Waiting On Wednesday (149): Things We Know by Heart

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

The book I´m waiting this week is

Things We Know by Heart by Jessi Kirby

Release date: April 21st 2015

When Quinn Sullivan meets the recipient of her boyfriend’s donated heart, the two form an unexpected connection.

After Quinn loses her boyfriend, Trent, in an accident their junior year, she reaches out to the recipients of his donated organs in hopes of picking up the pieces of her now-unrecognizable life. She hears back from some of them, but the person who received Trent’s heart has remained silent. The essence of a person, she has always believed, is in the heart. If she finds Trent’s, then maybe she can have peace once and for all.

Risking everything in order to finally lay her memories to rest, Quinn goes outside the system to track down nineteen-year-old Colton Thomas—a guy whose life has been forever changed by this priceless gift. But what starts as an accidental run-in quickly develops into more, sparking an undeniable attraction. She doesn't want to give in to it—especially since he has no idea how they're connected—but their time together has made Quinn feel alive again. No matter how hard she’s falling for Colton, each beat of his heart reminds her of all she’s lost…and all that remains at stake.

What book are you waiting this week?

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Top Ten Tuesday (53): Books On My Winter TBR

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish.

Top Ten Books On My Winter TBR
(in no particular order)
REVIEW BOOKS

When by Victoria Laurie
This Shattered World (Starbound #2) by Amie Kaufman
Willowgrove (Hemlock #3) by Kathleen Peacock


Polaris (Avalon #2) by Mindee Arnett
The Last Time We Say Goodbye by Cynthia Hand
Perfect Couple (Superlatives #2) by Jennifer Echols

NON REVIEW BOOKS
These are books that had been on my bookshelf for a while, so I think is time to read them.

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

The Demon King (Seven Realms #1) by Cinda Williams Chima
Days of Blood & Starlight (Daughter of Smoke & Bone #2) by Laini Taylor

Magic Burns (Kate Daniels #2) by Ilona Andrews

What books are on your winter TBR?

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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is a meme hosted by Book Journey.

Each week we spotlight the books we are reading, planning on reading or just finished reading.

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Finished reading

I love retellings and Stitching Snow with good main characters. It´s a great book.

And I read Two Boys Kissing, This Song Will Save Your Life and Everybody Sees the Ants for the  Anti Bullying Week Readathon, all of them are great reads but my favorite was This Song Will Save Your Life....loved it!

Currently reading

What I´m going to read next?

What are you reading today? 

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Have a great week!

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Review: Full Blooded by Amanda Carlson

Title: Full Blooded (Jessica McClain #1)
Author: Amanda Carlson
Publisher: Orbit
Release date: September 11th 2012
Reading level: Ages 18 and up

Rating: 4/5

Buy on: Amazon | B&N | BookDepository

Born the only female in an all male race, Jessica McClain isn’t just different—she’s feared.

After living under the radar for the last twenty-six years, Jessica is thrust unexpectedly into her first change, a full ten years late. She wakes up and finds she’s in the middle of a storm. Now that she’s become the only female full-blooded werewolf in town, the supernatural world is already clamoring to take a bite out of her and her new Pack must rise up and protect her.

But not everyone is on board. The werewolf Rights of Laws is missing text and the superstitious werewolves think that Jessica means an end to their race. It doesn’t help when Jessica begins to realize she’s more. She can change partway and hold her form, and speak directly to her wolf. But the biggest complication by far is that her alpha father can't control her like he can the rest of his wolves.

Urban fantasy is one of my favorite adult genre and one of my favorite series is Women of Otherworld by Kelley Armstrong, especially her books that have Elena as the main character, the only female werewolf in a all male race, so I could not avoid compare or get deja vus at times about the story of Jessica McClain with the one of Elena Michaels, although their lives and their world is quite different.

Jessica McClain is the daughter of the most powerful Alpha and has a twin brother, with whom since childhood has had a telepathic connection, but she´s a rarity, since werewolves only have male children never daughters, or at least that was until Jessica was born. And because werewolves are a very superstitious race and there is a prophecy that talk about a female werewolf that could end the race of werewolves, and due to this Jessica´s had been feared and hated by her pack all her life, but when she didn´t change at puberty as a common werewolf, she was considered just a human and sort of was left alone (but not by all the werewolves), but now at 26 years old, she had her first change and becomes the first female werewolf and all her life is about to change irrevocably.

