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BOOK REVIEW: SHATTER ME BY TAHEREH MAFI

Juliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days. The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal. As long as she doesn’t hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to …

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BOOK REVIEW: THE SCORPIO RACES BY MAGGIE STIEFVATER

It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. Some riders live. Others die. At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the returning champion. He is a young man of few words, and if he has any fears…

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TOP 10 MOST ANTICIPATED 2015 BOOK RELEASES

Happy Winter Solstice to all! Strictly speaking, the solstice marks the official beginning of another season. In broader terms, the winter solstice marks yet another thing - the beginning of a new year being mere days away. And with the new year come the new book releases. So far, 2014 has seen a lot of our favorite …

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BOOK REVIEW: CLIPPED WINGS BY HELENA HUNTING

An emotional love story that follows the touch-and-go relationship of Hayden and Tenley; two young people who desperately want to love and be loved but are afraid to completely let go of their pasts. As Hayden and Tenley navigate their newfound but slightly unstable relationship, they want to trust each other, bu…

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BOOK REVIEW: THE EVOLUTION OF MARA DYER BY MICHELLE HODKIN

Mara Dyer once believed she could run from her past. She can’t. She used to think her problems were all in her head. They aren’t. She couldn’t imagine that after everything she’s been through, the boy she loves would still be keeping secrets. She’s wrong. In this gripping sequel to The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, th…

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BOOK REVIEW: THIS IS FALLING BY GINGER SCOTT

First, I had to remember how to breathe. Then, I had to learn how to survive. Two years, three months and sixteen days had passed since I was the Rowe Stanton from before, since tragedy stole my youth and my heart went along with it.  When I left for college, I put a thousand miles between my future and my pas…

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BLOG TOUR: FAERY MARKED BY MARY WAIBEL

When Callie Rycroft wakes to find purple flames flickering on the ceiling, she believes she’s still dreaming. But soon she’s forced to accept that she has magic―a special magic that grants her entrance into the Faery Realm. For centuries humans have been banned from Faery, but dangerous times call for d…

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TOP 10 CHRISTMASTIME BOOKS

It's finally December. The Christmas tree is going up, the decorations and lights are up and shining brightly at you, reminding you that it's that time of year again. The most wonderful time of the year . So we decided to pick out our favourite books that bring out the Christmas spirit or something to warm us…

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ANNOYING THINGS PEOPLE DO TO READERS

I really lose my patience with people when it comes to reading.  We all have those friends who don't read, family members, or even random people in public that nag at us about our books. I'm sure you know who they are. We also know those readers who are pretentious or judgmental. It gets to that point when…

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BOOK REVIEW: MAYBE NOT BY COLLEEN HOOVER

When Warren has the opportunity to live with a female roommate, he instantly agrees. It could be an exciting change. Or maybe not. Especially when that roommate is the cold and seemingly calculating Bridgette. Tensions run high and tempers flare as the two can hardly stand to be in the same room together. But Wa…

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FRIENDLY REMINDER - CHRISTMAS GIVEAWAY!

Incase you didn't know, we're hosting a giveaway ! We're giving away a UK edition of My True Love Gave To Me , a book of short Christmas romance stories by a bunch of very talented authors. I'm currently reading my own copy and so far, it's wonderful!  ABOUT THE BOOK My True Love Gave To…

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TOP 10 SIDE CHARACTERS THAT NEED THEIR OWN BOOK/POV

POVs. I love reading one of my favourite books in the perspective of another character that I love. How can you not? You want to know what's happening in their head and you also want basically  anything from the author. They need their story told and you're on Twitter, waiting for the author to announce a ne…

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IN MY MAILBOX: NOVEMBER 29TH

Moar books ! I'm one lucky girl. I was sent some books by a lovely friend called Dennis, who has been incredibly kind and generous to me and my co-blogger. I'm very much running out of space for all my books because I'm still looking for a place to move out, where I am now has no room for a big bookcase…

