tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59837134766597890702024-03-13T16:07:05.636-04:00The Reading ObsessionReviews of fiction books: Everything from Young Adult Romance to Crime ThrillersAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11829607775352498127noreply@blogger.comBlogger178125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5983713476659789070.post-10378033253318358352014-06-27T12:59:00.000-04:002014-06-27T12:59:45.754-04:00Why I Haven't Blogged and Other News<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="text-align: start;">You may have noticed that I haven't posted since the beginning May. Unfortunately, I have been extremely busy because of life and haven't had time to write reviews. However, you can sometimes find me, and some other better writers at </span><a href="http://bibliodaze.com/" style="text-align: start;">Bibliodaze</a><span style="text-align: start;">. I'll probably be posting there most of the time now, since I like the Wordpress system much more than the Blogger one, possibly because I'm a lazy person and don't feel like searching up codes that I can't remember when there are some right in front of me. I'll still occasionally post on The Reading Obsession, but most of my reviews will now be on Bibliodaze.</span></div>
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Have you ever convinced someone to read a book, a series, or a whole genre? What book(s) and who was it? Did they like it?</h2>
The answer is yes. Many times. Especially with my neighbor, who I finally got into reading after bribing and threatening her to read <i>Angelfall </i>by Susan Ee<i>. </i>She was completely addicted after reading the first chapter or so, and kept reading more YA afterwards. And now, whenever I want her to do anything for me, I bring up <i>Angelfall.</i>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11829607775352498127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5983713476659789070.post-22939550623066641602014-05-20T11:00:00.007-04:002014-05-20T11:00:05.775-04:00Tease by Sophie Jordan Trailer Reveal<div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">A born flirt and good-time party girl, Emerson has never had a problem finding a willing guy. She’s always chosen her hook-ups carefully, and she’s never broken her three cardinal rules:<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">Then comes Shaw. A hottie from the wrong side of the tracks, he’s immune to her flirtatious banter and come-hither smile. After rescuing her from a disastrous night at a biker bar, he doesn’t even try to take her to bed-he calls her a tease and sends her home instead. Unable to resist a challenge, or forget the sexy dark-eyed bad-boy biker, she vows to bring him to his knees.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">But instead of making Shaw beg, she finds herself craving him. For the first time in her life, she’s throwing out her rulebook. Suddenly, she’s the one panting for a guy she can’t control. A guy who won’t settle for anything less than the real Emerson, who forces her to do things she’s never imagined, including facing a past she thought she’d buried.<u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Sophie Jordan</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> is an international and <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author whose books include historical romances and the Firelight series. When she’s not writing, she spends her time overloading on caffeine (lattes preferred), talking plotlines with anyone who will listen (including her kids), and cramming her DVR with true-crime and reality-television shows. She lives in Houston.</span></div>
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<b>On-sale <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1980041710" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">9/9/2014</span></span> | ISBN: 9780061957956<u></u><u></u></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">The triumphant conclusion to Kim Harrison’s #1 New York Times bestselling Hollows series!<br />
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Rachel Morgan’s come a long way from the clutzy runner of Dead Witch Walking. She’s faced vampires and werewolves, banshees, witchs, and soul-eating demons. She’s crossed worlds, channeled gods, and accepted her place as a day-walking demon. She’s lost friends and lovers and family, and an old enemy has become something much more.<br />
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But power demands responsibility, and world-changers must always pay a price. That time is now.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison was born and raised in the upper Midwest. Her bestselling Hollows novels include Dead Witch Walking, The Good, The Bad, and The Undead, Every Which Way But Dead, A Fistful of Charms, For a Few Demons More, The Outlaw Demon Wails, White Witch, Black Curse, Black Magic Sanction, Pale Demon, A Perfect Blood, Ever After, The Undead Pool, plus the short story collection Into the Woods and The Hollows Insider. She also writes the bestselling Madison Avery YA series.</span><u></u><u></u></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11829607775352498127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5983713476659789070.post-17412573618592578752014-04-14T10:30:00.000-04:002014-04-14T10:30:00.885-04:00Don't Look Back by Jennifer Armentrout Excerpt<a href="http://www.inkslingerpr.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Dont-Look-Back-RDL-Banner.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Don't Look Back RDL Banner" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2752" src="http://www.inkslingerpr.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Dont-Look-Back-RDL-Banner.jpg" height="300" width="650" /></a>I am extremely excited that Jennifer L. Armentrout's DON'T LOOK BACK releases today!! DON’T LOOK BACK is a young adult suspense being published by Disney Hyperion!<br />
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I didn’t recognize the name on the street sign. Nothing about the rural road looked familiar or<br />
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friendly. Tall, imposing trees and overgrown weeds choked the front of the dilapidated home.<br />
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Windows were boarded up. There was a gaping hole where the front door had been. I shivered,<br />
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wanting to be far away from here…wherever here was.<br />
