A big THANK YOU! to this site for letting me invade for THE REAL THING tour 🙂 (squishy hugs) Hi. I’m Cassie. And I’m a social media addict. I’ve been posting to Facebook daily for about three years. Maybe longer. There was a month or two in 2012 when I did nothing but refresh my email 20 times or more a day. I call that “query pits.” It was a dark time. But I emerged from it thinking I’d gotten better. But then, in early 2013, I found a new pitfall. Goodreads. Why, Goodreads, why? Why do you tempt me […]

Anna and the French Kiss (Anna and the French Kiss #1)by Stephanie PerkinsPublisher – UsborneRelease Date – January 1st 2014Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Anna has everything figured out – she was about to start senior year with her best friend, she had a great weekend job, and her huge work crush looked as if it might finally be going somewhere… Until her dad decides to send her 4383 miles away to Paris. On her own. But despite not speaking a word of French, Anna finds herself making new friends, including Etienne, the smart, beautiful boy from the floor […]

Ruin and Rising (The Grisha #3)by Leigh BardugoPublisher – IndigoRelease Date – June 19th 2014Buy – Amazon | Book Depository The capital has fallen. The Darkling rules Ravka from his shadow throne. Now the nation’s fate rests with a broken Sun Summoner, a disgraced tracker, and the shattered remnants of a once-great magical army. Deep in an ancient network of tunnels and caverns, a weakened Alina must submit to the dubious protection of the Apparat and the zealots who worship her as a Saint. Yet her plans lie elsewhere, with the hunt for the elusive firebird and the hope that […]

The Manifesto on How to Be Interestingby Holly BournePublisher – UsborneRelease Date – 1st August 2014Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Apparently I’m boring. A nobody. But that’s all about to change. Because I am starting a project. Here. Now. For myself. And if you want to come along for the ride then you’re very welcome. Bree is a loser, a wannabe author who hides behind words. Most of the time she hates her life, her school, her never-there parents. So she writes. But when she’s told she needs to start living a life worth writing about, The Manifesto on […]

Today I’m very pleased to announce the release of Book 6 of the much anticipated, Lux series by Jennifer L. Armentrout, OPPOSITION! I’m a HUGE fan like many others of Daemon and Katy, and how amazing that she is a book blogger. So I have an exclusive excerpt and giveaway for your eyes only! Without further ado, I hope you enjoy… Opposition (Lux #6)by Jennifer L. ArmentroutPublisher – EntangledTeenRelease Date – TODAYBuy – Amazon | Book Depository Katy knows the world changed the night the Luxen came. She can’t believe Daemon welcomed his race or stood by as his kind […]

On Saturday, I was very excited to attend an Afternoon Tea with Sarah Alderson aka Mila Gray for the publication of her New Adult novel COME BACK TO ME. This is my very first event as a blogger and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I finally got to meet some lovely bloggers that I’ve talked to a lot. I felt like I wasn’t just a girl behind this blog as they got to see me. I also got my books signed, yay! So here is a little recap of my day! Jasprit, Donna and ME!  A lovely drink and CBTM! At […]

Siege and Storm by Leigh BardugoPublisher –  IndigoRelease Date – June 6th 2013Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Hunted across the True Sea, haunted by the lives she took on the Fold, Alina must try to make a life with Mal in an unfamiliar land. She finds starting new is not easy while keeping her identity as the Sun Summoner a secret. She can’t outrun her past or her destiny for long. The Darkling has emerged from the Shadow Fold with a terrifying new power and a dangerous plan that will test the very boundaries of the natural world. With the help […]

Tempest (Tempest #1)by Julie CrossPublisher – Macmillan Children’s BooksRelease Date – August 30th 2012Buy – Amazon | Book Depository  Jackson Meyer is hiding a secret. He can time-travel. But he doesn’t know how he does it, how to control it or what it means. When Jackson, and his girlfriend Holly, find themselves in fatal danger, Jackson panics and catapults himself two years into his past, further than he’s ever managed before, and this time he can’t find a way back to the future. All the rules of time-travel he’s experienced so far have been broken and Jackson has no choice […]

Shadow and Bone (The Grisha #1)by Leigh BardugoPublisher – IndigoRelease Date – June 6th 2013Buy – Amazon | Book Depository Originally published as The Gathering Dark. The Shadow Fold, a swathe of impenetrable darkness, crawling with monsters that feast on human flesh, is slowly destroying the once-great nation of Ravka. Alina, a pale, lonely orphan, discovers a unique power that thrusts her into the lavish world of the kingdom’s magical elite – the Grisha. Could she be the key to unravelling the dark fabric of the Shadow Fold and setting Ravka free? The Darkling, a creature of seductive charm and […]