Thursday, April 30, 2015

Time to Talkback: Review on The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen


The Authors had their time to talk now it's Time to Talkback. This gives me the chance to review the book or books I have been reading. Now I'm all for a honest review and at times I can be a bit harsh with some of the judgements I voice, as far as book go. But it has nothing to do with the author(s) for without them what would my imagination be (goodness help us all). It is just my own opinion, constructive criticism (I say) and I just want to state it as so many of us sometimes do. Good or Bad, I am always thankful for the books I read and the author(s) who wrote them. So, welcome to Talkback and here to a honest review.

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Book Blitz: An Ember in The Ashes


I am so excited that AN EMBER IN THE ASHES by Sabaa Tahir releases today and that I get to share the news, along with a special introduction from Sabaa herself! If you haven’t yet heard about this wonderful book by Author Sabaa Tahir, be sure to check out all the details below.

This blitz also includes a giveaway for a signed copies of the book and some of those awesome sword letter openers we’ve seen around courtesy of Sabaa, Penguin Teen, and Rockstar Book Tours. So if you’d like a chance to win, enter in the Rafflecopter at the bottom of this post.

Waiting on Wednesday: April 29th,2015 (9)


Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly feature hosted at Breaking The Spine that spotlights those can't-wait-to-get-my-hands-on-them books that we are eagerly awaiting!

Coming out on May 5th, 2015 is The Heir by Kiera Cass.

*Blogger Note- This was my one of my most anticipated releases of 2015. Super excited to read this book.*

Monday, April 27, 2015

Coming In May 2015


Title: The Heir
Author: Kiera Cass
Series: The Selection #4

Publication date: May 5th, 2015

Title: Rise
Author: Amanda Sun
Series: Paper Gods #2.5
Publication date: May 1st, 2015

Bookmark Monday (2)


Bookmark Monday hosted by Guiltless Reading is a meme where you share your favorite bookmarks that you currently own or perhaps would like to own every Monday. Just take a picture and post that simple.

These cute Harry Potter Bookmarks can be found on Esty made by DreamingAlice. The perfect bookmark to keep your place and represent your Hogwart's house as well. I had to order all four, being a lover of the series.

Saturday, April 25, 2015

Stacking the Shelves (8)

Stacking the Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in a physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts, and of course ebooks!

If you want to find out more about Stacking The Shelves, please visit the Tynga's Reviews official launch page!

Thursday, April 23, 2015

Working on Organizating My Blog

*I have start this Challenge this month and have been trying new templates and outlines for my blog. Changing out headers and designs trying to find something that fits my own personally and uniqueness, expanding my imagination and brighten up my blog to make a more appealing place to come and write my own thoughts down about the books I have been reading and reviewing. So thank you followers for putting up with my changes and dealing with my constant remodeling of my site. If you would like to join this challenge the information is below.*


The Book Blogger Organization Challenge hosted by The Book Addicts is a challenge for the book blogger. Blogging can be quite a project and at times is very complex and at times complicated to understand. This challenge is to fix your blog make it easier to understand and more organizated in the process.  I will put helpful tips and tricks that I learn through out this challenge below just in case you would like to try some of them for yourself.

The Book Addicts have scheduled this challenge to run from January 1st, 2015 to June 30th, 2015. They have listed each month giving you easy thing to maintain or change on your blog. This challenge will allow you to work on your blog making it into the kind of post you and your followers will want to read. Learn more at The Book Addicts.

  • APRIL: Graphics, HTML, CSS, Plug-ins
Update graphics for posts/memes/events, update button, update header
Learn Photoshop/Gimp/PicMonkey
Brush up or try to learn simple HTML and CSS (for layouts, fonts, etc). Take this month to delve into the scary world of coding! (Or at least teach yourself one new thing!)

Tips & Tricks


I am going to give you all a secret... Ro Little. She is a blog design who has created a series of videos to help you with your blog or even making a blog. It is called How to design a Blog. She walks you through everything with simple and easy steps. Using both Blogger and Wordpress, she will help you understand the world of css and html. She helped me out so much I actually bought a membership even through most of her videos are free and setting up a blog is all explained. I recommend her to every blogger, weather it is book blogging, movie blogging, video gaming, fashion, whatever. Just check her out.

