tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44865171817319277312024-03-05T17:13:05.753-05:00Falling Off The ShelfJenni @ Falling Off The Shelfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05214639015536417380noreply@blogger.comBlogger428125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486517181731927731.post-3660151030498731022011-09-27T17:05:00.000-04:002011-09-27T17:05:29.624-04:00I'm coming back!<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>After giving birth to a beautiful baby boy, and now moving into a new place....I'm coming back to review! I'm going to be changing things up a bit though, not as many giveaways or interviews at first.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>I'm also (probably) going to be starting a new blog just for YA Reviews as well, so they will be separated.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>As soon as I get settled, look forward to more reviews from me, along with pics of my adorable baby boy Connor :)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>I've also started making handmade wire-work jewelry. I may be doing some giveaways of that as well. Look forward to more info on that as well!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b> </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDTYBVh6dPANioNhTU7ANgnKj9ZigkF8ulTjnq0yGfGvXNME3BoUA9PB4CFtnAXfZdPxu7-ws0V0hbmj2SrS3gFstZuTa-6SwHhvd-KHJgq-mzyhIe1jXzYZ46ahkw1ETF4i1oilU8OfE/s1600/Picture+013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDTYBVh6dPANioNhTU7ANgnKj9ZigkF8ulTjnq0yGfGvXNME3BoUA9PB4CFtnAXfZdPxu7-ws0V0hbmj2SrS3gFstZuTa-6SwHhvd-KHJgq-mzyhIe1jXzYZ46ahkw1ETF4i1oilU8OfE/s320/Picture+013.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b> </b></span></div>Jenni @ Falling Off The Shelfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05214639015536417380noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486517181731927731.post-52425148328751025112011-02-22T13:22:00.000-05:002011-02-22T13:37:55.247-05:00Blog Tour : Fallen Grace by Mary Hooper<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV0Zq41w8WOyCJf902Y2Hm1y6fKx3dt8u4_k47ujYs4QQloUUJYTQFWjhRUoGZTWKKd5hngtbvg2_wSZ4Ug65LkIqakA4CkhkyW9KcL8RYHDlRVeUJjgrVCQQ5vEMehSaFyAORd7tMssA/s1600/Fallen+Grace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV0Zq41w8WOyCJf902Y2Hm1y6fKx3dt8u4_k47ujYs4QQloUUJYTQFWjhRUoGZTWKKd5hngtbvg2_wSZ4Ug65LkIqakA4CkhkyW9KcL8RYHDlRVeUJjgrVCQQ5vEMehSaFyAORd7tMssA/s320/Fallen+Grace.jpg" width="209" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Fallen Grace <span style="font-size: small;">by <span style="font-size: large;">Mary Hooper</span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Blog Tour</span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://fallingofftheshelf.blogspot.com/2011/02/review-fallen-grace-by-mary-hooper.html">Read My Review</a></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><u><span style="font-size: small;">About the Book</span></u></span></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3; text-align: center;">Life has been nothing but unfair to Grace Parkes and her sister. Penniless, the two orphans manage to stay alive-but only barely, like so many on the streets of Victorian London. And Grace must bear a greater heartbreak, having become pregnant from terrible circumstances and then given birth to a stillborn baby. But the infant's death sets Grace on a new path, bringing her into contact with people who hold both riches and power. A great fraud has been perpetrated on young Grace and her sister, and they are the secret recipients of a most unusual legacy-if only they can find the means to claim it. Mary Hooper's latest offers Dickensian social commentary, as well as malicious fraud, mysterious secrets, and a riveting read.<br />
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;"><u><strong>About the Author</strong></u></span><span style="color: #c27ba0;"> </span><br />
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Mary Hooper is a very popular writer for children and young adults. Mary's brilliant historical novels, At the House of the Magician, By Royal Command, At the Sign of the Sugared Plum, Petals in the Ashes and The Extraordinary Life and Times of Eliza Rose have a huge fan base, as do her contemporary novels for teenagers. Mary is very much in demand for her events at literary festivals and schools. She lives in England.<br />
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<u><strong><span style="color: #c27ba0;">More Teen Titles by Mary Hooper</span></strong></u><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1599906694?ie=UTF8&ref_=sr_1_1&s=books&qid=1298399500&sr=1-1">At the House of the Magician</a><br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Royal-Command-House-Magician-Bk/dp/0747588856/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1298399578&sr=1-5">By Royal Command</a><br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Betrayal-Mary-Hooper/dp/1599906716/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1298399633&sr=1-1">The Betrayal</a><br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Remarkable-Life-Times-Eliza-Rose/dp/B0042P58AG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1298399666&sr=1-1">The Remarkable Life and Times of Eliza Rose</a><br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Petals-Ashes-Mary-Hooper/dp/1582349363/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1298399697&sr=1-1">Petals in the Ashes</a><br />
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Amy-Mary-Hooper/dp/B000HWYR2S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1298399719&sr=1-1">Amy</a><br />
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<strong>Visit Mary @ <a href="http://maryhooper.co.uk/">MaryHooper.Co.Uk</a></strong><br />
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">A special Thank You to Kate from Bloomsbury Kids for allowing me to participate in this blog tour.</span></div>Jenni @ Falling Off The Shelfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05214639015536417380noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486517181731927731.post-74239117909799061472011-02-22T13:20:00.000-05:002011-02-22T13:25:33.853-05:00Review : Fallen Grace by Mary Hooper<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1gAtGorDZDTkUTxfBpDNyp6NSpxIgZfWiazDN2NsCly13eWkQUOtdhHhMka6faU1DWD2OfxUTNKTcADrhkrJSLFUn0IvgViARxP1RD7OR6S728PEyoRN9jDmLJzGWFLahIMOcVURjsCo/s1600/fallen+grace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1gAtGorDZDTkUTxfBpDNyp6NSpxIgZfWiazDN2NsCly13eWkQUOtdhHhMka6faU1DWD2OfxUTNKTcADrhkrJSLFUn0IvgViARxP1RD7OR6S728PEyoRN9jDmLJzGWFLahIMOcVURjsCo/s320/fallen+grace.jpg" width="209" /></a></div><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Title : </b></span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1599905647?ie=UTF8&redirect=true&ref_=sr_1_1&qid=1298396976&sr=8-1">Fallen Grace</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Author : </b></span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><a href="http://www.maryhooper.co.uk/">Mary Hooper</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Publisher : </b></span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><a href="http://www.bloomsburykids.com/">Bloomsbury USA Children's Books</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Genre : </b></span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Historical Fiction, YA</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>ISBN : </b></span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">978-1599905648</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Source : </b></span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><i>Received from Publisher</i></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Release Date : </b></span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">February 1, 2011</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Rating : </b></span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">2/5 Stars - Okay</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><u><b>Description from Amazon</b></u></span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b> : </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Life has been nothing but unfair to Grace Parkes and her sister. Penniless, the two orphans manage to stay alive-but only barely, like so many on the streets of Victorian London. And Grace must bear a greater heartbreak, having become pregnant from terrible circumstances and then given birth to a stillborn baby. But the infant's death sets Grace on a new path, bringing her into contact with people who hold both riches and power. A great fraud has been perpetrated on young Grace and her sister, and they are the secret recipients of a most unusual legacy-if only they can find the means to claim it. Mary Hooper's latest offers Dickensian social commentary, as well as malicious fraud, mysterious secrets, and a riveting read. </span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"> </span><br />
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<u><strong><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Review</span></strong></u><strong><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"> : </span></strong><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">The story starts with young Grace Parkes, on a journey to Brookwood Cemetery. The unfortunate death of her newborn son has forced her to bring the lifeless body of her infant to be buried. Grace is only sixteen years old, and as far as anyone thinks in the 1800's, she is considered a fallen woman. No one will want to love her now, knowing that she has given birth out of wedlock. As sad as this time is for Grace, she knows that she wouldn't be able to care for the baby, because she can barely afford to care for herself and her sister Lily.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Each day Grace and Lily go out and buy watercress to sell on the streets of Victorian London. It's not a stable job, but it makes them enough money to pay their weekly rent and to put food in their mouths, most of the time. When things become to tough, Grace must make some decisions that will change her and her sister's lives forever. Accepting a job from a woman she met while at Brookwood Cemetery, she becomes a mute for a funeral home. The job is depressing, as it is her job to mourn the death of every dead person that they are to bury. While Grace works at the funeral home, the owners of the home, the Unwins, take her sister in as a maid in their family home. Grace barely sees her sister, and begins to become suspicious of some of the things that have been going on with the Unwin family.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Grace thinks it best to contact Mr. Solent, a man who had pressed her to contact him if she ever was in need of help. With his help she finds out some disturbing and somewhat relieving news. It's up to the two of them to blow the lid off a huge scandal, and restoring a fortune to it's rightful owner.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">I'll have to admit that this book didn't capture me as much as I was hoping that it would. I normally fall into historical novels and can't get out of them because they are just so engrossing. The only thing that engrossed me about this novel was the fact that the author clearly researched the era before writing about it. At times I felt like I was truly walking through the streets of London, as the descriptions of the surroundings were perfect.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">I didn't really feel as though I connected with any of the characters, except maybe Grace, but only in the aspect that by losing a child she was in constant grief. I myself am pregnant, and don't know what I would do under those circumstances, and pray that I won't have to feel that sort of pain. Other than that I couldn't really feel much toward any of the characters, and at times caught myself skipping parts of the story looking for something a little more interesting. I rarely skip full pages in a book, but it was the only way I was going to finish this one, because I felt that the story was creeping along far too slowly.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">I was disappointed in this book, but I did manage to finish it, out of curiosity and the history that was jammed into the pages. I will not let this one book by this author prevent me from reading more from her in the future, because her writing style is quite beautiful. The writing and amount of detail that went into this story makes me believe that I just happened to pick up the wrong book by this author, and I'm sure she will give me a good story next time.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Despite my low rating, I encourage you to go out and read this book. There have been many great reviews for this title, and I think that you may either love or dislike this book. I unfortunately did the latter in these circumstances.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;"><u><strong>Where did I get this book?</strong></u></span><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><strong> : </strong></span><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><u><strong><br />
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Clicking on title links in this post will redirect you to Amazon.com. If you happen to make a purchase after clicking these links I will receive a small percentage of the profits.</strong></span>Jenni @ Falling Off The Shelfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05214639015536417380noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486517181731927731.post-7569879691028409802011-02-18T07:00:00.000-05:002011-02-18T07:00:00.859-05:00Friday Finds - February 18, 2011<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcRJWFB41vHMHcdD1RlWVrVyxN_2UX2oCJmihqOhXjivsYXye__xIli_gMCvo93eE-D2kN0IFYzSoAZjrK2phwGZzC8B-LWydsbGNi2r09YxwUVMvpd1LpUXjVDOZ-vzjsxlEF1myGw8E/s1600/Friday+Finds.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcRJWFB41vHMHcdD1RlWVrVyxN_2UX2oCJmihqOhXjivsYXye__xIli_gMCvo93eE-D2kN0IFYzSoAZjrK2phwGZzC8B-LWydsbGNi2r09YxwUVMvpd1LpUXjVDOZ-vzjsxlEF1myGw8E/s1600/Friday+Finds.bmp" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Friday Finds was started by MizB @ <a href="http://shouldbereading.wordpress.com/">Should Be Reading</a>.</span></div><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Check back each Friday to see what I've found, and make sure to stop by Should Be Reading's Friday Finds Post to see what other bloggers have found as well!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG7PaAR_TQORU_J81T0BQtlmZBsO2VVJAtbfJe2tTqKvqIviN3PtssYSvUUXNyg2V7ncR9H_PEbG8kPctaUf9W5lRCwkJxJeEVLeK9gaolERrg-LzlxNSjpqSpIGyZ0sNszwIvjp71Alg/s1600/Cleopatra%2527s+Moon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG7PaAR_TQORU_J81T0BQtlmZBsO2VVJAtbfJe2tTqKvqIviN3PtssYSvUUXNyg2V7ncR9H_PEbG8kPctaUf9W5lRCwkJxJeEVLeK9gaolERrg-LzlxNSjpqSpIGyZ0sNszwIvjp71Alg/s320/Cleopatra%2527s+Moon.jpg" width="211" /></a><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8465337-cleopatra-s-moon">Cleopatra's Moon</a> </b>by<b> <a href="http://www.vickyalvearshecter.com/">Vicky Alvear Shecter</a> (Pre-Order <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0545221307?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0545221307">Hardcover</a> @ Amazon)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Publisher :</b> Arthur A. Levine Books</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>ISBN : </b>978-0545221306</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Release Date :</b> August 1, 2011</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Series or Stand Alone :</b> Stand Alone</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Adult or YA : </b>YA</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><br />
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Selene has grown up in a palace on the Nile with her parents, Cleopatra & Mark Antony—the most brilliant, powerful rulers on earth. But the jealous Roman Emperor Octavianus wants Egypt for himself, & when war finally comes, Selene faces the loss of all she's ever loved. Forced to build a new life in Octavianus's household in Rome, she finds herself torn between two young men and two possible destinies—until she reaches out to claim her own.<br />
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This stunning novel brings to life the personalities & passions of one of the greatest dramas in history, & offers a wonderful new heroine in Selene.<br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Publisher : </b>Knopf Books For Young Readers<b><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>ISBN : </b></span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">978-0375867019</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Release Date : </b>June 14, 2011</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Series or Stand Alone : </b>Stand Alone</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Adult or YA : </b>YA</span><br />
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<div class="col" id="imagecol"><span id="googleBooksPreview" style="display: none;"> <div id="lightbox_content_23753014589080" style="display: none;"><div class="viewport" id="googleBooksPreviewViewport"><span class="loading"><img alt="Loading-trans" src="http://www.goodreads.com/images/loading-trans.gif?1297903862" /> Loading...</span> </div></div><a class="lightboxLink" height="610" href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/google_preview/6936365" id="googleBooksPreviewLink" title="View a preview of this book" width="650"><img alt="View a preview of this book online" class="inter" src="http://www.goodreads.com/images/links/google_books_preview.gif?1297903862" /></a> </span> <span class="inter" id="googleBooksFull" style="display: none;"> <div id="lightbox_content_23753014581060" style="display: none;"><div class="viewport" id="googleBooksFullViewport"><span class="loading"><img alt="Loading-trans" src="http://www.goodreads.com/images/loading-trans.gif?1297903862" /> Loading...</span> </div></div><a class="lightboxLink" height="610" href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/google_preview/6936365" title="View the full text of this book" width="650"><img alt="View the full version of this book online" class="inter" src="http://www.goodreads.com/images/links/google_books_preview.gif?1297903862" /></a> </span> </div><span id="freeTextContainer8774270526415876896" style="display: none;">When Willie arrives in Indian Territory, she knows only one thing: no one can find out who she really is. To escape a home she doesn't belong in anymore, she assumes the name of a former classmate and accepts a teaching job at the Cherokee Female Seminary.<br />
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Nothing prepares her for what she finds there. Her pupils are the daughters of the Cherokee elite—educated and more wea<a class="actionLinkLite" href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6936365-the-revenant#">...more</a></span><span id="freeText8774270526415876896"><span style="color: #c27ba0;">When Willie arrives in Indian Territory, she knows only one thing: no one can find out who she really is. To escape a home she doesn't belong in anymore, she assumes the name of a former classmate and accepts a teaching job at the Cherokee Female Seminary.</span><br style="color: #c27ba0;" /><br style="color: #c27ba0;" /><span style="color: #c27ba0;">Nothing prepares her for what she finds there. Her pupils are the daughters of the Cherokee elite—educated and more wealthy than she, and the school is cloaked in mystery. A student drowned in the river last year, and the girls whisper that she was killed by a jealous lover. Willie's room is the very room the dead girl slept in. The students say her spirit haunts it.</span><br style="color: #c27ba0;" /><br style="color: #c27ba0;" /><span style="color: #c27ba0;">Willie doesn't believe in ghosts, but when strange things start happening at the school, she isn't sure anymore. She's also not sure what to make of a boy from the nearby boys' school who has taken an interest in her—his past is cloaked in secrets. Soon, even she has to admit that the revenant may be trying to tell her something. .</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn-rAYeQh-OrZsYshqxpPSJQVBQpnCl29wrz-nBJmy-75y6mjsD3vpBo6QBGkK4I7HGDYkaKnCqp84d94W7s4dQSEwQDc6XxGdHzDzEewXAViYsEaKcNF0HcYLHSOfXNddyUNECaoBO48/s1600/Dead+on+the+Delta.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn-rAYeQh-OrZsYshqxpPSJQVBQpnCl29wrz-nBJmy-75y6mjsD3vpBo6QBGkK4I7HGDYkaKnCqp84d94W7s4dQSEwQDc6XxGdHzDzEewXAViYsEaKcNF0HcYLHSOfXNddyUNECaoBO48/s320/Dead+on+the+Delta.jpg" width="198" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span id="freeText8774270526415876896"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9467196-dead-on-the-delta">Dead on the Delta</a> by <a href="http://www.staceyjay.com/">Stacey Jay</a> (Pre-Order <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1439189862?ie=UTF8&tag=fallingotshelf_deals-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1439189862">Paperback</a> or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004INHD8W?ie=UTF8&tag=fallingotshelf_deals-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B004INHD8W">Kindle Edition</a> @ Amazon)</b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span id="freeText8774270526415876896"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Publisher : </b>Pocket Books</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span id="freeText8774270526415876896"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>ISBN : </b></span></span></span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">978-1439189863</span><br />