Jessica is a great hero, she´s  a strong, smart and tough woman, she wanted to had her own life away from the pack and her overprotective father, which she managed to do while she was human, but when she had her first change as a werewolf, she become part of the pack, so now she must follow the rules and orders of the Alpha (her father).

 Full Blooded is a very good first book in a series which introduces the world where Jessica lives, as well as various supernatural races, they also introduce her romantic interest, besides great secondary characters and even though in this first book there isn´t romance, it´s action-packed and has a cliffhanger ending that leaves you wanting to read the next book shortly. I really enjoyed the book immensely!!

Cover Reveal: Rebound (Boomerang #2) by Noelle August

Rebound (Boomerang #2) by Noelle August 

At Boomerang, one night can change everything…

Adam Blackwood has it all. At twenty-two, he’s fabulously wealthy, Ryan Gosling-hot and at the top of his game in the business world. His life is perfect, until a scandal from his past resurfaces and threatens to knock the tech wunderkind down and throw his company, Boomerang, a hook-up site for millennials, into chaos.

Alison Quick, the twenty-one-year-old daughter of a business tycoon—and the very ex-girlfriend of Boomerang’s former intern, Ethan—has a problem of her own. After nearly flunking out in her senior year of college, she has one chance to redeem herself to her father by proving that she deserves a place in his corporate empire. That means spearheading her father’s plan to sink big money into Adam’s company and launch it into the stratosphere—provided Adam has no skeletons in his closet.

When the two meet, their sizzling chemistry makes it tough to keep things strictly professional. But when Alison discovers Adam’s secret, she knows she should bring it right to her father, who’ll leverage it for his own gain and use it to ruin Adam. The only problem: she’s falling for Adam—hard.

Will earning her father’s approval come at the price of losing her first real love? Or can Adam and Alison leave behind past mistakes and conquer the world—together?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Question: What do you get when friends pen a story with heart, plenty of laughs, and toe-curling kissing scenes? Answer: Noelle August, the pseudonym for renowned editor and award-winning writer Lorin Oberweger and New York Times bestselling YA author Veronica Rossi, the masterminds behind Boomerang. You can visit them at NoelleAugust.com, @Noelle_August, and facebook.com/NoelleAugustBooks. 

Waiting On Wednesday (148): The Glass Arrow

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

The book I´m waiting this week is

The Glass Arrow by Kristen Simmons

Release date: February 10th 2015

The Handmaid’s Tale meets Blood Red Road in Glass Arrow, the story of Aya, who lives with a small group of women on the run from the men who hunt them, men who want to auction off breeding rights to the highest bidder.

In a world where females are scarce and are hunted, then bought and sold at market for their breeding rights, 15-year old Aya has learned how to hide. With a ragtag bunch of other women and girls, she has successfully avoided capture and eked out a nomadic but free existence in the mountains. But when Aya’s luck runs out and she’s caught by a group of businessmen on a hunting expedition, fighting to survive takes on a whole new meaning

Why I'm Waiting?

This year I read Archetype, a book that I loved and reading this blurb it reminds me a little of that book although Archetype is an adult book..

What book are you waiting this week?

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Top Ten Tuesday (52): Sequels I Can't Wait To Get

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish.

Top Ten Sequels I Can't Wait To Get
(in no particular order)

The Ruby Circle (Bloodlines #6) by Richelle Mead : The last book I read in this series was The Indigo Spell, but as The Fiery Heart has a cliffhanger, I decided to wait for the rest to be published, because I don´t want to wait so long between books.

Unleashed (Uninvited #2) by Sophie Jordan

This Shattered World (Starbound #2) by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner

Conspiracy of Blood and Smoke (Prisoner of Night and Fog #2) by Anne Blankman

Until the Beginning (After the End #2) by Amy Plum

Invaded (Alienated #2) by Melissa Landers

Untitled (The Elemental Trilogy #3) by Sherry Thomas

The Forgotten Crown (The Iron Fey: Call of the Forgotten #3) by Julie Kagawa

Trail of Tears (The Worldwalker Trilogy #2) by Josephine Angelini

The Replaced (The Taking #2) by Kimberly Derting

What sequels you can´t wait to read?

