12 Days Until Christmas, 12 5 Star Reads This Year!

Now there is only 12 days until Christmas, So here are 12 of my most favorite reads this year.

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13 Days Until Christmas, 13 2015 Covers I Love!

With Christmas only 13 days away, I thought I'd celebrate how close it's getting by making 13 posts featuring my favorites of 2015 and other Christmas happenings.


Here are 13 of my most favorite 2015 covers:

 

 

 



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Thanks for stopping by my blog and taking time to look at this post. Note: I will be spending my time next week wiring a house for Habitat For Humanity, I may not be online that much.

Waiting On Wednesday #32!

My W.O.W. Pick For This Week Is... (created by Breaking The Spine)

Blood Passage (Dark Caravan Cycle, #2)
Heather Demetrios
Young Adult Fantasy
March 1st 2016
GOODREADS LINK

Synopsis:

*No synopsis due to spoilers









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Waiting On Wednesday #31!

My W.O.W. Pick For This Week Is... (via Breaking The Spine)

The Forbidden Wish
Jessica Khoury
Young Adult Fantasy
February 23rd 2016
GOODREADS LINK

Synopsis:

She is the most powerful Jinni of all. He is a boy from the streets. Their love will shake the world... When Aladdin discovers Zahra's jinni lamp, Zahra is thrust back into a world she hasn't seen in hundreds of years -- a world where magic is forbidden and Zahra's very existence is illegal. She must disguise herself to stay alive, using ancient shape-shifting magic, until her new master has selected his three wishes.

But when the King of the Jinn offers Zahra a chance to be free of her lamp forever, she seizes the opportunity—only to discover she is falling in love with Aladdin. When saving herself means betraying him, Zahra must decide once and for all: is winning her freedom worth losing her heart?

As time unravels and her enemies close in, Zahra finds herself suspended between danger and desire in this dazzling retelling of Arabian Nights from acclaimed author Jessica Khoury.


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Most Anticipated December 2015 Releases

Here's my most anticipated releases of December:

Tarnished (Perfected, #2)
Kate Jarvik Birch
YA Dystopia
December 1st 2015
GOODREADS LINK

Synopsis:

*No synopsis due to spoilers








Frozen Tides (Falling Kingdoms, #4)
Morgan Rhodes
YA Fantasy
December 15th 2015
GOODREADS LINK

Synopsis:

*No synopsis due to spoilers

Waiting On Wednesday #30!

My W.O.W. Pick For This Week Is... (via Breaking The Spine)

The Shadow Queen (Ravenspire, #1)
C.J. Redwine
Young Adult Fantasy
 February 23rd 2016
GOODREADS LINK

Synopsis:

Lorelai Diederich, crown princess and fugitive at large, has one mission: kill the wicked queen who took both the Ravenspire throne and the life of her father. To do that, Lorelai needs to use the one weapon she and Queen Irina have in common—magic. She’ll have to be stronger, faster, and more powerful than Irina, the most dangerous sorceress Ravenspire has ever seen.

In the neighboring kingdom of Eldr, when Prince Kol’s father and older brother are killed by an invading army of magic-wielding ogres, the second-born prince is suddenly given the responsibility of saving his kingdom. To do that, Kol needs magic—and the only way to get it is to make a deal with the queen of Ravenspire, promise to become her personal huntsman…and bring her Lorelai’s heart.

But Lorelai is nothing like Kol expected—beautiful, fierce, and unstoppable—and despite dark magic, Lorelai is drawn in by the passionate and troubled king. Fighting to stay one step ahead of the dragon huntsman—who she likes far more than she should—Lorelai does everything in her power to ruin the wicked queen. But Irina isn’t going down without a fight, and her final move may cost the princess the one thing she still has left to lose.


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Waiting On Wednesday #29!

(via Breaking The Spine)

My W.O.W. Pick For This Week Is...

