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TOP 10 BOOKS WE'D RATHER NOT SEE AS MOVIES

We all want to see our favorite books adapted to the big screen. Until the time comes when the movie rights are purchased, the shooting begins, and we go from eager fans to raging skeptics. The author has relinquished creative rights? They won't even be consulted on the screenplay? The director they've chosen…

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BOOK REVIEW: SPELL BOUND BY RACHEL HAWKINS

Hailed as “impossible to put down,” the Hex Hall series has both critics and teens cheering. With a winning combination of romance, action, magic and humor, this third volume will leave readers enchanted. Just as Sophie Mercer has come to accept her extraordinary magical powers as a demon, the Prodigium Counc…

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BOOK REVIEW: DEAREST CLEMENTINE BY LEX MARTIN

Twenty-year-old Clementine Avery doesn't mind being called bitchy and closed off. It's safe, and after being burned by her high school sweetheart and stalked by a professor her freshman year of college, safe sounds pretty damn good. Her number one rule for survival? No dating. That is until she accidental…

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BOOK REVIEW: DEMONGLASS BY RACHEL HAWKINS

Sophie Mercer thought she was a witch. That was the whole reason she was sent to Hex Hall, a reform school for delinquent Prodigium (a.k.a. witches, shape-shifters, and faeries). But then she discovered the family secret, and the fact that her hot crush, Archer Cross, is an agent for The Eye, a group bent on wipi…

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TOP 10 BOOKS WITH A MALE POINT-OF-VIEW

So far, we've paid homage to some of our favorite female protagonists in contemporary literature, then went on to celebrate books which tackled multiple perspectives well . Not ones to be outdone without a fight, this week we have chosen our ten favorite books told entirely or largely from a male point of view. …

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BOOK REVIEW: HEX HALL BY RACHEL HAWKINS

Three years ago, Sophie Mercer discovered that she was a witch. It's gotten her into a few scrapes. Her non-gifted mother has been as supportive as possible, consulting Sophie's estranged father—an elusive European warlock—only when necessary. But when Sophie attracts too much human attention for a pro…

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BLOG TOUR: YOURS TONIGHT BY JOYA RYAN

We're hopping back on the book bus to tour with the best and the greatest! This time, it's the Yours Tonight blog tour, and we are thrilled to be showcasing this book!  Yours Tonight   is a brand new romance from the #1 bestselling author of Break Me Slowly , Joya Ryan. This is a darkly passionate love story…

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TOP 10 YOUNG ADULT BOOKS SET IN EUROPE

It has been a very public sort of secret that most of the Young Adult books today are set in some version of the United States, and that most of the authors of said books are, unsurprisingly, American citizens. Abiding by the old "write what you know" adage, these authors do their utmost to celebrate the hi…

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BOOK REVIEW: SINCE YOU'VE BEEN GONE BY MORGAN MATSON

The Pre-Sloane Emily didn't go to parties, she barely talked to guys, she didn't do anything crazy. Enter Sloane, social tornado and the best kind of best friend—the one who yanks you out of your shell.   But right before what should have been an epic summer, Sloane just… disappears. No note. No calls.…

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COFFEE BOOK TAG

So, here are our twin passions in life: coffee and books. (Also art for Lexie, and also travel for both, but they aren't relevant to this tag right now, so we're pretending there are two.) Coffee and books. Such a thing as a Coffee Book Tag  was therefore heaven-sent. And while Benjamin, the creator of the ta…

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TOP 10 READING GADGETS

Just another manic Monday. And here we are again. To spice things up a bit, this week for our Top 10 we are concerning ourselves not so much with books themselves, but with those implements which make reading even more  enjoyable than it already is (if such a thing is even possible). These handy tools have been des…

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COVER REVEAL: NOVEMBER NINE BY COLLEEN HOOVER

It's Colleen Hoover hour once again at The Honest Bookclub. Apart from the International Women's Day, for us March 8th also signified a mere two day wait until one of our most beloved authors' new title is released. We are talking, of course, about Confess , due on March 10th, which we have already waxed…

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BLOG TOUR: HERO BY SAMANTHA YOUNG

It's that time again at The Honest Bookclub! Once again we're on tour, and once again it's not the sort of tour one might think of. Mostly because we aren't really going anywhere, and the tour is still happening. Following the Thoughtful  blog tour in the end of February, we were kindly asked to…

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BOOK REVIEW: MADE FOR YOU BY MELISSA MARR

Eva Tilling wakes up in the hospital to discover an attempt has been made on her life. But who in her sleepy town could have hit her with their car? And why? Before she can consider the question, she finds that she's awoken with a strange new skill: the ability to foresee people's deaths when they touch h…

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BOOK REVIEW: THE KISS OF DECEPTION BY MARY E. PEARSON

A princess must find her place in a reborn world. She flees on her wedding day. She steals ancient documents from the Chancellor's secret collection. She is pursued by bounty hunters sent by her own father. She is Princess Lia, seventeen, First Daughter of the House of Morrighan. The Kingdom of Morrighan is s…

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TOP 10 ANTI-HEROES

This week, the official, lengthy title of the theme is Where Have All The Anti-Heroes Gone , also known as The Return of the Anti-Hero . Classic literature has certainly had no dearth of anti-heroes, even as primary protagonists: from Humbert Humbert in Lolita  to Anna Karenina  herself, to Gatsby and pretty much eve…

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