Werelove Dusk Conspiracy

Review Time (again)!  Hey guys guess what! I have finally finished this book after reading it for at least three month ( probably more), could be the fact that it was sent to me as a ebook and it takes me like so long to read one but anyhow. 2010 Debut (yay!!!!)

The Short Story? - Took me by surprise you don't get alot of paranormal werewolf stories set in the future. I had bad feelings that I wasn't going to like it but surprisingly I did!

The Long Story? - I'm going to straight to the point about this one. The love story in this was seriously the cutest thing ever but the plot went a little weird. Some strong points about this book is it evoke lots of strong emotions. The characters were very well brought out, adding the futuristic touch was nice too. However, the heroine was a pussy, which I did not like because I hate weak characters ( defeats the whole purpose of being the main character). The father was also really cruel. seriously if I had a father like probably run away before I even turn thirteen but it all fit nicely together. The writing style was a tad simple too however I really enjoy the book in general.A love a great romance and it was really the cutest thing in this book. You guys should really check this one out! Rating 3.5/5

Badass Bookie xx

Infinity

Review Time! Soooo I haven't much besides post reviews for these past weeks because I have been very, very lazzzzyyyyy. Um, I'm tryig to catch-up on my 2010 Debut Author challenge so this is another one. Sherrilyn Kenyon is actually an adult fiction author who is debuting in YA fiction. So it's still counted!!!

Short Story? - Excellent characters, reminded me of Mortal Instruments except it wasn't as funny! But still it made me laugh :) Oh, and it has like every paranormal specie you can imagine like a glass of jelly beans!

Long Story?- This book was really good! The writing style was nothing like mortal Instruments but because of it's sense of humor ( sarcastic and all that) it reminded me so so so much Mortal Instruments. The book as a whole was fantastic but the plot was really random ( in a good way). There are so many characters that pop out randomly and join in with the story, you would be like 'wow okay so there she goes'. Comfortable writing style once you adjust to it, very funny ( I laughed so hard about Nick's "shirt" issue) , great characters that you would immediately learn to like, the start was abit slow but as the book developes soon I found it hard to catch up with all that's going on. The thing that stood out the most was how random the whole book was ( no seriously it's like so random). Not the best debut but one of the better ones. Rating 3.5/5

Badass Bookie xx

A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend

Review Time! There isn't a mailbox post this week because I didn't check the mailbox or the library so I thought I will take the initiative to write one of my catch-up reviews! A Love Story is the debut novel of YA author Emily Horner, it's about a girls who has just lost her best friend and probably lost herself as well.

Short Story? - Tough review to write for this one, it was a great novel but it wasn't for me. Partly beacuse I didn't know what was going on for half of the book!

Long Story?- Right, so put your hand up if you knew the main character was a lesbian? Now, put your hand up if you didn't ? *puts my hand up*  So it was quite of shocker when I read for half the book and then realise the main character was a lesbian but not for the reason that you may think. I am all for gay pride so no nothing to do with the fact that she was gay but I was shocked because it took me half the book to realise ( it's pretty sad....) So I was quite upset that I may not be as smart as I like to think *cries* but anyway, I don't know if it is just me but I fell asleep while reading this (literally) it was cute and cuddly and make you wanna hug it and blow it a kiss but it was also extremely boring. Also it switched from past to present making it really hard to follow.So I usually don't read those depressing novels right? ( I don't read anything even remotingly about helpless heroines, although sometimes I pick up that I don't realise and read it anyway!) This wasn't really depressing but it was close to it, eh, I can't explain but it just wasn't for me, I mean I didn't like Wintergirls and I know people who love it so it's one of those weird ones that I just can not slip into. Great characters, cute story but the plot was quite boring, easy writing style, not to long and I don't know maybe you will like it better than I did. Rating 2/5

Badass Bookie xx

Giveaway - $35 CSN Gift Certificate

Hey Guys, I waited until today to post this giveaway for you guys since you're more likely to be on the weekend anyway! I was contatced by CSN asking whether I would like to do a giveaway for you guys and I thought why not? I love my followers and fellow bloggers so let's do it!

So lucky winner will get a one-time-use $35 gife certificate to use as they wish on any of their 200+ websites for shoes, decor or anything in between. So head over to CSN to check out what they have in store for you! Shoes, Kitchenware, Bedware, Bar Stools and more for you to choose from! Here over HERE.

