Rogue Wave Giveaway

Rogue Wave Giveaway!

HUZZAH, friends! It’s about that time to get stoked for book 2 in Jennifer Donnelly’s Waterfire Saga by catching up on DEEP BLUE and winning some really pretty nailpolishes to boot in anticipation of the release of ROGUE WAVE on January 6, 2015 from Disney Hyperion!

Book cover Rogue Wave Jennifer Donnelly

 

In this exciting sequel to DEEP BLUE, the mermaids are on an exceedingly important and dangerous quest. Their journey is testing their skills and their friendships, forcing them to grow and take on new challenges, and will alter their lives forever.

Serafina, Neela, Ling, Ava, Becca, and Astrid, six mermaids from realms scattered throughout the seas and freshwaters, were summoned by the leader of the river witches to learn an incredible truth: the mermaids are direct descendants of the Six Who Ruled–powerful mages who once governed the lost empire of Atlantis. The ancient evil that destroyed Atlantis is stirring again, and only the mermaids can defeat it. To do so, they need to find magical talismans that belonged to the Six.

Serafina believes her talisman was buried with an old shipwreck. While researching its location, she is almost discovered by a death rider patrol led by someone familiar. . . . The pain of seeing him turned traitor is devastating.

Neela travels to Matali to warn her parents of the grave threat facing their world.  But they find her story outlandish; a sign that she needs to be confined to her chamber for rest and recovery. She escapes and travels to Kandina, where her talisman is in the possession of fearsome razormouth dragons.

As they hunt for their talismans, both Serafina and Neela find reserves of courage and cunning they didn’t know they possessed. They face down danger and death, only to endure a game-changing betrayal, as shocking as a rogue wave.


 

 

Book cover Deep Blue Jennifer Donnelly

Deep in the ocean, in a world not so different from our own, live the merpeople. Their communities are spread throughout the oceans, seas, and freshwaters all over the globe.

When Serafina, a mermaid of the Mediterranean Sea, awakens on the morning of her betrothal, her biggest worry should be winning the love of handsome Prince Mahdi. And yet Sera finds herself haunted by strange dreams that foretell the return of an ancient evil. Her dark premonitions are confirmed when an assassin’s arrow poisons Sera’s mother. Now, Serafina must embark on a quest to find the assassin’s master and prevent a war between the Mer nations.

Led only by her shadowy dreams, Sera searches for five other mermaid heroines who are scattered across the six seas. Together, they will form an unbreakable bond of sisterhood and uncover a conspiracy that threatens their world’s very existence.

Disney has been wonderful enough to put together a pretty sweet giveaway, which we’ll get to in a second, but also: You guys, there’s A QUIZ. Find out which mermaid you are here! How fun is this?!

So are you guys ready for the giveaway? It’s super! And while you’re at it, you can preorder ROGUE WAVE on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or IndieBound! Get shopping, y’all.

Rogue Wave

 

Look at the pretties! I know you guys want a chance to win these awesome prizes, but there are a few rules: the giveaway is US only and you must be 13 or older to enter. Giveaway runs through December 3, 2014!
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Jennifer DonnellyABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jennifer Donnelly is an award-winning author of both adult and young adult books, including Deep Blue, the first book in the Waterfire Saga. For adults she has written a trilogy of best-selling books that includes The Tea Rose, The Winter Rose, andThe Wild Rose. Her first young adult novel, A Northern Light, received many accolades, among them the Los Angeles TimesBook Prize, a Carnegie Medal in the UK, and a Michael L. Printz Honor. Her second young adult novel, Revolution, was named a Best Book of 2010 by Kirkus Reviews and School Library Journal, and the audiobook received a 2011 American Library Association Odyssey Honor. She lives in New York’s Hudson Valley.
 
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Book Nerds Unite: A Sharing Is Caring Giveaway

Book Nerds Unite!

‘Tis the season…and all that jazz. You know how it goes. The holidays start (earlier and earlier these days) and it is all about giving. Well now it is time for some getting. With the help of 19 other bloggers we bring to you, Book Nerds Unite, a Sharing Is Caring giveaway!

Book Nerds UniteI’m so excited to be participating in this awesome giveaway! Thanks to Andi from Andi’s ABCs for gathering us all up and having this wonderful idea that allows a group of us to offer some high-value prizes to you fabulous folks! (And thanks to Rachel from Hello, Chelly for that adorable graphic!)

