30 June 2015

Book Blast with Giveaway: The Perfect Bargain(How to Marry a Highlander #1) by Julia London



Good morning and good evening Y'All,



Today we are hosting the book blast of The Perfect Bargain(How to Marry a Highlander #1) by Julia London writing as Jessa McAdams, followed by the purchase links and a giveaway, so stay tuned and good luck!

29 June 2015

Review #259: Only We Know by Simon Packham



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.” 


----Margaret Atwood, a Canadian author



Simon Packham, an English YA author, pens his latest YA book, Only We Know, that traces the story of a young teenage girl named Lauren, who moves to a new town with her parents and her younger sister, the only slight problem is that the whole family is trying to run as well as hide away from Lauren's little secret, so they all have to maintain a very low profile to not to attract any undue attention towards themselves. What is that secret?


27 June 2015

Review #258: The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“The more you love,the more love you have to give.It's the only feeling we have which is infinite...” 


----Christina Westover, an American novelist



Patricia Highsmith, an American classic novelist, has penned an incredible tale of love and despair between two same-sex human beings, originally known as The Price of Salt. Later it was re-published with the title, Carol. And in the wake of Supreme Court's decision to legalize same-sex marriage across all the states of USA, I chose to write the review of this beautiful same-sex love story which I read quite a few years ago.


Review #257: Powerless (The Hero Agenda #1) by Tera Lynn Childs, Tracy Deebs



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“It's not about who's got powers, morons. It's about who's not afraid. And who's going to do what has to be done.”


----Michael Grant, an American author


Tera Lynn Childs, an award-winning best-seller author and Tracy Deebs, pseudonym of Tracy Wolff, pens their new YA book, Powerless which is the first book in The Hero Agenda series, that is all about superheroes and their superpowers and it is mostly about those who don't belong in this lucky category or rather say someone who doesn't have any powers. This is Kenna who belongs in a world of heroes and villains and despite her ordinary condition, she fights hard for herself to make herself a part of this world, where everything is not so laid out like it is supposed to be.


26 June 2015

Review #256: The Dry by R.L. Nolen



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.” 


----Jim Morrison



R.L. Nolen, an American author, has penned an enticing as well as thrilling middle grade book, The Dry , which traces the journey of a 12-year old boy who embarks on a path to search for his newspaper journalist father who went missing after he went to look for the missing children, possibly involved in child slavery, in some dilapidated part of a strange and mysterious mine town.


25 June 2015

Review #255: Orhan's Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian




My rating:
5 of 5 stars


"It was not war. It was most certainly massacre and genocide, something the world must remember... We will always reject any attempt to erase its record, even for some political advantage." 


----Yossi Beilin, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister


According to Wiki,

The Armenian Genocide, carried out during and after World War I, was the Turkish Ottoman government's systematic extermination of its minority Armenian population which approximates to almost 1.5 million.



Aline Ohanesian, an Armenian authors, pens a thoroughly spellbinding as well as completely heart-breaking novel, Orhan's Inheritance which centers around the timeline and horrific period of Armenian Genocide in the year of 1915 through an enriching and soulful story of Orhan, who is a young Turkish man, searches for the pieces of his family past after his grandfather leaves their family home to a mysterious woman.

24 June 2015

Review #254: Ghost Image (Sophie Medina #2) by Ellen Crosby



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.”


----Diane Arbus, an American photographer



Ellen Crosby, an American authors, pens her new book in the Sophie Medina series, Ghost Image, where Sophie Media, a photo journalist, finds her best friend-cum-Franciscan dead in the middle of a holy church, followed by the revelation behind an age old mystery related to a particular kind of seed and plant which is believed to be very extinct, little did she knew that her friend's discovery would even shake up the whole political world and other beneficiaries from D.C to London.


22 June 2015

Review #253: The Heir (The Selection #4) by Kiera Cass



My rating: 4 of 5 stars



“There are some things you don't learn about yourself until you let someone else into the most intimate places of your heart.”

