Blood,Sweat and Books

Let's talk about Zombie books. Lately, I've noticed that while more zombie books are being produced, I don't necessarily have the urge to hunt down each one and read it. Yes, I love the genre but you can only see the same story over and over again before the pattern becomes redundant. So naturally, that means I search a bit harder and longer these days to find something really special to sink my teeth into or share with you all. In Billy Phillips’ “Once Upon a Zombie”, a terrible curse has been cast upon classic fairy tale characters and their respective worlds, transforming all within into the walking dead. However, despite all that comes with being undead these princesses aren't going down easily and with the help of a girl named Caitlyn it’s time for these Zombie Princesses to Rise, Empower, and Claim Their World Back! Why I'm Waiting: Did you not read the description above?! This story definitely puts a unique spin on the traditional zombie apocalypse a...

Welcome to my stop on the Young Adult Giveaway Hop  , hosted by Book Hounds. This year I'm going to keep things fairly simple and let the winner pick whichever book they want. However, because this is a hop about the Young Adult books we love, I do have a couple recommendations in mind to share with you all. All covers linked to Goodreads for your convenience. Twelve years ago Stella and Jeanie vanished while picking strawberries. Stella returned minutes later, with no memory of what happened. Jeanie was never seen or heard from again. Now Stella is seventeen, and she's over it. She's the lucky one who survived, and sure, the case is still cloaked in mystery—and it's her small town's ugly legacy—but Stella is focused on the coming summer. She's got a great best friend, a hookup with an irresistibly crooked smile, and two months of beach days stretching out before her. Then along comes a corpse, a little girl who washes up in an ancient cemetery after ...

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly blog post hosted by  Breaking The Spine  where readers showcase which books they are highly anticipating. This week I'm turning my spotlight on Into the Dim by Janet B. Taylor.  Expected Publication: March 1, 2016 from HMH Books “Seventy-two hours, then we have to be back at the clearing. Sunrise on the third day.”  Being “the homeschooled girl,” in a small town, Hope Walton’s crippling phobias and photographic memory don’t help her fit in with her adoptive dad’s perfectly blonde Southern family. But when her mother is killed in a natural disaster thousands of miles from home, Hope’s secluded world crumbles. After an aunt she’s never met invites her to spend the summer in Scotland, Hope discovers that her mother was more than a brilliant academic. She’s a member of a secret society of time travelers, and is actually trapped in the twelfth century in the age of King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Now Hope must conqu...

Book Trailer Tuesday is a Weekly Blog Post hosted by me at Blood Sweat and Books. Each week I choose two Book Trailers to showcase. One Trailer will be for an upcoming book and the other will be one that has already been released. This week I focus my spotlight on Survive the Night by Danielle Vega and After the Red Rain by Barry Lyga, Peter Facinelli & Rob DeFranco. Available Now: Survive the Night by Danielle Vega Julie lies dead and disemboweled in a dank, black subway tunnel, red-eyed rats nibbling at her fingers. Her friends think she’s just off with some guy—no one could hear her getting torn apart over the sound of pulsing music. In a tunnel nearby, Casey regrets coming to Survive the Night, the all-night underground rave in the New York City subway. Her best friend Shana talked her into it, even though Casey just got out of rehab. Alone and lost in the dark, creepy tunnels, Casey doesn’t think Survive the Night could get any worse . . . . . . until sh...

Samples & prizing were provided by Disney-Hyperion. From the minds of horror geniuses Guillermo del Toro and Daniel Kraus comes a new illustrated novel about the fears that move in unseen places. Purchase Trollhunters: "You are food. Those muscles you flex to walk, lift, and talk? They're patties of meat topped with chewy tendon. That skin you've paid so much attention to in mirrors? It's delicious to the right tongues, a casserole of succulent tissue. And those bones that give you the strength to make your way in the world? They rattle between teeth as the marrow is sucked down slobbering throats. These facts are unpleasant but useful. There are things out there, you see, that don't cower in holes to be captured by us and cooked over our fires. These things have their own ways of trapping their kills, their own fires, their own appetites." Jim Sturges is your typical teen in suburban San Bernardino— one with an embarrassingly overprotective ...

Author: Michela Montgomery Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller Publisher: Post Hill Press Publication: April 7, 2015 When a nuclear war devastates the U.S., a four-day excursion quickly turns into a fight for survival in The Cave. Six Stanford students journey into one of the deepest and longest caves in North America. A day into their journey, a nuclear war begins from within the U.S. Unable to return to the surface, and unsure what they will find when they do, the Cave will test the strength and survival of each person differently - transforming six individuals into a team, and ultimately...a family. Review OK, I'm gonna be pretty honest here, it's been months since I've read this one so my memory is a bit shaky when it comes to the tiny details. However, I certainly remember enough to review it with confidence so here goes: First off, I love, loved, loved the premise. A spelunking trip gone wrong might not be the most original idea but when paired wit...

It's time for another edition of Freebie Friday! Each week I compile a list of books that I've found for FREE and share them with all of you! All you have to do is click on the title and it will take you to the purchase page for that book. Unless noted all books are first in the series. Young Adult (Science Fiction,Fantasy) Edgewood by Karen McQuestion [ Purchase ] The night Russ Becker witnesses a strange astronomical event, his world changes forever. Before long Russ discovers he's developed incredible superpowers, and he’s not the only one. Three other young people—beautiful Mallory, arrogant Jameson, and mysterious Nadia—have had the same experience and all of them now have powers of their own. Mallory can control peoples’ minds, Jameson moves objects with his thoughts, and Nadia has empathic abilities. At first the four relish their newfound gifts, but things become serious when they learn they are being hunted by an organization that wants them for its...