Monday's Book Spotlight

This week, I'm spotlighting a free novella that I'm so excited about. If you know me, then you know that I'm a HUGE Colleen Hoover fan. Well, on October 14th, she has a new story releasing. You can preorder your free copy on Amazon now! Check it out and add it to your TBR!

A chance encounter in the dark leads eighteen-year-old Daniel and the girl who stumbles across him to profess their love for each other. But this love comes with conditions: they agree it will only last one hour and it will only be make-believe.

When their hour is up and the girl rushes off like Cinderella, Daniel tries to convince himself that what happened between them only seemed perfect because they were pretending it was perfect. Moments like that with girls like her don’t happen outside of fairytales.

One year and one bad relationship later, his disbelief in insta-love is stripped away the day he meets Six: a girl with a strange name and an even stranger personality. Daniel soon realizes the way he pretended to feel about Cinderella and the way he really feels about Six may not be so different after all. Especially when the two loves of his life end up being one in the same.

Unfortunately for Daniel, finding Cinderella doesn’t guarantee their happily ever after…it only further threatens it.

Books I Need NOW!

I created a new shelf on Goodreads of various books that I have either read or want to read, but the message is the same. I need it now! What books would you put on the list?

Books That I've Read But Want in Paperback

 

Books That I Haven't Bought Yet

  

Books That Haven't Released Yet

Top Ten Tuesday: Books I've Read So Far In 2013

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly features hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.

This one is going to be tough. Why? Because I've only read 24 books this year. Terrible, I know! But for like the first three months, I was in a reading funk. That means that really, I've read those 24 in the latter three months. My goal this year is 50. Anyway, I'm just going to list the absolute best books I've read so far this year. These are my top four and you should read them all!

 

What are the best books you've read so far this year? Tell me about them so I can add them to my TBR!

Lately

I wasn't going to have a third post this week, but then I got to thinking. Lately, I have been reading strictly ebooks. I haven't wanted to read a paperback at all. (Hopeless by Colleen Hoover is the exception and that was only after I read it in Kindle first.) Anyway, the urge to hold a book in my hands, smell that wonderful scent it has, and read a physical copy has been missing. I wondered if it would return because it has been that long since I've read that way. All I wanted to read was ebooks.

Until today.

I don't know what changed. Maybe it was the fact that I'm reading another book that I wish I was reading by paperback instead of Kindle. (I'm currently reading Delayed Penalty.) Maybe it was that I've finally grown tired of staring at a screen instead of paper. Maybe, and I'm pretty sure this is the true reason, but maybe it was because ebooks don't hold the same emotional attachment as paperbacks.

Monday's Book Spotlight

I read this book a little over a week ago and I'm still thinking about it. There's no doubt that Hopeless by Colleen Hoover deserves to be on this week's spotlight. I mean, as of 1 pm yesterday, there were 54,397 ratings on Goodreads and the average rating is 4.55 stars. That's a good indication that you'll love it too, I think.

Sometimes discovering the truth can leave you more hopeless than believing the lies…

That’s what seventeen-year-old Sky realizes after she meets Dean Holder. A guy with a reputation that rivals her own and an uncanny ability to invoke feelings in her she’s never had before. He terrifies her and captivates her all in the span of just one encounter, and something about the way he makes her feel sparks buried memories from a past that she wishes could just stay buried.

Sky struggles to keep him at a distance knowing he’s nothing but trouble, but Holder insists on learning everything about her. After finally caving to his unwavering pursuit, Sky soon finds that Holder isn’t at all who he’s been claiming to be. When the secrets he’s been keeping are finally revealed, every single facet of Sky’s life will change forever.

Recommended for readers 17+ due to sexual content, harsh language and heavy subject matter.

Top Ten Tuesday - Freebie (Books I Own That I Really Want to Read)

Top Ten Tuesday is a feature hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week, we get a freebie and can choose to post a top ten on whatever we wish. I decided to post the Top Ten Books I Own That I Really Want to Read. These are books that I own, but haven't read yet. I'm mostly making this list so I can get my thoughts together as to what I want to read next in no particular order.

 

I've heard great things about this book and it has made me move it up on my TBR!

It's about time that I dive into another John Green book and this is my pick.

I got this for my Momma & me for Mother's Day and haven't had a chance to read it yet.

This has been sitting on my Kindle since it was released. Big fan of Colleen Hoover!

Love Jillian Dodd's That Boy series and I'm ready to read her new series.

Love Sarah Dessen! It's been too long since I've read one of her books.

I need to finish this series, but I'm scared of it ending! 

A friend of mine read it and liked it, so I want to read it!

Started this a while back and enjoyed it. Life got in the way and I put it to the side. Time to finish!

Ended up the the 2nd one first somehow and finally got my hands on this one.