Blog Tour: Branded (Trailer + Excerpt + Review)

Title: Branded (Sinners #1)
Author: Abi Ketner and Missy Kalicicki
My Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Purchase: Amazon | B&N

Fifty years ago the Commander came into power and murdered all who opposed him. In his warped mind, the seven deadly sins were the downfall of society. He created the Hole where sinners are branded according to their sins and might survive a few years. At best.

Now LUST wraps around my neck like blue fingers strangling me. I’ve been accused of a crime I didn’t commit and now the Hole is my new home. 

Darkness. Death. Violence. Pain. 

Now every day is a fight for survival. But I won’t die. I won’t let them win.

The Hole can’t keep me. The Hole can’t break me. 

I am more than my brand. I’m a fighter. 

My name is Lexi Hamilton, and this is my story.

ISPA Event: After Forever Ends (Review)

Title: After Forever Ends
Author: Melodie Ramone
My Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Purchase: Amazon | B&N

Orphaned by her mother and brushed off by her dad, fifteen year old Silvia Cotton had lived a lonely life. That is until 1985 when her father moved the family from the Highlands of Scotland to the Midlands of Wales. It is there she was enrolled in Bennington, a private boarding school, met the charming and rebellious Dickinson twins, Oliver and Alexander, and her regrettable life was changed forever. 

Locked into a fierce friendship with Alexander and lost to a whirlwind romance with Oliver, Silvia found herself torn away from everything she thought she knew. Married too soon, she moved with Oliver to a rustic cabin deep in a Welsh wood and embarked upon a life she'd never planned for, surviving on hope she never knew existed and faith she never knew she had. She made her way through university and onto a career, only to surrender her ambition to raising her children and living a life that was strikingly "normal". But what is normal? Certainly not what ensued in the wood.

True love, faeries, friendship, loves lost and gained. Old magic, fate, doubt, strength and courage, Silvia's story could belong to anyone, but it is her own. Simple yet extraordinary, told in retrospect with wit and candor, Silvia recalls a life of joy and sorrow, laughter and tears. As she unravels the tangled web of her days, she reveals the secrets that exist in an ancient wood, how hearts given freely can become the stuff of magic, and how true happiness was never any further than her own back garden.

Sneak Peek: This Time Around

Title: This Time Around
Author: Ellie Grace
Release Date: July 15, 2013

Nora Montgomery left home and heartbreak behind in South Carolina when she moved to New York City after her high school graduation. Now, four years later, she returns home and is forced to confront the past she left behind and the reckless boy who broke her heart. It’s not long before the pieces of her past begin to blur with the present and she realizes that the feelings she had for her first love never really went away. As old dreams resurface and new truths come to light, she begins to question the future she's always planned on.

Jake Harris has spent four years regretting the night he let her get away. When she finally reappears in his life, he is determined to win her back and prove how much he’s changed. She might never forgive him for that night, but if he tells her the truth about what really happened it will shatter the world she thought she knew. If he doesn’t, he might not get a second chance. He’s already lost her once and he won’t lose her again.

They come from two different worlds that are threatening to tear them apart…can they make it this time around?

ISPA Event: In Your Dreams (Review + Giveaway)

Title: In Your Dreams (In Your Dreams #1)
Author: Amy Martin
My Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Purchase: Amazon | B&N | TBD

Sixteen-year-old Zara "Zip" McKee lives for three things: basketball, books, and bailing out of tiny Titusville, Illinois, where the junior high and high school are in the same building and everyone's known everyone else since birth. But when Kieran Lanier moves to town and passes out on her desk on his first day at school, Zip's life gets complicated in a way she never dreamed.

Kieran has narcolepsy, and although he sometimes struggles to stay awake, he has no trouble capturing Zip's heart and trusting her with his most guarded secret--he sees bits and pieces of the future in his dreams. 

But just when Zip thinks that maybe she can handle having a boyfriend who sees things before they happen, her budding relationship with Kieran gets a jolt when Kieran's parents reveal that his sleeping disorder is not what it seems and may be putting them in harm's way. And when Zip begins to have unsettling dreams, she must decide if she can live with knowing the future in advance when she's afraid of what might happen.

The Inevitable Hiatus

When I started this blog, I told myself to avoid taking a hiatus as much as possible because I might have a hard time going back to my old blogging routine. Unfortunately, with the recent change in my routine (aka, school), I have to take this inevitable move in order to adjust and go back to the old me before summer started. I am still on the adjusting phase and to be honest, I am having a hard time. I always arrive home late at night, exhausted and 5 minutes before passing out. What's worse is that I can't find time to read because of my student council responsibilities plus the everyday exhaustion. I still have a lot of ARCs to read and a number of reviews to be written so I am also taking this time to catch up with my reading and have something post.

This hiatus doesn't mean that this blog won't be able to post anything for the time being. There are still a few posts scheduled so there will still be something from Letter Trails, maybe until July. I also don't know how long will it take for me to come back but I really, really, really hope it will not take a very long time.

See you when I come back. Bye for now! x