Waiting on Wednesday (37) Dream On

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine to highlight upcoming releases that we're really excited about.

This week, I'm excited about...

Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish

I'm late with my post again this week.  This week is Top Ten most anticipated releases of the first half of 2016.  I don't know that I can limit it to ten...

Review: The Killing Jar by Jennifer Bosworth

Title: The Killing Jar
Author: Jennifer Bosworth
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Release Date: January 12, 2016

Seventeen-year-old Kenna Marsden has a secret.

She’s haunted by a violent tragedy she can’t explain. Kenna’s past has kept people—even her own mother—at a distance for years. Just when she finds a friend who loves her and life begins to improve, she’s plunged into a new nightmare. Her mom and twin sister are attacked, and the dark powers Kenna has struggled to suppress awaken with a vengeance.

On the heels of the assault, Kenna is exiled to a nearby commune, known as Eclipse, to live with a relative she never knew she had. There, she discovers an extraordinary new way of life as she learns who she really is, and the wonders she’s capable of. For the first time, she starts to feel like she belongs somewhere. That her terrible secret makes her beautiful and strong, not dangerous. But the longer she stays at Eclipse, the more she senses there is something malignant lurking underneath it all. And she begins to suspect that her new family has sinister plans for her…

Waiting on Wednesday (36) Rebel of the Sands

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine to highlight upcoming releases we're excited about.

Oh man, I got better. This post was done ahead of time! WHAT!

Anyway... This week, I'm excited for...

Top Ten Tuesday

Look at me, being less late with my post this week! It's an improvement, I swear.  TTT, the awesome feature hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. 

And today's theme is Top Ten books I wouldn't mind Santa bringing me. 

Review: Fairmist by Todd Fahnestock

Title: Fairmist
Author: Todd Fahnestock
Publisher: F4 Publishing
Release Date: January 29, 2015

The Debt of the Blessed

Within the Thiaran Empire, citizens put on jeweled masks and turn away from those who are taken. As long as one child is sacrificed each month to the Slinks and nobody interferes, their society will thrive.

But seventeen-year-old Grei’s mind is alive with treason, and he plunges into the heart of a prophecy that will drive the Slinks back to their fiery dimension. All he must do is travel to the capitol city and sacrifice one last innocent.

As Grei wrestles with the prophecy and battles those who would kill him, he hurtles toward his final decision: save the empire, or save his own soul.

Waiting on Wednesday (35) Into the Dim

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine to highlight upcoming releases we're excited about.

Top Ten Tuesday

Oh wow guys. Look at how horrible I am. I haven't done a TTT in over a month. And this one is super late lol.  OOPS!

Okay getting back to the usual, it's a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish

And today's theme is top ten reads from 2015! I really wanted to do this one even though it will be difficult to choose.

Review: Thicker than Water by Brigid Kemmerer

Title: Thicker than Water
Author: Brigid Kemmerer
Publisher: Kensington Books
Release Date: December 29, 2015

Thomas Bellweather hasn’t been in town long. Just long enough for his newlywed mother to be murdered, and for his new stepdad’s cop colleagues to decide Thomas is the primary suspect.

Not that there’s any evidence. But before Thomas got to Garretts Mill there had just been one other murder in twenty years.

The only person who believes him is Charlotte Rooker, little sister to three cops and, with her soft hands and sweet curves, straight-up dangerous to Thomas. Her best friend was the other murder vic. And she’d like a couple answers.

Answers that could get them both killed, and reveal a truth Thomas would die to keep hidden…

Future Book Tag!!

Omg I'm horrible.  Sam at Tsundoku Books tagged me weeks back.  My first excuse is that I was busy at the time.  But then I just forgot.  And so here I am, finally remembering to do this tag (which looks really awesome btw).

The Tag...
Choose five books to answer the questions.  I will list them here so you know what I've chosen as what book number.

Thanksgiving Pre-Order Giveaway Winner

Congrats to Sam Frost for winning my Thanksgiving Pre-order Giveaway!  Check your email.

And don't worry, guys.  I'll have more giveaways coming your way in January!

Sunday Discussion: The Glory of Critique Partners

This week's discussion post talks about how wonderful critique partners can be.  Have an idea for a discussion post?  Just leave a comment or send me an email at christinathebookreader@gmail.com

Review: The Mirror King by Jodi Meadows

Title: The Mirror King
Author: Jodi Meadows
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Release Date: April 5, 2015

Wilhelmina has a hundred enemies.

HER FRIENDS HAVE TURNED. After her identity is revealed during the Inundation, Princess Wilhelmina is kept prisoner by the Indigo Kingdom, with the Ospreys lost somewhere in the devastated city. When the Ospreys’ leader emerges at the worst possible moment, leaving Wil’s biggest ally on his deathbed, she must become Black Knife to set things right.

HER MAGIC IS UNCONTROLLABLE. Wil’s power is to animate, not to give true life, but in the wraithland she commanded a cloud of wraith mist to save herself, and later ordered it solid. Now there is a living boy made of wraith—destructive and deadly, and willing to do anything for her.

HER HEART IS TORN. Though she’s ready for her crown, declaring herself queen means war. Caught between what she wants and what is right, Wilhelmina realizes the throne might not even matter. Everyone thought the wraith was years off, but already it’s destroying Indigo Kingdom villages. If she can’t protect both kingdoms, soon there won’t be a land to rule.

In this stunning conclusion to THE ORPHAN QUEEN, Jodi Meadows follows Wilhelmina’s breathtaking and brave journey from orphaned criminal on the streets to magic-wielding queen.

November Wrap-Up

Oh dear... Where has month gone??

Well.. I did not get much reading done this month at all.  But there is something that I did do.

That's right!  I wrote over 50k words in November.  So let's see how that affected the rest of my month.