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Walking felt harder than it should be, and I stumbled off the chilly asphalt, wincing as<br />
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sharp gravel dug into my feet.<br />
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My <i>bare</i> feet?<br />
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I stopped and looked down. Chipped pink nail polish peeked through the dirt…and blood.<br />
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Mud caked the legs of my pants, leaving the hems stiff. It made sense, seeing as how I wasn’t<br />
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wearing any shoes, but the blood…I didn’t understand why there was blood staining the knees of<br />
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my jeans.<br />
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My vision clouded and dulled, as if a gray film had been dropped over my eyes. As I<br />
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stared at the weathered asphalt under my feet, large and smooth rocks replaced the tiny stones.<br />
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Something dark and oily seeped over the rocks, slipping through the cracks.<br />
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Sucking in a sharp gasp, I blinked and the image was gone.<br />
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Hands trembling, I raised them. They were also covered with dirt and scratches. My nails<br />
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were broken, bloodied. A silver ring wrapped, encased in soil, around my thumb. Air froze in my<br />
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chest as my gaze crawled over my arms. The sleeves of my sweater were torn, revealing pale<br />
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flesh covered in bruises and gashes. My legs started to shake as I swayed forward. I tried to<br />
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remember how this had happened, but my head was empty—a black void where nothing existed.<br />
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A car drove by, coasting to a stop a few feet in front of me. Somewhere in the trenches of<br />
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my subconscious, I recognized the flashing red and blue lights as a source of safety. Elegantly<br />
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scrawled along the black-and-gray side of the cruiser were the words ADAMS COUNTY SHERIFF’S<br />
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DEPARTMENT.<br />
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Adams County? A flash of familiarity came and went.<br />
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The driver’s door opened, and a deputy stepped out. He said something into the radio on<br />
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his shoulder before he looked at me.<br />
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“Miss?” He started around the cruiser, taking tentative steps. He looked young for a<br />
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deputy. Barely out of high school and able to carry a gun seemed wrong somehow. Was I in high<br />
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school? I didn’t know. “We’ve received some calls into dispatch concerning you,” he said<br />
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gently. “Are you okay?”<br />
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I tried to respond, but only a hoarse squeak came out. Clearing my throat, I winced as the<br />
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motion scratched and pulled. “I…I don’t know.”<br />
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“Okay.” The deputy held up his hands as he approached me, as if I were a skittish deer<br />
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about to bolt. “My name is Deputy Rhode. I’m here to help you. Do you know what you’re doing<br />
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out here?”<br />
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“No.” Knots formed in my belly. I didn’t even know where<i> here</i> was.<br />
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His smile strained. “What’s your name?”<br />
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My name? Everyone knew their name, but as I stared at the deputy, I couldn’t answer his<br />
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question. The knots started twisting more. “I don’t…I don’t know what my name is.”<br />
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He blinked, and the smile was completely gone. “You don’t remember anything?”<br />
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I tried again, concentrating on the empty space between my ears. That was how it felt.<br />
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And I knew that wasn’t good. My eyes started to tear up.<br />
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“Miss, it’s okay. We’ll get you taken care of.” He reached out, lightly taking hold of my<br />
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arm. “We’ll get this sorted.”<br />
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Deputy Rhode led me around the back of his cruiser. I didn’t want to sit behind the<br />
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Plexiglas, because I knew that wasn’t good. Only bad people sat behind the glass in police<br />
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cruisers. I wanted to object, but before I could say anything, he settled me into the seat and<br />
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wrapped a coarse blanket around my shoulders.<br />
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Before he locked me in the bad part of the car, he knelt and smiled reassuringly.<br />
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“Everything’s going to be okay.”<br />
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But I knew he was lying, trying to make me feel better. It didn’t work. How could<br />
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everything be okay when I didn’t know my own name?<br />
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<b>ABOUT DON’T LOOK BACK:</b><br />
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Samantha is a stranger in her own life. Until the night she disappeared with her best friend, Cassie, everyone said Sam had it all—popularity, wealth, and a dream boyfriend.<br />
