Recent Cover Reveals!

Sentinel
by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Series: Covenant #5
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback
Release Date: December 10, 2013
by Spencer Hill Press

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It's a beautiful day for a war. Alex must face a terrible choice between destruction of everything she loves and her own destruction. The final book in the COVENANT series.

The Covenant Series:

Check out my review of Half-Blood, here

Check out my review of Pure, here.

Check out my review of Deity, here
Check out my review of Apollyon, here

One Tiny Lie

by K.A. Tucker

Series: Ten Tiny Breaths #2

Pages: 256

Format: Paperback

Release Date: January 14, 2014

by Atria Books (an imprint of Simon & Schuster)

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Livie has always been the stable one of the two Cleary sisters, handling her parents' tragic death and Kacey's self-destructive phase with strength and maturity. But underneath that exterior is a little girl hanging onto the last words her father ever spoke to her. “Make me proud,” he had said. She promised she would...and she’s done her best over the past seven years with every choice, with every word, with every action. Livie walks into Princeton with a solid plan, and she’s dead set on delivering on it: Rock her classes, set herself up for medical school, and meet a good, respectable guy that she’s going to someday marry. What isn’t part of her plan are Jell-O shots, a lovable, party animal roommate she can’t say ‘no’ to, and Ashton, the gorgeous captain of the men’s rowing team. Definitely him. He’s an arrogant ass who makes Livie’s usually non-existent temper flare and everything she doesn’t want in a guy. Worse, he’s best friends and roommates with Connor, who happens to fits Livie’s criteria perfectly. So why does she keep thinking about Ashton? As Livie finds herself facing mediocre grades, career aspirations she no longer thinks she can handle, and feelings for Ashton that she shouldn’t have, she’s forced to let go of her last promise to her father and, with it, the only identity that she knows.

The Ten Tiny Breaths series:

What do you guys think of these new covers?????

Waiting on Wednesday #62

This is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine that spotlites upcoming new releases that we're highly anticipating.

This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:

Dead Girls Don't Lie by Jennifer Shaw Wolf

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Publisher: Walker Childrens
Release Date: September 17, 2013

Rachel died at two a.m . . . Three hours after Skyler kissed me for the first time. Forty-five minutes after she sent me her last text. 
Jaycee and Rachel were best friends. But that was before. . .before that terrible night at the old house. Before Rachel shut Jaycee out. Before Jaycee chose Skyler over Rachel. Then Rachel is found dead. The police blame a growing gang problem in their small town, but Jaycee is sure it has to do with that night at the old house. Rachel’s text is the first clue—starting Jaycee on a search that leads to a shocking secret. Rachel’s death was no random crime, and Jaycee must figure out who to trust before she can expose the truth. 
In the follow-up to her powerful debut, Jennifer Shaw Wolf keeps readers on their toes in another dark, romantic story of murder and secrets.

What are you guys waiting on this week?

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YADP Post: Vengeance Bound by Justina Ireland

Young Adult Debut Promotions (YADP) is a post I do to help out debut authors, and to get them noticed.  My posts will definitely include a feature of the book, a feature of the author, and a giveaway, with an interview, guest post, or excerpt optional.  If you would like more information about YADP click here and scroll down until you come to the section talking about it.

Today I am featuring...


Cat Winters
And I will be doing an excerpt and giveaway!

~The Book~

Vengeance Bound

by Justina Ireland

Pages: 320

Release Date: April 2, 2013

by Simon & Schuster

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The Goddess Test meetsDexter in an edgy, compelling debut about one teen’s quest for revenge… no matter how far it takes her.
Cory Graff is not alone in her head. Bound to a deal of desperation made when she was a child, Cory’s mind houses the Furies—the hawk and the serpent—lingering always, waiting for her to satisfy their bloodlust. After escaping the asylum where she was trapped for years, Cory knows how to keep the Furies quiet. By day, she lives a normal life, but by night, she tracks down targets the Furies send her way. And she brings down Justice upon them. Cory’s perfected her system of survival, but when she meets a mysterious boy named Niko at her new school, she can’t figure out how she feels about him. For the first time, the Furies are quiet in her head around a guy. But does this mean that Cory’s finally found someone who she can trust, or are there greater factors at work? As Cory’s mind becomes a battlefield, with the Furies fighting for control, Cory will have to put everything on the line to hold on to what she’s worked so hard to build.

~Excerpt~

I break off the kiss and notice with some surprise that Niko's arms are pulling me even closer. Our bodies are pressed together, and I'm no longer cold. He nuzzles my neck, trailing little kisses down to the space where it meets my shoulder. I lean into his touch, wrapping my arms around him to steady myself, since my legs have gone weak. He kisses the hollow near my ear. "What's your secret?" he whispers, before nibbling my earlobe. I sigh, since I've lost the ability to speak coherently, and he laughs before kissing me again.

