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Title: Past Perfect Author: Leila Sales Publisher: Simon Pulse Publication Date: October 4, 2011 Synopsis: All Chelsea wants to do this summer is hang out with her best friend, hone her talents as an ice cream connoisseur, and finally get over Ezra, the boy who broke her heart. But when Chelsea shows up for her summer job at Essex Historical Colonial Village (yes, really), it turns out Ezra’s working there too. Which makes moving on and forgetting Ezra a lot more complicated…even when Chelsea starts falling for someone new. Maybe Chelsea should have known better than to think that a historical reenactment village could help her escape her past. But with Ezra all too present, and her new crush seeming all too off limits, all Chelsea knows is that she’s got a lot to figure out about love. Because those who don’t learn from the past are doomed to repeat it…. Verdict: Past Perfect was a breath of fresh air. Even though it wasn't my usual genre, Leila Sales made me fall in love wi

Welcome to the Back to the Banned Books Week Hop, which was organized by Kathy @ I'm a Reader, Not a Writer and Jen @ I Read Banned Books . A "hop" is when participating blogs hosts a giveaway and then we link up together allowing our followers to hop easily from one giveaway to another. So, to find the linky all you have to do is click the link for one of the above blogs. The Cozy Reading Corner's prize for this hop will be a pdf file ebook of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins!!! The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) by Suzanne Collins Synopsis: In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with he

Title: Ashfall Author: Mike Mullin Series: Ashfall, #1 Publisher: Tanglewood Press Publication Date: October 11, 2011 Synopsis: Under the bubbling hot springs and geysers of Yellowstone National Park is a supervolcano. Most people don't know it's there. The caldera is so large that it can only be seen from a plane or satellite. It just could be overdue for an eruption, which would change the landscape and climate of our planet. Ashfall is the story of Alex, a teenage boy left alone for the weekend while his parents visit relatives. When the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts unexpectedly, Alex is determined to reach his parents. He must travel over a hundred miles in a landscape transformed by a foot of ash and the destruction of every modern convenience that he has ever known, and through a new world in which disaster has brought out both the best and worst in people desperate for food, water, and warmth. With a combination of nonstop action, a little romance, and very real

Title: Across the Universe Author: Beth Revis Series: Across the Universe, #1 Publisher: Razorbill Publication Date: January 11, 2011 Synopsis: Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules.Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone - one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship - tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn't do something soon, her parents will be next.Now, Amy must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there's only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the love she could never have seen coming. Verdict: I thought that this book was absolutely c

Wow. This cover is beautiful and I have a good feeling that the words within it will be equally amazing!!! I cannot wait till the release of this sequel to the Divergent trilogy in May 2012 !!! Well, withough futher ado here is the awesome cover: It's awesome right?!?! If you would like to learn more about the book, Entertainment Weekly had an interview with Veronica Roth HERE! -Kristen ♥

I have loved seeing all the post up for BBAW and I finally found a spare mintue to prepare my own post! You can stop by the BBAW blog and check out the other post topics for the rest of the week if you would like to participate as well. :)) Book bloggers blog because we love reading. Has book blogging changed the way you read? Have you discovered books you never would have apart from book blogging? How has book blogging affected your book acquisition habits? Have you made new connections with other readers because of book blogging? Choose any one of these topics and share your thoughts today! That first statement is very true; I am a book blogger and I do it because I love to read! Overall, I really believe that the way I read has changed since I began blogging. Before, I would write reviews for the books I read, but it was never anything very extensive just stuff like: "Wow! I really loved this book!!! And **insert character here** was awesome!!!" And that was basically a r

Title: Living Dead Girl Author: Elizabeth Scott Publisher: Simon Pulse Publication Date: September 2, 2008 Synopsis: Once upon a time, I was a little girl who disappeared. Once upon a time, my name was not Alice. Once upon a time, I didn’t know how lucky I was. When Alice was ten, Ray took her away from her family, her friends her life. She learned to give up all power, to endure all pain. She waited for the nightmare to be over. Now Alice is fifteen and Ray still has her, but he speaks more and more of her death. He does not know it is what she longs for. She does not know he has something more terrifying than death in mind for her. This is Alice’s story. It is one you have never heard, and one you will never, ever forget. Verdict: I decided not to rate this book, because I think it far surpasses a mere star rating. I have never read a more haunting story. Never truly realized it was like that. This is a book about child abduction and what is done to those poor children by their

