To Be Read Pile: Slow Burn & Beauty and the Wolf

Title: Slow Burn (Smoke Jumpers)

Author: Anne Marsh 

Published: 2013

Description from Amazon.com: "It's not every man who will risk his life, leaping into the flames of a wildland inferno. And it's not every woman who will love him. . .

He's Feeling The Heat

Evan Donovan is a big muscled giant of a man, whose size and strength make him uniquely qualified to be a smoke jumper. No matter how great or how treacherous the challenge, he gets the job done. But when he agrees to look in on a friend's ex-wife after a suspicious brushfire, Evan learns that some jobs are too hot to handle. Especially when it involves a scorchingly sexy woman. . .

She's Playing With Fire

Faye Duncan is a photographer on a mission, shooting fires for a magazine. But her first encounter with a wildfire isn't nearly as wild as her first night with Evan Donovan. The moment she meets the bigger-than-life hero, the sparks begin to fly. But things really catch fire when Evan learns she may have taken a photo of the arsonist setting the fires. Evan is determined to keep Faye safe. But if he expects her to trust him with her life, he'll have to open up his heart--even if someone gets burned. . ."

I am looking forward to reading this book because I have already read Reburn which is another book further along in the Smoke Jumpers series.

Title: Beauty and the Wolf

Author: Marina Myles

Published: 2013

Description from Amazon.com: "A Union Of Curses

Isabella Farrington's marriage was hasty. For all her new husband's riches, Lord Draven Winthrop is whispered about, avoided, and feared. Yet Isabella is drawn to Draven's dark good looks, his strength, the charm he can turn on as easily as she can blink. The impoverished daughter of an Egyptologist, she knows there are rumors about her, too, and the amulet she wears. Nothing more than superstitious babble. . .

But when Isabella returns to Draven's remote coastal manor, she senses there is something more at work in the grim gardens of Thorncliff Towers than superstition. Draven is passionate and seductive, but he has a brutal, uncontrolled side too, and a history of secrets. To live in peace she must discover the reasons behind a gypsy curse and a mother's scorn. Especially when she learns Draven believes his sweet young bride is doomed to a fate even darker than his own. . ."

Slow Burn on Amazon

Beauty and the Wolf is available for preorder on Amazon

TBR Pile ft. Jennifer Echols, Gabrielle Zevin, and Gail Giles

Title: Right Behind You
Author: Gail Giles
Published: 2007
Tagline: "If you can't forgive yourself...will anyone else?"

Description: "Kip McFarland is living with a painful secret: when he was nine, he set Bobby Clarke in fire. And Bobby died.
    After four long years in a juvenile ward, Kip is rehabilitated. He's got a new, "perfect" life. But no one knows he's got a past. No one knows about the nightmares and the guilt that torture him. They don't even know his real name.
   What do you do when your past catches up with you again and again? When the journey to salvation always leads to a dead end? When the person you're most afraid of, the person you'd move anywhere to escape...is yourself?"




Title: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
Author: Gabrielle Zevin
Published: 2007
Tagline: "Sometimes a girl needs to lose."

Description: "If Naomi had picked tails, she would have won the coin toss. She wouldn't have had to go back for the yearbook camera, and she wouldn't have hit her head on the steps. She wouldn't have woken up in an ambulance with amnesia. She certainly would have remembered her boyfriend, Ace. She might even have remembered why she fell in love with him in the first place. She would understand why her best friend, Will, keeps calling her "Chief." She'd get all his inside jokes, and maybe he wouldn't be so frustrated with her for forgetting things she can't possibly remember. She'd know about her mom's new family. She'd know about her dad's fiancée. She wouldn't have to spend her junior year relearning all the French she supposedly knew already. She never would have met James, the boy with the questionable past and the fuzzier future, who tells her he once wanted to kiss her. She wouldn't have wanted to kiss him back. But Naomi picked heads."

Title: Going too Far
Author: Jennifer Echols
Published: 2009
Tagline: "When love crosses the line...where do you stop?"

Description: "All Meg has ever wanted is to get away. Away from high school. Away from her backwater town. Away from her parents who seem determined to keep her imprisoned in their dead-end lives. But one crazy evening involving a dare and forbidden railroad tracks, she goes way too far...and almost doesn't make it back. 

   John made a choice to stay. To enforce the rules. To serve and protect. He has nothing but contempt for what he sees as childish rebellion, and he wants to teach Meg a lesson she won't soon forget. But Meg pushes him to the limit by questioning everything he learned at the police academy. And when he pushes back, demanding to know why she won't be tied down, they will drive each other to the edge–and over..."

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac on Amazon

Going too Far on Amazon

Right Behind You on Amazon

TBR Pile (includes Beautiful Disaster, Fear, and Oliver's Hunger)

• First off I would like to say sorry for not posting yesterday, I got caught up with a busy schedule and did not have time. I'm really sorry.

