 33 

Reviews: 26

Write on Review-a-Thon Update 25

So I wrote my next review, Gone Too Far, and I'll be reviewing Some Boys!

Reviews: Apprentice in Death, Rapture Untamed, The Moth & The Flame, The Crown & The Arrow, The Mirror & The Maze, The Rose & The Dagger, Touch of the Demon, Fury of the Demon, Vengeance of the Demon, Legacy of the Demon, One Lucky Vampire, Vampire Most Wanted, The Immortal Who Loved Me, A Love Untamed, The Boy is Back, Late Eclipses, Through This House, One Salt Sea, In Sea-Salt Tears, Ashes of Honor, No Sooner Met, Rat-Catcher, Chimes at Midnight, Full of Briars, Never Shines the Sun, Forbid the Sea, The Winter Long, The Fixed Stars, A Red-Rose Chain, Heaps of Pearl, Once Broken Faith, Dreams and Slumbers, Rosemary and Rue, A Local Habitation, An Artificial Night, Exile, Encore to an Empty Room, Finding Abbey Road, This Savage Song, The Night is Alive and The Night is Forever, Avenged, In a Handful of Dust, The Cresswell Plot, Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit, The Thousandth Floor, The Fixes, A Perilous Undertaking, Magic Binds, Replica, Nothing Left to Burn, Judas Kiss and The Cold Room, Gone Too Far.

Goals: 33 

Reviews: 25

Write on Review-a-Thon Update 23

So I wrote my next review, Nothing Left to Burn, and I'll be reviewing Judas Kiss and The Cold Room!

Reviews: Apprentice in Death, Rapture Untamed, The Moth & The Flame, The Crown & The Arrow, The Mirror & The Maze, The Rose & The Dagger, Touch of the Demon, Fury of the Demon, Vengeance of the Demon, Legacy of the Demon, One Lucky Vampire, Vampire Most Wanted, The Immortal Who Loved Me, A Love Untamed, The Boy is Back, Late Eclipses, Through This House, One Salt Sea, In Sea-Salt Tears, Ashes of Honor, No Sooner Met, Rat-Catcher, Chimes at Midnight, Full of Briars, Never Shines the Sun, Forbid the Sea, The Winter Long, The Fixed Stars, A Red-Rose Chain, Heaps of Pearl, Once Broken Faith, Dreams and Slumbers, Rosemary and Rue, A Local Habitation, An Artificial Night, Exile, Encore to an Empty Room, Finding Abbey Road, This Savage Song, The Night is Alive and The Night is Forever, Avenged, In a Handful of Dust, The Cresswell Plot, Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit, The Thousandth Floor, The Fixes, A Perilous Undertaking, Magic Binds, Replica, Nothing Left to Burn.

Goals: 33 

Reviews: 23

Write on Review-a-Thon Update 22

So I wrote my next review, Replica, and I'll be reviewing Nothing Left to Burn!

Reviews: Apprentice in Death, Rapture Untamed, The Moth & The Flame, The Crown & The Arrow, The Mirror & The Maze, The Rose & The Dagger, Touch of the Demon, Fury of the Demon, Vengeance of the Demon, Legacy of the Demon, One Lucky Vampire, Vampire Most Wanted, The Immortal Who Loved Me, A Love Untamed, The Boy is Back, Late Eclipses, Through This House, One Salt Sea, In Sea-Salt Tears, Ashes of Honor, No Sooner Met, Rat-Catcher, Chimes at Midnight, Full of Briars, Never Shines the Sun, Forbid the Sea, The Winter Long, The Fixed Stars, A Red-Rose Chain, Heaps of Pearl, Once Broken Faith, Dreams and Slumbers, Rosemary and Rue, A Local Habitation, An Artificial Night, Exile, Encore to an Empty Room, Finding Abbey Road, This Savage Song, The Night is Alive and The Night is Forever, Avenged, In a Handful of Dust, The Cresswell Plot, Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit, The Thousandth Floor, The Fixes, A Perilous Undertaking, Magic Binds, Replica.

