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IMM #18 & MRP #6

2012-03-03T21:28:00.000-08:00

IMM is hosted by The Story Siren I looove love her blog! So you really should check it out!

Yey! Got a book in the mail this week!

I'm so excited because this book is completely different from any other book I've ever read but I knew my mom would love it. And even though she doesn't know much english I know that she would appreciate me telling her the story...Yes, she LOVES to hear from the books I read. Funny, she's into hearing the YA stories I read but not actually into reading them. LOL My mom's special!

Anyway, enough with the rambling...

Here's the book I got this week!

Trieste by Dasa Drndic

Goodreads doesn't have a description or blurb from the book, but I know it has a lot of history and war in it...

I have to thank Misty from Bookaholics Book Club she's the one that got this book in her mail box a couple of months ago and said that since it wasn't her kind of read she'd give it to whoever wanted it...So *_________* yeap...you know the rest.

It's here Misty! Thank you so very very much! I LOOOOOVE the book jacket like a lot!

I can't wait for you to post your next IMM!

My Reading Pile #6

My reading pile is an idea created by Fiktshun in which you share what your reads for the week are or well the wishful reads-rereads-rerereads and well you get the hint. Check her blog out you know I'm a devoted stalker, I mean, follower ;)

MRP progress & status:

I've been sick, really really sick. So, of course I wasn't going to get to read whatever books I said I wanted to read on my last MRP.

Okay, I admit I DID finish The BDB book #4 & #5 (Lover Revealed & Lover Unbound respectively) they're quite addictive...But I couldn't even finish the first page of My Soul To Save...Time's running out for me to get the reading done in time for the SSRC~left sidebar.~

So, My Soul to Save is still on the pile and joining it will be:

Lover Enshrined by J.R. Ward -BDB #6-

~I've already started this one...almost halfway through it now.~

The Black Dagger Brotherhood An Insider's Guide by J.R Ward -BDB #6.5-

I'm not completely healthy yet but I'm really hoping I do get to finish the Soul Screamers read this week.

Netgalley Pile Adds:

Wow, I completely broke my Netgalley ban this week. Yesterday I saw that one book I'm really looking forward to read was over NG so...Off I went and sent a request.

The book's Something Like Normal by Trish Doller. I couldn't help myself and went through a little bit of their catalog's new adds and ended up requesting one promo book Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers, which I only even thought about reading because Rachel @My Reading Pile had added it to her pile -_- I stink, I know...And I also got approved for Lies Beneath by Anne Greenwood Brown. Enough review books, for now.

I'm not going to fool myself and believe I'll get approved for Trish's book but I really really am crossing my fingers...I've wanted that book for so long...I really can't wait for it's release!

That's it for me ^_^

What did YOU guys get in your mail box this week?

What are YOU guys reading this week?

-review- Incarnate by Jodi Meadows

2012-03-02T16:57:00.000-08:00

-"Saying I never thought about it would be a lie, but it doesn't change how I feel. Ana, you make me ache in places that aren't even physical."-

When I received a copy as a christmas present last year I literally cried. I couldn't believe I was going to be able to read the book whose cover I married~digitally~and whose author I've stalked even before the cover of the book was released.
Now why, you ask, did I take so long to review this book.
Let me tell you...it has been HARD to come up with even some remote ideas and thoughts to share with you this day... Just from the cover I wanted it to be perfect and I never actually wanted to read the description or blurb.

So let me tell you my thoughts on this book.

-...he played the most amazing thing my ears had ever heard. Like waves on a lakeshore, and wind through trees. There were lightning strikes, thunder, and pattering rain. Heat and anger, and honey sweetness.
I'd never heard this music before. There seemed no room to breathe around my swollen heart as the music grew, made me ache inside.-

All of you that are constant readers of my reviews know this one thing, my weakness...when a book has the TITTLE somehow written inside the story or it's justified in the story? That makes it PERFECT for me, but then my ultimate weakness is if the COVER of the book has actually a meaning in the story and for me and Incarnate? Ladies and gentlemen! Oh God! BOTH were mentioned and justified inside the book and for that I'm a million times grateful!
I loved Ana since the beginning of the book, simply because I always root for those who don't have anyone rooting for them!
The world Jodi created is creepy and cold and plain awesome. I could picture everything perfectly! And her writing is FRESH I found myself devouring the first half of the book...but then for some reason it slowed down for me...I really don't know why or how...maybe because I had too many expectations and was too excited, anyways...
MUSIC, oh lord, MUSIC plays such an important part in the book that if I could hug Jodi Meadows right now I'd instantly do it!

-My throat itched from nerves, and I wish we'd brought water. But then I'd probably drink it all at once and have to pee for the rest of the meeting.-

Ana along with Sam and Music...prove to us once again...that immortality exists...it's everywhere around us...if you could just listen...open up and listen...many people are immortal...not all...but a lot...Ana's love of music and the courage she has to overcome the differences that make her the only newsoul/nosoul in Heart-which may I add it's a really creepy creepy and scary and weird place- made me instantly happy.

-He hesitated, and his voice lowered like he didn't want the wind to hear.-

The story flows smoothly for the most part...at the end I got attacked by a lot of information...but those attacks were welcome so don't worry.
I really can't come up with more than;
This story is full of new, new souls, new views, new ideas, new places, new loves...
Packed with dragons and sylphs and a white tower that I am completely scared of...
Jodi Meadows made me want to wear mittens 24/7 -I live in a tropical country- *_*
Music fills the empty spaces, the silent moments, making the wrong rights and Heart a slightly less scary place to live in.
I got to listen to the music of fears...
And,
Forever...is possible

I give this book

4fotitos=genious crying.

Special thank you to Grace @Peace, Love, Teen Fiction *____* this wouldn't even be possible if you hadn't sent me this gift T_T I'm forever grateful!

BEHOLD MY ARC

~snuggles~

Yes, that green thingy is a special something ;)

Bookography #3

2012-02-29T06:15:00.002-08:00

Bookography is a post created by Kristina from Kristina's World of Books. Where you can combine both of my very favorite things in the world. Photography & Books ;) So grab a camera and do your thing. You don't have to be a professional or anything like that. Just share your love of books through a picture and that's it ;)

-She usually posts them on wednesdays~ So make sure you stop by her blog and share the love!

This is my picture for this week:

-...the world, the city, and all its lights and life seemed to have narrowed down to this, just her and Jace, the burning heart of a frozen world.-
City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare

I think the quote says everything. I took this picture last year while the lights had gone out at my house due to a storm, couldn't be any happier with the shot. I slightly edited it, it was all in the contrast and the mate frame which I changed to orange.

IMM#17 & MRP #5

2012-02-26T12:14:00.003-08:00

IMM is hosted by The Story Siren I looove love her blog!

So you really should check it out!

This week I only got one thing in the mail and it was NOT a book but it's still book-related so I obviously had to share it.

~giggles~

Isn't it cute >.< it was a surprise to receive it. I knew it had been made but didn't know it had been sent. Hence me getting all teary over it.

Thank you SO VERY MUCH Autum! I completely love it. It's the very first ANYTHING that has the name of my blog on it. You have outdone yourself. I'm too happy for words so I'll just say thank you!

I haven't gotten ANY book since the last week of January...but I've been told there's a package waiting for me at my grams so I'm going to feature that one next week as I haven't been able to pick it up.

Now on to...

My Reading Pile #5

MRP progress & status:

Wow you guys! I cannot believe I read like 4 books this week though, I'm really behind with my reviews... but yeap, it reminded me of old times when I devoured like 5 books a week!

I even managed to start reading the next book of The Blackdagger Brotherhood and that wasn't even on MRP!

I'm ONE book behind from last week's reading pile and that's The Mockingbirds. I decided to put that one on hold because I've got so caught up with BDB that I didn't want to be reading 2 completely different genres at the same time.

Don't get the wrong idea though...I've read 111 pages from The Mockingbirds and LOOOOOVED each and every single one of those. I'll just have to read it some other time in March.

But enough of that.

This is what I'm-hopefully-going to be reading this week;

Lover Revealed by J.R. Ward -BDB #4-

I am LOVING each and every single page of every single book that I've read of the series so far!

Lover Unbound by J.R. Ward -BDB #5-

My Soul To Save by Rachel Vincent

I'm finally going to start my reread of the second book for the Soul Screamers Reading Challenge

-remember you still can join in all the fun! Just go to the left sidebar and click on the SSRC button-

This book-sigh-was, is and, will forever be when EVERYTHING changes and I have no one to thank but the author who did a little post about it last year. This second book was my least favorite but after reading that post I actually ended up agreeing with her; that this book plays a really important roll for what happens after in the series and is the beginning of what officially ends in book 5, If I Die. Hope I made sense.

So I'm excited and hope to start it by the middle of this week.

Netgalley Pile Adds:

Oooh! I almost forgot! I got approved for a galley of Spellcaster by Cara Lynn Shultz over at Netgalley.

I got all giddy and started screaming and crying because it reminded me of my baby blog days, when I first requested galleys from there. Spellbound was one of the first books I got approved to read early thanks solely on me posting my reviews on my Facebook BookPics page and my Tumblr & Goodreads T_T .Even though I still haven't been able to get a finished copy of Spellbound-again blaming my country-being approved for the sequel is more than I could have ever hoped for.

That's it for me!

What did YOU guys get in your mail box this week?

What are YOU guys reading this week?

30 Days of Hunger Games-Day 2

2012-02-25T21:11:00.000-08:00

Hey beautiful people.
Me again joining this fun thing Elena comes up with...either by her joining another one ~like with Bloodlines~ or her doing it ~like this one.~ Anyway. She's having this amazing 30 days of Hunger Games as a count down AND a way to have fun and kill time while all of us wait-impatiently-for the movie to come out. How's that sound?

For day 2 she's doing her OWN Hunger Games, without the killing or the arena or well...all the gore and ugly. And of COURSE she's giving away awesome things that I'd DIE to have too-all the pictures in the post are things she's giving away-Don't miss the chance!

Head over Elena's blog

---->A World of Words<----

-link will lead you directly to the contest entry-

And follow the steps ^-^ nice and easy.

PAY ATTENTION TO ALL THE STEPS!!
-hint, comment on this post to get an entry-

You really don't want to miss in all the fun

Have fun!

My Reading Pile #4

2012-02-19T14:47:00.001-08:00

Hi guys! And welcome to:

My Reading Pile #4

Since I haven't been getting anything in the mail the last 3 weeks I've been slaking and not making MRP posts but that's over now hehehe. Check out what I'll be reading this week, hopefully.

The Mockingbirds by Daisy Whitney

-I am beyond HAPPY to be reading this book, I've been stalking the author non-stop since such a long time ago it feels like forever! YES I've stalked her WITHOUT reading her book but I seriously couldn't help myself she's so much fun and happy and good! After all, she was the person from whom I won a SIGNED copy of Where She Went by Gayle Forman.

Daisy has known for a long time now how difficult it is for me to get books and one day of January while she was giving away an ARC for the sequel -The Rivals- she surprised me and told me she was sending me one 'signed' copy of the newly released PB copy of The Mockingbirds...suffice it to say I died and went to heaven. So thank you so very much to Daisy for this awesome gift!-

Another book on my pile this week is

Lover Eternal by J.R. Ward ~BDB #2~

Already started it >.<

I'm loving the BDB books so far ^_^ can't believe it took me so long to finally start it. I just really wish I had all of them in the same format...as it is...I have some on eBook and some on printed ^_^ But WOW this books are *_*...-speechless-

Followed by

Lover Awakened by J.R. Ward ~BDB #3~

That's it for me this week guys. I'm waiting a week more to start the second book on the Soul Screamers reading challenge which is My Soul To Save~there's still time to sign up <- click on the left side-bar to enter and sign up~

What are YOU guys reading this week?

