Emily's Reading Room

Welcome to my first (I think it's my first?) hop! And since it's December, that magical month, I decided to give away one Christmas book of your choice from the Book Depository! a Rafflecopter giveaway

The Summer I Became a Nerd by Leah Rae Miller Expected publication May 7th 2013 by Entangled Teen On the outside, seventeen-year-old Madelyne Summers looks like your typical blond cheerleader — perky, popular, and dating the star quarterback. But inside, Maddie spends more time agonizing over what will happen in the next issue of her favorite comic book than planning pep rallies with her squad. That she’s a nerd hiding in a popular girl's body isn’t just unknown, it's anti-known. And she needs to keep it that way. Summer is the only time Maddie lets her real self out to play, but when she slips up and the adorkable guy behind the local comic shop’s counter uncovers her secret, she’s busted. Before she can shake a pom-pom, Maddie’s whisked into Logan’s world of comic conventions, live-action role-playing, and first-person-shooter video games. And she loves it. But the more she denies who she really is, the deeper her lies become.. and the more she risks losing Logan forev...

Shadow of Time by Jen Minkman Expected publication January 1st 2013 Cover Designer: Jen Minkman Cover reveal organized by: AToMR Tours All Hannah needs is a nice and quiet vacation after her first year of teaching French at a high school. She joins her brother Ben for the summer in their mom’s log cabin in Arizona. There, she meets Josh again, Ben’s childhood friend from the Navajo reservation. The little boy from the rez has grown up fast, and Hannah can’t help but feeling more for him than just friendship. But fate apparently has something else in store for her. And it’s not peace and quiet. Night after night, Hannah is plagued by strange nightmares about the past of Navajo Nation and terrifying shadows chasing her. They seem to come closer – and why is Josh always present in her dreams? Sometimes, the past has a way of catching up with you. Jen Minkman (1978) was born in Holland, in the town of Alphen aan den Rijn. When she was 19, she moved between The Hague, Salzburg ...

Burn for Burn by Jenny Han & Siobhan Vivian Published: September 18th 2012 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Format: Ebook Pages: 356 Series: Burn for Burn #1 Source: Through Pulse It for review Amazon | Book Depository BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY... THEY GET EVEN. Lillia has never had any problems dealing with boys who like her. Not until this summer, when one went too far. No way will she let the same thing happen to her little sister. Kat is tired of the rumours, the insults, the cruel jokes. It all goes back to one person– her ex-best friend– and she's ready to make her pay. Four years ago, Mary left Jar Island because of a boy. But she's not the same girl anymore. And she's ready to prove it to him. Three very different girls who want the same thing: sweet, sweet revenge. And they won't stop until they each had a taste. *MAY CONTAIN SOME SPOILERS* Big girl don't cry.. they get even . How amazing is that?! I dreamed about someth...

The Midnight Spell by Rhiannon Frater & Kody Boye Cover designed by Phatpuppy Art Expected publication February 2013 Best friends since kindergarten, Adam and Christy have always been the perpetual outsiders in their small town in Texas. The other kids call Adam gay and Christy a witch. On both counts the bullies are right. Their junior year in high school seems destined to be the same old same old until Christy decides to cast a love spell for Adam at the midnight hour. The next day an alluring and mysterious boy enrolls at school and sets hearts a flutter, including Adam’s. Meanwhile, Christy’s mad crush on the handsome football player Ian seems to be going nowhere fast and her witch puberty is making her life miserable. When a great evil arrives in town that threatens everything they hold dear, the best friends realize that finding a boyfriend is the least of their worries. Soon Adam and Christy will have to battle a force of darkness that has killed in their town before,...

River Road by Suzanne Johnson Published: November 13th 2012 Series: Sentinels of New Orleans #2 Genre: Urban Fantasy Publisher: Tor Books Cover Artist: Cliff Nielsen Number of pages: 336 Word Count: 92,000 Hurricane Katrina is long gone, but the preternatural storm rages on in New Orleans. New species from the Beyond moved into Louisiana after the hurricane destroyed the borders between worlds, and it falls to wizard sentinel Drusilla Jaco and her partner, Alex Warin, to keep the preternaturals peaceful and the humans unaware. But a war is brewing between two clans of Cajun merpeople in Plaquemines Parish, and down in the swamp, DJ learns, there’s more stirring than angry mermen and the threat of a were-gator. Wizards are dying, and something — or someone — from the Beyond is poisoning the waters of the mighty Mississippi, threatening the humans who live and work along the river. DJ and Alex must figure out what unearthly source is contaminating the water and who — or what — is...

Yeah, so I thought this would be a friend of mine only for a short time, but here we are, like best friends for life! I ran out of antibiotics yesterday, and now I feel ten times worse. So this is the reason why I keep pushing back my reviews and why it's so quiet around here. My brain's just not working at the moment, haven't done any reading or even knitting, just spent my time watching New Girl over and over again. But I really, really try to get back in business ASAP!

Breathe by Suzanne Cox Published: October 22nd 2012 Format: Kindle edition Series: Atlantis #1 Publisher: Suzanne Cox Books Buy from Amazon 17 year old science prodigy, Laney Brookes, is looking for two things: a cure for the flu virus that’s ravaging the world and the truth about what happened to her father. Using clues from her father’s secret journals, she and her two friends Kate and Carter follow what she thinks is the path to the answers. It’s a path that lands them in the lost world of Atlantis, a world struggling to survive. Laney finds more than just answers in Atlantis. She finds love. To get her friends and herself home, Laney will have to travel into enemy territory, led by Andrew a young Atlantean determined to return his people to power. In the process she’ll even unravel the mystery of her missing father. But first, she’ll have to figure out who the real enemy is. Author Bio I remember writing my first stories when I was about nine or ten years old. I've...

Yeah, I got sinusitis first time ever, and man, it SUCKS! Still, I try to answer all the emails etc. ASAP and try to write reviews. Hopefully I'll be able to get out of bed soon!

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith Published: January 2nd 2012 Publisher: Poppy/Little Brown Format: Hardcover Pages: 236 Source: Borrowed from library Amazon / UK | Book Depository Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything? Today should be one of the worst days of seventeen-year-old Hadley Sullivan's life. Having missed her flight, she's stuck at JFK airport and late to her father's second wedding, which is taking place in London and involves a soon-to-be stepmother Hadley's never even met. Then she meets the perfect boy in the airport's cramped waiting area. His name is Oliver, he's British, and he's sitting in her row. A long night on the plane passes in the blink of an eye, and Hadley and Oliver lose track of each other in the airport chaos upon arrival. Can fate intervene to bring them together once more? Quirks of timing play out in this romantic and cinematic novel about family con...

Blood and Moonlight by Moira Keith Published: August 11th 2012 Genre: Urban Fantasy / Paranormal Romance Publisher: SP Cover Artist: Elaina Lee at For the Muse Designs Number of pages: 270 Word Count: 92,812 Though she shares the bloodlines of both Fae and Wolf, Kiara Morrigan O’Conaill refuses to claim her place in the Fae courts or submit to the animal within. Witnessing the murder of her Fae mother two years ago drives her back into those worlds, to search for answers and revenge. Devlin McClure lives for one thing — the Pack. When their leader, the Cadeyrn, disappears, desperation sends Devlin to the last person he should be asking for help—the Cadeyrn’s estranged daughter, Kiara. Kiara and Devlin are drawn to each other by fate and destined to embrace the very thing that threatens to rip their worlds apart. Now, Kiara will have to decide which is stronger, blood or moonlight? Amazon | Smashwords | Barnes and Noble | Apple Book Store Excerpt "Thanks for nothing!...