Category: Books

Review: Be With Me by J. Lynn (@JLArmentrout)

I have yet to read a book written by Jennifer L. Armentrout that I haven’t loved. Be With Me is no exception. This book is about Teresa Hamilton, who we met in Wait For You. At the start of the book she’s starting her freshman year while she’s recovering from an torn ACL. She’s working on Plan B, while she waits for her body to heal so she can go back to her dancing. For the last so many years she’s been secretly crushing on her brother’s best friend, Jase Winstead. A year ago they kissed..once..and since then they’ve pretty much been ignoring each other.. Until now. 😉 Now that Tess is going to college while she heals from her injury, she’s “reconnected” with Jase. Tess keeps getting hot and cold signals from Jase. One minute he wants her, the next he’s pushing her away. He’s hiding something from her, from everyone. It seemed obvious to me as to what was keeping him from having a relationship with Tess, but when he finally opened up and talked to Teresa, I was totally shocked to see my theory was right. On top of Tess having to deal with indecisive Jase, she’s having to deal with problems with her roommate. If you’ve read Wait For You, you have an idea as to what Teresa has already endured in the past..but now we’re hearing it from HER point of view and we’re seeing her witness her roommate go through the same predicament.. Teresa […]

RDL: Loving Cara by Kristen Proby + Giveaway

Loving Cara by Kristen Proby Series: Love Under The Big Sky Release Date: January 21st, 2014 Publisher: Pocket Books Buy Now: Amazon | B&N Goodreads: Add to your bookshelf In this new Love Under the Big Sky series from a USA TODAY bestselling author, Cara agrees to tutor her former classmate’s nephew—and learns some lessons in love! Josh King is an expert at running his family’ s multi-million dollar ranch in Montana. (And all that outside manual labor has done wonders for sculpting his six-foot-three body, too.) But as sure footed as he is when it comes to the ranch, Josh doesn’ t know anything about how to deal with an adolescent boy—so when his twelve-year-old nephew, Seth, is dropped off on his doorstep, looking scared and acting surly as hell, Josh knows he needs help in straightening him out. Cara Donovan loves her quiet life as a teacher in her sleepy hometown, so she jumps at the chance to make a little money over the summer as a tutor. But when she learns she’ ll be teaching Josh King’ s nephew, Cara’ s sweet summer job gets a little bit hotter. Cara tries to focus all her attention on tutoring Seth, but Josh proves to be a delicious distraction, while Josh’ s memories of the shy girl he once teased in high school are nothing like the beautiful woman he’ s facing now. Can he persuade her that there’ s more between them than a summer fling? About Kristen Proby […]

Guest Post: Liar, Liar Hearts on Fire by Jennifer Zane

Liar, Liar Hearts on Fire by Jennifer Zane Release Date: January 16th, 2014 Pages: 225 Goodreads: Add to your bookshelf Buy Now: Amazon Violet Miller is a teacher savoring her summer break until she’s been called in as emergency reinforcements—of the dating kind. She volunteers to help an old flame by pretending to be his girlfriend. In Alaska. At a family reunion. Since the guy is a handsome, lumberjack-sized doctor she’s never quite forgotten, faking a relationship won’t be hard work. Mike Ostranski is a desperate man on vacation. His mother wants grandchildren and sees a crazy Alaskan woman as a candidate for daughter-in-law. Mike needs Violet by his side to deflect the lady’s advances. A week in Alaska as boyfriend and girlfriend should be easy for them. They grew up together, even had a brief fling. What could go wrong? Everything. AUTHOR’ S FAVORITE QUOTES from LIAR, LIAR HEARTS ON FIRE by Jennifer Zane Violet (a first-grade teacher) is questioning Goldie about who would read the Erotic Romance book she’s written. Goldie says: “Young lady, are you forgetting where you are?” I looked around the adult store filled with blow-up dolls, slutty lingerie, toys, videos, gag gifts. “Right. My view of the world is shifting from the ABC’s to XXX.” Jennifer: Violet and Goldie. I like this quote because Violet realizes her world view has been a little skewed because of her job and her single-ness. ___ My dating experience might have been sporadic—the seasonal […]