Riders (Riders, #1)
Veronica Rossi
Young Adult Fantasy
February 16th 2016
GOODREADS LINK

Synopsis:

For eighteen-year-old Gideon Blake, nothing but death can keep him from achieving his goal of becoming a U.S. Army Ranger. As it turns out, it does.
Recovering from the accident that most definitely killed him, Gideon finds himself with strange new powers and a bizarre cuff he can’t remove. His death has brought to life his real destiny. He has become War, one of the legendary four horsemen of the apocalypse.
Over the coming weeks, he and the other horsemen—Conquest, Famine and Death—are brought together by a beautiful but frustratingly secretive girl to help save humanity from an ancient evil on the emergence.
They fail.
Now—bound, bloodied, and drugged—Gideon is interrogated by the authorities about his role in a battle that has become an international incident. If he stands any chance of saving his friends and the girl he’s fallen for—not to mention all of humankind—he needs to convince the skeptical government officials the world is in imminent danger.
But will anyone believe him?


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Book Blitz: Drakon by Reveca Beauregard

 

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Scarlett Kingfin was forced to run when her life went up in flames, literally. Her home was scorched, and her sister was missing. She was armed with nothing more than a set of coordinates and a fierce temper.

Her twisted path led Scarlett right into the lair of Draxton Drakon, the ruling alpha dragon shifter of the Drakon Clan. His kind owned the seas. Sailing through mystic barriers, they often returned home with their spoils—to the home Scarlett had forgotten. Much like she had forgotten she was his mate, the missing half to his fiery soul.

Strife, tension, and undeniable magnetism stand between the lovers when they’re face to face again. Her presence not only represents a broken royal vow, but also spurs a wicked prophecy of a lethal war between the immortals. Explosions, kidnappings, unveiled truths, and twisted rivalry shroud Draxton and Scarlett's every step. Their dragons deep within are invincible. Will the hearts of the man and woman be strong enough to survive the hell their rise will inflame?

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About the Author

Reveca Beauregard, AKA Jamie Magee has always believed that each of us have a defining gift that sets us apart from the rest of the world, she has always envied those who have known from their first breath what their gift was. Not knowing hers, she began a career in the fast paced world of business.

Raising a young family, and competing to rise higher in that field would drive some to the point of insanity, but she always found a moment of escape in a passing daydream. Her imagination would take her to places she’d never been, introduce her to people she’s never known. Insight, her debuting novel, is a result of that powerful imagination. Today, she is grateful that not knowing what defined her, led her on a path of discovery that would always be a part of her.

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Waiting On Wednesday #28!

My W.O.W. Pick For This Week Is... (via Breaking The Spine)

Reign Of Shadows
Sophie Jordan
Young Adult Fantasy
February 9th 2016
GOODREADS LINK

Synopsis:

Seventeen years ago, an eclipse cloaked the kingdom of Relhok in perpetual darkness. In the chaos, an evil chancellor murdered the king and queen and seized their throne. Luna, Relhok’s lost princess, has been hiding in a tower ever since. Luna’s survival depends on the world believing she is dead.

But that doesn’t stop Luna from wanting more. When she meets Fowler, a mysterious archer braving the woods outside her tower, Luna is drawn to him despite the risk. When the tower is attacked, Luna and Fowler escape together. But this world of darkness is more treacherous than Luna ever realized.

With every threat stacked against them, Luna and Fowler find solace in each other. But with secrets still unspoken between them, falling in love might be their most dangerous journey yet.


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Top Ten Tuesday #27! Book To Movie Adaptations I Can't Wait To See!

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created here at The Broke & The Bookish. This feature was created because we are particularly fond of lists here at The Broke and the Bookish. We'd love to share our lists with other bookish folks and would LOVE to see your top ten lists!

This Weeks Top 10 Tuesday Topic Is Top 10 Book To Movie Adaptations I Am Looking Forward To!

1. The Martian Releasing: October 2nd 2015

2. Mockingjay Part 2 Releasing: November 21st 2015

3. The 5th Wave Releasing: January 15th 2016

4. The Darkest Minds  Releasing: 2016

5. Tiger's Curse Releasing: No date yet!

6. Shadowhunters (TV Series) Releasing: January 2016

7. Throne of Glass (TV Series) Releasing: No date yet!

8. Red Queen Releasing: No date yet!

9. Reboot Releasing: No date yet!

10. An Ember In The Ashes Releasing: No date yet!

Waiting On Wednesday #27!

