New Releases ~ week of 5/19/2014

A Dance of Shadows by David Dalglish (#4 Shadowdance)

Bad Girls Don't Marry Marines by Codi Gary (#3 Rock Canyon Romance)
Behind His Eyes - Convicted by Aleatha Romig (#6 Consequences)
Biggest Flirts by Jennifer Echols (#1 Superlatives)
Booty Bones by Carolyn Haines (#14 Sarah Booth Delaney)
Call of the Kiwi by Sarah Lark (#3 In the Land of the Long White Cloud)
Cold Shot by Mark Henshaw (#2 Kyra Stryker & Jonathan Burke)
Cyador's Heirs by L E Modesitt Jr (#17 Recluce)
Dangerous Creatures by Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (#1 Dangerous Creatures)
Dark Harmony by Michele Scott (#2 Into the Ring)
Destiny's Last Bachelor? by Christyne Butler (#5 Welcome to Destiny)
End Times by Anna Schumacher (#1 End Times)

Hannah's Courtship by Emma Miller (#8 Hannah's Daughters)
The Heiresses by Sara Shepard (#1 Heiresses)
Playboy's Lesson by Melanie Milburne (#2 Chatsfield)
Point of No Return by Tiffany A. Snow (#5 Kathleen Turner)
Reborn by C C Hunter (#1 Shadow Falls: After Dark)
Riding High by Vicki Lewis Thompson (#16 Sons of Chance)
Rogue Code by Mark Russinovich (#3 Jeff Aiken)
Shattered by Tracy Wolff (#2 Extreme Risk)
Single Dad Cowboy by Brenda Minton (#8 Cooper Creek)
Sixth Grave On the Edge by Darynda Jones (#6 Charley Davidson)
Sniper's Honor by Stephen Hunter (#9 Bob Lee Swagger)
Someone You Know by Brian McGilloway (#3 D. S. Lucy Black)

The Chronicle of Secret Riven by Ronlyn Domingue (#2 A Legend)
The Devil's Workshop by Alex Grecian (#3 Scotland Yard's Murder Squad)
The Lincoln Myth by Steve Berry (#9 Cotton Malone)
The One and Only by Emily Giffin (#7 Something)
The Rules for Breaking by Ashley Elston (#2 The Rules for Disappearing)
The Severed Streets by Paul Cornell (#2 London Falling)
The Wedding Secret by Jeannie Moon (#3 Forever Love Story)
Thief's Magic by Trudi Canavan (#1 Millennium's Rule)
Thunderstruck by Shannon Delany (#3 Weather Witch)
What the Greek Can't Resist by Maya Blake (#2 Untameable Greeks Trilogy)
When Da Silva Breaks the Rules by Abby Green (#3 Blood Brothers)
Whisper to Me by Christina Lee (#3 Between Breaths)

New Releases ~ week of 1/13/2014

*All links go to Goodreads

A Dark and Stormy Knit by Anne Canadeo (#6 Black Sheep Knitting Mystery)

A Kiss of Lies by Bronwen Evans (#1 Disgraced Lords)
A Little Bit of Hot by Elle Kennedy (#9.5 Out of Uniform)
Bonfire Beach by Lily Everett (#1 Billionaire Bachelors)
Dawn of Swords by David Dalglish (#1 Breaking World)
Drew + Fable Forever by Monica Murphy (#3.5 Drew + Fable)
Ex-Purgatory by Peter Clines (#4 Ex-Heroes)
Forever Wicked by Shayla Black (#7.6 Wicked Lovers)
Going Rogue by Robin Benway (#2 AKA - Also Known As)
Gooney Bird and All Her Charms by Lois Lowry (#6 Gooney Bird)
He Drank, and Saw the Spider by Alex Bledsoe (#5 Eddie LaCrosse Mystery)
Hollow City by Ransom Riggs (#2 Miss Peregrine)
Lead Me On by Lexxie Couper (#6 Heart of Fame)

Stormbringer by Shannon Delany (#2 Weather Witch)
The Blood Promise by Mark Pryor (#3 Hugo Marston)
The Calling by Suzanne Woods Fisher (#2 Inn at Eagle Hill)
The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches by Alan Bradley (#6 Flavia de Luce Mystery)
The Emperor's Blades by Brian Staveley (#1 Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne)
The Polaris Protocol by Brad Taylor (#5 Pike Logan)
White Trash Love Song by Teresa Mummert (#3 White Trash Trilogy)

Stacking the Shelves

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga at Tynga's Reviews to share your weekly book haul. It can be what you bought, received, borrowed, or were gifted. For more info you can go here.

**Mostly library books lately but I did request one (turned into more while doing this post) from netGalley so thought I would share.


NetGalley
The Republic of Theives by Scott Lynch (Gentleman Bastard #3)
The Enchanter Heir by Cinda Williams Chima (The Heir Chronicles #4)
Her Ladyship's Curse by Lynn Viehl (Disenchanted & Co. #1)

Library
Omens by Kelley Armstrong (Cainsville #1)
Shadow City by Diana Pharaoh Francis (Horngate Witches #3)
Replica by Jenna Black
Weather Witch by Shannon Delaney
Stormbringers by Phillipa Gregory (Order of Darkness #2)

Book Review ~ 13 to Life

13 to Life (13 to Life #1)
By Shannon Delany
Published By St. Martin's Griffin

Summary (Goodreads): Everything about Jessie Gillmansen’s life changed when her mother died. Now even her hometown of Junction is changing.  Mysterious dark things are happening. All Jessie wants is to avoid more change. But showing a hot new guy around Junction High, she’s about to discover a whole new type of change. Pietr Rusakova is more than good looks and a fascinating accent—he’s a guy with a dangerous secret. And his very existence is sure to bring big trouble to Jessie’s small town.  It seems change is the one thing Jessie can’t avoid…


Dislikes: When I finished this book I felt like it was a middle book or the middle of a book. There was a lot of back story missing and a lot of questions unanswered. This book also borders on my pet peeve with YA and that is how loosely the term best friends seems to be used. Even when it was pointed out to her that Sarah was going back to her "old ways" (which we don't really know about) Jessie still seemed to blow it off and just say "but she needs me". 


Likes: I thought most of the characters were well done. I was 50/50 with Jessie, she seemed like she was trying to get her life back in order after everything that had happened but then she kept doing stupid things, that she knew were stupid while she was doing them. I liked Pietr and the whole Rusakova family, I found them to be the most interesting whenever they were around they seemed to steal the spotlight.


Overall: Even though there was a lot I didn't like or had issue with, I still enjoyed the book overall and I'm curious to read Secrets and Shadows to see what happens next. I do wish the title would have been more straightforward in the story. It seemed to be mentioned only in passing, during a time when there were other more pressing issues taking place, and could be very easy to miss.


Rating: 3