As far as contemporaries go, One Moment was pretty solid. I didn’t connect quite as much as I wanted to, which is mostly what kept it from being 5 stars. I can’t pinpoint what exactly caused the disconnect – One Moment was a beautifully written story about letting go and moving on. But because it was so tragic, I feel like there should have been a little more emotion on my part. I didn’t cry once, and the only time I felt […]
In the future, only one rule will matter: Don’t. Ever.Peek. Seventeen-year-old Ari Alexander just broke that rule and saw the last person she expected hovering above her bed — arrogant Jackson Locke, the most popular boy in her school. She expects instant execution or some kind of freak alien punishment, but instead, Jackson issues a challenge: help him, or everyone on Earth will die. Ari knows she should report him, but everything about Jackson makes her question what she’s […]
In case you missed anything…. Day 1: A Year in Review Looking back at ASR – then vs. now Firsts Stats for the year Books reviewed Rating pie chart GIVEAWAY: $10 gift card (INT) Day 2: Undersea Spotlight, Featuring ME! All about yours truly GIVEAWAY: Darkfever (INT) Day 3: The Blogging Community Inspirations Bloggy friends Fave blogs Author love Day 4: The Best Of Top 10 books I’ve read this past year Top 5 in genre categories […]
What do I hope to accomplish in the future here at ASR? Networking. I really want to make it a point to take an hour or so each day (every other day at the least) to visit other blogs. And leave comment love! I’m terrible about visiting a blog, reading the post, and leaving. I don’t always have something to say, so I don’t leave a comment. I need to work on that! I also want to […]
Top ten books read in the past year Top 5 Dystopian Top 5 Contemporary Top 5 Fantasy Top 5 Urban Fantasy Top 5 Sci-fi Best werewolf book Best vampire book Best mermaid book Best zombie book Best mythology Giveaway time! The Prize: Your choice from any of the above books! If it’s in a […]
This post is dedicated to all the awesome people I’ve met and blogs I’ve discovered in the past year! So the first blog I need to mention is Makeshift Bookmark because it was the very first blog I ever stumbled upon. If it weren’t for Jen’s blog, I may have never become a book blogger myself. I was searching for a picture of a book (in the days before I knew what Goodreads was) and stumbled on a picture from […]