Review: Measuring Up

Title: Measuring Up Series: No Genre: Young Adult-Contemporary Author: Nyrae Dawn Publisher: Self-Pub Release Date: August 2012 Book: E-copy sent by author “Seventeen-year-old Annabel Conway is tired of the Hillcrest High School elite making her life miserable because she’s not a size two. This summer, she’s hiring a personal trainer to help her lose weight. Annabel doesn’t expect her trainer to be a gorgeous guy around her age. Boys like Tegan are jerks. They pretend to like girls like her so they can make an idiot out of them. Been there, done that. Totally not going there again. She kind of hates him on principal. Blond. Muscular. Funny. It doesn’t help that he knows her measurements!Soon, Tegan’s so much more than that. He’s the boy who...

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Review: Freeing Carter

Title: Freeing Carter Series: No Genre: Young Adult-Contemporary Author: Nyrae Dawn Publisher: Self-Pub Release Date: July 18, 2012 Book: E-copy sent by author “His whole life Carter’s fought to hold it together: To help Mom run their store. To be there for his special needs sister, Sara, and be the perfect boyfriend Mel wants. To dominate on the basketball court—the only place he ever feels free. And to carry Mom up the stairs when she’s too smashed to make it on her own.It isn’t like she has a problem. Mom loves them. If she doesn’t drink every day, she’s not really an alcoholic, right?Wrong.Then Kira Dawson, a girl with a bipolar wardrobe and rotating hairstyles comes to town. Somehow, she sees the truths he hides from the world. “You...

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The Walking Dead Blognation: Episode 4

Hello! My hubby is back for a review on The Walking Dead: Episode 4!!!Title: Killer WithinSeries: The Walking Dead Season: (3) Episode # 4Genre: Adult-ApocalypticPicture from AMC Website“The group is severed and lives are put in jeopardy. In Woodbury, Merle has a request for the Governor.” Once again cringing and at the edge of my seat watching as the mysterious leaves a patch for walkers as he escapes. But why? Looks like maybe a prisoner trying to leave the group. As I’m listening to the outcry of the cons begging Rick for mercy my heart just drops. Come one Rick just give them a chance! Let them try. Isn’t it humane and the right thing to do to forgive them and give them a chance to enjoy life. I mean they were locked up, they went through...

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Review: The Unloved

Title: The Unloved Series: No Genre: Young Adult-Contemporary Author: Jennifer Snyder Publisher: Self-Pub Release Date: July 30, 2012 Book: E-copy sent by author “Sometimes the love our heart needs to heal can be found in the familiar eyes of a childhood friend…Julie Porter learned the hard way that trust is something which must be earned and not something to be given out lightly, those who say they love you are those who hold the power to hurt you most, and best friends can help you survive anything—until they move away.Nick Owen knows a thing or two about a hard life. At a young age Nick learned how to take a hit and to make lemonade out of the lemons life tossed his way. Returning home after nearly two years of being away, all Nick cares about now...

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Review: Callum & Harper

Callum & Harper by Fisher Amelie Published by Self-Published on December 24th 2011 Genres: New Adult-Contemporary/Romance Source: Bought Goodreads "Life sucks for orphans Callum Tate and Harper Bailey. Kicked out of their foster homes because they suffer the 'eighteen disease' with nothing but a hundred dollar check from the government and a pat on the back, they're forced to rely on a system that failed them miserably. So they sit. They sit inside Social Services, waiting for their social workers to call their names and offer them the miracle they know will never come but they sit anyway because they have nowhere else to go, no other options on their very literal and figurative empty plates. But as they sit, they notice the other. Although captivated, they each...

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Blog Tour: Defy The Stars

Hello! Today I have a guest post by the lovely Stephanie Parent. Check out the rest of the tour YA BOUND “Julia Cape: A dedicated classical piano student just trying to get through her last semester of high school while waiting to hear from music conservatories.Reed MacAllister: A slacker more likely to be found by the stoners’ tree than in class.Julia and Reed might have graduated high school without ever speaking to each other…until, during a class discussion of Romeo and Juliet, Julia scoffs at the play’s theme of love at first sight, and Reed responds by arguing that feelings don’t always have to make sense. Julia tries to shake off Reed’s comment and forget about this boy who hangs with the stoner crowd—and who happens to have breathtaking blue...

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