Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Last Day to Enter: Welcoming The Fall Giveaways!

Today is the end of the Welcoming The Fall Giveaway event hosted by Good Choice Reading! It will end 11:59pm EST so hurry up an enter if you haven’t! You may have entered my first giveaway but I added another one and it’s international!! (You guys are worth the dent in my wallet :D

Welcoming The Fall Giveaway #1 (US and Canada only!)

Welcoming The Fall Giveaway #2 (International!)

Hope you guys enjoy and look forward to some Halloween related giveaways coming soon for my Halloween Event: Dead Books Celebration! (you can read more about it if you click on the button on the top right hand corner!)

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Top 5 Picks for 2011!

Princess Bookie is now holding her Contest Craze event and her first mini-challenge is to tell your top 5 most looked forward to of 2011! So here’s my list:

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Divergent by Veronica Roth
Release Date: May 2011

Summary: In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is—she can’t have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.

During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris, and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together, they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes-fascinating, sometimes-exasperating boy fits into the life she’s chosen.

But Tris also has a secret: one she’s kept hidden from everyone, because she’s been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threatens to unravel her seemingly-perfect society, she also learns that her secret might be what helps her save those she loves . . . or it might be what destroys her

Why I want this:

This sounds like a great addiction to the growing dystopian books coming out and it just sounds like a book that I will really enjoy! I also love the cover!
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Release Date: January 11, 2011

Summary:  Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules.

Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone—one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship—tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn’t do something soon, her parents will be next.

Now, Amy must race to unlock Godspeed’s hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there’s only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the love she could never have seen coming.

Why I want this:

The book seems like it will be like one I’ve never read before! It takes place 300 years later in time! I’m so looking forward to see how the author creates this world! Plus, once again, I LOVE the cover ;)
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XVI by Julia Karr
Release Date: January 6, 2011

Summary: In the year 2150, being a girl isn’t necessarily a good thing, especially when your sixteenth (read sex-teenth) birthday is fast approaching. That in itself would be enough to make anyone more than a little nuts, what with the tattoo and all – but Nina Oberon’s life has taken a definite turn for the worse. Her mother is brutally stabbed and left for dead. Before dying, she entrusts a secret book to Nina, telling her to deliver it to Nina's father. But, first Nina has to find him; since for fifteen years he's been officially dead. Complications arise when she rescues Sal, a mysterious, and ultra hot guy. He seems to like Nina, but also seems to know more about her father than he’s letting on. Then there’s that murderous ex-government agent who’s stalking her, and just happens to be her little sister’s dad."

Why I want this:

Holy snickers I’m seriously addicted to dystopian novels! Have you noticed all the ones I’ve listed are ones? It’s not my fault they just sound so wonderful and this is a book I will be craving for 2011 to come sooner! It seems like a mystery and I love a good mystery!
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Steel by Carrie Vaughn
Release Date: March 1, 2011

Summary: When Jill, a competitive high school fencer, goes with her family on vacation to the Bahamas, she is magically transported to an early eighteenth century pirate ship in the middle of the ocean.

 

 

 

Why I want this:

I love pirates. For real, I just love them! I think it’s because of the manga One Piece that I read,which has pirates, but I just love them! Once I saw that this book had a girl who travels back to the time of pirates it immediately became on my Need-Or-Will-Die Pile!
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Unearthly by Cynthia Hand
Release Date: January 4, 2011

Summary: In the beginning, there's a boy standing in the trees. . .

Clara Gardner has recently learned that she's part angel. Having angel blood run through her veins not only makes her smarter, stronger, and faster than humans (a word, she realizes, that no longer applies to her), but it means she has a purpose, something she was put on this earth to do. Figuring out what it is, though, isn't easy.

Her visions of a raging forest fire and an alluring stranger lead her to a new school in a new town. When she meets Christian, who turns out to be the boy of her dreams (literally), everything seems to fall into place--and out of place, at the same time. Because there's another guy, Tucker, who appeals to Clara's less angelic side.

As Clara tries to find her way in a world she no longer understands, she encounters unseen dangers and choices she never thought she'd have to make--between honesty and deciet, love and duty, good and evil. When the fire from her vision finally ignites, will Clara be ready to face her destiny?

Why I want this:

I’ve really been into angel related book lately and this looks like it could give a good twist on what we see a lot with angels in other books. Plus, there seems to be promise for a love triangle in it… I like :)

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Sunday, September 26, 2010

I Need Your Help! Halloween Event!

