Winner of ARC Songs for a Teenage Nomad

Thanks to RANDOM.ORG for the use of their number randomizer, Commenter number 1: CHEYANNE is the winner of SONGS FOR A TEENAGE NOMAD ARC which hits the shelves Sept 7th! Thanks to the author, KIM CULBERTSON, for retweeting the giveaway and SOURCEFIRE BOOKS for supplying the ARC!



Congrats Cheyanne!! I'll email you for your street address!

Coming next month I'm going to participate in Blogfest and Blogmania. One Giveaway will be worth over $100 bucks (BOOKS, BOOKS, and More BOOKS), and another will feature signed books and swag, so make sure you follow me on twitter and her on the blog so I can keep you posted! :)


Thanks to everyone who entered last week!

MATCHED by Ally Condie Review

Title: Matched
By: Ally Condie
Published: November 30, 2010
Special Note: This is an ARC review

In the Society, Officials decide. Who you love. Where you work. When you die.


Cassia has always trusted their choices. It’s barely any pr...more In the Society, Officials decide. Who you love. Where you work. When you die.

Cassia has always trusted their choices. It’s barely any price to pay for a long life, the perfect job, the ideal mate. So when her best friend appears on the Matching screen, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is the one . . . until she sees another face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. Now Cassia is faced with impossible choices: between Xander and Ky, between the only life she’s known and a path no one else has ever dared follow—between perfection and passion.

Matched is a story for right now and storytelling with the resonance of a classic.

My Thoughts:

The world building in this novel is fabulous! Ms. Condie does an awesome job setting up the rules our main character, Cassia, and the rest of the society have to live by. This novel puts a unique spin on the old school arranged marriage story even though our lovable MC gets matched with her male BFF, Xander. Being matched basically means you know who you are going to marry and have babies with by the time you are seventeen-years-old. No guessing. The decision has been made by 'The Society'.



Ky, the rebel and outcast of the story, has been around Cassia since they were kids, but Ky comes from the Outter Providence which basically means he's a savage in the world of our story. Someone not able to be thrown into the match pool to have a family someday because he comes from a place where people don't follow The Society's rules. Cassia has always been aware of Ky, but finds herself strangely drawn to him after an error that reveals Ky may be her 'match' instead of Xander.



I was pretty torn on who Cassia should choose. One one hand you have her best friend, Xander, who is awesome and loves her and you think how awesome to get matched with someone you know. Plus, Xander would do anything for her. Then, on the other hand, you have Ky, who is mysterious and seems to say the right things at the right times. Gah!!! I'm still torn! I will let you in on a little secret, though. There will be a sequel to this novel! At the end you find out which boy Cassia decides to be with and she is just about to start the true quest to make that happen in the last few pages. So this one leaves you hanging at the end.

The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting Review

Title: The Body Finder
By: Kimberly Derting
Published: March 1, 2010


The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting


My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Violet Ambrose is grappling with two major issues: Jay Heaton and her morbid secret ability. While the sixteen-year-old is confused by her new feelings for her best friend since childhood, she is more disturbed by her “power” to sense dead bodies—or at least those that have been murdered. Since she was a little girl, she has felt the echoes the dead leave behind in the world . . . and the imprints that attach to their killers.


Violet has never considered her strange talent to be a gift; it mostly just led her to find dead birds her cat had tired of playing with. But now that a serial killer has begun terrorizing her small town, and the echoes of the local girls he’s claimed haunt her daily, she realizes she might be the only person who can stop him.

Despite his fierce protectiveness over her, Jay reluctantly agrees to help Violet on her quest to find the murderer—and Violet is unnerved to find herself hoping that Jay’s intentions are much more than friendly. But even as she’s falling intensely in love, Violet is getting closer and closer to discovering a killer . . . and becoming his prey herself.(less)

My Thoughts:

Could not put this one down! The main character, Violet, hooked me right away with her special body-finding gift and her secret pining over her BFF since diapers, Jay. By page 80 I was like, come on girl can't you see the signs that this boy digs you too?!?!? But don't worry, I only say that because I wanted them to get together and be happy. Couldn't help it. I cared about them.

The plot behind the serial killer was awesome and I really enjoyed the little chapters through the killer's eyes. It had me searching for clues throughout the book that Violet may have missed.

Any body who knows me, knows I'm a first person point of view snob. It's just really had for me to care about characters in 3rd person most of the time, but I didn't have that issue with this novel. Kudos Ms. Derting for writing one of the most riveting books I've read this year.



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ARC WINNER of THE DEATH (and Further Adventures) of SILAS WINTERBOTTOM

Congrats to Laura Pauling!!!!!

I'll email you for your addy so I can send out your ARC of  THE DEATH (and Further Adventures) of SILAS WINTERBOTTOM.



Remember there is still time to sign up for Songs for a Teenage Nomad ARC giveaway I posted last Tuesday!

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Matched by Ally Condie





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I'm currently finishing up CROSSED OUT and SPLENDOR FALLS as well! :) What Books have you guys read recently??? Any good ones?