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Waiting on Wednesday: April 22nd, 2015 (8)


Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly feature hosted at Breaking The Spine that spotlights those can't-wait-to-get-my-hands-on-them books that we are eagerly awaiting!

Coming out on July 14th, 2015 is Armada by Ernest Cline.

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Time to Talkback: Review on Chimera by Vaun Murphrey


The Authors had their time to talk now it's Time to Talkback. This gives me the chance to review the book or books I have been reading. Now I'm all for a honest review and at times I can be a bit harsh with some of the judgements I voice, as far as book go. But it has nothing to do with the author(s) for without them what would my imagination be (goodness help us all). It is just my own opinion, constructive criticism (I say) and I just want to state it as so many of us sometimes do. Good or Bad, I am always thankful for the books I read and the author(s) who wrote them. So, welcome to Talkback and here to a honest review.

Monday, April 20, 2015

Bookmark Monday (1)


Bookmark Monday hosted by Guiltless Reading is a meme where you share your favorite bookmarks that you currently own or perhaps would like to own every Monday. Just take a picture and post that simple.

Saturday, April 18, 2015

Stacking the Shelves (7)

Stacking the Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in a physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts, and of course ebooks!

If you want to find out more about Stacking The Shelves, please visit the Tynga's Reviews official launch page!

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Waiting on Wednesday: April 15th, 2015 (7)


Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly feature hosted at Breaking The Spine that spotlights those can't-wait-to-get-my-hands-on-them books that we are eagerly awaiting!

Coming out on April 28th, 2015 is Rook by Sharon Cameron.

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Time to Talkback: Review on All Fall Down by Ally Carter


The Authors had their time to talk now it's Time to Talkback. This gives me the chance to review the book or books I have been reading. Now I'm all for a honest review and at times I can be a bit harsh with some of the judgements I voice, as far as book go. But it has nothing to do with the author(s) for without them what would my imagination be (goodness help us all). It is just my own opinion, constructive criticism (I say) and I just want to state it as so many of us sometimes do. Good or Bad, I am always thankful for the books I read and the author(s) who wrote them. So, welcome to Talkback and here to a honest review.

Monday, April 13, 2015

Stacking the Shelves (6)


Stacking the Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in a physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts, and of course ebooks!

If you want to find out more about Stacking The Shelves, please visit the Tynga's Reviews official launch page!

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Waiting on Wednesday: April 8th, 2015 (6)


Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly feature hosted at Breaking The Spine that spotlights those can't-wait-to-get-my-hands-on-them books that we are eagerly awaiting!

Coming out on April 14th, 2015 is Forged (Taken #3) by Erin Bowman.

Title: Forged
Author: Erin Bowman
Series: Taken #3 
Author Info: Website | Twitter | Goodreads
Age Group: Young Adult
Genre Type: Sci-Fiction, Dystopia 
Publication date: April 14th, 2015
Publisher:  HarperTeen
Gray Weathersby and his group of rebels must make their final stand in the epic conclusion to the Taken trilogy, which New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu called "an action-packed thrill ride from beginning to end."

The Order is building an unstoppable army, with every generation of Forgeries harder to detect and deadlier than the one before. It’s time for Gray and his fellow rebels to end the Order's world of lies. But when the most familiar faces—and even the girl he loves—can’t be trusted, Gray will have to tread carefully if he wants to succeed. Or survive.

Saturday, April 4, 2015

Time to Talkback: Review on Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson


The Authors had their time to talk now it's Time to Talkback. This gives me the chance to review the book or books I have been reading. Now I'm all for a honest review and at times I can be a bit harsh with some of the judgements I voice, as far as book go. But it has nothing to do with the author(s) for without them what would my imagination be (goodness help us all). It is just my own opinion, constructive criticism (I say) and I just want to state it as so many of us sometimes do. Good or Bad, I am always thankful for the books I read and the author(s) who wrote them. So, welcome to Talkback and here to a honest review.