My W.O.W. Pick For This Week Is... (via Breaking The Spine)

Starflight (Starflight, #1)
Melissa Landers
Young Adult Science Fiction
February 2nd 2016
GOODREADS LINK

Synopsis:

Life in the outer realm is a lawless, dirty, hard existence, and Solara Brooks is hungry for it. Just out of the orphanage, she needs a fresh start in a place where nobody cares about the engine grease beneath her fingernails or the felony tattoos across her knuckles. She's so desperate to reach the realm that she's willing to indenture herself to Doran Spaulding, the rich and popular quarterback who made her life miserable all through high school, in exchange for passage aboard the spaceliner Zenith.

When a twist of fate lands them instead on the Banshee, a vessel of dubious repute, Doran learns he's been framed on Earth for conspiracy. As he pursues a set of mysterious coordinates rumored to hold the key to clearing his name, he and Solara must get past their enmity to work together and evade those out for their arrest. Life on the Banshee may be tumultuous, but as Solara and Doran are forced to question everything they once believed about their world--and each other--the ship becomes home, and the eccentric crew family. But what Solara and Doran discover on the mysterious Planet X has the power to not only alter their lives, but the existence of everyone in the universe...


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Top Ten Tuesday #26! Debut Authors I Want More From!

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created here at The Broke & The Bookish. This feature was created because we are particularly fond of lists here at The Broke and the Bookish. We'd love to share our lists with other bookish folks and would LOVE to see your top ten lists!

This Weeks Top 10 Tuesday Topic Is Top 10 Debut Authors I Want More From!


1. Sabaa Tahir. I loved her debut novel An Ember In The Ashes and I am dying to get my hands on the sequel!

2. Victoria Aveyard

3. Melissa Grey

4. Renee Ahdieh

5. Melinda Salisbury

6. Virginia Boecker

7. Rhiannon Thomas

8. Lori Goldstein

9. Jenny Martin

10. AJ Steiger

Most Anticipated November 2015 Releases

Here's my most anticipated November releases:

Ten Thousand Skies Above You (Firebird, #2)
Claudia Gray
YA Fantasy
November 3rd 2015
GOODREADS LINK

Synopsis:

*No synopsis due to spoilers

Black Wolves (The Black Wolves Trilogy, #1)
Kate Elliott
YA Fantasy
November 3rd 2015
GOODREADS LINK

Synopsis:

For readers of Brent Weeks and fans of Netflix's Marco Polo comes a rich and inspired fantasy tale of warriors and nobles who must take the most desperate gamble of all: awaken allies more destructive than the hated king they hope to overthrow. Kate Elliott's new trilogy is an unmissable treat for epic fantasy lovers everywhere.

An exiled captain returns to help the son of the king who died under his protection in this rich and multi-layered first book in an action-packed new series.

Twenty two years have passed since Kellas, once Captain of the legendary Black Wolves, lost his King and with him his honor. With the King murdered and the Black Wolves disbanded, Kellas lives as an exile far from the palace he once guarded with his life.

Until Marshal Dannarah, sister to the dead King, comes to him with a plea-rejoin the palace guard and save her nephew, King Jehosh, before he meets his father's fate.

Combining the best of Shogun and Netflix's Marco Polo, Black Wolves is an unmissable treat for epic fantasy lovers everywhere.

Winter (The Lunar Chronicles, #4)
Marissa Meyer
YA Fantasy Retelling
November 10th 2015
GOODREADS LINK

Synopsis:

*No synopsis due to spoilers

Waiting On Wednesday #26!

My W.O.W. Pick For This Week Is...

Assassin's Heart
Sarah Ahiers
Young Adult Fantasy
February 2nd 2016
GOODREADS LINK

Synopsis:

In the kingdom of Lovero, nine rival Families of assassins lawfully kill people for a price. As a highly skilled member of one of these powerful clans, seventeen-year-old Lea Saldana has always trusted in the strength of her Family. Until she awakens to find them murdered and her home in flames. The Da Vias, the Saldanas’ biggest enemy, must be responsible—and Lea should have seen it coming. But her secret relationship with the Da Vias’ son, Val, has clouded her otherwise killer instinct—and given the Da Vias more reason than ever to take her Family down.

Racked with guilt and shattered over Val’s probable betrayal, Lea sets out to even the score, with her heart set on retaliation and only one thought clear in her mind: make the Da Vias pay.

With shades of The Godfather and Romeo and Juliet, this richly imagined fantasy from debut author Sarah Ahiers is a story of love, lies, and the ultimate vengeance.


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Top Ten Tuesday #25! Halloween Themed Freebie!

