It's Monday, What Are You Reading?

Welcome to It's Monday, What Are You Reading! This is a weekly feature hosted by Book Journey in which you plan out your reading week, as well as let others know what you're currently reading!

This week I finished four books.

Alienated 
By Melissa Landers
Published: February 4, 2014
Pages: 344
4 stars

Easy 
By Tammara Webber
Published: November 6, 2012
Pages: 321
3 stars

Poison Princess 
By Kresley Cole
Published: October 2, 2012
Pages: 369
5 stars

Ex Factor
By Elisa Dane

Published: April 14, 2014
Pages: 213
3 stars






I am currently reading 3 books actively.

Eleanor and Park
By Rainbow Rowell
Published: February 26, 2013
Pages: 328
Currently on Page: 86

The Destiny of Violet and Luke
By Jessica Sorensen
Published: January 7, 2014
Pages: 336
Currently on Page: 141

Breakable 
By Tammara Webber
Published: May 6, 2014
Pages: 368
Currently on Page: 90






This week I hope to read:

Coin Heist 
By Elisa Ludwig
Published: June 10, 2014
Pages: 225

Hexed
By Michelle Krys
Published: June 10, 2014
Pages: 384







Thanks for reading!
Amber

Transformation by John O'Riley Blog Tour

Emily Winters was kidnapped as a teenager by Psi-Tech, a corrupt and power-hungry corporation that learned of her precognitive ability. Imprisoned for years and forced to use her talent to help a company thrive, she now reaches a point where she must escape or die. A natural disaster will cause chaos, death, and destruction throughout the entire world while transforming most of the survivors into psychics. After this happens, Psi-Tech will kill all of their prisoners to hide the evidence of their horrific crimes. Knowing how the disaster will affect her captors gives Emily one slim chance to escape. She must seize this opportunity to save not only herself but her brother as well who will die without a medical treatment that doesn’t yet exist.
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Author Bio for John O’Riley:

John O'Riley has been writing as far back as he can remember. He is an author of novels and an award winning writer of screenplays in the category of urban fantasy, comedy, science fiction and young adult. His movie feature screenplay, Cursed, is an Honorable Mention Winner for the 2012 Screenplay Festival. His most recent accomplishments include the screenplays New Earth, Pinky Swear, and Mutant Wizards in the 2014 Filmmakers International Screenplay Awards which made it to Quarter-Finalist status. Other recognition includes the screenplays Cursed, Project Pandora, Pinky Swear, Incipio, and Bad Sister which have been listed as Quarter Finalists, Semi Finalists, and Top Finalists in the 2013 Filmmakers International Screenplay Awards, 2012 Screenplay Festival, 2012 Filmmakers International Screenplay Awards, 2012 StoryPros International Awards, 2012 Pulsar Sci Fi Screenplay Contest, and the 2012 Reel Authors International Breakout. He was born in California then raised in Washington state. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Spanish and French and worked in a variety of bookstores including Borders and was the manager for one of the bookstores in Florida that was actually owned by Goodwill. He loves reading fantasy, science fiction, and humorous fiction. Some of his favorite authors include Kim Harrison, Jim Butcher, S.J. Viehl, Kat Richardson, J.K. Rowling, Angie Sage, Jayne Krentz, and Janet Evanovich. He currently resides in Washington state and owns a parakeet named Amy who sings like a canary to help encourage and inspire him.

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Clarity by Loretta Lost

Clarity
By Loretta Lost
Published: February 20, 2014
Publisher: CreateSpace
Pages: 162

Fiercely independent Helen Winters was born completely blind, but she vowed never to let her disability keep her down. She did not expect a traumatic event to devastate her life and force her to drop out of college. Disillusioned by the cruelty of people, Helen retreated from society to live by herself as a reclusive writer in the woods—where no one could ever hurt her again.

When a brilliant young doctor shows up on her doorstep, promising her that his new research can give her the ability to see for the first time, Helen stubbornly refuses. She has learned not to trust anyone, and to rely only on herself. But Dr. Liam Larson will not take no for an answer. He makes it his personal mission to rescue Helen from her loneliness, and bring joy into her world once more—the joy she has denied herself for so long.

When Helen’s demons come racing back into her life, threatening to rip her apart and destroy the strength she has carefully rebuilt, Liam is the only one who might be able to save her.

Can he reach the broken girl in time, helping her to heal and see the world in a different light? Or will Helen’s grief send her spiraling out of control, lost to him forever?

My Rating: 2 stars

My Thoughts:
This book was really just very unextraordinary.  I think I may have had the wrong mindset going into this book.  I was expecting a new adult book and this definitely falls into adult, which isn't really my thing.
I thought the characters were overall pretty bland.  There were some funny moments, especially with Owen, but Helen really bored me.
The plot was, while like nothing I've read before, wasn't something I'd ever really want to revisit. It just wasn't really something I'm super interested in.
The writing was decent, but it didn't suck you in.
I don't have a whole lot to say about this book. It wasn't awful, but I certainly wouldn't say that it is very good, and I would only recommend this to someone who feels like they would really like this book.

Thanks for reading!
Amber

Perfect Opposite by Zoya Tessi

Perfect Opposite
By Zoya Tessi
Published: May 18, 2014

Their wishes were simple and modest. Fate had other things in store though, and she can be a real bitch sometimes.

- All he wanted was to get the job done and somehow to endure those long months playing nanny to a spoiled little rich girl. Without strangling her with his bare hands in the process. Well, it is going to be much easier said than done.

