The Tachyon Web Review

The Tachyon Web
by Christopher Pike
From Goodreads:

Originally published in 1986, this long out-of-print book has been frequently requested by Pike fans. It is the story of five young thrill-seekers who take a stolen spaceship out for a joy ride and blast beyond the Tachyon Web--the iron boundary that barred mankind from the worlds beyond. There they find danger, excitement and heartstopping adventure. And, on a strange alien world, one of them also finds love

My Thoughts: I think it's the only Pike book from the 80's and 90's that I haven't already read (and that includes the one Cheerleader series book he wrote early in his career!). Although I never read his middle school books.

I'm a HUGE Pike fan, but I prefer his thrillers to his science fiction books- of which this was his first.. I'm not much of a science fiction fan, most that I have read for pleasure have been more sci-fi fantasy then pure science fiction. But because Pike is the author that he is, I was able to enjoy the characters and the drama of deep space adventure.

Eric goes along with his friends on a dangerous space run, they're already breaking the rules by not having the owner of the ship on board, but Eric's friends Shrem and Sammy are planning on breaking even more rules. They're going to jump the Tachyon Web.

I'll admit, I'm bad with the science fiction parts of the book. Maybe that's why it works for me? This book was written in the 80's so I'm not sure how some of the science has withstood the test of time, or how unrealistic it may seem to sci fi aficionados. So, while I was impressed with some of the plot details, I'm not sure someone with a more sophisticated knowledge of, oh, let's say how the blender works, would enjoy it as much.

I liked the romance and usual teenage angst. I would have liked to see even more of what made some of the minor characters tic- Cleo and Sammy in particular. I liked the ending, it's a little happier than some of Pike's later science fiction-y books like See You Later. Pike has a thing for downer endings, something which reading R.L. Stine did not prepare me for.  What, the main character doesn't end up happy, or even alive?  I appreciate it now, because few YA authors back then wrote without some major fluff.

Overall I enjoyed it, but when it comes to Pike I prefer Final Friends or Chain Letter (the first one, not the second). Will I still read everything he ever writes? Yup. I can't help it, I'm a fan for life.

The Tachyon Web gets a Midnight Book Rating of: 

Murder is Binding

Murder is Binding
by Lorna Barrett
From Goodreads:

When she moved to Stoneham, city slicker Tricia Miles met nothing but friendly faces. And when she opened her mystery bookstore, she met friendly competition. But when she finds Doris Gleason dead in her own cookbook store, killed by a carving knife, the atmosphere seems more cutthroat than cordial. Someone wanted to get their hands on the rare cookbook that Doris had recently purchased-and the locals think that someone is Tricia. To clear her name, Tricia will have to take a page out of one of her own mysteries-and hunt down someone who isn't killing by the book.

 My Thoughts: First off, I want to live and work in Stoneham.  I love the concept of a whole street full of specialty book stores, it makes for an interesting setting, and let's face it, an ideal town for book lovers which are the majority of the reading audience.  In a weird way I actually liked the sister of the main character better than the mc.  Actually, the secondary characters were wonderfully quirky and interesting, but Tricia's okay too.  I also like that the secondary characters actually support Tricia going all Nancy Drew on the murder mystery, it's a nice touch, and better than the "No, leave it to the police!".  I know my friends would help lead me, rather than letting rational, logical thinking interfere.  I do want to continue with the series, but I'm not in a huge rush.  Just a great cozy for lovers of mysteries or cozies.

Murder is Binding gets a Midnight Book Rating of:

Bewitching Review

Bewitching 
by Alex Flinn

From Goodreads:

Bewitching can be a beast. . . .

Once, I put a curse on a beastly and arrogant high school boy. That one turned out all right. Others didn’t.

I go to a new school now—one where no one knows that I should have graduated long ago. I’m not still here because I’m stupid; I just don’t age.

