Waiting on Wednesday

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event hosted at Breaking The Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

Dangerous to Know and Love - Jane Harvey-Berrick 
Published : 17th May 2014
There very rarely comes a long a book which interests me on the title alone but this is one of those books. The title just grabbed my attention, I love books which involve bad boys who are proven to be more than just a bad boy. While reading the blurb I couldn't help but smile because it's exactly the sort of book I was hoping it would be when I read the title and got excited about it. 
Really intrigued to read more about Daniel and Lisanne and to watch their relationship develop and grow. 

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The Blurb :

Silence is only skin deep.

Nineteen year old Daniel Colton is the guy all the girls want to date, and the man all the guys want to be. Moody, with an explosive temper, closed off and sullen, he’s also beautiful, tatted in delicious ways, with a pierced eyebrow and spiky black hair. It’s rumoured he has piercings in other places, too. Is he really mad, bad and dangerous to know?

Daniel lives with his older brother, Zef, and their home is party central. You want drugs, a good time, liquor, no questions asked? Colton’s is the place to go.

When Daniel and good girl Lisanne Maclaine have to work together on an assignment, Lisanne finds there’s a lot more to the college’s bad boy than his reputation. He’s intelligent and funny and good company. And then she discovers his secret, why he’s so closed off to everyone, and determined to keep people at arms’ length. But being his secret-keeper is harder than she ever dreamed.

Cover Crazy #107

Cover Crazy is a meme I enjoy taking part in as a book lover because for me, although they say don't judge a book by it's cover, covers have a big influence over whether I pick a book up or not! 

Just One Year - Gayle Forman
I didn't know that Just One Day was part of a series! As soon as I saw this cover I knew it was linked with Just One Day (I have the book to read) Love how this cover develops on from the first cover and also feels more natural and not a posed kissed. 

Blog Tour : Excerpt + Question - Endless by Amanda Grace

Q - Cover Love : Discussing the cover for ENDLESS

A - I love the mystery and beauty of the cover, how Jenny is both present and hidden. It’s so much like how I see her when the book opens. If I could change something about the cover, I would make it several dimensions and show Jenny in the present and in the past all at the same time. I’d want to see an art gallery of Jenny’s paintings so the reader could explore the world inside of Jenny’s head.

Chapter 8

“I’m no expert, but that’s what it sounds like,” Ben said. “Let me see it.”
Jenny passed him the piece of paper, already pondering the words and their strange hiding place inside the music box.
Ben held the paper close to his face, lowering his hand a second later as he considered the words.
“Maybe it’s some kind of game,” Jenny suggested. “It’s a music box, so it might have been owned by a child.”
Ben shook his head. “I doubt it. The handwriting sucks, but it doesn’t look like a kid’s writing to me.”
He reached for the box. Jenny could see the look of concentration on his face. Closing the bottom of it, the piece of paper still on the floor next to him, he turned the box right side up. It glimmered a little, and Jenny saw that it was encrusted with jewels. No doubt they were fake, but it was still a strange find in an attic that, until now, had produced only junk and some cool clothes.
Ben put the key in the hole and turned it. Then he opened the lid. A few creaky, tinkling notes stumbled from the box.
“It works!” Jenny laughed.
It was obvious Ben was as surprised as she was. “Wait a minute … ” He stopped, a look of total concentration falling over his eyes. “Do you hear that?”
“What?”
He looked at the box with wonder and something else she couldn’t quite put her finger on.
“It’s playing Moonlight Sonata,” he said softly.
Jenny listened more closely, finally catching the tune in the slightly off-key notes. “You’re right,” she said. “You were playing it yesterday when I came into your room.”

She was suddenly awash in a wave of nostalgia. She didn’t know what it was, but it wasn’t from hearing Ben play Moonlight Sonata in his room. It went deeper, a sense of instinctual recognition like running into someone you knew but hadn’t seen for a long time. Even if the person looked a little different, you were almost positive that you knew them.

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Waiting on Wednesday

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event hosted at Breaking The Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

A Stranger's Heart - T.K. Tuitt
Published : March 2014
Really like the sound of this. It's more often than not with books like this that it's the male with a difficult past and the female who has to help him overcome them. I like that it's the other way round in A Stranger's Heart. 
Another thing I love is that Jake has a son, I am such a 'sucker' for a male character who is good and caring with kids, even more so when it's their own child. Definitely think that makes the book even more interesting to me.  

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The Blurb :

Corinne Morgan had survived hell and had the scars to prove it. Her career and life were moving full throttle when a stranger stepped in and gave a reason to want even more.

Jake Shaw had only one desire to be a good father to his son but now an unexpected meeting reignites his desire for love and family.

But will Corinne’s past be the wedge that drives them apart? Can she find the courage to let Jake help her fight the demons that threaten their love and future? Will Jake survive the demons and still want her?

Cover Crazy #106

Cover Crazy is a meme I enjoy taking part in as a book lover because for me, although they say don't judge a book by it's cover, covers have a big influence over whether I pick a book up or not! 

The Retribution of Mara Dyer - Michelle Hodkin
Still can't believe I haven't read this series yet! I have both the first two on my shelf but I just haven't had a chance to read them! I love how the three covers in this series almost tell a story with her starting off on her own, trying to reach someone and now in this one she is holding onto him.