SO MANY COVERS!

Look at all these pretty things!! Click the cover to add to goodreads. 

In Amerie's world, the eviliest of souls can escape from Hell and take up residence in human bodies. It's Amerie's job to send the 'Damned' back. But when her mentor, and mother, dies on the job, Amerie quits and falls off the map.

Until Marshall turns up offering her information on who killed her mother in exchange for her to begin hunting again. As Amerie focuses on revenge (and on winning Marshall's heart), Marshall focuses on deception, and his secret could be more dangerous to her than all of the Damned in the world combined.

 

A romantic sci-fi thriller about love and second chances.

Camden Pike has been grief-stricken since his girlfriend, Viv, died. Viv was the last good thing in his life: helping him rebuild his identity after a career-ending football injury, picking up the pieces when his home life shattered, and healing his pain long after the pain meds wore off. And now, he’d give anything for one more glimpse of her. But when Cam makes a visit to the site of Viv’s deadly car accident, he sees some kind of apparition. And it isn’t Viv.

The apparition’s name is Nina, and she’s not a ghost. She’s a girl from a parallel world, and in this world, Viv is still alive. Cam can’t believe his wildest dreams have come true. All he can focus on is getting his girlfriend back, no matter the cost. But things are different in this other world: Viv and Cam have both made very different choices, things between them have changed in unexpected ways, and Viv isn’t the same girl he remembers. Nina is keeping some dangerous secrets, too, and the window between the worlds is shrinking every day. As Cam comes to terms with who this Viv has become, and the part Nina played in his parallel story, he’s forced to choose—stay with Viv or let her go—before the window closes between them once and for all

Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near-impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one unlikely refugee.

Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life– a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Wrenched from everything she knows, Alina is whisked away to the royal court to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the mysterious Darkling.

Yet nothing in this lavish world is what it seems. With darkness looming and an entire kingdom depending on her untamed power, Alina will have to confront the secrets of the Grisha… and the secrets of her heart.

And their doom comes swiftly.

It was supposed to be the weekend of their lives – an exclusive house party on Henry Island. Best friends Meg and Minnie each have their reasons for being there (which involve T.J., the school's most eligible bachelor) and look forward to three glorious days of boys, booze and fun-filled luxury.

But what they expect is definitely not what they get, and what starts out as fun turns dark and twisted after the discovery of a DVD with a sinister message: Vengeance is mine.

Suddenly people are dying, and with a storm raging, the teens are cut off the from the outside world. No electricity, no phones, no internet, and a ferry that isn't scheduled to return for two days. As the deaths become more violent and the teens turn on each other, can Meg find the killer before more people die? Or is the killer closer to her than she could ever imagine?

What do you guys think???

Cover Reveal: Finn Finnegan

 

 

 

Finn (not bleedin' Finnegan) MacCullen is eager to begin his apprenticeship. He soon discovers the ups and downs of hunting monsters in a suburban neighborhood under the demanding tutelage of the Knight, Gideon Lir. Both master and apprentice are descendents of the Tuatha De Danaan, a magical race of warriors from Ireland. Scattered long ago to the four corners of the world, the De Danaan wage a two thousand year old clandestine battle with their ancient enemy, the Amandán, a breed of goblin-like creatures.

Now with the beasts concentrating their attacks on Finn, he and his master must race to locate the lost Spear of the Tuatha De Danaan, the only weapon that can destroy the Amandán, all the while hiding his true identity from his new friends, Rafe and Savannah, twins whose South African roots may hold a key to Finn's survival. Armed with a bronze dagger, some ancient Celtic magic, and a hair-trigger temper, Finn is about to show his enemies the true meaning of "fighting Irish." 

 

 What do you think of the cover??? I like the spot of blue in Finn's eyes and can't wait to read it!!

 

 

Cover Reveal: Betrayed by Ednah Walters

Spencer Hill Press has a new book coming out in June of 2012. And I get to reveal the cover for BETRAYED!

summary:

Lil isn't just an average teenager. She's one of the Nephilim--the descendants of humans and angels--which gives her some serious psi skills and a mission for redemption. Just when Lil thinks she's found a balance between her normal life with human friends and her training to become a Guardian, she's warned that someone close to her will betray her. When the boy she loves starts acting strangely and one of her human friends acquires a supernatural ability, Lil begins to realize that someone is manipulating the people she loves... and won't stop until she's been lured to the dark side.

