Books I got this week From the library: Zodiac by Romina Russell Gifted: In Time by Alexandra Bracken Sparks Rise by Alexandra Bracken Thank you Octavia!!!!! <3 For review: The Cage by Megan Shepherd Weekly Recap Posts on the blog: Blog news: As you can see, Novel Heartbeat is rocking a new design just in time for the New Year! I’ve been DYING to get Tweak Me 2 and I just couldn’t take it anymore. I’m thrilled with my new […]
Stats Books read in 2014: 62 Pages read: 23,293 Longest book read: 562 pages Series started: 33 Series finished: 10 Longest series read: 3 books Books read by rating # of books rated: DNF = 12 = 1 = 3 = 2 = 6 = 8 = 10 = 17 = 8 = 7 + (King of the Sea Award) = 2 Average rating: 3.6 Books read by genre As you can see, my favorite genre this year was High Fantasy! I […]
Black City by Elizabeth Richards Series: Black City Genre: Dystopian, Romance, Young Adult Published by Putnam (11.13.2012) Paperback, 374 pages Source: I own it In a city where humans and Darklings are now separated by a high wall and tensions between the two races still simmer after a terrible war, sixteen-year-old Ash Fisher, a half-blood Darkling, and Natalie Buchanan, a human and the daughter of the Emissary, meet and do the unthinkable—they fall in love. Bonded by a mysterious […]
Full list of Life of a Blogger topics. Last week’s topic: Before 2014 ends This week’s topic: Christmas! Just like Thanksgiving, my tradition for Christmas is: Family. That’s the most important thing to me on Christmas! As long as I get to spend time with my loved ones, nothing else really matters. We don’t have a set time to decorate. We’re not one of the Christmas crazy families that put the tree up on Black Friday. We don’t have many traditions, either. No […]
The End of Year Book Survey is hosted by Jamie @ The Perpetual Page Turner Reading Stats Number of books you read: 60 Number of re-reads: 2, The Gathering by Kelley Armstrong and Linger by Maggie Stiefvater Genre you read the most from: Fantasy or Dystopian Best in Books 1. Best book you read in 2014? Endsinger by Jay Kristoff, hands down! 2. Book you were excited about & thought you were going to love more but didn’t? There were […]
As far as series endings go, I felt like this one was kind of mediocre. Not that I didn’t enjoy it, because I did. Just not as much as the rest of the series. I feel like not much really happened in this book. In fact, it moved a little bit slow and I was pretty bored in the first half. There were only two scenes that really stuck out to me, and in turn those were the only two […]