~Giveaway~

~There will be 1 winner

~Giveaway ends on April 27, 2013 @ 12:00 A.M.

~This giveaway is US/CAN

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US vs UK #13 + Bookshelf Scavenger Hunt Tag

US vs UK is a meme hosted by Book Passion for Life.  In this meme, I will post a US and UK cover from the same book, and you guys will vote which one you like best.

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The Score:

US: 9 UK: 1 Draw: 2

  VS   

My Vote:

I honestly can't decide which one I like best! On the one hand I really like the US cover because of the dark feel and the model channels the feel of the book perfectly.  But, on the other hand, the UK cover has a really good tag-line, and the model captures the feel as well.  So, for me, it's a toss-up.

Links: Goodreads / Purchase

Which cover do you like best?

Leave a comment to vote!

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Last week's winner was...UK!
Click here to view last week's covers!!!

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Bookshelf Scavenger Hunt Tag!

Hey everyone!  So I've been thinking, and I've decided that I might not make Emily's Ramblings a weekly thing because sometimes I just don't have anything to ramble about.  Like today.  I initially wasn't going to post anything, but then I saw this video and the tag looked really fun.  It was created by TheLibrayroSarah on YouTube.  So that's what I'm going to be doing today!!  So let's get started!!

• Find an author's name or title with the letter Z in it

This one was actually pretty hard.  I had to look through my main bookshelf, the shelves in my closet, then I had to look through all the books that I was going to get rid of but still had, and I was lucky enough to find...

Who Done it, by Jon SciesZka

• Find a classic

This one was easy.  I keep all the classics that I've read in my room, so I picked randomly and got...

It's a little beat up but much loved.  My parent's actually gave me this copy, so that's pretty cool.  This is one of my most favorite classics that I've read.

• Find a book with a key on it

I didn't know if I actually had a book with a key on it because I couldn't think of one off the top of my head, but after a bit of searching I found...

And here's the key...

• Find something on your bookshelf that's not a book

Easy.  I got this from Grandma for Christmas

• Find the oldest book on your shelf

Okay, for this one I have two books.  I couldn't figure out if I was supposed to pick one that's first edition was published the earliest, or if I was supposed to pick a book that, in the edition I owned, was published earliest.  So, here are the two books...

Pride and Prejudice was first published in 1813 but, obviously, this isn't the orignial edition.  The Great Gatsby, in this edition, was published 1925.  I'm not sure if this edition is the orignial one (probs not, it's in too good condition) but it looks a bit old.

And since I have two, that means bonus points.

• Find a book with a girl on the cover

I gotta tell ya, this one was really hard.  Especially when most of my bookshelf has a girl on the cover.  So I just picked a random one...

• Find a book that has an animal in it

Easy.

• Find a book with a male protagonist

I'm ashamed to say that I only own three (I think, not sure, I'm just thinking real quick) books with a male protagonist. *hides in corner*.  But I do own a really famous book with a male protagonist and that is...

You really can't do a tag without mentioning Harry Potter at least once.

• Find a book with only words on it

This one didn't take me long to find because I had seen it when I was looking for another book, but here is...

• Find a book with illustrations in it

I actually just finished reading this book.  And I'm glad I own it becaue I don't have another book with pictures in it.

And here are some of the pics

• Find a book with gold lettering

I thought this was going to be really hard to do, but I found two books pretty quickly...bonus points!!

• Find a diary (true or fictional)

There's actually a whole series of these books, and I aboslutely loved them when I was younger (I still do, actually).  But I just picked a random one (which also happened to be one of my favorites from the series ;P)

• Find a book written by someone with a common name (like Smith)

Richards is a pretty common last name right?

• Find a book that has a closeup of something on it

BOOM!  Here it is.

• Find a book on your shelf that takes place in the earliest time period

This book is set in whatever time Cleopatra was alive.  Which I know for a fact was a long time ago.  So there.

• Find a hardcover book without a jacket

Okay, so I cheated a bit on this one.  I don't actually own a book without a jacket, but a while ago I was messing around looking through my books and I realized that if you take the dust jacket off Pushing the Limits, the actual hard cover looks like this.

And that's cool.  So bonus points to me.

• Find a teal/turquoise colored book

Pshhh.  Easy.

• Find a book with stars on it

I thought I was totally screwed for this one, but then I found...

• Find a non-YA book

This book was my all-time favorite when I was like 8.