You see, I’m immortal. And I pretty much know everything after hundreds of years—except for when to take my powers and butt out.

I want to help, but things just go awry in ways I could never predict. Like when I tried to free some children from a gingerbread house and ended up being hanged. After I came back from the dead (immortal, remember?), I tried to play matchmaker for a French prince and ended up banished from France forever. And that little mermaid I found in the Titanic lifeboat? I don’t even want to think about it.

Now a girl named Emma needs me. I probably shouldn’t get involved, but her gorgeous stepsister is conniving to the core. I think I have just the thing to fix that girl—and it isn’t an enchanted pumpkin. Although you never know what will happen when I start . . . bewitching.

My Thoughts:  I just read the ARC of this book.  Yes, I know it's out in the stores already, but I was already signed up for the tour and with all the books dying a slow death on my own personal Mt. TBR, it seems unfair to go out and buy more and more books.  But if I'd known how much I was going to like this book, I would have made the purchase, and I still might because I like to own the books I like (or even vaguely like... I'm a book hoarder.  I don't know why THAT's not a show because from what I've seen of some of my fellow blogger's shelves and IMM's, I'm not the only one that's afflicted with bookhoarderitis).

I read Beastly by Alex Flinn and I remember enjoying it. I also remember reading it in one sitting late at night at the computer desk shortly after one of Dewey's Readathon, which had been when I had purchased the book for my Kindle.

As much as I liked Beastly, Bewitching is better.  I'm sad that I haven;t read more of Flinn's books, but honestly unless those solar flares seriously mess up the internet I doubt I'll get to all the books I want to read.  I'm hoping Jesus follows my Goodreads To Be Read list...

Bewitching is Kendra's story, the witch that cast the curse in Beastly, and tells of her origins.  Right off the bat readers get treated to an outbreak of the Plague, so of course I was hooked.  Sadly, other than her origins from poor villager to full fledged witch, we only get glimpses of Kendra.  I would have liked more, because she's a pretty interesting witch.  And while I realize that after hundreds of years it might seem weird that she's still hanging around high school, but I also kind of get it.  She looks like a teen, and who better to torment, er help, with her powers than teens?

The main story, which is more Emma's than Kendra's, is about the stepsister that Kendra befriends.  Emma is very easy to identify with, she's pretty but in a normal non-size zero way, she's insecure but caring, and she likes geeky boys. Her world is turned upside down when her step-father's daughter- beautiful, poor and tragic Lizette.  But this isn't Cinderella exactly, and soon it is Emma who suffering in the shadow's of her golden girl step-sister shine. 

What I like here is that Emma and Kendra become friends, real friends.  Honestly, I'd probably be friends with these two misfits too.  Kendra wants to help Emma, but as you see in her other tales, her magic doesn't always work out as planned.

The other fairy tales that get a new telling?  The Princess and the Pea and the Little Mermaid.  Here the Little Mermaid tale is a lot more faithful to the original story than Disney's pretty princess ending.  Sea foam, people, sea foam.

My only problem with the story is with Emma's step dad's past actions and Lizette's past, I would have liked a little more explanation.  But it's easily overlooked because it's a fun read.

Bewitching gets a Midnight Book Rating of:

the cover gets a Midnight Book Cover Rating:

The cover is pretty, but it wouldn't make me pick up the book if I didn't already know I wanted to read it.

3.11.12 Sundays In Bed With...

Okay, so this may be the start  of a new meme, or just a random post.  I'll leave it up to you!  But I want to know what book you're reading in bed this Sunday morning (before dutifully getting up and going to church/work/clean the house/feed the family, etc).  

I'm spending this Sunday in Bed with...

(my husband made the bed, I don't know why he does that weird piling thing with the pillows, but the point is that he made the bed.)

Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins!