<span id="freeText8774270526415876896"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Release Date : </b>May 31, 2011</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span id="freeText8774270526415876896"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Series or Stand Alone : </b>#1 Dead on the Delta</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span id="freeText8774270526415876896"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Adult or YA : </b>Adult<b> </b></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>If you believe in fairies, <i>run</i></b><b>. . . .</b></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: small;">Once upon a time, fairies were the stuff of bedtime stories and sweet dreams. Then came the mutations, and the dreams turned to nightmares. Mosquito-sized fairies now indulge their taste for human blood—and for most humans, a fairy bite means madness or death. Luckily, Annabelle Lee isn’t most humans. The hard-drinking, smart mouthed, bicycle riding redhead is immune to fairy venom, and able to do the dirty work most humans can’t. Including helping law enforcement—and Cane Cooper, the bayou’s sexiest detective—collect evidence when a body pops up outside the barricades of her Louisiana town. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">But Annabelle isn’t equipped to deal with the murder of a six-year-old girl, or a former lover turned FBI snob taking an interest in the case. Suddenly her already bumpy relationship with Cane turns even rockier and even the most trustworthy friends turn into suspects. Annabelle’s life is imploding: Between relationship drama, a heartbreaking murder investigation, Breeze-crazed drug runners, and a few too many rum and cokes, Annabelle is a woman on the run—from her past, from her future, and into the arms of a darkness waiting just for her. . . .<span id="freeText8774270526415876896"><b> </b></span></span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><u><b>Amazon Affiliates</b></u><b> : </b></div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Clicking on links in parenthesis in this post will redirect you to Amazon.com. If you happen to make a purchase after clicking these links I will receive a small percentage of the profits<span style="font-size: small;"><b>.</b></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="freeText8774270526415876896"><b> </b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="freeText8774270526415876896"> </span></span></div></div><span id="freeText538106934331567914" style="color: #c27ba0;"></span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"> </span></div></div>Jenni @ Falling Off The Shelfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05214639015536417380noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486517181731927731.post-6977576444740212232011-02-16T07:00:00.000-05:002011-02-16T07:00:07.512-05:00Waiting on Wednesday - February 16, 2011<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-Nib5cKLutQ2mjTrjO2hLEOnVjVv47T9KL8K5DUDfK_2_0btgiM_tWvTx4wxKrM38FuRYLxDm-jDTbw3fnbGv7JI0zzAf0FX5soVDrxtBc-_BUBt0CYbVOe8WyvGDFQGEYPw_Vnm1_f0/s1600/WOW.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-Nib5cKLutQ2mjTrjO2hLEOnVjVv47T9KL8K5DUDfK_2_0btgiM_tWvTx4wxKrM38FuRYLxDm-jDTbw3fnbGv7JI0zzAf0FX5soVDrxtBc-_BUBt0CYbVOe8WyvGDFQGEYPw_Vnm1_f0/s1600/WOW.JPG" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9999ff;">Waiting On Wednesday</span></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9999ff;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><b>Heroes 'Til Curfew </b>by <a href="http://susan-bischoff.com/"><b>Susan Bischoff</b></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #9999ff;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;">Release Date : TBA<b> </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: left;"><span id="freeText5381710728169980038">How do you impress a girl who can toss dumpsters around with her brain, when all your invisibility Talent makes you great at is hiding? As Dylan ponders this, Joss finds herself mired deep in "he likes me, he likes me not" territory. While our super couple dances awkwardly around their feelings, NIAC's mysterious undercover agent is sending away more Talents than ever. It's the perfect climate of fear for Marco to draw these scared kids to his cause as he plots both his revenge, and a crime wave that sweeps over the town of Fairview, threatening Joss's family business and the safety of all Talents, good and bad. Joss and Dylan have to decide if they're going to stand up or step aside. Is it worth risking their freedom? Or each other? </span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: left;"><span id="freeText5381710728169980038"> </span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: left;"><span id="freeText5381710728169980038"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>I recently read the first book in the Talent Chronicles, Hush Money, and instantly wanted to know what was going to happen to the characters in the sequel. Unfortunately there isn't a definitive date as to when it will be released, but as soon as I find out I will be sure to let everyone know! Until then, you should most definitely head on over to Amazon and grab yourself a copy of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1453787542?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1453787542">Hush Money</a>!</b></span></span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: left;"><span id="freeText5381710728169980038"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b> </b></span></span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: left;"><span id="freeText5381710728169980038"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>You can also read my review of Hush Money <a href="http://fallingofftheshelf.blogspot.com/2011/01/e-review-hush-money-by-susan-bischoff.html">HERE</a>.</b></span></span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: left;"><span id="freeText5381710728169980038"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b> </b></span></span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: left;"><div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><u style="color: #c27ba0;"><b>Amazon Affiliates</b></u><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><b> : </b></span></div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #c27ba0;">Clicking on title links in this post will redirect you to Amazon.com. If you happen to make a purchase after clicking these links I will receive a small percentage of the profits<span style="color: #c27ba0;"><b>.</b></span></span><span id="freeText5381710728169980038"></span><span style="color: #9999ff;"> </span></div></div>Jenni @ Falling Off The Shelfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05214639015536417380noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486517181731927731.post-41681671165275339552011-02-15T07:01:00.001-05:002011-02-15T12:43:41.150-05:00Blog Tour : Mad Love by Suzanne Selfors<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBRBzDJVDgyaZiLCDJ9NdJpvc8Xop_lEwFKTgFnvHU2gz7r6N8NtZ2whENQpN9Ai4LmHWiqPO8F7U8MfwGRuPi_peC9JBpIZNnsDixuugGfm4aZr_mUop8tesE2QfZZvpSV3tPhEO6_eo/s1600/Mad+Love.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBRBzDJVDgyaZiLCDJ9NdJpvc8Xop_lEwFKTgFnvHU2gz7r6N8NtZ2whENQpN9Ai4LmHWiqPO8F7U8MfwGRuPi_peC9JBpIZNnsDixuugGfm4aZr_mUop8tesE2QfZZvpSV3tPhEO6_eo/s320/Mad+Love.jpg" width="208" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Mad Love <span style="font-size: small;">by <span style="font-size: large;">Suzanne Selfors</span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Blog Tour</span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://fallingofftheshelf.blogspot.com/2011/02/review-mad-love-by-suzanne-selfors.html"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;">Read My Review</span></span></span></span></b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><u><b>About the Book</b></u></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3; text-align: center;">When you're the daughter of the bestselling Queen of Romance, life should be pretty good. But 16-year-old Alice Amorous has been living a lie ever since her mother was secretly hospitalized for mental illness. After putting on a brave front for months, time is running out. The next book is overdue, and the Queen can't write it. Alice needs a story for her mother-and she needs one fast.<br />
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That's when she meets Errol, a strange boy who claims to be Cupid, who insists that Alice write about the greatest love story in history: his tragic relationship with Psyche. As Alice begins to hear Errol's voice in her head and see things she can't explain, she must face the truth-that she's either inherited her mother's madness, or Errol is for real.</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnlYX5WPVNRHJul8eI38zuLW5fMypLx_ufeEEG7PicwcIBASkqIWAOYSiREobEl21MUfmd5kTo-0kKEGrtkondr_c7x-Ra2pzo169PrOc_Zb-fFjyEsoePXfyS4eP8-ppyEYj2C45RUMo/s1600/Suzanne+Selfors.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnlYX5WPVNRHJul8eI38zuLW5fMypLx_ufeEEG7PicwcIBASkqIWAOYSiREobEl21MUfmd5kTo-0kKEGrtkondr_c7x-Ra2pzo169PrOc_Zb-fFjyEsoePXfyS4eP8-ppyEYj2C45RUMo/s320/Suzanne+Selfors.jpg" width="214" /></a></div><div style="color: #8e7cc3; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><u><b>About the Author</b></u></span></div><div style="color: #8e7cc3; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3; text-align: justify;">Suzanne Selfors is the author of Saving Juliet as well as a middle grade series with Little, Brown. She held a number of jobs before becoming a writer, including children's photographer, video producer, organic flower grower, and marketing director. She lives in Washington.</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><u><b>More Teen Titles by Suzanne Selfors</b></u></span></div><div style="color: #8e7cc3; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2095336.Saving_Juliet">Saving Juliet</a> (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0802797407?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0802797407">Amazon</a>)</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6013810-coffeehouse-angel">Coffeehouse Angel</a> (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0802798128?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0802798128">Amazon</a>)</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3; text-align: center;"><b>Visit Suzanne @ <a href="http://suzanneselfors.com/">SuzanneSelfors.com</a></b></div><div style="color: #8e7cc3; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;">A special Thank You to Kate from Bloomsbury Kids for allowing me to participate in this blog tour.</span></div>Jenni @ Falling Off The Shelfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05214639015536417380noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486517181731927731.post-40585513542182585002011-02-15T07:00:00.056-05:002011-02-15T07:00:25.535-05:00Review : Mad Love by Suzanne Selfors<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFCl6aUW2RECzI74IBUq6bxcS4Tstz5FYQ6sgHZsHuX400hAkR5B347cIYH7fFR43RlkARQdvVWQwPgywO34tXAP2yQYH7PoEHjR12pcAzHtb_Jxcq0iKo8aGhs3N3KQ7AIRpKtNANtEk/s1600/Mad+Love.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFCl6aUW2RECzI74IBUq6bxcS4Tstz5FYQ6sgHZsHuX400hAkR5B347cIYH7fFR43RlkARQdvVWQwPgywO34tXAP2yQYH7PoEHjR12pcAzHtb_Jxcq0iKo8aGhs3N3KQ7AIRpKtNANtEk/s320/Mad+Love.jpg" width="208" /></a></div><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Title : </b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080278450X?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=080278450X">Mad Love</a><br />
<b>Author : </b><a href="http://www.suzanneselfors.com/index_flash.php">Suzanne Selfors</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Publisher : </b><a href="http://www.bloomsburykids.com/">Walker Books for Young Readers</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Genre : </b>Young Adult</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>ISBN : </b>978-0802784506<br />
<b>Series or Stand Alone : </b>Stand Alone</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Release Date : </b>January 4, 2011</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Rating : </b>4/5 Stars - Very Good</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><u>Description from Amazon</u> : </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">When you're the daughter of the bestselling Queen of Romance, life should be pretty good. But 16-year-old Alice Amorous has been living a lie ever since her mother was secretly hospitalized for mental illness. After putting on a brave front for months, time is running out. The next book is overdue, and the Queen can't write it. Alice needs a story for her mother-and she needs one fast.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">That's when she meets Errol, a strange boy who claims to be Cupid, who insists that Alice write about the greatest love story in history: his tragic relationship with Psyche. As Alice begins to hear Errol's voice in her head and see things she can't explain, she must face the truth-that she's either inherited her mother's madness, or Errol is for real.</span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><u><b>Review</b></u><b> : </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Alice Amorous is the Queen of Romance's daughter. Life is pretty tough for her though, because her mother suffers from a very serious mental condition. She's had it her whole life, but has recently been admitted into a hospital to help her out of a catatonic state. Alice has quit going to the private school she has been going to her whole life, and has climbed into a pair of adult pants earlier than she ever thought she would. She's been holding up the fort for quite some time, and letting everyone around her believe that everything is perfect, when clearly things just aren't. Now she has to come up with a new book for her mother's publisher, or they're life will surely go down the drain.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Errol, who claims he is the real Cupid, has confronted Alice with the true story of Cupid and Psyche. Alice doesn't believe a word he says, so she continues to make excuses as to the reason why she can't write his book for him. When she starts hearing his voice in her head, and can't stop thinking about him, she thinks she must be going insane just like her mother, and this is the scariest thing she can imagine for herself. Besides, he can't really be Cupid, right?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">When I started this book I expected more of a comedic attempt at a story about Cupid. Surprisingly, I was wrong. I'm glad I was wrong though, because this book is perfect just the way it is. If not for lack of time due to a bit of nesting fever, I would have devoured this book within hours. I clearly have been missing out on the talent of Suzanne Selfors, and now I want to go back and read each and every one of her previous titles.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">My favorite character in this title would have to be Archibald, the only gay tenant in the building that Alice and her Mother own and rent out. He always seemed to be there for someone, and never had anything to complain about, even when dealing with everyone else's drama. My least favorite character was Realm, previously known as Lily, until she cut all ties from her previous self and became a self-centered, manipulating little brat. There were times that I wanted to shake her because of the things she put Alice through, but her character clearly had some issues that she needed to work out.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">The main character, Alice, annoyed me at some points in time. She was absorbed with trying to write a new romance novel in her mother's name, but didn't seem to realize that Errol was trying desperately to give her one. I thought she was a little stubborn at times, but like all of us, we just need to sit back and look at the big picture. Sometimes things just come to you when you least expect it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Despite Alice's mother being the Queen of Romance, and Errol being the supposed 'real Cupid', there wasn't too much romance in this book. Alice has a huge crush on a new boy in town, Tony, and they do get to know each other a little bit throughout the book, but I wouldn't consider it to be too much of a romance between them. I'm glad that there wasn't that much romance between them though, because they are so young, and I hate to see young characters fall head over heels in love with each other within a few short chapters. I thought that their feelings toward each other, and the slow pacing of them getting acquainted was much more realistic than most young adult books.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">I really liked how Selfors included a very serious mental condition into this book. It gives a lot of insight on what families have to go through when their loved ones can't take care of themselves and need to be admitted into a hospital. The illness in this book hits close to home too, because I do have a few family members that suffer from it, although they had it treated early on so it never had the time to come to the state that Alice's mother faced. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">The bottom line is that this was a great book. Within the last few chapters I cried my eyes out, and I'm not sure if it was because Selfors is fantastic with depicting emotion, or if my pregnancy hormones were just raging at the moment. Either way, I love a book that can grip my heart and make it break for the characters. I highly recommend this book, to both young adults and adults alike, because it will give you a real insight on a teenager who has to deal with a parent being mentally ill, and how sometimes you have to grow up before your time.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;">I received this book from Kate at Bloomsbury Kids publishing house in exchange for my honest review for a blog tour.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"> </span>Jenni @ Falling Off The Shelfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05214639015536417380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486517181731927731.post-73624698536447039862011-02-10T00:05:00.000-05:002011-02-10T00:07:57.141-05:00Review : Cryer's Cross by Lisa McMann<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLxnE9Q0beUetwf8T5SpIlduxTXosGmjecfB3W3QwqNaZqSLqSLnwPLtdlGz60ZFTccw8d5UpW8_WoDF-Ink0Fb7T35BmV9HxtEi7g2QPpEhzLnCJ9HqHIriJX-pWTRI0bX944Cew9BpA/s1600/Cryer%2527s+Cross.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLxnE9Q0beUetwf8T5SpIlduxTXosGmjecfB3W3QwqNaZqSLqSLnwPLtdlGz60ZFTccw8d5UpW8_WoDF-Ink0Fb7T35BmV9HxtEi7g2QPpEhzLnCJ9HqHIriJX-pWTRI0bX944Cew9BpA/s320/Cryer%2527s+Cross.jpg" width="211" /></a></div><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Title : </b><span id="goog_1598189081"></span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1416994815?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1416994815">Cryer's Cross</a><span id="goog_1598189082"></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Author : </b><a href="http://lisamcmann.com/">Lisa McMann</a><br />
<b>Publisher : </b><a href="http://imprints.simonandschuster.biz/simon-pulse">Simon Pulse</a><br />
<b>Genre : </b>Young Adult, Paranormal, Mystery</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>ISBN : </b></span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">978-1416994817</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Series or Stand Alone : </b>Stand Alone</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Release Date : </b>February 8, 2011</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Rating : </b>3/5 Stars - Good</span><br />
