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Cover Reveal: Forty Days (Neima’s Ark, Book One) by Stephanie Parent! Forty Days (Neima’s Ark, Book One) By Stephanie Parent Release Date: 02/12/13 Genre: YA Cover Artist: Najla Qamber Summary from Goodreads: The entire village knows Neima’s grandfather is a madman.  For years the old man has prophesied that a great flood is coming, a flood disastrous enough to blot out the entire earth.  He’s even built an enormous ark that he claims will allow his family to survive the deluge.  But no one believes the ravings of a lunatic… …until the rain starts.  And doesn’t stop.  Soon sixteen-year-old Neima finds her entire world transformed, her life and those of the people she loves in peril.  Trapped on the ark with her grandfather Noah, the rest of her family, and a noisy, filthy, and hungry assortment of wild animals, will Neima find a way to survive? With lions, tigers, and bears oh my, elephants and flamingos too, along with rivalries and betray...

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking The Spine ,  that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.   Allison O'Malley just graduated from college. Her life's plan is to get a job and take care of her schizophrenic mother. She doesn't have room for friends or even Ethan, who clearly wants more. When Allison's long-lost father shows up, he claims he can bring her mother back from the dark place her mind has sent her. He reveals legends of a race of people long forgotten, the Tuatha de Danaan, along with the truth about why he abandoned her mother. Expected publication: May 15th 2013 I have really been wanting to get into ready New Adult books. I feel like I would connect with them more. Don't get me wrong. I LOVE YA books, and will continue to read them. But I am not a teen anymore, and I would love to follow characters my own age.. and maybe not feel like a cradle robber when I swoon over 17 yr o...

TA DA The blog got a facelift !  Before: After!  Huge thank you to Najla over at  She couldn't have done a more amazing job- don't you agree!!  Now on to the celebration!!  This week I will be giving away one of my handprinted T-Shirts!   You know it's true ;)  Just fill out the Raffecopter form to enter! But Wait.. there's more! Next week I will be giving away ARCs! But they are a secret right now ;) - To me as well! haha! So make sure to follow back and share in the celebration! a Rafflecopter giveaway

Ashes of Twilight (Ashes Trilogy #1) by Kassy Tayler Wren MacAvoy works as a coal miner for a domed city that was constructed in the mid-nineteenth century to protect the royal blood line of England when astronomers spotted a comet on a collision course with Earth. Humanity would be saved by the most groundbreaking technology of the time. But after nearly 200 years of life beneath the dome, society has become complacent and the coal is running out.  Plus there are those who wonder, is there life outside the dome or is the world still consumed by fire?  When one of Wren's friends escapes the confines of the dome, he is burned alive and put on display as a warning to those seeking to disrupt the dome’s way of life. But Alex’s final words are haunting. “The sky is blue.”  What happens next is a whirlwind of adventure, romance, conspiracy and the struggle to stay alive in a world where nothing is as it seems. Wren unwittingly becomes a catalyst for a revolution...

  The Sunday post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba the Caffinated Book Reviewer~ It's a chance to share new~A post to recap the past week on your blog, showcase books and things we have recieved and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.  For Review from Netgalley Till The World Ends by Julie Kagawa, Ann Aguirre, and Karen Ducall Shadow on the Crown by Patricia Bracewell Poison by Bridget Zinn Weather Witch by Shannon Delany For review/ Blog tour Dualed by Elsie Chapman  Big thank you to Sarah at The Book Life for telling me about the tour and sending me a copy! Also.. she was totally sneaky.. She slipped bookmarks in between pages! She knows my addiction to bookmarks so well lol. And finally... From Review form St. Martins Griffin    The Prey by Andrew Fukuda Then I got my big shocker.. I flipped open the book, went to the praise page to see which awesome bloggers I recognized.. and there.. on the first page .... was ME o.O wel...

Broken by A.E. Rought   Imagine a modern spin on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein where a young couple’s undying love and the grief of a father pushed beyond sanity could spell the destruction of them all . A string of suspicious deaths near a small Michigan town ends with a fall that claims the life of Emma Gentry's boyfriend, Daniel. Emma is broken, a hollow shell mechanically moving through her days. She and Daniel had been made for each other, complete only when they were together. Now she restlessly wanders the town in the late Fall gloom, haunting the cemetery and its white-marbled tombs, feeling Daniel everywhere, his spectre in the moonlight and the fog. When she encounters newcomer Alex Franks, only son of a renowned widowed surgeon, she's intrigued despite herself. He's an enigma, melting into shadows, preferring to keep to himself. But he is as drawn to her as she is to him. He is strangely... familiar. From the way he knows how to open her lock...