I'm just starting this book (I know, I know, it's a travesty that I haven't read it yet, I'm a bad, bad blogger),

but I've had it for awhile and I kind of feel I owe it to this book to read it before I go and get Lola and the Boy Next Door (which I really want to read).  And since I lost an hour of sleep this morning, I'll probably be staying in bed with Etienne a bit longer (I wish I knew how to put that little dash above his name).

So what book's in your bed this Sunday?  

Comment below, or link to your own Sundays In Bed With post!  

If this becomes something I'll make it a weekly meme and get someone with talent to make us a cute little graphic to go with it and I'll set up a Mr. Linky. 

Mr. Monster and I Don't Want To Kill You Reviews.

Mr. Monster (John Cleaver #2)
by Dan Wells
From Goodreads:

I killed a demon. I don’t know if it was really, technically a demon, but I do know that he was some kind of monster, with fangs and claws and the whole bit, and he killed a lot of people. So I killed him. I think it was the right thing to do. At least the killing stopped.
Well, it stopped for a while.
In I Am Not a Serial Killer, John Wayne Cleaver saved his town from a murderer even more appalling than the serial killers he obsessively studies.

But it turns out even demons have friends, and the disappearance of one has brought another to Clayton County. Soon there are new victims for John to work on at the mortuary and a new mystery to solve. But John has tasted death, and the dark nature he used as a weapon---the terrifying persona he calls “Mr. Monster”---might now be using him.

No one in Clayton is safe unless John can vanquish two nightmarish adversaries: the unknown demon he must hunt and the inner demon he can never escape.

In this sequel to his brilliant debut, Dan Wells ups the ante with a thriller that is just as gripping and even more intense. He apologizes in advance for the nightmares.

My Thoughts:  John Cleaver became one of my favorite characters the moment I read I Am Not A Serial Killer.  He's like a teen version of Dexter, but with demons.  I like that John struggles so much with his nature, especially after the events of the first book.  He's had a taste of what he's dreamed about, and now with the possibility of a relationship with a girl he likes, his own personal demons are becoming just as dangerous as the one he destroyed in the first book.  I remember being really surprised by the supernatural turn the series took in the first book, but actually it works really well.  Mr. Monster isn't quite as engrossing as the first book, but its still such a unique and interesting concept and it makes a great read.  I am a fan, Dan Wells!

Mr. Monster gets a Midnight Book Rating of:

I Don't Want To Kill You
by Dan Wells
From Goodreads:

 John Cleaver has called a demon—literally called it, on the phone, and challenged it to a fight. He’s faced two of the monsters already, barely escaping with his life, and now he’s done running; he’s taking the fight to them. But as he wades through his town’s darkest secrets, searching for any sign of who the demon might be, one thing becomes all too clear: in a game of cat and mouse with a supernatural killer, the human is always the mouse.

In I Am Not a Serial Killer we watched a budding sociopath break every rule he had to save his town from evil. In Mr. Monster we held our breath as he fought madly with himself, struggling to stay in control. Now John Cleaver has mastered his twisted talents and embraced his role as a killer of killers. I Don’t Want to Kill You brings his story to a thundering climax of suspicion, mayhem, and death.

It’s time to punish the guilty.

And in a town full of secrets, everyone is guilty of something

My Thoughts: I loved this 3rd book, despite some really sad, er, situations for characters I liked. John grows as a character, which was nice and realistic. I'm really interested to see where this series is going, even more so than before. The creativity behind the different demons John has had to confront is very clever. I don't think John Cleaver is your text-book sociopath, because he is maturing and becoming an anti-hero.  I know I've compared this to Dexter or the Hannibal Lector series, but here is a serial killer you can root for (although, I guess John's really a serial demon-killer so far). I Don't Want To Kill You has been my favorite book in the series so far, which is rare in a third book.  It's fast paced where book 2 was slow, and John has truly gotten better with age.  I cannot recommend this series enough, at least to all my friendly readers that like a little, okay a lot, of gore and violence and sympathetic serial (demon) killers.  Dan Wells is officially going on my favorite authors list!