-reread thoughts- My Soul To Take by Rachel Vincent

2012-02-12T21:05:00.000-08:00

This is the very first time for me doing a kind of review for a reread of a book.

When I found out that Fiktshun was having a reading challenge for none other than the Soul Screamers series I just HAD to sign up. I've never participated on a reading challenge before but THIS right here was one of the 2 perfect opportunities that presented themselves to me this year.

(You can still sign up for the challenge by clicking on the left sidebar button.)

~Sighs~
Where to begin? Hehe don't worry this won't be a long rant.
This is, I think, my 7nth time rereading this books...ever since I found them randomly on YA-books list on Scribd I knew I had to have them. The books mean a lot to me since I read them before I became a reviewer ^_^ and I still hold them close to my heart.

Rereading this yet again helped me remember why I fell in love with the story and it's characters in the first place.
Why I always have and always will be a huge admirer of the heroine that is Kaylee. This is a book full of all things awesome. From bad guys OR girls, high school crushes, family trouble, annoying cousins, absentee parents, lies, vanity and, the supernatural. Reapers, bean-sidhes, reapers, hellions, and more more creepy-looking creatures. I mean, seriously? It's packed.
It was so much fun remembering why I love Tod so much, why I fell in love with Nash in the first place, why I can't help but dread the ending of each book knowing what comes next. It was an amazing reread.
It's so easy to get immediately submerged in the story!

I have nothing more to say than, it's a perfect book filled with perfect characters and written so wonderfully I really am fighting the urge to reread it once again before starting the next book in the series.
Rachel Vincent proves to me once again why she's one of my favorite authors and why this is one of my 2 favorite books from the series-so far.-
Because this was the start of Kaylee's amazing-sacrificing-troublesome yet growing-loving-rediscovering journey!
I cannot wait to sink my eyes in the next book!

Bookography #2

2012-02-09T13:32:00.000-08:00

Bookography is a post created by Kristina from Kristina's World of Books. Where you can combine both of my very favorite things in the world. Photography & Books.
So grab a camera and do your thing.
You don't have to be a professional or anything like that. Just share your love of books through a picture and that's it ;)

-She usually posts them on wednesdays~ So make sure you stop by her blog and share the love!

I'm incredibly traumatized by her talent and I'm always checking every single Wendsay just to see what awesomeness did she managed to do once again!

Hello sexy!
Of course I HAD to post a picture about one of my favorite series EVER to exist!
This picture is also an old one...
I took it while doing one of my rereads of the Soul Screamers books.
I just randomly took it and then made a few tiny editions with the color contrast >.< That's it!
My Soul To Take by Rachel Vincent

New on the BookPics TBR-List #10

2012-02-06T00:30:00.000-08:00

This are the books that I added this week to my to-be-read list!

Such a Rush by Jennifer Echols

Breathless by Cole Gibsen

This one was added thanks to Peace, Love, Teen Fiction :D She recently had a cover-reveal post along with a short interview with the author about the cover.

Angelfall by Susan Ee

This one is thanks to Donna from Book Passion for Life she's currently reading it :)

Mesmerized by Julia Crane & Talia Jager

COVER LOVE!

Fissure by Lily Collins

The description looks really dark and promising :D

Until Next Time by Amy Lignor

Anything new on your to-be-read list this week that you'd like to share?

^-^

Bookography #1

2012-02-01T21:45:00.000-08:00

Hey, again. I'm trying something new this week...you know, new year new things and stuff like that.
Well I present you -Bookography-.

-She usually posts them on wednesdays~ So make sure you stop by her blog and share the love!

I'm incredibly traumatized by her talent and I'm always checking every single Wendsay just to see what awesomeness did she managed to do once again!

So now I present you my recently re-discovered picture.

I've loved this book for so long now. But mostly. I love love and love this exact excerpt.

I was completely overwhelmed with this urge to write it down and paint it all kinds of colors trying to make a touchable memory of the things this passage made me feel, still makes, whenever I read it.

Maggie's writing plus that poem made them the perfect scene of the book for me.

This picture, I took a while ago. But I still love it simply because it's all me...from the picture to the paper to the writing I wanted all to be me sharing the love of the book and saving it forever in my mind and heart and most recently-with he picture-in my room.^-^

~Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater~

-review/thoughts- Hushed by Kelley York

2012-01-31T21:33:00.000-08:00

-The apartment was silent. Not the sort of silence when one was home alone, but the smothering silence that followed death. An all-encompassing, heavy feeling.-

This is what happens when someone somewhere writes a book. Make that an amazing breathtakingly painful/amazing book. And then...I read it.

I am left utterly and completely shocked out of my shoes. I am left begging for more story. I am left begging for more pages to appear out of thin air just to know what happens next and next and next.

Kelley, with this book-Hushed-I can tell you I love you till the ends of ends.

My heart constricted more times that I cared to count.

I fell in love with not one but two guys.

I want to keep them so bad it hurts.

You made me remember some really painful memories of my life with the only difference that now I don't feel how I used to. Empty-alone-guilty-lonely-not good enough.

-Maybe she could learn what it was like to always be left behind.-

How can I even begin to describe what a complex of a person and character Archer is. He's so broken I wanted to patch him back up and run. He was so sick I wanted to run away from him. He was so faithful I envied him. He was so shy I related. He was dark and vengeful and alone I wanted him to be happy forever.

-Do monsters get second chances?-

Vivian. ~Sighs~ Vivian was/is a character I know in person, that's why I could start to hate her so early in the book. I don't even know how you made it Kelley, let me tell you. But you really really dug out that memory and put it up front for the days it took me to read this book. I had my Vivian in real life years ago. Of course by that time I was some kind of Archer. And now while reading this book I could only think of how pathetic I was and how good it felt to finally let go.

Kelley made Vivian's character so completely real, believe me...you'd feel exactly what I felt like and you will want to do to her exactly what I wanted hehehe.

Marissa's character (Vivian's mom) is the grandmother I wish I had and never will. PERFECT.

Evan, he's mine and mine only. How can someone love so completely and be so selfless while also drawing a line and put limits. He loves himself and that's what I loved and love the most about him. He loves others adoringly and cares for them and is there whenever someone needs him. But he also makes time for do his things and values himself. He's the very best friend. Of course he makes mistakes of course! He can make millions of mistakes but with whatever one good thing that he does, it outshines that million.

-"You should go back to sleep."

...

What better way to wake him up completely.-

All the secondary characters where incredibly main characters for me. The story wouldn't be the same without each and every single one of them.

I cried. I laughed. I smiled. I melted. I melted some more. I gasped. I wanted to smash something a lot of times in a row. I wanted to kiss Archer. I wanted to hug Vivian. I wanted to kiss Evan after Archer.

As always you know I'm a stinker for books that have the tittle inside the book at some point. I'm the happiest reader alive right now.

Most of all I wanted the book to never end.

I don't know how to make this book justice. I don't know how to make you guys understand how amazing it is and how completely sad and happy I am that I read it. Sad because I'm left begging for more and happy because it just was so...devastatingly beautiful I don't think I'll be able to stop rereading it for a long time.

Kelley York where have you been all my reading-life?

I am forever your reader/fan and cannot wait to read whatever you plan on writing next.

-"Hush, it'll be all right..."-

When playing by your rules means killing for love...

What happens next?

When you don't feel good enough...

And, everyone lets you down...

What next?

There is someone who believes in you. There is hope. There is love. There are happy tears. There are cozzy hugs. There are a million kisses waiting for you.

If...you..just...stop...think...forget...let go...and...Love.

Forgiving yourself is the first part...let time and your heart lead the way after that.

I know this post isn't making any sense-I wrote it exactly right after finishing the book.- I'm really sorry for that. But I think you can all get that I LOVED this book and that you should really really read it. After all this is more of thoughts than review hehehe.

I give this book;

10special-fotitos(special rating for over-the-top-I'll-never-get-over-this book) =
I cried for things I didn't know possible I was capable of.

Special thanks to Rachel@Fiktshun, you made me want this book *-*

and

OH WOMAN do I thank you for that!

New on the BookPics TBR-List #9

2012-01-30T11:00:00.000-08:00

Wow it sure is, as always, good to know authors are mind-set on making my tbr-list impossibly long and eternal...
So the recently new additions to my list are,

Toy Girl by Clover Donovon

Tidal Whispers by Jocelyn Adams, Claire Gillian, Julie Reece, and Kelly Said

Touch of Death by Kelly Hashway

This was added thanks to my silent-stalking of Alex's blog, Electrifying Reviews

Awkward by Marni Bates

Cold Fury by T.M. Goeglein

Thank you Rachel *-* MRP...

And way more, but this were the covers I liked the most too :D

Anything new on your TBR-list that I should know about???

IMM#16 -The Forbidden One-

2012-01-29T22:20:00.000-08:00

IMM is hosted by The Story Siren I looove love her blog! So you really should check it out!

As always. My video turned out to be too long and rambling and every single time I tried to edit it or cut it my computer would just fail me T_T I hate my video right now...but be sure.

It was full of me being so happy my face hurts from smiling too much AND of gratitude towards the person who sent me the package that arrived this week.

I'm beyond happy-see? I'm rambling here for lack of a better video editor-and more than excited to show you guys what books I ended up getting this week

So, here I go.

BOUGHT

-La Ladrona de Libros by Markus Zusak -PB- Spanish edition

The Book Thief in english.

I already own this book in ebook format on my kindle for PC and it's in english lol. but I really wanted to buy it in spanish. First so I can read both editions and compare and see how well they did while traducing it AND I really want both, my mom and dad to read it. I've read only amazing and beautiful things about the book so I'm more than excited to own both copies.

GIFTED

Oh Nat! How do I even BEGIN to thank you.
This package was an unexpected one and such a perfect surprise I cried *-* you know I mean that literally. I don't know how you can keep sending me things with me not sending even a letter to thank you. I might be working on my thankyous' letters for some people. And you lady are one of those. Thank you so very much-hugs you-I really really REALLY want you to grasp in your head how HUGE this is for me. It means the world and don't ever forget THAT and how grateful I am.
In my mail I got:
-Carrier Of The Mark by Leigh Fallon -PB-
-The Maze Runner by James Dashner -PB- UK Book #1
-The Scorch Trials by James Dashner -HB- Book #2
-The Death Cure by James Dashner -HB- Book #3
AND
~Insert me screaming and running up and down my house-that doesn't even have a second story to run up to- OMG! NAT!!!! you got me none other than the book that made my BookPics facebook page spam a bit with my reviewing it without reading the last 19 pages.
THE UK EDITION! The one book I coveted the UK edition more than any other I've ever read...
-Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma -PB- UK
I got the incredible and really freak-out opportunity to interview Tabitha a while ago when I had just finished or almost-finished reading Forbidden.
You can check my review HERE and my interview with Tabitha HERE.
She's such an amazing person and author and I thank her yet again for agreeing to make the interview. I really was so excited you have NO idea. The book made me cry since the very first page and up until...well...when there were 19 pages remaining to finish it. It's one of the best books I read in 2011. Please give it a chance!
Thank you so much Nat!
Now on to-

My Reading Pile #3

My reading pile is an idea created by Fiktshun in which you share what your reads for the week are or well the wishful reads-rereads-rerereads and well you get the hint. Check her blog out you know I'm a devoted stalker, I mean, follower ;)

New on my reading pile this week:

-Hushed by Kelley York

THAT is the ONLY new book I managed to add to my reading pile this week. I got to read the teasers post over at Fiktshun and she always manages to make me want to read every single book she teases us about so I finally used the few $$ that I had left from a previous GC and bought this for my kindle for PC. It's so good so far. I really put down all my other reads just because I got so caught up with the story I couldn't manage to get into the other books I was reading.

