Author: Emma

Blog Tour – Indigo Awakening by Jordan Dane

Posted February 2, 2013 by Emma in Blog / 3 Comments
Blog Tour – Indigo Awakening by Jordan Dane

Welcome to my stop on the Indigo Awakening blog tour hosted by YA Bound.  Click HERE to see the rest of the blog tour schedule! Title: Indigo Awakening Series: The Hunted, #1 Author: Jordan Dane Published: Harlequin Teen Release Date: 12/18/12 Format: Paperback/e-book, 304 pages Buy: Amazon / Barnes & Noble Because of what you are, the Believers will hunt you down. Voices told Lucas Darby to run. Voices no one else can hear. He’s warned his sister not to look for him, but Rayne refuses to let her troubled brother vanish on the streets of LA. In her desperate […]

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Blog Tour – The Hallowed Ones by Laura Bickle

Posted January 30, 2013 by Emma in Blog / 14 Comments
Blog Tour – The Hallowed Ones by Laura Bickle

Title – The Hallowed Ones (The Hallowed Ones #1)Author – Laura BickleGenre – Paranormal YAPages – 311Publisher – Houghton Mifflin HarcourtSource – Blog Tour CopyKatie is on the verge of her Rumspringa, the time in Amish life when teenagers can get a taste of the real world. But the real world comes to her in this dystopian tale with a philosophical bent. Rumors of massive unrest on the “Outside” abound. Something murderous is out there. Amish elders make a rule: No one goes outside, and no outsiders come in. But when Katie finds a gravely injured young man, she can’t […]

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Review, Interview and Giveaway – Blink Once by Cylin Busby

Posted January 25, 2013 by Emma in Blog / 12 Comments
Review, Interview and Giveaway – Blink Once by Cylin Busby

Title – Blink OnceAuthor – Cylin BusbyGenre – YAPages – 304Publisher – BloomsburySource – For Review West is a high school senior who has everything going for him – until an accident leaves him paralysed. Strapped down in his hospital bed, moving in and out of consciousness, West is isolated and alone. Until he meets Olivia.Olivia is the girl next door – though not the typical girl next door. She is in the hospital room next to his, and before long, she’s sneaking into his room to talk with him. Only Olivia seems to know what he’s thinking, and even […]

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Review and Interview – Stolen Night by Rebecca Maizel

Posted January 22, 2013 by Emma in Blog / 11 Comments
Review and Interview – Stolen Night by Rebecca Maizel

Title – Stolen Night (Vampire Queen #2)Author – Rebecca MaizelGenre – Paranormal YAPages – 400Publisher – Macmillan’s Children’s BooksSource – NetGalleyLenah Beaudonte should be dead. But having sacrificed herself to save another, she finds herself awakening with strange powers that are neither vampire nor human—and a new enemy on her trail. In her vampire life, Lenah had thought that being human was all she ever wanted; but the human heart suffers pain, heartbreak and loss. With her new powers growing and the dark force of the Nex after her soul, Lenah faces a choice: between the mortal love of gorgeous […]

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Showcase Sunday (#17) – 2013 1st Edition

Posted January 20, 2013 by Emma in Blog / 21 Comments
Showcase Sunday (#17) – 2013 1st Edition

Showcase Sunday is a weekly meme hosted by Vicky at Books, Biscuits & Tea. Its an opportunity to highlight our newest books or book related swag and to see what everyone else received for review, borrowed from libraries, bought in bookshops and downloaded onto eReaders each week. This is my first Showcase edition since before the Christmas. I did take my Christmas holidays for-granted hence not posting a Showcase for quite some time. I have received  a fair few books since then… For Review I received: Tempest by Julie Cross Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Mass Unremembered by Jessica […]

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Review – Angelfire by Courtney Allison Moulton

Posted January 18, 2013 by Emma in Blog / 6 Comments
Review – Angelfire by Courtney Allison Moulton

Title – Angelfire (Angelfire #1)Author – Courtney Allison MoultonGenre – Paranormal YAPages – 496Publisher – HarperCollinsSource – LibraryFirst there are nightmares. Then come the memories. Now she must hunt. Ellie can’t shake the terrifying dreams about monstrous creatures that are hunting her, killing her. Then she meets Will and feels on the verge of remembering something just beyond her grasp. His attention is intense and romantic, and Ellie feels like her soul has known him for centuries. When they meet on a dark street at midnight, Will awakens Ellie’s power, and she knows that she can fight the creatures that […]

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Review – Infinite Days by Rebecca Maizel

Posted January 14, 2013 by Emma in Blog / 15 Comments
Review – Infinite Days by Rebecca Maizel

Title – Infinite Days (Vampire Queen #1)Author – Rebecca MaizelGenre – Paranormal, YA.Pages – 400Publisher – Macmillan Children’s BooksSource – BoughtFor 500 years Lenah Beaudonte has been a vampire. 500 years of seduction, blood and destruction. But she is sickened by her dark powers and longs to feel the sun on her skin, grass under her bare feet, and share the breath of a human kiss. She wants to be mortal again. But is she really capable of being human, after her long years of darkness? Waking up as a sixteen-year-old girl brings Lenah many things the life she has missed, […]

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Review and Interview – The Lost Girl by Sangu Mandanna

Posted January 10, 2013 by Emma in Blog / 12 Comments
Review and Interview – The Lost Girl by Sangu Mandanna

Title – The Lost GirlAuthor – Sangu MandannaGenre – YAPages – 400Publisher – DefinitionsSource – ARC for Review Eva’s life is not her own. She is a creation, an abomination – an echo. Made by the Weavers as a copy of someone else, she is expected to replace a girl named Amarra, her ‘other’, if she ever died. Eva studies what Amarra does, what she eats, what it’s like to kiss her boyfriend, Ray. So when Amarra is killed in a car crash, Eva should be ready. But fifteen years of studying never prepared her for this. Now she must abandon […]

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Mini-Reviews: Working Stiff and Two Weeks Notice

Posted January 7, 2013 by Emma in Blog / 5 Comments
Mini-Reviews: Working Stiff and Two Weeks Notice

Title – Working Stiff (The Revivalist #1)Author – Rachel CaineGenre – Fantasy, YA.Pages – 473Publisher – Allison & BusbySource – Review Copy Bryn Davis knows working at Fairview Mortuary isn’t the most glamorous career choice, but at least it offers stable employment–until she discovers her bosses using a drug that resurrects the clientele as part of an extortion racket. Now, Bryn faces being terminated–literally, and with extreme prejudice. Wit the help of corporate double-agent Patrick McCallister, Bryn has a chance to take down the bigger problem–pharmaceutical company Pharmadene, which treats death as the ultimate corporate loyalty program. She’d better do […]

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