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Second Chance Boyfriend (Drew + Fable #2) by Monica Murphy ★★★★☆ Release Date: April 6, 2013 Age: New Adult 17+ Genre: Contemporary Romance, Drama, Love Format: ebook Source: Purchased Buy it: Amazon | Barnes and Noble Lost. That one single word best describes my life at this very moment. I lost the last games of the season and both my team and my coach blame me. I lost the last two months because I drowned in my own despair like a complete loser. And I lost the only girl who ever mattered because I was afraid being with me would destroy her. But now I realize how truly lost I am without her. She has become my story…and even though she acts like she’s moved on, I know she still thinks about me just as much as I think about her. She’s beautiful, sweet—and so damn vulnerable, all I want to do is help her. Be there for her. Love her… If only I could convince Fable to give me a second chance. Then I wouldn’t feel so lost anymore, and neither would she. We could be found together. Forever...

Synopsis from Goodreads:  Philadelphia high school who doesn’t care about the prom. It’s pretty much the only good thing that happens there, and everyone plans to make the most of it—especially Ash’s best friend, Natalia, who’s the head of the committee and has prom stars in her eyes. Then the faculty advisor is busted for taking the prom money and Ash finds herself roped into putting together a gala dance. But she has plenty of help—from her large and loving (if exasperating!) family, from Nat’s eccentric grandmother, from the principal, from her fellow classmates. And in making the prom happen, Ash learns some surprising things about making her life happen, too. Number of pages: 215 My review: Before I started reading this and before I had read the summary I thought it was going to be a super girly book about prom night and everything leading up to prom and how everything would be just perfect in this perfect little world. Boy, was I wrong. And I'm glad I was wrong. The story was...

Check out all the info  here  at The Broke and The Bookish's website! May 21: Top Ten Favorite Book Covers of Books I've Read (These are not my all time favorite books, just covers that I love of books I've read.) 1. Across the Universe by Beth Revis 2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (specifically THAT cover) 3. Shiver by Maggie Steifvater (The UK edition) 4. Unremembered by Jessica Brody 5. Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer 6. Uglies by Scott Westerfeld 7. Cracked Up to Be by Courtney Summers 8. Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke 9. The Doll People by Ann M. Martin 10. Prom by Laurie Halse Anderson What's on your list? Leave a comment below and I'll come check it out! See you soon!

Smash Into You by  Shelly Crane Expected release date: Summer 2013 Genre: Contemporary Age:  Young Adult Cover Designed by: Okay Creations Cover reveal organized by: AToMR Tours Jude has spent the whole twenty three years of his life running. From what, he wasn't quite sure. His mother tried to keep him safe; a low profile, a constant move on the horizon, a week's pay always stashed away. She tried to instill in him that he was special somehow, though would never elaborate. He never felt different. He was so completely normal and vanilla that he wondered if it had all been in her head. But then she was murdered and all he saw was a running silhouette of a man as his mother said three final words to him. Three words that changed his whole being. Never stop running… Now he's semi-settled into a big town. The college is huge and easy to blend into. It's been three months since he had to move because 'Biloxi', as he calls the man who killed his mother, found hi...

Weekly Round-Up is my wrap-up of last week's activities and includes what I'm reading this week, reviews I've posted, books in the mail and anything else of interest plus From the Library, my weekly listing of what I've checked out from the library. This week I'm reading   I posted reviews of Send Me a Sign by Tiffany Schmidt , Because It is My Blood by Gabrielle Zevin, and  Enchanted by Alethea Kontis, read by Katherine Kellgren. Ten Things We Did (and Probably Shouldn't Have) by Sarah Mlynowski (e-book) 2 girls + 3 guys + 1 house - parents = 10 things April and her friends did that they ( definitely, maybe, probably ) shouldn't have. If given the opportunity, what sixteen-year-old wouldn't jump at the chance to move in with a friend and live parent-free? Although maybe "opportunity" isn't the right word, since April had to tell her dad a tiny little untruth to make it happen (see #1: "Lied to Our Parents"). But she and her...

Here's what it's all about: "Started in January 2012, by Karen - For What It's Worth & Tiger - Tiger's All Consuming Media & now co-hosted with my good friend Pam from Midnyte reader,  Book Blogger Confessions  is a meme that posts the 1st and 3rd Monday of every month, where book bloggers "confess" and vent about blogging/bookish topics. Feel free to share, vent and offer solutions. Just keep it respectful - no bashing authors or other bloggers!" May 20th Topic:  Have you added or considered adding additional reviewers to your blog? Why or why not? If you have, please share how you found the right match when bringing new people to your established blog. Did you encounter any problems? I have not added other reviewers to my blog! It's just me, myself, and I here at The Paige-Turner.  Have I ever considered adding reviewers to my blog? Sometimes I wish there were other reviewers just because I find that towards the end of the semesters in ...

Synopsis from Goodreads:  A fast-paced contemporary thriller in the vein of James Patterson and Anthony Horowitz set against the bustling backdrop of Hong Kong, Vietnam, and the border of China. This heart-pounding adventure takes place as two teens, an American teenage boy and his friend, a  Chinese girl from his Washington, DC-area high school, must find her father who has been kidnapped—and they only have nine days. Although the characters in the novel are fictionalized, they are based on a real Chinese family who were part of the Chinese Democracy Movement and inspired this story. Number of pages: 256 My review: Seeing as that I've been to China (and Hong Kong) I absolutely loved this book. It definitely took me back to all the culture, sights, sounds, and just amazingness that is China. Not only that but I loved how the author implemented the political sector and what is going on, not only in China, but also in the United States as well. It was implemented in such a way t...