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So, for part of the month of October I’m going to be holding a Halloween Dead Books Celebration. I made a post earlier about it but now I need some of you guys out there to help me if you can. The event is me reading books that have ‘dead’ in their title. There will be author interviews, lots of giveaways, and some little contests. (For more info on it go HERE)

BUT, I’m looking for people who may be interested in writing a guest post (maybe on their favorite Halloween or a scary tale they have) OR if you have a book that has ‘dead’ in it’s title (or related to dead) an would like to review it for the event or something else you would can think of doing.

Please fill out the small form below if your interested please!

Thanks and make sure to look out for the event!

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In My Mailbox (9)

 

In My Mailbox is hosted by Kristi from The Story Siren. For more information go to her website!

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Won:
Blameless by Gail Carriger
Bella Should Have Dumped Edward by Michelle Pan (signed)
Some Girls Bite by Chloe Neill 
Dust by Joan Frances Turner
Hunger Games key chain and pins

Borrowed:
Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers (Review)
The Boy Who Couldn’t Sleep and Never Had To by DC Pierson
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Reckoning by Kelley Armstrong

Swap/Bought:
The Boys Next Door by Jennifer Echols (I got this by swaging one of my old Nintendo Game Cube Games!)
Personal Demons by Lisa Desrochers
The Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan

Then the two Picture The Dead and T-shirt you see was sent to me by the author to giveaway for my Dead Books Celebration! Look out for that! ;)

What’d you get in your mailbox?

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Welcoming The Fall Giveaway #2: INTERNATIONAL! **CLOSED**

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For this event I was only planning on holding one giveaway on my blog. What I was not expecting was all the feedback I was going to get! It’s incredible and at the moment my followers number sits at 250! It’s really insane and I decided to hold another giveaway and this one is international!

So what will I be giving away, you ask??

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I’m giving away a copy of Kiss Me, Kill Me and it’s sequel Kisses and Lies by Lauren Henderson!

*Rules*
Must be a blog follower!
Must be at least 13
ENDS 9/29!!

Fill out the form below
International!

Also, don’t forget to look at the other giveaways hosted on these blogs!


Hope you enjoy and thanks for entering!!

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Thursday, September 23, 2010

Blog Hop (12)

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It’s time for another BLOG HOP! The Blog Hop is a weekly meme hosted by the lovely Jessica at Crazy-for-Books! For more information on The Blog Hop head over to her blog.

Question of the Week:

When you write reviews, do you write them as you are reading or wait until you have read the entire book?

Well, when I write my reviews they are usually always after I read the book, unless there is a part of the book that I want to quote or remember and then I’ll write it down, but for the most part I like to think about the book for a while before writing a review for it. Though sometimes I’ll write the review a hour later or a week later. I’m very scattered about when I write them sometimes, but they get written!
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Also make sure to check out my Welcoming The Fall Giveaway! If I reach 250 followers I’ll add a special prize! And make sure to check out all the other blog’s giveaways!

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Cover Spotting!

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Summary: What if the only friend you could trust turned out to be dangerous? A new thriller from debut author Elizabeth Woods!

No full title yet but this is a beautiful cover! Plus, Ms. Woods is a debut author for 2011! So look out for her book around January 4th ;)

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Review: Some Girls Are by Courtney Summers

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Title: Some Girls Are

Author: Courtney Summers

Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin

Pages: 246

Summary: Climbing to the top of the social ladder is hard--falling from it is even harder.  Regina Afton used to be a member of the Fearsome Fivesome, an all-girl clique both feared and revered by the students at Hallowell High... until vicious rumors about her and her best friend's boyfriend start going around.  Now Regina's been "frozen out" and her ex-best friends are out for revenge.  If Regina was guilty, it would be one thing, but the rumors are far from the terrifying truth and the bullying is getting more intense by the day.  She takes solace in the company of Michael Hayden, a misfit with a tragic past who she herself used to bully.  Friendship doesn't come easily for these onetime enemies, and as Regina works hard to make amends for her past, she realizes Michael could be more than just a friend... if threats from the Fearsome Foursome don't break them both first.

Overall: 5 Starts
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Review:

Don’t you love that feeling when you make a connection with a book and you just want to keep reading and keep reading until you’re read all there is and you still want more? Well, that’s how I felt about Some Girls Are.

The story is about Regina Afton, a girl starting her senior year of high school at the top of the world. She’s part of the most popular group in school, she’s in the IT group that lays down the laws and those who don’t follow them are banished away as nobodies, or worse, like Regina, they become a target. And Regina broke the all time rule, she slept with Anna’s, the head biotch, boyfriend, or so that’s the rumor. The truth is much, much worse.

From that point on we witness the hell the Regina is put through from Anna and her followers. They torture her, cast her out, make her pay, and she deserves it, right?

