Some exciting news… From the founders of the Summer Reading Challenge, Chapter 5, the YA team of Hodder and Stoughton have created a bookclub, yay! I’ve been looking for one for age and these lovely people have decided to start one. We all love to read and talk about books so this is perfect. We will be fangirling and discussing mainly over on Goodreads so without further ado here is a little more about it and for you to be involved and join this awesome bookclub… Each month we’ll feature a different book with a mixture of books they publish […]

The Jewel (The Lone City #1)by Amy EwingPublisher – Walker BooksRelease Date – 9th September 2014Buy – Amazon | Book Depository A shocking and compelling new YA series from debut author, Amy Ewing; The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Other Boleyn Girl in a world where beauty and brutality collide. Violet Lasting is no longer a human being. Tomorrow she becomes Lot 197, auctioned to the highest royal bidder in the Jewel of the Lone City. Tomorrow she becomes the Surrogate of the House of the Lake, her sole purpose to produce a healthy heir for the Duchess. Imprisoned in the […]

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 […]