Review: Once Upon a Winter’s Eve – Tessa Dare

Review: Once Upon a Winter’s Eve – Tessa Dare

Spindle Cove is definitely the place to be, and Once Upon a Winter’s Eve cemented that feeling for me. My Once Upon a Winter’s Eve review: Violet is a very good female character to follow, but that is usually the case with this series! Once Upon a Winter’s Eve happens over the span of an evening and night, and then a few months later there is a very nice resolution. The women who go to Spindle Cove are quite unconventional, and they rather cultivate that during their stay. As such, Violet knows how to use a gun, and she’s very gifted when it comes to languages. Of course, my inner linguist totally loved that, and the fact that the man […]

Posted 17 January, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 14 Comments
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Feature and Follow Friday #94 – Doubles?

Feature and Follow Friday #94 – Doubles?

Feature and Follow Friday #94 – Double? YAY it’s Friday! Gain new followers and make new friends with the Book Blogger Feature and Follow Friday! If this is your first time here, welcome! You are about to make some new friends and gain new followers — but you have to know — the point of this hop is to follow other bloggers also. I follow you, you follow me.The Feature and Follow is hosted by TWO hosts, Rachel of Parajunkee’s View and Alison of Alison Can Read. Each host will have their own Feature Blog and this way it’ll allow us to meet more new bloggers! Do you own any doubles of your books? What led to getting that second…or […]

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DNF Review: Hex Hall – Rachel Hawkins

DNF Review: Hex Hall – Rachel Hawkins

I had quite high hopes for Hex Hall before I started it. Several reviewers whom I am almost always agreeing with loved it, and it’s a genre I love, too. Alas, Hex Hall and I weren’t meant to be. My Hex Hall review: I almost stopped reading Hex Hall at 37% of my kindle edition. I found the story to be very slow, I wasn’t all that interested in Sophie, and I also thought a lot of things didn’t make much sense – mostly because they were glossed over, and even Sophie had no idea about how to navigate her world. Being a witch raised by a human for sixteen years can’t have made anything easy for Sophie, but I […]

Posted 16 January, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 24 Comments
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Review: Never Never – Colleen Hoover and Tarryn Fisher

Review: Never Never – Colleen Hoover and Tarryn Fisher

A different kind of paranormal story, Never Never has both of the MCs being amnesic at the beginning, and as they slowly unravel their pasts, things get complicated. My Never Never review: Charlie and Silas share a common story, but they aren’t really aware of it in Never Never. From the start of the story, the confusion and the memory lapse are at the forefront, and I really enjoyed the fact that Charlie and Silas each had their own chapters – it helped getting to know them, even if they didn’t really know themselves. Mysterious and poignant, the story felt like a reboot, in a way. Where the characters sat down and thought carefully about their past and future choices; […]

Posted 15 January, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 18 Comments
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Review: Garrett – Sawyer Bennett

Review: Garrett – Sawyer Bennett

Garrett is a very hot read, but there is a lot more going on than Garrett and Olivia. Between the hockey-games, the romance and Olivia’s secret, it was quite a ride! My Garrett review: In Alex (Cold Fury Hockey #1) Garrett was known as Alex’ best friend, the guy who was always flirting, changing girls every time he went out, and never becoming serious with anybody. When he first met Olivia, however, he was completely mesmerized by her, and even more so because she bluntly turned him down, after laughing at his dirty jokes. When Sutton told him to stay away from his cousin because she had enough stuff going on in her life, he only became more interested in […]

Posted 14 January, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 6 Comments
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Waiting on Wednesday #28 – The Shadows

Waiting on Wednesday #28 – The Shadows

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 #28 – The Shadows Yes, I’m waiting for the next Black Dagger Brotherhood story that will be released on March 31st. So many things happened in the last story, and I’m very curious about several characters right now. The Shadows (Black Dagger Brotherhood #13) – J. R. Ward   Trez “Latimer” doesn’t really exist. And not just because the identity was created so that a Shadow could function in the […]

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Top Ten Tuesday #28 – Top Ten 2014 Releases I Meant to Read…

Top Ten Tuesday #28 – Top Ten 2014 Releases I Meant to Read…

Top Ten Tuesday #28 – Top Ten 2014 Releases I Meant To Read… But Didn’t Get to This week on Top Ten Tuesday is about the Top Ten 2014 Releases I Meant to Read… but didn’t actually get to.  My links go to Goodreads on the author name, and Booklikes on the title, to help you add more books to your own TBR in case you haven’t got these on there yet. Top Ten Tuesdays is a fun meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, where we share our excitement for books, and I really like how this meme makes me think about the books I read, why I read them, and who to recommend my favorite reads to. […]

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Review: Soul Walker – Robyn Jones

Review: Soul Walker – Robyn Jones

Soul Walker is so beautifully written, with a very different main character, and vampires that are nothing like the ones I’ve met before. My Soul Walker review: I’m wondering why I haven’t read Soul Walker before now, even if I do know why. I have been blog-friends with Robyn for a while, and I love her. So, even if I had her books, I was afraid to read them, and not enjoy them. I don’t know why I ever thought I might not enjoy Robyn’s stories, because even her blog-posts include her beautiful way with words, and Soul Walker is a true work of art! It’s easy to see that Robyn used to paint a lot, because she has used […]

Posted 13 January, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 8 Comments
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Theme Song #1 – Rock it Out!

Theme Song #1 – Rock it Out!

  When Life’s Kicking Your Butt, How About a Theme Song?  Rock It Out The theme song meme is hosted by Robyn over @ Robgirl Books, and I’ve been following Robyn as well as Jaclyn and Brandee and the music they’re sharing every month. It really looks like fun, and since I love music almost as much as I love books, I figured I might as well participate too, right? For the month of January, we’re supposed to share songs that we truly rock it out to. I have many of those, but for some reason, I come back to these two: Disclosure: You and Me remix. I love this song, especially from 1 minute on, when the off-beat is […]

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Blogtour Review: The Body Electric – Beth Revis

Blogtour Review: The Body Electric – Beth Revis

Welcome to my stop on The Body Electric tour hosted by Xpresso Booktours. I have my review and some favorite quotes to share, and there’s also a tour-wide giveaway from today until January 26th. My The Body Electric review: Ella is a young girl who has lost so much already, her dad died in an explosion, and her mom is terminally ill. Every night, Ella has very strange dreams, in which she finds herself with her father, and more often than not, he tells her something important, up until the point when Ella realizes that her dream is in fact not real. The Body Electric starts out really strong, I am drawn into Ella’s dreams and reality, and I want […]

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