Pride's Run

If there is anyone looking now, I just found out Pride's Run by Cat Kalen is free on Amazon right now! I'm so excited about this because I've heard so much about the book and I wanted to read it so bad! 

Seventeen year old Pride is a tracker—a werewolf with a hunger for blood. Taught to trick and to lure, she is the perfect killing machine.

Kept leashed in the cellar by a master who is as ruthless as he is powerful, Pride dreams of freedom, of living a normal life, but escape from the compound is near impossible and disobedience comes with a price.

When she learns her master intends to breed her she knows she has to run.

Pride soon learns if she is to survive in the wild, she must trust in the boy who promises her freedom, the same boy she was sent to hunt.

With life and death hanging in the balance the two find themselves on the run from the Paranormal Task Force—officers who shoot first and ask questions later—as well as her master’s handlers.
Can Pride flee the man who has held her captive since birth and find sanctuary in the arms of a boy who has captured her heart? Or will her master find her first? 

If you're looking forward to reading this book, check out Amazon here what's left of today the 21st! 

Teaser Tuesday

Happy Tuesday everyone! :) Are you ready for Teaser Tuesday?


Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading where you grab your current read, flip to a random page, and share 2 teaser sentences from that page! 


The book I'm going to tease you with today is actually one that won't come out for another week or two: Losing Clementine by Ashley Ream. I got this book from a first reads giveaway over at Goodreads and I love it so far! Look for the review of this probably later this week cause it's hard to put down! 

Amazon Description: In thirty days Clementine Pritchard will be finished with her last painting and her life.

World-renowned artist and sharp-tongued wit Clementine Pritchard has decided that she's done. After flushing away a medicine cabinet full of prescriptions, she gives herself thirty days to tie up loose ends—finish one last painting, make nice with her ex-husband, and find a home for her cat. Clementine plans to spend the month she has left in a swirl of art-world parties, manic work sessions, and outrageous acts—but what she doesn't expect is to uncover secrets surrounding the tragedy that befell her mother and sister. In an ending no one sees coming, will we lose Clementine or will we find her?

A bold debut from an exciting new voice, Losing Clementine is a wonderfully entertaining and poignant novel about unanticipated self-discovery that features one of the most irresistible, if deeply flawed, characters to grace contemporary fiction in years.

My two sentences from Losing Clementine are from page 195 (a random page picked by my glorious roommate) so I don't know what's happening at this point myself but a couple sentences jumped out at me: 


"I wiped my sweaty hands on my dress, which had no doubt picked up the aroma of microwave burriot." 


"Would it be considered a sign of aggression to knock on his window? Could he have had a stroke sitting in his cruiser? What were the odds he was in desperate need of CPR at the very moment I was tapping my thumbs on the steering wheel?" 


I know that second one was a couple sentences but they just need to stay together to get the overall effect don't you think? So do these sentences whet your appetite? Looking forward to reading the book? Good! :) 

Read It First

Have y'all heard of this site Read-it-First? I signed up for it a couple weeks ago and I have to say, I'm enjoying it! This site sends you the first couple pages of the week's featured title every morning so you can sample a book from your inbox. The emails take about five minutes to read and I had to add one book to my TBR pile from the first series of emails they sent me!  I missed a couple books because I was just swamped with school work but I just checked my email to see my newest book is Gypsy Boy by Mikey Walsh. The blurb from the email is "A #1 "Sunday Times" bestseller in the U.K., "GYPSY BOY" is the shocking story of what life is really like among the secretive Romany Gypsies, written by a young man who escaped from them." Sounds interesting no? 


I would suggest signing up as long as you check your email fairly regularly! If you read the first email and don't like the book, all you have to do is delete the emails that week and then the next week you'll have a brand new book to sample! If you do like the emails from the books however, you might have another book to add to your TBR pile. 


I hope you take advantage of this service if you want a chance to sample a random read. If you have and you didn't like it, please leave me a comment. If you're a member and you LOVE it, please leave me a comment saying that! 

Now its easier than ever to follow me!

I've been working on making my blog a little more user family and now it's easier than ever to follow me! Now you can follow me on GFC, email, Linky Followers, and twitter! If there isn't a following way that suits me, let me know and I'll look into getting something for you!

I also just want to take this time to say thank you to everyone that is a follower. You have no idea what it means to me to see that I've gotten a comment, or that I have more than 1 view everyday. Seeing that I have another follower just makes my day! I can't believe there are 32 people out there wanting to read what I've written! Y'all are AWESOME! You guys are really amazing. Thanks!

Dirty Little Secret!

Dirty Little Secret is a weekly meme hosted at Under the Covers. Every Thursday we get to know other bloggers and our readers more intimately by asking them a question hoping to reveal their dirty little secrets.  We hope that you will all join us!

To participate in the meme all you need to do is:

1. Be a follower of Under the Covers.
2. Create a post in your blog taking the meme image (code above) and copy instructions. 
3. Answer the question we propose! This can be done in any way you like, post a video, write a post etc.
4. Then add your link below.

This week's question:

Heroes in historical romance like the extremes - the virgin hero or the rogue rake. Which of the two makes you shudder in pleasure?

Oh I totally didn't expect a question like this! I.... prefer a rake most of the time. If they aren't too mean or arrogant, or can pull the arrogance off, then the rake isn't afraid to say what he wants and is ok with being aggressive!  I want the hero to have a bit of darkness, to have a couple skeletons in his closet. I like the books where the hero comes walking in with stubble on his chin and bruises on his knuckles because he was off on some debauchery the night before. My kind of rogue is all about giving his chick what she wants while making sure he gets his own too! :)

What about you? What is your favorite in those steamy historical romances? :)

Hoarder Update!