Results for our first ever Best Reads Of: 2013 polls

Thanks to everyone who voted in our first ever Reader’s Choice Best of Polls! We’re so glad to say we got a huge HUGE turnout in the voting. Way more votes than I ever imagined! Thanks to the READERS for taking part of our polling! Also, THANKS to all of the Authors who RTed my constant tweets about our First Ever polls on our still relatively new book blog. We love you and that is why we are here! To read, talk and rave (and maybe sometimes rant too. Ha) about our favorite authors and the amazing books they write! If it weren’t for you guys, we wouldn’t be here doing this. 😉 Thanks to everyone!! Best Cover of 2013 # Title Author # of Votes % of Votes 1 Origin Jennifer L. Armentrout 182 19% 2 Forever Too Far Abbi Glines 91 9% 3 A Beautiful Wedding Jamie McGuire 86 9% 4 Clockword Princess Cassandra Clare 65 7% 5 Tangled Emma Chase 63 7% Best Debut of 2013 # Title Author # of Votes % of Votes 1 Tangled Emma Chase 162 24% 2 Bully Penelope Douglas 161 24% 3 Real Katy Evans 96 14% 4 The Collector Victoria Scott 61 9% 5 Axel Harper Sloan 42 6% Best Book Boyfriend of 2013 # Character Book/Author # of Votes % of Votes 1 Rush Finlay Too Far / Abbi Glines 323 22% 2 Daemon Black LUX / Jennifer L. Armentrout 240 17% 3 Travis Maddox Beautiful / Jamie […]

Snowed In? So Read Blog Hop GIVEAWAY!

One of the books I ended 2013 with was Amy A. Bartol’s book Under Different Stars. I really, REALLY, enjoyed this book so I decided to start your 2014 out right and giveaway this book for the Snowed In? So Read Hop hosted by Stuck in Books! Under Different Stars by Amy A. Bartol Series: Kricket #1 Pages: 287 Release Date: December 16th, 2013 Read my Review here. Synopsis: All she wants is a home, but can she find one…UNDER DIFFERENT STARS Kricket Hollowell is normally not one to wish upon stars; she believes they’ re rarely in her favor. Well versed at dodging caseworkers from Chicago’ s foster care system, the past few years on her own have made Kricket an expert at the art of survival and blending in. With her 18th birthday fast approaching, she dreams of the day when she can stop running and find what her heart needs most: a home. Trey Allairis hates Earth and doubts that anyone from his world can thrive here. What he’ s learning of Kricket and her existence away from her true home only confirms his theory. But, when he and Kricket lie together under the stars of Ethar, counting them all may be easier than letting her go. Kyon Ensin’ s secrets number the stars; he knows more about Kricket’ s gifts than anyone and plans to possess her because of them. He also knows she’ s more valuable than any fire in the night sky. He’ ll move the heavens and align […]

This Much is True by Katherine Owen EXCERPT & GIVEAWAY!

This Much is True by Katherine Owen Release Date: August 11th, 2013 Pages: 432 Goodreads: Add to your bookshelf Buy Now: Amazon | Barnes & Noble Fate brings them together.Fame & lies keep them apart.One truth remains… She’ s become the Paly High girl with the most tragic story… At 17, Tally Landon just wants to graduate and leave for New York to pursue ballet. Her best friend Marla convinces her to attend one last party—a college party—where she can be among strangers and evade the whisperings about her heartbreaking loss of her twin that follows her everywhere she goes. She meets Lincoln Presley, Stanford’ s famous baseball wonder and has a little fun at his expense—when she lies about her age and who she really is—intent on being someone else for the night and escaping her tragic story. His only focus is baseball, but he can’ t forget the girl he saved on Valentine’ s Day… At 22, Lincoln Presley’ s star is on the rise—about to finish at Stanford and expected to be taken early in Major League Baseball’ s upcoming draft—his cousin’ s party serves as a welcome distraction. But then, he sees the girl from Valentine’ s Day that he saved from that horrific car accident and can’ t quite hide his disappointment when she appears to look right through him and not remember him at all. He vows to learn her name at least before he leaves. What’ s the harm in getting to know this girl? […]