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And that's it!  We're done, tag over, competed, finished, whatever.  That was actually a lot of fun!  NOW I TAG ALL OF YOU TO GO AND DO IT TOO!!  And if you do let me know in the comments below and I'll come check it out!  Like I said above, I might not be posting Emily's Ramblings very consistenantly, but if you guys leave tags in the comments below (make sure you let me know the questions and who started it, or just put in a link to a video) I'll do them the next week!

DON'T FORGET TO VOTE ON WHICH COVER YOU LIKE BEST!!

In My Mailbox #55

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by The Story Siren, where we spotlight the books that we've received for review, swapped, or purchased that week.

FOR REVIEW:

  

Cleopatra Confesses by Carolyn Meyer

Victoria Rebels by Carolyn Meyer

(Thanks Simon and Schuster!!!!!!!)

LIBRARY:

Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl

(I just had to get this one because the movie is out and I really, really want to see it, but I want to read the book first lol)

What did you guys get this week?

Link me up!!! :)

{Review} Apollyon by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Apollyon
by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Series: Covenant #4
Pages: 344
Release Date: April 4, 2013
by Spencer Hill Press

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Fate isn’t something to mess with… and now, neither is Alex. Alex has always feared two things: losing herself in the Awakening and being placed on the Elixir. But love has always been stronger than Fate, and Aiden St. Delphi is willing to make war on the gods—and Alex herself—to bring her back. The gods have killed thousands and could destroy entire cities in their quest to stop Seth from taking Alex’s power and becoming the all-powerful God Killer. But breaking Alex’s connection to Seth isn’t the only problem. There are a few pesky little loopholes in the whole “an Apollyon can’t be killed” theory, and the only person who might know how to stop the destruction has been dead for centuries. Finding their way past the barriers that guard the Underworld, searching for one soul among countless millions, and then somehow returning will be hard enough. Alex might be able to keep Seth from becoming the God Killer… or she might become the God Killer herself.

*A copy was provided by Spencer Hill Press for review purposes*

Crap on a cracker!  Holy daimon babies!  What an epic book!

Needless to say, I’ve gotten over the fact that this series is very similar to Richelle Mead’s Vampire Academy books.  In fact, I might like this series a tiny bit more.  This book is a combination of everything I love in a book: snarky characters, smoking hot guys, kick-ass fighting, good writing, and a fast-paced story line.  This book started right where book three, Deity, ended, and I couldn’t really remember what had happened, so I was bit lost at the beginning of this book.  JLA didn’t explain what had happened it the previous books so I didn’t really have a clue, but I kind of hate it when authors describe every little thing that had happened in the previous books, so I was okay with being clueless.  I really loved JLA’s writing style.  It was, in a word, sassy.  I literally was laughing my head off at some of the things she wrote, including those to morsels of hilarity above.  I love her sense of humor!  The staging was perfect, the story line was fast-paced, the fight scenes were very well described, and romance finished it off perfectly.  The romantic scenes (if you know what I mean) could best be described as sizzling, but how else could you describe them when Aiden is involved right?  I also really liked the ending, even though it wasn’t really a conventional ending.  It’s like the lull before the storm, and JLA set up the fifth and final book in this series to be one hell of a thriller!

Because of this book, Alex has become my new favorite female character – EVER!  There are no words to describe her.  She was completely kick-ass, snarky, defiant, didn’t take any crap, annoying (but in a good way.  She was good at getting on people’s nerves in the book, and it was hilarious to read), funny, and just freaking awesome.  Can I please be her?  Please please please please please!?  Of course, if I’m her, I also get Aiden.  Aiden Aiden Aiden – sex-god extraordinaire, smoking hot, kick-ass, sweet, nice, sexy…I could really go on and on forever and I still wouldn’t be able to describe how freaking attractive Aiden is.

The main reasons I like this series better than Vampire Academy would have to be JLA’s hilarious writing style and Alex and Aiden.  Those three things make this series what it is, and what it is is awesome.  So there!

5 pink flowers

Favorite Quotes ah la Alex: 

I rolled my eyes, finishing off the burger.  Rummaging around in the bag, I pulled out an extra-large order of fries.  With all the exercise I was getting, my escape would involve me rolling out of here.

~Page 32, uncorrected ARC edition

No matter how convoluted my life got, one thing remained consistent—my hair looked like a baby opossum had taken refuge in it, invited friends over, and thrown a party.

~Page 64, uncorrected ARC edition

Now I was in full internal whine mode.

~Page 92, uncorrected ARC edition

“Alex,” Aiden snapped…” I also doubt Apollo meant for your mouth to be the only thing getting a workout.”

~Page 93, uncorrected ARC edition

I flipped the dagger in my right hand.  “It’s called being awesome and it worked.”