I Don't Want To Kill You gets a Midnight Book Rating of:

 So run, skip, drive, hitch a ride and get the first book, I Am Not A Serial Killer, and enjoy!

 

Feature and Follow #87

I haven't done this meme in a long time, so I thought I'd give it a whirl!

Today's question is:

Q: Have you ever looked at book’s cover and thought, This is going to horrible? But, was instead pleasantly surprised? Show us the cover and tell us about the book.

You know, gorgeous covers stick in my mind, but bad ones tend to fade in my memory.  A recent book I read who's cover I wasn't impressed by was Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris.  I was a little wary of reading this book because although I've read her Sookie Stackhouse series, I didn't know if I wanted to read about another series of books with a Sookie like heroine.  And the cover didn't really erase my doubts.

Although I do have a physical copy of this book, I ended up listening to it on audio, which is a great equalizer when it comes to book covers.  You can't hear a bad cover on audio!  And I ended up really liking Grave Sight, which features the very un-Sookie like Harper Connelly.  It felt more like a real mystery and less like a paranormal soap opera- not that I'm against paranormal soap operas, I am Team Eric after all.

Anyway, I get the whole picture frame tie in, but the colors are pastel-ish, and the title of the book is way to sloppy and hard to see with that horrible pink wallpaper behind it.  I just don't dig it.  I think maybe all the beautiful YA covers of the last few years have turned me into a cover snob.  I hope not!  Because there are plenty of pretty books that contain horrible stories inside.  But that, my friends, is a Feature and Follow topic for another day.

So, what's your Ugly Duckling cover/Beautiful Swan story pick?

And if you follow me, be sure to let me know so I can return the favor!

And please feel free to sign up for my Signed Giveaway of The Fault in Our Stars by John Green.  There's still plenty of time left, and you can give my blogger friends some follow love too!

The Hunt Reveiw

The Hunt
by Andrew Fukuda
Expected Publication: 05.08.12
From Goodreads:

 Don’t Sweat. Don’t Laugh. Don’t draw attention to yourself. And most of all, whatever you do, do not fall in love with one of them.

Gene is different from everyone else around him. He can’t run with lightning speed, sunlight doesn’t hurt him and he doesn’t have an unquenchable lust for blood. Gene is a human, and he knows the rules. Keep the truth a secret. It’s the only way to stay alive in a world of night—a world where humans are considered a delicacy and hunted for their blood.

When he’s chosen for a once in a lifetime opportunity to hunt the last remaining humans, Gene’s carefully constructed life begins to crumble around him. He’s thrust into the path of a girl who makes him feel things he never thought possible—and into a ruthless pack of hunters whose suspicions about his true nature are growing. Now that Gene has finally found something worth fighting for, his need to survive is stronger than ever—but is it worth the cost of his humanity?

My Thoughts:  When I received this book in the mail, the blogger warned me that it was an intense read, and it is! I was tense pretty much the whole time, waiting for Gene to slip and get eaten by a bunch of crazed vampires, well vampire like creatures.

Because the vampires in these books?  They don't have Edward Cullen's amazing skills at non-human-snacking.

In The Hunt, humans are referred to as hepers, although I'm not sure why.  When I tried to Google the word hepers all I got was links to sites about herpes, so that didn't help.  Anyway, hepers have pretty much been driven to extinction by vampires, who really just consider themselves people.  Hepers are to vampires what cavemen are to us, a link in the evolutionary chain but not as advanced as we are.  Of course, despite the fact that I find the caveman on Geico amusing, I'd never eat him.

Unless he was wrapped in bacon... Everything tastes better with bacon.

So Gene is human, passing himself off as vampire.  This entails a lot of shaving and keeping clean.  He adapts himself to the vampire's lifestyle, sleeping during the day and mimicking their behaviors.  And that was where the book had me.  Being afraid to sweat because your classmates might devour you like the last slice of cheesecake in the Golden Girl's house would probably drive me crazy.  Thinking that I was the last person on earth wouldn't give me much reason to live, but then again, Gene's just going through the motions. I don't know that he's thinking much of the future.