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<div style="color: #8e7cc3;">The small town of Cryer’s Cross is rocked by tragedy when an unassuming freshman disappears without a trace. Kendall Fletcher wasn’t that friendly with the missing girl, but the angst wreaks havoc on her OCD-addled brain. </div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;">When a second student goes missing—someone close to Kendall’s heart—the community is in an uproar. Caught in a downward spiral of fear and anxiety, Kendall’s not sure she can hold it together. When she starts hearing the voices of the missing, calling out to her and pleading for help, she fears she’s losing her grip on reality. But when she finds messages scratched in a desk at school—messages that could only be from the missing student who used to sit there—Kendall decides that crazy or not, she’d never forgive herself if she didn’t act on her suspicions. </div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;">Something’s not right in Cryer’s Cross—and Kendall’s about to find out just how far the townspeople will go to keep their secrets buried. </div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Kendall Fletcher lives in the small town of Cryer's Cross. Nothing bad has ever happened there, and everyone knows everyone. The high school is a one room classroom, so when one girl goes missing, the whole town knows about it. Kendall takes it very hard when the girl goes missing, because she already has really bad OCD as it is. Now Kendall has added on new tasks to her daily life, because she fears that she might be the next person to go missing.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Things are even worse for her when someone she truly cares about is the next one to go missing. She even begins to think that the stress of the missing children has made her crazy, because she starts to hear their voices. Words scratched into a desk at school are her only clue that she's not crazy, so she uses those clues to try to find her missing friend.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">I'll be quite honest, I didn't even read the synopsis of this book before I started it. The cover just looked so interesting that I wanted to read it from that image alone. I was about half-way through the story, wondering whether or not there was a paranormal element when I decided to read the synopsis. While this book does have some paranormal elements, you don't see them until close to the end of the book. It all just seemed like a regular mystery novel to me for quite some time.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">I liked Kendall, although she wasn't my favorite main character. She really enlightened me on how a person with OCD goes throughout their day, and what they really do go through. Most people don't realize how difficult life can be for a person with OCD, but McMann easily portrayed how a person with this disorder would live their life. At times I thought Kendall was a little too judgmental, especially to the new boy in town, although he wasn't the nicest person to her either. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">This was the first book that I've read by Lisa McMann, and honestly I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would. I've heard a lot of good things about her writing, but it felt like it lacked something, although I can't put my finger on it. I'm not saying that this story wasn't good, because it was, but it was a little slow moving. I did however, think it was good enough to read more of her work, so I'll be going back and reading her Wake Series.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;">I received my e-galley from the Simon & Schuster Galley Grab for my honest review.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Clicking on title links in this post will redirect you to Amazon.com. If you happen to make a purchase after clicking these links I will receive a small percentage of the profits<span style="color: #c27ba0;"><b>.</b></span></span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><b> </b> </span></span></div>Jenni @ Falling Off The Shelfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05214639015536417380noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486517181731927731.post-14290965669354004192011-02-05T00:10:00.002-05:002011-02-05T00:10:55.778-05:00Busy Busy Busy!!<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Sorry folks! I've been quit busy this past week with work and baby stuff! I'll be back to make some posts on Sunday, and luckily I only have 3 days on the schedule this week so I can relax a little bit!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Also have another ultrasound, so I'm going to be posting the pics from both the first one, and the new one this week so everyone can see how my little man is progressing!</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>See you soon!</b></span></div>Jenni @ Falling Off The Shelfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05214639015536417380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486517181731927731.post-48271332980548963892011-01-24T07:00:00.001-05:002011-01-24T07:00:00.720-05:00In My Mailbox - January 24, 2011<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #d5a6bd;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;">In My Mailbox was started by Krist @ </span><a href="http://www.thestorysiren.com/">The Story Siren</a><span style="color: #c27ba0;">, inspired by Alea of</span> <a href="http://aleapopculture.blogspot.com/">Pop Culture Junkie</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: #c27ba0;">If she hadn't been so clueless, she might have seen it coming. But really, who expects to get into a relaxing bathtub after a stressful day of shopping for tankinis and come out with scales and a tail? </div><div style="color: #c27ba0;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #c27ba0;"><b>Most. Embarrassing. Moment. Ever.</b></div><div style="color: #c27ba0;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #c27ba0;">Jade soon discovers she inherited her mermaid tendencies from her mom. But if Mom was a mermaid, how did she drown?</div><div style="color: #c27ba0;">Jade is determined to find out. So how does a plus-size, aqua-phobic mer-girl go about doing that exactly? And how will Jade ever be able to explain her secret to her best friend, Cori, and to her crush, Luke?</div><div style="color: #c27ba0;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #c27ba0;"><b>This summer is about to get a lot more interesting...</b></div><div style="color: #c27ba0;"><br />
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Beings of unimaginable power, classified as myths and legends, have been imprisoned in the secluded town of St. Ives for centuries-watched over by guardians with supernatural skills. Te Evangeline-s father was one such guardian, a -binder- who died in the line of duty and who passed along his ability to his daughter. Now, Te must awaken the magic within her before her father-s killer releases his fellow prisoners on an unsuspecting world.<br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>April 27, 2010 - </b>Received from Bookmooch<b> </b> </span><br />
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<span class="reviewText" id="freeText8304711161188427465"><strong>Meet three noble bachelors and a quartet of American girls of questionable manners! <em>New York Times </em>bestselling author Candace Camp delights with an exciting new series featuring love, laughter, and intrigue. </strong></span><br />
<span class="reviewText" id="freeText8304711161188427465"><strong> </strong>When Mary Bascombe’s stepfather tries to sell her and her sisters to the highest bidder after their mother’s death, she resolves to take drastic action. Although their British mother was estranged from her family, Mary decides the four will flee to London and take their place in society as granddaughters of the Earl of Stewkesbury. <br />
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Dashing Sir Royce Winslow doubts the honesty of the young women’s claim—despite their charms, they seem to be hiding something. His attraction to feisty Mary, however, is no ruse, so when the sisters are shipped off to Willowmere, the earl’s country estate, to acquire some polish, Royce is quick to join them. When an unknown villain attempts a kidnapping, Royce and Mary are thrown together as they confront the danger . . . and Royce learns that while high society may sing the praises of proper behavior, it is a most improper American who is winning his heart.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggVsxGCfmZAX3hVvuySTN-wLPi5UE4SDAtTkfHjFUj3hQmrEBbcLoQNRo8_N8r9hhhJTpyFIFG-vun3eOBgZuO3rErZhmK-0WOBI_UisR3eIvM0R6IVh6UoC10p0QDaSotfrku1SPVdjI/s1600/Prince+Charming+Doesn%2527t+Live+Here.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggVsxGCfmZAX3hVvuySTN-wLPi5UE4SDAtTkfHjFUj3hQmrEBbcLoQNRo8_N8r9hhhJTpyFIFG-vun3eOBgZuO3rErZhmK-0WOBI_UisR3eIvM0R6IVh6UoC10p0QDaSotfrku1SPVdjI/s320/Prince+Charming+Doesn%2527t+Live+Here.jpg" width="199" /></a></div><b><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312947941?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0312947941">Prince Charming Doesn't Live Here</a> by <a href="http://us.macmillan.com/author/christinewarren">Christine Warren</a> (Paperback)</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">November 2, 2010 - </span></b><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Received from Paperbackswap</span><br />
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Danice Carter is not one for glass slippers. A stilettos-wearing lawyer at one of Manhattan’s most elite establishments, Danice has a very strong grip on reality. So when she’s asked by one the firm’s founding partners to take on a personal case, Danice knows she’s in for the opportunity of a lifetime. All she has to do is convince her top boss’s granddaughter, Rosemary, to file a paternity suit. Sounds simple enough…until Danice arrives at Rosemary’s home and is pounced on by a handsome stranger.<br />
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Private investigator McIntyre Callahan’s was only following his powerful client’s orders: Find Rosemary—<i>at all costs</i>. Instead, he’s found a super-hot lawyer prowling around looking for answers he can’t give. The half-human, half-Fae Mac tries to warn Danice that she’s way in over her head—that Rosemary may roam among The Others, and may have dangerous ties to the Unseelie Court—but she won’t be deterred. Even if that means following Mac to the ends of the earth to find Rosemary…or surrendering to his supernatural powers of temptation…until death do they part.<br />
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t's 1987, and “God” decides that it's about time he returned to Earth once more. Opening up a New Age store, he brings with him a fresh message for mankind to screw up - one tailor-made for this, the age of greed. It's called Meism, and it extols the virtues of selfishness, having its adherents, "Do good unto others so they can feel good about themselves," instead of that Golden Rule's tired old message. Sadly, He runs into a few kinks he didn't foresee...<br />
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Whom God Would Destroy; it's about God, Big Macs, insanity and the search for the Ultimate Orgasm!<br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>February 6, 2009 - </b>Kindle Freebie on Amazon (Currently $1.99)<b> </b></span> <br />
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“I will always love you.” Not just a figure of speech when you’re undead.<br />
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<em>In the Heat of the Night, Book Two</em><br />
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Six months ago, Andre St. James committed the ultimate one-night-stand party foul by turning Cynthiana into the spawn of Satan…also known as a vampire. He insisted he knew they were meant to be together forever and ever, so why wait for her to be on the same page with him to suck the life out of her?<br />
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What. Ever. The only thing the two of them share is chemistry that blasts off the charts. So she dropkicked him out of her life and told him to never come back. He listened. Until now. <br />
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Andre knows Cyn has trouble dealing with his take-no-prisoners approach to life, and that turning her against her will was a mistake. But he’s got patience born of centuries of immortality, and he’ll do whatever it takes to get back into her good graces and stay there forever. Including wait until she has no choice but to turn to him.<br />
After all, no one understands forever like a vampire. He’s loved her from the moment he saw her…and he always will.<br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>August 24, 2007 - </b>Kindle Freebie</span><br />
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Fifteen-year-old Scotty Dawn has spent her young life on the road, traveling to movie sets with her single mom, Charley, a food designer. Yet even though Scotty is wise beyond her years, she still struggles to find her identity. Complicating matters is a mother who offers no guidance and a father she's never met.<br />
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Now Scotty is determined to discover what she wants from life. She's even documenting the journey on her "Hollywood Nobody" blog. But as Scotty begins to find dark answers to tough questions, will her story have a happy ending?<br />
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The first in a series, Hollywood Nobody is a novel for teen girls that examines real issues with honesty and humor. Enhancing the book's themes, the story includes journal and blog entries as well as screenplay dialog, providing an engaging experience for readers.<br />
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</div><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Clicking on title links in this post will redirect you to Amazon.com. If you happen to make a purchase after clicking these links I will receive a small percentage of the profits<b>.</b></span><span class="reviewText" id="freeText10936381945751547706"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b> </b></span></span></div></span><span style="color: #d5a6bd;"> </span></div>Jenni @ Falling Off The Shelfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05214639015536417380noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486517181731927731.post-1182866844511569752011-01-23T07:00:00.000-05:002011-01-23T07:00:00.691-05:00Sunday Kindle Deals - Young Adult Titles Under $5 (+3)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixDt37XLUQ2SPiQvpwNRiHAJ2cPYE68YkR_qrfrjoXtv-j-OjNKUTbsaDgma6oVDyRwPWdRz-kH6V8ArONhJRmMZrjWolWEzvWZqmY-PiB8Q932iB_cji0MyIGRm9EqiNC4mnSbWjfAG0/s1600/Sunday+Kindle+Deals.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixDt37XLUQ2SPiQvpwNRiHAJ2cPYE68YkR_qrfrjoXtv-j-OjNKUTbsaDgma6oVDyRwPWdRz-kH6V8ArONhJRmMZrjWolWEzvWZqmY-PiB8Q932iB_cji0MyIGRm9EqiNC4mnSbWjfAG0/s1600/Sunday+Kindle+Deals.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;">Each Sunday come back here to Falling Off The Shelf to find out the latest Kindle book deals in the Young Adult genre! If you find a deal that you would like me to showcase, please let me know!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;">**Clicking on Title Links will redirect you to Amazon** </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;"> </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><u>Titles still under $5, previously showcased.</u></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001VLXNLU?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B001VLXNLU">Marked (House of Night Bk 1)</a> by P.C. & Kristin Cast - $2.99</span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002ASFQ1I?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B002ASFQ1I">Evermore (The Immortals Bk 1)</a> by Alyson Noel - $2.99</span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0034N7JGS?ie=UTF8&tag=fallingotshelf_deals-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0034N7JGS">The Dark Divine (The Dark Divine Bk 1)</a> by Bree Despain - $2.39 </span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001D23SVW?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B001D23SVW">Vampire Kisses (Vampire Kisses Bk 1)</a> by Ellen Schreiber - $3.99</span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003V8BRQY?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B003V8BRQY">Dramarama</a> by E. Lockhart - $3.76</span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002LVV4GK?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B002LVV4GK">The Van Alen Legacy (Blue Bloods Bk 4)</a> by Melissa de la Cruz - $4.24</span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003GSM0NS?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B003GSM0NS">Book of Love (Knight Angels Bk 1)</a> by Abra Ebner - $4.99</span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0043D2BNE?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0043D2BNE">The Amaranth Enchantment</a> by Julie Berry - $4.88</span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003KK5E58?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B003KK5E58">Deep and Dark and Dangerous</a> by Mary Downing Hahn - $4.69</span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0015DPXJY?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0015DPXJY">Football Genius</a> by Tim Green - $4.99</span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004BA5820?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B004BA5820">All Alone in the Universe</a> by Lynn Rae Perkins - $4.99</span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000XU4TPY?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000XU4TPY">Ghost of a Chance</a> by Laura Peyton Roberts - $4.79</span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"> </span></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><u>This Week's Showcase</u> :</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"> </span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmXAQCWRqoCsh9cw4F3AlLvIYvsuvgqYdFay-0_K06WjlloKNvRlZd8sbMfDx0XWpbEFpTMqlxgRWmhgW-CoOgqOiqmahaTC9ZauHrEH0uxdMsRBq-ikjgRZKY18EbUf2gm-YKszc2-bQ/s1600/My+Little+Phony.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmXAQCWRqoCsh9cw4F3AlLvIYvsuvgqYdFay-0_K06WjlloKNvRlZd8sbMfDx0XWpbEFpTMqlxgRWmhgW-CoOgqOiqmahaTC9ZauHrEH0uxdMsRBq-ikjgRZKY18EbUf2gm-YKszc2-bQ/s320/My+Little+Phony.jpg" width="215" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003UBTX68?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B003UBTX68"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;">My Little Phony (The Clique #13) by Lisi Harrison</span></b></span></span></a></div><div style="color: #8e7cc3; text-align: left;"><b>Current Kindle Price : $1.99</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Lending Enabled : No</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText2533337275821628205" style="color: #c27ba0;">Massie Block: The holidays are just around the corner, and the only thing Massie doesn't want for Christmas is a lip-kiss from her ninth-grade crush, Landon. Not that she'd ever admit it, but she's nervous! To distract herself, Massie focuses on getting revenge on Claire for ditching the Pretty Committee. But when the plan to bug her ex-BFF backfires big-time, she may find herself headed for a Merry Kissmass-whether she likes it or not. <br />
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Alicia Rivera: Promised her parents she wouldn't shop at awl between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Her reward? An all-expenses-paid trip to the Spanish Riviera. But what happens when she sees the cuh-yutest pair of Ralph Lauren sunglasses? No pain, no Spain. <br />
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Dylan Marvil: After going overboard at the Westchester Mall, Dylan isn't worried about the size of her clothes . . . but she is worried about the size of her clothing budget. Cuh-redit denied! <br />
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Kristen Gregory: Is sick of being the only poor girl in Westchester. But misery loves company, and maybe, just maybe, she won't be the only broke member of the Pretty Committee for long. . . . <br />
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Claire Lyons: When Massie scares off her new drama friends with a fake-lice scare, Claire decides she's done letting Massie bully her. The alpha may have exterminated Claire's social life, but what goes around comes around. The raid is on, and it won't be over until the fat ladybug sings. <br />