Goals: 33 

Reviews: 22

It's Monday! What Are You Reading #273, August 29th

It's Monday! What Are You Reading is a weekly meme hosted by Book Date 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 #272
Teaser Tuesday #280
WWW Wednesday #280
WOW #277
Will the Time Come #272
Third Sentence Thursday #262
Random Reads #248
First Lines Friday #267
The Reward Challenge Update #258
Follow Friday #250
How Well I Stuck to It #102
Wrote that Review Update #107
Show the Books Showcase #25

Week 35 Reviews:
Secrets of the Demon
Dreaming of Antigone
Some Boys
Gone Too Far
Judas Kiss
The Cold Room
Nothing Left to Burn
Replica
Hemlock
Thornhill
Willowgrove

Tours:
Intertwined: Review

ARC August:
Update 14
Update 15
August 16
August 17
Update 18
Update 19
Update 20
Update 21
Update 22
Update 23

Random:
Eliza Crewe Author Page
Patty Blount Author Page
We Have the Cover of Ghostwalker #13!!!!

OK, so I got 35 posts in 7 days, so yeah, I'm happy with this week, and I can't wait for another one! What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read Magic Binds and Wild Embrace.

Mercenary Kate Daniels knows all too well that magic in post-Shift Atlanta is a dangerous business. But nothing she's faced could have prepared her for this…

Kate and the former Beast Lord Curran Lennart are finally making their relationship official. But there are some steep obstacles standing in the way of their walk to the altar…

Kate's father, Roland, has kidnapped the demigod Saiman and is slowly bleeding him dry in his never-ending bid for power. A Witch Oracle has predicted that if Kate marries the man she loves, Atlanta will burn and she will lose him forever. And the only person Kate can ask for help is long dead.

The odds are impossible. The future is grim. But Kate Daniels has never been one to play by the rules…

The "alpha author of paranormal romance"* presents a stunningly sensual collection of four all-new Psy-Changeling novellas, in which taboos are broken, boundaries are crossed, and instincts prove irresistible...

Echo of Silence In a deep-sea station, Tazia Nerif has found her life's work as an engineer, keeping things running smoothly. But she wants nothing more than to break down the barrier of silence between her and her telekinetic Psy station commander...

Dorian A changeling who can never shift lives a life of quiet frustration--until he learns how to let his leopard come out and play...

Partners in Persuasion Still raw from being burned by a dominant female, wolf changeling Felix will never again risk being a plaything. But for dominant leopard Dezi, he's the most fascinating man she's ever met. She just has to convince this gun-shy wolf that he can trust the dangerous cat who wants to take a slow, sexy bite out of him...

Flirtation of Fate Seven years ago, Kenji broke Garnet's heart. Now the wolf packmates have to investigate the shocking murder of one of their own. And the more Kenji sees of the woman Garnet has become, the deeper he begins to fall once more. But even his primal instincts are no match for the dark secret he carries.

Week 35 Review: Nothing Left to Burn

From Goodreads:
Dear Dad,

I promised Matt I'd do this—become a Junior Cadet. That I wouldn't let you break me down. I know you hate me. Blame me for everything you lost. But that day I lost my brother and my dad. You could never be proud of me, could you? I was too "different." So, just in case you haven't figured it out yet, I'm saying good-bye. Maybe someday you’ll miss me.

Reece

Reece's words make her ache. Amanda understands wanting to belong. As a foster kid, she only feels at home at the firehouse where she volunteers. She wants to help Reece, but his dad is her boss. And she won't risk her place as a Junior Cadet—it’s all that she has. But when a string of arsons points to Amanda's foster brother as the culprit, her whole world is about to go up in flames. And the only way for Amanda and Reece to save each other is to risk getting burned.

My Review:
Oh, this book was just so fantastic! I loved reading about these characters, and this situation! It wasn't easy, but it was just so fantastic to read, and I enjoyed reading it so much, especially after just recently reading Some Boys!

One thing that this book made me do, was appreciate those that are out there, fighting fire. They risk their lives, and they have keep a bunch of pertinent information about fires. It's complicated, and yeah, this book just made me appreciate them!

These characters, oh! They had their stories, and those were deep and personal! I loved reading about them, and their lives! Reece with his dad, and Amanda being a foster kid, these were parts of them. And they affected their romance, and I just loved reading about it!