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BOOK REVIEW: HALLOWED BY CYNTHIA HAND

For months Clara Gardner trained to face the fire from her visions, but she wasn't prepared for the choice she had to make that day. And in the aftermath, she discovered that nothing about being part angel is as straightforward as she thought. Now, torn between her love for Tucker and her complicated feelin…

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BOOK REVIEW: NEVER CLOSE ENOUGH BY ANIE MICHAELS

The last thing Ella Sinclair needed on her birthday was a cheating boyfriend, a broken heart, and a dead car battery in a remote beach town. At her greatest moment of need, a protective and sexy Porter Masters comes to her rescue. Ella takes a holiday week at the coast to discover herself and finds her attraction …

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NEWS: A COLLEEN HOOVER SURPRISE!

Talk about a surprise! Don't you love it when this happens? When one of your favourite authors decides to announce that they're releasing a book NEXT WEEK? There's no long wait and no 'hurry up release date' because we had no idea about it. I guess its a nice Christmas surprise. Colleen Hoover …

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CHRISTMAS GIVEAWAY

Deck the halls with boughs of holly, fa la la la laaa, la la la laaaa!  Halloween is over, so let's put the scary masks away, put the horror movies aside and bring out the tinsel! We're getting into the Christmas spirit by being kind and giving away a book. Excited? You should be! We've decided to give …

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TOP 10 WRITING QUOTES

Oh, hi Monday! It's us again and this time we're sharing our favourite quotes from those wise authors who inspire us. As you're all aware, November is the month for us author-wannabes as it's NaNoWriMo. These quotes have certainly helped us with our writing and encouraged and influenced us during thos…

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IN MY MAILBOX: NOVEMBER 15TH

Hi, all. It's Lexie. November has predictably been the slowest month for TheHonestBookclub yet, chiefly because of NaNoWriMo and both of us participating. We've been falling behind slowly but gradually and this weekend is already largely devoted to catching up. Having said that, this is a monster of …

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BOOK REVIEW: THE MURDER COMPLEX BY LINDSAY CUMMINGS

An action-packed, blood-soaked, futuristic debut thriller set in a world where the murder rate is higher than the birthrate. For fans of Moira Young’s Dust Lands series, La Femme Nikita, and the movie Hanna. Meadow Woodson, a fifteen-year-old girl who has been trained by her father to fight, to kill, and to surv…

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BOOK REVIEW - UNEARTHLY BY CYNTHIA HAND

In the beginning, there's a boy standing in the trees... Clara Gardner has recently learned that she's part angel. Having angel blood run through her veins not only makes her smarter, stronger, and faster than humans (a word, she realizes, that no longer applies to her), but it means she has a purpose, s…

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IN MY MAILBOX - NOVEMBER 6TH

I was very lucky this week. I only paid for one of these books so I'm very blessed to know some amazing people as well as have some luck on GoodReads. As I'm still planning on moving out, I'm currently residing at my mum's house so I can see she's getting irritated at all these parcels constantly …

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TOP 10 BAD NOVEL WRITING HABITS

November has officially arrived, and brought many of us in the literary community a beloved tradition - the National Novel Writing Month, NaNoWriMo for short. Whether you've chosen to participate in the madness that is the race to complete a novel in a month, or whether you're chuckling at it from the sidelin…

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GOODREADS AWARDS 2014

In case you hadn't seen it on the GoodReads homepage - the awards are in full swing ! It's time to check the lists and see which of your favourites have been nominated. Yeah, there's always those categories that include books you've never heard of but you can also put your own answer in. If not, then…

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BOOK REVIEW: TROUBLE BY NON PRATT

In this dazzling debut novel, a pregnant teen learns the meaning of friendship—from the boy who pretends to be her baby’s father. When the entire high school finds out that Hannah Shepard is pregnant via her ex-best friend, she has a full-on meltdown in her backyard. The one witness (besides the rest of the worl…

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