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, Source Hi everybody! I just wanted to take some time today to wish you all a very Happy New Year. You guys have no idea how much I appreciate each and everyone of you. I hope 2015 will be a year filled with love, good health, family and books for all of you. Cheers!

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event that is hosted by Jill at   Breaking the Spine to show the  upcoming titles that we're mostly eager for. Summary (from Goodreads)   Title : The Vanishing Throne (The Falconer #2) Author : Elizabeth May Publication Date :  September 17th 2015 Publisher : Gollancz Goodreads My name is Lady Aileana Kameron. First the fae murdered my mother. Then they destroyed my world. Now I’m fighting for more than revenge. Aileana took a stand against the Wild Hunt, and she lost everything: her home, her family and her friends. Held captive by her enemy, and tormenting herself over her failure, escape seems like only the faintest possibility. But when she gets her chance, she seizes it . . . to rejoin a world devastated by war. The future is bleak. Hunted by the fae, running for her life, Aileana has only a few options left. Trying to become part of a society scarred by – and hiding from – the Wild Hunt; trusting that a fragile allia...

Summary (from Goodreads) Title : This Shattered World (Starbound #2) Author : Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner Publication Date :  December 23rd 2014 Publisher : Disney Hyperion Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble The second installment in the epic Starbound trilogy introduces a new pair of star-crossed lovers on two sides of a bloody war. Jubilee Chase and Flynn Cormac should never have met. Lee is captain of the forces sent to Avon to crush the terraformed planet's rebellious colonists, but she has her own reasons for hating the insurgents. Rebellion is in Flynn's blood. Terraforming corporations make their fortune by recruiting colonists to make the inhospitable planets livable, with the promise of a better life for their children. But they never fulfilled their promise on Avon, and decades later, Flynn is leading the rebellion. Desperate for any advantage in a bloody and unrelentingly war, Flynn does the only thing that makes sense when he and Lee cross pa...

    Hi guys! I'm really excited to share my Top Reads of 2014 with you all today. According to Goodreads, I've read 235 books as of today. I'm pretty proud of this goal which is about 30 or so books more than last year's reading goal. I had 27 5 Star reads and 76 4 stars reads! I definitely had a very successful year in reading. As you can tell, I had a really hard time narrowing it down to only 10 books so I decided to categorize everything, so here you go! Please note that the backgrounds are all from Deviant Art from this user and this user . I'm certainly looking forward to what 2015 has to offer us readers. From the sounds of it, it's going to be pretty amazing and I can't personally wait!  Are some of these books featured on your top books of 2014 as well? Let me know in the comments below!

Source Merry Christmas to you dear reader! I hope the holidays will be a time filled with love, joy and bookish presents of course. I'm also taking a short break away from the blog to re-energize and spend some time with friends. I will see you all on Monday with a Best of 2014 list. Enjoy and take care everyone! :)

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event that is hosted by Jill at   Breaking the Spine to show the  upcoming titles that we're mostly eager for. Summary (from Goodreads)   Title : Jesse's Girl (Hundred Oaks #6) Author : Miranda Kenneally Publication Date :  July 1st 2015 Publisher : Sourcebooks Fire Goodreads   Practice Makes Perfect. Everyone at Hundred Oaks High knows that career mentoring day is a joke. So when Maya Henry said she wanted to be a rock star, she never imagined she’d get to shadow *the* Jesse Scott, Nashville’s teen idol. But spending the day with Jesse is far from a dream come true. He’s as gorgeous as his music, but seeing all that he’s accomplished is just a reminder of everything Maya’s lost: her trust, her boyfriend, their band, and any chance to play the music she craves. Not to mention that Jesse’s pushy and opinionated. He made it on his own, and he thinks Maya’s playing back up to other people’s dreams. Does she have what it ...

Summary (from Goodreads) Title : Inspire (The Muse #1) Author : Cora Carmack Publication Date :  December 15th 2014 Publisher : Self-Published Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble Kalliope lives with one purpose. To inspire. As an immortal muse, she doesn’t have any other choice. It’s part of how she was made. Musicians, artists, actors—they use her to advance their art, and she uses them to survive. She moves from one artist to the next, never staying long enough to get attached. But all she wants is a different life— a normal one. She’s spent thousands of years living lie after lie, and now she’s ready for something real. Sweet, sexy, and steady, Wilder Bell feels more real than anything else in her long existence. And most importantly… he’s not an artist. He doesn’t want her for her ability. But she can’t turn off the way she influences people, not even to save a man she might love. Because in small doses, she can help make something beautiful, but her ability h...

