Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Liebster Blog Award!

I'm excited to say I have received my first blogging award! Thank you to Ana  from The Adventures Within and "Bow-ties are Cool" from What the Hell is a Hufflepuff? . This award is for bloggers with less than 200 followers. So pretty much you share 10 facts about yourself and answer 10 questions from the person who tagged you. Then, you tag 10 more people and give them 10 questions to answer. That is a lot of 10's but you get it. Oh yeah, and no tag backs.

Monday, July 30, 2012

TAG!: Would You Rather...?

Hey! It's Sydney. Soooo.... I guess I technically wasn't tagged for this but Kayla from Ramblings of a Book Junkie tagged " EVERYONE!!" and I would consider myself part of everyone. So here it is:



Le Rules:
~Intros!-Tell us about yourself and your blog.
~Answer the 6 questions in anyway you want
~Tag 6 bloggers (or however many people you want to tag)
~Tell them they have been tagged and link back to your post
~Put the Would You Rather...? picture to your post

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Series Spotlight: Trylle Trilogy

Trylle Trilogy
Amanda Hocking

Switched              Torn              Ascend

(Summary  from Goodreads.com)
When Wendy Everly was six years old, her mother was convinced she was a monster and tried to kill her. Eleven years later, Wendy discovers her mother might have been right. She’s not the person she’s always believed herself to be, and her whole life begins to unravel—all because of Finn Holmes.

Finn is a mysterious guy who always seems to be watching her. Every encounter leaves her deeply shaken…though it has more to do with her fierce attraction to him than she’d ever admit. But it isn’t long before he reveals the truth: Wendy is a changeling who was switched at birth—and he’s come to take her home.

Now Wendy’s about to journey to a magical world she never knew existed, one that’s both beautiful and frightening. And where she must leave her old life behind to discover who she’s meant to become…

I only included the summary for the first book because the summaries for the other books contain spoilers.~

Friday, July 27, 2012

Review: Insurgent

Insurgent
Veronica Roth
(Summary from Goodreads.com)

One choice can transform you--or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love.

Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable--and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships, Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so.

"New York Times" bestselling author Veronica Roth's much-anticipated second book of the dystopian "Divergent" series is another intoxicating thrill ride of a story, rich with hallmark twists, heartbreaks, romance, and powerful insights about human nature.


Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Teaser Tuesday #2: The Summer I Turned Pretty

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by MizB of Should be Reading.

The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han
(Summary from Goodreads.com)

Some summers are just destined to be pretty. Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most importantly, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. They are the boys that Belly has known since her very first summer -- they have been her brother figures, her crushes, and everything in between. But one summer, one wonderful and terrible summer, the more everything changes, the more it all ends up just the way it should have been all along.