The Book Addicted Gossip Girl

Ok, I have a whole load of bookish stuff and news to ramble about now, that you all probably know anyway, but oh well!

Teardrop by Lauren Kate is being published in just one week, people!!!  I don't know about, but I'm super excited for this!  It's such an amazing book!!  And to get the hype up, RandomHouse are having an awesome competion!  You need to watch this video, and then tweet about the last thing that made you cry, using #Teardrop, for your chance to win a personalised signed copy of Teardrop and a gorgeous teardrop necklace!!!  The comp ends 10th November 2013 and terms and conditions apply.  See more: here.  And watch this video!! :D

I don't know about you guys but I love Sarah Crossan's Breathe.  Listen to her talk about the inspiration behind her books by watching this clip!! :D

Check out all these gorgeous Strange Chemistry covers!  I don't know which one I love best - maybe The Almost Girl or Under Nameless Skies or Feather Bound or... ok, I just love them all!!  Click on the cover to find out more about the book!! :D

Oh, and I'm FINALLY on Tumblr!  Check it out: I've joined the 21st century, people!! :D  My Tumblr!  *bows*

Oh, and keep an eye on Fierce Fiction... something exciting will be going down soon... :D

All right, that's all for now!  Happy Teardrop Tuesday! :D 

Well, until next time, The Book Addicted Gossip Girl, out! ;)

The Book Addicted Gossip Girl (#2)

Ok, I have a whole load of bookish stuff and news to ramble about now, that you all probably know anyway, but oh well!

The first piece of news, well, it is a book that comes with all of this buzz...

THE BUZZ

'This book is stunning. And you must read it.'

‘…go pre-order this book now. You'll thank me in May when it releases. Trust me.’

'This book... wow... this book.'

'If alien-invasion reads are the new boom this year, then I vote The 5th Wave as it's leader!'

'I’ll be hand-selling THE 5th WAVE to my students…but I won’t give away my ARC. It’s all mine!'

'Basically, I'm DYING for the second book and the first isn't out yet.'

Oh yes.  This book isn't even out yet and already it's got people goin' insane.  I'm going insane.  This book is...

I am excited about The 5th Wave - I don't know about you!  And if you aren't psyched yet, maybe this will help: The Trailer and a Sample...

The Fifth Wave EXTRACT by Mist Bookaholic

Next on the agenda, Wait For You by the absolutely amazing Jennifer L. Armentrout, author of my very favourite series (Lux) is being published tomorrow!  Now, if you haven't got your hands on a copy of this yet YOU MUST!!!  It is AMAZING!!  I cannot recommend it enough!!  Check out this blurb, cover and recommendations...

Travelling thousands of miles from home to start her college career is the only way nineteen-year-old Avery Morgansten can escape an event that changed her life forever. All she needs to do is keep her head down and get on with putting the past behind her – and the one thing she certainly doesn’t need is the attention of campus heart-throb Cameron Hamilton.

Cam is six feet and three inches of swoon-worthy hotness. Avery knows she needs to stay away from him, but he’s everywhere; dogging her with his charm, his easy banter, and that dimple that's just so… so lickable. Getting involved with him isn’t an option, but neither is ignoring the simmering tension between them.

Cam makes it his mission to break through her defences, but when Avery starts receiving threatening emails and phone calls, she realises it’s only a matter of time before he discovers her secrets. Someone from her past is refusing to let her go. And when the devastating truth comes out, will Cam stick around to help her, or will it all be too much for them both to bear?

‘A wonderful cast of characters that will make you laugh, swoon, and cry. Cam stole my heart.’

Cora Carmack, NYTimes and USA Today bestselling Author of Losing It

‘For the love of all that is Cameron without a shirt on! Wait for You will have you laughing out loud, fanning yourself and anxiously waiting to know what will happen next.’

Molly McAdams, NYTimes and USA Today bestselling Author of From Ashes and Taking Chances

And I'm sure you guys have heard this by now, but Bloomsbury have released the amazing cover of the sequel to Throne of Glass.  I absolutely loved ToG (check out my review: here) and I am totally 100% in love with the cover of Crown of Midnight!  It is beautiful!  

 Oh, I am so in love with it!  And check out the blurb:

Eighteen-year-old Celaena Sardothien is bold, daring and beautiful – the perfect seductress and the greatest assassin her world has ever known. But though she won the King’s contest and became his champion, Celaena has been granted neither her liberty nor the freedom to follow her heart. The slavery of the suffocating salt mines of Endovier that scarred her past is nothing compared to a life bound to her darkest enemy, a king whose rule is so dark and evil it is near impossible to defy. Celaena faces a choice that is tearing her heart to pieces: kill in cold blood for a man she hates, or risk sentencing those she loves to death. Celaena must decide what she will fight for: survival, love or the future of a kingdom. Because an assassin cannot have it all . . . And trying to may just destroy her.

Love or loathe Celaena, she will slice open your heart with her dagger and leave you bleeding long after the last page of the highly anticipated sequel in what is undeniably THE hottest new fantasy series.

Ok, I think that's all for now...  Oh, stop by here on the 28th - I'm taking part in the blog tour of the amazing Heroic by Phil Earle.  I love the book and you guys should all check the tour out!