----Kiera Cass



Kiera Cass, the best-selling author of The Selection series pens her fourth book in this enchanting dystopian series, The Heir that traces the love story of Prince Maxon and America's daughter, Eadlyn, who too follows the same path like her father's to find a suitable husband for herself.



19 June 2015

Author Q&A Session #48: With Catherine Hunt



Hello and welcome folks,
Today in yet another author Q&A Session, we have the debut author, whose psychological thriller, Someone Out There have scared and intrigued quite a lot of readers' minds. Yes, today we have, Catherine Hunt, who is here to talk about her journey, her debut book, and about her life beyond books and all.

Stay tuned and keep reading.

Read the review of Someone Out There

Review #252: The One (The Selection #3) by Kiera Cass



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“I'll love you until my very last breath. Every beat of my heart is yours. I don't want to die without you knowing that.”


----Kiera Cass



Kiera Cass, the best-selling author of The Selection series pens her third book in this enchanting dystopian series, The One which features a young lady who fought hard enough to win over the prince Maxon's heart as well as the crown, but as the competition is closing in to the last stage, so the threats and attacks on the palace from the external world are increasing with each passing minute.


Review #251: The Dolls (The Dolls #1) by Kiki Sullivan



My rating: 3 of 5 stars


“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” 


----W.B. Yeats, an Irish poet and dramatist, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature



Kiki Sullivan, an American author, has penned a thrilling as well as an enchanting YA tale of magic, friendships, love and lots of herbs and sexy dolls, The Dolls which happens to be the first book in The Dolls series, where a group of friends with strange magical powers (harnessed from various weird kind of herbs) try to protect their town from external attacks like soldiers trying to drive a sharp knife through the hearts of those girls, that's the bottom line of this book.


Feature & Follow #14: Show off your tattoo!



Morning my dear friends,


It's time to have a new feature and follow blog post, which is a weekly meme hosted by Alison Can Read and Parajunkee's View.


What is Feature and Follow Friday?
 
In simple words- to gain more followers either via GFC or Bloglovin'. So the very idea of having this feature and follow meme is to collect more new bloggers on the block and to make new blogger friends as well as followers. It is a great idea which was started out by Alison and  Rachel. Three Cheers for those two masterminds!





18 June 2015

Review #250: The Elite(The Selection #2) by Kiera Cass



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“America, there’s no question that you’ve had my heart from the beginning. By now you have to know that.”

----Kiera Cass



Kiera Cass, an American author, whose The Selection series has taken the whole YA-lit world by storm, no that's very true, so I, feeling bit left out from all the hype about this book, went ahead and bought out all the four books(literally!) from this exciting dystopian series from Amazon India. Let's face it, it's not that brilliant as it claims to be. Yet still, somehow, the book has imprinted it's charm and glory into my heart. Maybe those impeccably gorgeous gowns and dresses did the trick!


You can read my review of The Selection here


Review #249: The Selection (The Selection #1) by Kiera Cass



My rating: 3 of 5 stars


“I hope you find someone you can't live without.I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it's like to have to try and live without them.”

----Kiera Cass


Kiera Cass, an American author, whose The Selectionseries has taken the whole YA-lit world by storm, no that's very true, so I, feeling bit left out from all the hype about this book, went ahead and bought out all the books(literally!) from this exciting dystopian series from Amazon India. Let's face it, it's not that brilliant as it claims to be. Yet still, somehow, the book has imprinted it's charm and glory into my heart. Maybe those impeccably gorgeous gowns and dresses did the trick!

17 June 2015

Author Q&A Session #47: With Karen McQuestion


Good afternoon and evening my fellow bloggers and readers,

Today in an all new author Q&A Session, we have the YA author, Karen McQuestion, who latest science fiction book have arrested the minds of lots and lots of readers across the globe. Yes, Karen is here to talk about her latest release, From a Distant Star, about her journey and about her life beyond books and all.

