Category: Reviews

Review: Home to Whiskey Creek (Whiskey Creek #4) – Brenda Novak

Review: Home to Whiskey Creek (Whiskey Creek #4) – Brenda Novak

*I received a free ARC of Home to Whiskey Creek from Harelquin MIRA via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* Home to Whiskey Creek deals with a heavier subject matter than the prior books in the series, and they weren’t all light and fluffy either! Adelaide can’t forget the graduation party that destroyed her faith in guys, and changed her life forever. Even by staying away from Whiskey Creek for thirteen years, she is weary being back – with good reason. Noah is out mountain biking when he hears a shout for help from the old mine. If there’s one place he wants to stay far away from, it’s the mine, where his brother died thirteen years ago in […]

Posted 1 July, 2013 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 0 Comments
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Review: Losing Hope (Hopeless #2) – Colleen Hoover

Review: Losing Hope (Hopeless #2) – Colleen Hoover

*I received a free ARC of Losing Hope from Atria Books via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* Holder has been losing hope ever since that fatal day when he watched his little neighbor walk towards a car and leave with a stranger. After a news cast dubbed him ‘the boy who lost Hope’ his family stopped watching the news all together. Colleen Hoover has another masterpiece with Losing Hope. All the while showing the readers Holder’s inner thoughts and sharing some of the same moments that we know from Hopeless, there are things happening both before and after the narrative of Hopeless, and there are things Holder did that Sky never knew about, so there was a lot […]

Posted 30 June, 2013 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 0 Comments
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Review: Untethered – Katie Hayoz

Review: Untethered – Katie Hayoz

Untethered is a novel that surprised me on many levels! The story, while having some ingredients that are invariably part of a young adult novel is so original. The paranormal that happens has nothing to do with werewolves or vampires, there are no witches or magic. But astral-projection is a big part of the story, and it is both a blessing and a curse to Sylvie as she tries to figure out how to deal with her parents’ impending divorce, feeling like a pariah and seeing her best friend having become the most beautiful girl ever just over summer. I hadn’t even really planned on reading Untethered, but a week ago, I met with Katie for coffee, and we had […]

Posted 28 June, 2013 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 0 Comments
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Review: One Tiny Lie (Ten Tiny Breaths #2) – K. A. Tucker

Review: One Tiny Lie (Ten Tiny Breaths #2) – K. A. Tucker

*I received a free ARC of One Tiny Lie from Atria Books via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* One Tiny Lie starts with Kayce and Oliva sitting on the deck, discussing mundane things, until Kaye asks Olivia if she’d be willing to talk to Dr. Stayner on the phone. Kayce is telling Olivia how worried she is about her – and Olivia can’t understand why anyone at all would be worried about her! She’s a straight A student, never drinks, doesn’t swear, stays clear of boys and helps little children. Her dream ever since she was nine years old is to go to Princeton, get into pre-med and become a pediatric oncologist. There is nothing at all wrong […]

Posted 27 June, 2013 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 0 Comments
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Review: Heart of Obsidian (Psy-Changeling #12) – Nalini Singh

Review: Heart of Obsidian (Psy-Changeling #12) – Nalini Singh

Heart of Obsidian may just be my favorite book in the Psy-Changeling series. I loved learning more about Kaleb, and Sahara was totally awesome as well. The overall plot of the series moved along very nicely as well, and we even found out who the Ghost is! The intricate relationships between some of the psy and the changeling packs, as well as the war with pure-psy continued, and there were quite a few things that caught me completely off guard. Heart of Obsidian starts really strong! With Kaleb kidnapping a woman out of a high security place, and for once, he actually brings someone to his home outside of Moscow. It is unclear at first why he takes the woman, […]

Posted 26 June, 2013 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 0 Comments
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Review: Only For You (Unforgettable You #1) – Beverley Kendall

Review: Only For You (Unforgettable You #1) – Beverley Kendall

*I received a free ARC of Only For You from Season Publishing via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* Only For You is a typical romance, with complications that don’t really have anything to do with the main characters. Olivia is a beautiful young woman, used to having boys chasing after her – all the boys apart from the one she wants. Zach has something against Olivia, but what, she has no idea, as they have never really spoken to each other. On the first day of college, Olivia is in French class, chatting with her best friend April when none other than Zach strolls into class. Avoidance really isn’t an option, as they both see each other at […]

Posted 25 June, 2013 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 0 Comments
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Review: Ten Tiny Breaths (Ten Tiny Breaths #1) – K. A. Tucker

Review: Ten Tiny Breaths (Ten Tiny Breaths #1) – K. A. Tucker

Yeah, even the readers need to think about breathing while reading Ten Tiny Breaths, that’s for sure. Between forgetting to breathe in places because I just wanted Kacey to be OK, and not being able to breathe because I was ugly-crying so hard it was impossible I figure the title is one of the more apt titles I’ve seen in a long time! Ten Tiny Breaths start with Kayce and Olivia fleeing their aunt and uncle’s house with only one suitcase each, after their uncle had come into Olivia’s room during the night, acting inappropriately. Kacye swore she would take care of her sister, making sure she could finish high-school and live her dream by going to Princeton just like […]

Posted 24 June, 2013 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 0 Comments
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Review: If You Could be Mine – Sara Farizan

Review: If You Could be Mine – Sara Farizan

*I received a free ARC of If You Could Be Mine from Algonquin Young Readers via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* If You Could be Mine is a very sweet story about two young Iranian women. They have known each other their whole lives, as their mothers were best friends as well. When they were six years old, Sahar realized she really loved Nasrin, and she even told her mother. Her mother quietly told her never to speak of that again, and that this is just not natural at all. When Sahar’s mother dies and she finds herself alone with her father, she spends a lot of time studying, because she wants to be able to go to […]

Posted 20 June, 2013 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 0 Comments
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Review: Cowboy Come Home – Eve Gaddy

Review: Cowboy Come Home – Eve Gaddy

*I received a free ARC of Cowboy Come Home from Belle Bridge Books via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* Cowboy Come Home is a sweet contemporary romance filled with complications for the two protagonists, Jake Rollins and Anna Connor. They were childhood sweethearts, and had been all set to get married when Jake left town to become a professional in the rodeo circuit. Anna knows very well that things can become complicated very fast, and while she is hoping Jake is a lot less charming now than he was when he was twenty, she goes about her life trying to ignore him. Anna has been widowed for a few years when Jake comes back, but she has no […]

Posted 19 June, 2013 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 0 Comments
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Review: Severed Stone (Souls of the Stones #0.5) – Kelly Walker

Review: Severed Stone (Souls of the Stones #0.5) – Kelly Walker

*I received a free ARC of Severed Stone (Souls of the Stones) from All Night Reads via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* Severed Stone is the prequel story in the souls of the Stones series, and I frankly don’t know if it would have been better to first read one of the full-length novels in order to have a stronger feeling about this world and some of the characters who live there. As it is, I really didn’t connect with any of the characters, and the beginning felt very rushed. There were also a lot of the plot-points that were quite easy to guess at before they came to pass, so the foreshadowing was a little on the […]

Posted 18 June, 2013 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 0 Comments
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