Demonglass by Rachel Hawkins

This is the beautiful cover for Rachel Hawkins' second installment in the Hex Hall series, Demonglass.

I CANNOT wait until March 1st! I need this book now!

Tell me what you think about this gorgeous cover.

Abandon by Meg Cabot

I've been anxiously awaiting this book for about 2 years now and here is the AMAZING book jacket.

And the description is on Meg's site. This is so awesome!

Born at Midnight by C.C. Hunter

TEN Follower Giveaway!!!

Since I have reached the impossible (10 followers!) I am going to have a giveaway in hopes of getting ten more followers. So I'm going to give away my slightly used ARC copy of Beautiful Darkness. My very first GIVEAWAY!!! If I get more than twenty followers in one month, I'll add another book.

Rules to Enter:

You must be a follower so please provide your follower name in your comment along with your e-mail address so that I can contact you.

For extra entries:

Tweet/Facebook about this giveaway (leave a seperate comment with link + e-mail address)

Post this giveaway anywhere on your blog (leave a seperate comment with link + e-mail address)

Contest ends October 30th at 11:59 P.M.

Winners will be announced when I reach twenty followers or by October 31st!

Good luck!

*I forgot to add that it's not international which means US only, but the people who entered so far will still be counted.*

Torment Review

Torment by Lauren Kate (the sequel to Fallen)

*Unfortunately my desktop isn't working and my laptop does not let me copy and paste texts into my posts, so if you would like to read the blurb you can just click here.*

*Also note that even though the trailer for this book has been out for awhile, I decided to put it on my blog yesterday in order to get things pumped up.*

My Review

Torment was significantly better in my opinion than the first book, Fallen.
Luce to me grew up a little, she realized that people were telling her what to do, but yet they would never give her answers as to why they were. To some readers it may seem that she's being stubborn but unlike her, we know that something is happening that requires Luce to lay low.

This novel had more adventure, answers, questions, romance and just a better air than the last one. I loved that Kate introduced Luce to a new, semi-normal love interest, and I adore all of the new characters she added along with the old ones she brought back. The shadows Luce kept seeing, a.k.a. the Announcers and their purpose was also really cool.

My only miff was the fact that Demon Boy was only in the book for maybe ten total pages! I love CAM! Daniel is nothing compared to that sexy, dark boy. When I was reading and I realized that there was very little Cam, I quickly grew disappointed.

So all in all I'd have to give this novel 4/5 stars just because Cam did a disappearing act.

Torment by Lauren Kate

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Courtney Allison Moulton is giving away Angelfire plus more!

My favorite YA 2011 debut author Courtney Allison Moulton is giving away an ARC of Angelfire!

She's also giving away 3 other Prize Packs that include The Duff, Vampire Academy and Vampire Diaries and some fun Halloween toys.

I'm so excited! I want to win Angelfire more than anything else in the whole world (and no, I am not overexaggerating)!

The contest is over at Courtney's blog.

Review- Wolves, Boys & Other Things That Might Kill Me

Wolves, Boys & Other Things That Might Kill Me by Kristen Chandler

When KJ Carson is assigned to write a column for her school newspaper about the wolves in nearby Yellowstone National Park, she’s more interested in impressing Virgil Whitman, the new kid in school and the photographer assigned as her partner, than in investigative journalism. But before long, KJ has a face-to-face encounter with a wolf that changes her and the way she thinks about wolves. With her new found passion for protecting these controversial animals, KJ inadvertently ignites the fuse of the anti-wolf sentiment in the community. First Virgil is injured during a town parade, and then her father’s store is set on fire in retribution. To stop the escalating violence, KJ follows Virgil to the cattle ranch of the most outspoken anti-wolf activists in town, against her father’s will. What she discovers there threatens everything and everyone she cares about.
In KJ’s fierce and funny attempt to make peace between the wolves and the people that despise them, she must first face her own long-held fears. It’s terrifying, but then, finding yourself always is.

Taken from Kristen Chandler's site.
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To me this story was unexpected. I won it through a contest on Bree Despain's (the author of The Dark Divine and the sequel, to be released this December, The Lost Saint) blog. I just thought "Oh this will be a fun, young love story." Boy was I WRONG!

This novel goes deep into the heart of every animal-lover out there. The town that K.J. lives in seems so selfish at first, but throughtout the novel you begin to see the reasons behind the controversy, and although you may not agree with their methods, the people do have good reasons.

K.J. was and is that awkward, silent, wall-blending girl that most teenage girls can relate to. But by the middle of the novel you realize that her heart and drive is more dedicated than any hard-core environmentalist. She made me laugh, she nearly brought me to tears, and I adored her.
K.J.'s love interest with Virgil however was a little shakier to me. He was the person who introduced her to the "rebelling" lifestyle, but yet by the end of the novel he seems like he's trying to cover every point he's made, up. Don't get me wrong, it was a cute teen love story, but I didn't find it as riveting as others. And some people probably hated the ending to the book asking, "What? How could she do that?" but I thought it was a depiction of the real world and not some made up "Cinderella" story.

Overall this novel opened my eyes a little more and left me with a heartwarming feeling.

3.5/5 stars