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I am a BIG FAN of Amalie Howard, and Bloodspell is the first book of hers that I've read which I loved. Not convinced? Check my review and see how excited I am for the sequel and after 4 years, we're finally getting one! *pumps fists* Today, I reveal the cover for Bloodcraft, the second book in the Bloodspell series. Check out the post below! Yes, the wait is finally over! BLOODCRAFT by Amalie Howard, the sequel to BLOODSPELL (available NOW for only $2.99), will be releasing on December 15th, 2015! Author Amalie Howard is also giving away TWO signed paperback copies of BLOODSPELL (book one- OPEN INTERNATIONALLY), and TWO eARC copies of BLOODCRAFT to TWO lucky readers. Contest details can be found at the end of this post. And now... here is the cover to BLOODCRAFT. BLOODCRAFT by Amalie Howard Release: December 15th, 2015 Cover design by Alan Pranke All magic has its price, and no one knows that better than Victoria Warrick. Gifted with a centuries-old blood curse, Tori has fin...

Huzzah! I am back with more posts! So a few of my blogger friends and I got together and organized a book event for Rainbow Rowell's Carry On! The book is already out here in the Philippines (you can purchase your copies from National Bookstore! ) and we will be having a small party this weekend, October 10th! RSVP on the event page here! (Banner by the amazing Hazel of Stay Bookish!) Quick Q&A: Give me some details, woman! When: October 10, 2015 3 to 5 pm Where: Powerbooks Greenbelt Registration starts at 2pm so better be there early! Is there a limit for registration? Nope. As long as we can fit in the venue, you can come and hang out with us! Do we need to buy anything to join? No you don't. You don't even need to pay a registration fee to attend the event. Just bring yourself and a friend or two and be prepared to meet other Rainbow Rowell fans and fellow book worms and do fun stuff with us! What do you mean by fun stuff? By fun stuff we mean there will be games an...

Even though I enjoy reading sci-fi and dystopia, sometimes I sit down and just read a good contemporary YA novel and all is right in the world. And the three ladies who graced Manila with their presence more than a week ago just make us want to say: "Ahh, so this is what YA contemporary heaven feels like." I was unusually in high spirits (though I woke up around 3 am) as I was mainly looking forward to seeing Robyn Schneider, because I love and worship her writing and The Beginning of Everything moved me so much but I got more than what I was expecting. They were a riot! It was one of the longest Q&A's we've had and one filled with so much laughter! It's been a while since I've been starstruck and made speechless but when all three of them walked towards the stage I was just that and I know I just had this huge grin on my face because they were there sitting in front of me, answering questions fielded by bloggers. So what has been asked and how were they ...

And National Bookstore woke up the book blogger in me (who was on hiatus) with this signing. Meeting Leigh Bardugo has officially kick started the 2nd half of my year with a very big bang. All I can say is? Again, wow. As you all know, I still couldn't sleep the night before and coupled with exhaustion from being at Toycon 2015 on Saturday, I summoned what little energy I had left to attend and IT WAS WELL WORTH IT. Leigh was such a darling! I've actually read Shadow & Bone a solid year right after it was released, so whatever hype there was has pretty much died down by then, and the second book was just released. And yet I was pretty sure I was hit with the same impact other readers got when they've read it the year before I did, so meeting Leigh was something I was looking forward to because I really loved Shadow & Bone. The bloggers started asking questions, but not before Leigh tried to tell us which Filipino words and phrases she had learned over the course of ...

Hello lovely readers! As you may have guessed, I am way late in this tour, but I am posting and hey! I still have exclusive content just for this blog tour. But first... Guess which London I'm in? Yup. It's Grey London. I had a chance to ask Victoria a question, which was: What's the weirdest thing you have done while trying to get ideas for your writing? Victoria answered: As strange as my ideas are, my process is fairly ordinary. The only thing is, my mind is too cluttered when my body is still, so I have this habit of walking. I walk when I need to parse ideas, I walk when I need to sort out plot, I walk when I need to write and can’t get out of my head enough to do so. I’ve thought through stories in half a dozen countries, trodding up soggy hills in the Lake District, wandering through a small church in Prague, one day I clocked 14 miles just wandering NYC. While trying to sort through ADSOM with my beta reader, I paced my front yard in the middle of January for two ho...