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Sam has resurfaced, but she has no recollection of who she was or what happened to her that night. As she tries to piece together her life from before, she realizes it's one she no longer wants any part of. The old Sam took "mean girl" to a whole new level, and it's clear she and Cassie were more like best enemies. Sam is pretty sure that losing her memories is like winning the lottery. She's getting a second chance at being a better daughter, sister, and friend, and she's falling hard for Carson Ortiz, a boy who has always looked out for her—even if the old Sam treated him like trash.<br />
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But Cassie is still missing, and the facts about what happened to her that night isn't just buried deep inside of Sam's memory—someone else knows, someone who wants to make sure Sam stays quiet. All Sam wants is the truth, and if she can unlock her clouded memories of that fateful night, she can finally move on. But what if not remembering is the only thing keeping Sam alive?<br />
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<b>“This engrossing thriller packs a heady atmospheric punch with plenty of theatrical scares,” <i>Kirkus Reviews</i></b><br />
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<b>“Armentrout has written another winner. From the first page to the last, she builds both terror and confusion to the point where readers will be hooked and on the edge of their seat. This standalone contains all of Armentrout’s usual trademarks– a strong and determined heroine, witty comments and hot guys–but she adds in an extra layer by ratcheting up the suspense to the highest degree and follows it up with an ending no one will see coming.” <i>RT BOOK REVIEWS 4 1/2 Stars TOP PICK</i></b><br />
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<a href="http://www.inkslingerpr.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Author-Photo2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Author Photo" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2751" src="http://www.inkslingerpr.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Author-Photo2-200x300.jpg" height="300" width="200" /></a><b>About Jennifer L. Armentrout:</b><br />
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# 1 NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY Bestselling author Jennifer lives in Martinsburg, West Virginia. All the rumors you’ve heard about her state aren’t true. When she’s not hard at work writing. she spends her time reading, working out, watching really bad zombie movies, pretending to write, and hanging out with her husband and her Jack Russell Loki.<br />
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Her dreams of becoming an author started in algebra class, where she spent most of her time writing short stories….which explains her dismal grades in math. Jennifer writes young adult paranormal, science fiction, fantasy, and contemporary romance. She is published with Spencer Hill Press, Entangled Teen and Brazen, Disney/Hyperion and Harlequin Teen. Her book Obsidian has been optioned for a major motion picture and her Covenant Series has been optioned for TV.<br />
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She also writes adult and New Adult romance under the name J. Lynn. She is published by Entangled Brazen and HarperCollins.<br />
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<b>Links:</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.jenniferarmentrout.com/" target="_blank">Website</a><br />
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<a href="https://twitter.com/jlarmentrout" target="_blank">Twitter</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/JenniferLArmentrout" target="_blank">Facebook</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4476934.Jennifer_L_Armentrout" target="_blank">Jennifer L. Armentrout Goodreads</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13418925-don-t-look-back?ac=1" target="_blank">DON’T LOOK BACK Goodreads</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11829607775352498127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5983713476659789070.post-66303952734447731352014-04-06T15:31:00.000-04:002014-04-06T15:31:11.336-04:00Liebster Award and Its Origins<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6HqpfN7z2Ts/U0GSKhFCHLI/AAAAAAAABFk/_r2zthwo6rI/s1600/Liebster+Award.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6HqpfN7z2Ts/U0GSKhFCHLI/AAAAAAAABFk/_r2zthwo6rI/s1600/Liebster+Award.jpg" height="200" width="200" /></a>The awesome Yuan, from <a href="http://obsessivecompulsivereader.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/the-liebster-blog-award-2-3.html">Obsessive Compulsive Reader</a> has nominated me for the Liebster Award. This may or may not have completely inflated my ego even more. The sad thing was, I had no idea what it was, or who started it, or anything about it. For all I knew, it could have been an insult to me and my blogging ways.<br />
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The farthest back I think I found was a blog in 2003 or sometime close to that, but the post made no sense. Then, I found the <a href="http://birdy-of-paradise.blogspot.com/2010/12/liebster-blog-award.html">Bird of Paradise</a> blog, and this seems to be the oldest post about this. This post was written in 2010, and the rules have changed a lot since four entire years ago.<br />
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The rules were you had to pick three to five blogs with less than 3,000 readers. Go on their blog, congratulate them, and have them continue the chain reaction.<br />
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Now, the rules are to list 11 facts about yourself, answer 11 questions asked by the blog who nominated you, ask 11 new questions, then pick nine bloggers with less than 200 followers.<br />
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So, eleven facts about me that you might or might not know:<br />
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1) <b>I am human.</b><br />
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<i>Wow. Right? You would have never guessed this from reading.</i></blockquote>
2) <b>I play the piano.</b><br />
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<i>I started when I was three-ish and have kept playing ever since.</i></blockquote>
3) <b>I know four languages.</b><br />
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<i>English (fluently), Thai (decently), Mandarin Chinese (ish), and Spanish (horribly)</i></blockquote>