I only got to read AND rererereread some parts of ONE book last week and that's

A Touch Morbid by Leah Clifford.

I'm finally reviewing again and that book is the responsible one so I thank it, Leah, Rachel, and the anonymous person that traded the copy with her so it could finally get here *-*

THANK YOU!

You can check my review of ATM2 HERE

I'm so behind on my reading is not even funny. I still have to finish my read of My Soul To Take for the Soul Screamers reading challenge-sign up post is on the left side-bar.- and I'm still reading The Demon's Lexicon along with Incarnate which comes out this tuesday! Incarnate is really good so far so I hope hope hope and hope some more that I can get it read, if not by tuesday at least this week so I can post my review up soon.

So my beautiful people. What did YOU get in your mailboxes and what are you planning to read this coming week?

-review- A Touch Morbid by Leah Clifford

2012-01-26T19:43:00.000-08:00

-She lost herself, for one last moment, in his eyes. And then 'she' stepped back.-

Thank you so much dear Rachel and Leah for bringing me back to the world of reviews T_T I haven't written even an excuse of a review for 3 weeks now. It's really showing.
So today, I'll leave you with my thoughts, or what's left of them, about the book.

THE BOOK
Oh My Clouds in the heavens of the whole earth that we humans inhabit O_o
Where did my heart go?
Oh, yeah. Leah completely stole it with this second instalment of A Touch Mortal.
After reading the mind blowing, incredibly new, and fresh first book I really didn't think that life could get any better than that.
And as it's always with me. It turned out I was completely and utterly WRONG.
A Touch Morbid was 100*100000 times + infinite more times better than ATM1.
-Takes her hat off- Leah! for this attempt to share with you and everyone else what you did to me with this book actually work I'll have to pretend that you are NOT from this world and that you've come from some other dimension where all books are perfect and the person who writes them is not evil but...let's just say -wicked- and that the person doesn't have a normal brain but one that can only come up with mind-blowing-death-sentence ideas with it and nothing else.

-This was about false promises of things he couldn't have.-

EVERYTHING AND MORE
Let's just start with the kitten shall we? Because everyone loved to tease and torture me about the poor/lucky kitten whenever Leah had a chat. I do believe in kittens and...Boy, what would I give to be the kitten in this story...even if just for a while...to be able to be that close to G...HIM...it's got to be worth something.
There's someone dealing with TOUCH...out of all things to get um...some kind of profit from...that's got to be ugly!
Everyone thinks they're doing their best to help everyone else. Everyone thinks that is best to keep something from someone for their on well being and the rest. But this whole book was so wicked and so twisted and so good...I can only agree.
The lies that were told or the truths that weren't told in the book were all done or undone lol, with the best thoughts and interests in mind, not wanting to harm others but the contrary.

-"I want to see beautiful things with you."-

-Az and Eden, I envy. Every time, every way, every second, forever. Az comes back broken but still full of love for Eden.
-Eden is at her most strong point...and later at her most vulnerable and weak. Protecting those who don't want to be protected but knowing better...must stink.
-Gabe...~sighs~ Gabe is mine, end of discussion. He's struggling after the killer ending of ATM1. He's trying, he has/had/maybe/will/have some kind of kitten. He's hot. No. I mean it. Literally. HOT. And then, he's dark, he's darker, and at some point I think he went completely BLACK.
-Kristen, I think I've come to like Kristen more than I would like to. Simply because she spent almost every single of her scenes with evil incarnate AND made me jealous of it. How far off gone was I by then? I think I completely lost it.
She played with ICE...and I don't think she was afraid to freeze...she was almost always cold in the book. Showing her soft-still-human side.

-"Do you know how easy it would be to break you?"

She looked numb. "I'm already broken. You fix me."-

-Luke. Taking a deep breath here. I cannot believe that Leah put books&Luke in the same sentence or paragraph inside this book. I mean it. If Luke buys books why shouldn't everyone? If he likes a certain kind of breakfast meal why shouldn't we all? I know I'm loving it/them now. He can be so deliciously manipulative while at the same time freeze someone from the inside-out without a seconds hesitation. After all, he learns from his mistakes.
-Jarrod. OMG! ~grabs Leah and hugs her fiercely~ There was so much more of Jarrod I thought and felt it was Christmas all over again! He's my forever hero. The only one that really tried to be the light in all the shadows that were this book. He IS afraid of things but unlike all the others he doesn't try to hide it but fights against it with all his might. And for that I LOVE HIM and I'm marrying him. End of rant.
-Madeline is an elusive little thing and she's completely scary in the most crazy way. I have really no words to describe her.
-Zach and Sebastian are 2 yummy things that if they continue like this...I shall also take them home with me and never return them.
-We have old characters coming back...maybe just one but who's counting? And new ones...that I have to say were the excellent spice to this plate of a heart attack-Don't think I've forgotten how I started out this review.-

-"My little black hole," he said, leaning his head nearer to her.

"Pulling me in."-

MY POOR SOUL
The story was explosive in it's glory and mysterious in it's worst and I loved every single dot, letter, exclamation point, quotation mark, and EVERYTHING in it.
I couldn't have asked for a more perfect sequel.
Things aren't getting any better...they're getting worse by the minute. Every character has it's own story to tell and solve. Every corner is dripping secrets. Every song can drag you to hell. Every angel can be upon you. Every word can condemn you. Every kiss is a promise. Every promise is a lie. Every intent is good. Every good can rapidly turn into evil. Every breath can kill you. And. Every Touch can claim you. Death is lurking everywhere. Life is trying to run away. Love is trying it's best to prevail but so far it seems really hard and almost impossible to believe Love can hold on much longer.
A Touch Morbid is a heart-accelerating thing of a book. I don't recommend this book for those who suffer any kind of heart disease as I can assure you...this will be the death of you as it was of me.

-"I love you," he whispered.-

My body-heart-soul is begging for the third book.
And as Rachel told me. I don't know if reading this book early...has gifted me or has cursed me.
I'm ruined for all men because I just met the one I want in this book.
Do please please please yourself with this exquisite sequel.
And buy it when it comes out.
Your mind knows you want it...just let your body go along with it.

I give this book;

10special-fotitos(special rating for over-the-top-I'll-never-get-over-this book) =
I cried for things I didn't know possible I was capable of.

Once again I have to thank Rachel @Fiktshun for this wonderful gift. Thanks for killing me at a young age!
On a side note I thought I could share with you how I'm really not exaggerating when I say this book really...ruined me.
I present you...my ATM2 ARC...and the pencil I used to take notes...

yes... This really happened!

Also

This

I'm sorry pencil T_T

BookPic of the Week #1

2012-01-23T10:55:00.000-08:00

Wow! I came up with this idea a long time ago and I've never had the time or the right picture to showcase what I called BookPic of the Week...yeah yeah, it says in the description of this post that is a picture that has to do a lot with books...but I'm changing it quite a bit. It won't only be a book cover, book quote, or the likes, but also a picture that I took anywhere that reminds me of a book, a certain book cover, or a book passage or quote.
So there you go, I hope I can have more time to take photos and even more time to find some place, patience and, creativity in me to make them even a little bit beautiful :D
I'm no professional photographer nor do I know a thing about editing pictures haha I just love the fact that a single picture can say so much or so little without a single word, the look on people's faces when they look at said picture...it's the most amazing face they could ever make...as if they'd pay to be inside the picture!
And well...I really love nature shots...it's what you'll find the most in my posts too...
So...here goes...everything :D

-...black and orange. Like a fire caught burning and turned to rock...

"It's like someone huge made cuts in the earth and dropped us inside."-

~Crossed by Ally Condie~

IMM#15 The FIKTSHUN-ATM2 Edition & MRP#2

2012-01-21T22:42:00.000-08:00

IMM is hosted by The Story Siren I looove love her blog! So you really should check it out!

Hey guys! Another week ending, another IMM -thankfully- haha I'm not one that gets books in her mail every single week so I'm really grateful that something showed up-OMG- and now I'm more than excited to finally show it to you!!!

-my bed makes a lot of noises T_T forgive her please! And yes, that is Hurt on the background. Thank you very much Rachel*-* -

Gifted

A Touch Morbid by Leah Clifford -ARC-

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Rachel@Fiktshun T_T I've been...trying to find a way to thank you and again I have failed miserably T_T but thank you so much T_T

~crying of happiness~ I still cannot believe I have this book in my hands!

My Reading Pile #2

This week I've only added 2 new reads to my pile, as you have already seen on the video. But for those who skipped that part of it these are the books that I'll be reading this week:

A Touch Morbid by Leah Clifford (New on the pile)

The Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan (Continue reading)

My Soul To Take by Rachel Vincent (Continue Reading)

[Remember you can still sing up for the Soul Screamers reading challenge! Button is on the left sidebar]

Incarnate by Jodi Meadows (New on the pile)

What did YOU guys get in your mail boxes?

New on the BookPics TBR-List #8

2012-01-21T10:09:00.000-08:00

This week's new books on my TBR-list are:

Pride's Run by Cat Kalen

Partials by Dan Wells

-Can I say COVER LOVE! I love love love this cover and I don't even know why I hadn't added it to my tbr-list before I saw it on My Reading Pile and boy was I shocked at my lack of new books added to the list! I love the girls hair, the clothes the sky, the road and, the font of the title!-

Blind Spot by Laura Ellen

-Another cover I really love and I kind of read the blurb and I'm intrigued, really. The girl's eye make-up and the place where the title was put I'm really looking forward to this book.-

The Goddess Hunt by Aimée Carter (Goddess Test #1.5)

-This is the first cover of these books where we can really take a front and clear view of the girl on all the covers. Can't wait to read this one AND Goddess Interrupted!-

Exiled by M.R. Merrick

-This book was added thanks to Fiktshun. She had it on her Reading Pile post last week. So, of course I had to add it too.-

Nine Uses for an Ex-Boyfriend by Sarra Manning

-This one was a literally random add. I was stalking goodreads and Blackplume had it added to her tbr-list and the title drew me in first thing plus, I have to admit I'm partial to the pink arrows >.< -

Okay guys, I'll stop here before I spam the whole entry.

What is new on your tbr-list?

Care to share?

IMM#14 Finally Will Read THAT Book!

2012-01-14T22:39:00.000-08:00

IMM is hosted by The Story Siren I love-love her blog! Be sure to check it out!

Bought

*Rage by Jackie Morse Kessler -PB-

*Lament by Maggie Stiefvater -PB-

*Ballad by Maggie Stiefvater -PB-

*The Fledgling Handbook 101 by P.C. Cast & Kim Doner -PB-

*Destined by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -PB-

Gifted

*The Mockingbirds by Daisy Whitney -PB- -New cover- SIGNED

-for some reason the cover won't appear on the goodreads PB edition page of the book so I'm linking you to the hardback page-

OMG

THANK YOU SO MUCH DAISY!!!

I screamed and didn't want to stop looking at the little email convo we had.

Not in a million years did I think of this happening!

Daisy's web page-> http://daisywhitney.com/

Facebook->https://www.facebook.com/mockingbirdsbook

Again, this week was full of awesomeness as you can see above, any book added or received or bought, for me, that's just amazing and makes me more than happy :D

I'm still waiting on some, um, random packages...So I hope those come this week.

-Now-

Bear with me.

I was talking with Mist from Bookaholics Book Club about how she did her IMM videos and added her reading pile created by Fiktshun for the week in it but as you can see in the video I couldn't make it on time before the food arrived-lol-so I'll post it written instead.

This is something new I'm trying :D so wish me luck and here I go->

My Reading Pile #1

I've never been good at organizing things. NEVER. EVER.