~Page 94, uncorrected ARC edition

The bathroom door opened and Aiden filled the doorway.  Lit by the soft glow of the light behind him, he was a study of shadowy contrast – shirtless and wearing only a pair of pajama bottoms that hung low on his hips.  That didn’t help my heart or breathing problem.

(See, I told you Aiden was freaking sexy!)

~Page 98, uncorrected ARC edition

Apollo dropped the necklace into my palm.  “Ha,” I said.  “It’s like Harry Potter and the invisibility cloak.”

Everyone stared at me.

I rolled my eyes.  “Whatever.  So I’m invisible if I wear this.”

~Page 139, uncorrected ARC edition

(So, for the record, Alex was like shaking her leg up and down because she was bored.  Plus, I TOTALLY DO THIS!!)

Apollo smacked a hand down on my leg.  “Must you always be moving some part of your body?”

I glared at him and not-so-gently removed his hand.  “It’s not hurting you,” I said.

“It’s annoying.”

“You’re annoying,” I shot back.

(Ah, classic Alex)

~Page 141, uncorrected ARC edition

Me?  The girl who pretty much said F.U. to everything, especially Fate.

~Page 262, uncorrected ARC edition

Damn.  Aiden was a badass ninja.

~Page 266, uncorrected ARC edition

I squared my shoulders.  “Release the Kraken!”

Several sets of eyes settled on me.

“What?” I gave a lopsided shrug.  “I’ve always wanted to yell that since I saw the movie.  Seemed like the perfect moment.”

~Page 275, uncorrected ARC edition

Waiting on Wednesday #61

This is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine that spotlites upcoming new releases that we're highly anticipating.

This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:

Tarnish by Katherine Longshore

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Publisher: Viking (an imprint of Penguin)

Release Date: June 18, 2013

Anne Boleyn is the odd girl out. Newly arrived to the court of King Henry VIII, everything about her seems wrong, from her clothes to her manners to her witty but sharp tongue. So when the dashing poet Thomas Wyatt offers to coach her on how to shine at court—and to convince the whole court they’re lovers—she accepts. Before long, Anne’s popularity has soared, and even the charismatic and irresistible king takes notice. More than popularity, Anne wants a voice—but she also wants love. What began as a game becomes high stakes as Anne finds herself forced to make an impossible choice between her heart’s desire and the chance to make history.

What are you guys waiting on this week?

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A Few Recent Cover Reveals!

Starry Nights
by Daisy Whitney
Pages: ----
Format: Hardcover
Release Date: September 3, 2013
by Bloomsbury

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Seventeen-year-old Julien is a romantic—he loves spending his free time at the museum poring over the great works of the Impressionists. But one night, a peach falls out of a Cezanne, Degas ballerinas dance across the floor, and Julien is not hallucinating.

The art is reacting to a curse that trapped a beautiful girl, Clio, in a painting forever. Julien has a chance to free Clio and he can't help but fall in love with her. But love is a curse in its own right. And soon paintings begin to bleed and disappear. Together Julien and Clio must save the world's greatest art . . . at the expense of the greatest love they've ever known.

Like a master painter herself, Daisy Whitney brings inordinate talent and ingenuity to this romantic, suspenseful, and sophisticated new novel. A beautifully decorated package makes it a must-own in print.

The Iron Traitor

by Julie Kagawa

Series: The Iron Fey: Call of the Forgotten #2
Pages: 304

Format: Paperback

Release Date: October 22, 2013

by HarlequinTeen

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IN THE REAL WORLD, WHEN YOU VANISH INTO THIN AIR FOR A WEEK, PEOPLE TEND TO NOTICE
After his unexpected journey into the lands of the fey, Ethan Chase just wants to get back to normal. Well, as "normal" as you can be when you see faeries every day of your life. Suddenly the former loner with the bad reputation has someone to try for-his girlfriend, Kenzie. Never mind that he's forbidden to see her again.

But when your name is Ethan Chase and your sister is one of the most powerful faeries in the Nevernever, "normal" simply isn't to be. For Ethan's nephew, Keirran, is missing, and may be on the verge of doing something unthinkable in the name of saving his own love. Something that will fracture the human and faery worlds forever, and give rise to the dangerous fey known as the Forgotten. As Ethan's and Keirran's fates entwine and Keirran slips further into darkness, Ethan's next choice may decide the fate of them all.

Well, those are the new covers!  What do you guys think of them.  Personally I don't think either of them are awesome, but I like The Iron Traitor's cover better.  Starry Nights' cover is kind of plain.  BUT ANYWAY - WHICH ONE DO YOU GUYS LIKE????