Review Copy Cleanup Challenge

Due to the overwhelming number of review books stacking up on my nookColor, I have decided to take part in the Review Copy Cleanup challenge! Check out all the deets below and then go sign up here!

--Challenge Guidelines--

  ✦ This challenge runs from 1 to 31 March, 2012
✦ Sign-ups are open until 15 March 2012. After that the linky list will be closed and participation in the challenges and giveaways won't be possible for anyone who hasn't previously signed up.
✦ To sign up, just fill in the Mister Linky form below. Link to your sign up post directly, please! The Linky is the same for both our blogs, so you only have to sign up once.
✦ When you post your sign up post on your blog, either include the challenge button with your post or link it back to this article so that people know where to sign up. Thank you!
✦ Every book you received for review counts towards the challenge, both ebooks and hard copies, including all genres and lengths.
✦ You don't need to follow the two hosts in order to be able to sign up for the event (although it's appreciated), but you do have to follow us in order to be able to enter our giveaways. In order to be entered in the giveaway, simply complete the given challenge and add the link to your post in the linky list.
✦ Challenges will be posted every week on Fridays and will last throughout the week until Thursday the next week. Every challenge ends with a giveaway. To enter in the challenges and giveaways, simply add the link to your challenge post in the Linky list in the main challenge post. It will be posted on both blogs.
✦ At the end of the event we will host our Massive Giveaway. This contains tons of prizes donated by awesome authors. All you'll need to do in order to enter this giveaway is to fill in a Rafflecopter form - as simple as that. :)
✦ Most of our giveaways will be open INTERNATIONALLY but you'll find all the relevant info about each giveaway when we post the challenges.
✦ Feel free to use the #RCCleanup hashtag on Twitter for your RCC related tweets or join in the Twitter party at http://tweetchat.com/room/RCCleanup and meet lots of lovely bloggers :)

--Challenge Schedule--

✦ March 2 - Show Off Your Pile
✦ March 9 - Cuddle Up With a Book
✦ March 16 - Don't Be Such a Tease!
✦ March 23 - Mysterious Meet-up
✦ March 30 - Love Will Find a Way

Well, what are you waiting for?! Go enter and get you read on!!

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Hope to see you around!

Soul Screamers Reading Challenge: My Soul To Take [Soul Screamers #1] by Rachel Vincent

My Soul To Take
[Soul Screamers #1]
Rachel Vincent
Released: August 1st 2009 by Harlequin Teen
( Barnes & Noble / Goodreads )

She doesn't see dead people. She senses when someone near her is about to die. And when that happens, a force beyond her control compels her to scream bloody murder. Literally.

Kaylee just wants to enjoy having caught the attention of the hottest guy in school. But a normal date is hard to come by when Nash seems to know more about her need to scream than she does. And when classmates start dropping dead for no apparent reason, only Kaylee knows who'll be next.
-Goodreads

Thoughts/Review:

Words cannot describe how surprised I was with this book. Since this is my first time reading this series, I decided to read all of them [including the novellas] in order. Though this was nothing like My Soul To Lose, I immensely enjoyed it. I kind of found it funny that they only mentioned the mental institutions once or twice towards the middle, but anyway… I was more than ecstatic when I flipped the last page of this book and knew that I had officially became a Soul Screamers fanatic. I can now sing the praises of Rachel Vincent with the best of you, aren’t you all so glad?

Now there is nothing better than starting out a book with Kaylee [main character] sneaking into an 18+ club with Emma [the best friend]. Well, there are a few ways to spice up said scene. Enter Nash [hottest stud at school] and a chilling discovery n’ BAM, you have yourself a first chapter to keep you hooked until Kaylee opens that pretty little mouth of hers and then some. Now, I was not so sure of Nash in the beginning. He never even spoke to or even looked at Kaylee before this night, only to end up playing her knight in shining armor come nights end? Come on now. But, pleasantly, I was all wrong about Mr. McDreamy. Yes, Nash is my new McDreamy. 