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created here at The Broke & The Bookish. This feature was created because we are particularly fond of lists here at The Broke and the Bookish. We'd love to share our lists with other bookish folks and would LOVE to see your top ten lists!

This Weeks Top 10 Tuesday Topic Is Top 10 Vampire Books I Want To Read!

1. House of Night series by PC Cast & Kristen Cast

2. Blue Bloods series by Melissa De La Cruz

3. The Coldest Girl In Coldtown by Holly Black

4. Black Dagger Brotherhood series by JR Ward

5. Love At Stake series by Kerrelyn Sparks

6. Guild Hunter series by Nalini Singh

7. Argeneau series by Lynsay Sands

8. Chicagoland Vampires series by Chloe Neill

9. Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews

10. Fever series by Karen Marie Moning

Cover Reveal: Collision by Emma L Adams

Today is the cover reveal for Collision (Alliance #3) by Emma L. Adams. This cover reveal is organized by Lola's Blog Tours.

Collision (Alliance #3)
by Emma L. Adams
Genre: Contemporary Fantasy
Age category: Adult
Release Date: late 2015

Blurb:
When Earth suddenly gains inexplicably high levels of magic, all fingers point at the Alliance.

On a distant world, where magic-fuelled forces of nature rule over humans, a disaster is sweeping the land, threatening to knock the Balance across the Multiverse out of sync. When Kay and Ada are sent there with the other Ambassadors, they’re thrown into the centre of chaos. Nature is alive, and angry.

Ada embraces the magic she still half-fears, but learning to control it proves harder than she can imagine. Kay, meanwhile, becomes more reckless than ever when testing the boundaries of his own abilities. When faced with living magic, no one is safe from its influence. Ada and Kay must choose what they’re willing to risk for the sake of saving a world that might already be doomed. Can mortals overcome the gods?

You can find Collision on Goodreads

You can pre-order Collision here:
- Amazon

About the Author:
Emma spent her childhood creating imaginary worlds to compensate for a disappointingly average reality, so it was probably inevitable that she ended up writing speculative fiction. She was born in Birmingham, UK, which she fled at the first opportunity to study English Literature at Lancaster University. In her three years at Lancaster, she hiked up mountains, skydived in Australia, and endured a traumatic episode involving a swarm of bees in the Costa Rican jungle. She also entertained her creative writing group and baffled her tutors by submitting strange fantasy tales featuring dragons and supernatural monsters to workshops. These included her first publication, a rather bleak dystopian piece, and a disturbing story about a homicidal duck (which she hopes will never see the light of day).

Now a reluctant graduate, Emma refuses to settle down and be normal. When not embarking on wild excursions and writing fantasy novels, she edits and proofreads novels for various publishing houses and reads an improbable number of books. Emma is currently working on the Alliance series, a multiple-universe adult fantasy featuring magic, monsters, cool gadgets and sarcasm. Her upper-YA urban fantasy Darkworld series is published by Curiosity Quills Press.

You can find and contact Emma here:
- Website
- Blog
- Facebook
- Twitter
- Google+
- Goodreads
- Newsletter

Cover Reveal: The Awakened by Sara Elizabeth Santana #theawakened #theawakenedcoverreveal #oftomes #saraelizabethsantana @sesantanawrites

 The Awakened
Sara Elizabeth Santana
December 1st 2015
OfTomes Publishing
Young Adult Fantasy
Goodreads Link

Synopsis:

Zoey Valentine is concerned with two things: surviving the multitude of self-defense classes her dad makes her take and avoiding Ash Matthews.

That is, until the Z virus hits, wiping out a third of the population in a matter of weeks. If that weren’t frightening enough, the bodies of the victims disappear and suddenly reappear, awakened from their dead state. They're faster, smarter, and they work together to get the one thing they crave, human flesh.

The United States is in a panic and then the government decides the unthinkable: to bomb every major city overrun with the awakened.

Now Zoey is on the run, with her dad and Ash, desperate to find a place of safety amongst the ruined remains of the country.

 



The Author:


I have lived in Southern California my entire life, going to school, hanging out with friends and reading...A LOT. My love and passion for reading has translated into a love of writing. When I'm not spending time writing my novels, I'm writing for my blog, all about books and everything nerd.

Website: http://sesantanawrites.com/