Buddy Read With Me (May)

Hey Everyone and welcome back to my blog! I cannot believe that tomorrow is going to be May. April flew by and my Birthday is now just a little over a month away! So this month I decided that I needed to do something different this month. Reading alone is fun, but reading with people is even more fun! So I've joined 2 groups on goodreads and signed up for some buddy reads for this month! So I wanted to post here with a list of all the buddy reads I signed up for and give more people a chance to join in! Plus most of these books I just need to get around to reading, so let's get in to the books!

May 1st

An Ember In The Ashes by Sabaa Tahir | Buddy Ready

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas | Buddy Read

May 4th

Alex, Appriximately by Jenn Bennett | Buddy Read

May 5th

The Edge of Everything by Jeff Giles | Buddy Read

May 7th

A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro | Buddy Read

May 8th

A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray | Buddy Read

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas | Buddy Read

May 22nd

Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor | Buddy Read

May 24th

The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee | Buddy Read

Also, you of course don't have to be a member of these groups to buddy read with me, just add me on goodreads and I'll be posting updates as I go through these books! I hope you all have a wonderful last day of April, and I will see you all next month!

Stacking The Shelves {5}

Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical stores or online, books you borrow from friends or from the library, review books, gifts, and of course ebooks!

Stacking The Shelves is hosted over at Tynga's Reviews

Guys! I did so much better this week. I finished some library books and dropped them off without going in and only ordered 2 books online and I got one of my two book outlet orders and the next one should be here today! So hopefully after next week I'll have some smaller book hauls and I'll be getting to all these beautiful books sooner. So with that being said, let's get in to the books!

Bliss by Shay Mitchell

Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde

For the Record by Charlotte Huang

The Lies About Truth by Courtney C. Stevens

Juniors by Kaui Hart Hemmings

The Anatomical Shape of A Heart by Jenn Bennett

Like It Never Happened by Emily Adrian

The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee

For Review

Between Two Skies by Joanne O'Sullivan - Out Now

Stealing Candy by Stewart Lewis - May 1st 2017

It Had to be You by Lizzy Charles - May 15h 2017

Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley - June 6th 2017

Paper Hearts by Ali Novak - July 1st 2017

Words on Bathroom Walls by Julia Walton - July 4th 2017

So like I said I feel pretty good and kind of controlled this week, let me know what books you got this week by linking your post below! I love to see what everyone got and find more books I want to read!!

Review: At First Blush by Beth Ellyn Summer

At First Blush by Beth Ellyn Summer
Publication Date: April 4th, 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Spark
Age Group: Young Adult | Contemporary
Pages: 340
Overall: ★★★★✩

Who would have thought that a teenager could have a successful career creating makeup tutorial videos on YouTube? For Lacey Robbins, this dream has been her reality. An up-and-coming YouTuber, she has thousands of fans and can't wait for the day when her subscriber count reaches the one million mark. And when she is offered a high school internship at On Trend Magazine, she figures that this could be the make it or break it moment. 

But sometimes your dream job isn't all that it seems. Her editor is only interested in promoting junk products, and her boss in the Hair and Makeup department introduces her to the larger world of makeup artistry, making her wonder if making tutorials online is all she is meant to do. To top it all off, when the magazine's feature subject , musician Tyler Lance, turns his broodingly handsome smile her way, falling for him could mean losing her fans, forcing her to make a decision: her YouTube life or her real life?

At First Blush gave me so much more than I expected when I received this book for review. I have to say I'm pretty obsessed when it comes to Youtube, and since I don't have cable most of my time is spent watching Youtube videos of pretty much any kind. So when I heard what this book was about I knew I had to give it a try and sent it a request. What I didn't know what how good of a read it was going to turn out to be.

Lacey Robbins is an up and coming Beauty Guru on Youtube who scored a summer internship at one of the hottest magazines in the country. She's one of three Youtubers that gets the chance, and happens to be the smallest channel of the three as well. She sees this as being her big break to get a possible contract with Glass Cube, which is the company behind all the big Youtubers that offers people to help make your videos as well as a place to record them.

There is a downfall to Lacey's summer plans to rise to fame though and he goes by the name of Tyler Lance. Tyler is the big secret guest feature for the issue of On Trend that Lacey and the other Youtubers are working on. The magazine is busting it's butt to try and make is image better than the prior known drunk tool that Tyler had let his image become. So not only is Lacey stuck around him, but she's also stuck working with him to make videos on her channel.

Beth did such a wonderful job giving insight behind what a Youtubers life really is. It was so nice to see Lacey as a normal person and how much work she put in to her videos and how stress affected not only her life but even her Youtube channel. Seeing her ups and downs and BIG hic-ups along the way made it so easy to connect to Lacey even without being any part of the Youtuber community.

Not to put down Tyler as a character either. His development through the book really made it easy to feel for him, even if he was a big teenage heart throb. Seeing his interactions with Lacey slowly melted my heart and in the end I found myself yelling at Lacey for some of the decisions she was making with her life. But to be honest, she is just a teenage girl navigating life and trying figure out what she really wants, so I can't hold everything against her.

If you're looking for a good contemporary read with an interesting story that's something you haven't read before, I would highly recommend checking out At First Blush. It was a very nice fresh of breath air in the normal teenage contemporary genre and is definitely worth the read!

