Over the Top Award!

Is it my birthday, because, damn I feel special and loved today! I could have sworn it was in September...but hey, you guys made my Monday wickedly awesome :)

Natalie over at Mindful Musing gave me this award for my blog and her blog is fantastic so pop over there and check it out.

Rules:

1. Thank and post URL to the blog that gave the award. (Duh)

2. Pass the award along to 6 brilliantly over the top blogs (blogs you love!) Alert them so they know to receive the award.

3 Copy and paste this quiz... Change the answers, ONE word only. (2 are acceptable!) **Kind of violated this one...Oops!

1. Where is your cell phone? desk
2. Your hair? brown

3. Your mother? reading

4. Your father? passed away :(

5. Your favorite food? Sushi

6. Your dream last night? can't remember

7. Your favorite drink? red wine

8. Your dream/goal? to succeed

9. What room are you in? my office

10. Your hobby? Reading and football (watching not playing lol)

11. Your fear? Losing the people I love

12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? My house paid off, is that possible? lol

13. Where were you last night? at home watching, you guessed it, football

14. Something that you aren't? drama queen

15. Muffins? cupcakes? cupcakes with icing please

16. Wish list item? Barnes & Noble gift card!

17. Where did you grow up? Nocona, TX

18. Last thing you did? helped the husband carry in firewood

19. What are you wearing? slouchy pants and sweatshirt (nice!)

20. Your TV? umm...football..damn, busted..it's Monday night!

21. Your pets? awesome, 2 border collies and 1 moody cat

22. Friends? spread out all over, wish we lived closer!

23. Your life? fun
24. Your mood? happy to be home from work

25. Missing someone? always my Dad, and my BFF's

26. Vehicle? POS Dodge Intrepid (but it gets me there and back)

27. Something you're not wearing? earrings

28. Your favorite store? Target

29. Your favorite color? Dark Blue

30. When was the last time you laughed? about an hour ago, reading a book!

31. Last time you cried? hummm...I dont remember

32. Your best friend? My sister

And this award goes to (in no particular order):

1. A Passion for Books

2. Rex Robot Reviews

3. Blog with Bite

4. Brizmus Blogs Books

5. Enchanted by Books

6. Juiciliciousss Reviews

Congrats everyone!

Kick ASS Blog Contest!

Larissa over at www.larissaslife.com come up with an awesome new blog contest!  It is KICK ASS, to say the least!

Rex Robot Reviews was kind enough to nominate me for the KICK ASS award and now I want to pass along the love to 5 blogs that I think are KICK ASS.

Lets start with Larissa's rules:

• To play you must be awarded this blog button by someone. Accept the badge, stick it on your blog- then post about it. (Like I'm doing now!) Make sure your badge links back to the person who gave it to you. 
• Name five blogs in your post that you think are *worthy* of this sweet kick-ass badge. Don't forget to let them know you've nominated them =)

My Nomination, in no particular order....

1. Rex Robot Reviews
2. Dark Faerie Tales
3. Park Avenue Princess
4. Mindful Musings
5. Peace Love & Pat
6. Parajunkee's View

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Bloody Bookaholic's BIG Blowout Contest!

The Bloody Bookaholic is having a HUGE contest to celebrate Christmas/ Hanukkah/ Whatever You Believe In Blowout! Check out these awesome prizes for 3 winners:

- ARC Eyes Like Stars

- Signed ARC Hush Hush

- ARC Ash

- ARC The Demon's Lexicon

- ARC Betraying Season

- The Black Tatto + poster

- I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You

- Candle Man, Book One

- Deadtown

- Lenore Noogies

- The anticipated sequel of The Nanny Diaries, The Nanny Returns

- Never After by Dan Elconsin

- Secret Society signed book and an Ambassador Kit

And a 2010 Book called The Mark by Jen Nadol.

- Gift Cards for Ninja T Shirts.

 

 

So head over there now and check it out and you get an extra entry if you let her know that I sent you! Go HERE

Tynga's 300 Followers Contest

Check out this HUGE contest!

Tyna is giving away these awesome books to celebrate reaching 300 followers! There will be 4 total winners so head over there right now and let her know that I sent you and you will get extra entries ;)  Here are the books up for grabs:

So go HERE and enter!

Review: Need by Carrie Jones

Title: Need

Author: Carrie Jones

Reading Level: Young Adult

My rating: 4.5 out of 5 wicked stars

Blurb:

Zara collects phobias the way other high school girls collect lipsticks. Little wonder, since life’s been pretty rough so far. Her father left, her stepfather just died, and her mother’s pretty much checked out. Now Zara’s living with her grandmother in sleepy, cold Maine so that she stays “safe.” Zara doesn’t think she’s in danger; she thinks her mother can’t deal.

Wrong. Turns out that guy she sees everywhere, the one leaving trails of gold glitter, isn’t a figment of her imagination. He’s a pixie—and not the cute, lovable kind with wings. He’s the kind who has dreadful, uncontrollable needs. And he’s trailing Zara.

My thoughts...

Before I get into the book, let me say this cover is amazing :)  It is a very pretty "shiny".   It almost looks like you would think it would be about vampires, but surprisingly, no vampires in this book.  There are plenty of other little "nasties" to keep your interest, though.

Okay now, on to the book.  Zara White is sent to live with her Grandmother in Maine after she never recovers from depression after her step father (and only father she has ever known) dies.  Her Mother hopes the change of scenery will help her bounce back but Zara thinks her Mother is just shipping her off because she can't deal with her anymore.  Zara starts school and makes friends and enemies pretty quickly.  She keeps seeing this person that has followed her from her Mother's house to Maine and is stalking her.  He turns out to be the Pixie King and he is after Zara and will continue abducting teenage boys until he gets her.

Zara is a likable character, I question her judgment in the book a few times, but I guess the heroines have to be doing stupid things to keep the action rolling at times, ha ha.  As the book progresses there are a few surprises, even for me who tries to ferret every possible outcome while reading.  I love it when a book surprises me.

Carrie Jones weaves a magical, entertaining and sometimes actually scary tale.  Once I started this book, I did lose some sleep over getting to a part where the action slowed down enough for me to put it down for the night.  This book has plenty of pixies and shifters to keep those para-lovers (like myself) entertained and enough romance/love interest to give you warm fuzzies. I am eagerly awaiting the next book in the series, Captivate due out January 2010.

Book Bound's 100 Follower's Contest!

Book Bound is having a contest for reaching 100 followers, and it is a GOOD one!   Here are the details:

There will be THREE (3) winners. Each winner will get to choose their prize(s)!

I have recently discovered The Book Depository, and the great thing about it is you get new books for great prices and free worldwide shipping!!!

So, each of the three winners will get to buy books up to $20...any books of their choice...and I will pick up the tab and ship 'em straight to your door!

Sounds awesome, right? So head over there right now and sign up!

ENTER CONTEST

The Neverending Shelf's Big Thank You Contest!

The Neverending Shelf is having a BIG Thank You contest here giving away 17 books to 5 people! Now that is a lot of loot! These are awesome books, too! So rush over there and enter and then play the fun covers contest!