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The Clique . . . the only thing harder than getting in is staying in.</span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b> </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGWZ8tYjYz3zmiAyMoAqB_uA57q96bp-Y3IFWQdlHL7I_9oAFnfqDF4QpZoG5PwxzVNK-Gw_curTwD3cMt3afiMFjx1n1p079uxHKF2CtWxOPUfaiQzH8GqE6m_ui1ndqxsGFNqcohosA/s1600/The+Fifth+of+March.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGWZ8tYjYz3zmiAyMoAqB_uA57q96bp-Y3IFWQdlHL7I_9oAFnfqDF4QpZoG5PwxzVNK-Gw_curTwD3cMt3afiMFjx1n1p079uxHKF2CtWxOPUfaiQzH8GqE6m_ui1ndqxsGFNqcohosA/s320/The+Fifth+of+March.jpg" width="205" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002UKP3NM?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B002UKP3NM"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;">The Fifth of March : A Story of the Boston Massacre by Ann Rinaldi</span></b></a><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Current Kindle Price : $4.80</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Lending Enabled : No</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"> </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeTextContainer10229809075631150379" style="color: #c27ba0;">Rachel Marsh is a servant in the Boston household of John Adams. But her loyalty to the Adams family is tested by her friendship with Matthew Kilroy, a British private who leads his soldiers in firing upon a mob of Boston citizens.</span><b style="color: #c27ba0;"> </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: #c27ba0;"> </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_v5tLfG0s8BdDQymbzoYpoqVo7uDxz61XaCnR9H65vQWqlPxEClGxTl3eZNvETb687r2rjLRgFKfSIYLAFMoDX4NaAne4O72DqYGqPKLlVm4pgh3mFBrLlkk77cTg4UqSvMDeFIyGhlE/s1600/Real+Mermaids+Don%2527t+Wear+Toe+Rings.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_v5tLfG0s8BdDQymbzoYpoqVo7uDxz61XaCnR9H65vQWqlPxEClGxTl3eZNvETb687r2rjLRgFKfSIYLAFMoDX4NaAne4O72DqYGqPKLlVm4pgh3mFBrLlkk77cTg4UqSvMDeFIyGhlE/s320/Real+Mermaids+Don%2527t+Wear+Toe+Rings.jpg" width="224" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: #c27ba0;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004BA57KS?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B004BA57KS"><span style="color: #c27ba0;">Real Mermaids Don't Wear Toe Rings by Helene Boudreau</span></a> </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Current Kindle Price : $2.39</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Lending Enabled : No</span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"> </span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText12770801008733439378" style="color: #c27ba0;"><strong><em>Freak of nature takes on a whole new meaning...</em></strong><br />
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If she hadn't been so clueless, she might have seen it coming. But really, who expects to get into a relaxing bathtub after a stressful day of shopping for tankinis and come out with scales and a tail?<br />
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<strong>Most. Embarrassing. Moment. Ever.</strong><br />
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Jade soon discovers she inherited her mermaid tendencies from her mom. But if Mom was a mermaid, how did she drown?<br />
Jade is determined to find out. So how does a plus-size, aqua-phobic mer-girl go about doing that exactly? And how will Jade ever be able to explain her secret to her best friend, Cori, and to her crush, Luke?<br />
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<strong>This summer is about to get a lot more interesting...</strong><br />
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After her mother's death, Julie goes to live with Aunt Cordelia, a spinster schoolteacher, where she experiences many emotions and changes as she grows from seven to eighteen.<br />
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Now established in her quirky British village, Savvy works hard to get an article with her own byline published in the school newspaper. When an attractive and mysterious boy asks her for help with his school work, Savvy is slowly pulled into his circle and soon finds out that the wrong set of friends—boys and girls—can influence her own behavior. Following her own advice to cut ties with a charming bad boy would mean abandoning her dearest wishes, and it just doesn't seem as wrong as it feels. Is it? Read on for surprise twists throughout the book! <br />
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London Confidential is a new series for young girls. In the series, British fashion, friendships, and guys collide as an all-American teen girl learns to love life and live out her faith. The series follows Savvy's entertaining attempts to fit in during her first year at a new school in a new country.<br />
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In a shocking turn of events, all writers for the <i>Wexburg Academy Times</i> will cast their votes for next year's editor—and it looks like Savvy's vote will be the tie breaker! She must choose between a nasty-girl-turned-nice, with a sudden interest in letting Savvy get what she wants, and the prickly Hazelle, who promises nothing at all. Savvy then finds herself wrapped up in a new, seemingly innocent but potentially dangerous activity. It's all at risk in this book: her position on the paper, the boy she likes, the ministry she wants to go well. At a critical moment, Savvy must figure out how to rely on God rather than luck and to overcome temptation before it is too late. <br />
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London Confidential is a new series for young girls. In the series, British fashion, friendships, and guys collide as an all-American teen girl learns to love life and live out her faith. The series follows Savvy's entertaining attempts to fit in during her first year at a new school in a new country. <strong><b><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"> </span> </b></strong><br />
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</span><div style="color: #8e7cc3;">Clicking on title links in this post will redirect you to Amazon.com. If you happen to make a purchase after clicking these links I will receive a small percentage of the profits<b>.</b></div><span class="reviewText" id="freeText12770801008733439378" style="color: #c27ba0;"><strong><b> </b> </strong></span><b style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"> </span> </b><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"> </span></span></span></b></div>Jenni @ Falling Off The Shelfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05214639015536417380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486517181731927731.post-78292444076983897742011-01-21T07:00:00.000-05:002011-01-21T07:00:05.501-05:00Friday Finds - January 21, 2011<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzi-kqFQVFDOAdMeA-jOvd8WRngpQzyNKHBb8DWFkiL4jCKYGTAO7SJJG9DKbjZMzWXU3gUYR-F0sXtCFWF4qBXUvc91ruMOJ69fvl48lm6jdiXF5vRQDfpdTDb4tVLYRPowEfn7HvM7I/s1600/Friday+Finds.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzi-kqFQVFDOAdMeA-jOvd8WRngpQzyNKHBb8DWFkiL4jCKYGTAO7SJJG9DKbjZMzWXU3gUYR-F0sXtCFWF4qBXUvc91ruMOJ69fvl48lm6jdiXF5vRQDfpdTDb4tVLYRPowEfn7HvM7I/s1600/Friday+Finds.bmp" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Friday Finds was started by MizB @ <a href="http://shouldbereading.wordpress.com/">Should Be Reading</a>.</span></div><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Check back each Friday to see what I've found, and make sure to stop by Should Be Reading's Friday Finds Post to see what other bloggers have found as well!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSv0mLXsg0bI1qkBNGEl7Tax6_eU32ekNfTioGGd6fselXZyiizORKi0yyhrmTpyciJftlHjLhNrqQjBevIAntFN_3kv_dWyvpZRFGyukO47yb3szN3b5Omq0veM3iCR6zIdY1QVenRZY/s1600/Between+the+Sea+and+Sky.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSv0mLXsg0bI1qkBNGEl7Tax6_eU32ekNfTioGGd6fselXZyiizORKi0yyhrmTpyciJftlHjLhNrqQjBevIAntFN_3kv_dWyvpZRFGyukO47yb3szN3b5Omq0veM3iCR6zIdY1QVenRZY/s320/Between+the+Sea+and+Sky.jpg" width="214" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9583173-between-the-sea-and-sky">Between the Sea & Sky</a> by <a href="http://www.jaclyndolamore.com/">Jaclyn Dolamore</a> (Pre-Order <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1599904349?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1599904349">Hardcover</a> @ Amazon)</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Publisher :</b> Bloomsbury USA Children's Books</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>ISBN : </b></span>978-1599904344</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Release Date : </b>June 7, 2011</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Series or Stand Alone : </b>Stand Alone</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;">For as long as Esmerine can remember, she has longed to join her older sister, Dosinia, as a siren--the highest calling a mermaid can have. Then Dosinia runs away to the mainland, and Esmerine is sent to retrieve her. Using magic to transform her tail into legs, she makes her way unsteadily to the capital city. There she comes upon a friend she hasn't seen since childhood--a dashing young man named Alandare, who belongs to a winged race of people. As Esmerine and Alandare band together to search for Dosinia, they rekindle a friendship . . . and ignite the emotions for a love so great it cannot be bound by sea, land, or air.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9716929-siren-s-storm">Siren's Storm</a> by <a href="http://www.lisapapa.com/">Lisa Papademetriou</a> (Pre-Order <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375842454?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0375842454">Hardcover</a> or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004CFAZX6?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B004CFAZX6">Kindle Edition</a> @ Amazon)</b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Publisher : </b>Knopf Books for Young Readers</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>ISBN : </b></span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">978-0375842450</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Release Date : </b>August 9, 2011<br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText11278609030457415278" style="color: #c27ba0;">Nothing has been the same for Will ever since what happened last summer. One day, on an ordinary sailing trip with his brother, there is a strange accident. When Will wakes up, he learns his brother has disappeared, presumed drowned. Worst of all, Will can't remember what happened—his family finds him unconscious, with no memory of the accident.<br />
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Now Will and his best friend and neighbor, Gretchen, are starting a new summer. Gretchen seems troubled—her sleepwalking habit is getting worse, and she keeps waking up closer and closer to the water. Will is drawn to Asia, the exotic new girl in town. Nobody knows where she's from—all Will knows is that her beauty and her mesmerizing voice have a powerful effect on people.<br />
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Then there is another mysterious drowning, and Will and Gretchen begin to wonder: Is Asia just another beautiful, wealthy summer resident? Or is she something entirely more sinister . . . and inhuman?</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText11278609030457415278" style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9462795-starcrossed">Starcrossed</a> by Josephine Angelini (Pre-Order <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062011995?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0062011995">Hardcover</a> @ Amazon)</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText11278609030457415278" style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Publisher : </b>HarperTeen</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText11278609030457415278" style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>ISBN : </b></span></span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">978-0062011992</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText11278609030457415278" style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Release Date : </b>May 31, 2011</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText11278609030457415278" style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Series or Stand Alone : </b>#1 Starcrossed<b> </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText1453073708244574307" style="color: #c27ba0;">Helen Hamilton has spent her entire sixteen years trying to hide how different she is—no easy task on an island as small and sheltered as Nantucket. And it's getting harder. Nightmares of a desperate desert journey have Helen waking parched, only to find her sheets damaged by dirt and dust. At school she's haunted by hallucinations of three women weeping tears of blood . . . and when Helen first crosses paths with Lucas Delos, she has no way of knowing they're destined to play the leading roles in a tragedy the Fates insist on repeating throughout history.<br />
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As Helen unlocks the secrets of her ancestry, she realizes that some myths are more than just legend. But even demigod powers might not be enough to defy the forces that are both drawing her and Lucas together—and trying to tear them apart.<br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText1453073708244574307" style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9378297-anna-dressed-in-blood">Anna Dressed in Blood</a> by <a href="http://www.kendareblake.com/">Kendare Blake</a></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Publisher : </b>Tor</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>ISBN : </b></span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">978-0765328</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Release Date : </b>September 2011</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Series or Stand Alone : </b>#1 Anna Dressed in Blood<b> </b></span> <br />
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</span><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText1453073708244574307" style="color: #c27ba0;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText11274787768265994331">Just your average boy-meets-girl, girl-kills-people story. . . <br />
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Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead. <br />
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So did his father before him, until his gruesome murder by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. Together they follow legends and local lore, trying to keep up with the murderous dead—keeping pesky things like the future and friends at bay. <br />
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When they arrive in a new town in search of a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas doesn't expect anything outside of the ordinary: move, hunt, kill. What he finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he's never faced before. She still wears the dress she wore on the day of her brutal murder in 1958: once white, but now stained red and dripping blood. Since her death, Anna has killed any and every person who has dared to step into the deserted Victorian she used to call home. <br />
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And she, for whatever reason, spares his life.</span><br />
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</span><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText1453073708244574307" style="color: #c27ba0;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText11274787768265994331"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8603765-imaginary-girls">Imaginary Girls</a> by <a href="http://novaren.com/">Nova Ren Suma</a> (Pre-Order <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525423389?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0525423389">Hardcover</a> or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004IYJEQU?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B004IYJEQU">Kindle Edition</a> @ Amazon)</b></span></span><br />
<span class="reviewText" id="freeText11274787768265994331"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Publisher : </b>Dutton Juvenile</span></span><br />
<span class="reviewText" id="freeText11274787768265994331"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>ISBN : </b></span></span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">978-0525423386</span><span class="reviewText" id="freeText11274787768265994331"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b> </b></span></span><br />
<span class="reviewText" id="freeText11274787768265994331"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Release Date : </b>June 14, 2011</span></span><br />
<span class="reviewText" id="freeText11274787768265994331"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Series or Stand Alone : </b>Stand Alone<b> </b></span></span><br />
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</span><span class="reviewText" id="freeText1453073708244574307" style="color: #c27ba0;"></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText3754419478440952175" style="color: #c27ba0;">Chloe’s older sister, Ruby, is the girl everyone looks to and longs for, who can’t be captured or caged. When a night with Ruby’s friends goes horribly wrong and Chloe discovers the dead body of her classmate London Hayes floating in the reservoir, Chloe is sent away from town and away from Ruby. <br />
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But Ruby will do anything to get her sister back, and when Chloe returns home two years later, a precarious and deadly balance waits. As Chloe flirts with the truth that Ruby has hidden deeply away, the fragile line between life and death is redrawn by the complex bonds of sisterhood. <br />
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<em>Imaginary Girls</em> is a masterfully distorted vision of family reminiscent of Shirley Jackson, laced with twists that beg for their secrets to be kept.</span><span class="reviewText" id="freeText11274787768265994331"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b> </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText11274787768265994331"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><br />
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</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Read my <a href="http://fallingofftheshelf.blogspot.com/2010/04/review-lover-enshrined-by-jr-ward.html">Review of Lover Enshrined (Bk 6)</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"> </span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">You can also read my review for Ward's first book in her Fallen Angels Series, Covet, <a href="http://fallingofftheshelf.blogspot.com/2009/10/review-on-wednesday-covet-by-jr-ward.html">here</a>. </span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><br />
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</div><span style="color: #c27ba0;">Clicking on title links in this post will redirect you to Amazon.com. If you happen to make a purchase after clicking these links I will receive a small percentage of the profits<span style="color: #c27ba0;"><b>.</b></span></span><span style="color: #9999ff;"> </span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9999ff;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9999ff;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9999ff;"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9999ff;"></span></div>Jenni @ Falling Off The Shelfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05214639015536417380noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486517181731927731.post-87318310678617699532011-01-18T14:53:00.000-05:002011-01-18T14:55:34.912-05:00E-Review : Hush Money by Susan Bischoff<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirim45AKw29XTE8q_CkaHYGegujdSclZJF_9i2GUmcX1cshjUs7iq66BqbZ9u7rP7StUQ789TGkyxW-e2GDRVtUqimV8DdoDc79-71c0ZTpuln5CrEMXFf85nG8PUJ5_6y-rJwOfJPPy8/s1600/Hush+Money.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirim45AKw29XTE8q_CkaHYGegujdSclZJF_9i2GUmcX1cshjUs7iq66BqbZ9u7rP7StUQ789TGkyxW-e2GDRVtUqimV8DdoDc79-71c0ZTpuln5CrEMXFf85nG8PUJ5_6y-rJwOfJPPy8/s320/Hush+Money.jpg" width="208" /></a></div><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Title : </b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1453787542?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1453787542">Hush Money</a> (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003YCPGOG?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B003YCPGOG">Kindle Edition</a>)</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Author : </b><a href="http://susan-bischoff.com/">Susan Bischoff</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Publisher : </b><a href="https://www.createspace.com/">CreateSpace</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Genre : </b>Paranormal,Young Adult</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>ISBN : </b></span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">978-1453787540</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Series or Stand Alone : </b>#1 Talent Chronicles</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Release Date : </b>September 24, 2010</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Rating : </b>4/5 Stars - Very Good</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><u>Description from Goodreads</u> :</b></span><br />
