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Welcome to my new Behind The Pages post! You can find last month's post of this feature, with Rebecca Serle and her second novel The Edge of Falling, here . What is Behind The Pages all about? I asked some of my favourite authors and a bunch of promising 2014 debut authors to annotate a scene, page or more of one of their books. I see the feature as a chance to show readers what's behind a page. Authors can share their favourite writing memories, the music that influenced a certain scene or anything else that comes to their mind. We might get hints to what the characters were thinking and feeling that exact moment or other fun details about their story. Hope you enjoy Behind The Pages as much as I do. I'm intending this feature to be a monthly post here on the blog. Last year I read HOW MY SUMMER WENT UP IN FLAMES and I fell in love with it after only a few pages. Jennifer's debut is such a fabulous summer read and if you didn't read it last year, now...

Love Me to Death by Marissa Clarke Expected release: October 28th 2014 Medical research scientist Elena Arcos has always lived her life under the radar. When she is shot in a convenience store robbery, Elena finds herself rocketed into supernatural insanity courtesy of a sexy immortal law enforcer. He’s convinced she’s some kind of freaky half-vampire thing and that her deceased dad was the real deal: a blood sucking monster. Yeah, right. Nikolai Itzov never anticipated battling the urge to kiss the offspring of his father’s murderer. As a Slayer, an elite law enforcer descended from Azrael himself, his orders from the Underveil General are clear: Kill her or die. Nikolai and Elena find themselves in a life and death battle to stop a plot designed to lift the Underveil and enslave humans. With her analytical mind and his centuries of training, they might be able to foil the plot with their lives and maybe their hearts intact. But in order to succeed, he must help her become t...

Title: The Geography of You and Me Author: Jennifer E. Smith Publisher: Headline Publishing Date: April 15th 2014 Length: 352 pages Keywords: YA, contemporary, romance, friendship, travelling Source: Netgalley Owen lives in the basement. Lucy lives on the 24th floor. But when the power goes out in the midst of a New York heatwave, they find themselves together for the first time: stuck in a lift between the 10th and 11th floors. As they await help, they start talking... The brief time they spend together leaves a mark. And as their lives take them to Edinburgh and San Francisco, to Prague and to Portland they can't shake the memory of the time they shared. Postcards cross the globe when they themselves can't, as Owen and Lucy experience the joy - and pain - of first love. And as they make their separate journeys in search of home, they discover that sometimes it is a person rather than a place that anchors you most in the world. Summary by Goodreads Whatever you...

Title: The Here and Now Author: Ann Brashares Publisher: Delacorte Press Publishing Date: April 8th 2014 Length: 288 pages Keywords: YA, fiction, time travel, romance, action Source: Netgalley Follow the rules. Remember what happened. Never fall in love. This is the story of seventeen-year-old Prenna James, who immigrated to New York when she was twelve. Except Prenna didn’t come from a different country. She came from a different time—a future where a mosquito-borne illness has mutated into a pandemic, killing millions and leaving the world in ruins. Prenna and the others who escaped to the present day must follow a strict set of rules: never reveal where they’re from, never interfere with history, and never, ever be intimate with anyone outside their community. Prenna does as she’s told, believing she can help prevent the plague that will one day ravage the earth. But everything changes when Prenna falls for Ethan Jarves.  Summary by Goodreads Ethan is your regular ni...

THE SHADOW PRINCE was released March 11th 2014 and here's your chance to win a signed copy if you haven't read it yet. Of course you can always make it a gift for a good friend if you have read it. Also you don't want to miss my Q&A with Bree Despain. Hope you enjoy it! ___________________________________________________ Tour Schedule Monday, March 31, 2014 Icey Books — Guest Post + Giveaway A Dream within a Dream — Review + Giveaway Tuesday, April 01, 2014 Karin's Book Nook — Giveaway Curling Up with a Good Book — Q&A + Giveaway Wednesday, April 02, 2014 GreenBeanTeenQueen — Guest Post + Giveaway Bookaholics Anonymous — Review + Giveaway Thursday, April 03, 2014 Book Briefs — Review + Giveaway Friday, April 04, 2014 Two Chicks on Books — Guest Post + Giveaway Cornucopia of Reviews — Review + Giveaway Saturday, April 05, 2014 Jenna Does Books — Guest Post + Giveaway Jean Book Nerd — Q&A + Giveaway Sunday, April 06, 2014 Fire and Ice Blog — Guest...

Happy 4th of April! It's FourFour Day and so the perfect opportunity to talk about one of my favourite YA book boys.  About a week ago, I found an email sitting in my inbox that made me laugh and scream. I had won two tickets for the German Divergent premiere in Berlin!! Theo James, Shailene Woodley and Neil Burger would be there, too and we were invited to walk the red (black) carpet. You can imagine how excited I was to attend. I asked a friend who is just as enthusiastic about the Divergent trilogy as I am to come with me. We booked  a hotel and flight last minute and I went outfit hunting only one day before we left for Berlin. And then the hours passed in a blur, we arrived in Berlin, put the outfits and make-up on and left for the premiere. Our hotel wasn't even that far from the event location. So we arrived in our faction themed outfits right on time. My friend went as Erudite and you can guess that I chose to be a Dauntless chick. The event was held in beautiful So...

Twelve Steps by Veronica Bartles Publication: 2014 by Swoon Romance Sixteen-year-old Andi is tired of being a second-class sibling to perfect sister Laina. The only thing Andi’s sure she has going for her is her awesome hair. And even that is eclipsed by Laina's perfect everything else. When Andi’s crush asks her to fix him up with Laina, Andi decides enough is enough, and devises a twelve-step program to wrangle the spotlight away from Laina and get the guy. Step 1: Admit she’s powerless to change her perfect sister, and accept that her life really, really sucks. Step 4: Make a list of her good qualities. She MUST have more than just great hair, right? Step 7: Demand attention for more than just the way she screws things up. When a stolen kiss from her crush ends in disaster, Andi realizes that her twelve-step program isn’t working. Her prince isn’t as charming as she'd hoped, and the spotlight she’s been trying to steal isn’t the one she wants. As Laina’s flawles...