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Review: The Navy SEAL’s E-Mail Order Bride – Cora Seton

Review: The Navy SEAL’s E-Mail Order Bride – Cora Seton

*I received a free ARC of The Navy SEAL’s E-Mail Order Bride from One Acre Press via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* The Navy SEAL’s E-Mail Order Bride is a modern-day romance, in which family pressure makes Mason realize he needs to get married, and fast. Humorous, romantic and cute – I enjoyed reading the story, and getting to know Mason and Reagan. My The Navy SEAL’s E-Mail Order Bride review: Mason is never one to back down from a challenge, even while in Afghanistan, he starts looking for a wife both for himself and for his three brothers. It’s the only way for them to keep the family ranch. And they all get a lot of responses […]

Posted 11 July, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 9 Comments
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Review: Dead Beautiful – Yvonne Woon

Review: Dead Beautiful – Yvonne Woon

*I received a free ARC of Dead Beautiful from Disney-Hyperion via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* Dead Beautiful is a pretty predictable YA story, where not that many things happen, the mystery isn’t really mysterious, and the characters and the story never managed to truly draw me in. My Dead Beautiful review: Dead Beautiful didn’t really take off for me, the mystery wasn’t mysterious enough, Renée wasn’t engaging enough, and Dante wasn’t enigmatic enough. I didn’t feel invested in the characters, especially because Renée seemed to change completely from when she was home to when she arrived at her new and expensive boarding school. All of the YA tropes I can do without are a part of Dead […]

Posted 10 July, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 12 Comments
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Review: Dirty Wings – Sarah McCarry

Review: Dirty Wings – Sarah McCarry

*I received a free ARC of Dirty Wings from St. Martin’s Press / St. Martin’s Griffin via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* Dirty Wings is one of the strangest stories I have read in a very long time! No real plot, no real explanation, but a wonderful friendship between two girls who seemingly have nothing in common. My Dirty Wings review: Dirty Wings is kind of a non-story in some ways. Let me explain what I mean: we meet Maia who is a prodigy piano player, she is playing, then chatting with her teacher Oscar after finishing her lesson. Her whole life is centered around the piano, and her life goal (or at least her parents’ life goal […]

Posted 8 July, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 11 Comments
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Review: Lockstep – Karl Schroeder

Review: Lockstep – Karl Schroeder

*I received a free ARC of Lockstep from Tor Books via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* Lockstep started out fairly slow, but once I got into the story, I was totally hooked! My Lockstep review: In a multi-planetary society, where humans have almost destroyed Earth and all its resources, Lockstep shows a way to maybe save everybody. It starts when Toby’s family and some friends are able to finally move from Earth and go to Sedna, a small planet that needs a lot of work in order to be viable. One day, Toby leaves on a small spaceship to put his family flag on a small moon called Rockette – only he disappears and only wakes up after […]

Posted 7 July, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 14 Comments
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COYER Summer Vacation Sign-up Post

COYER Summer Vacation Sign-up Post

COYER Summer Vacation Welcome to my sign-up post for the COYER Summer Vacation challenge! I am so happy there will be yet another COYER challenge, as my kindle would be weighing in at several hundred pounds if it contained actual paper books… As usual, our hosts for the COYER Summer Vacation challenge are Michelle @ Because Reading, and Berls @ Fantasy is More Fun. The rules are a little different this time around, so be sure to check out the sign-up post to know how things are going to work for the summer challenge. Since the challenge run from June 21st through September 5th, and I’m actually off from Uni during that whole time, I am going to be able […]

Posted 6 June, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Challenges / 13 Comments
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#COYER Review: Broken Hearts, Fences, and Other Things to Mend – Katie Finn

#COYER Review: Broken Hearts, Fences, and Other Things to Mend – Katie Finn

*I received a free ARC of Broken Hearts, Fences and Other Things to Mend from Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* Broken Hearts, Fences, and Other Things to Mend really did not hit my fancy in any way. I’m sure a lot of readers will enjoy the story, though, as it has revenge, deceit and some romance going on. To me, it was pretty juvenile, more than a little predictable and I didn’t connect with any of the characters. The one reason why I didn’t stop reading was that I wanted to find out if I was right about everything or not. Gemma didn’t seem all that heartbroken to me, even when her boyfriend […]

Posted 5 April, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 10 Comments
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#COYER Review: One Man Guy – Michael Barakiva

#COYER Review: One Man Guy – Michael Barakiva

*I received a free ARC of One Man Guy from Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* What can I say? One Man Guy blew me away! Alek is a very young protagonist, but he is a great one all the same, as are the other characters in this story. I loved it all! From sibling rivalry to being confused about his sexuality, to living up to his parents expectations while at the same time wanting to be himself, I was taken on a beautiful journey with this book. Told with such tenderness, One Man Guy is a coming of age novel, in which the main character, Alek, has to deal with what starts out […]

Posted 4 April, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 22 Comments
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#COYER Review: The Room on the Second Floor – T.A. Williams

#COYER Review: The Room on the Second Floor – T.A. Williams

*I received a free ARC of The Room on the Second Floor from Carina UK via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* The Room on the Second Floor is the second book by T.A. Williams that I’ve read, and while it was full of fun, quirky characters, and even some nice medieval historical facts, I didn’t enjoy it as much as I enjoyed Dirty Minds. I think the main reason for this less enjoyment, is that the plot was more than a little confused. And I don’t mean confusing – it was confused – because there were too many plot-lines going on at once in this relatively short story. And while those plot-lines were all good, I think my […]

Posted 3 April, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 5 Comments
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#COYER Review: Mad About You – Joan Kilby

#COYER Review: Mad About You – Joan Kilby

*I received a free ARC of Mad About You from Entangled Publishing via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* Mad About You has one of the tropes I enjoy the most in contemporary romances – the friends to lovers trope. Cassy and Scott have been friends since they were kids, best friends, even, and that shows in their early interactions of the story. However, as they both start to admit to their feelings – if only to themselves – their relationship becomes a little stilted and weird. Of course, there is plenty of fun and hotness in Mad About You, but I never really got all that attached to the characters, and that made me a little sad, especially […]

Posted 29 March, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 8 Comments
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#COYER Review: The Wicked We Have Done (Chaos Theory #1) – Sarah Harian

#COYER Review: The Wicked We Have Done (Chaos Theory #1) – Sarah Harian

*I received a free ARC of The Wicked We Have Done from Penguin via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* The Wicked We Have Done is a chilling and mesmerizing story, taking humanity to the very limit of morality and ethics, filled with uneasy friendships and wrapped up in a pretty ugly and messy parcel. The parcel itself is the story, the relationships, the way the characters are forced together, and the sheer terror of their situation. Five young women and five young men, who would possible have been sentenced to death are rather sent to a the Compass Room, where their moral compass is supposed to be assessed by way of illusions and how the triggers make them […]

Posted 28 March, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 18 Comments
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