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<span class="reviewText" id="freeText286643035619787573" style="color: #8e7cc3;">Be normal, invisible. Don’t get close to anyone. Kids with psychic abilities tend to mysteriously disappear when they get noticed. Joss has spent years trying to hide. Now she has an unasked-for best friend, who is the victim of an extortion plot by the school bully, who used to like Joss, who is best friends with her long-time crush, who is actually talking to her. Life just got more complicated. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><u>Review</u> :</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Joss has been trained by her father to blend in, not be noticed, let no one know her secrets. It's the only way Talents like her and her family can keep under the radar of the NIAC. No one wants to be dragged away to the State School. It's always been easy to push people away and know that they would leave her alone. Eat alone at lunch, walk home alone, it's just part of her daily routine. When she meets Kat, that all changes. She can't get rid of this girl if her life depended on it. She goes so far as to tell the girl to go away, that she doesn't want any friends, but Kat won't stand for it. Kat is determined to bring Joss out of her shell.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">When Kat starts getting blackmailed by the biggest bully in school, Marco, Joss finds herself beginning to worry about her. Marco is bad news, he's been out to get Joss ever since she rejected him years ago. He's always had a huge crush on her, but Joss can see what kind of person he is, and even if she were allowed to date, she wouldn't want to date him. On the other hand, she'd love to date his best friend, Dylan. Dylan is cute, and while he's the best friend of the biggest bully, he's always seemed far less hostile.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">I loaned this book from another Kindle user, not even realizing that it was a self-published book. The gorgeous cover alone had me, even before I read the synopsis. After I read that, it sealed the deal for me. I can never turn up a paranormal type book. I sped through this book pretty quickly. It was a short read, but it was well worth the time I put into it. Susan Bischoff clearly has talent, and I'm surprised she hasn't been picked up by some big time publisher yet. I just hope that she gets the credit she deserves for such a well written story.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">I really enjoyed all of the supernatural talents in this book, but don't want to give away too much. It's just safe to say that there is telekinesis, invisibility, laser vision, and even super strength all rolled up into this fantastic book. There was so many little stories all looping together, and surprisingly they meshed very well. I thought I would get confused, but Bischoff interwove each little piece perfectly to create one giant story that makes you want to keep turning the pages. Unfortunately there was an end to this book, but just knowing that this is only the first of many, excites me!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">One thing I have to say I didn't enjoy about this book was the ending. To be honest, there really wasn't an ending. It just simply stopped, and that kind of upset me. I wanted a little bit more closure to this first book in the Talent Chronicles. I'm just hoping that Bischoff can redeem this short ending with a phenomenal second installment. I'm hoping to get my hands on the next in the series, it will be called Heroes, and will hopefully be released within the next couple of weeks.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><u><b>Where did I get this book?</b></u><b> :</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;">I loaned a copy of Hush Money by Susan Bischoff from a fellow Kindle reader. I'm reviewing this book at my own leisure, and not receiving any compensation for doing so.</span></span><br />
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</div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText10936381945751547706">John Matthew has come a long way since he was found living among humans, his vampire nature unknown. Taken in by The Brotherhood, no one could guess what his true history was-or his true identity. <br />
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Xhex has long steeled herself against the attraction to John Matthew. Until fate intervenes and she discovers that love, like destiny, is inevitable.</span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText10936381945751547706"><br />
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In Starlighter, bestselling author Bryan Davis masterfully weaves fantasy and inspiration into a captivating novel for young adults.<br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>July 7, 2009</b></span><br />
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<b>WHAT THE CAHORS</b> witches thought was the end of their troubles was only the beginning. A threat more powerful and more frightening than anything they have faced has been watching and waiting. The Cahors witches must come together and find Jer and Eli as both the Deveraux and the Cahors family lines face eradication.<br />
</span> All the secrets of the Cahors will be revealed, forcing them to overcome their greatest weaknesses in order to achieve their most powerful strengths. And only united do they have any chance at victory. Before the end, sacrifices will be made, alliances forged, and old friends lost forever. <br />
<span class="reviewText" id="freeText2782621402253486208"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b> </b></span> </span><span class="reviewText" id="freeText10936381945751547706"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b> </b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrUldTmIlGxDsKA2L_ft8FoocEfO3-bfyFhpkcL0Qej97OqXZnED1i8dy6vcmdGZwEwEQ3CVODXjsczogd4BsDPGGOYnmD8nuztGhPMCYE3DJmg3Kxip2YuvScVSMsxXTn0a0J0vkxIWA/s1600/The+Raven%2527s+Gift.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrUldTmIlGxDsKA2L_ft8FoocEfO3-bfyFhpkcL0Qej97OqXZnED1i8dy6vcmdGZwEwEQ3CVODXjsczogd4BsDPGGOYnmD8nuztGhPMCYE3DJmg3Kxip2YuvScVSMsxXTn0a0J0vkxIWA/s320/The+Raven%2527s+Gift.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText10936381945751547706"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>The Raven's Gift by Don Rearden (e-book)</b></span></span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText10936381945751547706"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>January 25, 2011 - </b>Received for review from the Author.</span></span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText10936381945751547706"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b> </b></span></span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;"><div class="style13 f-fp"><span class="style56">Shifting from contemporary Yupik Eskimo village life to a gripping post-apocalyptic Alaskan nightmare, </span><strong><em><span class="style56">The Raven's Gift</span></em></strong><span class="style56"> reveals a heartbreaking truth -- many remote communities in rural Alaska currently teeter on the brink of total collapse. Don Rearden's debut novel dares to confront the frightening possibility of an impending catastrophic loss of human life, love, and indigenous culture. </span></div><div class="style13 f-fp"><br />
</div><div class="style13"><span class="style56">Delivered in an authentic new voice, </span><strong><em><strong><em><span class="style56">The Raven's</span><strong><span class="style56"> Gi</span></strong></em><span class="style56">f</span></strong></em></strong><em><strong><span class="style56">t </span></strong></em><span class="style56">takes readers on an arctic journey to very real, but seemingly impossible and desolate locale. Dramatic, suspenseful, and chilling, the novel examines the contemporary life of the rich Yupik Eskimo culture, and reveals the heart of a barren tundra landscape in an unexpected collision of cultures. </span></div><div class="style13"><br />
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</div><div class="style13">he small town of Cryer’s Cross is rocked by tragedy when an unassuming freshman disappears without a trace. Kendall Fletcher wasn’t that friendly with the missing girl, but the angst wreaks havoc on her OCD-addled brain. </div><div class="style13"><br />
</div>When a second student goes missing—someone close to Kendall’s heart—the community is in an uproar. Caught in a downward spiral of fear and anxiety, Kendall’s not sure she can hold it together. When she starts hearing the voices of the missing, calling out to her and pleading for help, she fears she’s losing her grip on reality. But when she finds messages scratched in a desk at school—messages that could only be from the missing student who used to sit there—Kendall decides that crazy or not, she’d never forgive herself if she didn’t act on her suspicions.<br />
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Something’s not right in Cryer’s Cross—and Kendall’s about to find out just how far the townspeople will go to keep their secrets buried. <br />
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</div><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Clicking on title links in this post will redirect you to Amazon.com. If you happen to make a purchase after clicking these links I will receive a small percentage of the profits<b>.</b></span><span class="reviewText" id="freeText10936381945751547706"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b> </b></span></span> </div>Jenni @ Falling Off The Shelfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05214639015536417380noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486517181731927731.post-40818079988998675842011-01-16T07:00:00.000-05:002011-01-16T07:00:06.103-05:00Sunday Kindle Deals : Young Adult Titles Under $5 (+2)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV1BT90d09MtRCUp3w3Xna_hWKOfCdemzwP7yIbivYKSFB5esZ0_aX3STEStvmzsLLSK6sSz2C_9FkOGvhvGlkLGyxD0BUcRgTTKZbjRUth4T3Nwq54nLRFl2NTa6j0cXS3qdDjhsspik/s1600/Sunday+Kindle+Deals.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV1BT90d09MtRCUp3w3Xna_hWKOfCdemzwP7yIbivYKSFB5esZ0_aX3STEStvmzsLLSK6sSz2C_9FkOGvhvGlkLGyxD0BUcRgTTKZbjRUth4T3Nwq54nLRFl2NTa6j0cXS3qdDjhsspik/s1600/Sunday+Kindle+Deals.jpg" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;">Each Sunday come back here to Falling Off The Shelf to find out the latest Kindle book deals in the Young Adult genre! If you find a deal that you would like me to showcase, please let me know!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;">**Clicking on Title Links will redirect you to Amazon** </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;"> </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><u>Titles still under $5, previously showcased.</u></span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;"> </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001VLXNLU?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B001VLXNLU">Marked (House of Night Bk 1)</a> by P.C. & Kristin Cast - $2.99</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002ASFQ1I?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B002ASFQ1I">Evermore (The Immortals Bk 1)</a> by Alyson Noel - $2.99</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0034N7JGS?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0034N7JGS">The Dark Divine (The Dark Divine Bk 1)</a> by Bree Despain - $2.39</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001D23SVW?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B001D23SVW">Vampire Kisses (Vampire Kisses Bk 1)</a> by Ellen Schrieber - $3.99</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003V8BRQY?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B003V8BRQY">Dramarama</a> by E. Lockhart - $3.61</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><u>This Week's Showcase</u> :</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"> </span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmx6JrXIo97qhgpOIeOovMda_Gmpa_DMnMK8ZWXtajxmOf7FC1BeiLl9XOS1NFSLTK242NkG9yX7-CZxf7vHVuESJ_QuoksX0WyfUZdEleU7MbtReUeKuTx1gr_ZZWPCI4qA8iMIWB5X0/s1600/The+Van+Alen+Legacy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmx6JrXIo97qhgpOIeOovMda_Gmpa_DMnMK8ZWXtajxmOf7FC1BeiLl9XOS1NFSLTK242NkG9yX7-CZxf7vHVuESJ_QuoksX0WyfUZdEleU7MbtReUeKuTx1gr_ZZWPCI4qA8iMIWB5X0/s320/The+Van+Alen+Legacy.jpg" width="210" /></a></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002LVV4GK?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B002LVV4GK"><b>The Van Alen Legacy by Melissa de la Cruz</b></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Current Kindle Price : $4.24</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Lending Enabled : Yes</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><br />
</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;">With the stunning revelation surrounding Bliss's true identity comes the growing threat of the sinister Silver Bloods. Once left to live the glamorous life in New York City, the Blue Bloods now find themselves in an epic battle for survival. Not to worry, love is still in the air for the young vampires of the Upper East Side. Or is it? Jack and Schuyler are over. Oliver's brokenhearted. And only the cunning Mimi seems to be happily engaged. Young, fanged, and fabulous, Melissa de la Cruz's vampires unite in this highly anticipated fourth installment of the Blue Bloods series.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguri3ks9E2ko7XUZvt43QDR4N3adPQKbAXSjTBPD59q6Ck2s43IV09V2PHSWuxvKwia428LJp-EotnQOqEsBucpZhDfoEBEy-q8cAHwsdKgBUlyuw7TnnAKhTMsugaAlDEN6fKl7vLceY/s1600/Book+of+Love.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguri3ks9E2ko7XUZvt43QDR4N3adPQKbAXSjTBPD59q6Ck2s43IV09V2PHSWuxvKwia428LJp-EotnQOqEsBucpZhDfoEBEy-q8cAHwsdKgBUlyuw7TnnAKhTMsugaAlDEN6fKl7vLceY/s320/Book+of+Love.jpg" width="207" /></a></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003GSM0NS?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B003GSM0NS"><b>Book of Love (Knight Angels Bk 1) by Abra Ebner</b></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Current Kindle Price : $4.99</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Lending Enabled : Yes</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b> </b></span></span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;">When seventeen-year-old Jane Taylor witnessed her father's death, something happened to her. Ever since, her thoughts have been consumed by death, going so far as to foresee the ever-changing deaths of those around her. Sixteen-year-old Emily Taylor resented her sister's closeness with their father, who died when she was six. With the strange ability to read minds, she drowns the voices out with drugs, sending Jane over the edge. When seventeen-year-old Wes Green was adopted, he moved in next door to Jane, finding in her a childhood friend turned high-school crush. All summer, the pain in his bones seemed unwarranted. He was done growing long ago. When senior year starts, however, the pain only gets worse. The foreseen changes are not expected, and far too animal for his taste. When Max Gordon found himself standing above the dying body of an innocent seven-year-old girl, he saw in her eyes something he hadn't seen in the century he'd spent roaming Earth. Her father was already dead, but there was hope to save her. Jane was her name, and already she was all he ever wanted. It was his job to bring her back, and it was his job to protect her - the biggest mistake of his life. When these four teens enter Glenwood High their senior year, no one but Max could understand the future ahead of them. Drawn together by blood and friendship, they each hide a dark secret that will soon bind them together. Max has to protect Jane, Jane wants to be normal, Wes wants Jane to love him, and Emily just wants the voices to stop... But their fate just wants them dead.</div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJrO8n4BRhEtUtJaQN5I7WG_XbCBFG2A7MkQUaIugtK6n-ruP-ixqL-GU1i9X9uWQrWoAyvrIqC_YkC8bEGy8bCEkeQnXkiVjyCFoDSVMx1Nmtoxk0H8_IUOs0Ug6H-mjhsqPeeQkwh-c/s1600/The+Amaranth+Enchantment.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJrO8n4BRhEtUtJaQN5I7WG_XbCBFG2A7MkQUaIugtK6n-ruP-ixqL-GU1i9X9uWQrWoAyvrIqC_YkC8bEGy8bCEkeQnXkiVjyCFoDSVMx1Nmtoxk0H8_IUOs0Ug6H-mjhsqPeeQkwh-c/s320/The+Amaranth+Enchantment.jpg" width="207" /></a></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0043D2BNE?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0043D2BNE"><b>The Amaranth Enchantment by Julie Berry</b></a></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Current Kindle Price : $4.88</b></span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Lending Enabled : Yes</b></span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;">When a mysterious piece of jewelry and a strange visitor arrive in the jewelry shop where she works for her evil aunt, Lucinda's course takes a surprising turn. With the help of the Amaranth Witch, a young (and harmless) con-artist, and a prince, Lucinda uncovers secrets about her own royal past. A strong seller in hardcover, this original fairytale marks an exciting debut from a lyrical new voice. Can one magical momentlead to happily ever after? Julie Berry grew up in western New York. She holds a BS in communications from Rensselaer and an MFA in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College. She now lives in eastern Massachusetts with her husband and four young sons, and works as a director of software sales and marketing for a technology startup. This is her first book. </div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b> </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-PmxqZ-oYzI-hT21CcR6jC3jWRvNUuzfqakYCzaTzc_5ev-cPM7I3KtyAKn7_A68_xPS2DZ16IpXw5TblJtHZ5wmiyGTPcLAoCbbvURTZ530O6RWGEBViEX89-tKSx7p37PILSM4hxfc/s1600/Deep+and+Dark+and+Dangerous.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-PmxqZ-oYzI-hT21CcR6jC3jWRvNUuzfqakYCzaTzc_5ev-cPM7I3KtyAKn7_A68_xPS2DZ16IpXw5TblJtHZ5wmiyGTPcLAoCbbvURTZ530O6RWGEBViEX89-tKSx7p37PILSM4hxfc/s320/Deep+and+Dark+and+Dangerous.jpg" width="211" /></a></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003KK5E58?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B003KK5E58"><span style="color: #c27ba0;">Deep and Dark and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn</span></a> </b></span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Current Kindle Price : $4.69</b></span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Lending Enabled : No</b></span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText3307085087365416867">Just before summer begins, 13-year-old Ali finds an odd photograph in the attic. She knows the two children in it are her mother, Claire, and her aunt Dulcie. But who’s the third person, the one who’s been torn out of the picture?<br />
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Ali figures she’ll find out while she’s vacationing in Maine with Dulcie and her four-year-old daughter, Emma, in the house where Ali’s mother’s family used to spend summers. All hopes for relaxation are quashed shortly after their arrival, though, when the girls meet Sissy, a kid who’s mean and spiteful and a bad influence on Emma.<br />
