Month: November 2013

Blog Tour: One & Only by Viv Daniels [Giveaway + Guest Post]

November 8, 2013 / 5 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Uncategorized
Blog Tour: One & Only by Viv Daniels [Giveaway + Guest Post]

Hi guys, I’m honoured to be one of the first posts for Viv Daniels’ (aka fave author Diana Peterfreund) Blog Tour for ONE & ONLY, which comes out today! One & Only Author: Viv Daniels (website | twitter | facebook) Buy now: Amazon | Amazon UK | Barnes & Noble | Kobo | Smashwords Synopsis:  One night they can’t forget… Tess McMann lives her life according to the secrets she’s sworn to keep: the father who won’t acknowledge her, the sister who doesn’t know she exists, and the mother who’s content playing mistress to a prominent businessman. When she meets the distractingly cute Dylan Kingsley at a prestigious summer […]

Birthday Giveaways: Win ARCs, new releases, Diana Peterfreund books & more!

November 6, 2013 / 76 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Uncategorized
Birthday Giveaways: Win ARCs, new releases, Diana Peterfreund books & more!

Hey everyone! Today it’s my birthday, so I’m sharing the love by giving away a bunch of books! I love getting books as gifts, so today you guys get some, too. Before I get to the giveaway, I just wanted to say thank you to all of you readers, bloggers, publishers, authors….anyone who helped me out this year with my blog. It’s been such a joy to write for you, squee with you, commiserate with you, and help promote your books this year. I didn’t get a chance to celebrate my first blogoversary this year, so this is for you. […]

Waiting on Wednesday: The Art of Lainey by Paula Stokes

Waiting on Wednesday: The Art of Lainey by Paula Stokes

“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that book bloggers are eagerly anticipating. This week’s WoW pick is a super-cute sounding contemp: The Art of Lainey by Paula Stokes (twitter) Publisher: HarperTeen Expected publication: May 20, 2014  Soccer star Lainey Mitchell is used to getting what she wants, and when her boyfriend Jason breaks up with her for no reason, what she wants is to win him back before the start of their senior year. Lainey and her friend Bianca check the interwebz for tips and tricks, but the online dating […]

Top Ten Tuesday #14: Sequels I Can’t Wait To Get My Hands On

Top Ten Tuesday #14: Sequels I Can’t Wait To Get My Hands On

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at The Broke and the Bookish to highlight a top ten list related to book blogging, and to get to know fellow book bloggers. Anticipated Sequels is a hard category for me this fall, because so many of my favourite sequels/series enders came out in the last two months….But I’ll give it a go: The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven Cycle #2) – yes, I know it’s out already, but I haven’t gotten to it yet…And you know that if I had, I would just be putting book #3 on […]

Review: Allegiant by Veronica Roth [NO SPOILERS]

November 4, 2013 / 13 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review, Uncategorized
Review: Allegiant by Veronica Roth [NO SPOILERS]

Allegiant (Divergent #3) Author: Veronica Roth (website | twitter) Publisher: Katherine Tegan Books/Harper Collins  Source: Pre-ordered from Chapters/Indigo Format: Hardcover, 526 pages Publication date: October 22, 2013 My rating: 4 out of 5 stars Goodreads synopsis: One choice will define you. What if your whole world was a lie? What if a single revelation—like a single choice—changed everything? What if love and loyalty made you do things you never expected? The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered—fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past […]