Top Ten Books I've Read In the Lifespan of My Blog

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Top Ten Books I've Read in the Lifespan of My Blog

10

Anna Trilogy by Kendare Blake

The best horror novels ever written. End of story.

9

A Touch Trilogy by Leah Clifford

Two of the best paranormal books out there! I love the wit Leah has!

8

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Cyborg Cinderella? How could it not be amazing?

7

Struck by Jennifer Bosworth

I am in love with Mia in all kinds of unhealthy ways. She is just such a great character!

6

Fateful by Claudia Gray

I love the Titanic and I love paranormal. This is the perfect combo!

5

Slide by Jill Hathaway

An awesome murder mystery with a touch of paranormal!

4

Envy by Gregg Olsen

Scroll up to what I said about Slide then add the fact it takes place 30 minutes from where I live and ding, ding, ding, we have a winner!

3

Unholy Night by Seth Grahame-Smith

Let's just say it's a more exciting version of the Three Wise Men story...

2

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

This book is all kinds of awesomeness. 

1

Divergent Trilogy by Veronica Roth

VERONICA ROTH IS A GODDESS, BOW DOWN TO HER!!

Gregg Olsen Blogger Event Recap

Hey guys! So a few weeks ago I went to a awesome event for bloggers hosted by Gregg Olsen, author of Envy. When I got the invite from Gregg's author escort, Gail I was so excited. The event was located in the setting of the book, Port Gamble, WA, a mere half hour drive from my house. 

When I first got there not everyone was there so I got the chance to chat at The Port Gamble General Store with Sarah from Sarah's Random Musings, who I had met before, and Candace from Candace's Book Blog, who I had talked with a fair amount online but never in person. It was awesome to meet her, as she was one of the first bloggers I started reading when I joined the book blogging community!

After that we got to explore a genuine haunted house (not open to the public)

The house was really neat, and we even got to eat lunch there while Gregg gave a presentation! (Lunch was a yummy portobello mushroom burger which I highly advise eating) 

After word we got to go on a tour that included some very awesome sights from the book!

Group photo in the Port Gamble Cemetery, final resting place of many people mentioned in the book!

 Katelyn's house. Apparently the upper room (with the window) is where she was murdered!

This is where Beth lives in the book, it's also where the foriegn exchange student stays during Betrayal!

The Ryan family house. We actually got to go inside and look around! It's also the oldest continuously lived in house in Washington!

We did another group photo at the house, everyone has their books!

Gregg gave us a goodie bag filled with awesome stuff, and afterwords we got it all signed!

This was an awesome event that I really enjoyed! Thank you so much to Gregg and Gail for putting this on for us! 

Envy

Envy by Gregg Olsen
Release Date ~ 8/23/11
Format ~ Paperback
Publisher ~ Splinter
Source ~ Author
Purchase a SIGNED Copy!

Murder is such a dirty word…

New York Times bestselling adult true crime author Gregg Olsen makes his YA debut with Empty Coffin, a gripping new fiction series for teens based on ripped-from-the-headlines stories…with a paranormal touch.

Crime lives--and dies--in the deceptively picture-perfect town of Port Gamble (aka “Empty Coffin”), Washington. Evil lurks and strange things happen--and 15-year-olds Hayley and Taylor Ryan secretly use their wits and their telepathic “twin-sense” to uncover the truth about the town's victims and culprits.


Envy, the series debut, involves the mysterious death of the twins' old friend, Katelyn. Was it murder? Suicide? An accident? Hayley and Taylor are determined to find out--and as they investigate, the twins stumble upon a dark truth that is far more disturbing than they ever could have imagined.
Based on the shocking true crime about cyber-bullying, Envy will take you to the edge--and push you right over.

    Envy is one of those books that is more then just a book. It grows a mouth and then goes over and sits down right next to you and tells you a story that will change you, enthrall you, and make you never forget it.

   The story starts with such a horrible event the book's doing an evil chuckle and saying "How the hell are you going to put me down now, eh punk?". Within the first twenty pages everyone in the story has had their lives changed by the death of 15 year old Katelyn. The police instantly label the death as a suicide, and it's very clear she was having a pretty rough time, so there's obviously motive. But the two heroines of the story, twins Hayley and Taylor Ryan think there's a bit more to this story then that, and after 100 pages, that's obviously the case.

   One of the things I liked a lot about this story was how there were so many different narrators.  The main protagonists, Haley and Taylor did get the majority of the chapters, but almost every character, even the really minor ones got to give us a look inside their head!

   Hayley and Taylor were both awesome main characters! They were crafted wonderfully so they both just bounced of the page. They both had very different tones which was very refreshing.

  The setting of Port Gamble (just half an hour away from where I live) was the perfect place for this book. As anyone who's been there knows, it's a quaint, charming, small town. Perfect for this book. It feels as though it becomes it's own character.

  Exciting, suspenseful, Gregg Olsen's YA debut defies all expectations.

Cover Comments:

Such a creepy cover! I love the green background (green with envy, eh?) and the dirty bathtub is just freaky! 

24 Hour Trilexiton Update Two

For more information on the 24 Hour Trilexithon see the post here.

We'll I'm 8 or so hours into my writing group's 24 hour trilexiton (consists of reading, writing, and wordplay). I spent hardly any time reading but I did a lot of wordplay and writing!
Reading: 15 mins
Writing: 2 hr, 45 mins.
Wordplay: 4 hrs.
Break: 1 hr.

24 Trilexithon Update #1

For my starter post for the Trilexithon see here.

Here's what I've done so far in my sleepless 24 hour Trilexiton

Time Spent Reading: None

Writing 2 hr, 45 mins

Wordplay: 45 mins

Break: 30 mins

24 Hour Trilexithon!

Today my writing group is doing it's second annual "Trilexiton". The trilexition is where we do a 24 hour marathon that consists of writing, reading, and wordplay. Because of the two big read-a-thons this week I hope to get a lot of reading done. The event started at 10:00 am pacific (1 pm EST) (I planned to post this post then but WIFI problems got in the way) and ends at the same time tomorrow. I will be post updates every 4 hours. Wish me luck!

Book Haul (10)

Book Haul is a weekly feature here that showcases all the awesome goodies I got this week!

For Review: 

Velveteen by Daniel Marks

I'm sooo stoked for this one. Daniel is a local author, and this one looks like the most perfect book ever for Halloween!

Lorien Legacies Series by Pittacus Lore

This is a series I've been meaning to read for a while - I enjoyed the movie and I was really excited when I got a surprise package from Harper containing all of them!

Bought:

Ascend by Amanda Hocking

I'm going to a signing Amanda is going to be at and I haven't read any of her books but had the first two in this series, so I had to buy the last one to complete my set! Going to have a mini-Amanda Hocking read-a-thon me thinks :)

Gifted: 

All of these are from the ever-awesome Suzanne from my local indie, Liberty Bay Books (link in the sidebar)

The Dead and Buried by Kim Harrington 

I flipped out when Suzanne showed me - it looks like a YA version of American Horror Story!

Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz

The cover for this hasn't been released yet, but I'm really interested in the Holocaust so this will be a good read - once I work up the nerve to be really depressed lol!

Embrace by Jessica Shirvington

I have been shying away from this one 'cause I don't like angel books but it looked too good to pass up!

That's what I got this week! What did you get? Let me know in the comments!