Rules-
- MUST be in the US and CAN only 
- MUST leave a comment below with your email address
- MUST enter by October 15th

Extra entries-
- Be a follower ( +3)
- Twitter follower (+2)
- Tweet, Sidebar, Facebook it ( +2 each)
- Blog it ( +5)
- Go check out CSN store (+1)

Badass Bookie xx

Blog Hop & Follow Friday

Hey Guys! It's time for Friday Hop again, thank-you as always to Jen @ Crazy for Books and Parajunkee @ Parajunkee View for hosting them! Um, please leave a comment (and a link! it saves time!) so I can replay the favour! PS- I'm trying really hard to reach 375 so if you follow me I will return that favour too! So every follower I get this week, they will get an extra follower too! Make sure you leave a comment telling me so or I won't know!!!

This weeks questions is -
When you write reviews, do you write them as you are reading or wait until you have read the entire book?

 My answer is that I never, ever and never will write a review for a book before I have read every single page. This is why, my lovely publishers and authors , your requested review may not have been posted yet. Please bare with me, I am trying to go go go but still ....

What is high fashion for books (ie best book cover ever)?
Ha! There are too too many good book covers out there ( and double the amount of bad bad bad ones) but some that stood out to me for this year so far are -

Next Year's -

Badass Bookie xx

I've Been Tagged!!!

This is an international game of Tag! I was tagged by Cass @ Words on Paper Basically I have to answer some questions about myself so you know your cute little Aussie blogger better :P ( I'm cute and cuddly like a bunny right??? O_O)

4 Things in my Handbag ( When I actually bring one, I usually just stuff things in my pockets)


- Phone ( Sony Vaio)
- Ipod ( Purple!!!)
- Loose change and money
- Glasses ( You never know when there is a cute boy and you need a closer look!)

4 Things in/on my Desk:

- Computer or Laptop ( I have both, usually the laptop due to convenience and because it's pink and Sony Vaio :P see a pattern)
- An army of nail polish
- The complete season of Quran High School Host Club ( best anime ever! )
- Souvenirs from England ( My fiend went like two months ago but I never put them away)
4 Favorite Things in my Bedroom:

- My computer
- My bookshelf
- My bed
- My big red reading chair

4 Things I Always Wanted to Do (but haven't yet):

- Get my IB diploma and head of to Cambridge ( aim high people!)
- Travel around the world, mainly to Spain and the rest of Europe)
- Attend at least one BEA ( I'm not going to my deathbed without attending one!)
- Marry some hunk and live happily ever after in a big house by the beach with my daughter and son, Carmen and Jasper ( ha! I named my children, not certain but maybes)

4 Things I Enjoy Very Much at the Moment:

- Reading and blogging ( I love you guys!)
- Checking my e-mail and mailbox, it's always exciting!
- Playing Touch Football ( and winning) with all my friends!
- Being on holidayssssss

4 Songs I Can't Get Out of My Head:

- We'll Be Alright by Travie McCoy
- For The First Time by The Script
- Spiderwebs by No Doubt
- Teenage Dream by Katy Perry

4 Things you Don't Know About Me:

- I have loved reading since I was seven, however my mum hasn't picked up a book for at least five years ( or longer)
- I wore the same dress as some other girl at a recent party *sob* ( It broke my heart), we bought it on the same day but at different places!!!
- I love Sherlock Holmes the movie
- I have a pathetic crush on Alex Pettyfer ( dayummmm he is sooo fine)

I'm gonna tag - Brittany @ Nice Girls Reads Books , Tina @ Book Couture, Emily @ Dragons Ate My Homework and Heather @ Buried in Books (haha only half Aussie pride!)

Badass Bookie xx

Scott Nicholson Blog Tour - Win a Kindle and bunch of E-Books

Hey Guys! I was lucky enough to be picked as part of Scott Nicholson's Blog tour and today is my day with the guy! So scott has kindly written and very interesting guest post for all you lucky reader! Also, giveaway of Kindle's and a bunch of E-books at the end of this post! So read on!

It’s not a secret that I like to tap local legends and spooky stories for my Appalachian thrillers. Or paranormal adventures. Or supernatural mysteries. Or whatever I call them this week.