The mystery! This was a bit of a small town, and yeah, we weren't given a lot of clues-they were kids, and this was out of what they should know. But they were involved, and they did find the bad guy-and yeah, that made it such a great read!

Loved reading this book, it was just so fantastic, and I can't wait to read more by Patty Blount!

Author: Patty Blount
Read: August 25th, 2016
Source: NetGalley
Reason Why: Sounded really great, and it's a SAC 2016 Book!
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Published: August 4th 2015

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

Week 35 Review: Some Boys

From Goodreads:
Some girls say no. Some boys don't listen.

When Grace meets Ian, she's afraid. Afraid he'll reject her like the rest of the school, like her own family. After she accuses Zac, the town golden boy, of rape, everyone turns against her. Ian wouldn't be the first to call her a slut and a liar.

Except Ian doesn't reject her. He's the one person who looks past the taunts and the names and the tough-girl act to see the real Grace. He's the one who gives her the courage to fight back.

He's also Zac's best friend.

My Review:
This book was utterly fantastic to read! I loved to hate the subject matter-of rape, and how boys get away with it, that "boys will be boys" or athletes are deemed more important then the victims, and it either isn't believed, or it's swept under the rug. And it's very infuriating!

We knew something had happened. The synopsis tells us that. But Grace kept the whole story from us, and revealed bit by bit, until we had everything, and it wasn't a pleasant story. It sounds like it has-and will-happen, and with the way that society is, that it won't change anytime soon. Which is pretty horrible.

Grace and Ian were really interesting together. She was raped by his best friend-when she was interested in Ian. And that if Ian had gotten to the party earlier, it might not have happened. Yeah, they had an interesting dynamic!

When everything came out, that Zac was lying and manipulating things, there was a sense of relief-that things were righted, though not as much as they could've been, but were better than they had been. So it was a pretty great ending!

I enjoyed this book so much-I made a lot of aggravation sounds-and I need to read more by Patty Blount!

Author: Patty Blount
Read: August 22nd, 2016
Source: NetGalley
Reason Why: Sounded really great, and it's a SAC 2016 Book!
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Published: August 5th, 2014

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

ARC August Update 17

So the next ARC I read was Nothing Left to Burn. I'll be reading Replica next.

Reading Journey:

Nevernight by Jay Kristoff
Started On: August 1st
Finished On: August 1st, 11:51 PM
Pages Read: 448

Unraveled by Jennifer Estep
Started On: August 3rd
Finished On: August 3rd, 8:58 PM
Pages Read: 400

Body Shot by Kelly Jamieson
Started On: August 3rd
Finished On: August 3rd, 10:45 PM
Pages Read: 263

The Form of Things Unknown by Robin Bridges
Started On: August 4th
Finished On: August 4th, 12:24 PM
Pages Read: 304

Deliverance by C.J. Redwine
Started On: August 5th
Finished On: August 5th, 11:27 AM
Pages Read: 480

The Swan Riders by Erin Bow
Started On: August 5th
Finished On: August 5th, 9:20 PM
Pages Read: 384

Cracked by Eliza Crewe
Started On: August 5th
Finished On: August 5th, 10:29 PM
Pages Read: 327

The Art of Lainey by Paula Stokes
Started On: August 6th
Finished On: August 6th, 11:20 PM
Pages Read: 384

Undead With Benefits by Jeff Hart
Started On: August 7th
Finished On: August 7th, 11:20 PM
Pages Read: 416

Long May She Reign by Rhiannon Thomas
Started On: August 8th
Finished On: August 8th, 8:37 PM
Pages Read: 432

The Telling by Alexandra Sirowy
Started On: August 10th
Finished On: August 10th, 11:51 PM
Pages Read: 400

Transcendent by Lesley Livingston
Started On: August 14th
Finished On: August 14th, 12:48 PM
Pages Read: 343

Vanished by E.E. Cooper
Started On: August 14th
Finished On: August 14th, 9:35 PM
Pages Read: 320

Dreaming of Antigone by Robin Bridges
Started On: August 22nd
Finished On: August 22nd, 4:48 PM
Pages Read: 304

Some Boys by Patty Blount
Started On: August 22nd
Finished On: August 22nd, 9:04 PM
Pages Read: 352