Read the review of From a Distant Star


Review #248: Proof of Forever by Lexa Hillyer



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” 



---- Anaïs Nin, a French-born novelist, passionate eroticist and short story writer



Lexa Hillyer, an American author, pens her debut novel, Proof of Forever that traces the moving tale of four girlfriends and their camp days but two years down the line, they grew apart and are given a chance to go back to their camp days and do it all over again.


16 June 2015

Review #247: Daisy and the Front Man (Backstage Pass #3) by Rebekah L. Purdy



My rating: 3 of 5 stars


“If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.” 


---- Shannon L. Alder



Rebekah L. Purdy, an American author, pens her third book in the Backstage Pass series which follows a boy band and their love conquests. Daisy and the Front Man, the third book, centers around a teenage girl who was stood up and left humiliated by the front man of the famous boy band, but now it is summer and the teenager is heel bound to get a revenge on this hot-to-handle front man, who is equally chalking up a plan to make her fall for him fast and hard.

Review with giveaway #246: How to Blog a Book: Write, Publish, and Promote Your Work One Post at a Time by Nina Amir




My rating:
4 of 5 stars


“I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.” 


----George Bernard Shaw



Nina Amir, a best-selling American author, has penned an inspiring book or rather say author's manual guide for getting published without any problem, How to Blog a Book: Write, Publish, and Promote Your Work One Post at a Time , where she have elaborately laid out all the steps of how to make your book famous even before getting published or rather say search engine friendly blog posts.

Review #245: The Santangelos by Jackie Collins



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance.” 


----Criss Jami, an American author



Jackie Collins, world's top-selling novelist with over 30 New York Times best-sellers, pens her latest thriller from the Lucky Santangelo series, The Santangelos , where Jackie brings back her most notorious and edgy protagonist, Lucky back with a new game and new fame and with some new enemies. Although this book is a part of the Lucky series, yet it can be read as a standalone since it doesn't necessarily follow up the previous books.


Review with Giveaway #244: Calming the Chaos by Jackie Woodside



My rating: 5 of 5 stars



“Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.” 


----Henry Adams, an American author




Jackie Woodside, an American psychotherapist, pens her new book, Calming the Chaos: A Soulful Guide to Managing Your Energy Rather Than Your Time, which has already been offered in training programs around the country, which is about how to channel your energy thereby winning over time and chaos.


15 June 2015

Author Q&A Session #46: With Deirdre Riordan Hall



Good morning peeps,

Welcome to an all new author Q&A session and today we have the popular YA author,  Deirdre Riordan Hall, who latest YA book, Sugar has won the hearts of millions of readers. She is here to talk about her book, Sugar, her other books, her journey, and her life beyond books and all.

Read the review of Sugar



Review with Giveaway #243: Nature's Confession by JL Morin with Author Interview



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“One hundred and fifty years ago, the monster began, this country had become a place of industry. Factories grew on the landscape like weeds. Trees fell, fields were up-ended, rivers blackened. The sky choked on smoke and ash, and the people did, too, spending their days coughing and itching, their eyes turned forever toward the ground. Villages grew into town, towns into cities. And people began to live on the earth rather than within it.” 


----Patrick Ness, an award-winning novelist


J.L. Morin, an American author, pens her new book, Nature's Confession where the author takes p a funny side to craft a sci-fi story about giving birth to a pollution-free planet Earth, that is centered around two teenagers trying to save the nature.


14 June 2015

Review #242: Someone Out There by Catherine Hunt



My rating: 5 of 5 stars



“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” 



----Elie Wiesel, a Romania-born American novelist, political activist, and Holocaust survivor of Hungarian Jewish descent



Catherine Hunt, an English journalist/writer, pens her debt psychological thriller, Someone Out There that is centered around a divorce lawyer whose life goes haywire or rather say becomes deadly when she takes up a particular case of a woman trying to get a divorce from her claimed to be abusive husband.

12 June 2015

Author Q&A Session #45: With Ben McPherson



Good afternoon folks,

In an all new author interview session, we have that incredibly talented author who penned a thoroughly gripping psychological thriller, A Line of Blood which reflects a perfect-yet-somehow-imperfect-English-family in London where the 11 year old son along with his father discover their neighbor's dead body in his house, and the consequences, followed by the discovery, completely changes their lives forever. Yes, we have today Ben McPherson who is also a television producer and director.