It’s pretty easy to enter. Just click on the Rafflecopter link/widget and start following some great bloggers.  For your trouble we are offering a first place prize of $150.00 Amazon or Barnes and Noble gift card and a 2nd place prize of $50.00 Amazon or Barnes and Noble gift card. Really you are the big winner either way, as you get to add some fabulous new blogs to your blog feeds. Good luck!

A few rules, though:

  • Giveaway is US only, alas!
  • It runs from 11/24/14 to 12/11/14.
  • Winners are selected at random.
  • Please don’t mark a blog as followed if you haven’t in fact followed. All entries will be checked, so no shady business, friends! Let’s show off our holiday spirit of fairness, shall we?

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Birthday Giveaway Extravaganza!

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So I haven’t really ever done anything for my birthday on the blog, but I decided to change that this year when I discovered how many AMAZZINGGGG books are coming out on the big day!! (That would be September 2.) Seriously. You guys are going to flip over the bookish goodness coming your way.

Books are always, ALWAYS one of my favorite gifts to give as well as get. Because I love giving books as gifts, I’m going to celebrate my birthday by sharing some of the books I’m most excited about that all happen share their book birthdays with MY birthday. HUZZAHH!! Legit, I want to win my own giveaway. You’ll understand why. In fact, no more lollygagging. Let’s get down to business.

In honor of my birthday, I’m going to be giving ONE lucky winner FINISHED COPIES of the following books. I CANNOT CONTAIN MYSELF.

birthday giveawayHeir of Fire: Throne of Glass #3 by Sarah J. Maas | Trial by Fire: The Worldwalker Trilogy #1 by Josephine Angelini | The Jewel: The Lone City #1 by Amy Ewing

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Zac & Mia by A.J. Betts | Anatomy of a Misfit by Andrea Portes | MARY: The Summoning: Bloody Mary #1 by Hillary Monahan

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I can’t WAIT to give these books away, friends, but just a few rules and regs (I know, I know): You must be 13 to enter, but if Book Depository ships to where you live, ENTER AWAY! This giveaway is INTERNATIONALLLLLL!!! *Oprah voice* You have until midnight on September 9 to enter, so time’s a-wasting!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, books!

Summerfall Teaser

Summerfall (Winterspell # 0.5) • Claire Legrand

Guys, as you might know, I’m incredibly excited about Claire Legrand’s WINTERSPELL, which is coming out on September 30. Nutcracker retelling? STAHP IT. Since we still have some time before WINTERSPELL comes out, though, we get to whet our appetites on a prequel novella, SUMMERFALL. YAY! And because Claire Legrand is awesome, she’s sharing some teasers with us today, the novella’s release day, as well as a chance to win some super fun stuff! So without further ado, here’s some details on SUMMERFALL, as well as your teaser!

Book cover Summerfall Claire Legrand

Rinka is a faery, passionate and powerful, determined to maintain the tenuous peace between faeries and humans.

Alban Somerhart is a human, a reluctant king trapped in an arranged marriage, desperate to prevent war.

Their love could save the kingdom of Cane . . . or shatter it forever.

In this captivating novella, prequel to the upcoming Winterspell, Claire Legrand weaves a story of magic, political intrigue, and forbidden love that sets the stage for the rise of a wicked queen and the journey of a human girl named Clara . . .

Sounds SO GREAT, right?! To keep you all in the know, here’s the cover and synopsis for WINTERSPELL, too!

Book cover Winterspell Claire Legrand

The clock chimes midnight, a curse breaks, and a girl meets a prince . . . but what follows is not all sweetness and sugarplums.

New York City, 1899. Clara Stole, the mayor’s ever-proper daughter, leads a double life. Since her mother’s murder, she has secretly trained in self-defense with the mysterious Drosselmeyer.

Then, on Christmas Eve, disaster strikes.

Her home is destroyed, her father abducted–by beings distinctly nothuman. To find him, Clara journeys to the war-ravaged land of Cane. Her only companion is the dethroned prince Nicholas, bound by a wicked curse. If they’re to survive, Clara has no choice but to trust him, but his haunted eyes burn with secrets–and a need she can’t define. With the dangerous, seductive faery queen Anise hunting them, Clara soon realizes she won’t leave Cane unscathed–if she leaves at all.