But since I'm participating in 2 reading challenges this year, one that has already started and the other one that starts today, Sunday, I figured...Why not try to be responsible for once.

Don't forget, if you haven't joined there's still time the Soul Screamers Reading Challenge stars today! Just go click on the left sidebar button ;)

So this week I'll be reading

My Soul To Take by Rachel Vincent

This is the first in the series and I'll be re-reading it for the 3rd time now, I think. I've never actually written a proper review for this or the rest of the books in the series so maybe I'll be able to write one out though, as you can see I haven't made a single post this last week. Hence the fact that if you click-older post- it goes straight to last week's IMM ~blush~ Forgive me!

I cannot wait, simply simply, cannot wait to lose myself once again in the Soul Screamers world where I can hang out with Tod, Nash, Kay, Emma...and a little reaper I love...so we'll see how it goes.

Next up is

The Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan

This book I found out about because of Rachel@Fiktshun, she absolutely LOVES this books and even though I only own the first one-my very first kindle purchase-I still haven't gotten around to read it. So, a couple of facebook friends are currently reading it and asked if there was anyone who would like to join. Of course I couldn't loose the opportunity and jumped at the chance. I just really hope to even read the half of it. And in the process don't let Rachel down...talk about impossibles.

I think that's it for my YA reads lol I'll be also reading an adult book, and I'm still debating whether this is a YA only blog or if I'll be adding non-YA reviews, reads, and covers here...time will tell.

So, that's it for me!

What did YOU get in your mail boxes? And,

What are you planning to read this week?

Until next week...

IMM #13 The first of the year people!

2012-01-09T10:15:00.000-08:00

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by Kristi @ The Story Siren
I'm back!

Merry belated Christmas and a really really Happy 2012 to all of you awesome BookPic-ers!

This first IMM of the year is full of awesome! and I cannot wait to show you guys what I got the final 2 weeks of 2011.

I cried, gasped, thanked my lucky stars, cried again, smiled, laughed, freaked out, hyperventilated, and more!

Sadly youtube didn't like me and didn't upload the video that I made like 3 times in a row filled with excitement and all my clumsiness so...in the lack of video Pictures come to the rescue...

I present you

Won

-Lie by Caroline Bock -PB-SIGNED

thanks to Amy from LadysBookStuff She also sent me a BUNCH of swag T_T thanks so much including a Stomp Out Bullying bracelet which I'm in love with!

Thanks so much Amy! the book being signed was a complete surprise for me.

Awesome Christmas indeed!

Christmas Gifts

-If I Die by Rachel Vincent -PB- SIGNED!!!!!!

YES THAT's the difference people! You can't ever ever have enough copies of Rachel's books.

Rachel@Fiktshun T_T from the bottom of my stalker/creepy/cry-baby heart. My very first Rachel Vincent book SIGNED T_T I was all over the place...I think now, it's a good thing I didn't get to post the video because you might have been frightened of me...just saying.

-Rules of Attraction by Simone Elkeles -PB-

-Chain Reaction by Simone Elkeles -HB-

-Incarnate by Jodi Meadows -ARC-

AND

BEWARE

-this is the sound of me completely in tears and dying of happiness-

-The Pledge by Kimberly Derting -HB- SIGNED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Grace from Peace, Love, Teen Fiction *-* I cried, screamed, bawled my eyes completely out, ran out of tears. You are more than awesome and I'm so happy I met you...you're the reason I even started stalking facebook pages and new about blogs. I even became a good stalking author-blogger-person person because of you! lol You're an amazing person, blogger, and reader. I really look up to you! Keep it up!

Thanks also for the awesome swag you sent *-* including Kim's The Pledge bookmark, passport, and those amazing temporary tattoos from Laini's Daughter of Smoke and Bone T_T

-My very first Christmas Card EVER

thanks to Tiffany Tiney *-* I LOVE IT!

And

My Very First book-related POSTER EVER

and what better way to start than with one of my favourite 2011 debuts

-Ashfall by Mike Mullin -POSTER- SIGNED!

Thank you so much Jean @JeanBookNerd you were more than kind to offer it to me *-* your very last poster! I can never thank you enough.

That's it for me guys, thank you ALL and EACH of you guys for sending me these awesome books and swag. I love you guys all so much for being so awesome with me.

So, what did YOU guys get in your mail boxes?

Joining the Soul Screamers Reading Challenge

2012-01-06T10:23:00.000-08:00

I know, I know. You guys are all like, Alba, really? Reading those books yet AGAIN?

Well ladies, gentlemen, beautiful people, I'm here to tell you that the answer to that interrogative is a round, big, completely cute

YES~with a lot of exclamation marks~ !!!!!!!!!!!

Rachel@Fiktshun is hosting her very first reading challenge this year. And what other better way to start than with the complete trauma of mine, Rachel Vincent's Soul Screamers series. There are exactly 5 whole books out with 3 novellas to go with them, and even an omnibus with the first novella and 2 first books.

The challenge will last only until the next installment of the series comes out which is set to be released on June this year.

You don't have to be a blogger to join the challenge, just some way to post a review(goodreads, facebook, etc.) It doesn't matter if you have already reviewed the books you can still join in the fun and maybe post about the rereading experience.

There are also some really swoon-drool worthy incentives that Rachel has come up with.

Yes people there are, exactly, ARE and not is, some giveaways.

So, if you're up for the challenge, and believe me you won't regret it if you're reading them for the first time, I have the button of the challenge on the left sidebar and also I'll leave it here on the end of this post.

Don't lose the chance to get to know how to spell correctly BANSHEE and to get to know a really really sexy REAPER and some really dark NIGHTMARES.

Challenge starts January 15 and ends June 14 you can enter whenever you want between those 2 dates.

Best of luck and really, just have fun.

I know I will.

This is the second reading challenge I'm joining this year (it's all about trying new things this new year right?) The other one I've joined is The Sequels Challenge hosted by Bookaholics Book Club you can also find the challenge button on my left sidebar.

-review- Good For You by Tammara Webber

2012-01-05T19:34:00.000-08:00

~"I mean, there's a difference between being suicidal and not giving a sh*t if you live or die. Right?"~

Tammara Webber, what can I say? How do I even begin to thank you?

I discovered this books thanks to Rachel@Fiktshun and well then I fell in love completely with the story, the characters, Graham, oh man...and finally after a long and well worthy wait REID is BACK.

This is the third and last book in the Between The Lines Trilogy by Tammara Webber.

I literally don't know how to express my feelings for this book...I always loved Reid...no matter what he did...where did he go...what did he kiss...or who did he kiss... But in this book we get a completely different side of Reid and we are introduced to a new and fresh and if you ask me completely lovable, real, and amazing character; Dori.

~ Her shorts are so far out of style that I'm not sure they were ever in style. ~

My Poor Feelings/thoughts/and the likes
Because I was literally left waiting, wanting, begging for more I'm going to put it like this, short, simple, and...never mind I'll just do it.
You are who...people see? what you want to be? what you'd like to be? or what you really are?
You love...what you want to love? what you'd like to love? or what you really love?
You live...how you want to live? how other people tell you to live? or you don't really live at all but just try to pass the time every single day?
You believe, you cry, you try, you ask, you forgive, you forget, you love, you work, you make mistakes, you hold your breath, you listen, you want to be listened, you want to be loved, you want to be accepted, you expect... Reid and Doris' lives are described simply in those lines above.
He's a complete famous actor, she's a dedicated girl with her life already planned out.
When both their paths cross...BIG BANG happens... he wants to be more than just a sexy body and pretty face to her and she, well, she just want to be left alone to her own thoughts and doesn't trust people just like Reid.

~ Reid Alexander is the Devil. Except now it's easier to understand the angels who chose to fall from heaven with him. ~

This book was what I expected and so much more. Webber knew exactly when to make things happen and left me wanting more sooo bad it's really not even funny.
Full of hot, cute, sexy, work, paint, hammers, fans, cars, families, dancing, truth, lies, trust, and more than 3rd chances... A book that will completely change your mind if only a little, about holywood stars, about believing in yourself, and about the importance of others believing in yourself, about trusting, about letting yourself love someone and be loved, about helping and being helped.
I have to confess...that ending...it left me with sooo many questions going unanswered, so many untied endings, and a very very...squeezed-tight heart to deal with afterwards.
Please don't let the chance of reading this amazing books pass up. I promise it won't disappoint!

And finally a million + infinite thanks to ~clears throat~ Tammara Webber, author and amazing person who gifted me the book...I was in tears and astonished T_T and Rachel-Fiktshun- she sent another copy when I was already reading it, the fact that you thought about me was enough to make me cry all over again. Thank you BOTH one for writing the amazing story and the other one for introducing me.

~ "Why did I do it? Because I love you. There's no other motive--I really am that simple." ~

I'll miss each and every single moment of all these books, the characters, and stalking the author for more!

I give this book

10special-fotitos(special rating for over-the-top-I'll-never-get-over-this book) =

I cried for things I didn't know possible I was capable of.

-COVER REVEAL- Before I Wake by Rachel Vincent

2011-12-29T13:31:00.000-08:00

It's been so long since I did one of these, but this time I couldn't help myself.

It's Rachel Vincent and the Soul Screamers after all!

I present you

Before I Wake (Book #6 in the Soul Screamers series)

*-if you click the image it'll take you to it's goodreads description-*

I know Rachel isn't too fond of the color Pink but let me tell you..this cover kicks *behinds*

I love it! I still am surprised they have kept on going with the girl in the cover...~sighs~ all the covers of her books are so pretty >.<

Why the GREEN color you ask? Because the previous books' cover ROCKED BIG time too and I still haven't gotten over it!

I can just imagine how they will all look together on my shelves *-* can't wait!

What do you Think of the cover beautiful people???

-review- Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

2011-12-28T21:55:00.000-08:00

-I'm an encyclopedia with too many blank pages.-

As I had the opportunity to tell the author endless times, I take this moment to tell you guys too!

This BOOK is WOW + a million awesomeness patched up together perfectly.

My mind and heart haven't had enough time to get over this book and I don't want them to.

Plot

The plot is simple...someone promising you a better future, you believing it and then...that promise never sees the light of fulfill-ness.

The writing style, the love that pours from every single word, the hurt from Juliette's thoughts, the hope from Adam, the eagerness of Warner, the loyalty of James, and the hope of a better future combined with Tahereh's talent made for a piece of art that I'd love to have hanging from a wall in my room, forever.

Almost forgot to mention that part-not all-of the tittle is mentioned several times in the book, you know how I just have a thing for books that can pull, having their tittles well into the story, off and this one did it...hands down.

Characters

How, how, HOW can someone so broken be so beautiful and strong at the same time?

How can someone that counts and numbers every little thing, cannot know the amount of love she carries inside?

-"You can't touch me."-

My completely scattered feelings, poor heart, and nearly insane-self thoughts

It took my heart, broke it all in such tiny pieces that I thought I'd never be able to come back together again. But then Tahereh along with Juliette proved me wrong yet again...because...after being so broken, little heart of mine, it started to be patched up...so differently and in such a unique way that I'm 100% sure I'll never be the same person I was, before reading this book, ever again.

Oh God! Oh my sweet God in the heavens, earth...

I thank all my lucky stars for having been able to get this book and read it.

Juliette is a character like no one I've ever read before. She's broken in such a heartbreaking beautiful way! And her persona instantly clicked with me...I wanted nothing more than to steal her away from the book and mend her and keep her safe and sound.

I find myself yet again with a character that I identify with, nope, if I touch you nothing bad will happen, really. Nevertheless, let's just say that I was rooting for Juliette since he very beginning in a way that no one ever did for me.

