tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26841218263939311302017-05-19T16:35:24.079-04:00Unearthly ReviewsA book reviewing blog that is dedicated to giving honest reviews of young-adult books, memes, and occasional giveaways!Megan Blackwellhttps://plus.google.com/116292707004495234101noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2684121826393931130.post-22236747083172863782015-09-26T11:57:00.001-04:002015-09-26T11:57:35.355-04:00Stacking the Shelves (10)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://tyngasreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/STSmall_thumb2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://tyngasreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/STSmall_thumb2.png" height="181" width="320"></a></div>Stacking The Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga&#39;s Reviews. In this meme you feature the books you received during that week. If you&#39;d like more information on how to participate, click <a href="http://www.tyngasreviews.com/2012/05/staking-shelves-official-launch.html">here</a>.<br><br>I&#39;m so glad to be back in the book blogging world! I look forward to seeing what everyone has gotten this week. I didn&#39;t get a lot myself, but I did get some good ones! :)<br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1428325761l/23395680.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1428325761l/23395680.jpg" width="211"></a></div><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23395680-illuminae"><i>Illuminae</i> by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff</a><br><br>A HUGE thank you to Random House Children&#39;s and Knopf Books for Young Readers for approving me on Netgalley for this ARC. I&#39;ve been extremely excited to read it (you all know how I am about space books) and it is just as great as I thought it would be. A review will be coming in the next week or so.<br><br>Goodreads Summary: This morning, Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the hardest thing she’d have to do.<br><br>This afternoon, her planet was invaded.<br><br>The year is 2575, and two rival megacorporations are at war over a planet that’s little more than an ice-covered speck at the edge of the universe. Too bad nobody thought to warn the people living on it. With enemy fire raining down on them, Kady and Ezra—who are barely even talking to each other—are forced to fight their way onto an evacuating fleet, with an enemy warship in hot pursuit.<br><br>But their problems are just getting started. A deadly plague has broken out and is mutating, <br><a href="http://unearthlyreviews.blogspot.com/2015/09/stacking-shelves-10.html#more">Read more »</a>Megan Blackwellhttps://plus.google.com/116292707004495234101noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2684121826393931130.post-58987156547410005902015-09-24T14:29:00.000-04:002015-09-24T16:07:08.005-04:00Changes To My Personal Life and Blogging LifeHi all,<br><br>It&#39;s been quite a long time since you&#39;ve heard from me. I&#39;ve been working hard in college and struggling to balance school work with my job. During that time I haven&#39;t had really any time to relax and read like I would like to. I was majoring in Computer Science and time was extremely limited because computer classes for some reason take up a lot of time (probably because coding projects take forever).<br><br>During the couple months I have been away, I have had some changes in my personal life that are going to affect my blog and it&#39;s followers. I changed my major. This was necessary for me because staring at coding all day was really straining my eyes, which I couldn&#39;t handle, and I really missed writing (and reading, of course). Right now I am majoring in Journalism, but when I graduate in May and transfer to a university for my Bachelor&#39;s Degree, I&#39;m thinking about majoring in English or something similar.<br><br>So, you&#39;re probably wondering how this pertains to you? <br><a href="http://unearthlyreviews.blogspot.com/2015/09/changes-to-my-personal-life-and.html#more">Read more »</a>Megan Blackwellhttps://plus.google.com/116292707004495234101noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2684121826393931130.post-24995271648325891032015-03-20T10:16:00.002-04:002015-03-20T10:16:54.889-04:00Please Excuse the Mess!Hi everyone,<br /><br />Please excuse the mess and the lack of reviews. I am currently renovating the website and I'm not entirely sure how long this will take. I'm still reading and will try to post a review soon.<br /><br />Thank you for your patience!Megan Blackwellhttps://plus.google.com/116292707004495234101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2684121826393931130.post-67784550456492779622015-02-04T14:13:00.002-05:002015-02-04T14:20:26.590-05:00Review: Fire & Flood<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1384871012l/16069167.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1384871012l/16069167.jpg" width="207"></a></div>Title: <i>Fire &amp; Flood</i><br>Author: Victoria Scott<br>Series: Fire &amp; Flood #1<br>Published: February 25th, 2014<br>Genre: adventure, dystopian<br>Pages: 305<br><br><b><i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16069167-fire-flood">Goodreads</a> Summary:</i></b> Time is slipping away....