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Happy Belated 4th Birthday To My Blog!! Let’s celebrate with an AWESOME Raine Miller giveaway package. :)

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WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT!! Congratulations to Claudia who received this awesome giveaway!!

I just wanted to wish a happy (belated – *whoops* February 28th) birthday to my blog that has brought me SUCH pleasure. It gives me an outlet to express my ecstatic book energy, it indulges my need to make lists. And best yet, it has brought me four years of lasting book friends! I love you guys, and I thank each and every one of you for sending me your personal recommendations, and for reading mine. It means the world to me that we can share in our book hobby together.

There’s nothing better than to argue who’s book boyfriend is better than who’s and to occasionally “fight” over the same one. I couldn’t find a better bunch to fight over a book-boyfriend with. 😉 You guys GET me. You guys get my *squeees!!*, my book-crushes, my tears and full-body tremors when a book turns my world upside down. And not only do you guys get “it”, you jump right in with me to purposely torture yourselves, too. But it’s delicious torture isn’t it?

*big squeeeeezy hug*

So it’s time for the birthday gift! This is SO gorgeous and it just screams “the perfect book gift”. It was provided to me by Raine Miller herself (author of the HUGE hit The Blackstone Affair Series), for a lucky winner on my blog. Just look at all of this cool stuff!

  • A signed Raine Miller book (The Undoing of a Libertine (Siren Publishing Classic))
  • A matching velvet bookmark with awesome dangly charms…
  • a Raine Miller pen
  • two Raine Miller keychains (and a cute little purple and gold carry-bag for them)
  • an adorable tiny journal with more awesome dangly charms on the front (and Raine’s signature on the back)
  • A cute purple “Ethan Blackstone” carry-bag for the journal (and it, too is decorated in ribbons, flowers, and cool dangly photo of sexy Ethan, himself).
  • And a large Raine Miller tote-bag to carry the whole lot!

I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw all of the cool stuff and Raine Miller memorabilia. She showed me each of these awesome trinkets, one by one herself! Totally my thing, but this package is for one of YOU!

Cute tiny journal & it’s tiny carry-bag
Signed book and it’s matching bookmark

How to enter for a chance to win this whole awesome prize package? Just leave a comment below, and by Monday, March 11th, 2013, 11pm EST, I will randomly select one winner.

The winner will be contacted and will have 48hrs to respond with a mailing address, so if you are picked, do not delay or you will lose your chance. Sorry for my international readers, this is a open to U.S. residents only (but you’re welcome to comment and join in any time!!).

Two of my favorite books are on super-bargain sale today! “The Edge of Never” & “Collide”

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A couple of our fellow reading-addicts discovered that these are on sale! (thank you Nancy & Jules!!) These are two of my absolute favorites and I couldn’t resist dedicating a post to them again. I personally LOVED and highly recommend them. Now I’m assuming the majority of you have already read these as we can’t stop raving about them, and we all usually read the each other’s favorites. 😀 But…. just in case you’re new here (WELCOME!!!) or just in case you’ve been holding off, I must remind you. Both are re-read worthy and SO emotionally investing.

Collide (Volume 1) by Gail McHugh

  • Book Review – Collide by Gail McHugh – 4.5 stars
  • An exclusive teaser for the upcoming sequel (to be read only AFTER) you finish the book. Yes… there’s sort of a cliffhanger but a totally “different kind of cliff”. Let’s just say it will leave you wanting more, you’ll be excited and titillated with the turn of events. Tolerable, ’cause well, you just have to read it to understand. 😉

And a fun comment that was just posted from somebody who just read this:

Judy: I found your site after finishing the Thoughtless series & wondering what to read next…I followed your recommendation for Collide and you were SO RIGHT – it was off the charts awesome! It was sitting-in-bed-with-my-flashlight-so-I-don’t-wake-the-husband GOOD!!! I have never been so anxious reading a book before, with knots in my stomach and my hands shaking. I want to thank you for these great “what to read after….” lists. I’ll be visiting your site regularly now! :)

Judy, I wholeheartedly agree. This book was exciting and passionate and desperately angsty but done so well! MY HEART!!!!

The Edge of Never by J.A. Redmerski

Latest Facebook discussion going on right now as readers are thrilled with the super sale:

Lee:  a brilliant read.