-...I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.-

I see red with different eyes now. Red can mean so many things, has so many emotions written in and on it's own language. Specially the strongests' of emotions: LOVE and RAGE/HATE and Juliette kept dripping red all over...everywhere...and you have to read the book to know if the red she's letting fall to the floor is either...Hatred or Love...

Author Tahereh Mafi; I stand up, take my hat off, and applaud every single letter written in this book. You're forever engraved in my mind and heart. One of the 2011 best reads and really? Best books to EVER exist.

It was a complete honor being able to read this book.

I'll never take for granted the opportunity to hug, kiss, or simply touch someone I love, ever again. It's a complete gift.

I give this book

10special-fotitos(special rating for over-the-top-I'll-never-get-over-this book) =
I cried for things I didn't know possible I was capable of.

Special THANK YOUS forever and ever and ever and ever to Rachel from Fiktshun T-T you continue to surprise me with your goodness and kindness and really? your patience with me...I am forever thankful. If it weren't for you I wouldn't have been able to read this book/perfect-ness.

-review- Silence by Becca Fitzpatrick

2011-12-28T11:26:00.000-08:00

-"This ends here..."-

Oh I wish that quote right there were true :/ but I'm so happy it isn't!

For a book that was supposed to be the last one in trilogy it was so mean =( Thank God Becca's doing another one. I've still got so many questions that I'd love to have answers to...so many ideas...so many more...well, everything.

Plot/Story

Once again we find Patch doing whatever it takes to keep Nora safe. It was a slow paced, well developed plot. I'm glad we get to know a bit more about angels, archangels, nephilim, feathers, necklaces, and much more.

Thoughts & Characters

Just when I thought everything would be discovered the story turned yet in another way.

.Vee! oh favorite woman of mine! Most of you know that aside from hotness/Patch my favorite BFF, sidekick, or whatever you want to call, character, is Vee. And I so wish she had had more part and more of that awesomeness and spike-y-ness that's soooo her. So, THAT, I missed...a lot.

Another good thing I can recall is the fact that we get to see a lot of past characters, some I loved to see...others...not so much, but that did bring a really good flow to the book.

-"My history is long, and not much of it is good. I can't erase it, but I'm determined not to make another mistake."-

Feelings

All in all, a book that yet again you've got to read for your well being as well as mine :D

To know what happens after such a huge cliffhanger-killer of an ending that Crescendo had...

-"I'm officially in love with your sheets."

"That the only thing you're in love with?"

"Nope. Your mattress too."-

Feathers, Love, Feathers, Blood, Love, Friendship, Love, Memories, Death, Feathers-again-, Love, and trust; are all well packed inside Silence which, if you'd let me add, is, was and will always be the PERFECT tittle for this book. I couldn't have been any happier with the tittle...which has so much of the story on itself...because...if there's nothing left in your mind, heart, and world...that Silence...then...does all of that really exist? If there's nothing indicating...not even a single beat, a little flutter of a memory, or the slightless tingle in your body...that they're all 3 there...

Was all of that real? Can it be? Could it be? And if it could...

What would you do...to bring the noise, feeling, and memories back?

I give this book

4fotitos=genious crying.

Special thanks to Perla, without your help I wouldn't have Silence here with me now. I love you tons girl! Thank you so much!

IMM#12 Merry EARLY Christmas to ME&YOU

2011-12-17T23:06:00.000-08:00

IMM is hosted by The Story Siren I looove love her blog! So you really should check it out!

Oh, God. After 3 weeks IMM-less I'm finally here with that times' worth of books, believe me.

I have to warn you the vlog is a little longer than my usual 15 minutes ones...so you've been warned. But I'd be so completely happy if you could get to watch it all...because I'm more than excited for all these books I got >.<

Nat Cleary, there are simply too many tears at bay there...but hope you get how much I thank you for the christmas presents and the surprise book too!

Author A.Jacob Sweeny for the impromptu christmas present believe me it was a complete surprise!

and Rachel from FIKTSHUN as I told Tahereh I haven't been the same person since I finished reading Shatter Me and that was and is and will always be thanks to you T-T so thank you!

The ebooks I got are more than the ones I mentioned on the video T-T see? I was too excited and literally forgot to mention them so I'll leave the other 3 for next week's IMM if I happen not to get anything in the mail.

EBOOKS

Bought

Thanks to Haley from Ya-Aholic for the recommendation :D

Gifted

Thanks to author Tammara Webber & also to Rachel@Fiktshun for this book I'm almost done and believe me guys, it's amazing. Somehow I ended up being gifted this twice and don't know how or if what I did will work...hehe I know next to nothing about what to do on those cases...

Anyways this is all the awesome I got this past week! Can you believe it? All this on a week I'm more than happy, believe me!

What did YOU beautiful people get in your mail boxes?

-review- Daughter of Smoke & Bone

2011-12-13T20:40:00.000-08:00

-With the infinite patience of one who has learned to live broken, he awaited her return.-

Laini Taylor! What an amazing talent and gift you have.

Characters-
Karou is a character I'll be forever grateful I met. She's incredibly awesome with her strong persona and the blue hair which, in my opinion, is the coolest thing EVER.
Akiva, where do I even start?
I don't know how or when I just know that my heart goes to him. He made the word ANGEL take on a whole new meaning and made me want to fly.
Every single character, I assure you, You'll love!
The whole book wouldn't be this awesome and one of the best I've read this year, and simply PERFECT if it wasn't full of ugly beasts. strange angels, and a whole lot of wishes.

Plot-
I won't say a single thing about the plot. You know me it's all about the teasing and well...you knowing how the book made me feel.
And yes it's set on...Prague :D you'll love it! It's beautiful and full of color and light and darkness :D

-The sun climbed above the hills and she watched as its glow herded night into the shadows where it gathered, all the darker for its density--all of night crowded into the slanting places beyond the reach of dawn.-

My poor thoughts and feelings-
I was all over the book, all over the characters, all over the place and died at the end.
Yeap that sums up well enough just how this book rocked and kept on rocking my world even after days of finishing it!
First of all, the names! I loved each and every single name that author Laini Taylor used in the book. The setting was getting even more and more lovelier by the minute.
I will NEVER EVER take a wish for granted EVER again, teeth O_O I worship my teeth every single day now! will never think of the law of gravity lightly EVER. Will never see darkness as something you cannot see but something you can obviously see...even more than light.
War is awful, it got me thinking and to relate it to the actual days of ours, where everyone and everything tries to be solved by war. What's wrong with the other options? Talking? Taking it easy? Counting to 10 or even 1000?

-..."It's not peace. Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony."-

It also got me thinking...never to judge a person by looks only, even the ugliest of creatures to me is the most beautiful for another. The book is just THAT amazing taking you from one thought and scene to another character and a classroom; Looks deceive, wishes are lethal, flying is a given, hand prints are dreaded, and of course what would a book be without me CRYING OVER IT?
When the person you love the most is the enemy of your kind, has blood on his/her hands, sees war as his/her only purpose in life, kills for a living while devoting him/herself solely to you, has the most smooth tender hands, lips, and eyes you've ever laid your eyes on, and loves you so completely that is willing to give you up just for your own peace of mind and safety even if it kills him/her...
Then you've got yourself just a tiny sneak peek at what you're getting yourself into when picking up and reading this book.
Fights, love, memories, blue, wishes, wings, angels, and...other not so angels, 2 moons, awesome chapter tittles, chimaeras, a KILLER ending and way more...Daughter of Smoke & Bone is just that...a girl that is who she is because of the smoke and bones that surround her.

-HUGE AND SPECIAL THANKS TO: Elena from A World of Words who was awesome enough to receive the US version of the book in her house and then send it to me. And Nat T-T who sent me a UK-PB-ARC of it T-T girls thank you both so very much, the review wouldn't even exist if it weren't for you two! Now I won both covers ~cries~. -

I give this book

10special-fotitos(special rating for over-the-top-I'll-never-get-over-this book) =
I cried for things I didn't know possible I was capable of.

-review/thoughts- Dark Song by Gail Giles

2011-12-06T20:54:00.001-08:00

First of all I just wanted to let you know that this book I read a LONG time ago this year...and I didn't even have a bookpics page or blog or tumblr or anything for that matter So you might get to see all the rough and raw edges this review/thought has because I just wrote it soon after finishing reading the book...I wasn't good at expressing much of my feelings back then...But I do love this book and hope you get to love it too sometime!
I might be reading this again soon just because ;) and maybe then I'll write a review worth of the book:D

~Mom and dad, you're about to find out how much betrayal hurts.~

OK...this is OFFICIALLY the one that will mark me this whole 2011

-Characters-

Ames...I started identifying with her character A LOT...not that my life came tumbling down like in a second like hers...but sometimes...how she feels...all along the book...took me by surprise and left me breathless since the beginning of the book.

~...I gasped, and a tear leaked out from my left eye.

"I'd wipe that away, but my hands are wet and they would see. You need to wipe it off. Don't ever let them see you have a soft place." ~

-My poor scattered feelings-
Ames is the typical girls who has it all...and maybe more than ALL...but didn't know that until she looses all! then comes the big bomb. Her "perfect" family wasn't that perfect after all...she founds herself falling and falling down...sinking on this feelings where there's only her BF Em and her against the world...and later...it seems that's just HER against the world(by world I mean her parents) then OF COURSE! she meets Marc and suddenly everything's not so bad as it seems...she pretty much anchors herself to him...and when there was sadness and loneliness now she got a sort of happiness:S and she's not lonely nor alone anymore...or at least that's what she thinks...but then...when she thought nothing....NOTHING AT ALL COULD GO WORST OR I Ddon't Know she finds out that she has the life of her whole family on her hands...what she decides from there on...is up to how she feels...since her mom and dad treat her like a servant and even her little sister is starting to notice that Ames might not be so good underneath after all...
will she answer to the call that this dark song inside of her plays??
or will she turn her back on the only person that has made her feel safe, loved and most of all IMPORTANT to the world?

~"I detentioned him"~

A COMPLETELY MUST READ!! DON'T KNOW WHY I DIDN'T READ THIS BEFORE!!
IT WAS WORTH EVERY MINUTE OF MY TIME...
A COMPLETE PIECE OF ART THAT WILL LEAVE YOU WONDERING IF THERE'S A SONG A REALLY REALLY DARK SONG INSIDE OF YOU JUST WAITING FOR YOU TO NOTICE IT AND SING IT TOO.UST LIKE WITH AMES..if I could gather all this book in one single picture...I'll definitely have it hanging in my bedroom walls!
Gail Giles is a genious!

I rate this book

10special-fotitos(special rating for over-the-top-I'll-never-get-over-this book) =

I cried for things I didn't know possible I was capable of.

I had to share...

2011-12-06T20:25:00.001-08:00

So, you all followers of mine know or at least have to know a bit of my love for Beth Ravis author of Across The Universe and A Million Suns, yes I'm a silent stalker of hers...and I'm in love with her first book(because I haven't read the second one) and after I won, definitely marking me forever, one of her giveaways...there was no turning back!

I mean how could I not freak out if she sent a SIGNED PB copy of AtU and really cool swag?! So now here we are again...her being always awesome when doing a giveaway AND now I think...she completely has lost it with the prizes!

So take a look at it!!!

And for every entry she'll donate to charity(up until 1000)! SEE?! I told you she was awesome!
So go there enter and I wish you the best of luck! I really hope to get ANY no matter...(though I'd die for a copy of AMS) what because that's just how great all the stuff she's giving away is...
What are you still doing here?!
GO!
Oh yeap...IT'S INTERNATIONAL!

New on the BookPics TBR-List #7

2011-12-06T10:26:00.001-08:00

I'm here with more and more books added to the never ending BookPics TBR-List!!

So, let's just get started!