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking The Spine ,  that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. Luke is the perfect boyfriend: handsome, kind, fun. He and Emaline have been together all through high school in Colby, the beach town where they both grew up. But now, in the summer before college, Emaline wonders if perfect is good enough. Enter Theo, a super-ambitious outsider, a New Yorker assisting on a documentary film about a reclusive local artist. Theo's sophisticated, exciting, and, best of all, he thinks Emaline is much too smart for Colby. Emaline's mostly-absentee father, too, thinks Emaline should have a bigger life, and he's convinced that an Ivy League education is the only route to realizing her potential. Emaline is attracted to the bright future that Theo and her father promise. But she also clings to the deep roots of her loving mother, stepfather, and sisters. Can she ignore the pull of t...

It has been awhile since I have shared what I have received for review :)  So not all of these are within the last week. Mailbox Monday was created by Marcia at Hooked by A Book (formerly The Printed Page) and is on tour for the month of January right here at Lori's Reading Corner. Read the Mailbox Monday story HERE All images are Linked up and will take you to the books Goodreads page :)    From the Author :  From Publisher :   St. Martins Press   Spencer Hill Press  Entangled Teen From Publisher/ NetGalley  On the blog Last week :  R eviews- Grave M ercy by Rob in LaFevers ( View HERE ) Born Wicked by Jessica Spotswood ( View HERE )     I'm slow ly catching up on my reviews, and working on getting more organized so I have more posts to sh are with you throughout the we ek! Your comments and feed back really give me a good "push" to keep blogging, So THANK YOU! Also.. be on the lookout- This week the blog is getting a totally...

Grave Mercy (His Fair Assassin #1) by R.L. LaFevers   Why be the sheep, when you can be the wolf? Seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where the sisters still serve the gods of old. Here she learns that the god of Death Himself has blessed her with dangerous gifts—and a violent destiny. If she chooses to stay at the convent, she will be trained as an assassin and serve as a handmaiden to Death. To claim her new life, she must destroy the lives of others. Ismae’s most important assignment takes her straight into the high court of Brittany—where she finds herself woefully under prepared—not only for the deadly games of intrigue and treason, but for the impossible choices she must make. For how can she deliver Death’s vengeance upon a target who, against her will, has stolen her heart? A few of my thoughts as I was reading Grave Mercy:  So.. Even though it doe...

The Anybodies written by N.E. Bode This is a must for children's book lovers!  It mimics the styles of Roald Dahl, Lemony Snicket, Harry Potter, and many more, and beyond that, references them, too.  It features a girl who can bring elements out of the books they came from and a grandmother with a house literally made of books.  And the characters!  They are all quirky and lovable, and even the antagonist is given a chance to be explained.  Mad props to any book that can explain the effects of trauma on a person's ability to love.  Easily one of my new favorites. Rating: 5/5

Converting Kate written by Beckie Weinheimer I could not have read this at a more opportune time.  I was raised in a conservative Muslim environment, and my experiences and thoughts were almost identical to those of Kate's.  This book is spot on with the doubts and uncertainty experienced when trying to get out of an extreme religious upbringing, and my praise and sympathies to the author for having to deal with this kind of stuff firsthand and then be able to write so eloquently about it.  The whole book is just beautiful, and Kate is privileged enough to live in a place where a liberal church exists--I have never had that experience, unfortunately.  I also like how the book ends on a kind of uncertain but hopeful note.  Nothing in life is certain, contrary to what religion might sometimes claim, and Kate still has a lot of thinking ahead of her.  It is really refreshing to see young adult fiction portraying teens thinking about the role their faith plays ...

Everybody knows Cate Cahill and her sisters are eccentric. Too pretty, too reclusive, and far too educated for their own good. But the truth is even worse: they’re witches. And if their secret is discovered by the priests of the Brotherhood, it would mean an asylum, a prison ship—or an early grave. Before her mother died, Cate promised to protect her sisters. But with only six months left to choose between marriage and the Sisterhood, she might not be able to keep her word... especially after she finds her mother’s diary, uncovering a secret that could spell her family’s destruction. Desperate to find alternatives to their fate, Cate starts scouring banned books and questioning rebellious new friends, all while juggling tea parties, shocking marriage proposals, and a forbidden romance with the completely unsuitable Finn Belastra. If what her mother wrote is true, the Cahill girls aren’t safe. Not from the Brotherhood, the Sisterhood—not even from each other.   Here are a couple tho...