tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45207051690763798372024-03-13T11:49:12.059-07:00Brandi's Book MusingsWelcome to Brandi's Book Musings where the pages never stop turning. My goal is to provide reviews for new books, soon to be released, older books, and those that just haven't received the recognition they deserve. If you have any questions, recommendations, or requests feel free to email me at brandisbookmusings (at) yahoo (dot) com and put book blog as the subject. Thanks for stopping by!brandisbookmusingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482230737385029953noreply@blogger.comBlogger286125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520705169076379837.post-50454755395903252222014-07-09T07:32:00.001-07:002014-07-09T07:32:14.273-07:00Book Review: Senior Year by Melissa Johns
Title: Senior Year
Author: Melissa Johns
Length: 228 pages
Format: Kindle eBook
Description from Goodreads:
Avery Wilson was already accepted into her first choice Ivy League school. She just needed to maintain her grades and get through her senior year of high school. Avery started to hear rumors that her best friend, Logan had developed feelings towards her and brandisbookmusingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482230737385029953noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520705169076379837.post-31747097993852818292014-06-23T09:50:00.003-07:002014-06-27T12:24:45.472-07:00Angelbound
Title: Angelbound
Author: Christina Bauer
Series: Angelbound #1
Length: 524 pages
Publisher: Ink Monster (November 12, 2013)
Rating:
Description from Goodreads:
Eighteen year old Myla Lewis is a girl who loves two things: kicking ass and kicking ass. She’s not your every day quasi-demon, half-demon and half-human, girl. For the past five years, Myla has lived for the days she gets to fight brandisbookmusingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482230737385029953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520705169076379837.post-89707225690529362662014-05-14T06:31:00.001-07:002014-05-14T06:34:19.352-07:00New Releases: Pressed Pennies by Steven Manchester
Pressed Pennies by Steven Manchester
Brief Synopsis:
Rick and Abby grew up together, became best friends, and
ultimately fell in love. Circumstance tore them apart in their early teens,
though, and they went on to lives less idyllic than they dreamed about in those
early days. Rick has had a very successful career, but his marriage flat-lined.
Abby has a magical daughter, Paige, brandisbookmusingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482230737385029953noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520705169076379837.post-9123712111620616532014-05-02T08:58:00.003-07:002014-05-02T09:11:14.429-07:00Prophecy of the Most Beautiful by Diantha Jones
Title: Prophecy of the Most Beautiful
Author: Diantha Jones
Series: Oracle of Delphi #1
Publisher: Diantha Jones; 1 edition (February 28, 2012)
Length: 255 pages
Format: PDF
*I received this book from the author in exchange for an honest review.
Description from Goodreads:
She has a destiny so great that even the gods fear her.Constant hallucinations and the frequent conversations with thebrandisbookmusingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482230737385029953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520705169076379837.post-78137003700158240252014-04-25T05:53:00.003-07:002014-04-25T05:54:27.133-07:00Latest Obsession - April 2014
Lately I have felt I need to be in more contact with the
bookish community. Over the last couple of years one of the things I have learned
is that I love reading about the non-book likes and dislikes from other
bloggers and YouTubers. As a way to share additional information and to get
back into the habbit of posting more frequently my new goal is to post my
latest entertainment likes and brandisbookmusingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482230737385029953noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520705169076379837.post-4899427444017705512014-04-08T06:09:00.000-07:002014-04-08T06:09:34.745-07:00Croak by Gina Damico
Title: Croak
Author: Gina Damico
Narrator: Jessica Almasy
Series: Croak #1
Length: 8hrs & 16 mins/320 pages
Publisher: Audible Studios February 28, 2013
Rating: 4 1/2 STARS
Description from Goodreads:
Fed up with her wild behavior, sixteen-year-old Lex's parents ship her off to upstate New York to live with brandisbookmusingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482230737385029953noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520705169076379837.post-76677036319729869462014-03-25T00:00:00.000-07:002014-03-25T06:58:57.051-07:00Top Ten Tuesday - Bookish Bucket List
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and The Bookish
Top Ten Tuesday
Hello Everyone! Today’s topic is …Top Ten Things On My Bookish
Bucket List (could be blogging related, book related etc. -- meeting authors,
reading x many books per year, finishing a daunting book, etc.) I am loving
this subject! I have a pretty good bucket list.
1.
Finish brandisbookmusingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482230737385029953noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520705169076379837.post-84691798814725399922014-03-24T08:03:00.002-07:002014-03-24T08:03:42.528-07:00The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter (audiobook review)
Title: The Goddess Test
Author: Aimee Carter
Narrator: Brittany Pressley
Series: The Goddess Test #1
Publisher: Audible Studios
Format: audiobook
Length: 8hrs & 20mins
Description from Goodreads:
Every girl who had taken the test has died.