4) <b>I blog about books.</b><br />
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<i>You never would have guessed, wouldn't you? Me? Like books? Impossible!</i></blockquote>
5) <b>If I despise a book, I'll read the entire thing.</b><br />
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<i>This is extremely strange, but I just have to know how bad a book can get. And then I get angrier and more annoyed, but I won't stop. It's strange.</i></blockquote>
6) <b>I'm really bad at this.</b><br />
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<i>I'm sure I have a lot of interesting facts somewhere. But whenever someone asks me for a certain amount, I freeze up and I can't finish. Evidence- right now.</i></blockquote>
7) <b>I have a dog.</b><br />
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<i>The answer is no, he's not a guard dog. He's an actual (ish) dog. A shih tzu, if that counts as one.</i></blockquote>
8) <b>I both hate and love romance books.</b><br />
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<i>If the romance is good, I'll like it. If it takes up the entire novel and there is no plot whatsoever, I get bored and mentally throw it across the room.</i></blockquote>
9) <b>I hate generic messages or comments.</b><br />
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<i>Yes. I understand that you don't have hours to type up a seventy paragraph email addressed to me and learn every minute detail about me. However, maybe you could actually learn my name before telling me to read and review your book? An email that says "Hi reader! You should read my book!" is not going to get me to read it.</i> </blockquote>
10) <b>I love crime novels, but I can't write reviews for them.</b><br />
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<i>I'm always terrified that I'll end up accidentally posting the killer in a summary, or someone will read between the lines and figure out who it is before ever reading the book. I keep trying to change this- in fact, I have twenty drafts of different crime books- but this refuses to happen.</i></blockquote>
11) <b>I have run out of facts about myself.</b><br />
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<i>That's considered a fact, isn't it? That I don't have any facts left? If it's not, I'm making it one.</i></blockquote>
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<b><u><i>Questions from Yuan</i></u></b><br />
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1) <b>Favourite place(s) to read</b><br />
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<i>Anywhere that's slightly quiet.</i></blockquote>
2) <b>Bookshops vs library: which do you visit more often? Do you prefer buying or borrowing books?</b><br />
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<i>Probably the library. I like owning books more, but all the bookstores in a twenty mile radius around me have closed.</i></blockquote>
3) <b>Do you notate your books or keep them clean and pristine?</b><br />
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<i>If it's on my Kindle, I'll annotate it a little. If it's not, I don't keep any messy supplies near it.</i></blockquote>
4) <b>Who's your favourite artist/painting?</b><br />
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<i>The </i>Mona Lisa<i> sounds like I know about art. Definitely that one. I like the... smile? Of her face? Yes. This definitely sounds legit.</i></blockquote>
5) <b>Do you know a second language? If so, which one? If not, which one would you want to learn?</b><br />
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<i>Oops. I already sort of answered this. The answer, by the way, is Thai.</i></blockquote>
6) <b>Who's your celebrity crush?</b><br />
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<i>Any author I like. Or book character I like.</i></blockquote>
7) <b>Besides reading and blogging, what else do you like to do in your spare time?</b><br />
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<i>Sleep. Eat. Attempt to play the piano like the people on TV do and hit my head against it.</i></blockquote>
8) <b>Do you also write? If so, which genre?</b><br />
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<i>No. I'm too terrified to.</i></blockquote>
9) <b>Are you a coffee or tea person?</b><br />
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<i>It depends. Do I feel like embracing my Asian side or being British? Or do I feel like embracing the stereotypical American-drinking-coffee? I have no idea. Whatever's available, I guess.</i></blockquote>
10) <b>When you are having a bad day, what do you do to destress?</b><br />
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<i>Read books that make me go, "AWWWW!" at the end from its cuteness.</i></blockquote>
11) If you suddenly received a monetary windfall (say $1000), what would you do with it?<br />
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<i>Please. What would </i>anyone<i> do with it? Spend 9/10s of it on various books and put the rest in my bank.</i></blockquote>
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Now, time for questions from me. I'm as bad doing this as I am answering them or coming up with facts.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">1) <b>What are your favorite genres?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">2) <b>Which fictional world would you most like to live in?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">3) <b>Why did you decide to blog?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">4) <b>What's your favorite food?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">5) <b>What is your least favorite part about blogging?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">6) <b>What is you favorite part about blogging?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">7) <b>How long does it take for you to write a post?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">8) <b>How do you feel about book release dates being pushed back?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">9) <b>What is you favorite part of the day?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">10) <b>What are some of your favorite and least favorite books turned into movies?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">11) <b>If you could go anywhere in this world, where would you go?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i><u>Nominated Blogs:</u></i></b></span><br />
