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The Sunday Post #33 Short Week + End of Classes

The Sunday Post #33 Short Week + End of Classes

The Sunday Post #33 – Weekly Wrap-up Welcome to my Sunday 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. This week was a short week, because we had Monday off for Pentecost, and it was my last week of teaching classes, as from next week on my students will be in final exam mode. It was also my last week of taking classes, and I was scrambling a bit on Sunday and Monday to be able to hand in my final papers for my MA classes. It’s all […]

Posted 31 May, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Memes, Wrap-up Posts / 33 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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Review: Ugly Love – Colleen Hoover

Review: Ugly Love – Colleen Hoover

Ugly Love is so full of feels! There is love, hope, devastation, loss, hopelessness, distraction… You name it – I felt it! My Ugly Love review: It has taken me several weeks to finally review Ugly Love. That is because even now, I feel like crying when I think about this heart-wrenching story! I cried the biggest ugly tears I have ever cried while reading a book. The story is so well done, especially because it is written in dual points of views, both from Tate’s and Miles’ point of view. However, the chapters written in Miles point of view are a lot shorter, and I didn’t get to know him any better than Tate did. And I thought the […]

Posted 17 October, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 16 Comments
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Review: No Boundaries – Donna K Ford

Review: No Boundaries – Donna K Ford

*I received a free ARC of No Boundaries from Bold Strokes Books via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* No Boundaries is a sweet, tender contemporary suspense romance, sharing the budding relationship between Gwen and Andi. My No Boundaries review: While I really enjoyed the characters in No Boundaries, the story was so slow paced it felt like double the pages that were actually there. The story itself is quite good, but it took a long time for Gwen and me to figure out what had really happened to Andi. And while I can understand that Andi was hiding behind a wall o f indifference to protect herself, and also those she loved, I felt like it was a […]

Posted 31 July, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 6 Comments
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Review: Tease – Amanda Maciel

Review: Tease – Amanda Maciel

*I received a free ARC of Tease from Hachette Children’s Books via Netgalley in exchange of an honest and unbiased review* My Tease Review Tease is a hard story to read, for several reasons, one being that it is about bullying taken so far the victim takes her own life. The other thing that made it hard to read is that the whole story in Tease is from the point of view of one of the young girls who bullied Emma until she could no longer take it. And while I think it’s both interesting and courageous to write a book about bullying from that point of view, I think it also made it harder to actually connect with the […]

Posted 16 June, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 12 Comments
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Review: The Belief in Angels – J. Dylan Yates

Review: The Belief in Angels – J. Dylan Yates

*I received a free ARC of The Belief in Angels from She Writes Press via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* The Belief in Angels is a pretty tough story to read, there is child-abuse, drug use, 2nd world war story about the Jewish grand-dad from Ukraine. Jules never seems to be able to catch a break, her whole child-hood is filled with darkness, fear and very little hope. Her dad drinks too much, and never hesitates to raise his hand, both to his children and his wife. And the mom, she gets high, is an eternal student, and leaves the children to mend for themselves most of the time. I have to point out that the prologue almost […]

Posted 23 April, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 16 Comments
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Review: Love Letters to the Dead – Ava Dellaira

Review: Love Letters to the Dead – Ava Dellaira

*I received a free ARC of Love Letters to the Dead from Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* Love Letters to the Dead is a beautifully written story about fifteen-year-old Laurel, and all her guilt and grief after her sister’s death. When her English teacher in High School asks the class to write a letter to a dead personality in the first class, Laurel promptly starts writing to Kurt Cobain, but she never hands the assignment in. Instead, she keeps that one notebook and writes letters to other deceased people who feel familiar to her as well. And her letters are extremely personal, filled with emotions, soul-searching, and a way to cope with not […]

Posted 31 March, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 21 Comments
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Review: Ignite Me (Shatter Me #3) – Tahereh Mafi

Review: Ignite Me (Shatter Me #3) – Tahereh Mafi

Ignite Me inspired me, so my review will be a poem, an acrostic poem to share with you, this way, I won’t spoil anything at all but still show my undivided appreciation of the beautiful prose, the character growth and the incredible story. Ignite Me is strong, yet not sure Graceful, ruthless and full of fight Nurtured and loved Incredibly steamy, and lovely as hell Trustworthy, flippant and new Extremely ready for change Meaningful and full of heart Entangled for life and beyond Ignite Me is a beautiful ending to a beautiful trilogy, and even if my little poem can’t do it justice, I just felt like writing something in a different kind of prose as a kind of dedication […]

Posted 18 February, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 24 Comments
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Review: A Missing Peace – Beth Fred

Review: A Missing Peace – Beth Fred

*I received a free ARC of A Missing Peace from Harlequin via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* A Missing Peace is a brilliant YA novel, about an Iraqi girl and an American boy, they have both been scarred by the war in Iraq, Mirriam’s dad was killed there when he tried to save a man. Caleb’s dad was killed there as well, and Caleb had always thought it happened in an attack and that enemy fire killed him. The way Caleb and Mirriam really can’t stand each other in the beginning, each thinking the other represents everything they hate is so well done! As Mirriam and Caleb get to know each other better, they also learn to appreciate […]

Posted 11 November, 2013 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 0 Comments
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Review: Crash Into You (Pushing the Limits #3) – Katie McGarry

Review: Crash Into You (Pushing the Limits #3) – Katie McGarry

*I received a free ARC of Crash Into You from Harlequin Teen via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review.* If you thought Isaiah was the best bad-boy out there in Pushing the Limits, you’ll adore him in Crash Into You! Of course, bad boy is relative, it has to do with the way people see him more than anything else! Rachel doesn’t really care all that much about appearances, though, especially because it seems like that is the only thing that matters for her family. And her four brothers aren’t really any better than her parents when it comes to that. This might become a very gushing review, because I was so excited when I got an e-mail telling […]

Posted 21 October, 2013 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 0 Comments
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