So let's chat with Ben today to know more about this compelling debut novel of his, about his journey as an author and also his life beyond books and all.

Read the review of A Line of Blood


Feature & Follow #14: Stepping into your Favorite Character's Shoes



Good morning peeps,


It's time to have a new feature and follow blog post, which is a weekly meme hosted by Alison Can Read and Parajunkee's View.


What is Feature and Follow Friday?
 
In simple words- to gain more followers either via GFC or Bloglovin'. So the very idea of having this feature and follow meme is to collect more new bloggers on the block and to make new blogger friends as well as followers. It is a great idea which was started out by Alison and  Rachel. Three Cheers for those two masterminds!


11 June 2015

Review #241: Sugar by Deirdre Riordan Hall




My rating: 5 of 5 stars


"People are starting to go on about my weight, but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look."

----Adele



Deirdre Riordan Hall, an American writer, pens her new Young Adult contemporary fiction, Sugar which is about a fat teenage girl, a victim of constant bullying both at home and high school, who falls in love with a senior from her school and learns to find the light amidst so much darkness around her.



10 June 2015

Author Q&A Session #44: With Helena Fairfax



Good afternoon folks,

Today in an all new author Q&A Session, we have the lovely author who writes sweet contemporary romance novels, yes, Helena Fairfax, the author of the famous and award-winning book, The Silk Romance. Today she is here to talk about her new book,  A Way from Heart to Heart, her journey and life beyond books.


Read the review of  A Way from Heart to Heart


9 June 2015

Review #240: From a Distant Star by Karen McQuestion



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“After all the planets and all the hosts you've left behind, you've finally found the place and the body you'd die for. I think you've found your home, Wanderer.”

---- Stephenie Meyer




Karen McQuestion, a best-selling American author, pens her new young adult novel, From a Distant Star that is a cute love story masked inside a story about an alien from a faraway planet in some different galaxy who unfortunately landed up in the backyard of a dying teenager due to an accident, but this alien is not someone who have a body or mind to speak for himself, if he needs to survive, he needs a human body ASAP.


8 June 2015

Review with giveaway #239: Sapient by Jerry Kaczmarowski



My rating: 4 of 5 stars



“He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.”


----J.K. Rowling




Jerry Kaczmarowski, an American author, pens his new book, Sapient that traces the thrilling journey of a mother who works as a scientist and is trying to find a cure for her autistic son, while her research involves in the field of animal intelligence.



6 June 2015

Review #238: A Line of Blood by Ben McPherson




My rating: 5 of 5 stars



"Every father should understand that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice. "


----Unknown



Ben McPherson, a television producer, director, and writer, pens his debut psychological thriller, A Line of Blood that traces the life of Mercer family after the father and the son discover the dead body of their neighbor which thoroughly changes their lives or rather say fills up their minds with lots of questions and doubt about one another.


5 June 2015

Review #237: Pretending to be Erica by Michelle Painchaud



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


"Over time we all become our own doppelganger, we look the same but we're completely different people."

----Ted, How I Met Your Mother



Michelle Painchaud, an American author, pens her debut novel, Pretending to be Erica that traces the journey of a con artist who pretends to be a dead and rich princess to steal a million dollars painting, but it is not an easy road to try to have the best of the both worlds, because in reality she is just a regular teenager who has a normal lifestyle.




Feature & Follow #13: Pitching in for your favourite novel's movie adaption


Good morning peeps,


It's time to have a new feature and follow blog post, which is a weekly meme hosted by Alison Can Read and Parajunkee's View.


What is Feature and Follow Friday?
 
In simple words- to gain more followers either via GFC or Bloglovin'. So the very idea of having this feature and follow meme is to collect more new bloggers on the block and to make new blogger friends as well as followers. It is a great idea which was started out by Alison and  Rachel. Three Cheers for those two masterminds!



