My Expanding Bookshelf

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimberly of  Caffeinated Book Reviewer . It’s a chance to share  news . A post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things we have received. Share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.

Title: Please, Pretty Lights Series: Pretty Lights Series #1 Author: Ina Zajac Published: 21/07/2014, Booktrope Pages: 340 Source: Netgalley Format: Ebook Rating: 4/5 It's September when good girl Via Sorenson stumbles into a Seattle strip club, drunk and alone on her twenty-first birthday. Matt and Nick - best friends, bandmates, and bouncers - do their best to shield her from their sadistic cocaine-trafficking boss, Carlos. They don't realize her daddy issues come with a forty-million-dollar trust fund and a legacy she would do anything to escape. She is actually Violetta Rabbotino, who had been all over the news ten years earlier when her father, an acclaimed abstract artist, came home in a rage, murdered her mother, then turned the gun on himself. Young Violetta was spared, hidden behind the family Christmas tree, veiled by the mysticism of its pretty lights whose unadulterated love captivated and calmed her. Now, desperate to shed her role as orphaned victim, Vi...

Title: The Duff Author: Kody Keplinger Published: 25/02/2015, Hodder Children's Books Pages: 341 Source: Bought Format: Paperback Rating: 4/5 Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper is cynical and loyal, and she doesn't think she's the prettiest of her friends by a long shot. She's also way too smart to fall for the charms of man-slut and slimy school hottie Wesley Rush. in fact, Bianca hates him. And when he nicknames her "Duffy", she throws her Coke in his face. But things aren't so great at home right now. Desperate for a distraction, Bianca ends up kissing Wesley. And likes it. Eager for escape, she throws herself into a closeted enemies-with-benefits relationship with Wesley. Until it all goes horribly awry. It turns out that Wesley isn't such a bad listener, and his life is pretty screwed up, too. Suddenly Bianca realizes with absolute horror that she's falling for the guy she thought she hated more than anyone.

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimberly of  Caffeinated Book Reviewer . It’s a chance to share  news . A post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things we have received. Share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.

Title: The Loneliness of Distant Beings Author: Kate Ling Published: 19/05/2016, Little Brown Books for Young Readers Pages: 320 Source: Netgalley Format: Ebook Rating: 2/5 "It is that quick, it is that strong, it is that beautiful. And it is also totally impossible." Even though she knows it's impossible, Seren longs to have the sunshine on her skin. It's something she feels she needs to stay sane. But when you're floating through space at thousands of kilometres an hour, sometimes you have to accept there are things you cannot change. Except that the arrival of Dom in her life changes everything in ways she can barely comprehend. For a while he becomes the Sun for her; and she can't barely help but say in his orbit. Being with him flaunts every rule designed to keep their home in order, but to lose him would be like losing herself. In the end they must decide what is most important: loyalty to the only home they've ever known, or to each other?...

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by  The Broke and The Bookish . This week's topic is ten books I picked up on a whim.

I have seen the Intimidating TBR Pile Tag floating around now for quite a while (including on Sarah's Chapter and Ariel Bissett's Channel on Booktube to name a couple) and thought it would be really cool to give it a go. you never know it might just persuade me to tackle my pile.

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimberly of  Caffeinated Book Reviewer . It’s a chance to share  news . A post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things we have received. Share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.

Title: The Reflections of Queen Snow White Author: David Meredith Published: 02/10/2013, David Meredith Pages: 155 Source: David Meredith, in exchange for an honest review Format: Ebook Rating: 3/5 What happens when "happily ever after" has come and gone? On the eve of her only daughter, Princess Raven's wedding, an aging Snow White finds it impossible to share in the joyous spirit of the occasion. The ceremony itself promises to be the most glamorous social event of the decade. Snow White's castle has been meticulously scrubbed, polished and opulently decorated for the celebration. It is already nearly bursting with jubilant guests and merry well-wishers. Prince Edel, Raven's fiance, is a fine man from a neighboring kingdom and Snow White's own domain is prosperous and at peace. Things could not be better, in fact, except for one thing: The king is dead. The queen has been in a moribund state of hopeless depression for over a year with no end in sig...

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by  The Broke and The Bookish . This week's topic is ten non-bookish websites I waste a lot of time on. I moslty waste time on bookish websites, this is the few non-bookish ones I've been wasting my time on recently...

Title: The Last Days of Summer Author: Vanessa Ronan Published: 05/05/2016, Penguin Pages: 384 Source: Netgalley Format: Ebook Rating: 3.5/5 She can forgive. They can't forget. After ten years in the Hunstville State Penitentiary, Jasper Curtis returns home to live with his sister and her two daughters. Lizzie does not know who she's letting into her home: the brother she grew up loving or the monster he became. Teenage Katie distrusts this strange man in their home but eleven-year-old Joanne is just intrigued by her new uncle. Jasper says he's all done with trouble, but in a forgotten prairie town that knows no forgiveness, it does not take long for trouble to arrive at their door.

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimberly of  Caffeinated Book Reviewer . It’s a chance to share  news . A post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things we have received. Share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.

Title: The Square Root of Summer Author: Harriet Reuter Hapgood Published: 03/05/2016, MacMillan Children's Books Pages: 336 Source: Netgalley Format: Ebook Rating: 3/5 This is what it means to love someone. This is what it means to grieve someone. It's a little bit like a black hole. It's a little bit like infinity. Gottie H. Oppenheimer is losing time. Literally. When the fabric of the universe around her seaside town begins to fray, she's hurtled through wormholes to her past: To last summer, when her grandfather Grey died. To the afternoon she fell in love with Jason, who wouldn't even hold her hand at the funeral. To the day her best friend Thomas moved away and left her behind with a scar on her hand and a black hole in her memory. Although Grey is still gone, Jason and Thomas are back, and Gottie's past, present and future are about to collide - and someone's heart is about to be broken. With time travel, quantum physics, and sweeping romanc...

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by  The Broke and The Bookish . This week's topic is ten childhood characters I'd love to revisit as adults.

Title: Wild Swans Author: Jessica Spotswood Published: 03/05/2016, Sourcebooks Fire Pages:304 Source: Netgalley Format: Ebook Rating: 3/5 The summer before Ivy's senior year is going to be golden; all bonfires, barbeques, and spending time with her best friends. For once, she will just get to be. No summer classes, none of Granddad's intense expectations to live up to the family name. For generations, the Milbourn women have lead extraordinary lives - and died young and tragically. Granddad calls it a legacy, but Ivy considers it a curse. Why else would her mother have run off and abandoned her child? Nut when her mother unexpectedly returns home with two young daughters in tow, all of the stories Ivy wove to protect her heart start to unravel. The very people she once trusted now speak in lies. And all of Ivy's ambition and determination cannot defend her against the secrets of the Milbourn past...

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimberly of  Caffeinated Book Reviewer . It’s a chance to share  news . A post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things we have received. Share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.