My return to book blogging

So over the past month a lot of things have been happening. I turned 20, my little cousin had her birthday, I've gotten more responsibility at work, and my internet has been having the worst problems. While I was gone I still kept reading so no worries. I'm scheduling posts as I write this, and I have at least 3 reviews already. So I want to thank all of you that have stuck with me while I haven't been around. But I I've got my posts scheduled so I will be posting a lot more. I plan to get at least 4 out a week MINIMUM. So that means expect a post at least every other day. I've also got quiet a few books I've received for review that I'll be trying to talk about and get the reviews out and let you guys know what I have got going. 

Also something else I'm gonna try to look into is seeing what kinds of book blog tours I can get involved in. I really have liked the past ones I've done and if it's possible for me to get involved in more to get even more books out to you guys then that's what I plan on doing. So be looking for some of that as well. Even if I don't get into any blog tours I have netgalleys that are going to come out soon that I will be posting reviews for so be looking for those as well. I am so sorry I had to take a break but I just needed to get my things together and get myself sorted. I promise this is the last time I will be gone for a long period of time if it's the last thing I can do because whenever I am gone I feel horrible and like part of me is missing because I don't get to share my books with you. So be ready, and let the epic blogging begin. I love you all <3

In My Mailbox {17}

So my blonde self this week realized that Rage is the second book in the Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse Series by Jackie Kessler, and I decided to run to Walmart to get the first one, and a few more books. So here's what I got this week In My Mailbox

For Review

Solid - Shelley Workinger

Bought

Hunger - Jackie Morse Kessler

The Iron Daughter - Julie Kagawa

The Iron Queen - Julie Kagawa

The Magnolia League - Katie Crouch

That's all I got this week in my Mailbox, what did you get?

In My Mailbox is an idea created by the amazing Kristi of The Story Siren 

Follow Friday {13}

Q. How many books do you read in a week? And in what format do you read them, or listen to them?

Right now I've been lucky to fit one book in a week. But that's because I've just been so busy with everything and especially school. But now that school is out I hopefully, cross my fingers, can read at least two a week. Right now most of my books have been in  paper format, but I do have some Kindle books and some new ebooks for review to read so those will definitely be the ones I will be heading towards soon.

What's your Follow Friday?

Hosted by Parajunkee, just so you can get to know me a little more

"Waiting on" Wednesday {13}

I was flipping through my new Seventeen magazine when I saw an add for this book and went hmmm look at this. Then I read what it was about and decided to look it up on goodreads and it just sounds really good even though I haven't heard of it yet. So here is this week's WoW post. 

Forgotten - Cat Patrick

Publication Date: June 7th 2011

Each night when 16 year-old London Lane goes to sleep, her whole world disappears. In the morning, all that's left is a note telling her about a day she can't remember. The whole scenario doesn't exactly make high school or dating that hot guy whose name she can't seem to recall any easier. But when London starts experiencing disturbing visions she can't make sense of, she realizes it's time to learn a little more about the past she keeps forgetting-before it destroys her future. 
Part psychological drama, part romance, and part mystery, this thought-provoking novel will inspire readers to consider the what-if's in their own lives and recognize the power they have to control their destinies

"Waiting On" Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine!  

Teaser Tuesday {9}

Born at Midnight - C. C. Hunter

pg. 274

"Kylie held her hand up in front of her forehead. "Don't do it. And don't say it. I know I don't read like a human. But frankly I'm tired of everyone checking out my head. It's as bad as guys staring at my boobs.""

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
Grab your current read

• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Review: The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting

The Body Finder - Kimberly Derting
Release Date - March 16th 2010
Publisher - Harper Teen
Age Group - Young Adult
Pages - 336
Overall - 4.5/5

Violet Ambrose is grappling with two major issues: Jay Heaton and her morbid secret ability. While the sixteen-year-old is confused by her new feelings for her best friend since childhood, she is more disturbed by her "power" to sense dead bodies—or at least those that have been murdered. Since she was a little girl, she has felt the echoes that the dead leave behind in the world... and the imprints that attach to their killers. Violet has never considered her strange talent to be a gift; it mostly just led her to find the dead birds her cat had tired of playing with. But now that a serial killer has begun terrorizing her small town, and the echoes of the local girls he's claimed haunt her daily, she realizes she might be the only person who can stop him. Despite his fierce protectiveness over her, Jay reluctantly agrees to help Violet on her quest to find the murderer—and Violet is unnerved to find herself hoping that Jay's intentions are much more than friendly. But even as she's falling intensely in love, Violet is getting closer and closer to discovering a killer... and becoming his prey herself

I think I'm on a roll with picking good books to read. There were so many good things about this book, and hardly any bad things. I'm just going to start with the one thing I didn't entirely like, because I want to get it out of the way. That would be that the story progressed slow, and then once it got to the good action parts there wasn't very much of it. But to be completely honest, the fact that this book was able to keep me in the dark for once, made it absolutely amazing. I didn't see what was going to happen until it did which made me sit pretty much on the edge of my seat the entire time.

I also loved the relationships in this book. Violet and Jay made me so happy I can't even begin to tell you. I think I liked it so much because it was real. Having a guy best friend and falling for him is something that happens to girls on a daily basis. So being able to see that in a story and for it to go the way it did was really good. I appreciate having someone write a story where they don't just do what they think girls want to read, but they do what really happens to girls.

I really fell in love with Violet as a character in this story. She's the kind of girl that most normal teenagers are, except for the fact of seeing dead bodies auras, but other than that. She's pretty confident in most things that she does, she has a group of close friends that do their own thing, and has a loving family that is there for her through thick and thin. I think what makes her so special, other than her ability, is that she doesn't really give up. She's a strong girl, and when faced with adversity and hard times she sticks it through, and that is someone that most young girls should look up to.

This would be a book that I would recommend to pretty much anyone. I honestly don't think that because it has to do with murders that it is violent in any way, which is a very tasteful way of doing this book. I was extremely happy the entire time I was reading it and am super excited to go and buy the second one, because after reading the synopsis I am so anxious to see what happens. So that should be something to look for in my next In My Mailbox cause I'm not sure how long I'll be able to wait.