Life of a Random

First of all, a series of Announcements: 1) I think I got the Rafflecopter problem fixed! The giveaway has now ended. I will announce the winner soon. 2) I got interviewed for Briana's Crazy Creatures of the Blogging World feature. *happy dance* You can check that post out here at her blog Reader, Writer, Critic .  3) I'M SO SORRY THAT I KINDA TOOK A CASUAL/UNINTENTIONAL BREAK FROM BLOGGING. Yeah...about that. Oops. Many apologies and chocolates! Publication Date: April 25, 2013 Publisher: Playlist Fiction Pages: 267 Source: my pockets of change Format: eBook Ellie Sweet is a lot of things—good girl, novelist, silent adorer of the new boy at school, Palmer. But when “outcast” gets added to the list, she decides it’s time to take reality into her own hands … and tweak it as needed. In the pages of her book, she’s Lady Gabrielle, favorite of the medieval Italian court. Her once-friends are reduced to catty ladies-in-waiting, and the too-charming

Let's just pretend that today is June 27 ... Series: #4 in the Blood series Publication Date: June 27, 2014 Publisher: Createspace Pages: 306 Genre(s): New Adult, Paranormal Julia's sworn enemies are safely sequestered in a prison of the fey and her forever mate has been chosen. Not by blood, but by a circumstance shaped from coincidence. However, it's not enough to save Julia and the others who came from Alaska their fate by the hand of the Alaska den, whose reacquisition has come alarmingly full-circle to capture them. Tharell of the fey aligns with the Singers, Were and remaining vampire to take back the one Queen who could stop the interspecies wars and establish a truce of genetics that would free all the groups from extinction and conflict. Can they rescue Julia and her allies before it's too late? Will the Red Were's lineage prove to be the catalyst of victory against a corrupt pack that's grown too debauched by greed

I have an announcement about the giveaway I'm hosting...I know I said it would end today and was going to announce the winner, but I'm having a few technical difficulties with the Rafflecopter so I'm going to be delaying the end of the giveaway. Sorry for all of you who have been anxiously waiting! But if you want, you can visit the Giveaway post here , for more entries. ;) Tomorrow I talk My Top 5 Most Romantic, Romantic Gestures for the Sunday Swoons link-up. 

Summer is here! *happy dance* That being said--um, first, no school. Just let me cry a few tears of joy in the corner. Secondly, two words. Sleeping in. Every day. Well, that's four, but you get my point. Summer gives me the chance to do two of my three favorite things in much larger proportions. I eat all year round (wow, I know. you didn't know that, did you?) so this means I now have many hours for sleeping and reading. I'm tempted to just say summer is my favorite season, except then I step outside and...get slammed into the ground with humidity. Not surprisingly, all a lot of my summer plans take place inside. Here are some things I plan on doing this summer: Catch up on reviewing all of my NetGalley ARCs. I have quite a lot. (Bad, Skylar.) Participate in a lot of book tours and blitzes and stuff, this will be infinitely easier as I'm a host for Fire & Ice Book Tours and Xpresso Book Tours. Grow my blog following (dur ;)). Right now I have three s

Life of a Blogger is a weekly feature hosted by Jessi @Novel Heartbeat where bloggers talk about a different topic each Thursday that relates to everyday life. This way readers can get to know bloggers as real people who do real (boring. everyday. average.) things. As opposed to, you know, superheroes who read uncountable numbers of books by day and solve crime by night. ;) ~ I love school! I love all my classes! I love all my teachers!  Okay, sorry that was weird (and not true).  I have been homeschooled all the way through senior year of high school, which means my parents were crazy patient and resourceful and somehow taught me from kindergarten to twelfth grade. In the earlier grades, I loved school and learned really fast. And while my love of school kind of...faded...I kept doing really well.  Then I hit high school. And suddenly I had to work harder to get the same grades. There was no more coasting past classes because they were so easy. I had (actually-

Yes, yes, I am aware that I'm extremely late to this...well, hype I guess? Anyhow, I've only just read The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer and was impressed. I think it deserves all the hype and...I guess you'll see the rest of my thoughts below. ;)   Publication Date: September 27, 2011 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Pages: 452 Source: Library Format: Hardcover Mara Dyer doesn’t think life can 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 mysteriously unharmed. There is. She doesn’t believe that after everything she’s been through, she can fall in love. She’s wrong. I'm just going to say right here that this review will be very hard to write without including spoilers, but I will try my best. I mean, look what I have to work with. A six sentence blurb? Dude.   It i