Throughout the whole book I was really conflicted on my feelings towards Regina. On one hand you wanted to feel bad for her and stand up for her, protect her from the terrible things that they were doing to her, but on the other hand you hated her. Or at least I did at first. Regina was just like the people that were torturing her. When she was still part of their “clique” she bashed people, hurt them, did whatever Anna told her to do. And I hate people like that. Actually, no, I despise them. People like that are scums and through out the whole book I hated Anna with a burning passion. This is strong emotion and that’s great! The author is doing her job by making us feel through her writing and I think that’s what really made this a great book, despite the fact I felt hate for most the people in it.

Michael and Regina’s relationship, I really liked it. Though a part of me kind of hated that he forgave her for all the things she did, because what she did was terrible, but in the end I felt that I could forgive her too. I loved Michael’s character! He was the perfect mix of indifference and sensitivity and kindness and you just wanted to hug him for most of the book. One of the greatest things in this book was how their relationship developed.

Overall, Some Girls Are is that book you hate to love, your guilty pleasure, the book that makes you feel emotions that you may not want to, but you get through it and though some part may have hit you in a sensitive spot, what this book tells us is to be the better person. And two biotches definitely don’t make a saint.
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Order it HERE.

-Other Books by Summers-
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Cracked Up To Be (In Stores)
Fall For Anything (Dec. 21, 2010)

Find Courtney
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Waiting on Wednesday (8)

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking The Spine!

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Summary: In this world, you're just a possession.

 

So, there isn’t a full summary out yet for the book but, yet, I’m completely ready to read this book just from the one liner they have up! In this world, you're just a possession. Wow, now that line is a hook and I’m caught! Sounds like it’s a dystopian novel and dystopian is one of my FVAORITE genre to read! Plus they just released the cover for the book and can you say gorgeous? It’s so simple yet effective. I. WANT. THIS. BOOK.

Release Date: June 2011 [So far away! :’(]

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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Welcoming The Fall Giveaway! **CLOSED**

The Welcoming The Fall Giveaway Event was started and is hosted by the ladies at Good Choice Reading! There are 50+ blogs participating and all are hosting bookish giveaways! This contest/event will run for a week starting at September 22th at 12:o1 and ending on September 29th 11:59. (Make sure to check out the list of other blogs at the end!)

For my giveaway I’m offering:

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A copy of Revealers by Amanda Marrone
A copy of Wake by Lisa McMann
A signed Shade bookmark
A signed 13 To Life Postcard
A Tell Me A Secret sticker

Rules:
There will be one (1) winner who will pick one (1) of the two books and all the swag.
US & Canada ONLY!

Become a Follower
Fill out THE FORM!
(Leaving a comment will not enter you but will give you an extra point!)

Make sure to check out all the other blogs and their giveaways!


Thanks!

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Monday, September 20, 2010

Guardian Legacy 4 for 4 Giveaway!

Author Ednah Walters is holding a big giveaway for a chance to win:

). A signed ARC of Awakened.
2). A Guardian Legacy T-shirt (black, female sizes small, medium, large or Xlarge)
3). A Guardian Legacy pen.
4). A Guardian Legacy bookmark

There will be 4 winners and it’s international! So hurry over and enter because it ends Thursday the 23rd!

GO HERE TO ENTER!

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Cover Contest: Anna and the French Kiss

Ok, let me start by saying that I want this book (Anna and the French Kiss) so bad that I will give away my left foot. For real. For 1. The reviews I’ve read for it have been all praise, 2. Stephanie Perkin’s (author) writing has been compared to Jennifer freaking Echols’ writing and if she writes like Jennifer she is def. on my Totally Awesome List, and 3. It takes place in Paris with a hot English guy. Yum.

I guess you can see why I will die without want  this book! So of coarse I’m entering Princesses Bookie’s Cover Contest for it!

Original Cover:

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Anna-and-The-french-Kiss-coverI really wanted to make this one awesome so I used a technique I’ve been working on. It’s filling in a silhouette with pictures while still have the picture on top visible. Not sure I phased that right enough to make sense but I’m pretty happy with the turn out!

I’m hoping to get the gold in this contest so when the time comes around and you like my cover the best please vote!

Love to hear your thoughts! Good? Bad? Fail?

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Madly In Love On Monday (1)

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So this week I decided to take part in the meme Madly In Love On Monday which is hosted by author Lacey Weatherford over at her blog  The Delusional Diaries! For this meme pick a book that you absolutely loved and tell why you loved it! You can check it out HERE.

For this week I’m picking a book I just finished:

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Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina -- she's fearless.

Through a boy, Bree meets the monster: crank. And what begins as a wild, ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul -- her life.

