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Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly blog post hosted by Breaking The Spine . For this week's Waiting On Wednesday I chose *drumroll* Insomnia by J.R. Johansson Author: J.R. Johansson Page Count: 360 Publisher: Flux Expected Publication: June 8,2013 It’s been four years since I slept, and I suspect it is killing me. Instead of sleeping, Parker Chipp enters the dream of the last person he’s had eye contact with. He spends his nights crushed by other people’s fear and pain, by their disturbing secrets—and Parker can never have dreams of his own. The severe exhaustion is crippling him. If nothing changes, Parker could soon be facing psychosis and even death. Then he meets Mia. Her dreams, calm and beautifully uncomplicated, allow him blissful rest that is utterly addictive. Parker starts going to bizarre lengths to catch Mia’s eye every day. Everyone at school thinks he’s gone over the edge, even his best friend. And when Mia is threatened by a true stalker, everyone thinks i...

Author: Melanie Karsak Page Count: 394 Series: The Harvesting #1 Publication Date: September 18, 2012 It's all fun and games until someone ends up undead. Though Layla reluctantly returns home to rural Hamletville after a desperate call from her psychic grandmother, she could never have anticipated the horror of what Grandma Petrovich has foreseen. The residents of Hamletville will need Layla's help if they are to survive the zombie apocalypse that's upon them. But that is not the only problem. With mankind silenced, it soon becomes apparent that we were never alone. As the beings living on the fringe seek to reclaim power, Layla must find a way to protect the ones she loves or all humanity may be lost. Review: I knew within the first few pages that The Harvesting would be a good book. Strong protagonist check, zombies check, not just one but two hot guys surviving the end of the world check x2, however, I wasn't prepared for how mind blowing this book w...

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 will be spotlighting Shadowlands by Kate Brian and What The Spell by Brittany Geragotelis Available Now: Shadowlands by Kate Brian Rory Miller had one chance to fight back and she took it. Rory survived… and the serial killer who attacked her escaped. Now that the infamous Steven Nell is on the loose, Rory must enter the witness protection with her father and sister, Darcy, leaving their friends and family without so much as a goodbye. Starting over in a new town with only each other is unimaginable for Rory and Darcy. They were inseparable as children, but now they can barely stand each other. As the sisters settle in to Juniper Landing, a picturesque vacation island, it seems like their new home may be just the fresh start they need. They...

It's time for another Mash-Up Monday. So what is Mash-Up Monday you ask?? Well Mash-Up Monday is when you take two books that really have nothing in common and Mash them up to create an entirely different book. Sounds simple enough right? This week I'll be Mashing up Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov and A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Now for this week's questions?? Have you read any of the books mentioned above? Which books would you mash together to create Dangerous Liaisons? Why? Leave your answers in the comments below, I love reading your responses. Want to learn more about the books mentioned above? Click below: Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Well that about wraps up this weeks Mash-Up Monday. If you like what you see please share, Thanks if you do. Have a suggestion for a Book you'd like to see mashed up

Pre-Order: Amazon / Barnes&Noble / The Book Depository Blurred (Kissed by Death #2) by Tara Fuller Expected Release: July 2,2013 Cash is haunted by things. Hungry, hollow things. They only leave him alone when Anaya, Heaven’s beautiful reaper, is around. Cash has always been good with girls, but Anaya isn’t like the others. She’s dead. And with his deteriorating health, Cash might soon be as well. Anaya never breaks the rules, but the night of the fire she recognized part of Cash’s soul—and doomed him to something worse than death. Cash’s soul now resides in an expired body, making him a shadow walker—a rare, coveted being that can walk between worlds. A being creatures of the underworld would do anything to get their hands on. The lines between life and death are blurring, and Anaya and Cash find themselves falling helplessly over the edge. Trapped in a world where the living don’t belong, can Cash make it out alive? Win the very first Arc of Blurred!! a Rafflecopter gi...

Gateway to Reality by Becca J. Campbell Expected Release: March 2013 Talented artists shouldn't be waiting tables, scraping by, and living mediocre lives. But that’s exactly what art school graduate Wes Teague is doing. Then he wakes from a bizarre dream, haunted by the sense that his life isn't real. A harrowing truth presents itself--the real world lies in his dreams, not when he's wide awake. The dream world he enters each night is rich and vibrant. Chicago appears the same on the surface, but chaos runs rampant as gravity, physics, and other laws of nature become fluid, changing unexpectedly. There, Wes's parents, brother, and sister are strangers. His girlfriend Emily doesn’t recognize him. Suddenly Wes longs to return, to unlearn the truth about his dual reality. Wes would sacrifice almost anything to get back to blissful ignorance in a false world. But now he has feelings for the real Emily. Author Bio & Links An avid lover of stories that tipto...

Author: Aimee Carter Publisher: Harlequin Teen Page Count: 92 Series: The Goddess Test 1.5 Publication Date: March 1, 2012 A vacation in Greece sounds like the perfect way for Kate Winters to spend her first sabbatical away from the Underworld...until she gets caught up in an immortal feud going back millennia. Castor and Pollux have been on the run from Zeus and Hades' wrath for centuries, hiding from the gods who hunt them. The last person they trust is Kate, the new Queen of the Underworld. Nevertheless, she is determined to help their cause. But when it comes to dealing with immortals, Kate still has a lot to learn... Review: The Goddess Hunt takes place in the time between The Goddess Test and The Goddess Interrupted. Kate is on her 6 month leave from the underworld and is traveling Greece with her best friend James. Detouring from their tour group in Greece, James and Kate stumble across the Gemini twins themselves Pollux & Castor. If the names don't so...