This week's To Be Read pile will include Beautiful Disaster, Fear, and Oliver's Hunger.

The first of this week's To Be Read pile is a book that I am starting today.

Title: Beautiful Disaster
Author: Jamie McGuire
Published: 2011
Tag line: Intense. Dangerous. Addictive

Description from inside cover: "Abby Abernathy is a good girl. She doesn't drink or swear, and she has the appropriate number of cardigans in her wardrobe. Abby believes she has enough distance from the darkness of her past, but when she arrives at college with her best friend, her path to a new beginning is quickly challenged by Eastern University's Walking One-Night Stand.
  Travis Maddox, lean, cut, and covered in tattoos, is exactly what Abby wants–and needs–to avoid. He spends his nights winning money in a floating fight ring, and his days as the ultimate college campus charmer. Intrigued by Abby's resistance to his appeal, Travis tricks her into his daily life with a simple bet. If he loses, he must remain abstinent for a month. If Abby loses, she must live in Travis' apartment for the same amount of time. Either way, Travis has no idea that he has met his match."

Title: Fear (Gone #5)
Author: Michael Grant
Published: 2012

Description from Goodreads.com: "It's been one year since all the adults disappeared. Gone.

Despite the hunger and the lies, even despite the plague, the kids of Perdido Beach are determined to survive. Creeping into the tenuous new world they've built, though, is perhaps the worst incarnation yet of the enemy known as the Darkness: fear.

Within the FAYZ, life breaks down while the Darkness takes over, literally—turning the dome-world of the FAYZ entirely black. In darkness, the worst fears of all emerge, and the cruelest of intentions are carried out. But even in their darkest moments, the inhabitants of the FAYZ maintain a will to survive and a desire to take care of the others in their ravaged band that endures, no matter what the cost.

Fear, Michael Grant's fifth book in the bestselling dystopian Gone series, will thrill readers . . . even as it terrifies them."

Title: Oliver's Hunger (Scanguards Vampires #7)
Author: Tina Folsom 
Published: 2013 

Description from Goodreads.com: "Newly turned vampire and Scanguards bodyguard Oliver has trouble controlling his thirst for blood. Every night is a struggle against temptation, but when Asian beauty Ursula literally falls into his arms, he fears he will lose the battle over his inner demons and succumb to bloodlust.

Enslaved by vampires for her special blood, Ursula has just escaped her captors. She’s rescued by a handsome stranger, only to realize that he’s a vampire. He claims he wants to help her, but can she trust a vampire who’s not only lusting after her body, but also her blood?

Her promise to rescue her fellow blood whores compels her to join forces with Oliver and his colleagues at Scanguards. Will her choice lead to her salvation or her downfall?"

I am torn between Beautiful Disaster and Oliver's Hunger as the book I am looking forward to reading the most. I love Oliver's Hunger because I have read all the Scanguards Vampires books and love every character. I anxiously wait for each new book. Beautiful Disaster seems really interesting and I have heard that it is similar to Katy Evans' Real. I hope you are interested in these books I will be reading this week and feel free to tell me what you are reading. Bye.

Beautiful Disaster on Goodreads
Fear on Goodreads
Oliver's Disaster on Goodreads

Beautiful Disaster on Amazon (This is a signed edition!!!)
Fear on Amazon
Oliver's Hunger on Amazon

To Be Read ft. Clockwork Angel and Whiskey Beach

Hello all. So today we have two completely different novels, one is YA and the other a little more adult. The first one is Cassandra Clare's Clockwork Angel and the other is Nora Roberts' Whiskey Beach.

Tagline: Magic is a dangerous–but love is more dangerous still.

 Description from the inside cover:
       "When sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray crosses the ocean to find her brother, her destination is England, the time is the reign of Queen Victoria, and something terrifying is waiting for her in London's Downworld, where vampires, warlocks, and other supernatural folk stalk the gaslit streets. Only the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the world of demons, keep order amidst the chaos.
      Kidnapped by the mysterious Dark Sisters, who are members of a secret organization called the Pandemonium Club, Tessa soon learns that she herself is a Downworlder with a rare ability: the power to transform, at will, into another person. What's more, the Magister, the shadowy figure who runs the club, will stop at nothing to claim Tessa's power for his own.
    Friendless and hunted, Tessa takes refuge with the Shadowhunters of the London Institute, who swear to find her brother if she will use her power to help them. She soon finds herself fascinated by–and torn between–two best friends: James, whose fragile beauty hides a deadly secret, and blue-eyed Will, whose caustic wit and volatile moods keep everyone in his life at arm's length...everyone, that is, except Tessa. As their search draws them deep into the heart of an arcane plot that threatens to destroy the Shadowhunters, Tessa realizes that she may need to choose between saving her brother and helping her new friends save the world...and that love may be the most dangerous magic of all.