Sounds like it could be interesting. Make sure you add it to your TBR pile!!

Title: Betrayed

Series: Guardian Legacy

Author: Ednah Walters

Publisher:  Spencer Hill Press

ISBN: 978-1-937053-18-5 (Trade Paper), 978-1-937053-19-2 (e-book)

Release Date: June, 2012

Cover Reveal: Revived by Cat Patrick

On Friday, I went to this event with Nikki at Wicked Awesome Books where we got ARCs of the new book by Cat Patrick called REVIVED.

As a little girl, Daisy Appleby was killed in a school bus crash. Moments after the accident, she was brought back to life.

A secret government agency has developed a drug called Revive that can bring people back from the dead, and Daisy Appleby, a test subject, has been Revived five times in fifteen years. Daisy takes extraordinary risks, knowing that she can beat death, but each new death also means a new name, a new city, and a new life. When she meets Matt McKean, Daisy begins to question the moral implications of Revive, and as she discovers the agency’s true goals, she realizes she’s at the center of something much larger — and more sinister — than she ever imagined.

After some tweeting with Cat, we learned that the cover hasn't been revealed yet--and since our copies have the cover, she said we could take a picture and reveal the cover with her!

So without further adieu, here's the cover for REVIVED by Cat Patrick!!

And, just because I really like the spine, I took a shot of that too on the shelf with some of my favorite books! A good place for it, I'm sure.

What do you think of the cover?

An Ending. A Beginning. Some Things In-between.

An ending. 

The biggest and most important event in history is happening tonight at midnight.  At least, in literary and movie history.

I can't even handle it. I will cry and I just know it. I'm so nervous, so excited. It's bittersweet to see the end of an era. For some, it's been 13 years from book 1 to this movie.  I'm not even sure how to handle that.

I will always have this amazingly special place in my heart for these three children:

And these three gorgeous adults they turned into. (Sometimes British people age well and beautiful.)

If you are going at midnight, here's a hug from me and a box of tissues. It's going to be emotional. I can't believe the end has come! AHHH. Come back here after you watch it and let me know what you thought.

A beginning.


Have you heard of this little book called Shatter Me? If not let me inform you. Here's the description:

Juliette hasn't touched anyone in exactly 264 days. The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal. As long as she doesn't hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old-girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don't fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color.

The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war- and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she's exactly what they need right now.

Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior.

Sound awesome? IT IS. It's so completely flooring. Well, the cover was revealed today at Hollywood Crush. It too is just GORGEOUS. I imagined the cover in my head and I never imagined this because it's that good. See? I will wait while you swoon.

Seriously. It's fantastic. I'm sure I'll be talking about it A LOT between now and when it releases in November. Taherah Mafi is uber-talented and so so so sweet. And the best part? You can pre-order it now on Amazon | Indie Bound || Book Depository || B&N
Some Things In-between.

1) I just read this book for grad school. And it was FANTASTIC. Just wait, yall. Just. Wait.

2)  I am currently drowning in life. Seriously loves. Writing, homework, apartment searching, planning, sleeping, working--ah! It's so much right now. I feel like I'm neglecting you and I am so sorry.  I will return next week with fun/highly-anticipated book reviews, a giveaway and an open call for awesome. What's that mean? Just wait and see.

3) Enjoy HPDH part 2.

4) Go say hi to Taherah Mafi. She's so awesome and she will say funny things on Twitter.

Cover Me!

Lookie what came into the world today....

Who else is swooning?? ZOMG. Can't wait!

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These were all floating around over the last couple weeks. So, I gathered them up and tada!

 I think BEAUTIFUL CHAOS goes well with the others. Not a huge fan of the gold, but I don't hate it. THE PLEDGE is pretty and I want it now. NOW. 

I think the original cover of DIE FOR ME (in the boat) was really pretty, but this one is nice too. I like the red, but I liked that the last one was a little more different. How many girls' backs do we need on covers? But it's pretty and I can't wait to read. 

