So you pick up a new book and you're introduced to someone. Not just someone - someone with an incredibly odd name. It's common, as I tend to think of them as ' book names ' and I have come across people in my life who have those type of names and said ' you should be in a book ' because let&#…

With October just a couple of days away, we have entered the official part of the NaNoWriMo prep season. The time has come for planners  to kick their organizational skills into gear, and for pantsers  to consider heading down to the store and purchasing the coffee and sweets they'll likely need to survive the …

We have a surprise up our sleeves!  The lovely people at BookFish Books have been incredibly kind and given us an amazing opportunity to showcase one of the  upcoming dystopian reads:   The Prophecy  by Erin Rhew ! We were lucky enough to be in with the in-crowd  and get a sneak peek at this brand new cover, which w…

*stands up* Hi, I'm Natalie and I have a book buying problem . Well I went into the book shop today to, you know, just browse and by browse, I mean pine over the books I want to buy. It was my day off so I wanted to spend some time in there to see what's out, look at all the amazing books, be in my element …

Last spring, Nikki Beckett vanished, sucked into an underworld known as the Everneath. Now she’s returned — to her old life, her family, her boyfriend — before she’s banished back to the underworld... this time forever. She has six months before the Everneath comes to claim her, six months for good-byes she can’t …

Every Monday on this blog, we do a Top 10 Monday . It's our way of showing consistency, both to our readers and to ourselves, and of maintaining a sliver of stability in an otherwise unpredictable world of blogging about contemporary literary trends. So each week, we pick a topic which is in some way related to b…

Girl power! Isn't it brilliant when you pick up a book and the protagonist is a strong, powerful woman? A woman who doesn't rely on a man and who can kick some serious arse? A woman who can change the world, inspire others and beat up a group of baddies?  It's refreshing to see it considering most boo…

Earlier I published a piece about author appreciation and fanart . In this day and age, there are precious few things I take as much pleasure in as combining two of my greatest passions - art and literature - and all in an effort to give back to those whose words never fail to leave me inspired and moved, and whose w…

All has been quiet on the Kindle front for a little too long... and now we know why. The manufacturer of one of the most successful e-reader brands currently on the market has been working diligently on not only one, but five new Kindle models, all to be launched in the fall of 2014. The introduction of five new …

The rules: no kissing on the mouth, no staying the night, no telling anyone, and above all… No falling in love. Anna Jones just wants to finish college and figure out her life. Falling for star quarterback Drew Baylor is certainly not on her to do list. Confident and charming, he lives in the limelight and is wa…

Scarlett MacGregor has lived a very sheltered life courtesy of her over-the-top controlling parents. Having never been to a co-ed party, much less on a date, Scarlett has relied on her books, her music, and living vicariously through her best friend Evie to keep her sanity as she's patiently awaited her fr…

The time has come. (And good thing, too, we were beginning to lose hope.) The Mockingjay lives ! ... Well, that and the new official trailer for the long-anticipated Mockingjay: Part 1 , the third installment in the wildly popular book-to-movie adaptation of The Hunger Games  series , has finally been released.��…

"Sometime during your life – in fact, very soon – you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book’s first sentence can often tell you what sort of story your book contains." - A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Miserable Mill by Lemony Snicket Over time we have found that the …

My name is Evie Claremont and this was to be the making of me–my freshman year of college. I’d been hoping that once I’d arrived on Crestwood’s campus, the nightmare that I’ve been having would go away. It hasn’t. I may be an inexperienced seventeen-year-old, but I’m grounded…sane. I look for rational exp…

Happy Monday! We decided to shake away the Monday blues with a fail-safe way of cheering everyone up - our choice of the ten funniest literary characters. Or, well, at least funny enough to get an audible guffaw out of most everybody who has picked the books up. It's a win-win situations, really. If you have ye…

Embrace the Forbidden What if there were teens whose lives literally depended on being bad influences? This is the reality for sons and daughters of fallen angels. Tenderhearted Southern girl Anna Whitt was born with the sixth sense to see and feel emotions of other people. She's aware of a struggle…

You might be familiar with this challenge, especially if you're familiar with Booktube overall. As with most parties, we are (fashionably) late to this one as well, since the challenge/tag was circulating the YouTube and the book blogosphere early in 2014. But being nine months late to a party isn't all that …

When Colin Leventhal leaned out his bedroom window on the night of May 12th and said goodbye to his girlfriend, he never expected it would be forever. But when Sarah Evans goes missing that night, Colin's world unravels as he transforms from the boyfriend next door to the main police suspect. Then one year …

This week's Top 10 Monday is a special one. It is not only dedicated to one of our close friends (whose birthday was yesterday), but it also features said friend's picks as a kind of "guest star appearance". The reason this friend is featured on our book blog, apart from abundantly supplying us with…