I will tell you this early, but The Tragic Age by Stephen Metcalfe is one of the few YA contemporary books that caught my eye last year, so I am very, very excited to be a part of this. This is the second stop on the tour, and we are releasing the FIRST 50 PAGES of The Tragic Age. Yes, you can read the first fifty pages by checking out the blogs below: Excerpt 1: Tuesday, February 3rd: KellyVision Excerpt 2: Saturday, February 7th: Amaterasu Reads Excerpt 3: Tuesday, February 10th: The Young Folks Excerpt 4: Friday, February 13th: Unbound Books Excerpt 5: Sunday, February 15th: Books and Whimsy Excerpt 6: Thursday, February 19th: Stories & Sweeties Excerpt 7: Monday, February 23rd: As I Turn the Pages Excerpt 8: Saturday, February 28th: Novel Novice I have 3 ARCs of The Tragic Age to giveaway, so if you are liking what you've read so far, here's your chance to win a copy! Scroll down below! And now for the excerpt... ( this is chapter 2 and 3 in the book ) The drum room. Th...

"What if in another universe, I loved you too?" That tagline just got to me enough to make me curious about this book. I'm glad I was able to read it! Interesting, fascinating, confusing and bittersweet. Title: Cities by Carla de Guzman Release Date: November 30th 2014 Published by: Midnight Books Buy: Amazon | Createspace Summary: Celia has dreams. She dreams of going to Seoul for that scholarship she never took, of leaving everything behind and moving to New York. In all those dreams, she finds herself attached to Benedict, the boy she has always loved, who didn’t love her back. Ben believes in parallel worlds. Worlds where the things you didn’t do come true—worlds where he went to London and fell in love with Celia, where he shows up on the day she needed him most. He believes that dreams are glimpses into that parallel world, and it’s not a coincidence that Celia’s been having them too. It’s the day of Ben’s wedding, in the middle of a typhoon in Manila. How wil...

Ah yes, it's that time of the year when I am most excited, not because of the long holiday (okay, maybe a little) but because it's one of the most festive time of the year for me and my family. I'd like to extend my greetings to all my readers, so I say Maligayang Pasko ! It means "Merry Christmas" in my native language. Wherever you are in the world, and whoever you may be celebrating this day with, may you all be filled with happiness and love. One of the best things during this time of the year, especially for me, is seeing a big smile on the faces of my family and loved ones as we celebrate the birth of Christ. In the spirit of giving, I'm doing a quick give away to one of my lucky readers. I meant to give this away early this month, but I've been too busy with work and a lot of other things, so I'm taking this opportunity to give this away now. Fill out the rafflecopter form and tell me: How are you celebrating this year? What gifts did you get? ...

If you are as excited as I am for the last book in the Replica trilogy, then wait no more! Today I will share with you the first chapter of Revolution, which hopefully (like me) will whet your appetite as we wait for the book to hit the shelves. Scroll down below for a chance to win a finished copy too! Title: Revolution (Replica Trilogy #3) by Jenna Black Release Date: November 11th 2014 Published by: Tor Teen Summary: Nadia Lake and Nate Hayes find themselves at the center of a horrifying conspiracy in this action-packed finale of Jenna Black’s SF romance series that began with Replica From the author of the Faeriewalker series comes the stunning conclusion to the young adult science fiction thriller series that began with Replica and continued in Resistance. At the conclusion of Resistance, Nadia Lake and the Replica of her best friend, Nate Hayes, found themselves at the center of a horrifying conspiracy. Framed for murder and wanted by the government, they have no choice but ...

Today I have the awesome Caroline Tung Richmond on the blog and we'll talk about her inspiration for writing her very, very interesting debut novel, The Only Thing to Fear! And yes, I did ask if there's a sequel in the works. Wanna know her answer? Check the interview below! Twitter pitch: Describe your novel in 140 characters! Whew, this is tough! But here goes nothin': Set in a world where Hitler won WWII and colonized the US, a Virginian farm girl starts a revolution to overthrow the Fuhrer. Share with us your writing process... where did the inspiration for The Only Thing to Fear came from? What made you write this story? The inspiration for this book came to me in 2011, right after I read The Aquariums of Pyongyang, which is a memoir by a North Korean refugee. That book really stuck with me, and I started wondering what it would be like to grow up in such a harsh and controlling regime. My imagination took over and an idea struck me—of a teen girl being raised by her u...