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Book Review: Save The Date by Morgan Matson + Giveaway!

Title: Save The Date
Author: Morgan Matson
Published: June 5th, 2018
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Rating: ★★★★★
Find the Author: Goodreads 

Disclosure: I bought this book myself, reviewing it as an impartial review. Giveaway copies are sponsored. As always, my reviews are fair and unbiased.

Charlie Grant’s older sister is getting married this weekend at their family home, and Charlie can’t wait—for the first time in years, all four of her older siblings will be under one roof. Charlie is desperate for one last perfect weekend, before the house is sold and everything changes. The house will be filled with jokes and games and laughs again. Making decisions about things like what college to attend and reuniting with longstanding crush Jesse Foster—all that can wait. She wants to focus on making the weekend perfect.
The only problem? The weekend is shaping up to be an absolute disaster.
There’s the unexpected dog with a penchant for howling, house alarm that won’t stop going off, and a papergirl with a grudge.
There are the relatives who aren’t speaking, the (awful) girl her favorite brother brought home unannounced, and a missing tuxedo.
Not to mention the neighbor who seems to be bent on sabotage and a storm that is bent on drenching everything. The justice of the peace is missing. The band will only play covers. The guests are all crazy. And the wedding planner’s nephew is unexpectedly, distractingly…cute.
Over the course of three ridiculously chaotic days, Charlie will learn more than she ever expected about the family she thought she knew by heart. And she’ll realize that sometimes, trying to keep everything like it was in the past means missing out on the future. 

First Thoughts…

YAS! That is the first thing that came into my mind, several months ago, when I heard Morgan had another book coming out. I’ve been a fan since the Amy & Roger days, and this latest edition would be no different. I pre-ordered my copy on Book Depository, and when it arrived, I FLIPPED. But not because of the book, but because I didn’t know that it was a SIGNED FIRST EDITION! For a moment, I thought there had been a mistake and even took to Instagram to fangirl. But it was all good! And I began reading that same day…

My Review…

Charlie’s sister is getting married. For any normal family, this would be a perfectly normal amount of stress. But when you’re part of the Grant family – of GRANT CENTRAL STATION, a comic-strip –  it’s a whole other world of chaos, especially now that the house they’ve grown up in and was featured in the comic-strip, is being sold. So Linnie, Charlie’s sister, wants to get married there before it’s gone to them forever. There’s a lot of history there, and from the word go, there’s 100% laughs-meets-drama.
Charlie has been in love with Jesse Foster, her brother Mike’s best friend, since she can remember. There’s nothing she wants more than to be happy with him, but there’s history there, too. Things that have kept them apart. And despite their fiery past, their present has been divided from each other’s lives. So when all Charlie’s siblings come back for the wedding, she’s thrown into Jesse’s life again, whilst juggling planning Linnie’s wedding, and it comes to a head with disaster after disaster…
I’m always a sucker for these types of books. Morgan has such a way of building character development and making me automatically care about the Grant family from the first few chapters. There’s love – a lot of it – heartbreak, family and so. much. more! I can’t tell you just how fast Save The Date has climbed into the top three books I’ve read this year, and I’ve only read twenty or so!
Overall, Save The Date is a story not to be missed. There’s something so magical about this book, these characters and the way the words make me fall faster in love with each new chapter. Morgan has gifted us the beauty of her best book to date. I had this feeling, as soon as I’d finished reading, like my heart was full. And I think it’s to do with the family and love, that came together in this gift, wrapped in a bow, that never had a dull moment. You are missing out if this isn’t on your TBR. Five stars completely! GOSH I just want to gush all day about this sweet-as-sugar book.

Thanks to Simon & Schuster (and Olivia!) I can offer THREE paperback copies of SAVE THE DATE for a giveaway! UK Only, ends July 1st! 

To enter, all you have to do is follow the instructions on my pinned-tweet. Good luck!

Have you read Save The Date?


What did you love the most about Charlie’s story?


Let me know in the comments or on twitter @LittleMemoirs!


happy reading!

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Weekend Whispers: Self-Care & Tips


I know what you’re thinking. Becca is doing another meme on her blog? Yes, but for a good, really good, reason. It occured to me while I was reading my millionth book this week that I don’t take enough time to care about me. Or my needs or what I want to do. And I think that a lot of people are in my shoes, too. We care so deeply about others and making our careers, social lives and relationships so bright and beaming that we forget about little old us.
So I’ve made this new meme, WEEKEND WHISPERS, just for you. For me. For anyone who needs it. Every weekend (or every other, I haven’t decided yet) I’ll write a blog post about self care, tips and tricks and hopefully some things that will help you to take a moment to breathe and do something for you.