I don't like the number nine, for some reason, since it's too close to ten. But I already have over ten questions and answers, so I'm going to go with the more original rules and nominate 3 blogs. Also, I'm changing the rules to less than 500 followers, because I feel like using random powers that I like to think I gained by being nominated for this award.<br />
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1) <a href="http://www.corriethebookcrazedgirl.com/">Corrie the Book Crazed Girl</a><br />
2) Michelle @ <a href="http://bookhangoversbb.blogspot.com/">Book Hangovers Blabs Books</a><br />
3) <a href="http://wonderousreviews.blogspot.com.au/">Wonderous Reviews</a><br />
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Congrats!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11829607775352498127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5983713476659789070.post-24263526788814675252014-04-06T13:39:00.000-04:002014-04-06T13:39:06.812-04:00Nine Things That Confuse/ Annoy Me<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today, while calmly reflecting over life because I am a very peaceful person, I decided that there are some things in the world that don't make sense. For this post, I chose nine of them. Why only nine? Because of <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1451694.Darkfever">Karen Marie Moning</a>'s series, of course.<br />
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1) <b>Orange</b><br />
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<i>It's some people's favorite color, but I'm so confused why. I mean, it's </i>orange<i>. The only thing that should be orange is an orange. Otherwise, it's just strange.</i></blockquote>
2) <b>People Who Don't Like Books</b><br />
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<i>Okay, I can understand people who don't have time to read books. And I can understand people who don't love them. But if you hate them? And then proceed to tell everyone around you why they have no life because they always read? That's just low.</i></blockquote>
3) <b>People Who Incorrectly Use Grammar or Spelling Just to Sound Cool</b><br />
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<i>I know who you are. You were in my Honors Literature class in high school. You aced that course. And now, when I glance at your Instagram or Facebook</i> <i>or Twitter or whatever, I see this abomination of the English Language. Speaking of which...</i></blockquote>
4) <b>The English Language</b><br />
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<i>I don't care if you are an English Major or an author. But you have to admit- English is strange. There are all these rules, but then they're like twenty billion exceptions to the rule. Or they're eight different ways you can phrase one sentence, but only one for another. There are times when I wonder how English is the known language for everything because it's so difficult!</i></blockquote>
5) <b>Double Standards</b><br />
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<i>No explanation needed. They just don't make any sense.</i></blockquote>
6) <b>Twitter</b><br />
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<i>So, I'm supposed to put all my thoughts in 140 characters? I use more than that every single time I do anything. </i></blockquote>
7) <b>Why Some e-Books Are As Expensive As Hardbacks</b><br />
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<i>This has got to be one of the strangest things ever. I mean, hardback books have to go through the process of the cover, the cover sleeve, and all the pages. e-Books just need to be able to be read. And yet, these books are as expensive as their hardback counterparts.</i></blockquote>
8) <b>Selfies</b><br />
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<i>A few selfies on any profile are to be expected. I find no point in them, unless they're about books, but I've accepted it. </i> However, <i>if your entire social media profile is completely contaminated with selfies, I'm never going to follow you, no matter how amazing you might actually be.</i></blockquote>
9) <b>The Goodreads Interface</b><br />
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<i>I swear, Goodreads has more bugs than a spy owns. You send a message, it sometimes takes hours for it to show up. You search for a book, and it just doesn't show up. Sometimes your feed doesn't show what your friends are doing and you have to click on every individual profile just to be able to <strike>stalk</strike> see what they do.</i></blockquote>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11829607775352498127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5983713476659789070.post-33259281600639123872014-04-01T13:00:00.000-04:002014-04-01T13:00:01.356-04:00{Cover Reveal} Burn For MeOh look! It's <i>two</i> cover reveals in the same day! Or, if you live across the world, it's two cover reveals in the space of a few hours!<br />
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But it's okay. Because this book? Yeah, it's by Ilona Andrews, who's name I still can't spell from memory. Who exactly <i>is</i> Ilona Andrews, you ask? Just the person who wrote <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38619.Magic_Bites?from_search=true">this </a>series. And <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6329547-on-the-edge">this </a>one. Do you remember <a href="http://thereadingobsession.blogspot.com/2013/12/mini-review-clean-sweep-innkeeper.html">this amazing</a> review? Who wrote said book I was reading and freaked out about? That's right: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/21748.Ilona_Andrews">Ilona Andrews</a>.<br />
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So I kind of heard she was writing another book? And this was kind of my reaction?<br />
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Anyways, <i>Burn For Me</i>:</div>
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<b><i>BURN FOR ME</i></b> is a slight departure from Ilona Andrews’ other bestselling urban fantasy series. There’s still the trademark snappy dialogue/narrative and action-packed scenes, but there’s a stronger romance thread here that we wanted to get across right away with this cover. Our hero Rogan is not just hot and sexy, but he’s powerful. Like kill-you-with-a-stare powerful. And Nevada is just as strong, only she doesn’t realize her full potential yet. So I wanted to show off our couple, have that intimacy between them and not lose any kickass-ness (I know, not a real word, sorry). The background with the exploding buildings around them…the idea was Ilona’s and the execution is just exquisite. <u></u><u></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So now, of course, I'm freaking out even <i>further</i>, if that's possible, and I need it in my hands right now. </span></div>
