Top Ten Tuesday # 18 + Teaser Tuesday # 42

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. This meme was created because we are particularly fond of lists here at The Broke and the Bookish. We'd love to share our lists with other bookish folks and would LOVE to see your top ten lists! 

This week's Top Ten is: 

Rewind Day! So I get to choose a topic done is the past. 

Top Ten Books I Loved But Never Wrote A Review For

 Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult & Samantha van Leer  - I just adored this book! It was so super cute. Just never got around to reviewing it. 



















Finale by Becca Fitzpatrick - OMG! This book should have been the dead of me. I loved it sooooo very much!! *sigh* I will end up writing a review someday soon. ;) How could I not?


















Beautiful Lies by Jessica Warman - I was totally floored by how amazing this one is. I just eat this book up! Loved every second of it. I'm not sure why I haven't review the book but it needs to be done. :)















Kill me Softly by Sarah Cross - Now this book should have been reviewed a long time ago. Shame on me! :( I feel in love with this book right from the start. If you have not read it....go now! It's wonderful.















Spellcaster (Spellbound #2) by Cara Lynn Shultz - This is the 2nd book in the series and I know I did a review on the 1st one, Spellbound but I'm not sure why I never wrote one for this one. I loved everything about this book. :)















Deadly Cool by Gemma Halliday -  Okay, I am really going to scold myself on this one. Deadly Cool was one of my favorite reads in 2012. I love the mystery and the romance. Again this one is another book that is overlooked, but really kicks ass! 













Cinder (Lunar Chronicles #1) by Marissa Meyer - Okay, please shoot me know. Ugh! I can't believe I forgot to review Cinder.  Maybe once I read Scarlet I will do both reviews in one. 















If I Stay by Gayle Forman - I think the reason I never reviewed this book is because how sad and emotional it was for me. 
















Imaginary Girls by Nova Ren Suma - This book was super crazy and weird but I think that's why I enjoyed it so much. Why I didn't end up reviewing it? I have a "reason" but it's a secret. O_0















Heist Society by Ally Carter - Honestly, I am not sure why I never did a review for the book. I love the whole series. Ally Carter is an amazing author but I guess i never found the time to review her books. Not to say I won't in the future. :)

Leave me your TOP TEN links below in the comment section. I will come check it out. :)

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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

The Rules:

• Grab your current read

• Open to a random page

• Share two (2) or so “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page

• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)

• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers.

My teaser comes from the book: 

Being Henry David by Cal Armistead

"Seriously, sometimes I feel like I don't know anything about you, Hank. Mr. Mysterious. Who the hell are you anyway?"

"I have no idea," I say, flashing a charming smile to show her I'm kidding. 

Taken from page 178-179

I love comments! Leave your links to your blog post. I will come check them out. Thank you for stopping by and Happy Reading!

Cover Reveal + Author Interview + ARC Giveaway: Everything Breaks by Vicki Grove | Coming Fall 2013 from Penguin

Everything Breaks by Vicki Grove

Hardcover, 240 pages

Expected publication: October 3rd 2013 by Putnam Juvenile
Young Adult Fiction

Tucker was supposed to be the designated driver. But there was something about the beauty of that last true summer night, that made him want to feel out-of-control just once. He drank so much and so quickly that he was instantly sick. That left Trey to drive. "I'll catch up to you later," were the last words Tucker would ever say to his friends as he heaved by the side of the road. It was the last time Tucker would ever see them alive.

Tucker’s grief and guilt are just about unbearable and he wonders how he can continue living himself. When he meets the Ferryman who carries souls of the newly deceased across the rivers that divide the world of the living from the world of the dead, Tucker gets a chance to decide: live or die. The temptation to join his three best friends on the other side may be too much for Tucker to overcome.   A gripping, haunting and emotional read.

Hi Vicki! Thanks for being here today and agreeing to be interviewed. So very nice to meet you. So let's get started.

Me:  Tell me a little about yourself? 

