Stacking the Shelves

Ok and here is the make up Stacking the Shelves post accompanied by a new logo! Enjoy and let me know what you think and what books found their way to your shelves in the comments below!

Allegiant

Big huge shout out thank you and bear hugs to my awesomesauce friend Corben to letting me borrow his copy! I am a kinda a Divergent series and Veronica Roth fangirl so naturally I am MEGA excited to read the next book! I will let this gif sum up my feelings about this...

Add it on Goodreads and buy it through Liberty Bay Books by clicking the hyper-linked title!

Teaser...Sunday?

As you may have read in my earlier post/rant I am so sorry that I completely spaced this weeks memes so I am making today a make up day and posting a Teaser Tuesday post and a Stacking the Shelves post today and then I will continue on with the memes as scheduled. So here is Teaser...Sunday? Enjoy!

"Now George, spindly legs flying, is running out the door, wearing nothing but Superman underpants, with Duff angrily brandishing the phone as though it's a weapon, careening after him...We stand in the driveway with Jase kissing me as though the fact that Harry is making vomiting noises and Duff is about to kill George doesn't matter at all."-pg.268 My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick

Add it on Goodreads and buy it through Liberty Bay Books by clicking => My Life Next Door.

My Mind is Slowly Decaying

I have officially decided that my mind must be slowly decaying or something because I have just totally lost my grip on everything in my life this past week and that just seems the only logical explanation. My room has suddenly turned into the aftermath of a war zone, clothing, markers and other assorted crap litter virtually every square inch of my floor. But now that I think about it it kinda always looks like that. I completely, utterly, spaced both this week's Teaser Tuesday post and Stacking The Shelves post. I'm so sorry about that and again have no logical excuse or explanation other than that my mind must be slowly decaying. And, I had two just flat out emotional break downs, one over a pie. A PIE! I am officially certain that my mind is for sure slowly yet surely decaying. So, one big apology to ya'll and my family and a big thank you for putting up with my madness. Today I will post both a Teaser Tuesday post and a Stacking the Shelves post. And I will try my hardest to remember to post both on time this coming Tuesday and Saturday. I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving weekend and have a wonderful week!

Landry Park

Landry Park

by Bethany Hagen

ORDER, ELEGANCE, PROSPERITY.

The words might as well be branded on seventeen-year-old Madeline Landry herself. Here in the future United States, ruled by the lavish gentry, very little is left to choice--and even less is left to Madeline. Gentry decorum and Madeline's domineering father insist that she must marry, like a good Landry woman, and run the family estate. But as she steps outside the decadent walls of her world, Madeline begins to question everything she has ever learned. In her desperation, she turns to the only person who seems to understand: handsome, beguiling avid Dana.

Soon, rumors of war and rebellion start to spread, and Madeline finds herself and David at the center of it all. Ultimately, she must make a choice between her duty--the family and estate she loves dearly--and her desire. 

This book had me all over the place to be honest. At first I outright hated it. I could not get past the entire premise for the book, the fact that in the future we decided to go back and repeat the past. Rebuilding society as something straight out of a historic fiction novel, balls, debuts, caste system, gentry, girls not going to university but instead being expected to marry and carry on the family line and all that crap. It is so illogical to go back to an entirely different way of life from an entirely different period of time from so long ago. That just doesn't make sense. And that drove me absolutely bonkers until I realized reading this book was going to be torture and I would never finish it if I didn't find a way to just look past that and accept it even though I didn't agree with it. So I pushed that to the side and kept reading and somehow I fell in love. The characters and setting a vivid and the book was filled with all this crazy powerful emotion. The main characters were appropriately balanced with enough flaws to make them realistic but enough good characteristics to make them lovable. I felt that the character development was handled fairly well. However, the plot on the other hand was far far far from being handled well and that was truly disappointing. There was all this rising action and it just kept rising and rising and rising and yeah it helped flesh out and build the relationships but it was way too much rising action for the amount of falling and plot twists and climaxes ect. that there was. It didn't hit the climax until the very last second and then it was all happily ever after the end. The end was no grand cliff hanger, there was pretty much no falling action. mini climaxes that could have been thrown in weren't really there and it took forever for anything big to happen then it was like revolution had begun and was over in a nano-second. So as lovely as the characters were and the whole idea behind the story was, the terrible plot just threw all that in the trash. The writers voice and syntax, diction, tone, imagery, and all that stuff was decent enough but that plot issue overwhelmed that too. So, while it was still an enjoyable read if you could let the plot issue and the illogical parts of it go, it was not so great as a whole when you take all that stuff into account. It is still a decent read though and I have read worse books so I wouldn't let any of this stop you from reading it because, like I said before, it can still be an entertaining read if you don't let those technicalities stop you. I give it a solid 2.5 stars. You can add it on Goodreads here and buy it through Liberty Bay Books by clicking on the Hyper-linked title. 

Teaser Tuesday

 Today is my third Teaser Tuesday and the teasers will be once again from The Hit by Melvin Burgess! I hope you enjoy and feel free to join in on the fun! Comment below with a link to your Teaser Tuesday post or even if you don't post Teaser Tuesdays on your blog share what you would post in the comments below!

"She threw her back her head and laughed, then gazed sadly at Adam. He knew--he thought he knew-- what she was thinking: that he wasn't going to get over anything."-pg.196 The Hit by Melvin Burgess

*Quotes were taken from an uncorrected proof and may be subject to change*

Add it on Goodreads and buy it from Liberty Bay Books by clicking the title:The Hit.

Stacking The Shelves #4

It's Saturday! Time for yet another Stacking the Shelves, magic number 4! I am changing up the formatting a little but this time and I'm sorry to say it will be very short and sweet and a whole lot like last week's but never the less I hope you enjoy!

Amber House: Neverwas
by Kelly Moore, Tucker Reed and Larkin Reed

Things are very different--better--for Sarah and her family: her Aunt Maggie grew up; her parents are happily married; her grandmother died after a long, productive and respected life. But other things are different too, and not for the better. Sarah must figure out what has changed, and why, and how she can fix it--how she can find her way to another otherwhen.

I got this as an ARC from Liberty Bay Books again not realizing it was the 2nd book in a sequence.  So here I am again all enticed by this synopsis only to find that I have to read the first book first. Never the less I am excited to get a start on this book and can't wait to tell you all about what I thought. 

Add it on Goodreads and buy it through Liberty Bay Books by clicking on the hyper-linked title.

Teaser Tuesday

It is already yet another teaser tuesday! Crazy, I know. Well here goes! Enjoy another teaser from The Hit by Melvin Burgess.
" ' Will I see you again? Let me see you again.' " -p.243 The Hit by Melvin Burgess
*Quotes are from an uncorrected proof and may be subject to change*