Title: Shut Out Author: Kody Keplinger Publisher: Poppy Publication Date: September 5, 2011 Synopsis: Most high school sports teams have rivalries with other schools. At Hamilton High, it's a civil war: the football team versus the soccer team. And for her part, Lissa is sick of it. Her quarterback boyfriend, Randy, is always ditching her to go pick a fight with the soccer team or to prank their locker room. And on three separate occasions Randy's car has been egged while he and Lissa were inside, making out. She is done competing with a bunch of sweaty boys for her own boyfriend's attention. Lissa decides to end the rivalry once and for all: she and the other players' girlfriends go on a hookup strike. The boys won't get any action from them until the football and soccer teams make peace. What they don't count on is a new sort of rivalry: an impossible girls-against-boys showdown that hinges on who will cave to their libidos first. And Lissa never sees her

"In My Mailbox" is a meme created by Kristi at The Story Siren that features books I've received/purchased/borrowed during the current week. From Publishers, I got: Hades (Halo, #2) by Alexandra Adornetto The Fox Inheritance (Jenna Fox Chronicles, #2) by Mary E. Pearson Death Sentence (Escape From Furnace, #3) by Alexander Gordon Smith (This was actually a HUGE surprise, because I was only expecting to receive Hades and then BAM! I get two extra books! I haven't read either of it's predecessors, but I was happy anyway!) From the Library, I checked out: Across the Universe (Across the Universe, #1) by Beth Revis And that's all for me! What did you get??? -KWB (Since it's the 10th Anniversary of 9/11 I wanted to send out a little prayer to all the victims of this tragic event to let them know that they will never be forgotten.)

Woot-Woot!!! We now have our winner of the pdf ebook of Inside Out by Mara V. Snyder! But, first of all, I would like to give everyone who entered and became a follower a virtual hug: **HUGS** I wish you could all get a prize, but there can only be one winner......... Michelle @ Book Briefs Yay!!! Congratulations!!! Yipee!!! **throws confetti** I hope you enjoy your prize!!! **throws more confetti** -KWB **cleans up all the confetti** :))

Title: If I Stay Author: Gayle Forman Series: If I Stay, #1 Publisher: Speak Publication Date: April 6, 2010 Synopsis: In the blink of an eye everything changes. Seventeen-year-old Mia has no memory of the accident; she can only recall what happened afterwards, watching her own damaged body being taken from the wreck. Little by little she struggles to put together the pieces - to figure out what she has lost, what she has left, and the very difficult choice she must make. Heart-wrenchingly beautiful, Mia's story will stay with you for a long, long time. Verdict: I've been wanting to read "If I Stay" for a long time, especially after reading all its glowing reviews. But I put it off and waited, all the while becoming a little scared that it wouldn't live up to my expectations. And it didn't, this book far surpassed them. I was completely blown away by the words Gayle Forman had written. I loved all of the characters, so you can imagine how heart-broken I

"In My Mailbox" is a meme created by Kristi at The Story Siren that features books I've received/purchased/borrowed during the current week. I know I missed last week..... again. **face-palm** BUT, I will make up for it today! I promise!!! :)) From NetGally, I got: Every Other Day by Jennifer Lynn Barnes The Mephisto Covenant by Trinity Faegen Wolf Mark by Joseph Bruchac Ashfall by Mike Mullin Crave by Melissa Darnell From the Library, I got: Darkness Becomes Her by Kelly Keaton -KWB

Title: Every Other Day Author: Jennifer Lynn Barnes Publisher: EgmontUSA Publication Date: December 27, 2011 Synopsis: Every other day, Kali D'Angelo is a normal sixteen-year-old girl. She goes to public high school. She attends pep rallies. She's human. And then every day in between . . .She's something else entirely. Though she still looks like herself, every twenty-four hours predatory instincts take over and Kali becomes a feared demon-hunter with the undeniable urge to hunt, trap, and kill zombies, hellhounds, and other supernatural creatures. Kali has no idea why she is the way she is, but she gives in to instinct anyway. Even though the government considers it environmental terrorism. When Kali notices a mark on the lower back of a popular girl at school, she knows instantly that the girl is marked for death by one of these creatures. Kali has twenty-four hours to save her and, unfortunately, she'll have to do it as a human. With the help of a few new friend

Title: Darkness Becomes Her Author: Kelly Keaton Series: Gods & Monsters, #1 Publisher: Simon Pulse Publication Date: February 22, 2011 Synopsis: Ari can’t help feeling lost and alone. With teal eyes and freakish silver hair that can’t be changed or destroyed, Ari has always stood out. And after growing up in foster care, she longs for some understanding of where she came from and who she is. Her search for answers uncovers just one message from her long dead mother: Run. Ari can sense that someone, or something, is getting closer than they should. But it’s impossible to protect herself when she doesn’t know what she’s running from or why she is being pursued. She knows only one thing: she must return to her birthplace of New 2, the lush rebuilt city of New Orleans. Upon arriving, she discovers that New 2 is very…different. Here, Ari is seemingly normal. But every creature she encounters, no matter how deadly or horrifying, is afraid of her. Ari won’t stop until she knows why