Inspired by The NutcrackerWinterspell is a dark, timeless fairy tale about love and war, longing and loneliness, and a girl who must learn to live without fear.

And now…THE TEASER!

Summerfall teaserOOOOH!!! Color me intrigued!

You guys don’t want to miss out on ANY news about Claire’s books, and you certainly don’t want to miss out on SUMMERFALL and WINTERSPELL! Linkage!

CLAIRE’S SOCIAL MEDIA
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Don’t forget to enter the giveaway for some WINTERSPELL swag!

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Adventures Through Awkwardness | Graphic Novel

middle grade challengeAdventures Through Awkwardness: Graphic Novels

Hellooo, friends! I’m stoked about this month’s challenge: graphic novels. WORD. I’m a newbie to graphic novels myself, but I do love them so. This month’s challenge is pretty epic, if I do say so myself. There’s TONS of great graphic novels for kiddos out there, so grab one up and dive in!

You guys know the drill: You can read any middle grade graphic novel during this month. Links to your reviews can be posted in the comments or in the giveaway widget. You can read one or five or however many you want, link up your review and be entered to win one of the graphic novels below!

The Avatar’s adventures continue right where the TV series left off, in this beautiful, oversized hardcover of The Promise, from Airbender creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko! Aang and friends must join together once again as the four nations’ tenuous peace is threatened in an impasse between Fire Lord Zuko and Earth King Kuei! As the world heads toward another devastating war, Aang’s friendship with Zuko throws him into the middle of the conflict! Featuring annotations by Eisner Award-winning writer Gene Luen Yang (American Born Chinese) and artist Gurihiru (Thor and the Warriors Four), and a brand-new sketchbook, this is a story that Avatar fans need in an edition they will love!

An orphan and a thief, Hugo lives in the walls of a busy train station. He desperately believes a broken automation will make his dreams come true. But when his world collides with an eccentric girl and a bitter old man, Hugo’s undercover life, and his most precious secret, are put in jeopardy.

When a young Cleopatra (yes, THAT Cleopatra) finds a mysterious tablet that zaps her to the far, REALLY far future, she learns of an ancient prophecy that says she is destined to save the galaxy from the tyrannical rule of the evil Xaius Octavian. She enrolls in Yasiro Academy, a high-tech school with classes like algebra, biology, and alien languages (which Cleo could do without), and combat training (which is more Cleo’s style). With help from her teacher Khensu, Cleo learns what it takes to be a great leader, while trying to figure out how she’s going to get her homework done, make friends, and avoid detention!

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Book Review + Giveaway | Broken Hearts, Fences, and Other Things to Mend | Katie Finn

Book cover Broken Hearts, Fences, and Other Things to Mend Katie FinnTitle: Broken Hearts, Fences, and Other Things to Mend
Author: Katie Finn (web | twitter)
Series: Broken Hearts & Revenge #1
Genre: Contemporary YA
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Publisher: Feiwel and Friends
Release date: May 13, 2014
Source: ARC from the publisher (Thanks, Feiwel and Friends!)

Summer, boys, and friendships gone sour. This new series has everything that perfect beach reads are made of!

Gemma just got dumped and is devastated. She finds herself back in the Hamptons for the summer—which puts her at risk of bumping into Hallie, her former best friend that she wronged five years earlier. Do people hold grudges that long? 

When a small case of mistaken identity causes everyone, including Hallie and her dreamy brother Josh, to think she’s someone else, Gemma decides to go along with it.

Gemma’s plan is working (she’s finding it hard to resist Josh), but she’s finding herself in embarrassing situations (how could a bathing suit fall apart like that!?). Is it coincidence or is someone trying to expose her true identity? And how will Josh react if he finds out who she is? 

Katie Finn hits all the right notes in this perfect beginning to a new summer series: A Broken Hearts & Revenge novel.

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Giveaway | Deep Blue | Jennifer Donnelly

Deep Blue by Jennifer Donnelly Giveaway!

Book cover Deep Blue Jennifer Donnelly

The first in a series of epic tales set in the depths of the ocean, where six mermaids seek to protect and save their hidden world.

Deep in the ocean, in a world not so different from our own, live the merpeople. Their communities are spread throughout the oceans, seas, and freshwaters all over the globe.