Then the government announces that the last 5 hepers on earth will be available to hunt for a lucky few lottery winners.  Gene figures he has no chance of being picked, but of course he is and further problems ensue with his difficulty hiding the fact that he's human.

I really enjoyed this book, but it's not without some problems.  I couldn't figure out how large the vampire community was, and I kept expecting to hear more about how humans have been hunted to practical extinction, but so far my questions are unanswered.  This isn't terribly bad since it seems that this is the first in a series.  Although there is a question that I have about female hepers trying to pass as humans, how could they possibly do that when Aunt Flo came to town?  I can't be the only person that thinks of these things... right?

Like a lot of other dystopian novels out there, it's a little sketchy on details.  I get it though, it's hard to create an alternate world.  How much information is too much and just bogs down a story?  On the other hand, this book could have used a little more filler.  And again, I'm a little tired of books where the main character is described as brilliant but actually shows nothing to prove it.  But since it's YA, I'll give it some slack.  The YA books from my own teen years are almost painfully shallow upon reflection (except for my man, Christopher Pike).

Overall, The Hunt was my kind of book.  I cringed when Gene was close to being discovered and I worried about him.  When I finished this book I wanted more.  Plus, it's always nice to see a male YA author, writing about old fashion vampires.  I love the sparkly ones, but I also like the really old school killer vamps.

The Hunt gets a Midnight Book Rating of:

 It's almost a 3 1/2, but I felt the fact that I told my husband about it, describing the tension, that it does deserve that extra 1/2 rating.  It's easy to forget how on edge I was while reading this book, but that's why I try to take notes so that I can be fair to the book.  And I will definitely pick up the next book in case there's a sequel. 

This is the cover that came with my ARC and I really liked it, despite the fact that most of the action takes place near the desert.  It does give the feel of being hunted on it.  I'm not going to rate it simply because I don't know if it's the final picture.  But I'd probably give this one at least a 3 on the scale, maybe 3.5.  Okay, 3.5 because I realize it kind of looks like an 1990's updated cover, like for Christopher Pike's Spellbound. ;)

The cover that I found on Goodreads is pretty awesome, and I think I might like that better, there's more a sense of urgency.

Hmm, am I becoming book cover obsessed? 

Catch Up Reveiws #1

I am really trying hard not to get behind on book reviews this year, but of course I already am.  I really need to learn to review as soon as I am finished reading, or as I'm reading a book.  Oh when will I learn?

So here are some short reviews to catch up on my review pile:

Winter's Bone
by Daniel Woodrell

My Thoughts:  I listened to this on audio and it made for a great listen.  It was our February book club selection and there were some members who loved the book, like me, and others that didn't care for it.  I thought Ree was a wonderful character and that her struggles, though bleak, showed that people can accomplish great things if they have strength and determination.  Yeah, Ree could kick my ass, but so many teenage girls in books are weak or passive.  Ree is anything but passive.  With her father missing and her home on the line, she battles with her crazy backwoods family and still manages to take care of her loony mom and little brothers.  There is lots of drug use, and half her family manufactures meth and/or takes it, and this book may make you want to drink.  Heavily.  There aren't a lot of fluffy Lisa Frank rainbows and clouds, but I liked it.  A lot.
I liked it so much I bought the movie and plan on watching it soon.  It'll be cool see Jennifer Lawrence in a pre-Katniss role.  I'll let you know what I think about it after I've watched it.

