This Shattered World Blog Tour Contest

Hey all!

Just stopping in to let you know about this amazing contest happening all over the blogasphere this week. Tomorrow marks the release of This Shattered World, the second book in the Starbound trilogy by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner. If you haven't picked up the first book, These Broken Stars, I highly recommend you do. It's a wonderful sci-fi that's reminiscent of the Titanic days.

The blog tour has been going on for a week, but there is still lots of time to read all the posts and enter into the giveaway to win a signed copy of the book, or even the grand prize of having coffee with the authors! These posts have taught me new things about the series and about books as a whole and these authors are great ladies who I'm sure you'll enjoy. Take the time to visit these posts, it'll be worth your while.

Jubilee Chase and Flynn Cormac should never have met.

Lee is the captain of the forces sent to Avon to crush the terraformed planet's rebellious colonists, but she has her own reasons for hating the insurgents.

Rebellion is in Flynn's blood. Terraforming corporations make their fortune by recruiting colonists to make the inhospitable planets livable, with the promise of a better life for their children. But they never fulfilled their promise on Avon, and decades later, Flynn is leading the rebellion.

Desperate for any advantage in a bloody and unrelentingly war, Flynn does the only thing that makes sense when he and Lee cross paths: he returns to base with her as a prisoner. But as his fellow rebels prepare to execute this tough-talking girl with nerves of steel, Flynn makes another choice that will change him forever. He and Lee escape the rebel base together, caught between two sides of a senseless war. 

This Shattered World released tomorrow, December 23rd, from Disney-Hyperion. The giveaway is hosted by The Midnight Garden, to learn more and to enter the contest, head on over to the page and get ready for some fun! - This Shattered World Blog Tour & Giveaway

This Side of Salvation Superfan Contest Day 5!

Hey guys!

I'll be participating in a contest hosted by Jeri Smith-Ready for her new YA contemporary, This Side of Salvation, which comes out April 1st!

Here's the post about the contest! And the rules are here. It's easy to enter and looks like it'll be a lot if fun. Jeri is great with her fans and I'm excited to participate in another one of her contests. Her Shade series is easily one of my favourites and I can't wait to read this new book as well!

 Here's the book summary from Goodreads:

Everyone mourns differently. When his older brother was killed, David got angry. As in, fist-meets-someone-else’s-face furious. But his parents? They got religious. David’s still figuring out his relationship with a higher power, but there’s one thing he does know for sure: The closer he gets to new-girl Bailey, the better, brighter, happier, more he feels.

Then his parents start cutting all their worldly ties to prepare for the Rush, the divine moment when the faithful will be whisked off to Heaven…and they want David to do the same. David’s torn. There’s a big difference between living in the moment and giving up his best friend, varsity baseball, and Bailey—especially Bailey—in hope of salvation.

But when he comes home late from prom, and late for the Rush, to find that his parents have vanished, David is in more trouble than he ever could have imagined...

Today's trading card features Mr. Cooper, aka Dad. A recovering alcoholic, he replaced booze with religion after his older son, John, was killed in Afghanistan.

Giveaway: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

The Reader's Den is having a very awesome giveaway. Holly Black's The Coldest Girl in Coldtown is one of my mot anticipated reads for 2013. Black's Curse Workers series blew me away and I can't wait to see what she can do with vampires.

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 with a terrible secret. Shaken and determined, Tana enters a race against the clock to save the three of them the only way she knows how: by going straight to the wicked, opulent heart of Coldtown itself.

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown is a wholly original story of rage and revenge, of guilt and horror, and of love and loathing from bestselling and acclaimed author Holly Black.


Head over to The Reader's Den to win your copy! The giveaway is international.

The Evolution Of Mara Dyer Teaser + Giveaway

If you haven't discovered the intense, mysterious and amazing novel, The Unbecoming Of Mara Dyer, you're missing out. With the release of the sequel, The Evolution Of Mara Dyer, in 8 days, my excitement is amping up!

Here's the blurb for the madness that will indefinitely be The Evolution Of Mara Dyer:

Mara Dyer once believed she could run from her past.

She can’t.

She used to think her problems were all in her head.

They aren’t.

She couldn’t imagine that after everything she’s been through, the boy she loves would still be keeping secrets.

She’s wrong.

In this gripping sequel to The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, the truth evolves and choices prove deadly. What will become of Mara Dyer next?


Creepy? Suspenseful? Yes, and then some! The first book blew me away and I can't wait to dig deeper into Mara's story. I know there will be even more questions to answer and more mysteries to solve and I can't wait! Also, Noah Shaw is perfection and I can't wait for his snarky, British humour again!

And don't forget to enter the giveaway on Michelle's website to get some fun goodies! And if you haven't read Te Unbecoming Of Mara Dyer, I suggest you go do it now!