Description from Amazon.com:
    "For more than three hundred years, Bluff House has sat above Whiskey Beach, guarding its shore—and its secrets. But to Eli Landon, it’s home…

A Boston lawyer, Eli has weathered an intense year of public scrutiny and police investigations after being accused of—but never arrested for—the murder of his soon-to-be-ex wife.

He finds sanctuary at Bluff House, even though his beloved grandmother is in Boston recuperating from a nasty fall. Abra Walsh is always there, though. Whiskey Beach’s resident housekeeper, yoga instructor, jewelry maker, and massage therapist, Abra is a woman of many talents—including helping Eli take control of his life and clear his name. But as they become entangled in each other, they find themselves caught in a net that stretches back for centuries—one that has ensnared a man intent on reaping the rewards of destroying Eli Landon once and for all…"


So of these two I am probably looking forward to Clockwork Angel the most. Nora Roberts is my favorite author; however, the mystery and love triangle of Clockwork Angel sounds really fun. Also, I love the Mortal Instruments series so this should be interesting.


Please don't forget to let me know any books you are reading or think I should read.
     Have a great day :)

Whiskey Beach on Amazon
Clockwork Angel on Amazon

TBR Pile. Sorry it's late. Featuring "Cracked" and "Cinder"

For today's To Be Read Pile (which was supposed to be yesterday :) sorry), the two books are K. M. Walton's Cracked and Marissa Meyer's Cinder. I have been waiting to read Cinder for the longest time but life has been getting in the way and I have been forced to keep putting it off, but hopefully I will get to it this week.

 K.M. Walton's Cracked. "Sometimes there's no easy way out."

         Description from the inside cover:
    "Victor hates life. He has no friends, he gets beaten up at school, and his parents are always criticizing him. Tired of feeling miserable, Victor takes a bottle of his mother's sleeping pills-only to wake up in the hospital.
     Bull is angry, and he takes all of his rage out on Victor. That makes him feel better, at least a little. But it doesn't stop Bull's grandfather from getting drunk and hitting him. So Bull tries to defend himself with a loaded gun.
     When Victor and Bull end up as roommates in the same psych ward, there's no way to escape each other or their problems. Which means things are going to get worse--much worse--before they get better."

Marissa Meyer's Cinder

    Description from Amazon.com:

       "Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl. . . . 

Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future."

I am probably most excited about Cracked because the description reminds me of Ellen Hopkin's Impulse which I enjoyed very much. I like to learn about people's problems and why we do the things we do so I think this book will be very interesting. Also Cinder looks like it will be very surprising to see a new take on a classic fairy tale which I really like. 

Cinder on Amazon

Cracked on Amazon

First To Be Read Pile!!!

For my first TBR pile, I decided to choose three books. I have a slight (slightly huge) addiction to buying books, but because of school, family, and whatnot the pile grows quicker than I have time to read. So here are three that I have laying around and haven’t read yet. The descriptions of these books are from the back or inside flap because I haven’t read them yet.

1. (Romantic Suspense) Nicholas Sparks: Safe Haven I know, I know. How haven’t I read this yet? The movie is out and I want to see it but I have this policy where I will not see a book-themed movies if I haven’t read it. So Safe Haven: 

“When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships: one with her plainspoken neighbor, Jo; and another with Alex, a widowed store owner with two young children. Katie slowly begins to relax her guard, putting down roots in the community and becoming increasingly attached to Alex and his family.

But even as Katie begins to fall in love, she struggles with a dark secret that still haunts her. With Jo’s support, Katie eventually realizes that she must choose between a life of transient safety and one of riskier rewards...and that in the darkest hour, love is the only true safe haven.”

Safe Haven on Amazon

    2)  (YA) Jay Asher & Carolyn Mackler: The Future of Us:

“It’s 1996, and less than half of all American high school students have ever used the internet. Emma just got her first computer and an America Online CD-ROM. Josh is her best friend. They power up and log on-and discover themselves on Facebook, fifteen years in the future.”

   

The Future of Us on Amazon

3) (Romantic Suspense) Nora Roberts: Hidden Riches:

“Dora Conroy has a passion for antiques-and any other rarities she can acquire for her quaint Philadelphia shop. A seasoned dealer, she knows all the tricks of the trade. But she is unprepared for the deadly consequences when she purchases a few curiosities at a auction-and unknowingly brings home a priceless cache that makes her the target of an international criminal.

Entwined in a reckless chase, Dora turns to her new neighbor, Jed Skimmerhorn, a cop who”s turned in his badge-and whose desire for lovely Dora puts him back in the line of fire. Fighting their attraction while falling in love, they find that hidden riches can have a most ordinary façade, And that possession can be a lethal obsession.”

Hidden Riches on Amazon

The one I'm probably most excited about reading is Safe Haven just because of the description and the movies looks good also.