Vicki:  Hey, Becky!   I'll introduce myself by saying I live in a tiny yellow house deep in the woods of the Missouri Ozarks with my husband, Mike, who's a music theory teacher.  We have two grown kids and the two most adorable little grandsons in the world.  My dog's name is Imogene and I have several cats, all too indistinguishable to name since they are all black.  The last time my daughter and the little boys visited us from Indiana someone had abandoned eight black kittens in the woods and they found them and brought them home to me.   I'm taking piano lessons, I love to collect rocks, love to hike and to read (of course) and to ride my bike.  I've been a freelance writer for about thirty or so years.  It's embarrassing, talking about yourself like this! :)   Do I sound boring?

Me:  Have your always known you wanted to be an author? If not, who or what inspired you to write? 

Vicki:  I can't remember anyone ever asking if I always wanted to be a writer~ I love that question!  I know I fell in love with writing in third grade, when we learned cursive and Mrs. Peters told us that now our pencils could go fast and keep on going forever and instead of just writing paragraphs we could tell stories with our sentences.  We lived on a farm and I would go up to the hayloft after school every night and do just that, tell stories about what had happened during the day and about how much I thought it was unfair for my little brother to get all the attention.  I braided myself a shoulder handle for my notebook and carried it around everywhere with me so I'd look like a real writer.   I was a very shy, self-conscious child without any sports ability, but suddenly I had my own identity.  To this day I don't know how I'd function without writing, since it defines me to myself, if that makes sense.  Thanks, Mrs. Peters!   I got an M.A. in English, but no one taught me so much about the written word.

Me:  Is there any one part in your book, Everything Breaks that was most difficult to write? 

Vicki:  Everything Breaks is about the tenth or eleventh book I've written but the first one that's supernatural.  I don't think it's a coincidence that I worked on it as my parents were dying and while I was grieving their deaths.  The character of Bud is based on my dad, and I cried a lot when I wrote the parts of the book where Bud is more or less handing his last bits of energy to Tucker in the form of stories and car advice.   There are several Greek myths of heroes who, upon losing a friend or a lover, brave the Underworld to try and bring them back to the light.  My narrator and main character, Tucker, is in that mold.   Like Orpheus and Achilles before him, he travels to a very strange place and finds while he's there that he has to face the fact of loss.  Everything ever created will break, that's just how it works.  But life is so rich, and not to be wasted.  And some things do remain, like love.

Me: If you could describe your book in 3 words, what would they be? 

Vicki:  Describe the book in three words?  Becky, you are tough! :)   Okay, let's see.   I think it's scary, too scary for, say, fifth graders.  It's a book about a journey.   The tone is ultimately bittersweet, I think.  So, a "scary, bittersweet journey"?  I don't think you should make me count that little article "a" as a word.  c'mon, now.

Me:  What genre of books do you most enjoy reading? Do you have a current favorite book? 

Vicki:  I enjoy any genre of book as long as character development is foremost in the writer's mind.   I think some people read for plot, some for setting, some for character.  I'm character, all the way, though of course a good book has to have all three things.  

Thank again Vicki! You have been a pleasure to work with and I really enjoyed getting to know you better. I hope my readers will also enjoy learning about you and Everything Breaks.

Becky, thanks so much for your thought-provoking questions!   Mrs. Peters would have really liked having you as a student.  By the way, my website is vickigrove.com and e-mail is vikgrove(at)gmail(dot)com. Again, Becky, thanks so much for your time and energy and for fighting the good fight!  All good wishes. - Vicki

First and foremost I would like to thank Vicki Grove again and Penguin/G.P. Putnam's Sons for asking me to be a part of the cover reveal for this amazing book. It has been a great pleasure working with everyone and....for supplying an ARC of Everything Breaks for a giveaway on my blog. YOU ROCK!

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Blog Tour: Dead Silence by Kimberly Derting / ARC Review + This or That Author Interview + Giveaways!

Hello and welcome to my stop on the DEAD SILENCE by Kimberly Derting blog tour hosted by Candace @ CBB Book Promotions. Today I will be sharing with you all my review on the book Dead Silence, a This or That Interview with the author as well as info about the book/series. Be Be sure to check out the end of this post. There will be a HUGE giveaway to win the following:

Title: Dead Silence
Author: Kimberly Derting
Number of Pages: 336
Series: The Body Finder #4
Expected publication: April 16th 2013 by HarperCollins
Source: Publisher - ARC paperback
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Reading Level: Young Adult

Violet thought she’d made peace with her unique ability to sense the echoes of the dead and the imprints that cling to their killers…that is until she acquired an imprint of her own. Forced to carry a reminder of the horrible events of her kidnapping, Violet is more determined than ever to lead a normal life. However, the people who run the special investigative team Violet works for have no intention of letting her go.