1. Take A Moment

It isn’t as simple as it would look. Sometimes it’s really hard to get a few moments to yourself in the day to relax. But I can’t stress how important this is. You might think that ten minutes in a day isn’t enough, but sometimes it’s all you need to recharge your system. I like to do this midday on the weekends or before bed in the week. Here’s what I do:


Put in your headphones (distracts from noises, blocks out world). Play your favourite instrumental piece of music (something calming and resolute). Lay down (or sit) and close your eyes. Breathe in for four seconds and out for seven. Repeat, repeat, repeat.
You can set a timer on your phone or an egg timer to have a set amount of time, but I take roughly around ten minutes (or more or less if I think I need it).
When you’re finished, take a few deep breaths to reintroduce yourself to the world.  Know that your mind is refreshed, your body is recharged and you’re calm. 


2. Delete

 When your mind is busy, your subconscious always eager to get on social media and keep up with trends, you can start to feel a little deflated. Social Media can have that affect on you hugely. There’s competition, the need to keep up, replying to messages…it can get stressful. So once a day, or whenever you feel like it’s needed, pretend that you’ve deleted your accounts. I know, shocker. I’d probably lose it if I had to actually delete them. But if you pretend that social media doesn’t exist, that there’s no need to tweet or take selfies…you gain something called freedom. Ditch your phone, take a walk outside (while it’s still sunny out there) and just be. I know it’s hard. I really struggle to do this sometimes but it’s so needed! I can’t recommend this tip enough. I usually do a two-hour detox from social media around 6-7pm to 8-9pm, just to give myself a breather. I think I’d struggle without that slice of freedom from the social norms. 

3. Vent 


It’s debatable, but venting? It’s pretty much the only thing that will unload all of that stress that the day can put on you. There’s a few ways you can deal with venting. Some people like to write it in their journals, write it on paper and then burn it, tell their troubles to someone in their lives that they can trust and vent to. But the majority of people actually don’t vent at all. They keep all that tension pent up in their system and it’s bound to unleash on a poor soul who gets on your nerves. The best way to avoid a massive blow-out, is to pick a way to vent. I’ve tried talking it out but honestly, that only works for me some of the time. I like to write anything that has stressed me on a little notepad (it doesn’t matter what it is, just some lined paper and a good pen) and write away my troubles. I don’t look back on them (you should never look back on things that have stressed you out because they’re bound to return if you do) so they end up in a neat little notepad I can throw out at the end of the year or stash at the back of my desk. 
What’s your favourite way to vent? If you have a different suggestion, let me know in the comments or via my Contact Me page! I’m always looking for new ways to unleash your stress responsibly. 


4. Don’t be too hard on yourself


Real talk time: I have CFS/ME. If you don’t know what it is, that’s okay! Not a lot of people do. You can read all about it here. It’s basically something that I’ve had since I was around fourteen years old. It affects my immune system, my whole body and my brain. For the most part, I can live a normal life. But I have severe pain and sometimes memory problems that can push my limits. But within myself, I really want to just be normal. I’m not saying that I’m not “normal” or that anyone with a condition isn’t normal. But you know what I mean. I want to be ordinary, live a pain-free life. And sometimes I can be really hard on myself, when in reality, I can take it slow. I can go easy on myself because I’m only human. I know that everyone can feel this way sometimes. Like you’ve beaten yourself down…but you don’t have to be hard on yourself. Trust me. You’re doing great. You have people that love you and I promise, if you’re going through something, there is brighter things coming for you. Don’t be hard on yourself, because you’re pretty darn magical.

5. Self care is important


Whether it’s painting your nails, watching Netflix, listening to music, baking, reading…self-care is important. You could start a bucket list, lay on the grass and watch the sky, talk to a friend for hours on the phone about old times. Whatever feels to you like taking care of yourself, then that is self-care. It’s important to take self-care seriously. It’s totally valid to have a hard time doing it, but it’s worth it, by making yourself happy. 
To celebrate self-care and putting you first, I’m giving away a self-care kit full of happy items and things that you would love. If you’d like to be in with a chance, just fill in this form below and tell me about you. I can then personalize your self-care kit if you win! This will end in May (around the middle) and is open Internationally. Click HERE to enter.

