[Review] My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick

Publication (dd/mm/yyyy): 14/06/2012

Publisher: Speak (Penguin)
Pages: 394

Source: Purchased
Genre: YA (14+) - Contemporary

Violence | Sexual Content | Profanity

Book Tunes
♪ (to come) ♪

My Rating: 

Engrossing!

My thoughts

I read rave reviews, saw the ratings, loved the soft tones of the cover. This book was completely hyped up for me, and so my expectations were through the roof. It is a pleasure most divine when these expectations are met.

So this book is mainly marketed as a romance book. And it is. But it is so, so much more than that.

[Review] Fingerprints of You by Kristen-Paige Madonia

Publication (dd/mm/yyyy): 07/09/2012

Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages: 250

Source: Purchased
Genre: YA (14+) - Contemporary

Violence | Sexual Content | Profanity

Book Tunes
♪ Sarah Jaffe - Clementine ♪

My Rating: 

Evocative & achingly beautiful

My thoughts

Fingerprints of You is Madonia’s debut novel, but for all the nail-hitting strong points this story has to offer you would hardly be able to tell. I just feel all kinds of love for this book and the characters inside of it right now and for eternity. Madonia beautifully encapsulates what it really means to be home, and what family can truly be.

Lemon has always had Stella, her mum, for better or worse. Every move into a new town/city meant a fresh start, a new boy toy for Stella to sink her nails into. Lemon has always wondered what her father was like, and why he and Stella didn't try and make it work. When Lemon falls pregnant after an encounter with the local tattoo artist Johnny Drinko, she and her best friend Emmy plan a trip... all the way across the continent. From a small town in West Virginia all the way to San Francisco, California. But Lemon has an ulterior motive for the trip. That’s where her father lives. Before the baby is born, she just has to know if she’s going to be okay, raising the kid on her own without a father. She has to lay the blame somewhere: Stella, or her dad.

[Guest Post + Giveway] S.M. Bjarnson, author of Tangled Tears

Hey fellow bookworms!

It's been a long while since my last post. I have a whole lot of review-writing to catch up on! Times are busy with uni (final year -> headache!), work and personal issues... But enough about that. A lovely new author, S.M. Bjarnson, contacted me about her new YA book. The premise sounds promising; even though I have not read it yet I am excited to have an electronic copy to read in the future.

Here's what she had to say about growing up and overcoming challenges in life...

Fairytales for Wilde Girls ~ Giveaway winner!

 

While this giveaway didn't accumulate many entrants I'm still glad that I did it. Here's hoping that the winner will fall in love with this book, as I have done so.

The winner is:

Emma from Sydney!

Once again, check out my Fairytales for Wilde Girls review and maybe even add it to your Goodreads?

I absolutely adore the cover for this book (and the illustrations inside!) and so I asked everyone to say what their initial thoughts on the book were based on the cover alone. The general opinion was that the cover indicated something dark and fairytale-ish. Seems about right!

Review Bites (#2): Beastly, The Night Circus and more

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I don't write reviews for every single book I read, at least not here on the blog, but that's just because I don't have enough to say for some of them. Review Bites is here to remedy that.

The books which I will be reviewing are mostly books I haven't received for review but have been sitting in my to-review pile. I still feel like I have to talk about them. So while these reviews are much, much shorter than my regular ones, I feel satisfied in knowing that my own words have been said about them.

Reviewed in this post:
- Beastly by Alex Flinn [swap]
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern [gifted]
- Someday, Someday, Maybe by Lauren Graham [Netgalley]
- Emerald by Karen Wallace [for review]