Gone Too Far by Natalie D. Richards
Started On: August 23rd
Finished On: August 23rd, 8:01 PM
Pages Read: 320

Nothing Left to Burn by Patty Blount
Started On: August 25th
Finished On: August 25th, 11:15 PM
Pages Read: 368

Replica by Lauren Oliver
Started On: August 26th
Currently On: Page 1 of 554

A Perilous Undertaking by Deanna Raybourn
Started On: August
Currently On: Page 52 of 352

The Thousandth Floor by Katherine McGee
Started On: August
Currently On: Page 1 of 448

Goals: 20
Read: 17
Pages Read: 6215

Third Sentence Thursday #263, August 25th

Third Sentence Thursday is a weekly meme which likes to watch fireworks especially while eating a cookie!

1) Take the book you are currently reading and open it to a random page. Share the third full sentence on that page. (If there isn't a third one – like at the end of a chapter or a blank page – you can share the third sentence of the book or just choose another random page.) Feel free to share more than one sentence, if you feel the need to do so.

2) Review this sentence anyway you want (funny and silly reviews encouraged)

3) Post a link to your sentence at Words I Write Crazy (This Blog)

4) Visit one or two of the other blogs to check out their third sentences!

"We kept this up for an hour or so, with me reading the list and Bear quizzing me, and it was really working for me." -Nothing Left to Burn by Patty Blount, page 74.

That sounds like a good thing, so yeah!

What are your guy's 3rd lines? Link up below!

Patty Blount Author Page

The Story: As with the previous author page, I got Some Boys, and Nothing Left to Burn from NetGalley, and forgot that I had until going through my shelves, and wanted to read them! And I have read Some Boys, and yeah,  can't wait to read more!

Website

Stand Alone's: Some Boys and her site, my review, Nothing Left to Burn and her site, my review, Send and her site, my review, TMI and her site, my review.

ARC August Update 15

So the next ARC I read was Some Boys. I'll be reading The Thousandth Floor next.

Reading Journey:

Nevernight by Jay Kristoff
Started On: August 1st
Finished On: August 1st, 11:51 PM
Pages Read: 448

Unraveled by Jennifer Estep
Started On: August 3rd
Finished On: August 3rd, 8:58 PM
Pages Read: 400

Body Shot by Kelly Jamieson
Started On: August 3rd
Finished On: August 3rd, 10:45 PM
Pages Read: 263

The Form of Things Unknown by Robin Bridges
Started On: August 4th
Finished On: August 4th, 12:24 PM
Pages Read: 304

Deliverance by C.J. Redwine
Started On: August 5th
Finished On: August 5th, 11:27 AM
Pages Read: 480

The Swan Riders by Erin Bow
Started On: August 5th
Finished On: August 5th, 9:20 PM
Pages Read: 384

Cracked by Eliza Crewe
Started On: August 5th
Finished On: August 5th, 10:29 PM
Pages Read: 327

The Art of Lainey by Paula Stokes
Started On: August 6th
Finished On: August 6th, 11:20 PM
Pages Read: 384

Undead With Benefits by Jeff Hart
Started On: August 7th
Finished On: August 7th, 11:20 PM
Pages Read: 416

Long May She Reign by Rhiannon Thomas
Started On: August 8th
Finished On: August 8th, 8:37 PM
Pages Read: 432

The Telling by Alexandra Sirowy
Started On: August 10th
Finished On: August 10th, 11:51 PM
Pages Read: 400

Transcendent by Lesley Livingston
Started On: August 14th
Finished On: August 14th, 12:48 PM
Pages Read: 343

Vanished by E.E. Cooper
Started On: August 14th
Finished On: August 14th, 9:35 PM
Pages Read: 320

Dreaming of Antigone by Robin Bridges
Started On: August 22nd
Finished On: August 22nd, 4:48 PM
Pages Read: 304

Some Boys by Patty Blount
Started On: August 22nd
Finished On: August 22nd, 9:04 PM
Pages Read: 352

The Thousandth Floor by Katherine McGee
Started On: August 15th
Currently On: Page 1 of 448

Goals: 20
Read: 15
Pages Read: 5557