In My Mailbox (vlog)

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Eep! My first vlog!

Please note that this is not me, but instead a very realistic robot. Like all realistic robots, this one is incredibly awkward. Also shy. And they cannot mimic voices properly, so they sound a bit odd and cannot pronounce words properly. Also: their teeth are made of metal. Don't tease; my robot is doing it's best.

Forts: Fathers and Sons by Steven Novak

The Gathering by Kelly Armstrong

Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta

Miss. Peregine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

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Winner of Happy Birthday to Me.

The winner of Happy Birthday to Me is...


Lisa Richards

Congrats! Expect an e-mail from me confirming your win.

For all you *ehem* non-winners, Happy Birthday to Me is available for only .99 cents on the Kindle.

Pretty Little Liars book 9: Twisted cover.

Isn't that cover just da bomb? I just saw what it looked like yesterday. Twisted is going to rock. (Hopefully.)

 The release date is July 5. 


Summary from Goodreads:

It’s been a year since the torturous notes from A stopped and the mystery of Alison DiLaurentis’s disappearance was finally put to rest. Now seniors in high school, Aria, Spencer, Hanna and Emily are older, but they’re not any wiser. The Pretty Little Liars have more secrets than ever - twisted secrets that could destroy the perfect lives they’ve worked so hard to rebuild.
Aria’s jealous of her boyfriend’s new exchange student. Spencer’s getting a little too cozy with her soon-to-be-stepbrother. Hanna’s one scandalous photo away from ruining her dad’s Senate campaign. And Emily will do anything to get a swim scholarship.
Worst of all: Last spring break in Jamaica, they did something unforgivable. The girls are desperate to forget that fateful night, but they should know better than anyone that all secrets wash ashore … eventually
 
 
 
 
Eep! Did everyone already know about this? This is so epic... I wonder what happened in Jamaica. Is there going to be a new A? I don't know how Sara Shepard will make this work, but I will totally buy the next four books! 
 
 
Also the next book is going to be titled Ruthless . Sounds fan-girl worthly.
 
Here is the Goodreads summary for Ruthless:
 
 
 The #1 New York Times bestselling Pretty Little Liars are back with more scandals, secrets, and drama.


Everyone’s favorite pretty little liars are back with a fresh story arc filled with dark new secrets and deadly plot twists.
Hanna, Spencer, Emily, and Aria are trying to move on and forget about their old friend Alison DiLaurentis and all the torture she put them through. They thought she was gone from their lives for good, but someone is keeping her spirit alive. Now A wants to ruin their pretty little lives—or does A want to end them?
The hit ABC Family TV show continues to bring new readers to the bestselling series, and the Pretty Little Liars fanbase keeps growing! Legions of readers will clamor for Sara Shepard’s new pack of lies....
 
 
 
So there IS a new A? How do you think that's going to work out?
 
 
 
 
P.S. Don't forget to enter my Happy Birthday to Me giveaway! It ends tomorrow.  : D


P.P.S. It's 6:00. Still not raptured.

P.P.P.S. It's 7:00. Still not raptured.

P.P.P.P.S. It's 8:00. Still not raptured.

P.P.P.P.P.S. It's 8:02. Giving up hope.

Slice of Cherry by Dia Reeves

Stars: 4

Summary from Goodreads:

 Kit and Fancy Cordelle are sisters of the best kind: best friends, best confidantes, and best accomplices. The daughters of the infamous Bonesaw Killer, Kit and Fancy are used to feeling like outsiders, and that’s just the way they like it. But in Portero, where the weird and wild run rampant, the Cordelle sisters are hardly the oddest or most dangerous creatures around.



It’s no surprise when Kit and Fancy start to give in to their deepest desire—the desire to kill. What starts as a fascination with slicing open and stitching up quickly spirals into a gratifying murder spree. Of course, the sisters aren’t killing just anyone, only the people who truly deserve it. But the girls have learned from the mistakes of their father, and know that a shred of evidence could get them caught. So when Fancy stumbles upon a mysterious and invisible doorway to another world, she opens a door to endless possibilities….



Review:

Slice of Cherry is the companion novel to Bleeding Violet, although I was fine without reading the first book. (I REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY want to read Bleeding Violet now. Really.)


A conversation between Fancy and Kit:
Kit- Hey, Fancy? Feel like killing anyone today? I'm in that mood again. I'll let you cut the body open this time.

Fancy- Good morning most awesome sister in da world!!!! That is a very tempting offer, but alas... how shall we hide the bodies?

Kit- Sigh... Can we hide them in our shed like daddy use to do? I know he got caught and now he's in jail and all, but I have a need to squish a human heart.

Fancy- Me too, sister dearest. Me too. If only we had somewhere to hide all those pesky dead bodies... *HINT HINT*

End of conversation.


The reason I liked it is because... it’s odd. I can read a hundred more books, and none of them would have the same creepy/awesomeness factor that Slice of Cherry’s got going on. (Except maybe Bleeding Violet.) I would compare it to Coraline.


This book is a great break from the serious paranormal genre. All the characters in the quirky town of Portero are like, "Yeah, there's a magical portal door in front of me. Whatevs. Who wants some pizza?" That attitude made the book for me.

The way the book shouldn't make sense in normally (but in a weird way does) makes Slice of Cherry a awesome, kooky read.