4 June 2015

Author Q&A Session #43: With Sarah McCoy



Good morning and welcome everyone,
The Mapmaker's Children by Sarah McCoy is an extremely riveting story that entwines two tales belonging from two very different era and this book proves that the author is a master story-teller who is surely going to win millions of readers' heart not only with The Mapmaker's Children but also with her future books.


Let's see what the readers have to say after reading The Mapmaker's Children:

“McCoy deftly intertwines a historical tale with a modern one… lovingly constructed… passionately told… The Mapmaker’s Children not only honors the accomplishments of a little-known woman but artfully demonstrates how fate carries us in unexpected directions, no matter how we might try to map out our lives.” — The Washington Post

“McCoy carefully juxtaposes the past and the present, highlighting the characters’ true introspection, and slowly revealing the unusual similarities in the two woman’s lives, which leads to a riveting conclusion.”— Publisher’s Weekly

“The Mapmaker’s Children is marked by rich, closely observed storytelling full of warmth and heart.” —Charles Frazier, New York Times bestselling author of National Book Award winner Cold Mountain

TV Review: The Whispers (Pilot Episode)



"Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them."

----John Ruskin, the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist



ABC presents a new eerie/horror drama that is surely going to creep you out of your sofa with it's portrayal of an imaginary friend through some kids' lives.



3 June 2015

TV Review: Stitchers (Pilot Episode)



“It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.”

----Albert Einstein

ABC Family presents a brand new science fiction/procedural drama series that is surely going to blow some minds off via the television set.



Stitchers, created by Jeffrey Alan Schechter, is all about a smart-ass Harvard student, Kirsten Clark (played by Emma Ishta) who along with a team of NSA geniuses, like Cameron (played by Kyle Harris), Linus (Ritesh Rajan) and other geeks, hacks into the brain of dead people to find out the reason behind their death, in short, to be able to find the clues and the hidden answers lurking in the memories of a dead human.

Review #236: Iron Junction by Charlotte Nash



My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“To take that second chance, we need to notice where we are and be open to the possibility of growing.”

---- Holly Elissa Bruno



Charlotte Nash, an English-Australian writer, has penned an incredibly touching and heart-warming love story called, Iron Junction which is actually the name of a town in the Pilbara region in the north-western part of Australia, where a young doctor from Brisbane takes up a job as a locum doctor in the hopes of finding herself one more time and to move on from a bad break-up, little did she knew that she could see a ray of hope in the middle of nowhere.


2 June 2015

Review #235: Kissing in America by Margo Rabb



My rating: 4 of 5 stars



“What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.”



----Stieg Larsson, a Swedish best-selling author




Margo Rabb, an American author, pens her new novel, Kissing in America that traces the journey of a 16-year old girl who takes it to find her best shot at love, which is not only finding out the pros and cons of love, but also finding out who you are and what you really want in life.


1 June 2015

Review #234 with giveaway: Men and Martinis (Girlfriends of Gotham #1) by Delancey Stewart



My rating: 4 of 5 stars



"Keep Calm and Drink a Martini"


----Unknown



Delancey Stewart, an American author, has penned a new book, called, Men and Martinis which is the first book in the Girlfriends of Gotham series, which is about two women finding their way through the big apple and living like they belong here surrounded by hot men and martinis.






Review #233 with Giveaway and Interview: Upper West Side Story by Susan Pashman



My rating:
5 of 5 stars



“Our true nationality is mankind.”


----H.G. Wells



Susan Pashman, an American author, debuts as an author with her novel, Upper West Side Story that revolves around the relationships and friendships beyond color and how dirty politics can put innocent people behind the bars.






Review #232: Modern Monsters by Kelley York



My rating: 4 of 5 stars


“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”

---- Gloria Steinem, an American feminist, journalist, and social and political activist



Kelley York, pens her new young adult contemporary novel, Modern Monsters that revolves around a dangerous crime destroying the life of an innocent teenager, and also threatens to snatch away his quiet yet successful future, thus it forces him to embark upon on a road where he can clear his name, but little did he knew that this road to truth can be a real bumpy one.