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Summary (from Goodreads)   Title : Vengeance Road Author : Erin Bowman Publication Date :  September 1st 2015 Publisher : HMH Kids Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble When Kate Thompson’s father is killed by the notorious Rose Riders for a mysterious journal that reveals the secret location of a gold mine, the eighteen-year-old disguises herself as a boy and takes to the gritty plains looking for answers and justice. What she finds are devious strangers, dust storms, and a pair of brothers who refuse to quit riding in her shadow. But as Kate gets closer to the secrets about her family, she gets closer to the truth about herself and must decide if there's room for love in a heart so full of hate. In the spirit of True Grit , the cutthroat days of the Wild West come to life for a new generation. Personal Thoughts A gorgeous cover isn't the only thing that Vengeance Road has going for itself. No. It also has an epic story line , a badass main character and a vivi...

Summary (from Goodreads)   Title : Sacked (A Gridiron Novel #1) Author : Jen Frederick Publication Date :  September 6th 2015 Publisher : Self Published Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble What he wants he gets... Knox Masters is a quarterback's worst nightmare. Warrior. Champion. And...virgin. Knox knows what he wants--and he gets it. All American Football player? Check. NFL pros scouting him? Check. Now, he's set his sight on two things. The national title. And Ellie Campbell. Sure, she's the sister of his fellow teammate, but that's not going to stop him. Especially not when he’s convinced Ellie is the one. ...but he's never met her before. But Ellie isn't as sure. She's trying to start a new life and she's not interested in a relationship...with anyone. Beside it's not just her cardinal rule of never dating her brother's teammates that keeps her away, but Ellie has a dark secret that would jeopardize everything Knox is p...

Hello everyone! The time has come for me to go back to university in the US. BOO! :( I can't believe how fast my summer break has gone by! I'm going to miss being home and my family so much. *weeps* Anyways, I just wanted to make a quick announcement that I will be unavailable in the blogging sphere for several days (probably until next weekend) because I have to get settled into my new apartment and get used to going to school and work again. I have posts scheduled for the week and my monthly recap for the weekend, but I won't be around much to get commenting/replying done. Sorry guys, but I promise to be back in full swing in a week or so. I hope you'll still stop by. Have a great week everyone and happy reading! :)

Summary (from Goodreads) Title : Anne & Henry Author : Dawn Ius Publication Date : September 1st 2015 Publisher : Simon Pulse Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble In this wonderfully creative retelling of the infamous—and torrid—love affair between Anne Boleyn and King Henry VIII, history collides with the present when a sizzling romance ignites in a modern-day high school. Henry Tudor’s life has been mapped out since the day he was born: student body president, valedictorian, Harvard Law School, and a stunning political career just like his father’s. But ever since the death of his brother, the pressure for Henry to be perfect has doubled. And now he’s trapped: forbidden from pursuing a life as an artist or dating any girl who isn’t Tudor-approved. Then Anne Boleyn crashes into his life. Wild, brash, and outspoken, Anne is everything Henry isn’t allowed to be—or want. But soon Anne is all he can think about. His mother, his friends, and even his girlfriend warn hi...

Summary (from Goodreads)   Title :  Everything, Everything Author : Nicola Yoon Publication Date : September 1st 2015 Publisher : Delacorte Books for Young Readers Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble This innovative, heartfelt debut novel tells the story of a girl who’s literally allergic to the outside world. When a new family moves in next door, she begins a complicated romance that challenges everything she’s ever known. The narrative unfolds via vignettes, diary entries, texts, charts, lists, illustrations, and more. My disease is as rare as it is famous. Basically, I’m allergic to the world. I don’t leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla. But then one day, a moving truck arrives next door. I look out my window, and I see him. He’s tall, lean and wearing all black—black T-shirt, black jeans, black sneakers, and a black knit cap that covers his hair completely. He catches me looki...

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 Art of Not Breathing Author : Sarah Alexander Publication Date : April 26th 2016 Publisher : HMH Kids Goodreads This is what Elsie Main remembers about her tenth birthday: 1. Mum was at home making our chocolate birthday cake. 2. Dillon was swimming with the dolphins. 3. One minute Eddie was there, then he was gone. 4. I collapsed and Dad came to get me. Then everything went blue. Five years on and Elsie still can’t make sense of it all. Her parents are a mess, her big brother Dillon isn’t eating and the body of her twin brother Eddie has never been found. Why does it feel like everyone is keeping something from her? Fed up with the “handbag” girls at school and her paranoid family at home Elsie escapes to the boathouse - her secret hiding place. Tucked away out of view she spots th...

Summary (from Goodreads)   Title :  Sustained (The Legal Briefs #2) Author : Emma Chase Publication Date : August 25th 2015 Publisher : Gallery Books Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble A knight in tarnished armor is still a knight. When you’re a defense attorney in Washington, DC, you see firsthand how hard life can be, and that sometimes the only way to survive is to be harder. I, Jake Becker, have a reputation for being cold, callous, and intimidating—and that suits me just fine. In fact, it’s necessary when I’m breaking down a witness on the stand. Complications don’t work for me—I’m a “need-to-know” type of man. If you’re my client, tell me the basic facts. If you’re my date, stick to what will turn you on. I’m not a therapist or Prince Charming—and I don’t pretend to be. Then Chelsea McQuaid and her six orphaned nieces and nephews came along and complicated the ever-loving hell out of my life. Now I'm going to Mommy & Me classes, One Direction concert...

