Sweet Evil Read Along Week 4- Final Week and Giveaway

Hey y’all! Welcome to week one of the Sweet Evil Read Along hosted by Mindy at Magical Urban Fantasy Reads and co-hosted by me here at Two Chicks on Books as well as Rachel from Fiktshun, Tara from Tater’s Tall Tales and Nancy from The Ravenous Reader!

This week we’ll be reading chapters 26-31 and our topic this final week is Halloween. I hope you all have had fun reading one of our favorite books with us! Yay my favorite holiday!!!!!!

So with such an open topic what should I talk about? Hmmm how about haunted houses? I did volunteer work for a local charity and every year we had a haunted house. I loved it I actually started out as a starving 8 year old chained to a wall in a cell (yep I really started when I was 8!) I gradually moved on to the graveyard by the time I was 12 and got to scare the bejeezus out of people by flinging myself out of a coffin (yep a real one and it was awesome). By the time I was 16; I became a guide and we had a dentist friend who helped with the house, he actually made me real vampire fangs (still have them to this day) and I loved guiding people around the house and hearing their screams. Yep lol I’m demented also that’s why my friends who know me well know I don’t scare. At all. Horror movies make me laugh and I've never read a book that scared the crap out of me. I kinda wish I had.

So peeps here’s my task for you this week think of a book that will scare the crap out of me and no Stephen King please he bores me. Also what are your favorite things about Halloween???

Ok so here’s the deal as you all know I’ve read Sweet Evil and instead of lulling you to sleep with my review again I’m going to share a favorite passage of mine….

“Do you remember what I told you about the twins and their father, Astaroth?” he asked. “About how they can sense romantic bonds between people?”

“Yeah.”

“That’s why I hit the booze that night when we were all together this summer. I didn't want them to know there was anything there. I didn't want to explain anything or listen to their rubbish.”

My pulse quickened. He was admitting there was something between us. Something mutual.

“And tonight?” I asked, playing with the zipper on my jacket. He pulled a flask out from under his seat as an answer, and my heart turned a solid gallop in my chest.

“Don’t worry. I’m sober right now. I’ll start drinking when we pull up.”

Ok seriously a messed up way to tell someone you care but coming from Kaidan I’d take it any way I could lol.

Make sure to check out my complete review check here! Oh and if you haven’t signed up for the read along yet it’s not too late you have until the 28^th! Just go the Sweet Evil Read Along Page and sign up! And to everyone who has participated all 4 weeks y’all rock!!!!! And good luck with the giveaway!!!!

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Soul Screamers Reading Challange

We are super excited to be participating in the Soul Screamers Reading Challenge hosted by our blogger BFF Rachel at Fiktshun.com. What makes this challenge so great is that you can be a first time reader or you can be a re-reader of this fantastic series. This challenge is also quite doable as you only need to read one book per month and it all leads up to the release of Before I Wake. 

Also in addition to reading the five currently released books there is “extra credit” entries when you read and review the 3 novellas: My Soul to Lose, Reaper and Never to Sleep.

There are some outta this world incentives such as signed copies of the books, $50 GC to B&N or Amazon, t-shirts, swag and pre-orders of Before I Wake due out in June. Aren't those just amazing? PLUS there are other incentives to come, too. WOOT!! WOOT!! 

So don’t delay…the challenge starts on Jan 15^th with the first book, My Soul to Take. So be sure to check out all the deets  HERE  and of course to sign up!! 

So what do you think? Will you be joining us in this challange? Let us know in the comments below. 

Patricia & Jaime

2012 Debut Author Challenge

We have decided to take on the 2012 Debut Author Challenge this year and are very excited! There are some really awesome looking debut novels that are coming out and we can’t wait to start reading them! The challenge is hosted by Kristi The Story Siren if you would like to sign up for the challenge go here http://www.thestorysiren.com/2011/11/sign-ups-for-debut-author-challenge.html

CHALLENGE OBJECTIVE:

• To read & review a minimum of twelve young adult or middle grade debut novels between the dates of January 1, 2012 - January 31, 2013.*
*The 2013 extension is so that December Debuts can be read and count toward the challenge.

RULES & GUIDELINES:

• You must have a Blog to post your reviews or be a member of Goodreads.
• Your blog must be written in English.
• Deadline to join is May 31, 2012.
BOOK GUIDELINES:

• Must be a young adult or middle grade title.
• Must be the author’s YA or MG debut, released in 2012.
• If an author has a previous novel published for adults or children, they can still qualify for the challenge.
• If an author has a previous YA or MG title, they do not qualify for the challenge.

There were so many books that most of them ended up on both of our lists so the first 12 are our combined to read books but, there were others that were on one of our lists and not the other so we posted our 10 additional reads as well. Here are the lists and if you want to see the book covers and descriptions click on our names for the links to both our Goodreads DAC 2012 lists!  

Two Chicks Book List:

     1. Elemental by Emily White

     2. Sweet Evil by Wendy Higgins

     3.  Illuminate by Aimee Agresti

     4.  Born Wicked by Jessica Spotswood

     5. Harbinger by Sara Wilson Etienne

     6. Destiny’s Fire by Trisha Wolfe

     7. Fracture by Megan Miranda

     8. Cinder by Marissa Meyer

     9. Tempest by Julie Cross

    10. Above by Leah Bobet

    11. Fractured Light by Rachel McClellan

    12. Something Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard

Jaime’s Additional Reads:

     1. Unraveling by Elizabeth Norris

     2. The Alchemy of Forever by Avery Williams

     3. The Selection by Kiera Cass

     4. Struck by Jennifer Bosworth

     5. Article 5 by Kristen Simmons

     6. Slide by Jill Hathaway

     7. A Breath of Eyre by Eve Marie Mont

     8. Etiquette and Espionage (The Finishing School) by Gail Carriger
     9. Forbidden by Syrie James

    10. Defiance by C.J. Redwine

Patricia's Additional Reads:

    1. Halflings by Heather Burch

    2. Scarlet by A.C. Gaughen

    3.  When the Sea is Rising Red by Cat Hellisen

    4.  Croak by Gina Damico

    5.  Wake by Amanda Hocking

    6. The Catastrophic History of You and Me by Jess Rotherberg

    7.  When the Sea is Rising Red by Cat Hellisen

    8.  Everneath by Brodi Ashton

    9.  Incarnate by Jodi Meadows

   10. Under the Never Sky by Victoria Rossi

Did you sign up? What books are you looking forward to reading in 2012? Post a comment and let us know :D