When someone close to Violet becomes a suspect in a horrific murder, she finds herself pulled into a deadly hunt for a madman with an army of devoted followers. Violet has survived dangerous situations before, but she quickly discovers that protecting those closest to her is far more difficult than protecting herself.

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Let me first start out by saying that I have never read anything by author Kimberly Derting. I have had the first three book in the series on my book shelves for sometime now but had yet to read them. So once I heard about this tour I knew it would be a great opportunity to challenge myself to read the complete Body Finder series. After reading them all I just about kicked myself for not starting this series sooner. Yeah...I know was sure missing out on some amazing books. *smacks forehead against wall* 

Dead Silence picks up pretty much directly after The last Echo ended. Violet has a very special gift. She can find dead bodies by sensing an imprint they leave behind after they die. She is also able to find who killed them but matching the same imprint or echo to the recently dead. 

Only now Violet has a imprint of her own. A music box playing the same haunting tune, over and over again. 

If that wasn't enough to drive her a little crazy, Violet is being threatened not to leave the "special team" of gifted kids like herself or else! She wants nothing more than to stop working for them but unless she does, her family and friends will be harmed. With no other choice, Violet continues to help find dead bodies when no one else can in order to put them properly to rest by finding who killed them. 

There is a new killer is town, called "The Collector".  If Violet is not careful someone she loves might just be his next victim... 

Dead Silence being the final book in the series will definitely leave the readers wanting more but more so being sorry to have to say goodbye to their favorite characters, Violet, Jay, Chelsea, Rafe, and all the other who make the series a whole lot of awesome!!! 

Dead Silence for me was the perfect ending to yet another amazing book series. Being the last book in the series I felt that Kimberly Derting did a beautiful job at tying together any loose ends from the first three books. The one part that really made Dead Silence so interesting to me was learning more about Violets ability. The reader gets unique look into where Violet inherited her gift and from whom but more so a deeper understanding at what it really means to carry such a powerful gift. 

Also a major plus for me is the super sweet and kind romance between Vi and Jay. The way the author writes them together throughout the series is just so tender and perfect. They are two halves of a whole in every way.

I am so glad I decided to read this series. I have no clue why it took me so long to pick up the books but let me tell you without a doubt "The Body Finders" series is now one of my favorite series and will hold a place in my heart forever. If you have not read these books then you are surely missing out!

 Totally Awesome! I loved it, would read again.

1. A closet full of shoes or a closet full of purses?  Shoes

2. Kindle Fire or Nook Color?  Kindle Fire

3. Reading a 300 page book or reading a 500 page book?  However many words it takes to get the story told!

4. Writing on a computer or longhand?  Computer

5. Zombies vs. Aliens - Who would win? Alien zombies

6. Free trip to Italy or Japan?  Italy, but I’d probably eat sushi.

7. Reality TV or Soap Opera's?  Reality TV for sure!

8. Male Protagonist or Female Protagonist?  Female protagonist with a hot male lead.

9. Ocean or Swimming Pool? Oceanside swimming pool.

10. Books being turned into movies: Way Cool or Ugh! Not another! ?  Way cool!!!

11. Milk and Cookies or Coffee and Scones?  Coffee and cookies ;)

12. Prologue and Epilogue: Yay or Nay?  YAY!

About The Author: Kimberly Derting

Find Kimberly @ 

Website / Facebook / Twitter / Goodreads

Kimberly Derting is the author of the BODY FINDER series (HarperCollins) and THE PLEDGE trilogy (Simon & Schuster). She lives in the Seattle area, with her husband and three children, who often find the outrageous things they say either in the pages of her books or posted on Twitter or Facebook for the entire world to see. 

Thank you all for stopping by! I hope everyone really enjoyed this post and my review of Dead Silence. Please use the rafflecopter form below to enter the giveaway.

A huge thanks goes to Kimberly and HarperCollins for my ARC!

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