DNF Review: After by Anna Todd

Title: After (After #1) Author: Anna Todd Publication Date: October 21, 2014Publisher: Gallery BooksPages: 582Add to Goodreads Tessa is a good girl with a sweet, reliable boyfriend back home. She’s got direction, ambition, and a mother who’s intent on keeping her that way. But she’s barely moved into her freshman dorm when she runs into Hardin. With his tousled brown hair, cocky British accent, tattoos, and lip ring, Hardin is cute and different from what she’s used to. But he’s also rude—to the point of cruelty, even. For all his attitude, Tessa should hate Hardin. And she does—until she finds herself alone with him in his room. Something...

Top Ten Tuesday #240: Favorite YA of the last decade

Today's Topic:  Top Ten Favorite YA Books  Released In the Last Ten Years Happy Tuesday! This week's topic was a mixed bag. It was a lot of fun, but difficult! The more recent years were difficult because I had to choose between some great options! As I got closer to 2010, I had a hard time finding YA books I'd read... I didn't really discover YA until around 2012. But I found some great options and here they are! 2019: House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig 2018: Legendary by Stephanie Garber 2017: Now I Rise by Kiersten White 2016: And I Darken by Kiersten White 2015: A Court of Thorns and Roses...

Weekly Recap: 5/19 - 5/25

HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Hi everyone! It has been yet another hectic week. The solar installation continued through Thursday, despite a completion date of a week earlier. Alas. I also worked all week to catch up on candle orders after my vacation, but I'm happy to report they're almost done! This week I struggled yet again to read. I found myself in a bit of a slump, not having much time at all to read on vacation. For some reason, it just hasn't let up. I spent a couple nights reading Game of Thrones message boards instead of reading and now I'm back to reading but only a chapter or two at a time. I did manage to finish an audiobook...

Aladdin Book Tag

Happy Friday, everyone! I am insanely excited to see the new Aladdin movie so I thought I should definitely do this amazing book tag, created by Amber at Du Livre! While I'm still a little unsure about Will Smith as Genie, I think this movie is going to be fantastic. Even the trailer gave me chills!    There was no way I could pick just one. I also tried REALLY hard to pick books that aren't super hyped fandoms. I know I failed with Caraval, but it couldn't be helped. It's definitely the one I recommend to everyone. I definitely thought Mirage was a fantasy book based on the cover. That was my mistake for not...

Game of Thrones is over and I have a lot of feelings

I honestly don't remember when I started watching Game of Thrones. I don't think it was with the premiere of season one just because I know I didn't have HBO back then. I do know I've been watching for several years and was highly invested in how the story played out for the main characters. Now the finale has come and gone and I've spent the last few days processing my feelings so I'm here to share them. I'm notorious among my friends and family for being ridiculously bad at remembering details from movies, shows, and books, so I am not the person who's going to point out tiny plot holes from season two. WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD You...

Top Ten Tuesday #239: Hands off

Today's Topic:  Top Ten Books That I  Refuse to Let Anyone Touch   Happy Tuesday! This week's topic is actually pretty easy for me. I refuse to let anyone touch any of my books! :) Okay, not really, but I am extremely picky about who is allowed to read them. There are a few editions I'm much more careful with and won't let ANYONE other than myself touch. (In no particular order...) 1. Caraval Goldsboro Edition 2. Chamber of Secrets ARC 3. Prisoner of Azkaban ARC 4. 1927 edition of Wuthering Heights 5. Signed Shadow and Bone ARC 6. The Eye of the World ARC 7. Completely worthless copy of LotR I've had forever 8....

Weekly Recap: 5/12 - 5/18

HAPPENINGS OFF THE BLOG Hi everyone! I may have gotten back from vacation last week, but this week hasn't been any less insane. My mom was in town until Wednesday and we had a lot of fun hanging out together, but I am exhausted! While she was here, the installation began on my husband's solar panel system and... it's still going on. Despite the fact that it was scheduled to be completed on Wednesday night. And I'm over it. We also had friends come in on Friday night to visit and go to Disney World on Saturday. What I'm saying is things have been hectic and I am more than ready for a break! Blogging continued to suffer because of all...

Book Review: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black

Title: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown Author: Holly Black Publication Date: September 3, 2013Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Pages: 419Add to Goodreads Tana lives in a world where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle in a decadently bloody mix of predator and prey. The only problem is, once you pass through Coldtown's gates, you can never leave. One morning, after a perfectly ordinary party, Tana wakes up surrounded by corpses. The only other survivors of this massacre are her exasperatingly endearing ex-boyfriend, infected and on the edge, and a mysterious boy burdened...

ARC Review: The Haunted by Danielle Vega

Title: The Haunted Author: Danielle Vega Publication Date: June 4, 2019Publisher: RazorbillPages: 304Add to Goodreads From Danielle Vega, YA’s answer to Stephen King, comes a new paranormal novel about dark family secrets, deep-seated vengeance, and the horrifying truth that evil often lurks in the unlikeliest of places. Hendricks Becker-O’Malley is new in town, and she’s bringing baggage with her. With a dark and wild past, Hendricks doesn’t think the small town her parents moved her to has much to offer her in terms of excitement. She plans on laying low, but when she’s suddenly welcomed into the popular crowd at school, things don’t go...

Top Ten Tuesday #238: Page-to-Screen Freebie

Today's Topic:  Five Movies That Were Better Than The Book,  & Five Books That Were Better Than the Movie Happy Tuesday! This week's topic is a page to screen freebie and I decided to share five movies that were better than the book and five books that were better than the movie. Let me know if you agree or not!  THE MOVIE WAS BETTER Coraline by Neil Gaiman Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien The Maze Runner by James Dashner The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks THE BOOK WAS BETTER Divergent by Veronica Roth Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's...