#YAMM YA MARCH MADNESS 2014!!!

I am so stoked to announce that I will be part of a group of blogs running a March Madness tournament for YA books!

I love sports but mostly baseball, football, and NASCAR but, I've always enjoyed the college basketball tournament!  “March Madness” is when college basketball teams play in a huge tournament and many people fill out brackets, guessing who will win each game and make it to the end. This year I along with Shanyn, Erica, and Katie will be hosting a similar tournament, but for YA books!

The original March Madness bracket is broken down into four sections by region, so we will have our four sections divided by genre. Fantasy, Science Fiction/Dystopian, Paranormal, and Contemporary. 

I am in charge of the Sci-Fi/Dystopian bracket which are also two of my favorite genres!!!!! J

Each section of the bracket starts with sixteen “teams” (books). To get those books, each of us will be holding a nomination period. During that period you may nominate up to two books for each genre bracket that you want to enter the tournament.

Books for the tournament must have been published in 2013, be YA, and fit the genre of the bracket you are nominating for. That means that here at Two Chicks on Books you must nominate SCI-FI and or Dystopian titles. Last year there were a LOT of people nominating the same books at each blog. Please be sure you’re only nominating titles that fit the genres.

My nominations for the YA Sci-Fi/Dystopian bracket will be open until Saturday, March 8 at 9 PM PST (12 AM EST)!

Feel free to campaign on Twitter or your blog with the hashtag #YAMM or the graphic above!

To nominate in the other genres, please visit:
ChickLoves Lit (Contemporary)
The Book Cellar (Fantasy)
Katies Book Blog (Paranormal) 

***Please note only one vote per email duplicate votes with the same email address will be removed and books must have been published in 2013**** 

#YAMM Championship Round Voting!!!

The #YAMM March Madness tournament is almost to its finale! The final two have been chosen did your favorite make it through to the championship round?

The champion will be crowned after this final vote, so make sure you vote and spread the word for your favorite! *Ahem The Golden Lily* ;) You may vote once a day at any of the four blogs below but, remember the same poll is on all of our sites so your vote will only count once per site per day.

The championship round will run until Wednesday at 8 PM EST (5 PM PST)!

You can vote here OR at one of the hosts below:

Chick Loves Lit (Contemporary)
The Book Cellar (Fantasy)
Katies Book Blog (Paranormal) 

Get your votes in and make them count!

Champion Round
	The Golden Lily by Richelle Mead
	Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay
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2013 #YAMM Final Four Voting Open Now!!!!!!!!!!!

Final Four voting opens today! And now it’s between the genres so I have Sci-Fi/Dystopian Insurgent by Veronica Roth going up against The Golden Lily by Richelle Mead hosted by the Paranormal Category over at Katie’sBookBlog! Decisions, decisions lol

Make sure to pick your favorite!! 

Winner The Golden Lily by Richelle Mead.

And make sure to go to either of these sites to cast you votes for the Fantasy/Contemporary battle! (Ahem go Shadow and Bone!!!!! Hehehe)

Fantasy- TheBook Cellar

Contemporary- Chick Loves Lit

Voting ends Saturday, March 30^th, 8pm EST!

2013 #YAMM Elite Eight Voting Starts Today!

Fourth round voting opens today! Make sure to pick your favorite!!

And go to the other sites to cast you votes for the other genres!

Paranormal- Katie’sBook Blog

Fantasy- The Book Cellar

Contemporary- Chick Loves Lit

Winner Insurgent by Veronica Roth!!!

Voting ends Wednesday, March 27th!

YA March Madness #YAMM

I am so stoked to announce that I will be part of a group of blogs running a March Madness tournament for YA books!

Now I love sports but mostly baseball, football, and NASCAR but I’ve always enjoyed the college basketball tournament!  “March Madness” is when college basketball teams play in a huge tournament and many people fill out brackets, guessing who will win each game and make it to the end. This year I along with Shanyn, Erica, and Katie will be hosting a similar tournament, but for YA books!

The original March Madness bracket is broken down into four sections by region, so we will have our four sections divided by genre. Fantasy, Science fiction/Dystopian, Paranormal, and contemporary. I am in charge of the Sci-Fi/Dystopian bracket which are also two of my favorite genres!!!!! J

Each section of the bracket starts with sixteen “teams” (books). To get those books, each of us will be holding a nomination period. During that period you may nominate up to two books for each genre bracket that you want to enter the tournament.

Books for the tournament must have been published in 2012, be YA, and fit the genre of the bracket you are nominating for. That means that here at Two Chicks on Books you must nominate SCI-FI and or Dystopian titles. Last year there were a LOT of people nominating the same books at each blog. Please be sure you’re only nominating titles that fit the genres.

My nominations for the YA Sci-Fi/Dystopian bracket will be open until Friday, March 8 at 9 PM PST (12 AM EST)!

Feel free to campaign on Twitter or your blog with the hashtag #YAMM or the graphic above (made by the awesome Katie)!

To nominate in the other genres, please visit:
Chick Loves Lit (Contemporary)
The Book Cellar (Fantasy)
Katies Book Blog (Paranormal) 

Pandemonium Comes Out Tomorrow

Hey everyone did you know that Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver comes out tomorrow??? If you're a fan of Delirium you need this book! It was more exciting and heart wrenching than the first!!


Well the cool news? The Harper Audio team has put together a snippet from the audio book if you want a little teaser to tide you over till tomorrow. So here it is!




And make sure to buy Pandemonium!

2012 Sophomore Reading Challenge

This is the year for challenges here at Two Chicks On Books last year we were so new we were a bit afraid of doing one because we didn’t know what they entailed. Now that our blog is almost a year old and we finally feel settled into our blogging roles we have decided to do 2! First The 2012 Debut Author Challenge hosted by Kristi from The Story Siren and now the 2012 Sophomore Reading Challenge hosted by Shanyn at Chick Loves Lit. What’s great about this challenge is we’ve read a lot of the authors first books and are extremely excited to read the sequels!

For this challenge our lists are almost identical so we’ll post out top 10 anticipated sequels for these Sophomore books. Click on the book titles if you want to see the goodreads descriptions for them.

      

      1)    Insurgent by Veronica Roth

      2)   A Touch Morbid by Leah Clifford

      3)   Crown of Embers by Rae Carson

      4)   Hallowed by Cynthia Hand

      5)   Mara Dyer #2 by Michelle Hodkin

      6)   Wings of The Wicked by Courtney Allison Moulton

      7)   Outpost by Ann Aguirre

      8)   Mirage by Kristi Cook

      9)   Dawn of The Knights  by Leigh Fallon

     10)  A Fractured Light  by Jocelyn Davies

If you want to see what other books are on our 2012 SRC shelves check them out on goodreads! Jaime’s shelf and Patricia’s shelf.

So what sophomore books are you looking forward to? Did you sign up for the challenge? Comment below and let us know!