Winter's Bone gets a Midnight Book Rating of:

Fallout (Crank #3)
by Ellen Hopkins
 
My Thoughts: I won the ARC of Fallout many moons ago, but for some reason it sat on my tbr pile (remember the poem and drawing of Shel Silverstein's Sarah Cythina Sylvia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out? Well, replace the trash with books, and that's what my tbr pile looks like right now). Because I read this in the beginning of the year, I'm still working hard at chipping away at the tbr books, so I picked up Fallout and skipped off to work. 
No, really. I skipped. Bluebirds help me get dressed in the morning and deer open my car door while bunnies wipe the frost off my windows with their cottontails. Truth.
I get to read a lot at work, depending on the client (by which I mean elderly ladies I care for, and not johns I meet on the street corners), and the day I read Fallout was perfect for reading. Despite the book being over 600 pages, I flew through the pages (verse rocks!), and passed the 500 page mark before I even left work. And I did manage to do laundry, make lunch, do dishes and take out trash, so I wasn't reading the entire time, although I may have avoided telling my client what my book was about when she asked, or rather I just showed her how it was in verse form and skipped the whole meth angle. I try hard not to talk about meth with anyone over 70. 
Fallout is the last book in the Crank trilogy, and it's by far my favorite. The book is told from the point of view of 3 of Kristina's children- Hunter, Autumn and Summer. Each child is still struggling with the legacy of their mother's choices. Hunter has anger issues and despite having a great girlfriend, his head is turned by the fame he's attained through his radio job. Autumn is unaware of her origins and falling in love for the first time, but the truth arrives in the form of her recently released from prison dad- Trey. Summer is the youngest, and going from foster care to her dad's and back. She's also the closet to finding herself on the slippery road her mom forged before her. 
Autumn was my favorite character, because I can easily relate to her, while Summer made a lot of choices in the beginning that had me shaking my head. Hunter's chapters were also very interesting, and his character probably showed the most growth. And Kristina? Still the same old Kristina. Having dealt with addicts in my own life (and no, I'm not talking about my own addiction to lip balm), it's easy to feel for Kristina's family and be frustrated by her total lack of self-awareness.
The ending was good, although it's hard not to wonder what the future holds for Hunter, Autumn and Summer. Hopkins may have finished the series, but who knows what she'll publish ten years from now. I just know that I'll be there, eager to read whatever she comes out with.


Fallout gets a Midnight Book Rating of:

Dirty Little Secrets
by C.J. Omololu

My Thoughts: This book was exactly what I was hoping it would be, and more. Lucy's struggle throughout the book was heartbreaking- I just wanted someone to come to her rescue. The ending, while good, left me wanting more. I really thought Lucy was realistic, the way she felt towards her mother, the way she dealt with what happened- which seems ridiculous to a normal person but in her case fit well with how she'd be brought up.  There's still so much shame and misunderstanding for those that hoard and those that live with them.  Lucy is always very careful to make sure she smells good because of the smell in her home, which although I didn't grow up in a hoarder's house I can relate to since I did grow up with parents who smoked heavily.  The first time someone pointed it out, I was devastated.  You don't smell it if you're around it all the time.  Like Lucy, my room became my refuge, and my heart broke for her, because I was lucky, I could wash my clothes before going to school, and shower the smell out of my hair.  Lucy has to go to so much trouble to hide her living situation from her friends, so often going to extreme measures to avoid the truth coming out.  If you have any interests in hoarding, or if your looking for a contemporary YA read, then you might want to give this book a read!

Dirty Little Secrets gets a Midnight Book Rating of:

 

The Third Victim
by Lisa Gardner

My Thoughts:  So I mistakenly thought this was the first book in the Quincy and Rainie series, but it's actually the second one.  But I started it so I just went ahead and finished it.  Trust me, it wasn't a hardship!  The book opens up with a school shooting in a small town.  Rainie takes lead on the case because the alleged shooter is the sheriff's son.  But all isn't as it seems, and FBI Agent Quincy lends a hand.  There's an attraction between Rainie and Quincy, but both characters are pretty dark and twisty and broken, so it's a slow build.  In the meantime, the reader knows that there's more to the shooting than meets the eye, but even with that information a lot of the ending is surprising.  I got several of these books off of Paperback Swap and all I want to do is sit and read this series, but of course there's so many other books clamoring for my attention.  Next up will be the actual first book in the series though! After I finish with the audio of Catch Me, which is the latest in Gardner's series fearturing D.D. Warren. 