- All she wanted was to escape the past and live like any other nineteen-year-old girl. Her plan definitely didn’t include the arrogant, tattooed savage, with his awful mohawk hair and lack of social graces, whose only mission was to stick real close and mess up her life.

But, people aren't always what they seem to be, are they?

My Rating: 0 stars

My Review:
I didn't finish this book.  I thought that the main character was extremely annoying and immature, and instead of finding the male lead attractive and sexy, I thought he was creepy.  The plot elements that were supposed to be deep and intense, I found extremely lacking.

Thanks for reading!
Amber

June TBR

I would love to get into these books during the month of June.  I've got school wrapping up this week, the last of my exams were on Monday, and I graduate next week, so I'm hoping to get lots of reading done this month.

Half Bad by Sally Green

I finally picked this up at the beginning of May and I've heard so many wonderful things about it that I feel I really need to get to it.

Falling Kingdoms by Morgan Rhodes

I'm in such a huge fantasy mood right now and I wantb to read it so badly because I've been hearing so many fantastic things about it.

Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell

I read this book on my nook last year and I wasn't going to buy it in physical copy because while I did really enjoy it I didn't absolutely fall head over heels in love with it.  But then I'm wandering around Barnes and Noble the other day and I see the collector's edition just chilling on a display. So I'm like "Ermagerd, what is this?" I oen it up and there's artwork on the iinside and I swear to you guys I think its the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.   So I'd like to reread it in this beautiful edition.

Thanks for reading and let me know what you're reading this month.

Amber

Just Sing Book Blitz

Just Sing (Seven Oaks Series #1)

by René Gilley

Release Date: 06/05/14

Summary from Goodreads:

Sixteen-year-old Lily O’Brien has one goal in life—to sing. Her dream is to get into a topnotch college vocal program, but the summer before her junior year, her high school cuts their awarding-winning vocal ensemble. She might as well kiss her dreams goodbye.

When the snobby new neighbors move into their mansion up the hill, Lily is positive summer can’t get any worse, and she’s determined to hate and ignore them—until she meets Aiden.
He’s broken and beautiful, and they become reluctant friends. Through her newfound friendship, she finds the strength to step outside the comfort of her plan and follow her dream.

But when Lily’s family is about to lose their home, she puts her wishes aside and finds the answer to save their generations-old ranch in the last place she expected.

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About the Author

I’m René Gilley, a young adult and new adult author. I’m a mom, wife, and breast cancer survivor. A portion of every book royalty I receive will go to support breast cancer patients, awareness, and research for a cure.

JUST SING, my debut young adult book, will be available in ebook and paperback, June 5, 2014. Published by The Writer’s Coffee Shop Publishing House TWCS.

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Don't Fall by Rachel Schieffelbein

Don't Fall 
by Rachel Schieffelbein
Release Date: May 27, 2014 
Swoon Romance

Summary from Goodreads:
In which a teenage girl endures the over-protective love of her adoptive mother until she falls for a boy who has her wanting to spread her wings, pitched as a contemporary retelling of RAPUNZEL

Seventeen-year-old Anya leads a very secluded life in a house on the edge of town with her adopted mother. She doesn't go to school, but instead has a private tutor. Her over-protective mom keeps her so sheltered that she doesn't even have a best friend. But Anya doesn't seem to mind. She has her books, her photography, and her daydreams, and would do anything to please her mom. Until one day at the library, the only place she's allowed to go, she takes a picture of a beautiful boy. Before long she's lying to her mom, and sneaking out late at night to meet Zander. But Zander wants more than a secret romance. If Anya wants to be with the boy of her dreams, she will have to risk her relationship with the only other person she's ever cared about.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19192780-don-t-fall


Buy Links:
http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Fall-Rachel-Schieffelbein-ebook/dp/B00KFHBPKM

My Rating: 4.5 stars

My Thoughts:
This book is a retelling of Rapunzel, but it's not really a retelling, it's more taking elements of the story and imagining how they would work in real life.  However, I thing that Rachel Schieffelbein pulled it off excellently because I absolutely loved this book.
I thought that all the characters were great!  There was a very small cast of characters in this, which I normally don't like because I tend to get bored reading about the same characters for an entire book, but that didn't happen once with this.
I thought that the Rapunzel elements worked very well for the story and I really liked the backstory with Anya's mom and Lauren.
I loved that Anya was a photographer, and reading this book actually made me want to get into photography.  I don't know that that'll actually happen but we'll see.
The only issue I had with this book, the one thing that pulled it down from a 5 to a 4.5 was the insta-love.  Oh insta-love, how you kill me.  I don't like insta-love, that's no secret.  However, I would say to still read it, even if you don't like insta-love because it's written in a way that it doesn't feel like insta-love, even though they fall in love over about four months or so, which isn't an unreasonably short time for most insta-love, normally it's like 2 weeks.
I would say overall this book was wonderful.  It's super short, a perfect beach read, or for when you're super stressed, or trying to meet your goodreads goal.

About the Author
Rachel grew up in a tiny town in Minnesota. She still lives there, with her husband and their four kids. She coaches high school speech and theater, rides Arabian horses, reads as much as she can, and writes stories.

Author Links:
http://rachelmarybean-writingonthewall.blogspot.com/ http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7044030.Rachel_Schieffelbein http://www.twitter.com/RMSchieffelbein http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rachel-Schieffelbein-author/495759520488755



PUBLISHER LINKS
www.myswoonromance.com
@swoonromance
Facebook.com/SwoonRomance


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