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Strangest of all, Sissy keeps talking about a girl named Teresa who drowned under mysterious circumstances back when Claire and Dulcie were kids, and whose body was never found. At first Ali thinks Sissy’s just trying to scare her with a ghost story, but soon she discovers the real reason why Sissy is so angry. . . . Mary Downing Hahn is at her chilling best in this new supernatural tale that’s certain to send shivers down her readers’ spines.</span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText3307085087365416867"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFj6Lxib7gt0x411zuc1H_LdqJ2ObzeT69-YN-mRfPrOPnNNBG6QcDGA7SlCwWGTFcjnnxns46KQ6IL93rbTnh9hLSN8cmwzwNVaqzcOgMf7GLGcI-AW9nNVasgS3UAN2GV2BGvBVs4So/s1600/Football+Genius.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFj6Lxib7gt0x411zuc1H_LdqJ2ObzeT69-YN-mRfPrOPnNNBG6QcDGA7SlCwWGTFcjnnxns46KQ6IL93rbTnh9hLSN8cmwzwNVaqzcOgMf7GLGcI-AW9nNVasgS3UAN2GV2BGvBVs4So/s320/Football+Genius.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText3307085087365416867"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0015DPXJY?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0015DPXJY"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><b>Football Genius by Tim Green</b></span></a> </span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText3307085087365416867"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Current Kindle Price : $4.99</b></span></span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText3307085087365416867"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Lending Enabled : No</b></span></span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText3307085087365416867"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b> </b></span></span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeTextContainer15657156001004325863">"An ordinary boy with an extraordinary talent - Troy White can predict any football play before it happens. And when his single mom gets a job with the Atlanta Falcons, Troy knows it's his big chance to help them out of their slump--and finally prove his football genius."</span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeTextContainer15657156001004325863"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigoBOVF6a-uwOWPi2vmCb_Gg5BKPHBcZAKIYcrw5Gqp-HYF6dhnmnCY4QSJpX9o8RJM6Bqw0kP6pDzp_cLfcctbKDwOoar99pYASMN5N3LFhFCpA9riekk09noaAlMnBSI5hiEEeoUX3I/s1600/All+Alone+in+the+Universe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigoBOVF6a-uwOWPi2vmCb_Gg5BKPHBcZAKIYcrw5Gqp-HYF6dhnmnCY4QSJpX9o8RJM6Bqw0kP6pDzp_cLfcctbKDwOoar99pYASMN5N3LFhFCpA9riekk09noaAlMnBSI5hiEEeoUX3I/s320/All+Alone+in+the+Universe.jpg" width="215" /></a></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeTextContainer15657156001004325863"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004BA5820?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B004BA5820"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><b>All Alone in the Universe by Lynne Rae Perkins</b></span></a> </span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeTextContainer15657156001004325863"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Current Kindle Price : $4.99</b></span></span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeTextContainer15657156001004325863"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Lending Enabled : No</b></span></span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeTextContainer15657156001004325863"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b> </b></span></span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;">When her best friend since the third grade starts acting as though Debbie doesn't exist, Debbie finds out the hard way that life can be a lonesome place. But in the end, the heroine of this wryly funny coming-of-age story -- a girl who lives in a house covered with stuff that is supposed to look like bricks but is just a fake brick pattern -- discovers that even the hourly tragedies of elementary school can have silver linings. And a house covered with Insul-Brick can protect a real home.</div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeTextContainer15657156001004325863"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b> </b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigxk43EZglHGB8pNusHbWpkwB0S6PtgGOyH0yg5dplmaZA0vBlpuayN6Ep3Yxx4XuN2KHD5elvhOAGBg3hQH7r_yUMj6IpTKWOw40Q0SjHqIBTxCELQbegz_CYE01-K2fk_FyI3JN5f3g/s1600/Ghost+of+a+Chance.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigxk43EZglHGB8pNusHbWpkwB0S6PtgGOyH0yg5dplmaZA0vBlpuayN6Ep3Yxx4XuN2KHD5elvhOAGBg3hQH7r_yUMj6IpTKWOw40Q0SjHqIBTxCELQbegz_CYE01-K2fk_FyI3JN5f3g/s320/Ghost+of+a+Chance.jpg" width="194" /></a></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeTextContainer15657156001004325863"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b> </b></span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000XU4TPY?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000XU4TPY"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><b>Ghost of a Chance by Laura Peyton Roberts</b></span></a></span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeTextContainer15657156001004325863"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><b><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Current Kindle Price : $4.79</span></b></span></span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeTextContainer15657156001004325863"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><b><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Lending Enabled : No</span></b></span></span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeTextContainer15657156001004325863"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><b><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"> </span></b></span></span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText10847452613735369347">Melissa Soul's ready for another routine California summer of sunny days at the beach--until her best friend Chloe introduces her to someone incredible. His name is James. He's funny, smart, and gorgeous. Melissa's never met anyone like him. There's just one tiny problem. He's a ghost. And he's living in Chloe's 1920s mansion. What happens when two best friends fall hard for the same ghost? Can a love triangle ever be twisted back into a circle of friendship?</span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText10847452613735369347"> </span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: justify;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText10154479656922879528" style="color: #c27ba0;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText11593596046040246489"><div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><u>Amazon Affiliates</u> : </b></div></span></span><br />
<div style="color: #8e7cc3;">Clicking on title links in this post will redirect you to Amazon.com. If you happen to make a purchase after clicking these links I will receive a small percentage of the profits<b>.</b></div><span class="reviewText" id="freeText10847452613735369347"> </span><span class="reviewText" id="freeTextContainer15657156001004325863"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><b> </b></span></span></div>Jenni @ Falling Off The Shelfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05214639015536417380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486517181731927731.post-9851554075315125312011-01-14T14:10:00.000-05:002011-01-14T14:15:38.765-05:00Review : Anastasia's Secret by Susanne Dunlap<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoFXCX43PGEHapn9TS68kZbTvbwZmqGvY6jEmZohJ5LM_CVxEVWRqeEdO2M-loosqE2mkS05bQHePXlIBfTpqgMKVe0BMCaxtzagVS-bUawOg7cDFGmG-BjGySa3WNR_4-ZMbVwegYy1E/s1600/Anastasia%2527s+Secret.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoFXCX43PGEHapn9TS68kZbTvbwZmqGvY6jEmZohJ5LM_CVxEVWRqeEdO2M-loosqE2mkS05bQHePXlIBfTpqgMKVe0BMCaxtzagVS-bUawOg7cDFGmG-BjGySa3WNR_4-ZMbVwegYy1E/s320/Anastasia%2527s+Secret.jpg" width="208" /></a></div><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Title : </b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1599904209?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1599904209">Anastasia's Secret</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Author : </b><a href="http://www.susannedunlap.com/">Susanne Dunlap</a><br />
<b>Publisher : </b><a href="http://www.bloomsburykids.com/">Bloomsbury USA Children's Books</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Genre : </b>Historical Fiction</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>ISBN : </b></span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">978-1599904207</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Series or Stand Alone : </b>Stand Alone</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Release Date : </b>March 2, 2010</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Rating : </b>4.5/5 Stars - Very Good</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><u>Description from Goodreads</u> :</b></span><br />
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<div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText4536225362465588890">For Anastasia Romanov, life as the privileged daughter of Russia’s last tsar is about to be torn apart by the bloodshed of revolution. Ousted from the imperial palace when the Bolsheviks seize control of the government, Anastasia and her family are exiled to Siberia. But even while the rebels debate the family’s future with agonizing slowness and the threat to their lives grows more menacing, romance quietly blooms between Anastasia and Sasha, a sympathetic young guard she has known since childhood. But will the strength of their love be enough to save Anastasia from a violent death? <br />
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Inspired by the mysteries that have long surrounded the last days of the Romanov family, Susanne Dunlap’s new novel is a haunting vision of the life—and imagined love story—of Russia’s last princess.</span></div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText4536225362465588890">The story of Anastasia Romanov has always been a huge interest for me. At a young age I was introduced to the animated presentation of Anastasia from 20th Century Fox, and I fell in love. Even to this day, it is one of my favorite movies to watch. For the longest time I thought that was exactly how Anastasia's life had been, and then I grew up and learned the horrible truth of the things her family had to endure. While no one is completely sure if Anastasia had gotten away or not, I like to think that she did, and that she had a wonderful life ahead of her.</span></div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText4536225362465588890"> <b> </b></span></div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText4536225362465588890">Susanne Dunlap brought Anastasia to life once again for me. Although her take on the story of the beloved Russian Princess is quite different, it is also one that you should most definitely take the time to learn. I felt like Susanne really knew first-hand about Anastasia, and she made her character very believable. I could have finished this book within a day if my internal clock were the way it used to be. Being 6 months pregnant, I tend to take a nap here and there, although most of the time I don't even realize I'm about to do it.</span></div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText4536225362465588890">I really like how we learned a little about each character in this story, and their role, even if they weren't a big part of the scheme. My personal favorite was Anastasia's older sister, Maria, because despite her timidness she was always there for Anastasia, and ready to back her up if need be.</span></div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText4536225362465588890">The romance between Anastasia and Sasha was a little confusing to me for a short time throughout this book. I'm sure that's how we were supposed to feel though, because we read from Anastasia's point-of-view, and she herself is quite confused in the beginning as well. I enjoyed Sasha's character through the beginning of the book, but as it wore on, and the war wore on him, he became too hard for me. I didn't always trust him throughout the book, and at times I felt like I was in the same boat as Anastasia's young brother Alexei, always waiting for Sasha to mess up and show his true colors.</span></div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText4536225362465588890">I waited far too long to read this book, and am quite upset with myself for not taking the time to give it the attention that it clearly deserves. I had received this book well before the release date, and had all intentions of reading and reviewing it early, but unfortunately life took me for it's own personal spin and I was pulled away from reading anything.<b> </b>I'm glad that I finally was given a chance to come back to reading, and reviewing, because it has been something that I've missed for so long. I'm also glad that on my return I happened to pick up a fantastic read that I will remember for a long time. </span></div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText4536225362465588890"><br />
</span></div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText4536225362465588890"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><u><b>Where did I get this book?</b></u><b> :</b></span></span></div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText4536225362465588890"><span style="color: #c27ba0;">I received my copy from the author in exchange for my honest review. Thank you Susanne, it was a pleasure reading your book, and I plan to read more of your work in the future.</span></span><span class="reviewText" id="freeText4536225362465588890"></span><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><b><u><br />
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<div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText4536225362465588890"></span></div>Jenni @ Falling Off The Shelfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05214639015536417380noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486517181731927731.post-58460200082852675802011-01-14T12:15:00.000-05:002011-01-14T12:16:25.945-05:00Friday Finds - January 14, 2011<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijtAVeSIlMNO3PfbCWcbODLU02Tlv2_-j1pMouvnlSUP_tKeF8zSE2DAOdprHII3tFn0Abfw_ZtOcK-RYR0hLe8Ipcf4aGwUpKa5ZvGYgz5-1bGa3IIcHxWZLGqCFbqrwDQut8mbrA4CE/s1600/Friday+Finds.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijtAVeSIlMNO3PfbCWcbODLU02Tlv2_-j1pMouvnlSUP_tKeF8zSE2DAOdprHII3tFn0Abfw_ZtOcK-RYR0hLe8Ipcf4aGwUpKa5ZvGYgz5-1bGa3IIcHxWZLGqCFbqrwDQut8mbrA4CE/s1600/Friday+Finds.bmp" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Friday Finds was started by MizB @ <a href="http://shouldbereading.wordpress.com/">Should Be Reading</a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Check back each Friday to see what I've found, and make sure to stop by Should Be Reading's Friday Finds Post to see what other bloggers have found as well!<br />
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</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj9tj7vOhTdBhJPTIRKiAkQi2VrbpyEFP8m3pdjA-_-rFeGuTkeATsJ4qsFgqMYNOaJlb3W0qtzZafs6DJ0bd5DHZgv_p3UNWbQs9WAr_CLAwFsxItTMAVxny08tAjJLOZukAuSZ6f9wc/s1600/Blood+Red+Road.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj9tj7vOhTdBhJPTIRKiAkQi2VrbpyEFP8m3pdjA-_-rFeGuTkeATsJ4qsFgqMYNOaJlb3W0qtzZafs6DJ0bd5DHZgv_p3UNWbQs9WAr_CLAwFsxItTMAVxny08tAjJLOZukAuSZ6f9wc/s320/Blood+Red+Road.jpg" width="212" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9917938-blood-red-road">Blood Red Road</a> by Moira Young (Pre-Order <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1442429984?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1442429984">Hardcover</a> @ Amazon)</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Publisher : </b></span>Margaret K. McElderry</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>ISBN : </b></span>978-1442429987</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Release Date : </b>June 7, 2011<br />
<b>Series or Stand Alone : </b>Stand Alone</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText16207823881031244971" style="color: #c27ba0;">Saba has spent her whole life in Silverlake, a dried-up wasteland ravaged by constant sandstorms. The Wrecker civilization has long been destroyed, leaving only landfills for Saba and her family to scavenge from. That's fine by her, as long as her beloved twin brother Lugh is around. But when a monster sandstorm arrives, along with four cloaked horsemen, Saba's world is shattered. Lugh is captured, and Saba embarks on an epic quest to get him back. <br />
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Suddenly thrown into the lawless, ugly reality of the world outside of desolate Silverlake, Saba is lost without Lugh to guide her. So perhaps the most surprising thing of all is what Saba learns about herself: she's a fierce fighter, an unbeatable survivor, and a cunning opponent. And she has the power to take down a corrupt society from the inside. Teamed up with a handsome daredevil named Jack and a gang of girl revolutionaries called the Free Hawks, Saba stages a showdown that will change the course of her own civilization. <br />
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Blood Red Road has a searing pace, a poetically minimal writing style, violent action, and an epic love story. Moira Young is one of the most promising and startling new voices in teen fiction.</span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"> <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoTanbCgknfAKl3vdMm8uNyVptHqWYWytdiSY59Y5Grt13S2o2rnHEmSDt3QyulCJ8yfIi2d85N4r2pfNzG0BO7zq3OMhAdMqabY89JVCk7X5Mqvu16tcknBri8kXD2ZlO-_rd_CIAZd0/s1600/The+Unbecoming+of+Marla+Dyer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoTanbCgknfAKl3vdMm8uNyVptHqWYWytdiSY59Y5Grt13S2o2rnHEmSDt3QyulCJ8yfIi2d85N4r2pfNzG0BO7zq3OMhAdMqabY89JVCk7X5Mqvu16tcknBri8kXD2ZlO-_rd_CIAZd0/s320/The+Unbecoming+of+Marla+Dyer.jpg" width="211" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8591107-the-unbecoming-of-mara-dyer">The Unbecoming of Marla Dyer</a> by Michelle Hodkin (Pre-Order <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1442421762?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1442421762">Hardcover</a> @ Amazon)</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Publisher : </b>Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing<br />
<b>ISBN : </b></span>978-1442421769</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Release Date : </b>September 27, 2011</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Series or Stand Alone : </b>Stand Alone</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText2096909176821765901" style="color: #c27ba0;">Mara Dyer believes life can’t get any stranger than waking up in a <br />
hospital with no memory of how she got there. It can. <br />
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She believes there must be more to the accident she can’t remember <br />
that killed her friends and left her strangely unharmed. There is. <br />
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She doesn’t believe that after everything she’s been <br />
through, she can fall in love. She’s wrong.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEY8Yqh0Nc3Lv2-A1dJfFhrKfgkELBKFRsRBTPQ7s9yOFJIaVHgXsak0J0lmI49iivRFriZKO3ji5utATOYwTuNRVtvFa2-u8xMHc88_Xmq2oORN1iebgakyaJkf_3Y7HAK1lrGq5T_uk/s1600/Witches+of+East+End.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEY8Yqh0Nc3Lv2-A1dJfFhrKfgkELBKFRsRBTPQ7s9yOFJIaVHgXsak0J0lmI49iivRFriZKO3ji5utATOYwTuNRVtvFa2-u8xMHc88_Xmq2oORN1iebgakyaJkf_3Y7HAK1lrGq5T_uk/s320/Witches+of+East+End.jpg" width="210" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText2096909176821765901" style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8113940-witches-of-east-end">Witches of East End</a> by <a href="http://melissa-delacruz.com/index.php/site/">Melissa de la Cruz</a> (Pre-Order <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1401323901?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1401323901">Hardcover</a> @ Amazon)</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText2096909176821765901" style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Publisher : </b>Hyperion</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText2096909176821765901" style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>ISBN : </b></span></span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">978-1401323905</span><br />
<span class="reviewText" id="freeText2096909176821765901" style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Release Date : </b>June 21, 2011<br />
