Feature & Follow Friday #22: Best YA Dystopian

Happy Friday, fellow book lovers! Feature & Follow is a blog hop hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. The goal of Feature & Follow is to meet new bloggers, make friends, and gain readers. This Week's Question:  What books would you give to newbies in your favorite genre? Well, my favorite genre would definitely have to be dystopian. More specifically, I enjoy YA dystopian. The genre (to me) seems to be generally less gritty and more plot based. This is the same reason I enjoy many YA variants of adult genres... Okay, so these are the books I'd recommend:    Each of these books begin AMAZING...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Author Interview: Imaginary Jack by Kimmi Mc

Title: Imaginary Jack Author: Kimmi MC Publication Date: Early 2015 The stories of Imaginary Jack have been terrifying me for over a year now. Imaginary Jack is based on true events and is about a little boy's imaginary friend and how it changes from harmless to a terrifying force that threatens Kimmi's entire family. This story was posted originally on Reddit.com and gained hundreds of fans overnight! It also won the award for best series on Reddit's Nosleep for September 2013. I'm super excited to tell you that Imaginary Jack is being rewritten in novel format and will be released early next year! Read On Reddit | Website |...

Waiting on Wednesday #21: The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Russell Brand

Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week's "can't wait to read" is:   The Pied Piper of Hamelin by Russell Brand Publication Date: November 11, 2014 With this first book in Russell Brand’s Trickster Tales series, the famed comedian, actor, and bestselling author delivers a hilarious retelling of an old fairytale favorite that will appeal to adults and children alike. Once upon a time, long ago, in a time that seemed, to those present, exactly like now except their teeth weren’t so clean and more things were wooden, there was a town called Hamelin. The people of Hamelin were...

Top Ten Tuesday #17: Getting in the Halloween Spirit

Today's Topic:  Top Ten Movies To Watch  To Get In The Halloween Spirit As Above So Below Miles of twisting catacombs lie beneath the streets of Paris, the eternal home to countless souls. When a team of explorers ventures into the uncharted maze of bones, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead. A journey into madness and terror, As Above, So Below reaches deep into the human psyche to reveal the personal demons that come back to haunt us all. Chernobyl Diaries Americans Chris, his girlfriend Natalie and their friend Amanda travel to Europe on vacation. They meet up with Chris' brother Paul...

Book Review: The Merciless by Danielle Vega

Title: The Merciless Author: Danielle VegaPublication Date: June 12, 2014 Publisher: Razorbill Pages: 279 Add to Goodreads Reviews for book 3 & book 4 Forgive us, Father, for we have sinned. Brooklyn Stevens sits in a pool of her own blood, tied up and gagged. No one outside of these dank basement walls knows she’s here. No one can hear her scream. Sofia Flores knows she shouldn’t have gotten involved. When she befriended Riley, Grace, and Alexis on her first day at school, she admired them, with their perfect hair and their good-girl ways. They said they wanted to save Brooklyn. They wanted to help her. Sofia didn’t realize they believed...

Feature & Follow Friday #21

Happy Friday, fellow book lovers! Feature & Follow is a blog hop hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. The goal of Feature & Follow is to meet new bloggers, make friends, and gain readers. This Week's Question:  Characters, sometimes our favorites, die during books. If you'd get to choose, who would you bring back? SPOILER ALERT!! Allegiant: Tris and Four  Um... what?! I'm still not over this. Unlike some others, I didn't get super pissed about it and cry for a week, but I definitely feel like Veronica Roth could have ended the series differently. I don't see what purpose the deaths of...

Blog Tour & Giveaway: Master Over You by Cerys du Lys & Ethan Winters

Warning: Adult Content! Title: Master Over You Author: Cerys du Lys & Ethan Winters  Publication Date: October 20, 2014 Publisher: Cherrylily & Winters Edge Pages: 506  Add to Goodreads There's a monster in every closet, and I'm in yours. My name is Noah. I'm not a nice person. This isn't cupcakes and candyland, love. I'll take you, break you, and offer you to the highest bidder without a second thought. You're mine now. It's business, nothing personal. You wouldn't understand, and I'm not going to explain it. Sorry, love, you don't mean a thing to me. Just know that there's a monster in every closet, and I'm in...

Waiting on Wednesday #20: Earth & Sky by Megan Crewe

Happy Wednesday, fellow book lovers! This week's "can't wait to read" is:  Earth & Sky by Megan Crewe Publication Date: October 28, 2014 Seventeen-year-old Skylar has been haunted for as long as she can remember by fleeting yet powerful sensations that something is horribly wrong. But despite the panic attacks tormenting her, nothing ever happens, and Sky’s beginning to think she’s crazy. Then she meets a mysterious, otherworldly boy named Win and discovers the shocking truth her premonitions have tapped into: our world no longer belongs to us. For thousands of years, Earth has been...

Top Ten Tuesday #16: New Series to Start

Today's Topic:  Top New Series I Want To Start  (New..let's say within the last year or two) Asylum by Madeleine Roux For sixteen-year-old Dan Crawford, New Hampshire College Prep is more than a summer program—it's a lifeline. An outcast at his high school, Dan is excited to finally make some friends in his last summer before college. But when he arrives at the program, Dan learns that his dorm for the summer used to be a sanatorium, more commonly known as an asylum. And not just any asylum—a last resort for the criminally insane... The Legends Saga by Stacey Rourke The Horseman is unending, his presence shan’t lessen. If...

Book Review: Gabriel's Sacrifice by Noah Fregger

Title: Gabriel's Sacrifice (The Scrapman Trilogy #2) Author: Noah Fregger Publication Date: September 19, 2014 Publisher: T-16 Publishing Pages: 236 Add to Goodreads I received this book from the author  in exchange for an honest review. It's been only weeks since the war ended, since those things came down to offer humanity a second chance in the aftermath. But as the remaining survivors begin to hunt down the new species left behind, the rifleman stays tucked within the safety of his home, content to keep the chaos on the outside--until the hunt comes straight to his back door. And there, coming face to face with a member of this...

Feature & Follow Friday #20

Happy Friday, fellow book lovers! Feature & Follow is a blog hop hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. The goal of Feature & Follow is to meet new bloggers, make friends, and gain readers. This Week's Question:  Share the song you can't stop listening to. Well, here's where the weird comes out. The truth is, I don't listen to the radio. Pretty much ever. The only things I listen to are audiobooks and Disney music. So I want to share with you the music of a friend I've known since high school - the incredibly talented Drew Kingsbury. Note: This is NOT a video! Just music! You can hear the rest of...

Disney Halloween Trip Report: Days 1 & 2

Hello, dear readers! This report was originally written with other Disney World junkies (also known as pixie dust snorters) in mind. I have tried to accommodate people who are less familiar by using links and trying to define terms a little more fully. If you have any questions, feel free to leave them in the comments. I hope you enjoy this trip report as much as I enjoyed writing it! Meet the Cast This is my husband, Coda, and me, Tracy! We're 29 and 26, respectively. We look super fancy here because the photo was taken on our anniversary Disney Cruise earlier this year. The photos in this trip report will not be this fancy. In...