CROSSED blows my mind. I can't stop looking at it. Just look at it next to MATCHED and that alone tells a story. Love it!

SHUT OUT sounds like an interesting story. All of Kody's cover have this air about them. LOLA AND THE BOY NEXT DOOR! *squeal* I can't wait. It's so real now that it has a cover! I love everything about this: her purple hair, the almost touching but not really, the shirt the boy is wearing--very next door cute boy. The window they're framed in. LOVE LOVE. LOVE.

VANISH isn't as eye-catching as FIRELIGHT but I like it. Didn't her hair change colors? I thought it was red in the last cover. *Shrugs* The final cover of THE NEAR WITCH, which is even more gorgeous with the swirlies, which I'm saying represent the wind. Love this cover and this book! 

I guess Penguin re-vamped the Nightshade covers. From this:  

 

NIGHTSHADE hardcover/ WOLFSBANE what-they-showed-us cover.

To this:

 

I guess the NIGHSHADE cover is the paperback and the WOLFSBANE cover is the hardback and paperback. If that's wrong someone correct me. Cremer said on her blog that the overall response was that the old covers "didn't convey enough about the story so that's the idea behind the new covers." Some bloggers have yelled about hating them, said they looked like bad jobs, but I think they capture the story perfectly. Now, you know exactly what you're getting when you look at the book. 

That's all I have. What do you guys think?

Cover Me! SUPERNATURALLY

 Over on her blog today, Kirsten White revealed the cover for Supernaturally, the sequel to a book I loved called Paranormalcy. And. IT. IS. GORGEOUS. I seriously already have a whole display planned of red and black books for the store when it's released . Anyway....COVER.

 

 Life's never fair when faeries are involved.
The sequel to Paranormalcy.

(That's obviously not the description, which is still in hiding.) And lookie, a whole picture of the front and back--which is MORE gorgeous on a whole. Wow. 

I WANT IT. What do you think of the cover?

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Are freaking gorgeous. I wanted to make sure I shared. So...here are some that have come out recently that I didn't want you to miss. Why? Because they are gorgeous. :)

Leigh Fallon's debut novel sounds really, really good! And I like this cover!

A move to Ireland is about to introduce Megan to her destiny, her real destiny, can she embrace it and will she survive it?

A tragedy in Megan’s past set her on a predetermined course. A chain of events has been set in motion that brings Megan to Kinsale, a small town in the south of Ireland where her destiny awaits her. Her life starts to fall into place as she makes new friends and settles into her new school. However, the reclusive and distant Adam DeRís calls to her body and soul.

She finds herself increasingly drawn to Adam and his strange family. Adam knows a secret from her past and he and his family hold the key to her future. A future that binds her to Adam and his world, a world of power, mystery and ancient orders. A world that unbeknownst to her, she very much belongs in. 

Myra McEntire's amazing debut is one I'm super pumped for. I love Myra--and I can't wait to read Hourglass. And look at the cover---girl is on the wall! 

 

Since the age of fourteen, Emerson Cole has seen strange things – dead things – swooning Southern Belles, soldiers, and other eerie apparitions of the past. She’s tried everything to get rid of the visions: medication, counseling, asylums. Nothing’s worked.

So when Emerson's well-meaning brother calls in yet another consultant from a mysterious organization called the Hourglass, Emerson’s willing to give it one last try.

Michael Weaver is no ordinary consultant. He's barely older than she is; he listens like no one she's ever met before; and he doesn't make her feel the least bit crazy. As Emerson ventures deeper into the world of the Hourglass, she begins to learn the truth about her past, her future--and her very life.

A seductive time-slip novel that merges the very best of the paranormal and science fiction genres, Myra McEntire’s Hourglass is a stunning debut from an author to watch . Comes out May 24!

Here's another I can't wait for (but have to as it doesn't come out until Sept) by Michelle Hodkin.

Mara Dyer believes life can’t get any stranger than waking up in a
hospital with no memory of how she got there. It can.

She believes there must be more to the accident she can’t remember
that killed her friends and left her strangely unharmed. There is.

She doesn’t believe that after everything she’s been
through, she can fall in love. She’s wrong.