AND ALL THE BOOKS IN 'The Seer' series

ALSO A SHORT STORY FROM ELANA JOHNSON'S POSSESSION

And, Last,because the post is really too long now but not least

-review- Bloodlines by Richelle Mead

2011-11-30T20:00:00.000-08:00

-His hair was carefully styled to look like he'd just rolled out of bed. Too bad he didn't have my hair's texture. My hair did that without any styling at all.-

I won this book a while ago, a PB copy but decided to give it to my sister because she's absolutely traumatized and a crazy woman for all things VA and then BOOM the local book store surprised me when I saw this on their shelves..a shiny awesome HC copy (I'm a stinker for HC), so I bought it and now I have a copy of my own!

Okay, I know that after this all Demitri lovers will hate me but I just have to...so I'll be adding some iron bars to protect my room along with some mines and stuff like that...just simple >.< but...

I'm going with all the things I felt while reading the book, all the caught breaths, all the tears, all the smiles, and well everything that the book awoke in me and...I really love this book WAAAAY more than all the VA ones put together...maybe not ALL of them but certainly this book...I really really just loved and believe me...that was a complete surprise for me. I'm not a huge Dimitri lover though I do like Rose some...but Sydney and Adrian and Eddie and Jill = AWESOME BOOK FOR ME!!

~Characters~

T-T I'm sad/happy to admit that I was sooo identified with Sydney in so many levels it was kind of freaky but believe me I loved not only her character but what she does to others while being just who she is...she's strong in her own way...and after not being trusted for a long time she knows not to expect people to believe in her...which leads us to

ADRIAN T-T omg! Long time no see, I've loved Adrian since I read about him for the first time and NEVER ever forgotten all the sexy/awesome/quirky self of his...Sydney is just what he needs...someone who...well READ THE BOOK PEOPLE...he's been hurt and truly believes he knows the meaning of love so I'm hoping he get's to know the kind of love that gives back to him and not just the other way around...also knowing that people don't expect much of him he obviously doesn't take himself seriously. So I really liked being able to see more of his unknown side in the book.

Eddie and Jill are still some kind of mystery to me, but a mystery I'm so so so ready to discover and unearth to it's very roots...Jill I like, really simple and shy and well just real...and Eddie, oh Eddie...after my very HARDCORE crush on Mason(insert big sobs while remembering him) he's my second favourite Dhampir on Richelle Mead's collection.

I might be the only person known that wasn't really looking forward to any of the main VA characters to come into the story but I know they're important enough that I won't hate them here ;)

-In attempting to fix a loose thread on her cardigan the other day, Jill had nearly unraveled the entire sweater.-

~Plot~

I really don't want to tell you what the book is about...really...not at all...just know that is really awesome and has tons of actions, not many cheesyness but cuteness, full of protectiveness, strong characters, strong beliefs, and people getting second chances.

~My feelings~

OMG I know that when I find myself alike and with similarities with a book character is really because of his/her negative sides...I really don't know what to make of that but that's how I am...I guess... and with Sydney...it all started again...knowing exactly how she felt I had to, sometimes, put the book down and take a deep breath to go on. Her protective side really shot straight home and her fierceness in defending what she thinks is right...

Adrian always breaks my heart, I have no idea how he got to have his very own space in my heart but I like to think he really started carving it out since the first time I laid eyes on his name written on paper...

The complete book has so many different things and you have so little time to drink them in all that you might find it too fast passed but believe me...it's prefect!

- "...All I can ask is that you give me another chance. That you try to believe me when I say...That you believe I'm serious. That you trust me."

"Okay," I said. "I trust you."

"Total shock filled his features. "You do?" -

All in all a book that you must read no matter if you were team Adrian or team Dimitri...

I rate this book

10special-fotitos(special rating for over-the-top-I'll-never-get-over-this book) =
I cried for things I didn't know possible I was capable of.

-review- Witch Eyes by Scott Tracey

2011-11-30T11:14:00.001-08:00

- Something wrenched itself in my stomach. Someone finally cared about me, and I didn't deserve it. -

Before I try to make this short and brief I have to ask forgiveness T-T I read this in October!!! OCTOBER and not until now I'm writing the review...so of course I had to go and skim the book again to be refreshed by it's completely DIFFERENT AMAZING AND SIMPLY GENIUS content!
I admit I thought I was going to be biased because Fiktshun liked it but THANK GOD I found my very own reason to love it 1. Scott Tracey's complete new concept of witch, of pov's and of, really, drama! 2. I'm in love with a guy who a) Is completely fictional(who of us isn't) b) Is or roots or goes or whatever you want to call it, for the other team T-T WHY oh WHY and c) the COVER of the book is awesome!

~Characters~
I'm in love with a guy whose eyes have a power I never even thought could be thought upon ;)
Braden his persona is completely likeable and sweet and shy and well he's strong lol and really naive in some parts but I love that he always goes after what he wants even if what he wants is the most dangerous thing for his life.
Trey, I have to admit I'm wary of him still. I really don't know why...at the beginning his personality really freaked me out. I do have to admit -hands down- to his kind of loyalty. It certainly doesn't exist anymore.
Drew, I'm in love again. I don't know why or how or when I just know this. He's my favourite character in the book. Maybe with like a 1% ahead of Braden. He is just so hilarious and straightforward and blunt it really is funny and doesn' backfire to him...much.

~ My heart wasn't content to leap into my throat: it slammed against my ribs, snapped my chest in half, punched a hole through my stomach, and nearly--- ~

~Plot~
AMAZING!
Captivating. I mean love and magic are so close to both their meanings is a wonder they're 2 different words. Scott's writing took me in like that ~snaps fingers~ I was lost in the story since the very beginning and really didn't want to let go. Braden's eyes are something to fear if you've done something bad, something to look forward if you're ready to be stripped to your very firsts...and something to be wary of if you're not sure you want someone to know much about yourself even though you want him/her to. I'm rambling so back to the plot. I love the thing that he has to wear dark glasses at all times >.< can't even begin to imagine all the hell he has to go through...in the end I was left just begging for more of the story that has 2 families willing to destroy each other and only Braden in the middle trying to convince them not to...

~My Feelings~
OMG this book was so hilarious it didn't seem real, every page I turned brought a new wave of smiles and heart wrenching sighs and tons and tons of laughter. I do admit I had to cry at at least 1 part right? I mean you know me I'm special like that. But after reading it I was left not with a frown but with a really huge sappy smile plastered on my face...a) because the whole book was genious and b) because the ending sure did torture not just me but Fiktshun as well LOL I love it when she can be teased like that...And it didn't want to go away long before the end...So I thank Scott for that too I really was able to scape to my happy place were only fictional characters exist ^_^

~Boys suck no matter where you live~

Special Thanks to Nat, if it weren't for you I wouldn't have this book in the first place! Thank you so much!

I rate this book (I know it won't come as a surprise to you lol)

5fotitos=~sobs hard~too good to be true!

New on the BookPics TBR-List #6

2011-11-28T20:25:00.001-08:00

Here I am once again adding up to my never ending TBR list :P and hopefully I'll keep it that way forever and ever and ever and...well you get it!

By clicking on the images you'll be directed to their goodreads page ;)

That's it---yeap not so much listed right? But I seriously would never end if I keep going so this is it for this week ;)

And yeap THIS ARE ALL 2012 release books!

Anything new on your TBR list?

IMM#11 MY GOD! WHAT A WEEK!

2011-11-27T18:17:00.001-08:00

IMM is hosted by The Story Siren I looove love her blog! So you really should check it out!

OMG!!!!!! Guys!! This WEEK!! This WEEK!!!

T-T

~I'm forever grateful thankful and humbled with all the people I've met!~

Believe me and if you still don't please be sure to take a look at my Thanksgiving Letter T-T it might be clearer then!

-sorry, I won't be listing what I got. I made the post in a hurry this time T-T forgive me pleaseeeee!-

--BIG THANK YOU TO--

*ALISHA FROM TREASURED TALES FOR YOUNG ADULTS

*NAT CLEARY

*PERLA MENDOZA

*AUTUM FROM MY HOME AWAY FROM HOME &

*MICHELLE

What did YOU get in your mail boxes???

Letter: Wish Of Thanksgiving

2011-11-24T00:00:00.000-08:00

To all whom I mention and forgot to mention here:

As many of you may know and if you didn't I'm not from the US or any other country that celebrates Thanksgivng...and for me? That literally stinks : /

I wish we would celebrate it here now more than ever, because this year has been soooo different for me, I've met so many people, introduced myself to so many books, talked to so many authors, and even though life with my family isn't perfect...who said it would?

So I was thinking first on doing a vlog saying all this that I'm writing right now but then I remember just how much of a cry baby I am and decided against it, later I thought about not doing it at all...I mean is not like I have tons of people who would come here and read-at least-this post so, in the end I thought, Oh, well why not? I mean...at least I get it off my system without you seeing me cry.

So I'd like to say thank you to or for the following.

1.Life!!!!!!

People, seriously? What'd we do without it? Imagine all the books and signing(for you) that we wouldn't be able to read or authors to meet or movies to watch or sisters to bug or cute bags to buy or lip gloss to put on?

Man am I grateful for life. (Diosito! gracias!)

2.Books, I'm not lying when I say I am a proud person who was saved by YA this year...I've been through so much, seen so much, heard too many things to count. And books, specially this year, have taken center stage. Which leads me to...

(psss if you're wondering which was the one book that started my YASaves for me it's Dark Song by Gail Giles followed my more than a hundred)

3. It might have started with a really known series that brought me back to reading but if it wasn't for Peace, Love, Teen Fiction and her amazing persona...I wouldn't be here. She has always been so awesome and supportive. First book page I ever liked who introduced me to this whole new world(for me)of books and amazingness! And talking of personas, Donna oh, Donna...she's one of the bloggers over at Book Passion For Life and when I met her I didn't even know what a blog was, let alone what YA or anything like that but she was so sweet to me and her reviews were always honest(I met her over at goodreads)she got me into reading so many more books. She always put up with my silly questions and then well came her blog and there I went seeing a blog for the very first time without knowing what in the world GFC meant T-T~yes that's how lost I was~ So Donna if you ever get to read this, know that you'll be forever in my heart and mind for giving me a chance to speak and speaking back to me and for reading Angel(if it weren't for you I wouldn't have read it and loved it) she has one of the most cutest blogs so be sure to check it out.

4.My indie and not so indie authors...you all know who you are...and if you don't I'll say FIRST NAMES but that's the only one you're getting! Mia, Kristina; if it weren't for you BookPics wouldn't even exist! Thank you for giving me a chance when I literally was like just one more though I still am I like to think you gave me a chance because you believed and when no one else does that was awesome so thank you! Maggie(big sis) whom was wow and wow and deserves so much more than she has, River, Ednah, Jennifer, and then we go to #

5. Author Mike(I'll never forget NEVER) putting up with me and my stalking long before his book even came out, Selene; you have touched my mind and heart with just 2 books...when no person could your books and words did the job. And she might not be a writer but she does what I wish I could do so much better! my favourite photographer in the entire world, Sheryl; all those advices won't go to waste I promise! And each and every single author who didn't ignore me or dropped by to say hi or even just sent a random tweet or comment on facebook or liked my review on goodreads...I cry every single time. Because...argh wish I could explain you how much it means...when the only people that support what you do are people that are miles and miles away from you and then that the author of things I cherish and love the most takes the time to even acknowledge me. It MEANS EVERYTHING! yes Leah I'm talking to you...

6. The few local people and one special neighbour from up of my country that have been since the beginning with BookPics and still are specially when I decided to start the blog...I'm not a good blogger nor good at...well anything maybe just stalking people. But thank you...you know who you are.