Waiting on Wednesday {23}

So the month of May is upon us, which means it's the month of all the book releases that are going to make my bank account one sad little fella. So I'll try and narrow down just my absolute most anticipated, but in fair warning the next couple of weeks will probably be filled with multiple books on the WoW posts. So without further talking, let me show you this weeks books!

Always and Forever Lara Jean by Jenny Han

May 2nd 2017

Lara Jean is having the best senior year a girl could ever hope for. She is head over heels in love with her boyfriend, Peter; her dad’s finally getting remarried to their next door neighbor, Ms. Rothschild; and Margot’s coming home for the summer just in time for the wedding.

But change is looming on the horizon. And while Lara Jean is having fun and keeping busy helping plan her father’s wedding, she can’t ignore the big life decisions she has to make. Most pressingly, where she wants to go to college and what that means for her relationship with Peter. She watched her sister Margot go through these growing pains. Now Lara Jean’s the one who’ll be graduating high school and leaving for college and leaving her family—and possibly the boy she loves—behind.

When your heart and your head are saying two different things, which one should you listen to?

Noteworthy by Riley Redgate

May 2nd 2017

It’s the start of Jordan Sun’s junior year at the Kensington-Blaine Boarding School for the Performing Arts. Unfortunately, she’s an Alto 2, which—in the musical theatre world—is sort of like being a vulture in the wild: She has a spot in the ecosystem, but nobody’s falling over themselves to express their appreciation. So it’s no surprise when she gets shut out of the fall musical for the third year straight.

Then the school gets a mass email: A spot has opened up in the Sharpshooters, Kensington’s elite a cappella octet. Worshiped ... revered ... all male. Desperate to prove herself, Jordan auditions in her most convincing drag, and it turns out that Jordan Sun, Tenor 1, is exactly what the Sharps are looking for.

Any books you're super excited about this week? Let me know below!!

Top Ten Tuesday {5}

Top Ten Tuesday is an amazing idea hosted over at The Broke and Bookish and this week we take on the challenge of picking out Top Ten books for this weeks list.

Top Ten Books Things that will make me NOT want to read a book.

1.) Historical Fiction. I know I know, I have a few on my TBR, but in the end I just usually can't find myself really getting in to a historical fiction without finding it dry.

2.) Yet again I have to mention Covers. I know it's not right, but if a book doesn't have a cover that draws my eye and I know nothing about it, I'm not likely to pick it up to find out what is it about.

3.)  Mass Market Romance novels. Don't get me wrong, I love romance novels but the mass market paperbacks just do not interest me at all.

4.) Non-Fiction. I cannot begin to describe how extremely picky I am when it comes to reading something Non-Fiction, so I'll just lump that together as a no thank you.

5.) When I know WAY more than the main character. I mean I can understand knowing a little more because we're watching from the outside, but if I know a bunch of stuff that hasn't even developed in the book yet, I just can't go on.

6.) Religion. I don't judge, and I have my own beliefs, but I don't want to read a book that's trying to explain or shove something down my throat so I might as well just star away from that.

7.) Info Dumps. I know that there can be back story that needs to be told, but don't just throw a bunch of information at me and expect me to one, remember it all, and two, know what the heck is going on now.

8.) Messy Love Triangles. I usually just end up getting really upset and yelling at the main character because they need to make a freaking choice and we all know which choice is better. So I just rather not get angry while reading.

9.) Abuse. Sorry but that is just not something I even want to support in book format, so if that's something that is a major focus of a book then I most likely am not interested. 

10.) Instalove. I get young love and I get love at first sight, but don't make it so oh look these two people just met, know nothing about each other, but are head over heels for each other and are going to follow the normal rise and fall of a relationship.

What makes you not want to read a book? Let me know below or if you did a TTT link it below so I can check it out!

Stacking The Shelves {4}

Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical stores or online, books you borrow from friends or from the library, review books, gifts, and of course ebooks!

Stacking The Shelves is hosted over at Tynga's Reviews

Oh man guys. This week was quiet a week, let me tell you. So I got some new bookcases this week for my new apartment, and I am in love. I honestly could just sit and stare at my books for hours. The problem I ran in to this week though, is that I shelved ALL my books, even my new ones. So I had to go back through both bookcases and figure out what I had gotten this week. I know, woe is me right. But I was able to do it! Also, I know I was trying to not get as many books this week but I had a couple old orders I placed come in (and I still have a few more coming) so of course it looks like I have a TON of books, which I do. So let's get in to the books!

Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge

Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige

Insurgent by Veronica Roth

Beginnings (Lux #1 & #2) by Jennifer L Armentrout

Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls by Lynn Weingarten

DUFF by Kody Keplinger

Because You'll Never Meet Me by Leah Thomas

The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken

Half Bad by Sally Green

My True Love Gave To Me Twelve Holiday Stories

Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake

This Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales

An Ember In The Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

Rooms by Lauren Oliver

Gameboard of The Gods by Richelle Mead

For Review

Textrovert by Lindsey Summers - May 2nd 2017

It Started with Goodbye by Christina June - May 9th 2017

Antisocial by Jillian Blake - May 16th 2017

Songs About A Girl by Chris Russell - May 30th 2017

Follow Me Back by A.V. Geiger - June 1st 2017

So yeah, yet another week of me having no self control. I had pulled back from the requesting of ARCs so I can get the ones I have read and reviewed for you guys. What did you get this week? Leave a link below! Let me know, I love seeing everyones hauls!!