Now it's Kate's turn.
It's always been just Kate and her mom - and her mother is dying. Her last wish? To move back to her brandisbookmusingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482230737385029953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520705169076379837.post-39271311238234963722014-02-19T00:00:00.000-08:002014-02-19T08:17:18.257-08:00Girl in Love by Caisey Quinn
Title: Girl In Love
Author: Caisey Quinn
Series: Kylie Ryans (#3)
Length: 350 pages
Description from Goodreads:
She's living her dream...Kylie Ryans is the biggest thing to come out of Nashville since, well, since Trace Corbin. With a hit album and a powerful label behind her, she appears to be the girl who has it all.But appearances can be deceiving.Fresh out of rehab, brandisbookmusingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482230737385029953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520705169076379837.post-10977455162440657652014-01-29T09:47:00.001-08:002014-01-29T09:47:14.387-08:00King Hall by Scarlett Dawn
Title: King Hall
Author: Scarlett Dawn
Series: Forever Evermore #1
Length: 280 pages
Format: Kindle eBook
Description from Goodreads:
King Hall — where the Mysticals go to learn their craft, get their degrees, and transition into adulthood. And where four new Rulers will rise and meet their destinies.
Lily Ruckler is adept at one thing: survival. Born a Mystical hybrid, her brandisbookmusingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482230737385029953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520705169076379837.post-84273037652669142762014-01-25T06:18:00.002-08:002014-01-25T06:18:58.175-08:00Stacking the Shelves: Catch Up Edition
Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews.
Hello my book loving fellows! I have missed you all so much and am so excited to be getting back into the swing of things. I will be showing you this book haul in two parts. The first part is most of the books I have bought since the lasts STS (about 2 1/3 months worth) forever ago. The second part...well there was a huge sale on brandisbookmusingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482230737385029953noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520705169076379837.post-7037693240901761452014-01-21T11:30:00.001-08:002014-01-21T11:30:33.262-08:00Top Ten Tuesday 01/21/2014
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and The Bookish.
Hello bookish people! I am back and what better way to get back into the swing of things than with a Top Ten? Today's topic is Top Ten Things On My Reading Wishlist (if you could make authors write about these things you would. Could be a specific type of character, an issue tackled, a time period, a certain plot, etc.)
brandisbookmusingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482230737385029953noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520705169076379837.post-69877055401098761042013-12-22T06:31:00.003-08:002013-12-22T06:46:09.106-08:00Alice's Sexual Discovery in a Wonderful Land by Liz Adams
Title: Alice's Sexual Discover in a Wonderful Land
Author: Liz Adams
Length: 120 pages
Publisher:
Format: PDF I received a copy of this book free of charge in exchange for my honest opinion.
Description from Goodreads:
An erotic version of Alice in Wonderland. This is NOT erotic romance; "Alice's Sexual Discovery" is just raw, relentless erotica.Having returned home from universitybrandisbookmusingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482230737385029953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520705169076379837.post-53408326602528524442013-12-11T12:43:00.001-08:002013-12-11T12:43:50.641-08:00Inhuman by Kat Falls
Title: Inhuman
Author: Kat Falls
Publisher: Scholastic Press, (September 24, 2013)
Series: Fetch #1
Length: 384 pages
Format: ARC- I received this ARC in exchange for an honest review via NetGalley.
Description from Goodreads:
In a world ravaged by mutation, a teenage girl must travel into the forbidden Savage Zone to recover lost artifacts or her father’s life is forfeit.America has been brandisbookmusingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482230737385029953noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520705169076379837.post-45625347762927357442013-11-08T06:20:00.000-08:002013-11-08T06:21:25.589-08:00Starlight by Mimi Strong (Peaches Monroe 2)
Title: Starlight
Author: Mimi Strong
Series: Peaches Monroe #2
Publisher: Mimi Strong (September 3, 2013)
Length: 276 pages
Format: Kindle eBook
Description from Goodreads:
So, I fly my rockin' curves off to LA for the big Peaches Monroe (that's me) underwear shoot.I'm nursing a broken heart from you-know-who, when along comes Keith Raven. Sexy, tanned, and nearly naked. He's my new brandisbookmusingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482230737385029953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520705169076379837.post-7828160394585034222013-09-27T06:13:00.004-07:002013-09-27T06:14:37.303-07:00Thoughtless by S.C. Stephens
Title: Thoughtless
Author: S.C. Stephens
Narrator: Rebekkah Ross
Series: Thoughtless #1
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Length: 20 hrs & 52 mins
Format: Audiobook
Description from Goodreads:
For almost two years now, Kiera's boyfriend, Denny, has been everything she's ever wanted: loving, tender and endlessly devoted to her. When they head off to a new city to start their brandisbookmusingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482230737385029953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520705169076379837.post-8746502962921371482013-09-07T06:40:00.000-07:002013-09-07T06:41:41.679-07:00Stacking the Shelves 09/07/2013
Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews every Saturday.
