Heartbeat Weekly (94): YALLfest 2016 Recap & Giveaway

Heartbeat Weekly (94): YALLfest 2016 Recap & Giveaway
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on December 27, 2016 | 4 Comments

Took me long enough to get around to a recap, eh? Only two months >.< And now I’m SUPER behind on my hauls! Here’s what I got last month, I’ll do a separate haul for December!   November Haul From YALLfest: All of these are signed! Beta by Rachel Cohn Proxy by Alex London Riders by Veronica Rossi Into the Still Blue by Veronica Rossi A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir Gemina by Jay Kristoff/Amie Kaufman (ARC) Gemina […]

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Books I Didn’t Finish: Fall 2016

Books I Didn’t Finish: Fall 2016
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on November 11, 2016 | 6 Comments

Stealing Snow by Danielle Paige  Series: Stealing Snow #1 Genre: Urban Fantasy, Young Adult Published by Bloomsbury USA Children’s (9.20.2016) eARC, 375 pages Source: NetGalley Seventeen-year-old Snow has spent her life locked in Whittaker Psychiatric—but she isn’t crazy. And that’s not the worst of it. Her very first kiss proves anything but innocent…when Bale, her only love, turns violent. Despite Snow knowing that Bale would never truly hurt her, he is taken away—dashing her last hope for any sort of future in the mental ward she calls home. […]

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October Wrap Up & November TBR

October Wrap Up & November TBR
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on November 9, 2016 | 2 Comments

Well at least I’m sticking to the theme of doing badly at reading >.< Books I read in October   Solitary (Escape From Furnace #2) by Alexander Gordon Smith – ★★★½ The Hallowed Ones by Laura Bickle – ★★★★½ The Curse of the Wendigo by Rick Yancey – ★★★ The Space Between by Brenna Yovanoff – ★★★★ Bird Box by Josh Malerman – ★★★★ Average rating: 3.8 Pages read: 1,605 In conclusion I had 7 books on my TBR for October, but I was only able to read […]

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Top Ten Tuesday: Books I’ve Added to My TBR lately

Top Ten Tuesday: Books I’ve Added to My TBR lately
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on November 8, 2016 | 7 Comments

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish       Hmm, there seems to be a theme XD Row 1 – Sci-fi (aka ominous-sounding 1 word titles) Corruption by Jessica Shirvington – I loved Disruption hardcore, I can’t wait to get my hands on the sequel! Revenger by Alastair Reynolds – Space. Opera. WITH PIRATES AND BURIED TREASURE. *hums Treasure Planet music* Hellworld by Tom Leveen – You had me at “what they stumble across in that […]

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Heartbeat Weekly (93)

Heartbeat Weekly (93)
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on November 7, 2016 | 0 Comments

  3 week haul Bought: Raven Boys quote pillow from EvieBookish Raven Boys mugs, EvieBookish From the Page Harry Potter candle set: Pumpkin Pasties, Chocolate Frogs, Peppermint Toads, Bertie Botts Chapstick from Behind the Pages: Manon, Warner, The Darkling Behind the Pages bookmarks: Nevernight, The Raven Boys (not pictured) Candles from The Leaky Candle: The Dark One, Death Eaters Toothless magnetic bookmark from Magicbookmarks Custom handle wood-burned bookmark & Gryffindor bookmark from Novel Ink Designs Six of Crows by Leigh […]

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Review: The Diabolic by S.J. Kincaid

Review: The Diabolic by S.J. Kincaid
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on November 4, 2016 | 2 Comments

I’ll do it or I’ll destroy this empire trying. HOLY. WOW. YOU GUYS. I was totally blown away by this book! This is one of the most unique concepts I’ve read in a very long time! The Diabolic has a very vivid setting with thought out, complex world building. It felt very real and I was super impressed! (A map would have been nice though. Hopefully in the finished copy!) This book felt much like a mixture of Red Rising & Hunger Games. Everything […]

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