 

I just finished this book and I can’t believe I’ve waited this long to read it! This was a beautiful, heart breaking story about a girl trying to find her way out of and endless maze. No matter how many turns she makes she seems to keep hitting dead ends but I love the real emotions put into the book and can’t wait to pick up more Ellen Hopkins books! (Review coming soon!)

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Sunday, September 19, 2010

Special Halloween Event!: Dead Books Celebration!



The “Dead Books” Celebration. It’s an event I came up with to 1. Celebrate Halloween and 2. Put some spotlight on books that have ‘Dead’ in their title and give us the chills!

This event will be taking place from October 10th to the 31th! It will include Book reviews of books that have ‘dead’ in their title, author interviews, GIVEAWYS! and more!

And, so, I also need some help from you guys! I’m asking that if anyone is interested in doing a Guest Post for the event please email me at VanillaMusic15@aol.com. I would really appreciate if you guys helped and would love to hear your story of maybe your best Halloween! Just please let me know if you want to be a part of this event!

For now hear is a list of books I plan on spotlighting. There could be more added!

We Hear The Dead

She Smells The Dead

The Body Finder

Living Dead Girl

Picture The Dead

Generation Dead

The Dead-Tossed Waves

Dead is the New Black

Also, if you guys have any suggestions for ‘dead’ books let me know too! I hope you’ll be a part of it because we’re going to have a deadly time! XD

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In My Mailbox is hosted by Kristi from The Story Siren. For more information go to her website!

Sorry for my little rant in the middle of the video!

Review:
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Won:
Eighth Grade Bites by Heather Brewer
Low Red Moon by Ivy Devlin
Fangs For Freaks by Serena Robar
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins (Stamped!)
Catching Fire by Suanne Collins (SIGNED!!! A LEGIT SIGNATURE!!)
Signed Everlasting bookmark

Bought:
Crank by Ellen Hopkins
Dead Is The New Black by Merlene Perez
Once Dead, Twice Shy by Kim Harrison

Also, Reviewed this Week:

Going Too Far by Jennifer Echols (LOVED IT!)

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Saturday, September 18, 2010

Nomansland Giveaway!

Hey guys! Go check out Icey Books’ blog for a chance to win a signed copy of Nomansland by Lesley Hauge! This looks like an awesome book!

ENTER HERE!

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Summary: Sometime in the future, a lonely, windswept island is populated solely by women. Among these women is a group of teenaged Trackers—expert equestrians and archers—whose job is to protect their shores from the enemy. The enemy, they’ve been told, is men. When these girls come upon a partially buried home from the distant past, they are fascinated by the strange objects—high-heeled shoes, teen magazines, make-up—found there. What are they to make of these mysterious things? And what does it mean for their strict society where friendship is forbidden and rules must be obeyed—at all costs?

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Friday, September 17, 2010

Blog Hop! (11)

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It’s time for another BLOG HOP! The Blog Hop is a weekly meme hosted by the lovely Jessica at Crazy-for-Books! For more information on The Blog Hop head over to her blog.

Question of the Week:

This week to celebrate Book Blogger Appreciation Week, we are sharing some of our favorite blogs!

Oh, how can I narrow them down?! There are just so many wonderful blogs out there, but here are some of my favorites:

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Candace’s Book Blog:

I love the content in she writes with and her blog design id beautiful!

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 The Story Siren:

Kristi is such a sweet person who runs this amazing blog. She helps bloggers and authors and readers. She has great posts and is very great with reviews!

 

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The Book Pixie:

The Book Pixie was one of the first blogs I started to follow and I’ve loved her post from the very beginning and I find that I usually like what she does.

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Also look out for information on…

Dead-celebration

Yep, you see that right! I’m going to be holding a “Dead Books” celebration! I’m going to be putting the spotlight on books that all have ‘dead’ in their title (or a dead related title)!

Here’s  a list of some books I’m going to be spotlighting:

We Hear The Dead

She Smells The Dead

The Body Finder

Living Dead Girl

Picture The Dead

Generation Dead

The Dead-Tossed Waves

Dead is the New Black

Guardian of the Dead

Look out for more information on it this weekend!

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Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Waiting on Wednesday (7)

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking The Spine!

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In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue—Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is—she can’t have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.

During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris, and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together, they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are—and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes-fascinating, sometimes-exasperating boy fits into the life she’s chosen.

But Tris also has a secret: one she’s kept hidden from everyone, because she’s been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threatens to unravel her seemingly-perfect society, she also learns that her secret might be what helps her save those she loves . . . or it might be what destroys her.

This book just sounds like pure win! I love me an awesome new dystopian novel! Plus the newly revealed cover is gorgeous!

Coming out May 2011.

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