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
Stacking the Shelves is a feature hosted by Tenga's Reviews wherein participants share and discuss their latest book hauls.
Welcome to my first ever Stacking the Shelves! Today, I talk about my haul from the last two weeks. So it takes a while. If you are not inclined to listen to me exercise my loquaciously verbose - but, alas, not particularly eloquent - abilities, you may skip straight to the list below.
Received for Review Better Than Chocolate by Sheila Roberts { Goodreads || Amazon } (Thanks, Katie @ Little Bird Publicity!) Forever And a Day by Jill Shalvis { Goodreads || Amazon } (Thanks, Grand Central Publishing!) The Ugly Duchess by Eloisa James { Goodreads || Amazon } (Thanks, Edelweiss!)
Other Books Mentioned Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore { Goodreads || Amazon || My Review} Hunting and Gathering / Ensemble, c'est tout by Anna Gavalda { Goodreads || Amazon }
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.)
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.
Books Mentioned Outlander by Diana Gabaldon { Goodreads || Amazon } Divergent by Veronica Roth { Goodreads || Amazon }
(Yes, I am, in fact, the LAST YA-reading person on the planet to read Divergent. SO GOOD.)
Other Random Things
How awesome it is when your BFF is bookish. ♥
Fanfiction. Of the Draco/Hermione inclination, specifically.
Cupcakes! Snickerdoodle cupcakes, nonetheless. So good! I am going to have to make them again. Except not because I SERIOUSLY need to stop eating them.
Things I Forgot to Mention
I'm hosting my first ever giveaway! Enter to win Deb Caletti's new release, The Story of Us, here.
ETA: For the record, I will no longer be participating in the In My Mailbox meme. However, I also don't judge anyone who continues to do so; it really is a great meme. This is simply a personal choice I'm making.
In My Mailbox is a meme created by Kristi at The Story Siren, wherein I talk about books I have acquired by some method or another each week.
Bought A Week to Be Wicked by Tessa Dare { Goodreads || Amazon }
Borrowed from the Library The Revenge of Lord Eberlin by Julia London { Goodreads || Amazon } Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire { Goodreads || Amazon } Sea by Heidi R. Kling { Goodreads || Amazon } Five Flavors of Dumb by Antony John { Goodreads || Amazon } The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth { Goodreads || Amazon } Unraveling Isobel by Eileen Cook { Goodreads || Amazon }
Other Books Mentioned A Night to Surrender by Tessa Dare { Goodreads || Amazon } The Year of Living Scandalously by Julia London { Goodreads || Amazon } Dukes to the Left of Me, Princes to the Right by Kieran Kramer { Goodreads || Amazon } (currently reading)
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