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It is such a gorgeous, distinctive cover, melding together unique paranormal aspect of the world and the sizzle of the relationship between Mad Rogan and Nevada. It's rare when the cover captures a scene from the book exactly the way the author had imagined it. You learn to resign yourself to it. Covers aren't meant to be a literal representation of the narrative, but <b><i>BURN FOR ME</i></b> is. It actually shows a pivotal scene, especially when combined with the aerial view splashback. If you read the book, you'll know exactly what I mean. When I got the cover file, I sent it to a friend. She emailed back in minutes. The email said, "Who did you sacrifice to Cover Gods to get this?"<u></u><u></u></div>
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I have a secret. Well, it's not so much a secret, since I think most of you know about it. I love fairy tale retellings. And I... kind of really like billionaire books? Maybe? Not the <i>Fifty Shades of Grey</i> Christian Grey type billionaires who are horrible and disgusting, but some others are really great.<br />
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My name is Claire Montgomery, and I’m not a princess. I’m a fighter. I worked hard to earn my place on the emergency image repair team for one of the biggest public relations companies in the country. We’ve been called to the renowned Chicago headquarters of Stone Global Corporation, where it’s our job to clean up a heap of the Stone family’s filthiest laundry. Our success will be the biggest victory of my career. I’m on my game. I’m ready.</div>
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Why doesn’t “ready” include a contingency plan for Killian Stone?</div>
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<i style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My name is Killian Stone. They call me the “enigma of Miracle Mile,” and that’s the way I like it. Elite tycoons want into my bank account. Their wives and daughters want into my pants. They’ll all do anything for a piece of the enigma—until a crack in the castle is too huge for anyone to ignore. What they all don’t know is that I’m thrilled about the fissure. Their fascination with the scandal means nobody will look at the bigger secret of the Stone family. I’m safe.</i></div>
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<i style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Her honesty, her bravery, her humor…they pull me in, a prism against the gray walls of my tower. I’m captivated. For the very first time, I long to shed the enigma. To share my secret. But what the hell will that get me? Even if she fits the slipper I offer…I’m no Prince Charming.</i></div>
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Victoria Blue lives in her own portion of the galaxy known as Southern California. There she finds the love and life sustaining power of one amazing sun, two unique and awe inspiring planets and three indifferent, yet comforting moons. Life is fantastic and challenging and everyday brings new adventures to be discovered. She looks forward to seeing whats next!<br />
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Hi there. Im Angel: book lover, hopeless romantic, pop culture geek, shoe addict, coffee-aholic, and occasional vinophile, too.<br />
Ive been hooked on books since I was a kid but it all got worse in my twenties, when I discovered romances-the hotter, the better. Growing up in Southern California, with lots of surfer-type manliness surrounded me, certainly didnt help to assuage the need for reading about delicious alpha guys and the women who adore them. When I learned I had a knack for telling these stories too, I guess you could say I was doomed, though my path toward erotic romance novelist took a few detours via a concert-reviewing gig for my college newspaper (free show tickets...backstage passes...that was sort of a no-brainer), artist interviews for a Beverly Hills dance music mag, and a very, very bad try at a Young Adult novel (dont ask; its not pretty).<br />
These days, I still live in California, and have found an amazing alpha guy of my own who was brave enough to marry me. We live on a street that looks like Brigadoon, with our beautiful daughter and a crazy dog. I have the best life ever, and never forget to thank the Big Guy Upstairs for it, either.</div>
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<i>So, I have to admit that I have a few celebrity crushes. But who doesn’t? LOL. I think it’s kind a rite of passage as a writer. Or at least it is for me and some of my writer friends. At times, some of these celebrities become our inspiration for certain characters. And of course, I have a list of my fave celeb guys…feel free to pipe in and let me know what yours are!<br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--9fr-2Q5q2A/Uy9Heg8VO3I/AAAAAAAABDs/CoIfE3wJHxk/s1600/Ian-Smoulder-halder-ian-somerhalder-32812636-500-700.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--9fr-2Q5q2A/Uy9Heg8VO3I/AAAAAAAABDs/CoIfE3wJHxk/s1600/Ian-Smoulder-halder-ian-somerhalder-32812636-500-700.jpg" height="150" width="100" /></a><i><o:p></o:p>I have to say, that Ian Somerhalder is top of my list. He is smoldering, has beautiful eyes, and can pull off sexy like nobody’s business. And he plays Damon Salvatore on The Vampire Diaries (one of my favorite TV shows). When he gives that crooked smile, I seriously melt! Plus, he does a lot of to help animals, the environment etc. He’s gorgeous and a do-gooder.<br />
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<i><o:p></o:p>Okay, now I know some of you are going to laugh at me for this one, but I think Taylor Lautner is a doll. He’s got the prettiest smile, he’s pretty built, and he seems SO nice. And he can be bad ass when he wants to be too! Plus he’s originally from my home state of Michigan so he gets extra points for that. Now don’t tell me you all didn't freak out when he ripped his shirt off in the Twilight Series.<br />
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Rebekah's book comes out on the 25th, and you can pre-order it <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Romeo-Club-Rebekah-Purdy-ebook/dp/B00INB4FMM">here</a>.<br />
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Hmm... I'm reading less than I used to, since I'm a lot more busy this year. This makes me very, very sad.</div>
