Second Chance Saturday is a Fictionally Inclined feature wherein I pick, read, and review a book each month that I have previously written off for some reason or another.
This Month's Featured Book:Grave Mercy by Robin (R.L.) LaFevers This Book Was a Second Chance Because... I had previously gotten the egalley from NetGalley back when it was available to anyone without having to request it, but I ran out of time before I got around to reading it. Then I got it from the library and had decided not to read it...until I read a review at Pure Imagination. Then I decided - with only 3 days left until it was due, and I don't DO overdue books - that I positively HAD to read it. And I did. In a day. Verdict: Worth the second chance. Although the romance fell a little short of the expectations everyone's ravings had set up in my head, I did enjoy the book. It was a thoroughly intriguing, compelling story, although obviously rather dark. I'll be reading the second in the series when it comes out. Purchase:Amazon || Barnes & Noble || The Book Depository
Second Chance Saturday is a Fictionally Inclined feature wherein I pick, read, and review a book each month that I have previously written off for some reason or another. (If you'd like more information on how this feature works, check out this introduction post.)
The goal of this feature is to give a second chance to a book/author/series you have written off for some reason. (If you'd like more information on how this feature works, check out this introduction post.)
This Month's Book: Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty Why It's a Second Chance: I had heard really good things about this series, so I picked the first book up from the library a few months ago. Strike one? The size. It's super awkward, too large to be a paperback. I didn't like it all. Strike two was that I started it when I was in one of those moods where anything I read wasn't quite going to do it for me. I put it down after two pages. Thankfully, I picked it up again a couple weeks ago. Once I actually started reading it, I completely fell in love! I adored the first book, and I immediately read the second. What's that, you ask? Am I in love with Marcus Flutie? Why, yes. Yes, I am. Review of the book: To be posted ASAP. Honestly, I'm typing this post up in about 30 seconds because I didn't want to skip out my first time around. But I'm in the process of designing a new layout, and I am this close to fixing an issue with which I've been struggling for a good five hours. And that's only today. This is also the reason I haven't been super active around the blogosphere for the past few days. I'm really (really really really) hoping to get it up tomorrow at the latest. I'm so excited about it! Let me know if you have participated in this meme; if you have, I will gladly make up a quick linky.
About the Feature
The goal of this feature is to give a second chance to a book/author/series you have written off for some reason. I've made some particularly awesome discoveries by giving books second chances.
• The Vampire Academy series (I didn't like the first couple paragraphs of the first book, but thankfully, I gave it another shot. Five pages in, and I was hooked. Read the entire series in under a week. LOVE. And while we're on the subject...was I the only Christian/Rose shipper in the world? Because it feels like it, but I know there HAS to be at least one other person who saw their potential. Or maybe I'm just crazy. It's a distinct possibility.).
• Yours to Keep by Shannon Stacey, and Shannon Stacey in general, really (couldn't make it through the audiobook of Yours to Keep, but ADORED the actual book once I finally read it).
• Wuthering Heights. (One of my all-time favorites, and I couldn't even make it 100 pages in the first time I attempted to read it. Of course, I was 12 at the time, and thought I could handle anything classics could throw at me, after finishing Jane Eyre.)
The point is: A freaking amazing, potentially life-altering book could be waiting underneath that layer of dust, but you'll never know because that author wrote that one book you read when you were fourteen and couldn't stand. Enter this meme.
How does it work?
Once a month (every second Saturday of each month, to be precise), I will post a recap post, where I'll talk about my Second Chance book(s) read that month, and the potential choices for the next month. There will also be a Linky if you want to promote your own Second Chance posts (recaps or participating reviews from the past month). Recap posts aren't mandatory by any means, but if you want to do them, that's cool, too. To participate, any time you read and review something that's a "second chance" for you, you would mention the meme and link back to me. Sort of like Rewind & Review, if you're familiar with that feature. Basically, the idea is to specifically try to read one Second Chance book a month, but you can read as many or as few as you like. I really want to keep this easy and rule-free, the only stipulation being a request that you please mention or link to me if you participate. That's it!
Note: This is just a prototype to get you started. Feel free to do it however you like.
I also went a little crazy and made promotion banners in three different themes. I still haven't decided which I'm going to use on a permanent basis. I love #1 and #2 a lot. The banners are the full-blown Second Chance Saturday banners. The "minis" are smaller, and they say "I gave this book a Second Chance." They're meant to go with the individual book reviews. They're smaller, thus less cluttering of your post, and they don't make it seem like you should only be posting your review on a Saturday.
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