When Serafina, a mermaid of the Mediterranean Sea, awakens on the morning of her betrothal, her biggest worry should be winning the love of handsome Prince Mahdi. And yet Sera finds herself haunted by strange dreams that foretell the return of an ancient evil. Her dark premonitions are confirmed when an assassin’s arrow poisons Sera’s mother.

Now, Serafina must embark on a quest to find the assassin’s master and prevent a war between the Mer nations. Led only by her shadowy dreams, Sera searches for five other mermaid heroines who are scattered across the six seas. Together, they will form an unbreakable bond of sisterhood and uncover a conspiracy that threatens their world’s very existence.

 

Linkage for the book: Goodreads | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | IndieBound | Waterfire Saga 

Linkage for Jennifer Donnelly: Website | Twitter

Linkage for Hyperion Teen: Tumblr | Twitter

Thanks to the awesome people at Disney, I’ve got a pretty sweet giveaway lined up for you guys to celebrate the release of the most excellent Jennifer Donnelly’s new book, DEEP BLUE, the first book in the new Waterfire Saga series! HUZZAH!

First of all, look at how awesome this prize pack is!

Deep Blue Jennifer Donnelly prize pack

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Couple things: There are TWO prize packs–TWO!–in this giveaway, so there’s double the chance that you could be the lucky winner! Well, you could be one of two lucky winners as long as you live in the US and are 13 or over. THEN you have double the chance to win. Which is awesome!

Jennifer Donnelly

ABOUT JENNIFER DONNELLY

Jennifer Donnelly is an award-winning author of both adult and young adult books, including Deep Blue, the first book in the Waterfire Saga. For adults she has written a trilogy of best-selling books that includes The Tea Rose, The Winter Rose, and The Wild Rose. Her first young adult novel, A Northern Light, received many accolades, among them the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Carnegie Medal in the UK, and a Michael L. Printz Honor. Her second young adult novel, Revolution, was named a Best Book of 2010 by Kirkus Reviews and School Library Journal, and the audiobook received a 2011 American Library Association Odyssey Honor. She lives in New York’s Hudson Valley.

Book Review + Giveaway: Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo

Book cover for Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo

Title: Siege and Storm
Author: Leigh Bardugo (web | twitter)
Series: The Grisha Trilogy #2
Genre: Fantasy YA
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Publisher: Henry Holt
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Source: Borrowed an ARC from Tara

Summary: Hunted across the True Sea, haunted by the lives she took on the Fold, Alina must try to make a life with Mal in an unfamiliar land. She finds starting new is not easy while keeping her identity as the Sun Summoner a secret. She can’t outrun her past or her destiny for long.
The Darkling has emerged from the Shadow Fold with a terrifying new power and a dangerous plan that will test the very boundaries of the natural world. With the help of a notorious privateer, Alina returns to the country she abandoned, determined to fight the forces gathering against Ravka. But as her power grows, Alina slips deeper into the Darkling’s game of forbidden magic, and farther away from Mal. Somehow, she will have to choose between her country, her power, and the love she always thought would guide her–or risk losing everything to the oncoming storm.

 

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Book Review + Giveaway | The Raven Boys | Maggie Stiefvater

I received this book for free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

Book Review + Giveaway | The Raven Boys | Maggie StiefvaterThe Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
Series: The Raven Cycle #1
Published by Scholastic on September 18, 2012
Genres: Paranormal YA, Urban Fantasy YA, Young Adult
Pages: 409
Format: ARC
Also in this series: The Dream Thieves, Blue Lily, Lily Blue
Also by this author: The Dream Thieves, Blue Lily, Lily Blue
Source: the publisher
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There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.”

It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.

Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.

His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.

But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.

For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.

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Book Review + Giveaway: The Other Normals by Ned Vizzini

Book cover for The Other Normals by Ned Vizzini

Title: The Other Normals

Author: Ned Vizzini

Genre: Fantasy YA, Contemporary YA, gaming

Publisher: Balzer + Bray

Release date: September 25, 2012

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Source: ARC from the publisher

Summary: The Other Normals centers on 15-year-old Peregrine “Perry” Eckert, who’s seriously obsessed with an uber-dorky role-playing game called Creatures & Caverns. Concerned about his stunted social skills and need for fresh air, Perry’s parents decide to ship him off to summer camp to become a man. He anticipates the worst summer of his life until he arrives at camp and stumbles into the World of the Other Normals, a place where his nerdy childhood may serve him well — but not without connecting with the real world first.

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