I really enjoyed getting to know Kaylee and all that she is. The concept behind this book was just lovely to read and I have not seen one other author out there do it like Rachel Vincent. Craving the information being held back [not to mention Nash], my eyes couldn’t devour the words fast enough. I thought that this book had enough man candy as it was, until Tod entered and rocked my world. I have found, with recent books I have been reading, that reapers are deadly studs who I would gladly invite to kill me. I am having a bad boy streak lately folks, so I cannot help but to root for Tod, even if I know he isn’t going to win out. Is he? OH! The suspense kills me. And not to mention that little surprise thrown at you in the aftermath of everything going to hell and back, can we say WOAH?!

Hooked from page one and teetering on the edge of my seat for a crazy soul stealing ride I was more shocked than your mother when she found out you’ve seen a man indecently exposing himself at a football game when the ending slapped me in the face. Like WHAT?! I never saw it coming, and for that, I applaud not only Rachel but you readers for not giving it away in reviews. I mean, I don’t know how you all kept that sucker from me, but damn was it an intense ride. 

As I sing my final note of praise for Rachel Vincent and her magnificent characters I just want you all to know how shocked and astounded I was with book number one. It was so much more than I ever expected and I can’t wait to continue on with Kaylee in this thrilling series of death, love, and secrets.

Rating:

★★★★★

Five Wailin' Stars

[Soul Screamers Junkie]

**** **** **** ****

Eeep! Guys, I am SO glad I started this challenge. I LOVE these books and I am only two books in. Like seriously, how did it take me so LONG to get around to reading them?! It is so safe to say I am a junkie now. <3

Soul Screamers Reading Challenge

Woohoo!!! Reading challenge number two folks! I saw this when it first started going around and was super bummed. I wanted to join because this series looks just seriously amazing and I have heard such GREAT things about it but I hadn't bought any of the books. I was shopping tonight and decided to buy the newly published Soul Screamers [Volume One] because the freaking cover is some serious eye candy! This is a first read for me so I am really excited to get started. A big thank you to Fiktshun for hosting this challenge!!

Here is the schedule:

My Soul To Take

January 15th-February 14th 2012

My Soul To Save
February 15th-March 14th 2012

My Soul To Keep
March 15th-April 14th 2012

My Soul To Steal
April 15th-May 14th 2012

If I Die
May 15th-June 15th 2012

You can get extra credit for these novella reads:

My Soul To Lose

Reaper

Never To Sleep

So, if you have any questions don't forget to head over to Fiktshun for full details!!

See you in the pages!!

Happy New Years Bloggers!

So 2011 has finally ended and the beginning of 2012 is here! With the new brings tons of new things like new reading challenges, new books, and new exciting events to participate in! Before we move forward and forget about all the things 2011 brought us, I figured I would take a look back at how much I accomplished reading wise and where I want to go this year. Are you ready?! Because I am!

• I read a total of 124 books this year.
• That totals to 31,156 pages read
• 88 5 star ratings
• 30 4 star ratings
• 5 3 star ratings
• 1 2 star ratings
• 0 1 star ratings

That is a pretty crazy run down of numbers! I guess I rarely completely hate a book huh? This year I set my sights a little lower on my Reading Challenge since I didn't quite make it this year, but one book off isn't too shabby if I do say so myself! Now, this year was full of amazing series for me. I really started reading again in 2011 with the purchase of my Nook Color in February and the rest has been history. I got introduced to The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare which led to me finding The Infernal Devices series also by Cassandra Clare, she is just amazing! I also read The Iron Fey series by Julie Kagawa and all of The Hunger Games trilogy. My mind was seriously blown last year by how much I had missed by taking a long reading break. Never again will I stop reading, it was torture to my soul!

Now that I have looked back a bit, it is time for me to look forward to all of the things I want to accomplish in 2012. I have reading goals and blogging goals since I just started out. I would say I want to branch out into other generas but to tell the truth I started that at the end of last year.  So this year I want to keep on what I have been and discover even more new authors I have yet to read. I also want to try and make my blog as successful as I can. By successful I mean, I want to meet you! I found a place at goodreads when I finally saw all the other people just like me who loved the same books as I did and that is what I want for my blog. I can't wait to introduce people to books they may have not heard about yet and give them a chance to love them as much as I do.

I hope all of you have set your new Reading Challenges for this year and have fun reaching them. This year is going to be full of amazing books and I can not wait for the months to roll by. Happy reading this year everyone. Let the pages turn!