Thanks-Giving Thursday: Giveaway #2!

Thanks-Giving Thursday is a meme I came up with to say thank you to the followers - new and old - of my blog by spreading the wealth . . . the wealth of books, that is. So every - or alternate - Thursday I will be hosting a giveaway on my blog. The prize(s) will usually include at least two books (ARCs and/or finished copies) and maybe even some sort of swag.

Can't wait to read Andrea Cremer's prequel to the Nightshade trilogy? Or Katie McGarry's breakout novel? . . . If so, you have come to the right place, because I am hosting a giveaway for an *SIGNED* ARC of Rift and an ARC of Pushing the Limits right here.

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Rift:

Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date: August 7, 2012

Chronicling the rise of the Keepers, this is the stunning prequel to Andrea Cremer's internationally bestselling Nightshade trilogy!

Sixteen-year-old Ember Morrow is promised to a group called Conatus after one of their healers saves her mother's life. Once she arrives, Ember finds joy in wielding swords, learning magic, and fighting the encroaching darkness loose in the world. She also finds herself falling in love with her mentor, the dashing, brooding, and powerful Barrow Hess. When the knights realize Eira, one of their leaders, is dabbling in dark magic, Ember and Barrow must choose whether to follow Eira into the nether realm or to pledge their lives to destroying her and her kind.

With action, adventure, magic, and tantalizing sensuality, this book is as fast-paced and breathtaking as the Nightshade novels.

- via Barnes & Noble


Pushing the Limits:

Publisher: Harlequin
Publication date: 7/31/2012

So wrong for each other . . . and yet so right.

No one knows what happened the night Echo Emerson went from popular girl with jock boyfriend to gossiped-about outsider with "freaky" scars on her arms. even Echo can't remember the whole truth. All she knows is that she wants everything to go back to normal. But when Noah Hutchins, the smoking-hot, girl-using loner in the black leather jacket, explodes into her life with his tough attitude and surprising understanding, Echo's world shifts in ways she could never have imagined. Now Echo has to ask herself just how far they can push the limits and what she'll risk for the one guy who might teach her how to love again.

- via Pushing the Limits ARC blurb

RULES:

1. To enter, fill out the Rafflecopter form
2. Provide a working email with your entry
3. Entries point values: 
       +4 for Following this blog

Bonus entries:
        +1 Leave blog post comment

        +1 for Following me on Twitter

        +2 for Tweeting about giveaway on Twitter

4. All entrants must be at least 13 years old
5. Only one entry per person

6. Winners will be announced via blog post and via email
7. If you win, you must claim your prize within 48 hours or the winner will be re-drawn
8. Mailing address is only required if you win
9. The giveaway ends midnight on July 18th 2012 and a winner will be chosen July 19, 2012.

10.Unfortunately, this giveaway is not open internationally

Happy Reading!
Haysel

Feature Friday ARC Review : Rift by Andrea Cremer

*Feature Friday is a meme I came up with to feature YA books that have not been released by reviewing them on The Tattered Page.*

*Warning: This review may contain spoilers. Read at your own risk.

Expected release date: August 7, 2012
Publisher: Philomel Books
Pages: 431
Source: ARC

The Story:

Chronicling the rise of the Keepers, this is the stunning prequel to Andrea Cremer's internationally bestselling Nightshade trilogy!

Sixteen-year-old Ember Morrow is promised to a group called Conatus after one of their healers saves her mother's life. Once she arrives, Ember finds joy in wielding swords, learning magic, and fighting the encroaching darkness loose in the world. She also finds herself falling in love with her mentor, the dashing, brooding, and powerful Barrow Hess. When the knights realize Eira, one of their leaders, is dabbling in dark magic, Ember and Barrow must choose whether to follow Eira into the nether realm or to pledge their lives to destroying her and her kind.

With action, adventure, magic, and tantalizing sensuality, this book is as fast-paced and breathtaking as the Nightshade novels.

- via Barnes & Noble

Rating: FIVE GOLD STARS!!!!!

My Review: One word: THRILLING

In the Lowlands of Scotland, AD 1404, shortly after Ember Morrow's sixteenth birthday finds herself embarking on a life-changing journey. Having grown up the youngest daughter of nobleman Edmund Morrow and Lady Ossia Morrow, she has known the life of privilege. But, unlike her sister, Agnes Morrow, who is soon-to-be shipped off and married to a kind, wealthy French count, Ember never warmed up to the idea of having the life of marriage and motherhood that was expected of her.

Lord Morrow, the arrogant man constantly in search of away to expand his land and authority that he was, expected to marry Ember to the son of a well-to-do landholder just as he did her sister. So it is no surprise that Ember's father is enraged when two knights, Alistair Hart and Barrow Hess, come to take her to Tearmunn in the Scottish Highlands. Ember who has awaited the day when the Conatus would come for her as promised on the eve of her birth. Ember's life for her mother's. "Death hovered over mother and unborn child."

Ember is brought to live in Tearmunn to serve Conatus, an elite Guard, where she discovers that the creatures she must put arms against are not of her world. But, their duty is not without a price. As a knight of the Conatus Guard a warrior must vow to forsake comfort of family and love and devote their lives to protecting the innocent against the supernatural evil that infest the world. A price that she is willing to pay without blinking an eye . . . until she beings her training under powerful, brooding Barrow Hess.

Before long, Ember finds herself wedged between the stern, handsome man who must train her to become the warrior she was meant to be, and easy-going Alistair Hart, her oldest and best friend from childhood. The only one who has always encouraged her hopes and dreams of a life beyond being a mother and wife. The young, black haired, blue eyed Master Hart, has kept his promised to come back for Ember after a year away serving as a knight for Conatus Guard. But after Ember's arrival at Tearmunn, Alistair reveals to her secrets that threatens their friendship.

