Mailbox Mondays was started by Marcia @ A Girl & Her Books and The Printed Page and it now travels every month. This month it is hosted at Cindy's Love of Books.
Books Mentioned:
The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa
Obsidian by Jennifer Armentrout
Rock On by Denise Vega
A Want So Wicked by Suzanne Young
Once by Anna Carey
Team Human by Justin Larbalestier & Sarah Rees Brennan
Drain You by M. Beth Bloom
Ebooks:
Tempting the Best Man by J. Lynn
Elemental by Brigid Kemmerer
Love Know No Bounds (charity anthology going to Autism Speaks!!)
Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan (from Netgalley)
People Mentioned:
Marcia @ A Girl & Her Books
The Printed Page
Cindy's Love of Books
Alexa & Johnny @ Pages of Forbidden Love
Loretta @ Between the Pages
Stand-Alone Challenge by -
Britta @ I Like These Books
Icey Books
Thanks so much for linking me this week. I truly appreciate it. Love this vlog you guys are super awesome. You got some great books. :) Uber jealous of the last four though LOL
ReplyDeleteOf course Cindy! Thanks for stopping by! :D
DeleteI love your vlogs you and the hubs crack me up. You got some great books, I can't wait for A Want So Wicked!
ReplyDeleteThanks Melissa ;) I'm excited to start the series!
DeleteI love when I stumble across a vlog... always makes me smile!!
ReplyDeleteTempting The Best Man was AWESOME, I hope you enjoy it!! :)
Yes, I read TTBM the day it released! SO AMAZING :)
DeleteWell when you do the thingy ma-bob with the reading angel thing. =D
ReplyDeleteSOOOOOO YEAHHHHHHH YOU GET TO READ A NEED SO BEAUTIFUL AND EVE!!!! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!! I'm happy & I know it. But duke is sexy & he knows it. hahaha. I swear that song you should have been playing. He's funny.
Tempting the best man. =D yum. A lot of greatness. How abouts you go see my iGot Mail <-- Yeah, no IMM. ha
http://www.betweenthepagesreviews.com/2012/04/i-got-mail-428.html
HAHA Loretta, if I knew how to add music I would have played it! :)
Deleteya'll always crack me up to! I missed your lil guy talking about his books this week. He is just the cutest! Some really cool books you got this week! You can see what Gimme's Goodies were this week here.
ReplyDeleteJennifer, my son got to spend the day with his Papaw (which he loved) but I just read him your comment and you made his day! :) Thanks!!
DeleteFrom Johnny-- Duke...so you did the video pantless? Nothing below the waist...really? So you are like a Ken Doll?
ReplyDeleteFrom Alexa- I just read Obsidian yesterday and I have to say I have a pro and con list going on for that one and that is how I wrote my review. There were several great elements and I did love Daemon but it did have Twilight inspired plot lines and people say that Half Blood was like Vampire Acadmey. I have read HalfBlood but I have never read VA so I didn't know about those being the same. My big concern though is that Armentrout might just be taking popular plot lines and putting in her own batch of characters. So I do like/love some of her books but I'm a little conflicted right now lol. Sorry for the long rant. I do want to read her adult romance book though :)
Oh and the post is Clock Rewinders.
Happy reading!
Alexa. I think you read the wrong Obsidian! ;) Not anything like Twilight. lol
DeleteLOL I'm with you Loretta ;) Unless you're one of those people who kinda find Twilight reference in a lot of things I just don't see how you found it in this one at all.
DeleteI'm going to have to read your review when you post it Alexa to see what all you found.
When she goes to meet with all of the alien family he has it is like when Bella went to go meet the Cullens. There were family members that were on her side and there were members that wanted to just string her up as bait.
DeleteThe whole ending scene/battle. Katy (Bella) leaves behind her alien (vampire) protection and decides to drive to where the bad alien (vampire) can meet just her. While Daemon (Edward) must form a plan on how he is going to go save Katy (Bella). The bad alien does something to her arm so she drops the Obsidian, Bella had her arm bit. Daemon (Edward) is the only one who can use healing powers (suck out the venum) to save Katy's (Bella's) life. The only thing that is more advance is that Katy is already becoming more like an alien where it took Bella till the last book to move over to become a vampire.
I promise I don't go looking for this but I am doing the Twilight re-read challenge this year so I re-read Twilight two months ago so it is just so easy to see how Obsidian is like Twilight. Plus Daemon has the on and off moods where he wants her to stay away from his alien family for her safety and their own and yet at the same time he has raw and passionate moments with her because he loves her. (Same as Edward with Bella's life). Plus Daemon can get distracted when he is saving Katy and the same thing happens with Edward. Katy is Daemon's weakness just like Bella is Edward's up until she can protect herself in Breaking Dawn.
All these things is were I have pet peeves.
DeleteThe heroine going off on her own to have to be saved by protective hero from evil villain in climactic ending is a classic scene that has been in books for as long as I can remember and certainly well before Stephenie Meyer ever decided to put it on printed page. (Which is exactly what you just described, just changing out names and paranormal creatures and exact scenes.)
Also, moody Alpha males are in 75% of paranormal books...so I just can't agree with you on that one either ;P And Daemon is nothing like Edward to me (cause damn I just can't stand that dude).
Someone's arm getting hurt does seem like a bit of a reach for me...but ok.
I really do enjoy your vlogs, you guys gave me the giggles, too cute!
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to get the new Obsidian paperback! and Unspoken sounds like a really good read! Thanks for mentioning Love Knows No Bounds, it sounds good and anything to help a cause that has affected so many of my friends and their families!
Enjoy your new reads this week :)
Thanks Margie!
DeleteI agree! I will jump on anything that helps the autism cause and the anthology sounds good all on it's own! :)
Doesn't matter what you call it - your vlogs are awesome! Love the back and forth between you two and Duke is too funny! So next week is shirtless? Can't wait! ;)
ReplyDeleteHAHAHA Alexia you cracked me up!! I'm so glad you enjoy our vlogs!! :)
DeleteI love the Need So Beautiful books! I just read A Want so Wicked and loved it! I have a copy of Rock On I need to read too. Enjoy all of your books!!
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Glad to know you enjoyed ANSB and AWSW!! Can't wait to start them!
DeleteYou two are so funny. :) Enjoy all your new books! :D
ReplyDeleteYou two are hilarious! Enjoy your new books!
ReplyDeleteLove Knows No Bounds and Unspoken look really good. I love your blog design. Happy reading!
ReplyDeleteSee i'm a new viewer! Thanks for introducing yourself LOL Your blog is darling. Why haven't I been here before? I totally thought Team Human was a fake an I'm so excited that it's real! Enjoy the books and happy reading :)
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You guys crack me up. :)
ReplyDeleteUnspoken has a fab cover, love it. Enjoy them!
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Great mailbox! I just got a copy of The Immortal rules and I can't wait to read it!! You're so lucky to have a copy of Once! I'm a little jealous! Happy reading!
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I finished The Immortal Rules last week and I enjoyed it so I can't wait to get my copy! I hope you enjoy everything and here's my IMM!
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~Paige @ Comfort Books
The hubby be haten this week. Congrats on the HarperTeen package. Can't wait to sink my teeth into The Immortal Rules
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