This is a brand new link-up hosted by Briana @Reader, Writer, Critic . Every Sunday Briana is going to discuss, list, rave about, fangirl (or fanboy) about, quote, or mention something totally swoon worthy that she's read. AND all you have to do to join in is link back using the handy linky button that will be on her posts and mention her in your post. Check out her first post here . This is going to be so fun! (Even though I'm joining late) 5 of My All Time Favorite/Most Swoon Worthy YA Relationships (not in order) 1. Mara & Noah from The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer .  What can I say? Mara and Noah are meant for each other. They are both broken but they hold each other together. There's physical attraction, yes, but it's more than that. Mara insults Noah! I mean, come one, that alone gives them many points. I ship them SO HARD.  2. Joy & Indelible Ink from Indelible . Joy and Indelible Ink were just so gosh dang sweet together. I l

As I promised *jazz hands* a giveaway! This is not a gigantic or even slightly large giveaway because I wanted it to be international and postage...yeah. But this is fun and collectible and I'm so happy I've got something to give away. Seriously, I was scared I wasn't gonna be able to come up with something. The giveaway features signed 'Something Strange & Deadly' and 'Strange & Ever After' (by Susan Dennard) bookmarks. There will be one winner and the giveaway is international. Spread the word (even though I know that of course you want this all to yourself ;) ) and enter! And while we're on the subject, you should really check out Susan Dennard's amazing trilogy (the pictures are linked to the books' Goodreads pages):        This giveaway will last for about a week. When it's over, I'll try to get the bookmarks in the mail as soon as possible along with a short note from mwah. Let the games begin! And may the odds

Publication Date: April 8, 2014 Publisher: HarperTeen Pages: 416 Source: Library Format: Hardcover   In the Forest of the Dead, where the empire’s worst criminals are exiled, twin sisters Moria and Ashyn are charged with a dangerous task. For they are the Keeper and the Seeker, and each year they must quiet the enraged souls of the damned. Only this year, the souls will not be quieted. Ambushed and separated by an ancient evil, the sisters’ journey to find each other sends them far from the only home they’ve ever known. Accompanied by a stubborn imperial guard and a dashing condemned thief, the girls cross a once-empty wasteland, now filled with reawakened monsters of legend, as they travel to warn the emperor. But a terrible secret awaits them at court—one that will alter the balance of their world forever . ~~ First of all, this cover is SO gorgeous. I didn't realize it at first glance but the cover's background is a dark forest (I originally thought

So... I know I haven't posted the Sea of Shadows review yet, but it will be posted (eventually). I'm actually not doing very good on reading this month. I think I've read like one...or maybe two...books so far. I know. It's awful. But I do have some exciting news :D Oh, yeahhhh. I'm so excited about this because it's awesome and it's a mile-marker. And woop! Also, I'm almost to 30 GFC followers which is equally as awesome as I had I think around three followers at the end of 2013. Thank you guys SO much. You're the best and I owe it to your awesomeness! Because of these two great things, I want to do a small giveaway. But ONLY when I hit 30 followers so spread the word. And I believe (if everything goes well) that the giveaway might be international ;) GO GET ALL YOUR FRIENDS. TELL THEM I'M AWESOME. Because, duh, I am. Okay, that's basically the whole purpose of this post. I'll have some serious semi-serious posts u

  I'm happy to present a gothic novella by Isis Sousa, and hope you enjoy the blurb, review, and interview. Make sure to read all the way to the end of the post as there will be links to the author's blog and a giveaway for autographed copies of this book. :)     The Night of Elisa by Isis Sousa Publication Date: May 30, 2014 Publisher: Tragic Books Pages: 186 Source: Author Format: eBook  Genres: Gothic, Paranormal, Dark Fantasy  Promotional Price: $1.49 (Original Price $3.99) Coupon Code: TH22W Expires: June 13, 2014 Redeem it on Smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/434431 Sometimes, life and love can follow the most obscure paths, just as they did for Elisa. Her life becomes a dark, cold, lonely cage the day the Devil takes her as his wife. He robs her of almost everything she holds dear: her health, her wealth and what is left of her family. Trapped between the nuances of life and beyond-life, Elisa finds herself struggling f