Kimberly: Agreed one of the best books EVER

Erin: Agreed….found it on a whim….one of my favorites!

Jennifer: I started this last night and finished at 3 today in tears! My new fave by far!!!!

Brooke: I was on an airplane and totally upset during one part (you know which one) and basically in tears and furious w/ the author. My husband thought I was nuts. I am lucky there wasn’t an air marshal on the plane.. they would never have understood why I was so emotional.

Julie: this book is unbelievable! I am still dealing this morning. Love it. If you love Thoughtless…you will love this!

Cyndi: Just got it, can’t wait to read…all of your recommendations have rocked my socks off!!!

Avery: This is one of my all time faves!

Jennifer: Brooke! I KNOW RIGHT?!? I was sobbing loudly and uncontrollably rocking back and forth….yes, the husband was thinking I had received bad news.

Lara: I was very close to having leaky eyes , lovely story , I laughed out loud several times and of course held my breath while sucking back the tears that threatened , fab love story

Reader Question – the book with the girl who goes to a party, and pulls away from her boyfriend…

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Oh here’s one!!! This one should be easy enough since we read so much YA and NA, but… I haven’t read it and was unable to help Amy, so maybe someone here knows?

Amy asks:

A book was recommended to me, and now I can’t remember or find the title of it. It is YA and is about a guy and girl in high school who fall hard for each other (of course!), but after she goes to a party without him she starts pulling away and he is trying to figure out why. He knows something pretty bad happened, he just doesn’t know what that is and they start to fall apart. Does this ring any bells with you? Thanks in advance for your help!

Anything come to mind?

Lisa made me laugh when she said:

Lisa: I want to find out, sounds good! This is fun to play guess the book!

I know, right?!! Through your guesses, I’ve discovered a bunch of books that weren’t even on my radar but totally should have been.

UPDATE: And the actual book is —> Fault Line by C. Desir (will be out November 12th 2013). It sounds awesome!! Thanks guys!

Here were all of the suggestions (many of these came from our Facebook crew).

Reader Question… Solved! The book with the dead twin sister and her boyfriend…

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Okay here’s another reader looking for a book title. It, too looks right up our alley, but I don’t know what it is.

Lise asks:

Ok you are my last resort. I swear I’ve read a book synopsis about twin sisters. One sister dies and surviving twin develops a relationship with the dead sister’s boyfriend. I’ve been combing through B&N, Good Reads, etc. I can’t seem to find it. I’m hoping you know what book I’m talking about…it’s driving me crazy!!

Right??!!! I wanna read this. Kind of taboo with the whole “twin” thing (when it comes to their significant others), so this one has me curious.

Anyone…?

UPDATE: Lisa just got back to us and confirmed the book she was looking for IS on the list!! She said:

Thank you! It was The Sky Is Everywhere!! Thanks for ending my search!!

Yay! You guys rock so much! Here were all of the suggestions:

➔➔➔  Browse more reader questions (solved & unsolved) here. 😀 Maybe you’ll find a solved one to read or have a guess for us for one that’s still unsolved.

Have a reader question for us to solve? Send it to me here.

➔➔➔  Love this trope? Browse more in love with her sister’s man book features and reviews on my blog.

Reader Question: The book with the girl that wakes up from an accident…

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Nikki is looking for help with a book title. She gave me a bit of the synopsis and wants to know if anyone knows what book she’s talking about. Unfortunately, I don’t know which one this is, but it does sound interesting!

I remember reading a preview for an upcoming book, in the back of another book I was reading and I don’t remember either book.  All I can remember is that it was told from the perspective of the character who was waking up from some kind of accident and she (pretty sure it was a girl) didn’t know who the people were and she was convinced that they had the wrong person.  And that is all I can remember.  Any ideas???  Thanks for any help you can give!!

Anyone….? 😉

UPDATE: Nikki just got back to us and you guys found it!!! She said:

Thank you so much for the help!! It has been driving me crazy trying to find that book.  I tried finding it in the back of every book that I’ve read in the past couple months and I couldn’t find a thing!!  It is definitely WIDE AWAKE by Shelly Crane!  Now I just have to wait for it to come out!!

Here were the other suggestions from the commenters below and a few on Facebook (and they all sound right!)

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