Gamin, Maine, is a remote seaside town where everyone seems to know Ellis Harkington better than she knows herself—but she doesn’t remember any of them. Unknown events have robbed Ellis of her memory. Concerned individuals, who purport to be her friends and loved ones, insist that she simply needs to recuperat…

[ Insert mandatory complaint/exclamation about how time flies by really fast. ] In some ways, June really seems to have flown by. In other ways, however, it's been dragging out for quite awhile. We've discovered that one of the perks of running a blog is that we can look back to the beginning of the month …

So far, visual aesthetics have been thin on the ground. We haven't showcased any visual aspect of books in our Top 10 Monday posts, and it's high time we did something about it. As not only book readers, but also book collectors, we love and appreciate the beauty of physical books in all their glory. We ad…

Going to be honest here but it's all an excuse to take pictures of our books! That's why we love this app. We've decided to start an Instagram page so we can not only share pictures with you lot but we can also check out you're all reading too. We'll try and be as creative and artistic with our bo…

Well I finally own a copy of The One by Kiera Cass! My bookshop finally decided to stock a copy and I had to grab it the second I saw it. I also saw some amazing reviews about We Were Liars by E. Lockhart and couldn't resist grabbing a copy. I love the mystery that surrounds this book, people who've read it w…

Next to read-a-thons and actual face-to-face book obsessing, one of the most entertaining interactive reading practices are certainly read-a-longs. What is a read-a-long, you ask? A read-a-long is a pre-determined time period during the month/year when a group of people choose to all read the same book(s) at …

Harriet Manners knows a lot of things.  She knows that a cat has 32 muscles in each ear, a "jiffy" lasts 1/100th of a second, and the average person laughs 15 times per day. What she isn't quite so sure about is why nobody at school seems to like her very much. So when she's spotted by a top …

Honor student, manager at the campus coffee shop, owner of an impressive sweater collection – Melanie Wilder has it all together. Then John “John Boy” Walden strolls into her life wearing nothing more than an impish grin and all-too-revealing loin cloth. Soon, make-out sessions replace homework, lust triumphs o…

Okay, I admit it…I didn’t do it. Yet. This is normal, right?  I mean, just because everyone I know has talked like they’ve already done it doesn’t mean that they’re telling the truth…right? It’s not like I’m asking for that much. I don’t need the perfect guy. I don’t need candlelight or roses. Honestly, I don’t e…

We all have those books that make us go from happily opening the cover to start a fresh new book to... We've all been there. It's horrible. You look up from the book, you can't see because everything's a blur. Tears are streaming down your face and you reach for that empty box of tissues an…

E-readers are a novelty no more. Hardly anyone remains unaware of their existence, and of their prominence among today's readers. Some argue that the e-readers have introduced a welcome novelty into the world of literature and another avenue for the publishing industry to explore. It has revolutionized readin…

“I'm not sure what possessed me to do it. Maybe it was the impossible expectations I faced, maybe it was my own self-loathing. But I just knew I needed something different to happen. I needed someone... something... to derail me from my current path. Otherwise, I would become lost... a hollowed out shell o…

Well, it's that time again! School's ending, the sun's coming out and everyone's whisking away to tropical islands for their annual holiday. But there's one thing you must pack in your suitcase - a few good books, of course! I, for one, can't lay on a beach and not read because what else is t…

You stop fearing the devil when you’re holding his hand… Nothing much exciting rolls through Violet White’s sleepy, seaside town… until River West comes along. River rents the guest house behind Violet’s crumbling estate, and as eerie, grim things start to happen, Violet begins to wonder about the boy liv…

Colleen Hoover fan? Of course you are! Everyone loves her books, and we're very excited to see that the UK cover for her new book ' Ugly Love ', which is set for release in August, has been released! What do you think? Yeah, we love it too. It's really pretty, it has some beautiful colo…

What does it take to rise from life’s depths, swim against the current, and breathe? Weighted down by the loss of her parents, Blythe McGuire struggles to keep her head above water as she trudges through her last year at Matthews College. Then a chance meeting sends Blythe crashing into something she doesn’t exp…

Admit it. You saw this coming. This week for our Top 10 Monday we've opted to showcase our favorite and most memorable book boyfriends. In theory, it should have been a simple enough task, but we've come to realize that each week, our Top 10 Monday picks teach us a valuable lesson about ourselves. This we…

One kiss could be the last.   Seventeen-year-old Layla just wants to be normal. But with a kiss that kills anything with a soul, she's anything but normal. Half demon, half gargoyle, Layla has abilities no one else possesses.   Raised among the Wardens—a race of gargoyles tasked with hunting dem…

After breaking up with her bad-news boyfriend, Reagan O’Neill is ready to leave her rebellious ways behind. . . and her best friend, country superstar Lilah Montgomery, is nursing a broken heart of her own. Fortunately, Lilah’s 24-city tour is about to kick off, offering a perfect opportunity for a girls-only s…

[Girl] is running away. Running from her dark past, her demons, the terrors that arise at night and threaten to consume her. She has come where she hopes no demons have followed. She is looking to start fresh. New beginnings. New friends. New life. [Guy] is trouble personified. His every move seems to hint at…

Great news - I may be very late with this but I just found out that ' The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend ' will be turning into a movie! It's set to be released in 2015. I read the DUFF last year and I absolutely loved it! It's one of my favourite books and I thought this was the perfect opportuni…

Sam and Hannah only have the holidays to find 'The One'. Their lobster. But instead of being epic, their summer is looking awkward. They must navigate social misunderstandings, the plotting of well-meaning friends, and their own fears of being virgins for ever to find happiness. But fate is at work to br…

For this Top 10 Monday, we have chosen to peruse our bookshelves, revisit old (and new) favorites and choose our ten favorite quotes that originated on pages of books. Mostly we have found, to no one's surprise, that narrowing the list down to only ten is a Herculean task. But we've done our best, we've ma…

So wrong for each other …and yet so right. No one knows what happened the night Echo Emerson went from popular girl with jock boyfriend to gossiped-about outsider with "freaky" scars on her arms. Even Echo can't remember the whole truth of that horrible night. All she knows is that she wants eve…

Warning: This is the second book in Laini Taylor's fantasy series, "Daughter of Smoke and Bone". Both the synopsis and the review contain spoilers for both books. Tread with caution... Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love and dared to imagine a world free of bloodshed and war. …

Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky. In a dark and dusty shop, a devil’s supply of human teeth grown dangerously low. And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal o…