7. OMG, how to say this...I so don't want to say each and every name but I feel like it might be cheating if I don't at least I'll try to say, again, just the first name or the blog name...we'll see how it works. Here I go. Autum, Alice, Perla, Tiff, Nat, Elena, AmyDR, Alishia...I know I'm missing like a million but you know who you are...all of you I've met out of nowhere and you've been nothing but sweet and too awesome to me. I don't think I deserve it and always feel guilty because you have given me sooo much and I can't and haven't given you back the way you all deserve! I always cry...always. I'm grateful I met you all and don't ever change because you are perfect. I thank you from lo mas profundo de mi heart. And I hope one day to be able to give back if not all at least a tiny bit of what you've given me. So many books can testify how amazed and stunned I am. Didn't know people as good as you and a lot more could be this good. But against all odds you've continued to be amazing book-lover-people.

8. For each and every single person who has read any of my reviews...I tend to be a babbling person and I'm such a huge cry baby it's not even funny but still, you come back and read my extremely long reviews or thoughts on a book. I never knew such thing could be possible.

9. Thank you if you're still with me and haven't gotten bored I'm thankful for that too! don't worry we're only missing one more number and then I'll leave you to your reading.

10. Fiktshun...Rachel...Ramblings...Reading Pile...B.Corner... Never. I'll repeat. NEVER. Okay one more time people, repeat with me; NEVER have I met someone...that, this, with, how...which.

Nope that didn't work out so well. Ana L...if it weren't for you I wouldn't have found this blog...thank you so much neighbour!

Let's put it this way, when you live in a country that nobody knows exists, when that country repels YA and well mostly reading in general, when that certain country is the reason you can't get or reach goals; then comes the rejection after rejection and after rejection. I don't want to sound drama queen at all...but if you were on my shoes maybe you'd be able to imagine that kind of world for a while...just a tiny bit of a while...no books, not much to read...Then I started BookPics a while ago and people wouldn't like it or would be mean or well many kinds of bad things...but I still held on...but after some time it became quite a thing to bear...insults, drama, tears, sleepless nights...I decided to give up on everything and it was the tiniest of status on facebook...saying that I might stop reviewing and doing this that I love, she told me no...Rachel wrote the tiniest bit of a comment back...but THAT tiny comment-which I saved and have written down just to look at every now and then when people laugh at me because of what I do and the whys' of this blog- is the reason I'm still here and writing this post on this blog I call BookPics. Her blog is pure and raw awesomeness and she has made me cry more than all the books I own put together. She's too sweet too amazing for words, her reviews, her ramblings I was completely star struck when she answered my comments over at Fiktshun...I still am. can't believe she talks to me at all...and I try my best to let her know how awesome she is but well words specially written words aren't good enough. I'm not a creepy stalker that will snatch her away one night~um...nope I don't think so...um...nope...maybe if I could get to stalk her brain...that'd be another thing altogether...but...for now...I'll refrain and just continue to shamelessly stalk her.

Her blog is one of the few blogs I stalk daily and look for advice or inspiration there.

Thank you Rachel.

For answering my not so short comments, for not ignoring me, for the things you've given me and I wish you didn't because I feel so guilty...but at the same time I'd die if you didn't....For always staying true to yourself even when the drama has struck your blog...

One of the best people I'm proud to say I follow and consider a friend...hopefully I'll be a friend sometime too...um...~idk...I'm such a cry baby you'd probably get tired of me too soon~

You might really not remember it but yes, that comment is the reason I'm still on the network...trying to put my voice up there now and then and crying over and over, over silly things such as green books arriving unnoticed with a girl wearing a green dress on the front or well there was another one with the girl wearing a red dress on the front...or the shirt I'm wearing now...I'll forever keep you in my heart Rachel/Fiktshun.

Everyone!

because you’ve made possible and worthy what no one here at home thought of as that, what everyone made fun of me about, and what everyone laughed, bullied, and simply didn’t support me in the least about…YOU’ve been here for a while..and for that I thank you

But in the end this is all wishful thinking, because there is no such thing as Thanksgiving in my country...nor will there be any time soon. So I'm still here with my wish written on a post that most likely won't be read by many but where I tried with all my might to show you how much each and every single thing that happens to me because of books means to me.

~sighs~ I'm thankful this year...I could go on with this but I know you're sleepy and bored now...so...Thanks.

Alba

New on the BookPics TBR-List #5

2011-11-21T20:05:00.001-08:00

It's been a while...but here I am. This time I'm putting up books I THOUGHT I had on my TBR list and when I went there and checked THEY WEREN'T!~imagine my complete HUGE freak out! hahaha~ anyways I want and have this on my tbr-list AND they are all there thanks to..........................................

yeap FIKTSHUN ;)

(All images take you to their goodreads page)

All are the Hardback covers except for the last one...apparently there isn't any for now...just the Paperback :/

but there you go! All FIVE books on the Escape From Furnace series.

Anything new on your TBR lists this week?

IMM #10 Belive It Or Not I BOUGHT THEM! -one

2011-11-20T15:49:00.001-08:00

Yes beautiful people!
It felt like Christmas when I saw these books at the local book store T-T I completely freaked out and jumped and well seriously made a fool out of myself when I saw them!
So thank you to whoever heard me up there and sent this books to my country I will never be able to get over this!

IMM is hosted by The Story Siren I looove love her blog! So you really should check it out!

Enough with the talk let me present you my to-scream-for picture of books I got this week...just go along with me and freak out or scream or well just seem impressed please! Believe me this is a complete miracle!

~YES! FREAKING OUT ALL OVER AGAIN WHILE SEEING THE PICTURE!~

And I also was lent a children-book from my english class friend, Michelle.

Thanks Michelle! my little sister has already devoured it so now it's my turn!

So, that's what I got this week IMM the picture of the swag I got won't upload so I'll feature it on next week's post! Until then...what did YOU get in your mail boxes?

IMM#9 The I-couldn't-wait-longer-to-show-you Edition

2011-11-12T17:05:00.001-08:00

After a week of no IMM I'm back with my rambling vlog!

This week was definitely full of surprises specially yesterday when I got a note from the PO to pick a package up...but I'll let the video tell you everything!

IMM is hosted by The Story Siren I looove love her blog! So you really should check it out!

For the very first time FOR REVIEW-printed-

Bone Dressing by Michelle I. Brooks (PB-Signed)

Bought

Possession by Elana Johnson (HB)

Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor (HB)

Surprise Gift

Wildefire by Karsten Knight (HB)

A HUGE thank you to Elena who sent me the books here T-T ~hugs~ I <3 you really much girl! Thank you so very much!

Check out Elena's Blog by clicking HERE.
UPDATE
OMG!! completely forgot to post this! If you want to check Fiktshun's blog click HERE! and wish her a very happy blogoversary!

Sorry for rambling too much on my videos but I seriously can't help getting all excited about each and every single one of them T-T

What did you guys get in your mail boxes?

A Happy 1-year Blogoversary Letter To...FIKTSHUN

2011-11-09T09:49:00.000-08:00

Dear Rachel @FIKTSHUN

Oh god if only I were that amazing and awesome and dedicated and lived not here but there *-* -stares off into space-

Fiktshun is 1 year old people and even though I have to admit I haven't been with her the WHOLE YEAR*-*

She still had THIS button for her blog->

I do have that I found her early THIS year and have been a complete shameless~okay maybe with a bit of guilt but I know I apologize for it often enough~stalker I find it that it's one of my favourite sites to visit whenever I want to:

1. Leave a looooonger than liiiiiife comment

2.Read long reviews with a twist of torture that feeds my masochism for book teasers that don't spoil a think.

3.To watch book trailers all in one post for my benefit ;)

4. To read random thoughts.

5. To watch the book watch ~get it? lol~ ¬¬ GET IT! ¬¬ you sooo need to go to her blog if you don't!

6. Because I can leave longer comments than the longer than life ones ;)

7. Because she's awesome.

8. Because there's a lot of purple.

9. Because she comments back~when she has time. People she HAS a life you know ;)~

10. Because I simply love it and has everything I look for in a blog, thing that I apparently haven't managed with mine but we'll discuss that another time when we aren't celebrating.

11. There is NO 11 but there sure is a 12 so go on.

12. She has more BLOGS.

13. 12 means that I get to stalk some more!

14. AND 13 and 14 mean that I GET TO COMMENT EVEN MORE!

okay enough with the numbers or I'll never finish!

In the end I seriously just wanted to make this post to wish her a happy one year of blogging anniversary. Wish her the best of bests. Encourage her to continue doing what she loves and when she stops loving it to stop doing it, where would the fun in that be?

Being a sort-of-blogger myself I have maybe a tiny little idea of what she's been through at least for the first months because you know my blog isn't old AT ALL *-* and I just keep getting amazed at how she overcomes the difficult, laugh at the ironic, cry when I didn't think it'd be possible to (meaning books people is not like I've met the woman I'd die if I ever do...I wouldn't even be able to utter a single english word let alone a spanish one.) Read, actually take the time to read the comments ALL of them I can't like prove it to you somehow I just know she does read them, READ MY COMMENTS now THAT'S an art all together, my comments aren't easy to read through, let me tell you, by the end of the comment you've completely lost the point in question so yeap...I'm lost like that. AND SHE DOES SO MUCH MORE that's impossible to list or put into words.

So here's for Fiktshun's great 1 year, may more and more and more and more and more after that come, I'll keep stalking here for as long as she keeps blogging. I'll keep thanking her for as long as she continues to be this amazing person I've get a glimpse to, I'll keep recommending, sending, tweeting, everything to get people to her blog-I mean I'd love to have that blog to read and stalk all to myself, selfish person that I am, but nope I actually send people to share the blog love and awesome and cute of her blog, because if I didn't send I'll be the first case in the whole medicine world to die of actualy GUILT, I'll continue reading her goals and awesome rambles and book adds to her tbr piles and well never mind.

CONGRATS CONGRATS CONGRATS

If there was ever a blog I envied, wished upon a star, and stalked more than I could have imagined is Fiktshun and then there is the whole tons of blogs I follow because people all book bloggers I've met on the web are awesome it's just that Fiktshun actually took the time to answer so maybe that's why I've got this unhealthy stalking persona now. Don't be afraid of me! I promise I'll behave myself and don't stalk your blog, MUCH people.

Fiktshun may the odds be EVER in your favor(HA! READ THE BOOKS!)

Let the Tod-ness never leave you.

Get the Leah's torture self perfection so you can kill me of teasers-disease.

Let Emma, Graham, Reid and Brooke hug you in the most awkward hug known in the universe.

And just feel the love from all your followers including myself.

We all wish you the best and thank you from the bottom of our bookish hearts.

Fiktshun is having one of the most AWESOME blogoversary celebrations on her blog if you have tiniest bit of curiosity listen to it and click HERE!!!!!!!!! or HERE!!!!!!!! or you can always click on her button I have it on the right side bar(it's purple and awesome) . She has a tendency of giving away too many books to be economically healthy!

Sincerely

Alba @BookPics

-review- If I Die by Rachel Vincent

2011-11-08T14:06:00.000-08:00

-And finally, my heart began to beat-

WHAT ON EARTH did Rachel eat, think, feel, write, listen to, scream, scratch, wash, drink, swallow, just, I mean it. Seriously. WHAT!
What makes an author so awesome as this one?
Kaylee, Tod, Emma, Nash, Tod, Kaylee, Sabine, Dad, Hellions, Nightmares, Teachers, Love, Tod again, Reapers, Kisses, Death, Family, Friendship, Cute little fluffy animals I'm dying to have-if they even existed- uh? you want more? I'll give you more ;) Hospitals, trust, hands, eyes, swirling irises, hate, rage, sense of belonging, screams, Nether, fog, darkness, fear.
There you have it. Just a tiny little bit of what you're in if you even DARE to read this book. Because people I DARE YOU!

