Review: This Heart of Mine – Brenda Novak

Review: This Heart of Mine – Brenda Novak

This Heart of Mine took me completely by surprise! A beautiful second chance at love story, set in one of my favorite fictional towns is just filled with good stuff even when there are bad things happening, too. My This Heart of Mine review: When I started This Heart of Mine, I was prepared not only to not enjoy the story, but to not enjoy the heroine either. And I’m so happy I was wrong! Phoenix hasn’t only had a tough childhood, her adult life hasn’t exactly been a piece of cake, either. In prison for 17 years, never having met her son before she was finally liberated, she decided to brave it all and go back to the town […]

Posted 3 March, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 7 Comments
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Review: Riding Steele – Opal Carew

Review: Riding Steele – Opal Carew

Riding Steele is a fast and hard ride, with gritty but loveable characters, a despicable ex-boyfriend and the open road ahead. My Riding Steele review: Both Laurie and Steele are interesting characters to follow, and Riding Steele had a very hard edge to it. Both because Laurie was trying to get away from her abusive boyfriend, Donovan, and because one of Steele’s rider buddies saved her, only to kidnap her in order to keep her safe. Needless to say, Laurie thinks she’s gone from one bad situation to a worse one – being held by a group of bikers in the middle of the woods is not her idea of being saved. The chemistry between Laurie and Steele is scorching […]

Posted 2 March, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 5 Comments
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The Sunday Post #21 – Travel-fun

The Sunday Post #21 – Travel-fun

The Sunday Post #21 – Weekly Wrap-up Welcome to my weekly wrap-up post. Thank you to Kimba over at The Caffeinated Reviewer, who is hosting this weekly event. It is the perfect opportunity to share what happened here on my own blog, as well as some of the happenings elsewhere in the Blogosphere. On Thursday after work, I went straight to the airport to go to Norway! My little sister just celebrated her 40th birthday, and I went to surprise her and participate in the celebration 🙂 We had a great time together, and with my mom, even if it was a short, but sweet visit. Today, I’m going back home to Switzerland 🙂 This week’s posts: This week’s reviews: Elsewhere […]

Posted 1 March, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Memes, Wrap-up Posts / 13 Comments
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2015 Challenges – Update Post #2

2015 Challenges – Update Post #2

I am participating in several challenges for 2015, and instead of doing one update post per challenge, I am just including them all in one post right here. 2015 Challenges Update Post #2 The 2015 New Release Challenge is hosted by myself and Stormi @ Books, Movies, Reviews! Oh My! We both read ARCs, and there are also books just being released this year that we are incapable of resisting, so motivating ourselves and each other to read and review new releases seemed like a great idea to us. Because I read over 140 books released in 2014 last year, I am aiming for 75 for this year. Here are the books I’ve read so far for the 2015 New […]

Posted 28 February, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Challenges / 4 Comments
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Stacking the Shelves #73 BBB #23 – Small but Neat

Stacking the Shelves #73 BBB #23 – Small but Neat

Stacking The Shelves #73 – BB&B #23 Stacking The Shelves, hosted by Tynga’s Reviews is all about the latest additions to your library – virtual or actual, with books that are  bought, borrowed, won or ARCs  you will be reading soon. BB&B is a homage to to Barron’s Books and Baubles from Karen Marie Moning’s amazing Fever series, and is hosted by Braine over at Talk Supe. I’m really happy with my manageable stack this week – only two books added, that feels like a record 🙂 Netgalley ARCs: Skewed – Anne McAneny SKEWED… a tantalizing mystery thriller that opens with a bang, turns lives upside down, and delivers a shocking jolt of a finale… Janie Perkins rocks a warped […]

Posted 28 February, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Memes, Stacking the Shelves / 14 Comments
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Review: What a Lady Requires – Ashlyn MacNamara

Review: What a Lady Requires – Ashlyn MacNamara

What a Lady Requires is a great ending to the Eton Boys Trilogy, and I especially enjoyed Emma with her knowledge for numbers, even if she was not so good at mingling in society. My What a Lady Requires review: While I thought What a Lady Requires is a good ending to the Eton Boys Trilogy, it didn’t sweep me off my feet like it could have. The pacing was very slow, and while I enjoyed both Emma and Rowan, they were a little more reserved than the characters in the first two stories. I loved that Emma had such a head for business, though, and that she was able to share this with her husband, even if he was […]

Posted 27 February, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 6 Comments
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Thirsty Thursday and Hungry Hearts #5

Thirsty Thursday and Hungry Hearts #5

Thirsty Thursday and Hungry Hearts #5 Welcome to Thirsty Thursday and Hungry Hearts, an original weekly meme hosted here at (un)Conventional Bookviews. So many of the books I read have food or drinks in them, some I’d love to try, and others I’d never ever want to taste… and I thought it could be interesting and fun to share some food and / or drink quotes…  If you want to participate, you can grab my logo if you’d like, or you can make your own, but please link back to me in your own post. The idea of Thirsty Thursday and Hungry Hearts is to share a quote with food or drinks that showed up in a recent read, as well […]

Posted 26 February, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Memes, Thirsty Thursday and Hungry Hearts / 12 Comments
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Review: Clutch – J.A. Huss

Review: Clutch – J.A. Huss

Junco is brilliant! And Clutch is so well done! Aliens, clones, war, fights, doubts, lies, amazing characters, it’s all there! My Clutch review: Clutch is really all I could wish for in a sci-fi novel. The world is slowly shown to me, Junco is a great character, even if both she and I were quite confused at the beginning of the story. Tiers intrigued me form the beginning, and I really enjoyed the fact that he truly let Junco have choices – it’s not like that really happened very often where she was concerned. Between being raised both as a killer and an acrobat on a horse, it took a while for me to reconcile both parts of her personality. […]

Posted 26 February, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 16 Comments
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Waiting on Wednesday #34 – The Cage

Waiting on Wednesday #34 – The Cage

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Jill of Breaking the Spine. This meme is a place to showcase a book we’re really looking forward to with bated breath! A new release in our favorite series, an exciting new title from a favorite author…  Waiting on Wednesday #34 – The Cage When I first saw the blurb for this title, I was instantly intrigued. A different kind of dystopia, but where some important choices seem to be at stake for the main character. The Cage (The Cage #1) – Megan Shepherd When Cora Mason wakes in a desert, she doesn’t know where she is or who put her there. As she explores, she finds an impossible mix […]

Posted 25 February, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Memes, Waiting on Wednesday / 21 Comments
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Blogtour Review: The Hurricane – R.J. Prescott

Blogtour Review: The Hurricane – R.J. Prescott

Welcome to my stop on The Hurricane blogtour! The tour is hosted by Xpresso Booktours, and you can find the schedule by clicking the banner above. Today, I am going to share with you my The Hurricane review, a giveaway and my favorite quotes 🙂 My The Hurricane Review When I read the summary for The Hurricane, I thought I was going to get a fluffy read, with some boxing fights and lots of romance between a bad boy and a shy girl, and it was that, however, there is much more to this story than that. Emily has no friends at the beginning of the story, she keeps her head down, works, and goes to class – that’s it. […]

Posted 24 February, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Blog Tour, Reviews / 11 Comments
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