Summary (from Goodreads)   Title : Bounce (Boomerang #3) Author : Noelle August Publication Date :  August 25th 2015 Publisher : William Morrow Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble Playing the occasional club gig just isn’t cutting it for twenty-two-year-old cellist Skyler Canby, who’s trying to support herself and her mother back home in Kentucky. Persuaded by her best friend Beth to accompany her on an audition for the first feature film launched by Blackwood Entertainment, she figures why not? Beth’s a shoe-in for the lead, but maybe Skyler’s newly dyed pink hair will help her stand out enough to score a small speaking part. Never in her wildest dreams does Skyler imagine she’ll land the lead role or that she’ll have her shoes knocked off her feet by the kiss her audition partner, Grey Blackwood, plants on her—a kiss that feels very real and not at all “acted. ” After throwing a party that causes thousands of dollars of damage to his older brother’s home, r...

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 everyone! I hope you all had a good week. This coming week is my last week home before I head back to university next Sunday. *sad face* I'm going to miss being surrounded by my family. :( Anyways, today's post was inspired by Nereyda's blogger confessions post . If you haven't read it yet, you should check it out for some honest opinions of certain things within the book community. I started writing down some of the confessions for fun, but the list became long, so I decided to post it. Some of these may seem a little harsh and you may not approve of them, but they are my opinions and this is my blog, so I should be able to post what I want. If you disagree, feel free to comment, letting me know! I won't take offense. :) So here goes: Image Source #1 I've had to mute a few bloggers on my Twit...

Summary (from Goodreads)   Title : Right Wrong Guy (Brightwater #2) Author : Lia Riley Publication Date :  August 4th 2015 Publisher : Avon Impulse Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble Sometimes two wrongs can make a right... Bad boy wrangler, Archer Kane, lives fast and loose. Words like responsibility and commitment send him running in the opposite direction. Until a wild Vegas weekend puts him on a collision course with Eden Bankcroft-Kew, a New York heiress running away from her blackmailing fiancé…the morning of her wedding. Eden has never understood the big attraction to cowboys. Give her a guy in a tailored suit any day of the week. But now all she can think about is Mr. Rugged Handsome, six-feet of sinfully sexy country charm with a pair of green eyes that keeps her tossing and turning all night long. Archer might be the wrong guy for a woman like her, but she's not right in thinking he'll walk away without fighting for her heart. And maybe, just maybe...

Summary (from Goodreads) Title : When a Scot Ties the Knot (Castle Ever After #3) Author : Tessa Dare Publication Date : August 25th 2015 Publisher : Avon Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble On the cusp of her first London season, Miss Madeline Gracechurch was shyly pretty and talented with a drawing pencil, but hopelessly awkward with gentlemen. She was certain to be a dismal failure on the London marriage mart. So Maddie did what generations of shy, awkward young ladies have done: she invented a sweetheart. A Scottish sweetheart. One who was handsome and honorable and devoted to her, but conveniently never around. Maddie poured her heart into writing the imaginary Captain MacKenzie letter after letter … and by pretending to be devastated when he was (not really) killed in battle, she managed to avoid the pressures of London society entirely. Until years later, when this kilted Highland lover of her imaginings shows up in the flesh. The real Captain Logan MacKenzie a...

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 : Into the Dim Author : Janet B. Taylor Publication Date : March 1st 2016 Publisher : HMH Kids Goodreads “Seventy-two hours, then we have to be back at the clearing. Sunrise on the third day.” Being “the homeschooled girl,” in a small town, Hope Walton’s crippling phobias and photographic memory don’t help her fit in with her adoptive dad’s perfectly blonde Southern family. But when her mother is killed in a natural disaster thousands of miles from home, Hope’s secluded world crumbles. After an aunt she’s never met invites her to spend the summer in Scotland, Hope discovers that her mother was more than a brilliant academic. She’s a member of a secret society of time travelers, and is actually trapped in the twelfth century in the age of King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. ...

Summary (from Goodreads) Title : Truest Author : Jackie Lea Sommers Publication Date : September 1st 2015 Publisher : Harper Teen Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble Silas Hart has seriously shaken up Westlin Beck's small-town life. Brand new to town, Silas is different than the guys in Green Lake. He's curious, poetic, philosophical, maddening-- and really, really cute. But Silas has a sister-- and she has a secret. And West has a boyfriend. And life in Green Lake is about to change forever. Truest is a stunning, addictive debut. Romantic, fun, tender, and satisfying, it asks as many questions as it answers. Personal Thoughts Truest is one of those books that I don't really have much to say about. It's a decent read and while reading it, I had an good time, but it was rather unmemorable . I can guarantee that a week from now, I'm going to forget everything about it. West, the protagonist, was a hard character to enjoy at first. She's in a relations...