<b>Series or Stand Alone : </b>#1 Beauchamp Family<b> </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeTextContainer17692104503340418336" style="color: #c27ba0;">The two novels will follow the lives of the Beauchamp girls, who live in the fictional town of North Hampton, as they struggle to stop an arch nemesis and restore the delicate balance between good and evil. De la Cruz will weave characters from her best-selling Blue Bloods young adult series into this new paranormal series for adults.</span><span class="reviewText" id="freeText2096909176821765901" style="color: #c27ba0;"><b> <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD8GA4Vnw90i6-sawnJo8ohxZm3UV_n0MA9DC6U0fCZJV3acUB-PKQwN6jdlwW_jQX5z525yFThd2l1IRxsix288PfN644362Gk-7XOcwiXiTQXA3wA44rO5LpWY5QHue3kHcml1gw9-g/s1600/Putting+Makeup+on+Dead+People.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD8GA4Vnw90i6-sawnJo8ohxZm3UV_n0MA9DC6U0fCZJV3acUB-PKQwN6jdlwW_jQX5z525yFThd2l1IRxsix288PfN644362Gk-7XOcwiXiTQXA3wA44rO5LpWY5QHue3kHcml1gw9-g/s320/Putting+Makeup+on+Dead+People.jpg" width="212" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText2096909176821765901" style="color: #c27ba0;"><b><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9577750-putting-makeup-on-dead-people">Putting Makeup on Dead People</a> by <a href="http://www.jenvioli.com/">Jen Violi</a> (Pre-Order <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1423134818?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1423134818">Hardcover</a> @ Amazon)</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText2096909176821765901" style="color: #c27ba0;"><b><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Publisher : </span></b><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Hyperion Book CH</span><b><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">ISBN : </span></b></span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">978-1423134817</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText2096909176821765901" style="color: #c27ba0;"><b><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Release Date : </span></b><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">May 24, 2011</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText2096909176821765901" style="color: #c27ba0;"><b><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Series or Stand Alone : </span></b><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Stand Alone</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText2096909176821765901" style="color: #c27ba0;"><b><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><br />
</span></b></span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: center;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText1438289559342319859">It's been four years since Donna Parisi's father passed away, but it might as well have been four days. Donna makes conversation and goes through the motion, but she hasn't really gotten on with life. She's not close with anyone, she doesn't have a boyfriend and she's going to college at the local university with a major that her mother picked. But one day Donna has an epiphany. She wants to work with dead people. She wants to help people say goodbye and she wants to learn to love a whole person--body and soul. She wants to live her life and be exceptional...at loving, at grieving and at embalming and cremating,too. Even as she makes the decision, things start to change. Donna makes friends with the charismatic new student, Liz. She notices the boy, Charlie, at her table and realizes that maybe he's been noticing her, too. And she begins to forgive the rest of her family for living their lives while she's been busy moping.</span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText1438289559342319859" style="color: #c27ba0;">Jennifer Violi's gentle, moving story of a girl who finds a life in the midst of death will appeal to any reader who's felt stuck and found inspiration in an unexpected place.<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText1438289559342319859" style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1439191921?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1439191921">Raziel</a> by Kristina Douglas (Pre-Order <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1439191921?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1439191921">Paperback</a> @ Amazon)</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Publisher : </b>Pocket</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>ISBN : </b></span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">978-1439191927</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Release Date : </b>January 25, 2011</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Series or Stand Alone : </b>#1 The Fallen</span></span><span class="reviewText" id="freeText3485547382450744657" style="color: #c27ba0;"><b> </b></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText3485547382450744657" style="color: #c27ba0;"><b>Kristina Douglas’s sexy new series introduces a realm of fallen angels and ruthless demons, where an eternal rebellion is brewing . . . and one unsuspecting woman can change the fate of the Fallen forever.</b></span></div><span class="reviewText" id="freeText3485547382450744657" style="color: #c27ba0;"> <b> </b> <br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText3485547382450744657" style="color: #c27ba0;"><b>She was just an ordinary mortal . . .</b></span><br />
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<span class="reviewText" id="freeText3485547382450744657" style="color: #c27ba0;"> “You’re dead” is <i>so </i>not what Allie Watson wants to hear. Unfortunately, it explains a lot. Like the dark, angelically handsome man who ferried her to this strange, hidden land. The last thing she remembers is stepping off a curb in front of a crosstown bus. Now she’s surrounded by gorgeous fallen angels with an unsettling taste for blood—and they really don’t want her around. Not exactly how she pictured heaven.</span><br />
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<span class="reviewText" id="freeText3485547382450744657" style="color: #c27ba0;"> <b>. . . until death catapulted her into a seductive world she never imagined.</b></span><br />
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<span class="reviewText" id="freeText3485547382450744657" style="color: #c27ba0;"> Raziel is unsure why he rescued Allie from hellfire against Uriel’s orders, but she stirs in him a longing he hasn't felt in centuries. Now the Fallen are bracing for the divine wrath brought by his disobedience, and they blame Allie for the ferocious Nephilim clawing at the kingdom’s shrouded gates. Facing impossible odds at every turn, the two must work together to survive. Raziel will do anything to defend his spirited lover against the forces of darkness—because Allie may be the Fallen’s only salvation.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText3485547382450744657" style="color: #c27ba0;"> </span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText1438289559342319859" style="color: #c27ba0;"> </span><br />
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</div><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Clicking on links in parenthesis in this post will redirect you to Amazon.com. If you happen to make a purchase after clicking these links I will receive a small percentage of the profits<b>.</b></span><span class="reviewText" id="freeText16668769628556786265"></span><span class="reviewText" id="freeText2096909176821765901" style="color: #c27ba0;"> </span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"></span></div></div></div></div>Jenni @ Falling Off The Shelfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05214639015536417380noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486517181731927731.post-71172931599144177112011-01-12T07:00:00.002-05:002011-01-12T07:00:14.564-05:00Waiting on Wednesday : January 12, 2011<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD4QHtllYARp5FeVcXAM_Zq9ubXeDeeCGrBZ45oRA6h3Q6vgp_CZusddZCSOn7e2qEsXM2NDCDp8aqrMYyf36W6a0EC58LaipWFTXtOXsqOh1oYjykVflEZQLkTC12ue-VioxuZC1IV_k/s1600/WOW.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD4QHtllYARp5FeVcXAM_Zq9ubXeDeeCGrBZ45oRA6h3Q6vgp_CZusddZCSOn7e2qEsXM2NDCDp8aqrMYyf36W6a0EC58LaipWFTXtOXsqOh1oYjykVflEZQLkTC12ue-VioxuZC1IV_k/s1600/WOW.JPG" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9999ff;">Waiting On Wednesday</span></div><br />
<div style="color: #c27ba0; text-align: center;">Hosted by <a href="http://breakingthespine.blogspot.com/">Breaking The Spine</a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9999ff;">Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7abWAAacVESJv-mFeXHlBoliEv8hXJhxdzkDawRsaf82_NniwSb5suxHMzp32FRuvXxoknAeP1NdJrngV06EhDsb13d104P64sXDVWy7gYwVdnv64ekV19SzYXVQAVwni0F9_0lg6SuU/s1600/Queen+of+the+Dead.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7abWAAacVESJv-mFeXHlBoliEv8hXJhxdzkDawRsaf82_NniwSb5suxHMzp32FRuvXxoknAeP1NdJrngV06EhDsb13d104P64sXDVWy7gYwVdnv64ekV19SzYXVQAVwni0F9_0lg6SuU/s320/Queen+of+the+Dead.jpg" width="218" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div></div><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1423134672?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1423134672">Queen of the Dead</a> by <a href="http://www.staceykade.com/books/">Stacey Kade</a></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Release Date : June 7, 2011</span><br />
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;"><b><u>Synopsis from Goodreads</u> : </b></span><br />
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<div style="color: #c27ba0;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText4074393384840744807">After being sent back from the light, Alona Dare - former homecoming queen, current Queen of the Dead - finds herself doing something she never expected: working. Instead of spending days perfecting her tan by the pool (her typical summer routine when she was, you know, <i>alive</i>), Alona must now cater to the needs of other lost spirits. By her side for all of this - <i>ugh</i> - “helping of others” is Will Killian: social outcast, seer of the dead, and someone Alona cares about more than she’d like.</span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #c27ba0;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText4074393384840744807">Before Alona can make a final ruling on Will’s “friend” or “more” status, though, she discovers trouble at home. Her mom is tossing out Alona’s most valuable possessions, and her dad is expecting a new daughter with his wicked wife. Is it possible her family is already moving on? Hello! She’s only been dead for two months! Thankfully, Alona knows just the guy who can put a stop to this mess.</span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #c27ba0;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText4074393384840744807">Unfortunately for Alona, Will has other stuff on his mind, and Mina, a young (and beautiful) seer, is at the top of the list. She’s the first ghost-talker Will’s ever met—aside from his father—and she may hold answers to Will’s troubled past. But can she be trusted? Alona immediately puts a check mark in the “clearly not” column. But Will is - <i>ahem - </i>willing to find out, even if it means leaving a hurt and angry Alona to her own devices, which is <b>never</b> a good idea.</span></div><div style="color: #c27ba0;"><br />
</div><span class="reviewText" id="freeText4074393384840744807" style="color: #c27ba0;">Packed with romance, lovable characters, and a killer cliffhanger, <i>Queen of the Dead</i> is the out-of-this-world sequel to <i>The Ghost and the Goth</i>.</span><span class="reviewText" id="freeText4074393384840744807" style="color: #c27ba0;"> </span><span class="reviewText" id="freeText4074393384840744807" style="color: #c27ba0;"> </span><span class="reviewText" id="freeText4074393384840744807"> </span><br />
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<span class="reviewText" id="freeText4074393384840744807"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>First off, the cover to this sequel is just as awesome as the cover for The Ghost and the Goth! I can't wait to read this book. I'm literally itching with excitement at the prospect of reading it! If you haven't read The Ghost and the Goth yet, than you really should!</b></span></span><br />
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</div><span style="color: #c27ba0;">Clicking on title links in this post will redirect you to Amazon.com. If you happen to make a purchase after clicking these links I will receive a small percentage of the profits<span style="color: #c27ba0;"><b>.</b></span></span><span class="reviewText" id="freeText4074393384840744807"></span><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><b> </b></span>Jenni @ Falling Off The Shelfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05214639015536417380noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486517181731927731.post-75495946140345997832011-01-11T19:40:00.006-05:002011-01-11T19:45:41.647-05:00Review : Out of Body by Stella Cameron<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibKxp3h2N2xblK8M-ZedcKXBaV-iK8rj6ezyp3XLghcN2IyqxxOiAqmJP-BgUX4Rzo4oXN6p2JYajJ6Bd5jubRvdwnP1L_WdL-YWy8v4RRBRDgOO_ap51yq4Q8eqeBczWGL9ygTWAPK7w/s1600/Out+of+Body.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibKxp3h2N2xblK8M-ZedcKXBaV-iK8rj6ezyp3XLghcN2IyqxxOiAqmJP-BgUX4Rzo4oXN6p2JYajJ6Bd5jubRvdwnP1L_WdL-YWy8v4RRBRDgOO_ap51yq4Q8eqeBczWGL9ygTWAPK7w/s320/Out+of+Body.jpg" width="202" /></a></div><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Title : </b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0778327620?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0778327620">Out of Body</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Author : </b><a href="http://www.stellacameron.com/">Stella Cameron</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Publisher : </b><a href="http://www.eharlequin.com/store.html?cid=242">Mira</a><br />
<b>Genre : </b>Paranormal Romance</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>ISBN : </b></span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">978-0778327622</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Series : </b>#1 Court of Angels<br />
<b>Release Date : </b>March 1, 2010</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Rating : </b>3/5 Stars - Good</span><br />
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<div style="color: #8e7cc3;">Born of an ancient family of clairvoyants, Marley Millet finds that her psychic gift is both unsettling and incredibly dangerous. She never wants to "travel" again—but the choice is not hers to make.</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;">After glimpsing the fates of two missing New Orleans jazz singers, Marley knows she has no choice and must speak up before more women disappear. Flinty cop-turned-writer Gray Fisher, who interviewed both chanteuses before they vanished, takes a special interest in Marley's incredible story—and in Marley.</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;">Scouring the wild clubs of the French Quarter, Marley and Gray make an unlikely and uneasy team. But their determination is matched only by the heat between them…and the evil they have uncovered. </div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;">Marley Millet and her entire family are each gifted with a different ability. As for Marley, she can 'travel' to different places and glimpse things that she would rather not see. In this case, she's been witnessing the deaths of local New Orleans jazz singers. She can't very well go to the cops, and tell them what she has seen without looking like a crazy person. Against her better judgement, she does just that, but the only person who believes her is an ex-cop, turned writer named Gray Fisher.</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;">The premise of this book sounded really appealing to me, so I made sure that I got my hands on a copy. After finishing it, I came to the conclusion that it wasn't nearly as good as it could have been. Marley's character was okay, but she didn't strike me the way I wished she had. I understand that the Millet family is very secretive, and don't trust the outside world, but I personally think Marley was far too shy.</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;">I enjoyed the bit of romance between Marley and Gray. Especially the little surprise about their romance that you'll have to wait to learn when you pick up the book for yourself. I expected something along the lines of what was exposed, because of some information strewn along the way. I however, didn't expect what was revealed about Gray toward the end of the book, and it made me understand more about him as a character.</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;">I read this book a few months ago, but have yet to pick up the second installment to this series, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0778327698?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0778327698">Out of Mind</a>, where we learn more about the next Millet sibling, Willow. I'm looking forward to reading about her, as she sparked my interest in the first book. </div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><br />
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The orphaned daughter of a sorcerer and a half-demon, Savannah is a terrifyingly powerful young witch who has never been able to resist the chance to throw her magical weight around. But at twenty-one she knows she needs to grow up and prove to her guardians, Paige and Lucas, that she can be a responsible member of their supernatural detective agency. So she jumps at the chance to fly solo, investigating the mysterious deaths of three young women in a nearby factory town, as a favour to one of the agency's associates. At first glance, the murders look garden-variety human, but on closer inspection signs point to otherworldly stakes.<br />
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Soon Savannah is in over her head. She's run off the road and nearly killed, haunted by a mystery stalker and freaked out when the brother of one of the dead women is murdered when he tries to investigate the crime. To complicate things, something weird is happening to her powers. Pitted against shamans, demons, a voodoo-inflected cult and garden-variety goons, Savannah has to fight to ensure her first case isn't her last. And she also has to ask for help, perhaps the hardest lesson she's ever had to learn.</div><div class="" style="clear: both; color: #c27ba0; text-align: left;"><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003YCPGOG?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B003YCPGOG">Hush Money</a> by <a href="http://susan-bischoff.com/">Susan Bischoff</a> (Kindle Edition)</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>August 3, 2010</b></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg_j3tTJwZVuTrP43edJf1PrqN6EjRBA2TT8e3f3UYklFD4JevJTAB3H06LD1LDCbjRD9J0A0YqzfSwre_U3ZMHMtqKV1F96eqDmwEyloGggNaehpiRDLEAJ2rXE5_BpGohfvuV3f1yZY/s1600/Hush+Money.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg_j3tTJwZVuTrP43edJf1PrqN6EjRBA2TT8e3f3UYklFD4JevJTAB3H06LD1LDCbjRD9J0A0YqzfSwre_U3ZMHMtqKV1F96eqDmwEyloGggNaehpiRDLEAJ2rXE5_BpGohfvuV3f1yZY/s320/Hush+Money.jpg" width="208" /></a><span class="reviewText" id="freeText4441738339639946756">Be normal, invisible. Don’t get close to anyone. Kids with psychic abilities tend to mysteriously disappear when they get noticed. Joss has spent years trying to hide. Now she has an unasked-for best friend, who is the victim of an extortion plot by the school bully, who used to like Joss, who is best friends with her long-time crush, who is actually talking to her. Life just got more complicated. </span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b> </b><b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Jennifer's Body by Diablo Cody (Trade Paperback)</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>June 1, 2009 - </b>Bookmooch</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuf_O_6nSo_wvGnp3n-OrLfvcnXr0phnwZH_FiPfQQgZhOEovYNyIIuJPzRWTwift1QNu379xu8-DgLSiwl8s3nrwVcUtL1tmwLAaWKBgKa3gKB9ZZPAIuGOi5bvePUm1dNsV49ZuCI68/s1600/Jennifer%2527s+Body.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuf_O_6nSo_wvGnp3n-OrLfvcnXr0phnwZH_FiPfQQgZhOEovYNyIIuJPzRWTwift1QNu379xu8-DgLSiwl8s3nrwVcUtL1tmwLAaWKBgKa3gKB9ZZPAIuGOi5bvePUm1dNsV49ZuCI68/s1600/Jennifer%2527s+Body.jpg" /></a><span class="reviewText" id="freeText9304875937651841689">Someone needed to put a stop payment on Jennifer Check. <br />
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Some people find it hard to believe that a babe like Jennifer Check would associate with a dork like me, Needy Lesnicki. But we had history. We'd been the Wonder Twins since we were preverbal, and sandbox love never dies. Or at least that's what I thought. <br />
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But after that night in the woods, Jennifer was different. She looked different. And then the killings began. . . . <br />