Yup...I know, right? The cover's been around for awhile now but I still love it. 

  

To the left is the paperback cover of Tricia Rayburn's book SIREN. I loved the hardcover but wow, this is pretty.  And to the right is the cover for the sequel: UNDERCURRENT. It is equally beautiful. There's no description yet of the book, but it comes out on July 12, 2011.

Siren description:

Vacationing in Winter Harbor, Maine, is a tradition for Vanessa and Justine Sands, and that means spending time with the Carmichael boys. This summer, Vanessa is determined to channel some of her older sister’s boldness, get over her fear of the ocean, and maybe turn her friendship with Simon Carmichael into something much more.

But when Justine goes cliff-diving after a big family argument, and her body washes ashore the next day, Vanessa is sure that it was more than an accident. She is more certain of this, when she discovers that her sister was keeping some big secrets and Caleb Carmichael’s gone missing. Suddenly, the entire oceanfront town is abuzz when a series of grim, water-related accidents occur, with the male victims washed ashore grinning from ear to ear. 

Vanessa and Simon team up to figure out if these creepy deaths have anything to do with Justine and Caleb. But will what Vanessa discovers mean the end of her summer romance, or even life as she knows it?

I loved Heist Society by Ally Carter. And finally, here's a cover for the sequel: Uncommon Criminals. If you haven't read Heist, you need to.

Katarina Bishop has worn a lot of labels in her short life. Friend. Niece. Daughter. Thief. But for the last two months she’s simply been known as the girl who ran the crew that robbed the greatest museum in the world. That’s why Kat isn’t surprised when she’s asked to steal the infamous Cleopatra Emerald so it can be returned to its rightful owners.

There are only three problems. First, the gem hasn’t been seen in public in thirty years. Second, since the fall of the Egyptian empire and the suicide of Cleopatra, no one who holds the emerald keeps it for long, and in Kat’s world, history almost always repeats itself. But it’s the third problem that makes Kat’s crew the most nervous and that is simply… the emerald is cursed.

Kat might be in way over her head, but she’s not going down without a fight. After all she has her best friend—the gorgeous Hale—and the rest of her crew with her as they chase the Cleopatra around the globe, dodging curses, realizing that the same tricks and cons her family has used for centuries are useless this time.

Which means, this time, Katarina Bishop is making up her own rules.

Here are two more covers that I really think are pretty that have also come out in the last few weeks.

Maybe it's just me, but there definitely seems to be a theme among most of these covers. Perhaps grey, mysterious and alluring is in!

Cover Me! (2) and a birthday!!

Today is a good day. It's Scott Tracey's birthday!! (Happy birthday Scott!!) It's also the day he revealed the cover for WITCH EYES.

Braden Michaels wears his sunglasses at night.  And at the movies.  And in the shower.  Raised by his warlock uncle and taught to use magic, he suffers from a deadly curse: the witch eyes.  He sees everything that normal eyes filter out: history and memory; love and pain; magic and darkness.  The mind, however, was not meant to process so much, and the power is killing him slowly.  The only thing saving his sanity are the sunglasses he always wears.

And then the visions reveal a dark threat on the horizon.  Braden runs away to Belle Dam, the city where the threat originated, and is immediately swept up into the town’s mysterious feud.  Two rival magical families have divided the town into a personal chessboard of scheming and machinations, and Braden is their latest pawn.  As he tries to avoid their manipulations, and see the truth behind his return to Belle Dam, he has a choice to make.  One side, or the other.  Ignite the feud, or end it.  Sacrifice himself, or someone else.  Live, or die.

WITCH EYES will be released in the fall of 2011.

Watch the (original)  book trailer here. 

Isn't it cool??

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The last couple weeks have been cover reveal amazingness! I've put together a selection of a few (ahem) that I've noticed. Some are just beautiful and some I can't wait to read!

What do you think of them? Anything else you've seen that I missed? What are you excited about?

Speaking of excited...Leah Clifford's book A TOUCH MORTAL comes out in February and she needs help with a name for a guy character. It ends Wednesday at 12:59 PM. So watch the video and do what she says! Maybe you'll win the signed ARC, the praise in the acknowledgments and having a character in someone's book. Totally awesome. Enter here.