But there’s one I like to dub a “modern Gothic thriller.” If you ask me what that means, I’ll say “Artists gather at a remote Appalachian manor, where a dormant spirit draws energy from their work.”

It’s inspired by real ghost stories of the Cone Manor in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the estate of a long-dead industrialist, with appropriate liberties taken. The Cone family collected art, and I wanted to isolate the artists at the retreat so they couldn’t pick up a cell phone at the first sign of trouble. I think my original title was “The Colony,” which was pretty bland, and so was the title selected by the publisher when it originally came out in 2004 as “The Manor.”

I wrote a movie script version called “Appalachian Haunting,” which came close to getting optioned. Years later, the producer is still interested, though he sees it as an over-the-top comedy while I was kind of serious. I think. With me, you can never tell for sure.

Though I won’t have the U.S. print rights back for another year, I can sell the book overseas as an e-book, and there’s no reason to miss out on even new one reader. So I revised it quite a bit, including cutting a flashback and moving it to the beginning of the book. That came from the movie script, where sticking in a flashback would have meant a flawed structure. The book employs quite a bit of Appalachian folk magic as the basis for the supernatural events.

Here’s the summary:

After parapsychologist Anna Galloway is diagnosed with metastatic cancer, she has a recurring dream in which she sees her own ghost. The setting of her dream is the historic Korban Manor, which is now an artist's retreat in the remote Appalachian Mountains. Drawn both by the ghost stories surrounding the manor and her own sense of destiny, Anna signs up for the retreat.

Sculptor Mason Jackson has come to Korban Manor to make a final, all-or-nothing attempt at success before giving up his dreams. When he becomes obsessed with carving Ephram Korban's form out of wood, he questions his motivation but is swept up in a creative frenzy unlike any he has ever known.


Sylva Hartley is an old mountain witchwoman who is connected to Ephram Korban both before and after his death. Her knowledge of Appalachian folk spells and potions has bound her to the manor in a deeper and darker way. Sylva harbors a family secret that refuses to stay slumbering in its grave.


The manor itself has secrets, with fires that blaze constantly in the hearths, portraits of Korban in every room, and deceptive mirrors on the walls. The house's brooding atmosphere affects the creative visions of the visiting artists. A mysterious woman in white calls to Anna from the forest, while Mason is driven by the whispers of an unseen critic. With an October blue moon looming, both the living and the dead learn the true power of their dreams.

It's a power that Korban craves for himself, because he walks a shadowy land where passions burn cold and even the ghosts are haunted.

Though the Internet is worldwide, Badass Bookies is an Australian blog. So Lisa the blog host naturally talks about books available to her, and few of mine have been available in Australia before. It’s one of the wonderful ways e-books are breaking down artificial barriers. And a way for me to bring this book back from the dead, better than it was before.

It wasn’t until a couple of years after I wrote the book that I figured out some of its metaphors. No, I don’t go around cramming “theme” into my books, because that comes out in any storytelling form that’s worth the trouble. But Mason’s artistic aspirations and fear of heights (and even his name, a sculptor named “Mason,” that I never understood until recently) probably mirrored some of the feelings I had at the time, when I was just breaking into publishing and facing the pressure of success. It all seems laughable now, since all success is fleeting and ephemeral (Mel Gibson, anyone?) and all you have to worry about is doing your best and not hurting anyone. This is the best I can do as a dead writer.

Creative Spirit. I like that title better.

Scott Nicholson is author of The Skull Ring, Drummer Boy and 10 other novels, five story collections, four comics series, and six screenplays. A journalist and freelance editor in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, he often uses local legends in his work. This tour is sponsored by Amazon, Kindle Nation Daily, and Dellaster Design.

To be eligible for the Kindle DX, simply post a comment below with contact info. Feel free to debate and discuss the topic, but you will only be entered once per blog. Visit all the blogs on the tour and increase your odds. I’m also giving away a Kindle 3 through the tour newsletter and a Pandora’s Box of free e-books to a follower of “hauntedcomputer” on Twitter. And, hey, buy The Red Church and put me in the Top 100 and I’ll throw in another random Kindle 3 giveaway. Thanks for playing. Complete details at http://www.hauntedcomputer.com/blogtour.html

Badass Bookie xx