The Bursting Bookshelf

Title: Embrace  Author: Jessica Shirvington Publisher: Sourcebooks Release: March 6, 2012 Pages: 367 Series: The Violet Eden Chapters #1 THANKS TO SOURCEBOOKS FOR THE ADVANCE COPY. Synopsis: It starts with a whisper: “It’s time for you to know who you are…” Violet Eden dreads her seventeenth birthday. After all, it’s hard to get too excited about the day that marks the anniversary of your mother’s death. As if that wasn’t...

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  Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event held by Jill over at Breaking The Spine! It's all about those books you just can't wait for and are counting down the days till they come out.   A dark and tender postapocalyptic love story set in the aftermath of a bloody war  In a city where humans and Darklings are now separated by a high...

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Title: Black Heart  Author: Holly Black Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Release: April 3, 2012 Pages: 296 Series: Curse Workers #3 THANKS TO SIMON & SCHUSTER CANADA FOR THE ADVANCE COPY! Synopsis: Cassel Sharpe knows he’s been used as an assassin, but he’s trying to put all that behind him. He’s trying to be good, even though he grew up in a family of con artists and cheating comes as...

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Hey guys! I just thought I'd let you all know that I'll be participating in the annual Blogiesta! I have quite a few things I'd like to get done on my blog and I think that this event will be the perfect way to motivate me into doing it!  To Do: -type reviews -schedule posts -clean up sidebars -do mini challenges!! Are you...

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In My Mailbox is a weekly feature done by The Story Siren. This week I got a book that I cannot wait to start! For Review: The Calling by Kelley Armstrong (Thanks to the Author!) (Signed) ...

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Title: Spellbound Author: Cara Lynn ShultzPublisher: Harlequin TeenRelease: June 21, 2011Pages: 324Series: Spellbound #1 Synopsis: What's a girl to do when meeting The One means she's cursed to die a horrible death? Life hasn't been easy on sixteen-year-old Emma Connor, so a new start in New York may be just the change she needs. But the posh Upper East Side prep school she has to attend? Not so much. Friendly...

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Title: Switched Author: Amanda HockingPublisher: St. Martin's GriffinRelease: January 3, 2012Pages: 293Series: Trylle Trilogy #1 Synopsis: When Wendy Everly was six years old, her mother was convinced she was a monster and tried to kill her. Eleven years later, Wendy discovers her mother might have been right. She’s not the person she’s always believed herself to be, and her whole life begins to unravel—all because of Finn Holmes.  Finn is...

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In My Mailbox is a weekly feature done by The Story Siren. This week I got a lot of great books! Review:   Dreamless by Josephine Angelini (THANKS TO HARPERCOLLINS CANADA FOR THE ADVANCE REVIEW COPY!) Fathomless by Jackson Pearce (THANKS TO HACHETTE BOOK GROUP CANADA FOR THE ADVANCE REVIEW COPY!) (No cover available) Lost Girls by Anna Kelley (THANKS TO HACHETTE BOOK GROUP...

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Title: Emerald Talisman Author: Brenda PandosPublisher: Obsidian Mountain PublishingRelease: March 24, 2010Pages: 288Series: The Talisman Series #1 Synopsis: To be normal, sixteen-year-old Julia Parker would shed her empathic gift in a second. Life has been difficult since her mother's mysterious disappearance ten years earlier - an event she witnessed, but can't remember. Julia's situation becomes more complicated after a near death experience from a blood thirsty stalker. As high school...

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In My Mailbox is a weekly feature done by The Story Siren. This week I got: For Review: Above by Leah Bobet (Thanks to Scholastic Canada for the copy!) Sapphire Talisman by Brenda Pandos (Thanks to Brenda for the review copy!) Bought: Article 5 by Kristen Simmons The Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor Legend by Marie Lu Recieved: Shift by Jeri...

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So Follow my Blog Friday is a meme held by Parajunkee and it's where you answer the weekly question and then link yourself and you go and check out other blogs of your interest. Have you ever looked at book's cover and thought, This is going to horrible? But, was instead pleasantly surprised? Show us the cover and tell us about the book. Not once...

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Title: The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight Author: Jennifer E. SmithPublisher: PoppyRelease: January 2, 2012Pages: 374Series: None Synopsis: Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything?Today should be one of the worst days of seventeen-year-old Hadley Sullivan's life. She's stuck at JFK, late to her father's second wedding, which is taking place in London and involves a soon to be step-mother that Hadley's never even met....

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Title: Deadly CoolAuthor: Gemma HallidayPublisher: Harper TeenRelease: October 11, 2011Pages: 303Series: Deadly Cool #1 Synopsis: Hartley Grace Featherstone is having a very bad day. First she finds out that her boyfriend is cheating on her with the president of the Herbert Hoover High School Chastity Club. Then he’s pegged as the #1 suspect in a murder. And if that weren’t enough, now he’s depending on Hartley to clear his...

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So, like I did with the last two months, I will be picking out my March reading pile in advance, but the likelihood of me sticking exactly to this pile is slim. Here we go: Emerald Talisman by Brenda PandosSapphire Talisman by Brenda PandosOnyx Talisman by Brenda PandosEmbrace by Jessica ShirvingtonGoddess Interrupted by Aimee CarterThis is Not a Test by Courtney Summers What are you...

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In My Mailbox is a weekly feature done by The Story Siren. This week I got: For Review: Embrace by Jessica Shirvington (Thanks to Sourcebooks) Fated by Alyson Noel (Thanks to Raincoast Books) This is Not a Test by Courtney Summers (Thanks to Macmillan) Bought: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs ...

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All in all, I'd consider February a pretty successful month of reading for me considering how busy I was!  Here was my list: Bitterblue by Kristin CashoreEmerald Talisman by Brenda PandosSapphire Talisman by Brenda PandosDragon's Oath by PC Cast + Kristin CastDeadly Cool by Gemma HallidayUnder the Never Sky by Veronica RossiBlack Heart by Holly Black Here is what I actually read: Bitterblue...

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