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Continue reading →: Review: The Queen of the Tearling by Erika JohansenEven a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you also read the book. ― Erika Johansen, The Queen of the Tearling The Queen of the Tearling is gripping, with beautiful writing and bold characters forming a powerful story. At nineteen years old, Princess…
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Continue reading →: Bookworms Don’t Run Out of AdventuresIt’s so easy to get caught up in the writing and reading. It’s easy to forget that life is a story; it deserves to be chronicled. I used to be so good at keeping a journal. I don’t know why my enthusiasm in journal writing faded; maybe I have too many…
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Continue reading →: Review: Cinder by Marissa Meyer
Here we go again. It was one of those books all over social media, a book everyone insisted that I read. When a book is like that, I’m almost always suspicious of it. With The Selection, people were right–I didn’t regret the read. Cinder is a similar situation, though I must admit I didn’t…
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Continue reading →: Cover Reveal: Blood and Water by Briana Morgan“Jay needed so many things. He needed Maia to be well. He needed a cure for both of them. He needed the world to somehow start making sense again. Above everything, he needed someone to tell him why these terrible things were happening to him.” Seventeen-year-old Jay Harris lives in…
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Continue reading →: Review: This Raging Light by Estelle Laure
Her dad went crazy. Her mom left town. She has bills to pay and a little sister to look after. Now is not the time for level-headed seventeen-year-old Lucille to fall in love. But love—messy, inconvenient love—is what she’s about to experience when she falls for Digby Jones, her best…
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Continue reading →: New Release: Bloodline Inheritance by Lindsey SablowskiNot long ago I participated in a cover reveal for Bloodline Inheritance by Lindsey Sablowski, and wrote a review on the first book of her series, Cursed With Power. Cursed With Power was an engaging read with a fantastic setting and realistic characters. Now I am glad to announce that the final book of…
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Continue reading →: The Book Creators – for those who thrive on literatureCalling all bookworms! The Book Creators hope to provide engaging posts for bibliophiles in all stages of their passion. Published or unpublished, reader or writer, our aim is to be a home for those who can’t live without a book in their backpack (or maybe two.) We have gathered from…
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Continue reading →: Review: Cursed With Power by Lindsey SablowskiCelestria Hale learns that she is one of the last living Dark magicians. Upon leaving her hometown, she searches for others like herself to find out what has happened to her kind. She meets Alaire, another Dark magician with a dangerously sinister past. Through their travels, Celestria and Alaire come…
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Continue reading →: Guest Post: Five Inspiring New York City StopsIn May I reviewed an amazing book called City Love which follows the adventures of three girls in New York City. The setting was so vivid that I became curious–which spots in New York City most fascinate the author, Susane Colasanti? She was amazing enough to write this up for me. I’m…
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Continue reading →: Review: All the Butterflies in the World by Rodney JonesFind on Goodreads Sequel to The Sun, the Moon, and Maybe the Trains With her senior year looming, Tess McKinnon has two goals: hanging out with her best friend, Liz, and avoiding her judgmental, alcoholic mother. Then yummy John Bartley arrives—to tell Mrs. McKinnon that her daughter is dead. Distinctly…
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Continue reading →: The 7/7/7 Challenge
Rawls E. nominated me for this WIP challenge! This one was actually fun and motivational, seeing as I’m in the stages of getting a first draft all the way to the end. It forced me to look at chapter one and see the good in it, that it’s worth continuing. The rules…
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Continue reading →: Cover Reveal: Bloodline Inheritance by Lindsey Sablowski
I’ve participated in all of Lindsey’s cover reveals for this series. It has been wonderful watching this story grow, because I read it when it was still a draft on inkpop. Cursed With Power is so different now, and I was impressed with how it had improved. The writing style is…
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Miss Marjorie Brahms, daughter of a mysterious wizard known by the townsfolk as Bamoy, is having a bizarre autumn. Her father, Johann, had reasons for purchasing an abandoned house situated in the middle of a graveyard in which to raise his family. That did not mean that evil spirits could never find them.
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