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I'm also reading books mainly centered around romance. I know I used to read crime novels, or high fantasy books a year or two ago. Maybe. But now, all I'm doing is reading about romance. I blame it on the guys looking like this:</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11829607775352498127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5983713476659789070.post-8927853684922137462014-03-03T16:45:00.001-05:002014-03-03T21:03:46.840-05:00Hiatus<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I feel like I should tell all of you that the reason I'm not posting as much is because I'm not currently back at a computer. I should get back to my regular posting schedule around next Saturday (Week of 3/10/14). I love you all and wish the best of books onto you.<br />
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It's no secret I love Alice in Wonderland <a href="http://thereadingobsession.blogspot.com/2013/02/splintered-by-ag-howard.html">retellings</a>. And whenever I find a new one, I immediately freak out. So this is me telling you about another one else so we can freak out together. Yay!</div>
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Not every fairytale has a happy ending.<br />
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A Father’s Betrayal. A Kingdom with a Black Secret. A Princess Slowly Unraveling.</div>
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As Princess of Wonderland Palace and the future Queen of Hearts, Dinah’s days are an endless monotony of tea, tarts, and a stream of vicious humiliations at the hands of her father, the King of Hearts. The only highlight of her days is visiting Wardley, her childhood best friend, the future Knave of Hearts — and the love of her life.<br />
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When an enchanting stranger arrives at the Palace, Dinah watches as everything she’s ever wanted threatens to crumble. As her coronation date approaches, a series of suspicious and bloody events suggests that something sinister stirs in the whimsical halls of Wonderland. It’s up to Dinah to unravel the mysteries that lurk both inside and under the Palace before she loses her own head to a clever and faceless foe.<br />
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Colleen Oakes is the author of the Elly in Bloom Series and the upcoming YA fantasy Queen of Hearts Saga, both published via Sparkpress. She lives in North Denver with her husband and son. When not writing, Colleen enjoys swimming, traveling, and immersing herself in nerdy pop culture. She is currently at work on the last Elly novel and another YA fantasy series called Wendy Darling.</div>
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There are a number of reasons for this important question that the few awesome people who actually pay attention to this blog will care to know about.<br />
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The short and responsible answer is that I actually haven't found a book that I didn't really enjoy in the past few months, and I find that four or five star reviews are some of the hardest to write.<br />
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I've also been working on <a href="http://www.bibliodaze.com/">Bibliodaze</a>. Well, kind of.<br />
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I know that my resolution was to blog more, but I just kept putting it off until one day I just forgot to write a review and now I feel really bad.<br />
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out 11/14, Entangled Teen. Represented by Nicole Resciniti. Contributor at yastands.blogspot.com & allthewritenotes.com. Music freak. Chocolate addict.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 200%;">“It is healing<br />
well. It’s not her leg that ails her so much.” Zayn looked down into her lap.<br />
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shorter than before. Gone was the baby-faced Fair Boy she remembered; the man<br />
beside her had a network of scars on his sun-baked face and neck. His palms<br />
were like cracked leather, and the scent of sandalwood mingled with the musk of<br />
a man. She was surprised to find that it did not repulse her. In fact, it did<br />
quite the opposite. She glanced away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 200%;">“She never did<br />
approve of our friendship,” he said with a sad smile. “I was not good enough<br />
for her daughter. And I don’t disagree—I am not good enough for Marguerite.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 200%;">“Oh, stop,”<br />
Zayn said impatiently. “Just because you were not born into the right family<br />
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looked at Zayn. “I suppose. But Marguerite is something special.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 200%;">Her expression<br />
softened. “Yes. I agree.” She hesitated for a moment. “She wanted me to tell<br />
you that no matter what, your friendship will endure.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 200%;">His smile was<br />
like a bolt of lightning in the dark. “Of course it will. Just like ours has.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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straight ahead, her blood beginning to hum. “I don’t know what you mean.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 200%;">“Zayn.” His<br />
voice was hoarse with emotion, his hand gently brushing against hers. “I know<br />
it’s you. I knew it was you the moment I saw you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 200%;">“Your enemy,”<br />
she heard herself say, turning to look at him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 200%;">His voice was barely a<br />
whisper. “God’s bones! What have you become?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 200%;">Emotion<br />
clogged her throat, made her voice rasp. “Forget you ever met me, Earic. You<br />
must forget. I must kill you otherwise.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 200%;">“You can try.<br />
You won’t succeed.” He moved his hand up her arm, sending sparks throughout her<br />
body. “I had intended to visit Monteferrand soon. I wanted…to find you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 200%;">She shook<br />
her head, her breath coming quickly now. “Find me? Why? You are a Templar, have<br />
you forgotten? And I…I’m not the girl you remember, not even a shadow of her.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 200%;">“I follow<br />
no one’s law but my own.” His face was illuminated from within. “As for the<br />