<br><br>Tella Holloway is losing it. Her brother is sick, and when a dozen doctors can&#39;t determine what&#39;s wrong, her parents decide to move to Montana for the fresh air. She&#39;s lost her friends, her parents are driving her crazy, her brother is dying—and she&#39;s helpless to change anything.<br><br>Until she receives mysterious instructions on how to become a Contender in the Brimstone Bleed. It&#39;s an epic race across jungle, desert, ocean, and mountain that could win her the prize she desperately desires: the Cure for her brother&#39;s illness. But all the Contenders are after the Cure for people they love, and there&#39;s no guarantee that Tella (or any of them) will survive the race.<br><br>The jungle is terrifying, the clock is ticking, and Tella knows she can&#39;t trust the allies she makes. And one big question emerges: Why have so many fallen sick in the first place?<br><br>____________________________________________________________________<br><br><b><i>My Thoughts:</i></b> <b><i><u>(*I didn&#39;t realize that I forgot to post this review!*)</u></i></b> Wow, I cannot believe how amazing this book was. Part Survivor, part Amazing Race. This was a phenomenal read and I&#39;m so happy I was provided with an eARC so I had the opprotunity to read it. This was the young-adult adventure that I&#39;d been waiting to read and I&#39;m so excited to read the sequel, in fact I&#39;m pre-ordering it.<br><br>When I read the summary for <i>Fire &amp; Flood</i> I honestly thought it&#39;d be an okay read and I didn&#39;t imagine it being anywhere near as adventurous as it was. I had no idea what to expect, but I loved what I read. Action, suspense, romance and so many unbelievable plot twists! I could read this book over and over again and never get bored.<br><br>Let me go more into detail about the action/adventure of this book. Whenever I read a book that involves action and adventure, I never feel like I&#39;m part of it. With <i>Fire &amp; Flood</i> I not only felt like I was part of the Brimstone Bleed, I was enjoying it. This was such a fun read, it seriously felt like I was on an adventure. I felt like I was running the race with Tella. I&#39;m sure the sequel will have more action, adventure, romance and plot twists.<br><br>The characters of this book were so different than other books, I grew bonds with them. <br><a href="http://unearthlyreviews.blogspot.com/2015/02/review-fire-flood.html#more">Read more »</a>Megan Blackwellhttps://plus.google.com/116292707004495234101noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2684121826393931130.post-13063368320421063152015-02-04T13:45:00.001-05:002015-03-20T10:17:41.565-04:00Review: Stitching Snow<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1394770803l/20706656.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1394770803l/20706656.jpg" width="210"></a></div>Title: <i>Stitching Snow</i><br>Author: R.C. Lewis<br>Series: Standalone, but there will be a companion novel!<br>Published: October 14th, 2014<br>Genre: sci-fi, dystopian, fairytale re-telling<br>Pages: 328 pages<br><br><b><i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20706656-stitching-snow">Goodreads</a> Summary:</i></b>  Princess Snow is missing.<br><br>Her home planet is filled with violence and corruption at the hands of King Matthias and his wife as they attempt to punish her captors. The king will stop at nothing to get his beloved daughter back—but that’s assuming she wants to return at all.<br><br>Essie has grown used to being cold. Temperatures on the planet Thanda are always sub-zero, and she fills her days with coding and repairs for the seven loyal drones that run the local mines.<br><br>When a mysterious young man named Dane crash-lands near her home, Essie agrees to help the pilot repair his ship. But soon she realizes that Dane’s arrival was far from accidental, and she’s pulled into the heart of a war she’s risked everything to avoid. With the galaxy’s future—and her own—in jeopardy, Essie must choose who to trust in a fiery fight for survival.<br>____________________________________________________________________<br><br><b><i>My Thoughts:</i></b>  I found this book while looking through the YA Book Exchange website, once I saw the summary I knew that I had to have it. I traded with someone and started reading it the moment I got it. The storyline was so unique, packed with knowledge and adventure.<br><br>Stitching Snow follows Essie, a girl with a love for technology who holds a secret past. The book tells of Essie&#39;s life, what happens when a mysterious hot guy lands on her planet, and how she ultimately battles everything that is thrown at her (no matter how large or small it is).<br><br>This book comes with a wide variety of characters that you will love and some that you will hate. Let&#39;s not forget the cute little drones that Essie has. Although there are quite a few characters, you&#39;ll find that soon enough you&#39;ll know them all by name and feel like you&#39;ve known them for years. The world building was amazing as well; I felt like I was on each planet just as Essie was, I felt the chill of a night on Thanda in my bones. Every emotion that Essie felt I too could feel, whether it be sadness or anger towards a character.<br><br>I personally think that the climax of this book was better than most books I read.<br><br><a href="http://unearthlyreviews.blogspot.com/2015/02/review-stitching-snow.html#more">Read more »</a>Megan Blackwellhttps://plus.google.com/116292707004495234101noreply@blogger.com1
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