Summary (from Goodreads) Title : Marked (Servants of Fate #1) Author : Sarah Fine Publication Date : January 1st 2015 Publisher : 47North Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble In a broken landscape carved by environmental collapse, Boston paramedic Cacia Ferry risks life and limb on the front lines of a fragile and dangerous city. What most don’t know—including her sexy new partner, Eli Margolis—is that while Cacy works to save lives, she has another job ferrying the dead to the Afterlife. Once humans are “Marked” by Fate, the powerful Ferrys are called to escort the vulnerable souls to either eternal bliss or unending fire and pain. Unaware of Cacy’s other life, Eli finds himself as mesmerized by his fierce and beautiful partner as he is mistrustful of the influential Ferry clan led by the Charon—who happens to be Cacy’s father. Cacy, in turn, can no longer deny her intense attraction to the mysterious ex-Ranger with a haunted past. But just as their relationship heats...

Summary (from Goodreads) Title : The Charlotte Chronicles (Jackson Boys #1) Author : Jen Frederick Publication Date :  December 8th 2014 Publisher : Self-Published Goodreads - Amazon Charlotte and Nathan were supposed to be forever. They grew up together. Their families were intertwined. Charlotte was Nathan's first love. Nathan was Charlotte's first everything. Until they weren't. How do you hold on to the person you know in your heart you are supposed to be with when everything and everyone in the universe is telling you it's over? How many times does a heart break? When is enough…..enough? How long is forever? Personal Thoughts  Jen Frederick's  Woodlands series is one of my favorite NA series. I was so happy to see that she was writing the couples' kids stories as well, so I was quick to grab The Charlotte Chronicles when it became available. Plus, this was a childhood romance with a second chance romance, so obviously I needed it in my life. Char...

Summary (from Goodreads) Title : Ticker Author : Lisa Mantchev Publication Date : December 1st 2014 Publisher : Skyscape Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble A girl with a clockwork heart must make every second count. When Penny Farthing nearly dies, brilliant surgeon Calvin Warwick manages to implant a brass “Ticker” in her chest, transforming her into the first of the Augmented. But soon it’s discovered that Warwick killed dozens of people as he strove to perfect another improved Ticker for Penny, and he’s put on trial for mass murder. On the last day of Warwick’s trial, the Farthings’ factory is bombed, Penny’s parents disappear, and Penny and her brother, Nic, receive a ransom note demanding all of their Augmentation research if they want to see their parents again. Is someone trying to destroy the Farthings...or is the motive more sinister? Desperate to reunite their family and rescue their research, Penny and her brother recruit fiery baker Violet Nesselrode, gen...

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event that is hosted by Jill at   Breaking the Spine to show the  upcoming titles that we're mostly eager for. Summary (from Goodreads)   Title : Love Fortunes & Other Disasters Author : Kimberley Karalius Publication Date :  May 12th 2015 Publisher : Swoon Reads Goodreads   In the tradition of Alice Hoffman’s Practical Magic , one girl chooses to change her fortune and her fate by falling in love. Love is real in the town of Grimbaud and Fallon Dupree has dreamed of attending high school there for years. After all, generations of Duprees have successfully followed the (100% accurate!) love fortunes from Zita’s famous Love Charms Shop to happily marry their high school sweethearts. It’s a tradition. So she is both stunned and devastated when her fortune states that she will NEVER find love. Fortunately, Fallon isn’t the only student with a terrible love fortune, and a rebellion is brewing. Fallon is determined to t...

Summary (from Goodreads)   Title : Amour Amour Author : Becca & Krista Ritchie Publication Date :  December 12th 2015 Publisher : Self-Published Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble Love is a circus "Every day,” he says lowly, “I hold a person’s life in my hands. The circus is based one-hundred percent off trust. I give it all to someone, and they give it all to me.” The best aerial technique won’t land 21-year-old Thora James her dream role in Amour—a sexy new acrobatic show on the Vegas strip. Thora knows she’s out of her element the second she meets Amour’s leading performer. Confident, charming and devilishly captivating, 26-year-old Nikolai Kotova lives up to his nickname as the “God of Russia.” When Thora unknowingly walks into the crosshairs of Nikolai’s after-show, her audition process begins way too soon. Unprofessional. That’s what Nik calls their “non-existent” relationship. It’s not like Thora can avoid him. For one, they may be partne...

Summary (from Goodreads) Title : Princess of Thorns Author : Stacey Jay Publication Date : December 9th 2014 Publisher : Delacorte Books Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble Game of Thrones meets the Grimm's fairy tales in this twisted, fast-paced romantic fantasy-adventure about Sleeping Beauty's daughter, a warrior princess who must fight to reclaim her throne. Though she looks like a mere mortal, Princess Aurora is a fairy blessed with enhanced strength, bravery, and mercy yet cursed to destroy the free will of any male who kisses her. Disguised as a boy, she enlists the help of the handsome but also cursed Prince Niklaas to fight legions of evil and free her brother from the ogre queen who stole Aurora's throne ten years ago. Will Aurora triumph over evil and reach her brother before it's too late? Can Aurora and Niklaas break the curses that will otherwise forever keep them from finding their one true love? Personal Thoughts Stacey Jay's Of Beas...

