Top 10 of 2012 Day 5- The 2014 Books we're looking Forward To and a Giveaway!!!

Hey welcome to the last day of the Top 10 Books of 2013! We hope you all have been having fun! To close out the week we’re looking forward to 2014 so today’s topic is….. Top 10 Books I'm looking forward to in 2014. (This list should be comprised of books released ONLY in 2014)

And make sure to stop by my co-hosts sites Fiktshun and Magical Urban Fantasy Reads for their lists! Oh and make sure to sign up with the linky to share your lists! And don’t forget to enter the giveaway! Details below.

Ok I’m being a big time cheater here! I’ve read most of these books already but I needed to share how awesome they are on and there’s not a top 10 it’s a top 15! I’ll put READ next to the ones I’ve read lol.

1. Independent Study and Graduation Day by Joelle Charbonneau READ. Freaking fantastic books!!!!! The ending of the series was perfection!!!!!!!!!!

2. Her Dark Curiosity by Megan Shepherd READ. This is definitely going to make my best of 2013 list. Megan’s storytelling is amazing and I’m already dying to get my hands on book 3!

3. Landry Park by Bethany Hagen READ Yep and it was awesome!!!! Loved David, Jude and Ewen! Yep this one is chock full of hawt boys!

4. Defy by Sara B Larson READ. I love me some high fantasy and this will definitely make my favorites of 2014 lists! I fell hard for Damien *swoons*

5. Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge READ An amazing retelling of Beauty and the Beast I can’t wait for you all to read this one!

6. Cress by Marissa Meyer READ. This behemoth was fantastic! We get tons of Thorne!!!

7. Alienated by Melissa Landers READ. I have a new book boyfriend and he’s an alien named Aelyx! Trust me you’re going to want to meet this guy!

8. Infinite by Jodi Meadows.READ. The perfect ending to one of my favorite series!

9. All that Glows by Ryan Graudin READ. I’m a sucker for a good Fae book and this one was right up my alley!

10. Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo NEED MOAR OF THIS WORLD!!!!!! And Strumhond J

11. Sisters' Fate by Jessica Spotswood. Star Cursed kicked my ass and I need the final installment in this series like yesterday!

12. Strange and Ever After by Susan Dennard. Another book I need like yesterday! I have to see how this one ends!

13. Silver Shadows by Richelle Mead. If you’ve read The Fiery Heart you know why I need this one so bad. If not go read it now! Richelle likes to kill us slowly with her cliffie endings!!!!!

14. This Shattered World by Meagan Spooner and Amie Kaufman. I LOVED These Broken Stars and can’t wait for the next book in this series. It’s a companion novel but I know it’s going to ROCK!

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15. Ignite Me by Tahereh Mafi. I'll admit I'm both excited and scared as hell to read this one. I am Team Warner and I have a bad feeling about him in this. I will freely admit that I will throw this book if something happens to him. If this one ends like the Delirium series, the Divergent series, and the Hunger Games Series did I will be very upset.

Did any of my favorites make your list? Thanks so much for participating in this year's Top 10 of 2013 it was a blast and we hope to see you next year! 

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Blog Tour: A DARKNESS STRANGE AND LOVELY bu Susan Dennard and a Giveaway!!!

I am so happy to have Susan Dennard on the blog today I love this series with a fierce zombie loving passion! And we get music woot! Check out Susan’s playlist and make sure to enter the giveaway below!

5 Songs to Get You in the Parisian Mood

Since I’ve shared my official playlist for A Darkness Strange and Lovely over on the Epic Reads site, I thought I’d give you guys some different sorts of songs—music that’s aimed at really giving you that Parisian vibe Eleanor experiences in the book.

So let’s get started, shall we?

1) Paris holds the key to your heart!

Okay, okay, don’t laugh. I can never resist the temptation to include something from Anastasia, and it just fits so well here! After going through all sorts of misery and almost dying way too many times, Eleanor finally straggles into Paris—and it’s so beautiful! Anyone who has ever visited this city knows that it really DOES hold the key to your heart. So just as Anastasia is  moved by the City of Light ;), so to is Eleanor in A Darkness Strange and Lovely.

Also, Dimitri and Daniel could be brothers. SO MUCH ANGST.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsy9k3Z-CiY  

2) La Seine

Eleanor’s first glimpses of Paris send her into raptures, but it’s her first sight of the River Seine that really guts her. She has grown up beside the wild Delaware River in Philadelphia, but it is nothing like the tamed River Seine with its stone banks and the busy riverside avenues.

Also, I just love this song. I first heard it while in Paris researching A Darkness Strange and Lovely, so it will ALWAYS hold a special place in my heart.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z-NbQvhzKM

3) La Valse d’Amélie

So this list wouldn’t be complete without an oh-so-stereotypically-Parisian piece off the Amelie soundtrack. (Brilliant film, by the way.) I just love the gradual growth of this song and all the emotion that seems to ooze out of it. I think it would fit very well with a certain love scene in A Darkness Strange and Lovely—and that is ALL I’ll say about that. ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD3WwM6l1J0

4) The Phantom of the Opera

Not only does this song evoke that dark but gorgeous vibe I want readers to feel as they read A Darkness Strange and Lovely, but the actual story of the Phantom of the Opera happens in (and below) the Palais Garnier…which is ALSO somewhere Eleanor and the Spirit-Hunters explore. ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgz6PnHkmpY&feature=share&list=TLWMxK5qedB2U

5) Nature Boy

So there are a thousand renditions of this song, but the version that I think really evokes that vibe of Paris and A Darkness Strange and Lovely is the one that starts Moulin Rouge. First of all, I LOVE THAT MOVIE. It never fails to make me ugly cry.

Second of all, I just love the aching sadness in this song as well as the beautiful, STUNNING lyrics: “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn, is just to love and be loved in return.” I feel like this whole song—but especially that one line—could summarize Eleanor’s emotional journey in the Something Strange and Deadly series.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekCvBztYs_A

So there you have it, my friends. Are you feeling particularly Parisian? And do YOU have any musical numbers you suggest for inspiring that joie de vivre?

 

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Following an all-out battle with the walking Dead, the Spirit Hunters have fled Philadelphia, leaving Eleanor alone to cope with the devastating aftermath. But there’s more trouble ahead—the evil necromancer Marcus has returned, and his diabolical advances have Eleanor escaping to Paris to seek the help of Joseph, Jie, and the infuriatingly handsome Daniel once again. When she arrives, however, she finds a whole new darkness lurking in this City of Light. As harrowing events unfold, Eleanor is forced to make a deadly decision that will mean life or death for everyone.

About Susan:

Susan Dennard is a writer, reader, lover of animals, and eater of cookies. She used to be a marine biologist, but now she writes novels. And not novels about fish either, but novels about kick-butt heroines and swoon-worthy rogues (she really likes swoon-worthy rogues).

She lives in the Midwest with her French husband and Irish setter, and her debut, SOMETHING STRANGE AND DEADLY, is now available from HarperTeen.

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Giveaway Details:

There will be 10 winners total and the prizes are…..

5 Winners will receive A Hardcovers of A DARKNESS STRANGE AND LOVELY and a paperback of SOMETHING STRANGE AND DEADLY, and signed swag US ONLY.

 5 winners will receive an e-novella of A DAWN MOST WICKED and signed swag INTERNATIONAL

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