Title: Steelheart
Author: Brandon Sanderson
Series: Reckoners #1
Author Info: Website | Twitter | Goodreads
Age Group: Young Adult
Genre Type: Fantasy, Science-Fiction
Publication date: September 23rd 2014
Publisher: Ember
Format: Paperback
Pages:  384 pages
Source: Prize/Give Away
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Brandon Sanderson, author of the internationally best-selling Mistborn trilogy, brings an incredible tale where evil rules all in chaos and destruction. Steelheart is a wonder Sci-fi Dystopian, with fast-paced action and surprises. It's a wild, energetic read with characters that are expertly drawn, assassinations, gunfights, superheroes, villains, romance, hope, and lost. Sanderson creates a thrilling journey giving wonderful characters and a vividly described world. His writing flows off the pages in imaginative and vibrant details leaving you wanting more.

Ten years ago, Calamity came and with it a burst in the sky that presented ordinary people with extraordinary powers, super human abilities. The frightened public called them Epics. Epics were not heroes but yet villains in the renewed world, taking “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely” to a whole new level. Epics with the incredible gifts came to the desire to rule mankind no matter how they achieved it. Steelheart, is the number one, the alpha, of these Epics, claiming a newly reform Chicago aka Newcago and its dwellers. Steelheart is say to be undefeatable, unbeatable, and undefeated. No one has ever seen Steelheart fall, but someone has seen him bleed. Nobody fights the Epics . . . nobody but the Reckoners. A shadowy group of ordinary humans, they spend their lives studying Epics, finding their weaknesses, and then assassinating them. And David wants in. He wants Steelheart, the Epic who killed David's father. For years, like the Reckoners, David's been studying, and planning and he has something they need. Not an object, but a special event, a memorable experience.

Sanderson loves to begin with a prologue for his stories and to some readers this is unsettling or disgruntling. However, the prologue which Sanderson opens with for this novel is one of the best parts of the story, sowing seeds of intrigue and developing the premise for the rest of the book. In the prologue the reader meets the narrator, David, an awkward young man with a habit of creating bizarre metaphors. David in the prologue narrates the day that Steelheart, an invulnerable superhuman, took over the city of Newcago, turning it into a city of steel and ensuring with the help of other super-humans that it is a city of eternal night. David has his own personal reasons for wanting to kill Steelheart and so he seeks out the aid of the Reckoners, a group of humans who aim to kill as many of these super-humans as possible.

The book explains that these met-a-humans, who call themselves Epics, gained their powers when some kind of red satellite called Calamity began to orbit the Earth. Of course, one gets the feeling that what Calamity is will be explained throughout the rest of the series, for this is one of the ways that Sanderson writes. He sets up a basic premise and gradually begins to explain the finer details. Another of these details is that every Epic has something that acts as a kind of 'kryptonite' for their powers. Something that causes them to lose their powers. These powers, when being used, further lead to the Epics having their selfish and impure desires doubled and tripled, which means that all Epics in the novel are evil or at least self-centered beings. It is as if Sanderson is creating the idea that in gaining extra-human powers that the darkness of humanity (the hamartia) is also doubling... The themes of this novel focus around the abuses of power and what would really happen if we, as humans, were granted great power. Would we really do what is best for others? Or would we use our powers in a whimsical fashion, destroying rather than creating. Furthermore, there is the subject of revenge, the need to have something other than vengeance to dedicate oneself to and the matter of action and inaction, which at one point David is told that one cannot worry about what could happen as a result of action, but what will happen as a result of inaction.

Of course, in true Sanderson fashion, the novel ends as both a nice stand alone and as part of a continuing series. So, if you want to be sucked into a new trilogy then by all means: read this book. I will be hoping desperately for a quality film version, and starting on the sequel.



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Stacking the Shelves (5)


Stacking the Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in a physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts, and of course ebooks!