Happy Saturday. Don’t forget to take care of yourself, today.
happy weekend!
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Birthday Month: What’s Happening & What You Can Win!

It’s officially April (has been for eleven days actually and where have I been? That’s a topic for another post) and Springtime has settled in very nicely! It’s my birthday month, for my fellow Aries and I, so I thought there’s got to be something I can do to celebrate with my blog followers. Because, long story short, you guys are my bookish family: and because you can’t be here in person, I want to make sure you can get involved! 

This year, I’ll be 22! Where has the time gone? I feel like I only just turned 21, or 18 or even 16…but yet, here we are. Moving faster than I can blink, life speeding by quicker than The Flash. 

I’ve thought a little about what kind of Giveaway I could do and what I could give my readers. So I came to the conclusion that combining LacunaCandleCo (an epic new Soy Candle Company coming in June!) and a new YA Book with a bonus bookish gift sounded good. 

So if you’re interested in winning, all you have to do is Retweet this tweet below and Follow me on Twitter to be in with a chance. All the rules are listed in the tweet below and it’s of course, open Internationally! I can’t wait to share my birthday with you all. This ends on my ACTUAL birthday, April 17th!

I’m actually reading I Have Lost My Way right now and you can expect a review very soon! It’s clearly made an impression on me already to be giving a copy away…

happy reading!

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World Book Day: Spread the Word & Win!

Hello book lovers! 

It’s almost World Book Day, aka THE BEST DAY EVER. I am so excited that I get to share something incredible with you all today! I’ll be telling you all about the fantastic ins and outs of World Book Day and how you can win a Book Bundle of the five chosen books this year, thanks to The Corner Shop and World Book Day!



This year something very different is happening. One week before World Book Day, (today!) is the launch of a brand new film trailer featuring some very familiar people! It’s presented by the lovley Grace Victory, featuring some well known book lovers and authors including Muhammad Khan, Gemma Cairney, Camilla Thurlow, Penny Joelson, Afrikan Boy, Connie Glynn (Noodlerella), Slay in Your Lane (Yomi and Elizabeth), Laura Dockrill, Greg James and Chris Smith, E. Lockhart, Sara Barnard, Yas Necati, Maya Jama and Nikesh Shukla. It’s the start of a new movement called “BookClubbing” – no, not that kind of clubbing. A book clubbing movement. And you (yes, you reading this!) can get involved! Ways teens and young adults can get involved is by:


  • Sharing your favourite stories with friends and family and online under #ShareAStory
  • Picking up one of five special edition full-length YA titles by bestselling authors at an exclusive price with a World Book Day book token
  • GET BOOKCLUBBING, setting up your own book club to talk about your latest and favourite reads with classmates and friends.


It’s the start of a new initative that means young people can get one of five full-length books for £1.50 with a book token (or £2.50 without). The special edition books included in this years event are:

  1. An Abundance of Katherines by John Green (Penguin)
  2. Fly by Night by Frances Hardinge (Macmillan)
  3. I Have No Secrets by Penny Joelson (Egmont)
  4. Summoner: The Novice by Taran Matharu (Hachette)
  5. Gangsta Rap by Benjamin Zephaniah (Bloomsbury)


*Available in participating retailers only


Don’t forget what World Book Day is all about. It’s the biggest celebration of reading in the UK and Ireland. Last year 1.2 million £1 book tokens were redeemed, meaning 1 in 4 children (1 in 3 for those having free school meals) could “purchase” their first ever book. So from late this month, children in the UK and Ireland will be given their book tokens in schools which they can then claim/put towards reading one of these awesome special editions in participating bookshops and supermarkets from 26th February to 25th March 2018.
You can find out everything you need to know about World Book Day on their website!
GIVEAWAY TIME! (CONTEST CLOSED)
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To celebrate World Book Day, we are offering one lucky winner the chance to win 5 of the books on offer this year from the World Book Day Teen & Young Adult book collection!

How To Enter:

For your chance to win just answer the question below and fill in this form with your name and address!


How many years has World Book Day been running?


12 years

19 years

21 years

Closing date: Midnight Thursday 1 March. See my Review Policy for competition rules.
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Good luck, book lovers! Don’t forget to get involved any way you can, by following the event:
Twitter | Facebook | Website | #WorldBookDay #ShareAStory


happy reading!

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Blogmas Annoucement! 🎄

Happy almost December, book lovers! 