Nick's Random Gibberish is a weekly post here at Nick's Book Blog where I, Nick, will talk about random topics from personal posts to discussion posts. Hi guys! I was inspired to write today's post my something that recently happened to me. I realized that I had no friends and only acquaintances and I question whether reading and blogging had an impact on my social life. I have always been somewhat introverted and shy. I'm not very outgoing and because of my shyness, I've had a hard time making friends all throughout my life. I'm 21 years old now and I still don't know how to make friends. I thought coming to college would mean that I would find that best friend that I never had while growing up, but nada! I'm a senior in college and I'll be graduating without having the kind of buddies-for-life that I thought I would have.  I have to wonder if my reading and blogging life has interfered with my social life. I'm the kind of person who likes go...

Summary (from Goodreads) Title : Falling Away (Fall Away #3) Author : Penelope Douglas Publication Date : January 6th 2015 Publisher : Penguin NAL Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble Jaxon is the guy she’s supposed to avoid. K.C. is the girl he won’t let get away.... K. C. Carter has always followed the rules—until this year, when a mistake leaves her the talk of her college campus and her carefully arranged life comes crashing to a halt. Now she’s stuck in her small hometown for the summer to complete her court-ordered community service, and to make matters worse, trouble is living right next door. Jaxon Trent is the worst kind of temptation and exactly what K.C. was supposed to stay away from in high school. But he never forgot her. She was the one girl who wouldn’t give him the time of day and the only one to ever say no. Fate has brought K.C. back into his life—except what he thought was a great twist of luck turns out to be too close for comfort. As the bond betwe...

Summary (from Goodreads) Title : Willowgrove (Hemlock #3) Author : Kathleen Peacock Publication Date : January 6th 2015 Publisher : Katherine Tegen Books Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble Willowgrove is Kathleen Peacock's riveting conclusion to the Hemlock trilogy, a dark, romantic, paranormal suspense series that pits friendship against survival, and trust against love. Ever since Mac's best friend, Amy, was murdered, Hemlock has been a dangerous place. But now that Mac, her boyfriend, Kyle, and Amy's ex, Jason, have investigated a mass breakout from Thornhill, a werewolf "rehabilitation" camp, the danger has only grown. Fear of the infection spreading is now at an all-time high, and anyone with a scar is suspected of being a wolf. What makes Mac even more afraid, though, are the dark experiments that the warden of Thornhill was performing on wolves in a secret asylum called Willowgrove. Uncovering the truth about what happened may be the only...

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event that is hosted by Jill at   Breaking the Spine to show the  upcoming titles that we're mostly eager for. Summary (from Goodreads)   Title : Amour Amour Author : Becca & Krista Ritchie Publication Date :  December 12th 2015 Publisher : Self-Published Goodreads   Love is a circus "Every day,” he says lowly, “I hold a person’s life in my hands. The circus is based one-hundred percent off trust. I give it all to someone, and they give it all to me.” The best aerial technique won’t land 21-year-old Thora James her dream role in Amour—a sexy new acrobatic show on the Vegas strip. Thora knows she’s out of her element the second she meets Amour’s leading performer. Confident, charming and devilishly captivating, 26-year-old Nikolai Kotova lives up to his nickname as the “God of Russia.” When Thora unknowingly walks into the crosshairs of Nikolai’s after-show, her audition process begins way too soon. Unprofessiona...

Summary (from Goodreads) Title : Say Yes to the Marquess (Castle Ever After #2) Author : Tessa Dare Publication Date : December 31st 2014 Publisher : Avon Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble Your presence is requested at romantic Twill Castle for the wedding of Miss Clio Whitmore and . . . and . . . ? After eight years of waiting for Piers Brandon, the wandering Marquess of Granville, to set a wedding date, Clio Whitmore has had enough. She's inherited a castle, scraped together some pride, and made plans to break her engagement. Not if Rafe Brandon can help it. A ruthless prizefighter and notorious rake, Rafe is determined that Clio will marry his brother—even if he has to plan the dratted wedding himself. So how does a hardened fighter cure a reluctant bride's cold feet? ● He starts with flowers. A wedding can't have too many flowers. Or harps. Or cakes. ● He lets her know she'll make a beautiful, desirable bride—and tries not to picture her as his. ● ...