12 Days of Reviews & Giveaways! Year in Reviews + NOOK Simple Touch GIVEAWAY!

Hello everyone! Seeing as it’s Christmas and all, I’ve been busy and I haven’t had the chance to write a review up in a few days..so instead of just ONE review today to go with our last giveaway of 12 days of Christmas, this post is gonna be a 2013 wrap up post. Listed below are every review we wrote in the year 2013! Don’t worry! There aren’t hundreds of them for you to go through..and it only goes back to May because that’s when we launched the blog! 😉 After you scroll your way through the reviews you will come across a rafflecopter…. The final gift in our 12 Days of Reviews & Giveaways is a NOOK SIMPLE TOUCH (BRAND NEW IN BOX!)!! Happy Holidays from us here at MEReadALOT!! May 2013 June 2013 July 2013 August 2013 September 2013 October 2013 November 2013 December 2013 Giveaway Key Features Crisp, clear text Paper-like pages with no-glare Amazing value Screen 6″ Screen E Ink Display – Just like paper 600 x 800 167 pixels per inch Specs 7.48 oz (212 g)2 Battery lasts over up to 8 weeks on a single charge1 600 MHz Single-Core Processor Expandable Memory with microSD5 Built-in Wi Fi® Content Books Magazines Newspapers Features Free Wi-Fi® in B&N Stores Free Cloud Storage Sample Books for Free Book Lending & Borrowing In-Store Support 2GB – Holds up to 1,000 books a Rafflecopter giveaway

12 Days of Reviews & Giveaways: The Only One by Magan Vernon

Magan Vernon is one of my favorite authors. Whether she writes about hot aliens named Ace or she’s writing about a hot frat boy in a loin cloth, I’ve enjoyed everything I’ve read by her.. She’s an entertaining writer and if you follow her on Twitter, you’ll see she’s just as entertaining in general. 🙂 This year I’ve read her books The Only Exception and The Only One. Both books are written in the same “universe”, The Only One being the companion novel to The Only Exception. I loved both books so I’m giving away a digital copy of both books for our 12 Days of Reviews & Giveaways.. ENTER TO WIN BELOW!! Speaking of Reviews, here is my review for The Only One. You can also check out Meredith’s (who did some guest reviews for our Aliens Abducting August theme this year) reviews for Magan’s My Alien Romance series here. Giveaway a Rafflecopter giveaway

Needing Her by Molly McAdams Prank-tastic Blog Tour

WHO IS THE REAL MOLLY McADAMS? Molly McAdams is pulling a prank on the internet to celebrate the release of her prank-tastic novella, Needing Her, on 12/23! For eight days until Needing Her goes on-sale, the internet will be brimming with New Adult celebs like J. Lynn, Jay Crownover, Sophie Jordan, and more—all pretending to be the REAL Molly McAdams. All have filled out the same Q&A, so it’ s up to the fans to guess which one is the real Molly! Each day, a new Q&A will go live on a variety of blogs, and if you guess who’ s answering the questions in the comments, you could win a fabulous gift basket, including books from all the participating authors, as well as a prank “starter-kit,” for your own practical jokes. Here are the participants: Molly McAdams J. Lynn Monica Murphy Lisa DesRochers Jay Crownover Sophie Jordan Nichole Chase Blogger Yara Santos of Once Upon A Twilight So see if you can guess who’ s who by commenting, and you’ ll be entered to win a lavish prize basket. And check all the other participating blogs until 12/23 to see if you can pick out the REAL Molly McAdams. Identities will be revealed, and the winner will be announced on 12/24, on these blogs as well as on the Between the Covers FB page. Favorite food? Any flavored Cheesecake Favorite color? At the moment its light green Favorite band and / or favorite song? New Kids on the Block of course How […]