Let me give you a disclaimer before you see my book haul. This haul is HUGE! I know I've said that repeatedly, but this time I really mean it. Don't think I spent my whole pay check either. All of the books below were bought from a secondhand bookshop, on sale, or were traded for over the past month and a half brandisbookmusingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482230737385029953noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520705169076379837.post-63195846357861476672013-07-24T08:16:00.000-07:002013-07-24T08:16:16.700-07:00Stardust by Mimi Strong
Title: We Are Made of Stardust
Author: Mimi Strong
Publisher: Mimi Strong (June 22, 2013)
Length: 237 pages
Series: #1 Peaches Monroe
Format: ebook/Kindle
Description from Goodreads:
can't I say no? And what is this sordid secret of his the reporters are trying to uncover?There I was, minding my own business at Peachtree Books when this lunatic comes racing in the door and knocks me intobrandisbookmusingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482230737385029953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520705169076379837.post-60512558240018413172013-07-23T05:59:00.001-07:002013-07-23T08:21:35.206-07:00Top Ten Tuesday 07/22/2013
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and The Bookish every Tuesday.
Today is once again Top Ten Tuesday! Sadly, I haven’t posted
a Top Ten in a while L
(I’ve been slacking.) So, today’s topic is the Top Ten Words/Topics That Will
Make You NOT Pick Up a Book! Oooh!!!!!!!!!! This is a good topic for me because
I tend to be kind of picky! Without further ado….
10. brandisbookmusingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482230737385029953noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520705169076379837.post-91946618860381010892013-07-20T06:20:00.002-07:002013-07-20T06:42:50.116-07:00Stacking the Shelves 07/20/2013
Stacking the Shelves is hosted every Saturday by Tynga's Reviews.
Hellllooooo bookish people! I have a couple of weeks worth of books to show you. Let me know if you've read them, want to read them, or are just discovering them. Feel free to leave me a link to your Stacking the Shelves/book haul so I can check it out!
Books I Bought
Always a Witch brandisbookmusingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482230737385029953noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520705169076379837.post-86753496449397669492013-07-10T19:20:00.002-07:002013-07-10T19:22:29.369-07:00The Year of the Great Seventh by Teresa Orts
Title: The Year of the Great Seventh
Author: Teresa Orts
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (March 23, 2013)
Series: #1
Length: 308 pages
Format: paperback
*received a copy from the author in exchange for an honest review
Description from Goodreads:
Sophie has always felt out of step — an outsider, even amongst friends in her high school with all the hype about brandisbookmusingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482230737385029953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520705169076379837.post-80288592593077625982013-07-09T19:43:00.001-07:002013-07-09T19:46:02.250-07:00April Showers by Karli Perrin
Title: April Showers
Author: Karli Perrin
Series: #1
Length: 271 pages
Format: ebook/Kindle
Description from Goodreads:
What happens when your head and your heart pull you in completely opposite directions? April Adams is about to find out the hard way.When April enrols at Manchester University, it feels like a whole new life. New city, new house, new friends...new crush. Isaac Sharpe is the brandisbookmusingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482230737385029953noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520705169076379837.post-51508684534598318552013-07-09T19:05:00.001-07:002013-07-09T19:05:13.908-07:00<a href="http://www.bloglovin.com/blog/5547117/?claim=r53upscghnp">Follow my blog with Bloglovin</a>brandisbookmusingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482230737385029953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520705169076379837.post-21644607322423115822013-06-28T20:06:00.001-07:002013-06-29T06:43:11.265-07:00Stacking the Shelves 06/29/2013
Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga's Reviews every Saturday.
I have a horrible book buying problem as you will see from this Stacking the Shelves post. If you are reading this then chances are you have one too. There...I don't feel so bad now. Now, onto the goods.
Bought
Renegade by J.A. Souders
A Fractured Light by Jocelyn Davies
A brandisbookmusingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482230737385029953noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520705169076379837.post-38982732366763115912013-06-24T00:30:00.000-07:002013-06-27T14:24:20.874-07:00Girl With Guitar by Caisey Quinn
Title: Girl With Guitar
Author: Caisey Quinn
Series: Kylie Ryans #1
Publisher: Createspace May 22, 2013
Length: 228 pages
Format: ebook
Description from Goodreads:
After Kylie’s dad dies in a freak accident, he leaves her with nothing other than her crazy step-mother, Darla, and the ability to play guitar. When Darla kicks Kylie out and she loses her job all in the same day, she hops a brandisbookmusingshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07482230737385029953noreply@blogger.com0