Well, until next time, The Book Addicted Gossip Girl, out! ;)

The Book Addicted Gossip Girl

Ok, I have a whole load of bookish stuff and news to ramble about now, that you all probably know anyway, but oh well!

I'll start with a trip: I was lucky enough to go to the brilliant HotKey-Templar Blogger's Brunch a little while back.  I got to meet up with loads of amazing bloggers, as well as some of the authors, and also got to find out about all the awesome new books the two publishers are bringing out.

I won't go on and on about them all, cause they both have loads coming out - squee!! - but I'll tell you about a few of my favourites (all links lead to Goodreads' Page).

Templar:

I loved like all of Templar's.  Some are out already, like Me, Suzy P by Karen Saunders (perfect for Louise Rennison fans), Deciet by Deborah White (the sequel to the amazing Wickedness) and Arcadia Burns by Kai Meyer (sequel to Arcadia Awakens, Valentine's Day release - think Romeo&Juliet, just with a Soprano, mafia, magic twist).  Out soon is the amazing Ferryman by Claire McFall - an amazing love story set in the wasteland between life and death.  Amazing.  Then there's the next in the Medusa Girls series by Tera Lynn Childs - cannot wait for that! - as well as the last in her Fins series, Just For Fins and a hilarious book called Call the Shots by Don Calame (Inbetweeners-style humour).  Then there's one of the ones I'm most excited for: Drummer Girl by Bridget Tyler, which is described as "Gossip Girl meets American Idol, meets Glee's evil twin" - could it GET any better?!  And finally, Last Chance Angel by Alex Gutteridge, which looks like the kind of book that will destroy me - in the best way!

Ok, I like literally meant every single book....  Let's see if I can't do any better in the HotKey section...

The book I am most excited about is easy: Vortex by S.J. Kincaid, the second in the totally kick-butt Insignia series.  Why must July be so far away?!?!  My second fave is also not out for a while - but it looks so freaking good that I'm willing to go mad until May to wait to read it.  It is called Transparent and is by Natalie Whipple and is described as X-Men meets Sopranos and I could not be more freaking excited for it!  Squee!  As for all the others, well, there is literally something for everyone.  History lover?  Try The Quietness by Alison Rattle - historical, action-packed, strong social and female right themes.  Like historicals with paranormal twists - check out The Beautiful and the Cursed by Page Morgan - gothic romance, 19th century France, plus gargoyles - or The Ghost Bride by Yangze Choo - a sinister, suspenseful ghost-story revolving around the old Malaysian tradition of marrying the dead.  How bout just plain old paranomals?  Well, look no further than Death & Co by DJ McClane - an epic fantasy with strong modern themes and a boy with a destiny to take dead to the afterlife who just wants to be normal and fall in love.  How about contemps?  Well, there's a whole bunch for you guys: Red Ink by Julie Mayhew - the things we tell our children and ourselves to survive, an emotional crossover about the stages of grief.  Or Friday Brown by Vikkie Wakefield - Australian author, young people on the edge of society, very thought provoking.  Or there's the semi autobiography by Dawn O'Porter - Paper Aeroplances - about growing up in Guernsey, poignant, funny and sad.  Are you a fan of the just plain wacky?  Well, then, The Savages by Matt Whyman is definitely for you - think Addams Family crossed with Sopranos, a black comedy about a family with very different eating habits...

And, dammit, I did it again!!  I am no good at controlling myself!  Oh well.  Onwards and upwards to our next topic:

Lauren Kate's (author of the Fallen series) brand new book's cover - Teardrop.  Isn't it just gorgeous?  What is it with Lauren and getting the most gorgeous covers in the history of ever??!!  Check out the Facebook Page for Lauren! :)

And from one author of an angel series to another: L.A. Weatherly's Angel Fury cover and blurb reveal.  Check it out!!  Plus, Usborne are throwing an awesome comp to celebrate the series' finale: check it out: here!!  To enter, tweet using #IloveAngelTrilogy, and to win, tell Usborne why you love it!  Angel Fury is out October this year. 

I'm going to be taking part in the awesome Geek Girl blog tour this Feb - tomorrow, actally! - if you haven't heard of it, it's an amazing book by Holly Smales, coming out 28th February (published by HarperCollins) so be on the look out for Geeky going-ons soon - you're all going to love this book, trust me!! :)

Now, I'm sure all VA fans have heard by now, but there the official Vampire Academy movie is FINALLY underway and we have our Rose, Lissa and Dimitri!!  It also has a brand spanking new name too: Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters.  And our leading peeps?  Well, Rose is Zoey Deutch (Ringer), Lissa is Lucy Fry (she's Australian and is in a spin-off series of H2O) and Dimitri is Danila Kozlovskiy (he's actually Russian!).   I think Rose is perfect and I think it's really cool there's a Russian guy as Dimka and while I'm not 100% about Lissa, I'm sure she wil be brilliant.  I'm just so excited we finally have people - it's finally underway!!  Excuse me while I go do crazy dancing round my whole freaking house!!! 

Ok, I think that's all the gossip I have for now.  I'm sure I'll come up with more the second I hit 'Post' but ah well.  If you have any tidbits I've missed out, add them in the comments!!  I'm always ready to get up to date of bookish news! :D

Until next time, The Book Addicted Gossip Girl, out. :D