Book Blogger Hop #7 (week of July 25th)


The Book Blogger Hop is hosted by Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer. Its purpose is to give bloggers a chance to follow other blogs, learn about new blogs, befriend other bloggers, and receive new followers to their own blog.

Each week bloggers answer a different question. This week's question is: Do you like to read books with a theme such as Halloween, Christmas, etc


No, I sort of find them annoying for some reason, but I am not sure why.

Top Ten Tuesday #14 (7/22/14)



Top Ten Tuesday is hosted over at The Broke and Bookish, and this weeks Top Ten is: Top Ten Characters I Would Want With Me On A Deserted Island

For their survival skills:
Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games

For their ability to kick-ass (or protect me):
Katsa from Graceling 
Calaena Sardothien from Throne of Glass
Four from Divergent

For their friendship:
Po and Bitterblue from Bitterblue

For their magic:
Harry, Ron, and Hermoine from Harry Potter

For their swoon-worthy-ness:
Jai from Borrowed Ember

Pawn


Pawn (The Blackcoat Rebellion, #1)

Author: Aimee Carter
Publication Date: November 26, 2013
Source: Giveaway

Summary from Goodreads: YOU CAN BE A VII. IF YOU GIVE UP EVERYTHING.
For Kitty Doe, it seems like an easy choice. She can either spend her life as a III in misery, looked down upon by the higher ranks and forced to leave the people she loves, or she can become a VII and join the most powerful family in the country.

If she says yes, Kitty will be Masked—surgically transformed into Lila Hart, the Prime Minister's niece, who died under mysterious circumstances. As a member of the Hart family, she will be famous. She will be adored. And for the first time, she will matter.
There's only one catch. She must also stop the rebellion that Lila secretly fostered, the same one that got her killed …and one Kitty believes in. Faced with threats, conspiracies and a life that's not her own, she must decide which path to choose—and learn how to become more than a pawn in a twisted game she's only beginning to understand.



Rating: êêêêê

Review: I was expecting a typical ho-hum dystopian story, however what I got was a unique society ran by a disturbed family. There were a few quasi-predictable elements, however they were offset by lots of secrets, backstabbing and suspense that kept me on my toes. The pacing was excellent.

The world building is OK. The main character, Kitty, is likeable and smart. I also like the other characters. There is a developing romance, that adds to the story. Overall it was intense and I couldn't put it down.

Stacking the Shelves #16 (7/19/2014)



Stacking The Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews and is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!


For Review

Frostbitten
Frostbitten by Heather Beck


From a Giveaway

Thank you to Yara from Once Upon a Twilight!
Remember Me (Find Me, #2)Black Ice
Remember Me by Romily Bernard
Black Ice by Becca Fitzpatrick

Book Blogger Hop #6 (week of July 18th)


The Book Blogger Hop is hosted by Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer. Its purpose is to give bloggers a chance to follow other blogs, learn about new blogs, befriend other bloggers, and receive new followers to their own blog.

Each week bloggers answer a different question. This week's question is: Do covers pull you in?

YES! I love book covers, and I am definitely guilty of judging books by their covers every once in a while. Books with catchy covers usually pull me in and sometimes give me an extra push to read them.

The Wave


The Wave

Author: Todd Strasser
Publication Date: September 15, 1981
Source: Purchased
Summary from Goodreads:    The Wave is based on a true incident that occured in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969.
The powerful forces of group pressure that pervaded many historic movements such as Nazism are recreated in the classroom when history teacher Burt Ross introduces a "new" system to his students. And before long The Wave, with its rules of "strength through discipline, community, and action", The Wave sweeps from the classroom through the entire school. And as most of the students join the movement, Laurie Saunders and David Collins recognize the frightening momentum of The Wave and realize they must stop it before it's too late.


Rating: êêê

Review: This book was recommended to me by one of my friends, so even though it's outside of my usual genre, I decided to give it a try. The book is geared towards young adults. The story and the experiment are pretty fascinating. I think that it really helps people understand the mindset of the German people during Nazi Germany and to be honest, I think the experiment does help to answer the students' difficult questions that spark the experiment. However, the writing is poor and it feels more like a simplified retelling of the incident. It was a short book that was easy to read.

Top Ten Tuesday #13 (7/15/14)



Top Ten Tuesday is hosted over at The Broke and Bookish, and this weeks Top Ten is: Top Ten Favorite TV Shows

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