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A lot of people ask me if I'm sorry I did it. I'm only sorry I didn't do it sooner.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #c27ba0;">Each Sunday come back here to Falling Off The Shelf to find out the latest Kindle book deals in the Young Adult genre! If you find a deal that you would like me to showcase, please let me know!</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="color: #c27ba0;"><span class="reviewText" id="freeText10154479656922879528">Since a horrible accident claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever can see auras, hear people’s thoughts, and know a person’s life story by touch. Going out of her way to shield herself from human contact to suppress her abilities has branded her as a freak at her new high school—but everything changes when she meets Damen Auguste… </span></div><span class="reviewText" id="freeText10154479656922879528" style="color: #c27ba0;"><br />
Ever sees Damen and feels an instant recognition. He is gorgeous, exotic and wealthy, and he holds many secrets. Damen is able to make things appear and disappear, he always seems to know what she’s thinking—and he’s the only one who can silence the noise and the random energy in her head. She doesn’t know who he really is—or what he is. Damen equal parts light and darkness, and he belongs to an enchanted new world where no one ever dies.<br />
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<span class="reviewText" id="freeText3398340289550261688">Grace Divine—daughter of the local pastor—always knew something terrible happened the night Daniel Kalbi disappeared and her brother Jude came home covered in his own blood. <br />
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Now that Daniel's returned, Grace must choose between her growing attraction to him and her loyalty to her brother. <br />
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As Grace gets closer to Daniel, she learns the truth about that mysterious night and how to save the ones she loves, but it might cost her the one thing she cherishes most: her soul.</span><br />
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<span class="reviewText" id="freeText11593596046040246489">In her small town, dubbed "Dullsville," sixteen-year-old Raven -- a vampire-crazed goth-girl -- is an outcast. But not for long...<br />
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The intriguing and rumored-to-be haunted mansion on top of Benson Hill has stood vacant and boarded-up for years. That is, until its mysteriously strange new occupants move in. Who are these creepy people -- especially the handsome, dark, and elusive Alexander Sterling? Or rather, what are they? Could the town prattle actually ring true? Are they vampires? Raven, who secretly covets a vampire kiss, both at the risk of her own mortality and Alexander's loving trust, is dying to uncover the truth.<br />
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Ellen Schreiber's spooky and stirring romance tells the story of two outsiders who fall in love in a town where conformity reigns, and ends with a shocking surprise.<br />
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<span class="reviewText" id="freeText5630258762465164655"><strong>Would you risk everything for someone you just met?</strong><br />
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<strong>What if he had a secret worth killing for?</strong><br />
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Welcome to a future where water is more precious than <strong>oil or gold...</strong><br />
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Hundreds of millions of people have already died, and millions more will soon fall-victims of disease, hunger, and dehydration. It is a time of drought and war. The rivers have dried up, the polar caps have melted, and drinkable water is now in the hands of the powerful few. There are fines for wasting it and prison sentences for exceeding the quotas.<br />
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But Kai didn't seem to care about any of this. He stood in the open road drinking water from a plastic cup, then spilled the remaining drops into the dirt. He didn't go to school, and he traveled with armed guards. Kai claimed he knew a secret-something the government is keeping from us...<br />
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And then he was gone. Vanished in the middle of the night. Was he kidnapped? Did he flee? Is he alive or dead? There are no clues, only questions. And no one can guess the lengths to which they will go to keep him silent. We have to find him-and the truth-before it is too late for all of us.<br />
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<span class="reviewText" id="freeText12444964573883997781">Furnace Penitentiary: the world’s most secure prison for young offenders, buried a mile beneath the earth’s surface. Convicted of a murder he didn’t commit, sentenced to life without parole, “new fish” Alex Sawyer knows he has two choices: find a way out, or resign himself to a death behind bars, in the darkness at the bottom of the world. Except in Furnace, death is the least of his worries. Soon Alex discovers that the prison is a place of pure evil, where inhuman creatures in gas masks stalk the corridors at night, where giants in black suits drag screaming inmates into the shadows, where deformed beasts can be heard howling from the blood-drenched tunnels below. And behind everything is the mysterious, all-powerful warden, a man as cruel and dangerous as the devil himself, whose unthinkable acts have consequences that stretch far beyond the walls of the prison. </span><br />
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<span class="reviewText" id="freeText12444964573883997781">Together with a bunch of inmates—some innocent kids who have been framed, others cold-blooded killers—Alex plans an escape. But as he starts to uncover the truth about Furnace’s deeper, darker purpose, Alex’s actions grow ever more dangerous, and he must risk everything to expose this nightmare that’s hidden from the eyes of the world.</span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b> </b></span><br />
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She was just big-boned, big-nose Sarah living in Brenton, Ohio, where, as she puts it, "committing suicide would be redundant." Then she meets Demi, who is trying hard to be invisible--surprisingly easy considering he's black and gay. Alone they are, well . . . alone, but brought together by their love of musical theater, they light up. All this might sound like a stereotypical take on gay men and the women who love them, and there is some of that, but there's also so much more. The renamed Sayde and Demi make their way to a summer theater camp, and that's where things change. Encouraged to become part of the ensemble, Sayde finds she is too opinionated to do that, even as it turns out that she is less talented than she believed. At the same time, Demi is discovering that he's a star who can hang out with actual boyfriends rather than Sayde. Lockhart mixes this all up neatly. Most of the story is told in a bright, bitchy voice that, while familiar, is very smart and very funny; transcripts of tapes made for "posterity" add delicious detail. Although it's hard to say what kids who aren't into musical comedy will make of the myriad detail offered here (<i>Birdie!</i> <i>Cabaret!</i> <i>Cats! </i>), theater lovers will applaud, and everyone else will appreciate the twists and the ending you don't see coming.<br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00199RHFW?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00199RHFW">Am I Right or Am I Right?</a> by Barry Jonsberg</b></span><br />
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<span class="reviewText" id="freeText8484031201841819214">Calma Harrison is in love. Not just with herself, but also with the handsome checkout guy at Crazi-Cheep. So stocking shelves at the Crazi- Cheep seems like the perfect job—until that annoying customer tries to hold up the store. . . .<br />
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And then there's the small matter of the rest of Calma's life, which is fast falling apart: her absent father turns up after five years and wants to "talk," her mother is clearly living a secret second life, and her new best friend is hiding something horrible.<br />
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Calma is sure she knows exactly what's going on. And clearly her direct, personal intervention is required to make things right. <br />
Except . . . if she's wrong. And then her butting in will make everything much, much worse.<br />
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<em>Am I Right or Am I Right? </em>is a whip-smart, wise-cracking, big-hearted novel about a girl who is learning that things are not always what they seem, and how to start again when you've gotten it all so very wrong.</span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b> </b></span><br />
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</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;">Clicking on title links in this post will redirect you to Amazon.com. If you happen to make a purchase after clicking these links I will receive a small percentage of the profits<b>.</b><span class="reviewText" id="freeText11593596046040246489"></span></div><span class="reviewText" id="freeText10154479656922879528" style="color: #c27ba0;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b></b></span></span>Jenni @ Falling Off The Shelfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05214639015536417380noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486517181731927731.post-2885876683208021702011-01-09T13:55:00.004-05:002011-01-09T15:21:37.250-05:00E-Book Review : The Sevenfold Spell by Tia Nevitt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEW_dH2Cl4L1HyEQjVqq0vYli9hS0dfZYE9mJWjquM7-YFD42uCRb9egF_gDWQMB7EX03woriEP3LfEhY5-CqOXIUX4U5gYDaXJ_0f_zP7yGH5VOkAcCAmoQ7KbZb3EAf0EebHVz6SyjA/s1600/The+Sevenfold+Spell.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEW_dH2Cl4L1HyEQjVqq0vYli9hS0dfZYE9mJWjquM7-YFD42uCRb9egF_gDWQMB7EX03woriEP3LfEhY5-CqOXIUX4U5gYDaXJ_0f_zP7yGH5VOkAcCAmoQ7KbZb3EAf0EebHVz6SyjA/s320/The+Sevenfold+Spell.jpg" width="201" /></a></div><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Title : </b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041KLBGM?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0041KLBGM">The Sevenfold Spell</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Author : </b><a href="http://www.tianevitt.com/">Tia Nevitt</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Publisher : </b><a href="http://ebooks.carinapress.com/EAB21350-E456-43A7-AF89-6D21A600CE14/10/134/en/Default.htm">Carina Press</a><br />
<b>Genre : </b>Fantasy, Romance<b> </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Format : </b>e-book<b> </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Series : </b>Stand Alone</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Release Date :</b>September 27, 2010</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Rating : </b>2.5/5 Stars - Okay</span><br />
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<div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Have you ever wondered what happens to the other people in the fairy tale?</b><br />
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Things look grim for Talia and her mother. By royal proclamation, the constables and those annoying "good" fairies have taken away their livelihood by confiscating their spinning wheel. Something to do with a curse on the princess, they said.<br />
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<b>Not every young lady has a fairy godmother rushing to her rescue.</b><br />
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Without the promise of an income from spinning, Talia's prospects for marriage disappear, and she and her mother face destitution. Past caring about breaking an arbitrary and cruel law, rebellious Talia determines to build a new spinning wheel, the only one in the nation--which plays right into the evil fairy's diabolical plan. Talia discovers that finding a happy ending requires sacrifice. But is it a sacrifice she's willing to make?<br />
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</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;">I've always been a huge fan of a good fairy tale retelling, and when I read the synopsis of this book on NetGalley I had to read it. Sleeping Beauty has always been one of my favorites, and I wanted to read what Nevitt's take on this story would be. I was surprised at the approach, but still intrigued.</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;">Normally, the princess is the main character, but not in this retelling. A young maiden from a tiny village, named Talia, is our main character in this situation. She isn't remarkably beautiful as most would assume. In fact, she's quite the opposite. Talia is described as being ugly, with warts, and most definitely not a looker. She has even been forced to settle with one young man as her only chance at marriage, because of her ugly features.</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;">When Talia and her mother are forced to give up their spinning wheel, the only source to their livelihood, Talia is forced to use her dowry to keep them alive. Without that money to offer to her future husband, Talia loses the chance at becoming a wife as well.</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;">I found this part of the Sleeping Beauty tale to be most distressing. I'm glad the author gave us insight into the lives of the people we had never before seen. I didn't particularly like Talia's character, but she was good for this part. There was a lot of sexual content in this story, and at times it felt like it was not necessary. I just wanted to skip over most of these parts, and get to the real story.</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;">Nevitt's take on Sleeping Beauty was in fact different, but I can still only say that I only enjoyed it a little bit. I felt like she could have given us a little more magic, and romance, rather than just flat out sexual content. I would love to give more of her work a chance in the future, because I feel she has great potential.</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;">I downloaded my review copy from NetGalley.com and read and reviewed this copy for my own enjoyment.</span></div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;">Clicking on title links in this post will redirect you to Amazon.com. If you happen to make a purchase after clicking these links I will receive a small percentage of the profits<span style="color: #c27ba0;"><b>.</b></span></span></div>Jenni @ Falling Off The Shelfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05214639015536417380noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486517181731927731.post-38483048591409609682011-01-08T16:25:00.000-05:002011-01-08T16:25:10.308-05:00Kindle Deal : Need (Need Bk 1) by Carrie Jones - $1.99<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaNPZBriSSNGwCQYSl3x5aeRLJ-0sUE4HH_7eo-FycNB_458oeyQLwWDAC4kqzdd8NlyBuTy0rXs6VI0l3J4lK8M_raSmCBxRqJSoGwfO5sI689jw-MEJhGnPK4Wq9RaECkH9GlSVX6II/s1600/Need.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaNPZBriSSNGwCQYSl3x5aeRLJ-0sUE4HH_7eo-FycNB_458oeyQLwWDAC4kqzdd8NlyBuTy0rXs6VI0l3J4lK8M_raSmCBxRqJSoGwfO5sI689jw-MEJhGnPK4Wq9RaECkH9GlSVX6II/s320/Need.jpg" width="208" /></a></div><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Yet another great deal for the Kindle! If you haven't started this series and you own a Kindle or are able to read it through one of the Kindle apps than you should definitely go grab this! It's the first book in the Need Series. I myself am picking it up, because I have yet to start this series!</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Title : </b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312380968?ie=UTF8&tag=falofftheshe-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0312380968">Eyes Like Stars</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Author : </b><a href="http://lisamantchev.com/">Lisa Mantchev</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Publisher : </b><a href="http://us.macmillan.com/FeiwelAndFriends.aspx">Fiewel & Friends</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Genre : </b>Young Adult</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>ISBN : </b></span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">978-0312380960</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Series : </b>Theatre Illuminata #1</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Release Date : </b>July 7, 2009</span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b>Rating : </b>5/5 - Loved It</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><u>Description from Goodreads</u> : </b></span><br />
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<b style="color: #8e7cc3;">Enter Stage Right</b> <br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">All her world's a stage. </span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Beatrice Shakespeare Smith is not an actress, yet she lives in a theater. </span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">She is not an orphan, but she has no parents. </span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">She knows every part, but has no lines of her own. </span><br />
<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Until now. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Welcome to the Théâtre Illuminata, where the characters of every place ever written can be found behind the curtain. They were born to play their parts, and are bound to the Théâtre by The Book—an ancient and magical tome of scripts. Bertie is not one of them, but they are her family—and she is about to lose them all and the only home she has ever known. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Lisa Mantchev has written a debut novel that is dramatic, romantic, and witty, with an irresistible and irreverent cast of characters who are sure to enchant the audience. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><u>Review</u> : </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">After being away from reviewing for some time, I'm going back and reviewing books that I read a long time ago and never got around to writing a review for. Thankfully I no longer have a full-time job, so I can dedicate more time to reading and reviewing. I wish that were the case back when I had read this book, because in all honesty, it was my favorite read of 2010. I literally wanted to call off of work, with the risk of being fired, to stay home and read this book. Knowing how that job treated me when I found out I was pregnant, makes me wish I had done just that.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Bertie was a fantastic character, this much I remember. I loved her from the very start, including her wild ways. I hated how the Theater Manager treated her, and he quickly became my least favorite character because of this. Her friends were always there for her though, especially her hysterically funny fairy friends. They were always doing something outrageous and I couldn't help but laugh myself to tears.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">The Theater Manager gives Bertie an ultimatum. Either she makes herself useful somehow for the theater, or it's time for her to leave. So Bertie has to figure out what kind of job she can do, before she loses the only home that she has every known. My personal opinion on that is that it's horrible, why would anyone push someone out of the only home they've ever known, away from the only family they've ever had? The only clear explanation to me is that he's heartless.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">This book was a breath of fresh air for me. I'm not one to go back and re-read titles, but I can see myself picking this book back up in the future. Unfortunately I lent my only signed copy to a friend and never received it back. That's the last time I lend out a book that I want to keep my hands on for a good long while. I do hope I can have the honors of owning another signed copy of this book someday, because it's something I would love to save in my collection.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><b><u style="color: #c27ba0;">Where did I get this book?</u><span style="color: #c27ba0;"> : </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;">I won my copy from another blog in the blogosphere. It's been so long that I don't remember which one it was, but I'm eternally grateful that I was given the chance to read this book.</span></span><br />
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