As a fan of the festive season, I knew I wanted to do a little something for Pretty Little Memoirs this year that’s different to usual. Thanks to an idea from one of my good friends, Jenn, I decided to take part in the hugely popular Blogmas! But, with a little twist. 


Instead of doing twenty five days, I’m going to do fifteen. The idea of trying to write twenty five posts in one month scares me! I decided that fifteen is a more manageable amount and I can cram extra special goodies into those days. Also, I have some reviews to post and don’t want to take the shine away from them that day. Since it’s a little short notice that I decided to do Blogmas, I haven’t stumbled across a book or theme for my giveaway I’ll do just yet, but stay tuned for that! Instead, read on to find out what’s happening what days!


  • 1st: Bookish Gifts to buy this year for that book lover in your life
  • 3rd: My favourite Christmas songs
  • 5th: Christmas story time
  • 7th: Download a Christmas wallpaper made by me
  • 9th: Gifts to buy the bloggers in your life
  • 11th: My Christmas plans
  • 13th: My best Christmas and other facts
  • 14th: GIVEAWAY DAY
  • 15th: Favourite Christmas past times
  • 17th: DIY Christmas candles
  • 18th: Surviving Christmas
  • 20th: Last minute gifts
  • 22nd: Checklist print off
  • 23rd: What I love about Winter 
  • 25th: Merry Christmas and Giveaway winner announced

I hope that you can join me for a month full of fun!


happy reading!

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Halloween Week of Horrors: Line-Up & Giveaway Announcements!

Hello, book lovers and welcome to the announcement for my yearly, spooky spectacular, that is: HALLOWEEN WEEK OF HORRORS. 

Ah, October. A month when I finally feel me again. There’s the crisp, multicoloured leaves and the way the comfort of a warm sweater feels. There’s hot cocoa and Pumpkin-Spiced lattes, dark nights and candles flickering ahead with my head nestled in a book. It’s the month when everything just melts perfectly into that festive time of year. And, well, the holiday when I thrive…

Halloween.

Beginning Tuesday 24th of October until the 31st, there will be the most exciting events you can imagine! I’m going to be giving away two prizes that are seriously awesome, reviewing three of my favourite Halloween-related reads and getting spooky with some DIY bookish posts!


  • 24th – Review of There’s Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins
  • 25th – DIY Halloween Nail Art
  • 26th – Review of Ten by Gretchen McNeil
  • 27th – Giveaway day
  • 28th – DIY Halloween Bookmarks
  • 29th – Giveaway day
  • 30th – Review of voted book (POLL)
  • 31st – HALLOWEEN MYSTERY DAY

There will be some book giveaways, along with the current giveaway of Stephanie Perkins newest novel that’s going on over on my twitter page, but also tons of things YOU can get involved in! I really want to hear from my blog readers, so get in touch! I’m always open to new ideas. I’m excited to DIY some cool Halloween bookmarks and show you the surprise giveaway! It’s small, yet mighty. 

Happy October! May everything in your life be sprinkled with Pumpkin-Scented things (unless you’re allergic, then stay away from it).

happy reading!

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Giveaway Time 📚💖📬

GIVEAWAY TIME!


Hello book lovers! As you may know from my hinted tweets about a special giveaway today, I’m going to be giving away TWO prizes, one right here on my blog and another on twitter. You are free to enter both, if you want and to enter is completely free. The only rules are:


– COMMENT TO ENTER: what is your favourite planet and why? (mine is Saturn!)

– You must be 13+ or have parental permission to enter

– You live at an address where mail will deliver (no PO Boxes)

– You are not a giveaway account (I do check!)

– No cheating, or entering for a friend. Please enter for yourself. I will only send prizes directly to the winners name that they entered with. 

– Have fun! This ends 10th of July.


This giveaway on Pretty Little Memoirs is for the lovely THE SUN IS ALSO A STAR by the lovely Nicola Yoon. If you’re interested in the giveaway below, too, don’t forget to enter on twitter! All you’ve got to do is RT and Follow me on there to enter it. 



So don’t forget to COMMENT to enter and read the rules to win and head on over to twitter to enter my other giveaway! 


happy reading!

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Fancy Winning Some Books?

IT’S GIVEAWAY TIME

I know I love a giveaway, which is why I love to surprise my readers whenever I can and do some spur of the moment Giveaways! Since the success of my last giveaway was immense and you all were so lovely and kind, I thought it was only about time to do another to kick off Springtime. 