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It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? - Anti Bullying Week Readathon

It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is a meme hosted by Book Journey.

Each week we spotlight the books we are reading, planning on reading or just finished reading.

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I´m participating in the Anti Bullying Week Readathon, is hosted by Sarah Churchill from 17-23 November.
You can check her Youtube announcement video -  here
And other information in the Goodreads group - here

Finished reading


Currently reading

I´m currently in 50% of the book,.

What I´m going to read next?

I´m not a fast reader so obviously I´m not going to read all this books but I´m going to pick from this list and see how many I can read, All of them have less than 300 pages so I´m optimist about them. 

What are you reading today? 

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Have a great week!

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Review: Sublime by Christina Lauren

Title: Sublime
Author: Christina Lauren
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Release date: October 14th 2014
Source: Edelweiss
Format: eARC

Rating: 3/5

Buy on: Amazon | B&N | BookDepository

True love may mean certain death in a ghostly affair of risk and passion from New York Times bestselling duo Christina Lauren, authors of Beautiful Bastard.

When Lucy walks out of a frozen forest, wearing only a silk dress and sandals, she isn’t sure how she got there. But when she sees Colin, she knows for sure that she’s here for him.

Colin has never been captivated by a girl the way he is by Lucy. With each passing day their lives intertwine, and even as Lucy begins to remember more of her life—and her death—neither of them is willing to give up what they have, no matter how impossible it is. And when Colin finds a way to physically be with Lucy, taking himself to the brink of death where his reality and Lucy’s overlap, the joy of being together for those brief stolen moments drowns out everything in the outside world. But some lines weren’t meant to be crossed… 

This novel is about a little bit twisted love story between ghost and a boy, about the constant struggle between them to feel close, the need touch each other, how they are connected and find out why she's really there (of which I'm still not entirely sure).

 The story takes place in a boarding school that has a reputation for being haunted, everybody know the stories about their ghosts and tragedies that have happened there. This is where one day a girl wakes up with not recollection of whom she is or how she got there, all she knows is that she feels a force that guides her to Colin and seeing him for that first time she knows that she is there for him. And after their first meeting a romance between them arises, meanwhile she slowly starts to remember her name, what really happened to her before? and she tries to find out why is she really there?.

 There were many aspects of the story that kept me interested, as was the fact that there were legends about walkers (ghosts) in the boarding school, also the things that Colin does to be near her and that is told from a dual POV. But I also feel that it was not well explained why the walkers appear in the school (it was sort of explained at the end of the book, but it remained slightly inconclusive at least for me) and there were times when I didn´t like Lucy and there were some loose ends with her character.

Sublime wasn´t what I was expecting, is primarily a twisted love story with mystery in it, but I didn´t enjoy the insta-love and codependency between them, I feel that the character of Lucy didn´t contribute much to the story because she was too passive. And it wasn´t a very good ending (at least from my perspective).

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November New Release Giveaway Hop - Intl

November New Release Giveaway Hop

Hosted by Book Nerd

November 15 - 30, 2014

The giveaway is International.

Win a book of your choice from the new releases below or one November New Release book of your choice up to 20 Dlls from TBD.

The Retribution of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer #3) by Michelle Hodkin

A Thousand Pieces of You (Firebird #1) by Claudia Gray

Forbidden by Kimberley Griffiths Little

Captive (The Blackcoat Rebellion #2) by Aimee Carter

Mortal Heart (His Fair Assassin #3) by Robin LaFevers

Killer Instinct (The Naturals #2) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Details

• There will be one winner.
• Win one November New Release book of your choice up to 20 US Dlls from TBD (must have been published in November 2014).
• You must be a follower via GFC.
• You must be 13 or older to enter for the YA books. 
• You must be 18 or older to enter for the NA or Adult book.
• International as long as Book Depository delivers to your country, check here.
• Giveaway ends on November 30.
• Winner will be announced on December in this post and twitter.

WINNER: Rabiah

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