I am SO behind in my reviewing and I'm trying my best to catch up but while out and about today I stopped by our local Hospice Thrift Store where I volunteered for about two hours stocking the books on the shelves. I had to look at the books to determine what shelf they would go on- this store organizes the book by genre (kinda. small harlequins/shilloutes on one bookcase, bigger romances in another, suspense, mystery and war on another case, etc.) instead of doing something like our Goodwill that just shoves the books on the shelves.-I don't buy books from Goodwill unless I can help it. I can buy 8 paperback books at the Hospice Store for the same price as 4 at the Goodwill. Anyways, while I was looking at these books I put some aside that were my grandma's type of book or looked really interesting. Then when I had finished stacking the shelves, I waled out the store $4.50 poorer and 9 books richer! I thought I'd take this time to tell y'all I might need an intervention and to show y'all what I got!


- I got three Love Inspired romance books for my Grandmother

- Esther: A Woman of Strength and Dignity by Charles R. Swindol

- Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg-- love this book!

- The Rustler by Linda Lael Miller

-Georgia- Love is Just Peachy in Four Complete Novels with

Heaven's Child by Gina Fields
On Wings of Love by Brenda Knight Graham
Restore the Joy by Sara Mitchell and
A Match Made in Heaven by Kathleen Yapp

- How Great Thou Art: 365 Reasons Why God is Awesome by Steve Halliday and William Travis

Triumphant Hearts - In four complete novels love is the strongest remnant after the battle  with:
Remnant of Light by Taylor James
Remnant of Forgiveness by Sally Laity
Remnant of Grace by Susan Downs and
Renmant of Victory Jeri Odell




And Tuesday I got more books still! I got:

- The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, A Death, And America's Dilemma by Alex Kotlowitz

- What I Did Wrong: A Novel by John Weir









- A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi (the picture from Goodreads and shows the edition I got, the link will take you its Amazon page though)

- The Wedding: A Novel by Dorothy West

George & Rue by George Elliott Clarke

- The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson

- The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley







Whew! That was my version of In My Mailbox only without adding any books I might have won recently or the books that I have waiting for my reviewers eye upon them! What do you think of my list? I think these books all look pretty amazing even if I won't be able to get to them for a while yet! :)

Giveaway Question:

So y'all know how much I love entering giveaways but did you know that I've been toying with the idea of hosting my own giveaway? That's right! Giveaways seem like such fun and I would like to get my name and blog into some more feeders out there. The only crux is I'm a poor college kid with very little money to spend and honestly, if I were going to spend my little amount of money on books, I'd want to be able to read them. :) I know, I'm selfish.

My question(s) to you all is, if I hosted a giveaway would you enter? What kind of prize would you want? If I were to offer some gently used book I bought from my local Hospice thrift store would you want to win them? Should I do a quick trail run giveaway before I enter something like a hop? Leave me a comment and let me know! A giveaway on my blog, amazing or not so much?
Thanks!

February Is A Month of Hops!

I have a running list of giveaway hops on my computer with the names, links, and dates of some of the giveaway hops I run across! I thought I'd show you all my list now so that if you wanted to you could hop along and try to win you some free books! (the links should take you to the pages devoted to the hop)

1. My Book Boyfriend Giveaway Hop February 1-5 at Reading Between the Wines *may be inappropriate for younger audiences!*
2.  Black History Month Giveaway Hop February 1-7 at Reflections of a Bookaholic 
3. Romancing the Valentine Hop February 6-13 at Reading Romances
4. Love is in the Air Hop February 7-14 at Under the Covers *may be inappropriate for younger audiences* 
5. Follower Love Hop February 7-14 at I Am A Reader Not A Writer
6. Vampires for Valentines Hop February 10-16 at Felicity Heaton's Site *may be inappropriate for younger audiences* 
7. I <3 YA Hop February 14-20 at About to Read
8. Naughty After Dark Hop February 15-22 at Close Encounters With the Night Kind *may be inappropriate for younger audiences* 
9. Random Acts of Kindness Hop February 17-21 at I Am A Reader Not A Writer
10. Literary Hop February 18-22 at Leeswammes' Blog
11. Young Adult Paranormal Activity Hop February 24- 28 at I Am A Reader Not A Writer
12. Leap Into Books Hop February 29-March 5 at I Am A Reader Not A Writer

Whoo! That's a lot of hops starting in February! Do you have your giveaway cap on? :) Can you hop through and enter them ALL?! Give it the ole' college try! And if that wasn't enough, there are even more hops going on soon! 

1. Feelin' Lucky Hop March 7-13 at Fictional Candy *may be inappropriate for younger audiences*
2. Lunar Love Hop March 8-13 at I Am A Reader Not A Writer
3. Lucky Leprechaun Hop March 17-22 at I Am A Reader Not A Writer
4. Small Press Treasures March 17-24 at Sam's Awesomeness 
5. 18 & Over Hop March 22-25 at Bitten by Paranormal Romance *not suitable for younger audiences* 
6. Kick-Butt Characters Hop March 23- 28 at I Am A Reader Not A Writer
7. Charity Hopping Around the World March 30-April 4 at I Am A Reader Not A Writer
8. Hoppy Easter Eggstravaganze April 6-12 at I Am A Reader Not A Writer
9. Autism Awareness Hop April 11- 17 at I Am A Reader Not A Writer
10. Hunky Hero Hop April 16-22 at Riverina Romantics *may not be suitable for younger audiences* 
11. LDS Authors Hop May 11- 17 at I Am A Reader Not A Writer

The main page that I look at when I look for my giveaway hops is I Am A Reader Not A Writer. She host a ton of them all the time!