If you want to find out more about Stacking The Shelves, please visit the Tynga's Reviews official launch page!

Title: The Unwind Collection
Author: Neal Shusterman
Series: UnWind #1/ UnWholly#2/ UnSouled#3/ UnDivided#4
Author Info: Website | Twitter | Goodreads
Age Group: Young Adult
Genre Type: Fiction
Publication date: October 21st, 2014
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
Pages:  1568 pages
Source: Books a Million, Bought

Title: The 5th Wave
Author: Rick Yancey
Series: The 5th Wave #1
Author Info: Website | Twitter | Goodreads
Age Group: Young Adult
Genre Type: Fiction
Publication date: May 7th, 2013
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books
Format: Hardcover
Pages:  457 pages
Source: Books a Million, Bought

Title: The Storyspinner
Author: Becky Wallace
Series: The Keeper's Chronicles #1
Author Info: Website | Twitter | Goodreads
Age Group: Young Adult
Genre Type: Fantasy
Publication date: May 3rd, 2013
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry
Format: Hardcover
Pages:  417 pages
Source: Barnes and Noble, Bought

Title: Univited
Author: Sophie Jordan
Series: Univited #1
Author Info: Website | Twitter | Goodreads
Age Group: Young Adult
Genre Type: Sci-Fiction, Dystopia
Publication date: January 28th, 2014
Publisher: HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover
Pages:  372 pages
Source: Barnes and Noble, Bought

Title: Unleashed
Author: Sophie Jordan
Series: Univited #2
Author Info: Website | Twitter | Goodreads
Age Group: Young Adult
Genre Type: Sci-Fiction, Dystopia
Publication date: February 24th 2015
Publisher: HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover
Pages:  355 pages
Source: Barnes and Noble, Bought

Friday, April 3, 2015

Mini Book Banner

So I just starting adding mini series banners to my page which I found from I'mLovingBooks but it looks like she has not done any in quite a while so I couldn't find some of the series I love so started making myself some, and I thought why not share this with others? So here I am making this post, refreshing it as many times as I can, my banners are FAR from perfect, they are really minimalist but I'm working hard on them. If you would like to use any of these please be my guest and if you can mention where you got them that would be great. (At the moment they are linked to my page but if you would like to link them to Goodreads or Amazon or whatever it is very simple. Just change the highlighted part to the url site you wish to use.) If you like this please comment below and I may just make some more! Thanks and Enjoy!!

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Wednesday, April 1, 2015

New Book of the Month Tab


You can now check out The Book of the Month through our tab selection above. This new tab will provide each book that is being featured for that month including author bios, fun activities, interviews, giveaways, and much more. So don't forget to check out The Book of the Month tab every month for the new featured book.


Waiting on Wednesday: April 1st, 2015 (5)

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly feature hosted at Breaking The Spine that spotlights those can't-wait-to-get-my-hands-on-them books that we are eagerly awaiting!

Coming out on April 8th, 2015 is Zeroboxer by Fonda Lee.

Title: Zeroboxer
Author: Fonda Lee
Author Info: Website | Twitter | Goodreads
Age Group: Young Adult
Genre Type: Sci-Fiction, Fantasy 
Publication date: April 8th, 2015
Publisher: Flux
A Sci-Fi Thrill Ride Set in the Action-Packed Sports Arena of the Future

A rising star in the weightless combat sport of zeroboxing, Carr “the Raptor” Luka dreams of winning the championship title. Recognizing his talent, the Zero Gravity Fighting Association assigns Risha, an ambitious and beautiful Martian colonist, to be his brandhelm––a personal marketing strategist. It isn’t long before she’s made Carr into a popular celebrity and stolen his heart along the way.

As his fame grows, Carr becomes an inspirational hero on Earth, a once-great planet that’s fallen into the shadow of its more prosperous colonies. But when Carr discovers a far-reaching criminal scheme, he becomes the keeper of a devastating secret. Not only will his choices place everything he cares about in jeopardy, but they may also spill the violence from the sports arena into the solar system