Follow Friday (3)

It's Follow Friday!! I have been awful at posting these last couple days/week....but I'm having my blog re-designed and everything has been so busy! But non the less, here is the question:

What is on your current playlist right now? 

Mine is:
- Kina Grannis
-Adele
-Jessie J
-Runner Runner

What's on your playlist?

Under Construciton!

My blog is going to have some construction done, starting soon! So, my backgrounds and some other things may be changing in the process. I am leaving all the dirty work to Kyla over at Kyla Kreates! She's awesome...go check it out :)

p.s. I will be posting a review of a couple books in the next few days, (one being Desires of the Dead! Yay!)

p.p.s Since I don't really know what else to write I will put a picture in. ^^

Happy Monday, everyone!

Custom Design Blog Giveaway

Hey, everyone! I found this giveaway while I was just browsing around today...follow the link to find out more! The Owl Bookmark Blog

Follow Friday (2)

Good morning everyone! This is my second Follow Friday post! Yay! It is a weekly hop hosted by Parajunkie's View. Check it out!

Q: Do you judge a book by it's cover? 

A: Yes! Sadly, but yes. I am always very intrigued by the book's cover, even if I don't know what its about. (See my most recent book review)

What about you?  

Happy Friday!!
 

The Body Finder

The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting

Publication Date: 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Pages: 327
Source: Barnes and Noble

Summary:
Violet Ambrose is grappling with two major issues: Jay Heaton and her morbid secret ability. While the sixteen-year-old is confused by her new feelings for her best friend since childhood, she is more disturbed by her "power" to sense dead bodies or at least those that have been murdered. Since she was a little girl, she has felt the echoes the dead leave behind in the world . . . and the imprints that attach to their killers.
Violet has never considered her strange talent to be a gift; it mostly just led her to find dead birds her cat left for her. But now that a serial killer is terrorizing her small town, and the echoes of the local girls he's claimed haunt her daily, Violet realizes she might be the only person who can stop him.
Despite his fierce protectiveness over her, Jay reluctantly agrees to help Violet find the murderer and Violet is unnerved by her hope that Jay's intentions are much more than friendly. But even as she's falling intensely in love, Violet is getting closer and closer to discovering a killer . . . and becoming his prey herself.

My Thoughts: This was SO much better than I had thought reading the first few pages. I bought this book mostly because of the cover. (Shame...) So I wasn't all that interested in reading what it was about, but I knew that it was the book for me. Something about it just called me. Hmm...kinda like the echos that Violet feels in the book...? I was taken into Violet's world from an outside perspective. The narrative was in the 3rd person, so I got to watch what was happening with each individual character. The mystery that I was sucked into was breath-taking and sent shivers down my spine.

Oh, my heart smiles whenever I think of Violet and Jay. Their love was a bit cheesy, but in a such not-cheesy way that I couldn't conceal my happiness about their relationship. (You know what I mean?)

Anyway, I would suggest this book to anyone who is just looking for a good read. I can't wait to get Desires of the Dead in the mail soon! I will keep you posted.

Cover: 5+
Plot: 5
Characters: 5
Style of writing: 4
Overall: 5 -Amazing. It stole my heart!

Would I ever read from this author again?: YES!!

 

Waiting on Wednesday

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine!

Here's my pick:

Bumped by Megan McCafferty

Summary: When a virus makes everyone over the age of eighteen infertile, would-be parents pay teen girls to conceive and give birth to their children, making teens the most prized members of society. Girls sport fake baby bumps and the school cafeteria stocks folic-acid-infused food.
Sixteen-year-old identical twins Melody and Harmony were separated at birth and have never met until the day Harmony shows up on Melody’s doorstep. Up to now, the twins have followed completely opposite paths. Melody has scored an enviable conception contract with a couple called the Jaydens. While they are searching for the perfect partner for Melody to bump with, she is fighting her attraction to her best friend, Zen, who is way too short for the job.
Harmony has spent her whole life in Goodside, a religious community, preparing to be a wife and mother. She believes her calling is to convince Melody that pregging for profit is a sin. But Harmony has secrets of her own that she is running from.
When Melody is finally matched with the world-famous, genetically flawless Jondoe, both girls’ lives are changed forever. A case of mistaken identity takes them on a journey neither could have ever imagined, one that makes Melody and Harmony realize they have so much more than just DNA in common.

My Thoughts: I know that many other bloggers have read and reviewed this book already, but I am really looking forward to this one. It seems like it will have an interesting plot, and I can't help but think that this sounds very similar to Delirium by Lauren Oliver that I LOVED. So I am keeping my expectations wide open!

~Release date: 4/26/11

What are you waiting for?

Teaser Tuesday

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading! Check it out!  To participate:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “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!

Here are my teasers: (from The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting, my current read.)

 " 'I'd feel better if Jay was going with you,' she said. 

     Me too, Violet thought without giving her words voice. Me too."

"And then she wondered if she would sense anything when she got there...a new echo maybe."

 -Page 187

New Design!

Yay! I am officially a "changing" blogger! I am so new at all of this, but this morning, I decided to change things up a bit.

But....Is is too much? Are your eyes darting from place to place and is it too cramped???

Please give me some feedback on this, I would really love anything that you have to say about it. I want to keep making my blog better and better!!!

Thanks to everybody who stops by now and then, and to those who follow! Keep followin'!!

My goal is to get 100+ followers by June. Do ya' think you could help??? All you have to do is go over and click that little FOLLOW button on the right.

Or, just show some comment-love and leave your thoughts!

Thanks again.

~Zoe

Friday's Finest

This is my first Friday's Finest post! Yay! This is hosted by abookfulofthoughts.blogspot.com. Check it out!!!

Delirium by Lauren Oliver

"The wind whispers Alex's name and the ocean repeats it; the swaying trees make me think of dancing."

That one quote stuck with me well after I closed the book. Oliver's words are like gold.

Share you Friday's Finest picks in the comments below!

Follow Friday (1)

This is my first Follow Friday post! It is a weekly meme hosted by www.parajunkee.com. Go check it out and join the fun!!

The question: Give us 5 silly book related silly facts about you.

1. I read exactly eight chapters of a book before bed every night.

2. I am loosing space in my three bookshelves that I have to store some of my books in other people's bookshelves.

3. If I didn't read, I would be a very non-interesting person.

4. Barnes & Noble is like my second home.

5. I love the smell of new books. (I will sometimes just sit and smell the pages.) =)