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Review Time! It feels awkward posting a review on a Wednesday but honestly I'm so behind on my reviews that I'm beyond the way of caring! Not to mention the fact that I haven't done a Breakfast with the Bookie post in AGES! Eve and Adam by Michael Grant and Katherine Applegate was published by Hardie Grant Egmont Australia this month! You can purchase a copy of the book from  Fishpond  |  The Nile  |  Booktopia  |  Dymocks  | Thanks to Hardie Grant Egmont for the review copy! (Goodreads)  Sixteen-year-old Evening Spiker lives an affluent life in San Francisco with her mother, EmmaRose, a successful geneticist and owner of Spiker Biotech. Sure, Evening misses her father who died mysteriously, but she’s never really questioned it. Much like how she’s never stopped to think how off it is that she’s never been sick. That is, until she’s struck by a car and is exposed to extensive injuries. Injuries that seem to be healing faster than physically p...

Review Time! Spark by Brigid Kemmerer is the sequel to 2012 YA Debut Storm which is probably one of my favourite debuts of 2012! I can't even tell you how excited I was to read this one but at the same nervous because I DIDN'T WANT TO NOT LIKE IT ( luckily that wasn't a problem)! You can purchase a copy of Spark at  Fishpond  |  The Nile  |  Booktopia  |  Dymocks  |  Angus and Robertson . Thanks to Allen and Unwin for the review copy! (Goodreads)  EARTH. FIRE. AIR. WATER. He could feel flames coming through the floor, looking for him. Sparks and ash rained down. He wasn't going to make it. He was going to fail. Again. Then a hand closed over his wrist and pulled, hard. Gabriel Merrick plays with fire. Literally.  Sometimes he can even control it. And sometimes he can’t. So when an arsonist wreaks havoc on his town all the signs point to Gabriel. Layne is strangely drawn to him. Layne understands family problems, and she understands ...

Welcome to the last stop of the Down Under Spark Blog Tour! Spark is the eagerly anticipated sequel to Storm by Brigid Kemmerer which if you know me, you know I LOVED. In fact Brigid and her debut took Australia by storm ( haha PUNZ)! I am so honoured to be included in the blog tour for Spark, this is definitely a Q and A you don't want to miss!  Quickies - Skittles or M&Ms? M&Ms! Black or white? I ... don't know. My favorite color is green. Is that OK? Coffee or Tea? COFFEE. Coffee coffee coffee. I drink about 6 cups a day. No, I am not kidding. Print copies or e-books? E-books! Dog-ear or Bookmark? Dog ear. Makes my husband crazy. But if it's hardcover, I slip the flap in. Cats or Dogs? Dogs Reading or Writing? Both!! Vampires or werewolves? Vampires. Fur? Ew. Favourite Harry Potter Novel? I haven't read any of them. (*GASP* HOW HAVE YOU NOT BEEN STONED?) Have you watched Vampire Diaries? EVERY SINGLE EPISODE. DON'T YOU KNOW ME AT ALL? ( I do know that but...

Hi Everyone! I know the blog has been pretty shabby lately with a lack of posts and all that jazz but I've been really busy with exam preparation and blogging has really taken a backseat! I totally lied when I said things are going to pick up again, from the way things are going, I'll be MIA until at least mid-Novemeber! Please bear with me! This is a book haul, I can't really remember when the last time I did an IMM post was but it was AGES ago (definitely over a month)! In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by Kristi @ The Story Siren. IMM is where we share the bookish contents of our mailboxes! For Review - Going Underground by Susan Vaught ( Paperback Edition) The Orphan of the Flames by H.L. Dennis  Torn by David Massey Breathe by Sarah Crossan The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan  Hidden by P.C. and Kristin Cast What's Left of me by Kat Zhang I Made Lattes for A Love God by Wendy Harmer Shine Light by Marianne de Pierres Black Spring by Alison Good Croggon The Divin...

Review Time! Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire was published by Simon and Schuster Australia in August, originally self published as an Ebook, Beautiful Disaster is one of the first to be categorised as a "New Adult" novel. You can purchase a copy of the book from  Fishpond  |  The Nile  |  Booktopia  |  Dymocks  |  Angus and Robertson . Thanks to Simon and Schuster for the review copy! (Goodreads) The new Abby Abernathy is a good girl. She doesn’t drink or swear, and she has the appropriate percentage of cardigans in her wardrobe. Abby believes she has enough distance between her and the darkness of her past, but when she arrives at college with her best friend, her path to a new beginning is quickly challenged by Eastern University's Walking One-Night Stand. Travis Maddox, lean, cut, and covered in tattoos, is exactly what Abby needs—and wants—to avoid. He spends his nights winning money in a floating fight ring, and his days as the ulti...

Review Time! I totally lied when I said I would be back last week because as you can see, there is STILL a lack of posts on the blog! It's just been so busy lately, with travelling and school, blogging really HAS taken a backseat but I PROMISE I will be back SOON. The Rise of Nine by Pittacus Lore is the third book in the Lorien Legacies series. You can purchase a copy of the book from  Fishpond  |  The Nile  |  Booktopia  |  Dymocks  |  Angus and Robertson . Thanks to Penguin for the review copy! (Goodreads)  Until the day I met John Smith, Number Four, I'd been on the run alone, hiding and fighting to stay alive. Together, we are much more powerful. But it could only last so long before we had to separate to find the others. . . . I went to Spain to find Seven, and I found even more, including a tenth member of the Garde who escaped from Lorien alive. Ella is younger than the rest of us, but just as brave. Now we're looking for the oth...

Review Time! I apologise for being MIA on the blog recently BUT I'm back now! A Corner Of White by Jaclyn Moriarty (Author of Feeling Sorry for Celia) is the first book in The Colours of Madeleine series. This is an Aussie YA that was published by Pan Macmillan in September. You can purchase your own copy of this book from  Fishpond  |  The Nile  |  Booktopia  |  Dymocks  |  Angus and Robertson . Thanks to Pan Macmillan for the review copy! (Goodreads) Madeleine Tully lives in Cambridge, England, the World – a city of spires, Isaac Newton and Auntie’s Tea Shop. Elliot Baranski lives in Bonfire, the Farms, the Kingdom of Cello – where seasons roam, the Butterfly Child sleeps in a glass jar, and bells warn of attacks from dangerous Colours. They are worlds apart – until a crack opens up between them; a corner of white – the slim seam of a letter. A mesmerising story of two worlds; the cracks between them, the science that binds them and the col...

October 1st marks the release date for Stealing Parker by Miranda Kenneally ! Stealing Parker is the companion novel to Catching Jordan which if you remember was one of the books that I featured in this year's debutante event! You can purchase your copies of Stealing Parker here at  The Book Depository  |  Amazon  |  Barnes and Noble  |  Fishpond . (Goodreads) Red-hot author Miranda Kenneally hits one out of the park in this return to Catching Jordan's Hundred Oaks High. After a scandal rocks their conservative small town, 17-year-old Parker Shelton goes overboard trying to prove that she won't turn out like her mother: a lesbian. The all-star third-baseman quits the softball team, drops 20 pounds and starts making out with guys--a lot. But hitting on the hot new assistant baseball coach might be taking it a step too far...especially when he starts flirting back. To celebrate the release of Stealing Parker , Miranda has put together this absolutel...