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Happy Thursday everyone!  Today, I'll be sharing some mini reviews of some of my recent reads - Unlocked by Margo Kelly , Want by Cindy Pon , Hunted by Meagan Spooner , and Divine Intervention ( The Dining and Social Club for Time Travellers  #1) by Elyse Kishimoto .  Of these four, Unlocked and Want are my two favorites - both come highly recommend from me.  Here we go: ❋  ❋  ❋  ❋ I was lucky enough to win this from the author from Spring 2017 YASH! Ever since Hannah went to the hypnotist's show at the fair with her friends, she's been losing her grip on reality and she is terrified. She doesn't know what's real anymore. Has she somehow inherited her father's schizophrenia, or did that hypnotist really do something to her that she can't shake. I haven't read many books featuring hypnosis, but this one is definitely worth trying. It absolutely sucked me in and hooked me right from the beginning. It's very a very intense thriller. The a...

I'm very excited to welcome everyone to my leg of the  Witchtown by Cory Putman Oakes blog tour, hosted by Rockstar Book Tours !  Today, you'll find the details and summary for this novel, a guest post from the author herself on her playlist for the novel, an about the author, Cory Putnam Oakes, a giveaway, and the blog tour schedule.  I can't wait to read this novel because it sounds like it'll be amazing!  Thanks for visiting my stop on  Witchtown  blog tour! Title:   WITCHTOWN Author:  Cory Putman Oakes Release Date:  July 18, 2017 Pages:  320 Publisher:  HMH Books for Young Readers Formats:  Hardcover, eBook, audiobook Find it:   Goodreads  |  Amazon  |  B&N  |  iBooks  |  TBD When sixteen-year-old Macie O’Sullivan and her masterfully manipulative mother Aubra arrive at the gates of Witchtown—the most famous and mysterious witch-only ...

I'm very excited to welcome you all to my leg of The Dragons of Nova ( The Loom Saga  #2) by Elise Kova, hosted by Rockstar Book Tours !  I absolutely loved book one in the series, The Alchemists of Loom , and I was lucky enough to have a review stop on the Rockstar Book Tour for that novel.  Today, you'll find the details and summary for this sequel, praise for book one, an exclusive excerpt, an about the author, Elise Kova, a giveaway, and the blog tour schedule.  I can't wait to read this novel!  Thanks for visiting my stop on The Dragons of Nova  blog tour! Title:  THE DRAGONS OF NOVA (Loom Saga #2) Author:  Elise Kova Pub. Date:  July 11, 2017 Publisher:  Keymaster Press Formats:  Hardcover, eBook, audiobook Pages:  488 Find it:   Amazon ,  B&N ,  TBD ,  iBooks ,  Goodreads Cvareh returns home to his sky world of Nova with the genius crafter Arianna as his temperam...

Happy Monday everyone and welcome back to Music Monday! Let's share some songs we've been enjoying lately!  If you would like to play and I really hope you do, please see the rules and link up below. Rules: Every Monday share a few songs you've been enjoying lately.  It doesn't have to be a specific genre, new, or one of your favorites - just something you'd like to share with others.  If possible, share a music or lyric video of the song and your thoughts on the song(s), artist(s), and/or music video(s). If you would like to participate in Music Monday, please join the link up by sharing your post's url. This week I'm sharing two new favorites of mine, "Bad Liar" by Selena Gomez (2017)  and "Believer" by Imagine Dragons (2017) .  Imagine Dragons is one of my favorite bands so I'm not at all surprised that I loved this song, but I did surprise myself with the new Selena Gomez song.  She has a good voice, but she's not a...

❋  ❋  ❋  ❋   ❋ I won this ARC from a giveaway Mindy McGinnis hosted on her blog. Thanks so much for randomly picking me, Mindy! I'll get this out of the way first - I expected this to be a little more sci-fi, but I enjoyed that it pulls off something different that I didn't see coming. Anderson elegantly weaves together three different stories from three different perspectives - Adri, from 2065, who is going to be a colonist on Mars; Catherine, from 1934, who lives with her mother and sister in Dust Bowl stricken Oklahoma; and Lenore, from 1919, who lives in post-WWI England and is trying to cope with the loss of her brother and her plans to go to America. Anderson intertwines all three narratives beautifully, and while the stories are at times heartbreaking they still give the reader a sense of hope. Of them, I found myself more invested in Catherine's part of the tale. I haven't read that much YA historical fiction set during the Dust Bowl and the author d...

  On Friday's I take part in three weekly link ups - The Friday 56, hosted by  Freda's Voice , Book Beginnings, hosted by  Rose City Reader , and 50/50 Friday is a new weekly link up and it is hosted by  Carrie @ The Butterfly Reader  and  Laura @ Blue Eye Books .  For The Friday 56, you choose a book, a book you have just finished, a book you are about to start, your current read, and share a line or a few lines that grab you (but don't spoil anything) from page 56 or 56% of the way through the ebook.  Post it and share your post's url on Freda's most recent Friday 56 post.  As for Book Beginnings, you share the first sentence or so and your initial thoughts, impressions, or whatever else it inspires, and then link up your post's url with Rose City Reader.   Then, for  50/50 Friday, every week there's a new topic featuring two sides of the same coin - you share a book that suits each category and link up on the host...

Last month I was tagged by Ann & Clare @ Dual Reads to complete the Mid-Year Book Freak Out of 2017 and I'm finally getting around to it! By the way, this tag was originally created by ReadLikeWildFire and Ely Jayne .  Without further ado, let's get on to the tag: 1. Best Book You've Read So Far in 2017 I can't narrow it down to just one, so here's my Top Ten Tuesday post from June 27th all about this topic! 2. Best Sequel You've Read So Far in 2017 I can't decide between A Gathering of Shadows and A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab ! 3. New Release You Haven't Read Yet But Want To Lord of Shadows  ( The Dark Artifices #2) by Cassandra Clare - I'm still waiting on my library hold on the audiobook to come in! 4. Most Anticipated Release For Second Half of 2017 So many great sounding books are being released later this year, but I'm dying for All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater to hit the shelves! ...