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Is it out yet? #3: The Retribution of Mara Dyer, Michelle Hodkin

May 14, 2013 Maeva Is it out yet? 7 Comments Post em Português

Is it out yet? has been loosely inspired on Breaking the Spine’s Waiting on Wednesday, but we decided not to have a specific day for it, and we modified a few details from the original. On Is it out yet? we’ll talk a little bit about a book we’re anxious to be released and why.

Attention! This is the third book of the Mara Dyer trilogy,
so if you haven’t read The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer and The Evolution of Mara Dyer yet and don’t want to know spoilers, don’t read this post!

Check out quotes of my reviews for this trilogy:

“I have to confess The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer left me speechless. After reading so many books in the past few years, it’s difficult not to guess what is going to happen through a story, but Michenlle Hodkin’s debut novel is so awesome that you have no idea how it’s going to end. You try to guess, but it’s like you’re as clueless as Mara during the whole time. And the ending is really good, it leaves you leaning for more.” — The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

“If The Unbecoming left me speechless, The Evolution doubled that. I simply could not see any of the turns that came, page after page, and I have no word better than brilliant to define them!” — The Evolution of Mara Dyer

You can tell how excited I am about this book simply by the fact that I’m doing an Is it out yet? and we don’t even have a summary for it yet!
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Coming up next… #32: The Book of Broken Hearts, Sarah Ockler

May 11, 2013 Guta Coming up next... 3 Comments Post em Português

Coming up next… has been loosely inspired on Should Be Reading’s Teaser Tuesdays, but we decided not to have a specific day for it, and we modified a few details from the original. On Coming up next… we’ll talk a little bit about a book we’re reading or we have already finished reading, but its review has not been published yet.

How it’s going to work: We’ll post an excerpt of the book,
without spoilers, and we’ll make a little note about our reading,
with an expected publication date for the review, if any.

Our book for today’s Coming up next… is Sarah Ockler’s The Book of Broken Hearts. The book will break your heart, exactly in the same way it has been breaking ours while reading. A tale as much about love as about family, that will let you tired from crying and seeing beauty in pain, but in the end will be completely worth it.

There’s an excerpt below:

“And in that moment, I felt alive. Whole. Protected from the ravages of time and completely immune to its passing.

Nothing about this could ever end in tears.“

Our review of The Book of Broken Hearts should be up until the end of the month.

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Review: Dare You To, Katie McGarry

May 10, 2013 Guta and Maeva Reviews 3 Comments Post em Português

If anyone knew the truth about Beth Risk’s home life, they’d send her mother to jail and seventeen-year-old Beth who knows where. So she protects her mom at all costs. Until the day her uncle swoops in and forces Beth to choose between her mom’s freedom and her own happiness. That’s how Beth finds herself living with an aunt who doesn’t want her and going to a school that doesn’t understand her. At all. Except for the one guy who shouldn’t get her, but does….

Ryan Stone is the town golden boy, a popular baseball star jock-with secrets he can’t tell anyone. Not even the friends he shares everything with, including the constant dares to do crazy things. The craziest? Asking out the Skater girl who couldn’t be less interested in him.

But what begins as a dare becomes an intense attraction neither Ryan nor Beth expected. Suddenly, the boy with the flawless image risks his dreams-and his life-for the girl he loves, and the girl who won’t let anyone get too close is daring herself to want it all.

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HarlequinTeen, Katie McGarry, New Adult, Pushing the Limits Series, Rated 4 books, Romance 3 Comments

What should Guta review next?

May 9, 2013 Guta Murphy's Library messages 3 Comments Post em Português

As you guys already know, I have an intense reading list every month, and it’s not every single read book that is reviewed here! So, thinking that maybe you are curious about some of the books I’ve been putting on my reading list, I decided to give you the chance to select what I should review between the unreviewed list below!

So, please, this is the time to help me out! What should I review next? The 4 books choosen by you guys will be reviewed between May 15th and June 15th!

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Is it out yet? #2: Allegiant, Veronica Roth

May 8, 2013 Guta Is it out yet? 4 Comments Post em Português

Is it out yet? has been loosely inspired on Breaking the Spine’s
Waiting on Wednesday, but we decided not to have a specific day for it,
and we modified a few details from the original. On Is it out yet?
we’ll talk a little bit about a book we’re anxious to be released and why.

Attention! This is the third book of the Divergent series,
so if you haven’t read the series, Divergent and Insurgent
yet and don’t want to know spoilers, don’t read this post!

One choice will define you.

What if your whole world was a lie?

What if a single revelation—like a single choice—changed everything?

What if love and loyalty made you do things you never expected?

The explosive conclusion to Veronica Roth’s #1 New York Times bestselling Divergent trilogy reveals the secrets of the dystopian world that has captivated millions of readers in Divergent and Insurgent.

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Murphy’s favorite books #21: Captive of the Dark, CJ Roberts

May 7, 2013 Maeva Murphy's favorite books 4 Comments Post em Português

Murphy’s favorite books is a post to talk about a book or series that we gave up on reading. If you like the idea, please, feel free to share your Murphy’s favorite books too.

Important: This post shows our opinion, and our opinion only. We would like to note that people can (and probably will) like these books for the same reasons we didn’t like it. It’s not a flame, we don’t have the intention of bad-mouth the author or their books. It’s a review, but it is not under the Reviews category because we couldn’t finish reading or took a long time to do it. Sometimes a book that one of us liked can be featured here because the other didn’t like it. Again: it is just our opinion.

Caleb is a man with a singular interest in revenge. Kidnapped as a young boy and sold into slavery by a power-hungry mobster, he has thought of nothing but vengeance. For twelve years he has immersed himself in the world of pleasure slaves searching for the one man he holds ultimately responsible. Finally, the architect of his suffering has emerged with a new identity, but not a new nature. If Caleb is to get close enough to strike, he must become the very thing he abhors and kidnap a beautiful girl to train her to be all that he once was.

Eighteen-year-old Olivia Ruiz has just woken up in a strange place. Blindfolded and bound, there is only a calm male voice to welcome her. His name is Caleb, though he demands to be called Master. Olivia is young, beautiful, naïve and willful to a fault. She has a dark sensuality that cannot be hidden or denied, though she tries to accomplish both. Although she is frightened by the strong, sadistic, and arrogant man who holds her prisoner, what keeps Olivia awake in the dark is her unwelcome attraction to him.

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You’ve got mail #78

May 6, 2013 Maeva You've got mail 5 Comments Post em Português

You’ve got mail is a post where we share the books that we
bought, won or received for review since the last You’ve got mail.
It’s hosted by The Story Siren with the name In my mailbox.

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Review: Me Before You, Jojo Moyes

May 6, 2013 Guta Reviews 4 Comments Post em Português

Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick.

What Lou doesn’t know is she’s about to lose her job or that knowing what’s coming is what keeps her sane.
Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. He knows everything feels very small and rather joyless now and he knows exactly how he’s going to put a stop to that.

What Will doesn’t know is that Lou is about to burst into his world in a riot of colour. And neither of them knows they’re going to change the other for all time.