Last time, I opened my twitter giveaway to UK residents and my Instagram giveaway to everyone worldwide. But this time, both Giveaways are open WORLDWIDE for all my readers! I know you’re all from various countries around the world and since my birthday is creeping up on the 17th of April, I was feeling in a celebratory mood. 


You can enter my twitter giveaway here and my instagram giveaway here. 


Good luck!


happy reading!

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🎉 MyKindaBook Party: Giveaway & More 🎉

Welcome to Becca’s MyKindaBook Party Weekend!


It’s lovely to have you here, whether you came for the bookish giveaways or because you just love being part of blogger weekends! This weekend, I have the pleasure of becoming a hostess for a MyKindaBook party online and offline (with a few friends!) where I get to share my views on some of the amazing books that MyKindaBook publishes and even throw in two giveaways just for this weekend and my blog readers! 


What is MyKindaBook?

I’m glad you asked, because they are amazing. MyKindaBook.com has been a haven for book lovers and I love going on there and seeing all the bookish things available. You might have seen Fangirl, Beautiful Broken Things and The Lie Tree in your local bookstore and they’re the books that my Party is focusing on this weekend! 


How do I get involved?

There are tons of ways you can get in on the action. You can search the #MKBParty tag on social media and catch all the parties happening this weekend (yes, Saturday and Sunday!) or you can stick around on my social channels and enter some giveaways in the meantime! If you follow this link, it will take you to a special Twitter giveaway I have for WHAT LIGHT by Jay Asher (another MKB Book) or below, you can enter to win a special bookish set! Or both, because why not?


All you have to do is enter below or head on over to my twitter here to enter my other giveaway! Here, you can follow the MKB Parties happening RIGHT NOW. 


The Giveaway is now CLOSED! Thank you to the over a HUNDRED of you that entered! And the winner is…

Darla C!

Wondering what my favourite quote of the weekend is so far? It’s from Beautiful Broken Things:

“But people we love come and go, Caddy. That doesn’t mean we loved them any less at the time.”

happy reading!

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Guest Post // Blog Tour: “#Static” by Eric Laster

Welcome to Day #8 of the #STATIC Blog Tour! I’m honoured whenever I have an author stop by on Pretty Little Memoirs for a Guest Post and I’m excited to introduce Eric Laster to PLM today!

But firstly, to celebrate the release of #STATIC by Eric Laster (4/19/16), blogs across the web are featuring exclusive content from Eric and 10 chances to win a copy of #STATIC, as well as a chance to win a 6-in-1 Bluetooth Entertainment Center in the Grand Prize Giveaway!

Books That Influenced Me
by Eric Laster

Just to be clear: books that have influenced me do not necessarily equal my favorite books. I don’t like choosing favorites, because…I just don’t. What follows are books/stories that at one time or another have made big impressions on me when I read (and reread) them. It strikes me as unrealistically rigid to believe that they must always mean as much to me as they did when I first became acquainted with them. I do not, and probably never will, have the same reaction to a given book or story that I read at different points in my life. A novel that I find impactful now might offer me little in ten years’ time, and after still another decade, I might find it rather unimpressive. This probably all goes without saying; I tend to say such things anyway.
Now that that’s out of the way…
What follows isn’t an exhaustive, hierarchical list:
The work of Dr. Seuss. The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales by John Scieszka and Lane Smith. The Outsiders and That Was Then, This Is Now, by S.E. Hinton. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift. Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. The work of Philip K Dick. The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne. “Sonny ’s Blues” by James Baldwin (a story of two brothers). The Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. Grendel by John Gardner. Lord of the Flies by William Golding. “The Importance of Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, the work of Kafka, Borges, and Faulkner. And many, many more.

*****

Stop by A Belle’s Tales tomorrow for the next stop on the tour!

Blog Tour Schedule:

April 18th – The Book Cellar
April 19th – Once Upon a Twilight
April 20th – Fall Into Books
April 21st – Twenty Three Pages
April 22nd – The Fandom

April 25th — Book Briefs
April 26th – Shooting Stars Mag
April 27th – Pretty Little Memoirs
April 28th – A Belle’s Tales
April 29th – The Reader and the Chef

Title: #Static
Author: Eric Laster
Buy: Amazon || Add on Goodreads

Follow Eric: Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website

 When Curtis Brooks starts receiving phone calls from his older brother Wilt, who’s been dead a week, he’s sure it’s to help him find evidence that will lead to a murderer’s arrest. But Wilt claims he wasn’t murdered; his calling, meant to help him adjust, is standard protocol for newly deceased at the Aftermart—a kind of inescapable, ever-expanding Walmart filled with discontinued products.