I simply cannot make an awesome enough, well written, not rambling review about this book.
Never had a book had me all over the place, my feelings all scattered, scared of turning to the next page and yet dying if I didn't. Never could someone be so terribly frustrating as some of the characters~hahaha you thought I'd tell you who? nah! I learned from the master -Rachel*2-~
I had to put the book down several times in a row. I cried, cried, cried and cried some more. Then, I laughed, laughed, cried, smiled...
My heart will never forget the 2 almost 3 days it took me to read this book...I think I could even hear it screaming at my why on EARTH did I put it through so much in such little time and on such short notice!

~-SHE- laughed so hard she nearly inhaled a corn chip. ~

Characters
All my favourite-and not so favourite ~clears throat S*B*N*~ are back in the game and by game I mean the football they made of my heart and feelings and brain. I loved each and every single one of them---you know the exception or not[check throat clearing before]---they couldn't be more perfect, more real and just plain awesome.
Rachel Vincent your characters will forever stay with me. Will never be forgotten. And will always cause the most havoc in my shelves when deciding in between all the SS books which one was the best and...forget it I'm rambling again.

~ Was it possible to be haunted by a kiss? ~

Story/Plot/Rachel's Torture
WHAT¡?!!! Are you serious? I've been always a girl that chooses a side and sticks to it till the end, no matter what, who, or where. But of COURSE R.Vincent would be the one to break all my barriers and beliefs and heart and make me do the unthinkable.
YES PEOPLE I CHANGED SIDES~insert wide eyes and gasps here~
If you were there while I posted teasers you might know by now whose side I'm on now. But if you don't then read the book and even if after that you don't know I'll be cute and give you a hint HE ROCKS and loveeeeesssssssss Apricot Jam ;) -there I said it-
Anyways. Back again to the torture. Kaylee might've thought she had seen it all but boy was she wrong...now she's the one someone might have to sing for. The love of her life might not be who she thought. She discovers that through it all love stays, family is family and that true friends are definitely worth dying for.
She gets to know a part of herself that she didn't even know she had. She lets her self for once, LIVE; meaning breaking all the rules and simply following her heart-not that she didn't before. And now she even will have to make choices that before were completely unthinkable. Pregnancy, teens, naive, afraid <-- those words together make for a complete -believe me- down to earth story and plot you completely can-one more than others-relate at some level.

My feelings.
I died. Died and died a bit more.
I think I pretty much told you at the beginning how all over the place I was. I had to fetch the book and scan and re read and just awww and sigh once more before this. I'm putting my heart completely on a plate for all you guys and let you know. This might be-because there are 2 more 'Soul Screamers' books coming out- Rachel Vincent at her VERY BEST.
Thank R.Vincent for once again bringing and taking me into a world were everything is possible. I'll never be able to see apricot jam the same way, EVER again.
Oh and if you're wondering yes Rachel did it, she completely won the last Fotito(my rating pic) because of course she'd go and insert the tittle of the book not just once but more in the book, so yeah, IF I DIE is literally in there WATCH OUT FOR IT!

~ Reapers don't cry. ~

~Rachel @Fiktshun none of these would be possible if it weren't for you. I don't know how where when or well really nothing about how you came out of nowhere being good to me I'm just a book lover that tends to stalk your blogs way to much to be healthy and has the freaky custom of thanking people until I make them not want to ever give something to me because of it. Thank you once again for making me cry and laugh at it shortly after. I'm a complete proud follower of you and will continue until you decide to stop blogging~wich I encourage to be really? in the really really far future...say like 100 years plus taxes ;)~

I give this book

10special-fotitos(special rating for over-the-top-I'll-never-get-over-this book) =
I cried for things I didn't know possible I was capable of.

IMM#8 No-Video edition

2011-11-06T19:59:00.000-08:00

Hey guys I really didn't see much point to doing a video this week...first because both books I bought aren't YA and second because I'd freak out thanking a certain person once again. No worries. This time I DID win it at her blog.

IMMB is hosted by The Story Siren I looove love her blog! So you really should check it out!

Anyways, on to what you're really wanting to see^-^

First up is Smokeless Fire by Samantha Young (eBook)

I won it over on Rachel's Annex Blog...you want to know it? Check her official blog first by clicking HERE

(If you remember last week's IMM this was the book I completely forgot to mention on the video.) Thank you thank you thank you once again Rachel.

These other 2 books I bought at a completely surprising place I found where I ACTUALLY FOUND SCHOLASTIC books even if they were ALL middlegrade, still. I had a smile on my face for the rest of the day. And this were books they were trying to get rid off and I more than wanted to help them just $3 each ^-^ wish there were YA I could've chosen from.

*Be My Valentine by Debbie Macomber (PB)
*Home Again by Kristin Hannah (PB)
(Both books are romance)
*The bookmark I got from buying the books was actually kind of cute so OF COURSE it had it's own spot in the picture.

-review- Where You Are by Tammara Webber

2011-11-01T22:20:00.000-07:00

~"--told me once that loving someone means you want what's best for them. And I'm what's best for him."~

First of all, this review wouldn't be possible if not for Fiktshun and her amazing and secret ways of surprising and making me cry myself to sleep(she tends to like to do that). Thank you Rachel I'm forever in debt, as you already know, and will continue thanking you till my last breath.

Now. THANK YOU! After reading this book one cannot say LOVE doesn't exist. Our favorite characters come back with a boom of not just energy but also love, jealousy, hollywood, drama, sexyness, and just a good story to tell you.
As the book is told in 4 different point of views I'll post an excerpt of all 4 through out the review.

~Focus on sweet and friendly. No flirting. So I guess pulling her forward and seeing if she'll let me kiss her is out. As is telling her she looks good enough to eat.~

-Characters-
Emma, Graham, Brooke, and Reid; I love each and every bit of your characters that Tammara wrote.
Oh Emma, I can relate to her in a way I didn't think possible. She's insecure in the most real, believable and sane way...her character is easy going, serious, guarded, funny, professional(when needed), and shy. She made for an incredible leading lady and sure sometimes I wanted to smack some sense into her...I just know I'd have done the same were I in her place.
Reid and Brooke, well THAT wasn't expected. I got scared and even a little creeped out a bit by their characters in this one, if 2 people can get on my nerves are these 2, they rock at being evil, sneaky, actors, and well mean. I seriously couldn't believe all the things they BOTH do and scheme in this book. And I have no other than Webber to thank for it.
Graham! oh god Graham! I don't even know how to describe him. He's more thn perfect but not bordering in the surreal...he's just a man but a man in love and I wish I had a Graham for myself too!!~envy aura towards Emma~ He's devoted in every single aspect of his life, all of them. I love how Emma is the one that can get him out of his comfort zone with him being okay with it...does that even make sense?

-The Story and Writer-
Tammara Webber~hats off~ her writng. She's a complete complete complete genious at writing the thoughts of a guy and a girl in the same book. Keeping them always fresh and like-able! Since the first sentence of the book I was head over heels for it.
She's an amazing author and I know there's only more to come from her. Book three will be released December 2011.

~Something about first love defies duplication. Before it, your heart is blank. Unwritten. After, the walls are left inscribed and fraffitied. When it ends, no amount of scrubbing will purge the scrawled oaths and sketched images, but sooner or later, you find that there's space for someone else, between the words and in the margins.~

~This is what I'm talking about I think I will highlight the whole book by the time I finish it...if she ever gets them out printed I need this big time...I'm all for the cute sweet scenes in the book that she manages to take them to the maximum level without them getting cheesy!~

-My Feelings-
*I laughed, blushed, got mad, got madder, teared up, blushed some more, envied, screamed, tried to throw my computer away(don't own a kindle), went all Oooh, Oh, and Awww and even Ewww all in one book!
*Graham's pov gave me an insight of how sometimes men can feel while loving and going out with that someone they love and maybe just maybe that there's still hope for romanticism and true love out there his and Emma's scenes made me all warm and fuzzy and plain gooey inside because I really think they dripped love all over the place
*Real life problems; we get the insight not only on Reid and Emma this time BUT on Brooke's and Graham's as well...Brooke might seem the b*tch* type but now we get to see that she actually has, if not reasons and rights to be and act like that, some kind of past that was obviously leading to make her the way she is now.
*I've always said and will continue saying that I'm a complete fan and lover of books that at some point through it, the tittle comes up making it all the better for me. That's a gift not many can muster...writing a book? okay she did it...make an amazing heartwrenching real story? check! completely nailed it BUT out of nowhere...the tittle of the book comes just at the perfect scene, the one no one would've thought possible could get any better? there you got=> WHERE YOU ARE...because all passes, time, money, even friends...but love? that remains FOREVER.
*And YES people I admit it...I think there still might be hope for Reid in the future...his last action made up for more than I thought and maybe he can be better...MAYBE.

~"I'm right here," I say, touching his face.~

I give this book the special BookPics rating

10special-fotitos(special rating for over-the-top-I'll-never-get-over-this book)= I cried for things I didn't know possible I was capable of.

IMM#7 Too-Thankful-For-Words Edition

2011-10-30T19:50:00.000-07:00

Hi guys, it’s been a while, sorry about that. But, here I am again with my usual long IMM videos and all the awesomeness that has to do with books, this time I’m really just overwhelmed with the amount of people that have been good to me and are still going strong T_T thank you all from the bottom of my heart you have all made me so happy and definitely too thankful that I seriously think there aren’t enough words to express it!

~Remember this meme is hosted by The Story Siren so be sure to check it out, she’s awesome!~

-Bought-

*Bloodlines by Richelle Mead(HB)

-Won-

*Shattered Souls by Mary Lindsay Bookmarks (1SIGNED)

-Gifted-

*If I Die by Rachel Vincent(PB) thanks so much to Fiktshun too amazing for words…

*Ashfall by Mike Mullin(HB) SIGNED thanks Mike Mullin made me cry myself to sleep!-read my review of Ashfall HERE-

*Witch Eyes by Scott Tracey(PB) Nat Cleary THANK YOU thank you and thank you!

*The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan(PB) birthday present Alice Priday T-T YOU ROCK, thank you!

*A Touch Mortal by Leah Clifford(ebook) Fiktshun how many more thank yous’? oh wait yeap there’s still more from you~guilty aura~-you can read my review of ATM HERE-

*Where You Are by Tammara Webber(ebook) Fiktshun okay now I think I’m done, not really but well…

(I won an ebook this week wich I completely forgot to mention due to the amount of awesome that I’ve gotten but I’l feature it in next week’s IMM don’t worry ^-^)

New on the BookPics TBR-List #4

2011-10-24T00:30:00.000-07:00

Here's what's new on my tbr-list -SO, SO SORRY IT'S A LONG ONE, but I had quite a good time adding and finding out all about them this past week-
^-^

Malice by Griffin Hayes

Kindle Edition

Published September 27th 2011

Verity Fibbs by Cathy Brett

Paperback, 336 pages

Published October 13th 2011

Revived by Cat Patrick

304 pages

Expected publication: May 8th 2012

Extranormal by Suze Reese

ebook, 253 pages

Expected publication: January 2012

Night School by C.J. Daugherty/Christi Daugherty

Expected publication: January 2012

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

Hardcover, 579 pages

Published February 8th 2011

Take a Bow by Elizabeth Eulberg

Hardcover, 288 pages

Expected publication: April 1st 2012

Undeadly by Michele Vail

Paperback, 304 pages

Expected publication: February 28th 2012

The Treachery of Beautiful Things by Ruth Frances Long

300 pages

Expected publication: August 16th 2012

YEY, phew! That was long and there is more from where these ones came from!

Got any new books on your tbr list mind letting me know wich?