girl from Rafaniya… She’s here, I can still see her.” He raised his hand to her<br />
mouth and touched her lips with his forefinger.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 200%;">Her every nerve<br />
tingled in response, her brain woozy with realization. Was it possible that he<br />
had feelings for her? In the blink of an eye, her hand flashed out, seeking his<br />
throat. Before she could grasp him, he’d snagged her wrist in his powerful fist.<br />
Her other hand lashed out; he stopped it as well. Her body rose in fury, but he<br />
rose with her, twisting her forcefully against him. Locking her within his<br />
arms, he lowered his head. “I won’t touch you, Zayn, I swear it. Please, control<br />
your strength. I don’t want to hurt you.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 200%;">The roar abated;<br />
her strength retreated like a falling tide. She gasped and slumped against him.<br />
How was he so strong? She was surprised how far up she had to look to meet his<br />
gaze. “I don’t understand. How…?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 200%;">His lips<br />
were inches from hers. “Haven’t you realized it yet, Zayn? You and I…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 200%;">His breath<br />
mingled with hers, intoxicating her. “What?” she managed to whisper.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 200%;">Rather<br />
than answer, he dipped his head just a fraction and touched her mouth with his.<br />
The spark his lips ignited was so very different from the one created by her<br />
power. A warmth spread throughout her body, turning her muscles to jelly. She<br />
felt completely, utterly human in Fair Boy’s arms, and it was too good to be<br />
true…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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away abruptly, horrified. “I have to go. I can’t… You must forget about me,<br />
Earic. Or else you put your life in danger.” Before he could reply, she turned<br />
and hurried away, breathless with fear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i>L.A. is one tough city, especially while sharing a trailer with four thieving sisters.</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Ready.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There was no reply.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“<i>Blut</i>,” he said. “<i>Ich brauche Blut.</i>”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>“My mom had always told me – when you meet “the one”, you’ll know; they’ll captivate your heart the moment you lay eyes on them. I had always wondered, though, if my mom’s words of wisdom were finite – if they applied to everyone. Maybe those who had found their one great love were the lucky few, and maybe the rest of us would have to settle for less than earth-shattering.”</i><br />
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Not long after her arrival, weird dreams of an alluring boy whom she’s never met surface during the night, and the eerie, shadowy trees encircling their school seem to call to her. As these disturbing, yet enticing developments intensify, other bizarre occurrences happen – students and staff turn up missing, and mystery visitors leave gifts while she sleeps. With all of these other things vying for her attention, a desperate Levi has to fight even harder to keep her interest. But with the dreams of the attractive boy slowly captivating her heart, Kat has to make a choice – will she settle for ‘great’ Levi, or will she search for her elusive dream visitor, possibly stumbling across ‘amazing?’<br />
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<i>From the author of the Alyx Rayer Chronicles, comes a refreshingly different Young Adult series with plenty of love, suspense, and a new take on the Paranormal.</i></span></div>
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Susan James Pierce has a degree in Marketing Management, works for a Fortune 500 company in Atlanta, Georgia, and devotes her precious, spare time to writing Fantasy and Sci-fi novels. Even though her full-time career has nothing to do with books at all, she has always enjoyed complex storytelling with fascinating characters, and has had a penchant for the written word since grade school. As a matter of fact, her first publishing credit was a poem she wrote at the age of twelve. Why her love for writing never translated into a career, she can only attribute to 'life happens', but her wish is that she can redirect her career path into something that satisfies her creative inner-self.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11829607775352498127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5983713476659789070.post-34397940592964815372014-01-26T13:59:00.002-05:002014-01-26T14:01:37.829-05:00{Noncoherent, and Almost Nonexistent Review} Hyperbole and a Half by Allie BroshSeventy-Thousand-Billion Stars out of Five Stars<br />
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This is the cover of one of the most brilliant and hilarious books of our time.<br />
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</div><div><i>This is a book I wrote. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to explain what it is. I tried to write a long, third-person summary that would imply how great the book is and also sound vaguely authoritative--like maybe someone who isn’t me wrote it--but I soon discovered that I’m not sneaky enough to pull it off convincingly. So I decided to just make a list of things that are in the book:</i></div><div><i><br />
</i></div><div><i>Pictures</i></div><div><i>Words</i></div><div><i>Stories about things that happened to me</i></div><div><i>Stories about things that happened to other people because of me</i></div><div><i>Eight billion dollars*</i></div><div><i>Stories about dogs</i></div><div><i>The secret to eternal happiness*</i></div><div><i><br />
</i></div><div><i>*These are lies. Perhaps I have underestimated my sneakiness!</i></div><br />
Have you read a better summary than that? Now, add these lumpy creatures that are humans and vivid and detailed creatures that are animals. Also, it's hilarious. That's all I can say that's slightly coherent. Just trust me and stop everything you've ever done and read <i>Hyperbole and a Half</i>.<br />
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Thank you, Edelweiss, for giving me the amazing opportunity of reviewing this book, even though it took me months to actually gather my thoughts together. </div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11829607775352498127noreply@blogger.com0