The Third Victim gets a Midnight Book Rating of:

 

I noticed that a lot of books that I read are highly rated, but I think part of that is because I know what I like, and I tend to gravitate towards books I'm already pretty sure will be good reads. Life's too short to read books I don't like, but occasionally a bad apple will get in there.  This year has been pretty good so far though!  

I'll be busy the next few days with work, the Hub's birthday and the Book Blogger and Publisher Online Convention, but I'll try to post- especially if I learn cool things on BBPOC!

BBPOC is the place to be!

So this year when I made the resolution to be more active in the blogger/book world and I guess it's the one resolution that's sticking.  I'm going to BEA this year for the very first time (insert screams of delight) and now I just signed up for BBPOC.



BBPOC stands for Book Blogger and Publisher's Online Conference and it's from March 7th to the 11th. Registration for bloggers is $45.00.

It was an impulse buy, but I'm glad I did it! Some people buy clothes or shoes, and yes I buy those things too, but my real weakness is books and all book related items.

I love blogging, but I still don't feel that I'm connected with other bloggers (other than my friends, and in that category I include the people who I forced suggested to start their blogs).  I don't need a huge following or all the free books, but I love this community and I just want to be a little more active.

I'm excited about the BBPOC because it's a real chance to make sure that I'm doing this whole thing correctly and what I can do better.
Here are some people from the Publishing World that will be at the online conference:

From the Publishing Industry:

Sue Grimshaw- Random House Publishing Group
Jennifer Bonnell- Penguin YA Editor
Lindsey Rudnickas- Netgalley
Kristen Lamb- WANA Consulting
Don Dauria- Samhain Publishing
Kate Lied- Bloomsbury Publishing
Ariel Tachna- Dreamspinner Press
Daniell Poiesz- Book Country


From the Blogger World:

Rachel- Bitten By Books
Abagail- All Things Urban Fantasy
Jessica- Novel Reaction
Barb- Sugarbeat's Books
Terry Kate - Romance in the Back Seat
Rachel- Parjunkee

And more!

Did I mention I'm excited?  ;)

Are you attending this year, or have you in the past?  I'm really still clueless about the event but I know that I'm looking forward to it!

The Fault in Our Stars Giveaway

Yup, this is a giveaway.  One I've planned for awhile.  But first things first.

I'm going to BEA!  I'm going to have breakfast with John Green (assuming he doesn't go through on that threat about getting a restraining order...). I'm going to the BEA Blogger Convention and I'm going to meet many, many wonderful bloggers!  And I am so close to 400 followers here on my blog.  Look, I even got my blog cards from moo.com:

But this giveaway isn't just to benefit me, or to thank all the people who follow me (although I am so incredibly thankful!).  I am lucky to know 4 wonderful book bloggers in real life.  All who are much better blogger and reviewers than I am.  None of them have been blogging as long as I have so none have as many followers as I do.  Which is just wrong, because seriously I'm not that interesting, but they are.

So I asked myself, What Would John Green Do?

John Green would host a signed giveaway of The Fault in Our Stars and give extra entries to those that follow my friends!

So it's easy.  To Win This:

Simply fill out the form and earn extra entries by following:

Andrea at The Overstuffed Bookcase


Courtney at Abducted By Books

Kim at On The Wings of Books
Kim also has an Amazon giveaway, so go here to enter!

Steph at The Fake Steph
Steph also has an Audible giveaway, so go here to enter!

Fill out the form below and on March 28th one lucky winner will be getting their very own John Green signed copy of The Fault in Our Stars!!!!