All is tested when a member of the Circle is found to be dabbling in dark magic, involved in the murder of a fellow knight of the Guard. And in league with Bosque Mar, the sinister unearthly being with powers Conatus has never seen.  When the Guard is divided, Ember finds herself having to choose between following the path of darkness and fleeing Tearmunn to devote her life to fighting against knights that were once her comrades.

Rift by Andrea Cremer was an unexpectedly delicious treat that I devoured like no body's business . . . In this thrilling and action packed prequel to the Nightshade trilogy, readers meet a young woman who learns lessons on love, friendship and standing up for what she believes in during a time when woman were expected to behave a certain way. Rift, the story of how the rift between the Searchers and the Keepers came to be, is a must read!

Here is one of my favorite quotes from Rift:

Page 430: Ember pulled his face to hers, kissing him again before she said, "Your strength gives me courage."

He smiled gently. "No, Ember, that is all your strength and none of mine." She balked, but he kissed her, murmuring against her lips, "And that is why I love you." 


***Check out Andrea Cremer's website for more information about her and the Rift: HERE

Happy Reading!

Independence Day Giveaway!

In honor of the 4th of July I am hosting a giveaway with a little extra  . . . flare.

Instead of one or two books, the winner of this giveaway gets FOUR books! The prize list for this giveaway is as follows:

ARC of Origin by Jessica Khoury
ARC of Beautiful Lies by Jessica Warman

*SIGNED* ARC of Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry

Finished copy of The Immortal Rules by Julie Kawaga

RULES:

1. To enter, fill out the Rafflecopter form
2. Provide a working email with your entry
3. Entries point values
         +4 for Following this blog, The Tattered page
Bonus entries:

          +1 for Leaving a blog post comment

         +1 for Following The Tattered Page on Twitter

         +3 for Tweeting about giveaway on Twitter

4. All entrants must be at least 13 years old
5. Only one entry per person

6. Winners will be announced via blog post and via email
7. If you win, you must claim your prize within 48 hours or the winner will be re-drawn
8. Mailing address is only required if you win
9. The giveaway ends midnight on July 11th 2012 and a winner will be chosen July 12, 2012.

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Origins:

Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: September 4, 2012

An electrifying action-romance that's as thoughtful as it is tragic
Pia has grown up in a secret laboratory hidden deep in the Amazon rain forest. She was raised by a team of scientists who have created her to be the start of a new immortal race. But on the night of her seventeenth birthday, Pia discovers a hole in the electric fence that surrounds her sterile home—and sneaks outside the compound for the first time in her life.

Free in the jungle, Pia meets Eio, a boy from a nearby village. Together, they embark on a race against time to discover the truth about Pia's origin—a truth with deadly consequences that will change their lives forever.

Origin is a beautifully told, shocking new way to look at an age-old desire: to live forever, no matter the cost.

- via Barnes & Noble

Beautiful Lies:

Publisher: Walker & Company
Publication date: August 21, 2012

Rachel and Alice are an extremely rare kind of identical twins—so identical that even their aunt and uncle, whom they’ve lived with since their parents passed away, can’t tell them apart. But the sisters are connected in a way that goes well beyond their surfaces: when one experiences pain, the other exhibits the exact same signs of distress. So when one twin mysteriously disappears, the other immediately knows something is wrong—especially when she starts experiencing serious physical traumas, despite the fact that nobody has touched her. As the search commences to find her sister, the twin left behind must rely on their intense bond to uncover the truth. But is there anyone around her she can trust, when everyone could be a suspect? And ultimately, can she even trust herself? Master storyteller Jessica Warman will keep readers guessing when everything they see—and everything they are told—suddenly becomes unreliable in this page-turning literary thriller.

- via Barnes & Noble


Pushing the Limits: 

Publisher: Harlequin

Publication date: 7/31/2012

So wrong for each other . . . and yet so right.

No one knows what happened the night Echo Emerson went from popular girl with jock boyfriend to gossiped-about outsider with "freaky" scars on her arms. even Echo can't remember the whole truth. All she knows is that she wants everything to go back to normal. But when Noah Hutchins, the smoking-hot, girl-using loner in the black leather jacket, explodes into her life with his tough attitude and surprising understanding, Echo's world shifts in ways she could never have imagined. Now Echo has to ask herself just how far they can push the limits and what she'll risk for the one guy who might teach her how to love again.

- via Pushing the Limits ARC blurb

The Immortal Rules:

Publisher: Harlequin

Publication date: April 24, 2012

In a future world, vampires reign. Humans are blood cattle. And one girl will search for the key to save humanity.

Allison Sekemoto survives in the Fringe, the outermost circle of a vampire city. By day, she and her crew scavenge for food. By night, any one of them could be eaten.

Some days, all that drives Allie is her hatred of them. The vampires who keep humans as blood cattle. Until the night Allie herself is attacked—and given the ultimate choice. Die…or become one of the monsters.

Faced with her own mortality, Allie becomes what she despises most. To survive, she must learn the rules of being immortal, including the most important: go long enough without human blood, and you will go mad.

Then Allie is forced to flee into the unknown, outside her city walls. There she joins a ragged band of humans who are seeking a legend—a possible cure to the disease that killed off most of humankind and created the rabids, the mindless creatures who threaten humans and vampires alike.

But it isn't easy to pass for human. Especially not around Zeke, who might see past the monster inside her. And Allie soon must decide what—and who—is worth dying for.

-via Barnes & Noble

Happy Reading!
Haysel