The Beat the Heat Read-a-thon runs from July 29th through August 11th. What does this read-a-thon entail, you ask? Well, read as much or as little as you want – the main point is to READ! You set your own goal, and for two weeks you read as many books as you can/want to reach your goal! There […]
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme run by The Broke and the Bookish Topic: Books that started or ended just perfectly or with a bang OR you can do specific opening lines or last lines — however you want to do it! Rose’s and Julie’s Top Ten Dragonfly In Amber by Diana Gabaldon – Ending- […]
Title: Again Author: Brandy Jeffus Released: May 15, 2013 Self-published Synopsis via Goodreads: From recess buddies to high school sweethearts, Eli Stone and Bonnie Jinks were constants in each other’s lives. Although young, their relationship had withstood the test of many teenage tribulations. Marriage and a happy ever after were in their future plans. One alcohol fueled mistake […]
Title: Royal Street Series: Sentinels of New Orleans Book One Author: Suzanne Johnson Publisher: Tor Books Publication Date: April 10, 2012 Source: ebook provided for review purposes Description: As the junior wizard sentinel for New Orleans, Drusilla Jaco’s job involves a lot more potion-mixing and pixie-retrieval than sniffing out supernatural bad guys like rogue […]
Julie’s Review This book was the monthly pick for the Creatures book club. It was a quick and easy read since it is a fairly short book. At first I thought it was a pretty cool idea since Jane Austen is a centuries old vamp and is trying to blend in, yet […]
Feature for July 26, 2013 – What do you do with your books after you are done reading them? Rose: Shhhhhh! We must not speak of such things out in the open where they can hear. <looking around suspiciously> I have a stack, you see. I mean, we all do really. In the closet of my library, that’s […]
Title: Nomad Author: J. L. Bryan Publication Date: July 26, 2013 Genre: NA time travel dystopian novel Goodreads description:They took everything: her family, her home, her childhood. By the age of nineteen, Raven has spent most of her life in the sprawling slums of America, fighting as a rebel against the dictatorship. When the rebellion […]
Please welcome Julie Caldwell to Chapter Break as part of the Blogger Book Fair! Guest Post: Top Ten Quick Quotes from Psyched: 1. Aisi sat up impatiently and glowered at the figure before her. The shadow of a person bore the faintest trace of bobby socks, saddle shoes, and poodle skirt in her translucent, luminous […]
Every Thursday we are hosting a brand new meme called: That’s what HE said Thursday. For more info on what this meme is all about click here. In honor of starting this meme, we are conducting 2 giveaways!!!!! Giveaway 1: one lucky participating blogger will win a $15 Gift Card to the book seller of their choice!!! Enter using […]
Title: The Corollaria Author: Courtney Lyn Batten Release date: February 2nd 2013 Purchase: Amazon Synopsis via Goodreads: Emily has always felt like there was more to her parents’ mysterious death, more to her being sent to live with the Lyall’s when she was fifteen. And definitely more to her inexplicable infatuation with Luke, the Lyall’s youngest son. […]