Wilt’s death ruled a homicide, Curtis embarks on a dangerous plan to find the killer, which soon has him scheming against a billionaire and floundering toward love with his brother’s ex-girlfriend Suzy, all while struggling through high school and his single mom’s poor choices.

Why does Wilt help Curtis win over Suzy, even as he organizes a rebellion at the Aftermart? Who’d wanted him dead? Curtis risks his life to answer these questions, in the process forging a bond with his brother unlike any they’ve ever had.

A New Yorker by birth, Eric Laster lives in Los Angeles. After a successful stint as a best-selling ghostwriter, Eric re-launched under his own name with the middle-grade novel Welfy Q. Deederhoth: Meat Purveyor, World Savior.  Whenever he’s not scribing, he records punk rock and presses it to vinyl.
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And don’t forget to check out @LittleMemoirs on twitter where I’ll be giving away another copy of STATIC! 



happy reading!

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Blog Tour: “Shade Me” by Jennifer Brown {Giveaway!}

Series: Nikki Kill #1
Release date: January 19th 2016
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Purchase: Amazon
SYNOPSIS VIA GOODREADS:
Nikki Kill does not see the world like everyone else. In her eyes, happiness is pink, sadness is a mixture of brown and green, and lies are gray. Thanks to a rare phenomenon called synesthesia, Nikki’s senses overlap, in a way that both comforts and overwhelms her.

Always an outsider, just one ‘D’ shy of flunking out, Nikki’s life is on the fast track to nowhere until the night a mysterious call lights her phone up bright orange—the color of emergencies. It’s the local hospital. They need Nikki to identify a Jane Doe who is barely hanging on to life after a horrible attack.

The victim is Peyton Hollis, a popular girl from Nikki’s school who Nikki hardly knows. One thing is clear: Someone wants Peyton dead. But why? And why was Nikki’s cell the only number in Peyton’s phone?

As she tries to decipher the strange kaleidoscope of clues, Nikki finds herself thrust into the dark, glittering world of the ultra-rich Hollis family, and drawn towards Peyton’s handsome, never-do-well older brother Dru. While Nikki’s colors seem to help her unravel the puzzle, what she can’t see is that she may be falling into a trap. The only truth she can be sure of is that death is a deep, pulsing crimson.

Jennifer Brown is the author of acclaimed young adult novels, Hate List, Bitter End, Perfect Escape, Thousand Words, and Torn Away. Her debut novel, Hate List, received three starred reviews and was selected as an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, a VOYA “Perfect Ten,” and a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year. Bitter End received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and VOYA and is listed on the YALSA 2012 Best Fiction for Young Adults list. Her debut middle grade novel, Life on Mars, was released in 2014, and her second middle grade novel, How Lunchbox Jones Saved Me from Robots, Traitors, and Missy the Cruel will be released in summer 2015. She also writes women’s fiction under the name Jennifer Scott.
Jennifer writes and lives in the Kansas City, Missouri area, with her husband and three children.
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Don’t forget to add Shade Me to your to-read!


Happy Reading!

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Giveaway: The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey (International!)

After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one.

Now, it’s the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth’s last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie’s only hope for rescuing her brother–or even saving herself. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. To give up or to get up.

The 5th Wave is an upcoming American science fiction thriller film directed by J Blakeson, based on Rick Yancey’s eponymous novel with a screenplay by Akiva Goldsman, Susannah Grant, and Jeff Pinkner. The film stars Chloë Grace Moretz, Nick Robinson, Ron Livingston, Maggie Siff, Alex Roe, Maria Bello, Maika Monroe, and Liev Schreiber.


Hey book lovers!

The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey is one of the most loved YA books at the moment (and probably of all time) and it’s no surprise that it got a huge movie franchise following. Since The 5th Wave movie will be released this month, I wanted to shine a light on the amazing book that started it all and give away a HARDBACK COPY that’s open . . . INTERNATIONALLY! 
RULES:

– This giveaway is open interntaionally and may be entered by anyone over the age of 13. For teenagers, please ask your Parents/Guardian’s permission before entering.
– Please read the terms & conditions.
– This giveaway is entirely funded by me and not sponsored in any way. 
– Cheating will be disqualified.
– Have fun! The winner will be chosen and announced by January 25th.

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Happy Reading!

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