Contest: Beautiful Creatures giveaway!

Bookalicio.us is giving away a signed copy of Beautiful Creatures!  Head on to this post to enter the contest!

Important message from Becca! :D

Mark your calendars!  Crescendo will hit the stores November 16, 2010!

Nora-Patch fans, get ready! :D

Alexandra Bracken is having a contest!

 

First Prize:
- A signed, finished copy of Brightly Woven
- A $50 gift card to the bookstore of your choice (Amazon, B&N, Borders, Chapters, you name it!)
- A signed bookmark

Second Prize:
- A signed, finished copy of Brightly Woven
- The following fantastic books from EgmontUSA:
The Dark Divine, Scones & Sensibility, and Candor,
- A signed bookmark
 

Third Prize
- A $20 giftcard to the bookstore of your choice
- ARCs of these fantastic Egmont books: Siren, The Boy Who Could Fly, The False Princess, and Frozen in Time
- A signed bookmark
 

The Prize for Anyone that sends me proof that they pre-ordered a copy of Brightly Woven at acbracken(at)gmail.com:
- A spiffy signed bookmark
- My eternal love and gratitude

Head on to her livejournal page to join the contest!

Dark Faerie Tales 500 followers Contest!

Head on to the main blog and get the chance to win the following books! All you have to do is answer the question posted on the blog. Easy!

Book Selection:

Shift

Delicious

Bound, Branded, & Brazen

Serpent Moon

Deep In the Woods

Shadowglass

Hex Hall

A Local Habitation

Before I Fall

Forget-Her-Nots

Broken

The Line

Werewolf Smackdown

Hourglass

The Dead-Tossed Waves

Angelology

Abandon the Night

The Body Finder

Voices of Dragons

Brightly Woven

The Devil’s Playground

Mind Games
I will select the following:
1 Grand Prize Winner (5 Books)
1 First Place Winner (4 Books)
1 Second Place Winner (3 Books)
1 Third Place Winner (2 Book)

Contest Rules:
1. Each winner will get to choose which books you want in the following order: Grand Prize Winner, 1st Place Winner, 2nd Place Winner, 3rd Place Winner.
2. Giveaway is open to everyone.
3. Please include your email address in your comment.
4. Giveaway ends Sunday, March 21st at 11:59 PM EST.
5. +10 for promoting this giveaway on your blog, MUST be a Post.
6. +8 if you add me or have already added me to your blog roll.
7. +6 if you are already a follower of this blog and Dark Faerie Tales on Twitter.
8. +4 for becoming a follower of this blog and Dark Faerie Tales on Twitter.
9. +2 for tweeting about this contest, linking via your sidebar etc…(please tell me where!).

Fallen Archangel 1000 Member Giveaway!

 

We are soooo close to reaching a milestone we have really been looking forward to!! One thousand forum members!!

So here's the deal...HELP US PLEASE!!! When we hit 1000 members we will be giving away an awesome prize pack at random to a forum member. The prize pack will contain.... a HUSH HUSH ARC (Advanced Reader Copy) signed by Becca Fitzpatrick, a Ride the Archangel t-shirt, and a limited edition HUSH HUSH poster signed by Becca Fitzpatrick!!!

Spread the word and help us reach 1000......we really, really can't wait!

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Join the forum now at fallenarchangel.freeforums.org !!

Deadly Little Secret: A Review

From Goodreads:

Some secrets shouldn't be kept...

Up until three months ago, everything in sixteen-year-old Camelia's life had been fairly ordinary: decent grades; an okay relationship with her parents; and a pretty cool part-time job at the art studio downtown. But when Ben, the mysterious new guy, starts junior year at her high school, Camelia's life becomes anything but ordinary.

Rumored to be somehow responsible for his ex-girlfriend's accidental death, Ben is immediately ostracized by everyone on campus. Except for Camelia. She's reluctant to believe the rumors, even when her friends try to convince her otherwise. She's inexplicably drawn to Ben...and to his touch. But soon, Camelia is receiving eerie phone calls and strange packages with threatening notes. Ben insists she is in danger, and that he can help--but can he be trusted? She knows he's hiding something... but he's not the only one with a secret.

From the best-selling author of Blue is for Nightmares comes a story of paranormal romance that's sure to be a thrilling and chilling teen favorite.

Review:

I am torn in reviewing Deadly Little Secret because although I'm not jumping up and down my seat after reading it, I found the writing of Stolarz particularly good.  I found it easy to read the book and engaged although at times I feel like I'm not into the whole stalker-type story. 


Rating:


Although I like the way the book was written, I think I will not pursue reading the following Touch Series.  For immediate readers, I can recommend the book and be drawn in the whole crime-solving thing (as well as Wake!).

Love spells between Harry Potter and Twilight stars

 

She might be Harry Potter's ultimate sweetheart on-screen but currently, Bonnie Wright (a.k.a. Ginny Weasley) is dating Jamie Campbell Bower.  She confirmed the news thru Ok Magazine on the night of her 19th birthday an said that they have been seeing each other for a few months.

Bower is set to play the role of Gellert Grindelwald in the last Harry Potter movie, The Deathly Hallows.  He played the role of Caius in Twilight Saga's New Moon.

check out the post on E! Online.

Tithe: A Review

From Goodreads:

Welcome to
 
the realm of
 
very scary
 
faeries!

Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she travels from city to city with her mother's rock band until an ominous attack forces the sixteen-year-old back to her childhood home. There, amid the industrial, blue-collar New Jersey backdrop, Kaye soon finds herself an unwilling pawn in an ancient power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms -- a struggle that could very well mean her death.

Newcomer Holly Black's enormously powerful voice weaves teen angst, riveting romance, and capriciously diabolical faerie folk into an enthralling, engaging, altogether original reading experience.

Review:

You think fairies are all pixie-dust and cute stuffs.  Well, you got it all wrong.  Those are stuffs of childhood and bedtime story.  Time to wake up and see fairies as you've never seen them before.  Their beauty is matched by their wickedness, their kindness masked the cruelty they hold, and how their truthfulness is nothing short but their device of manipulation.

Kaye thought that her life is bleak.  She is about to get thrown into a darker world that will turn her life upside down.  Because she may not be who she think she is and she is caught between the world of fairies and the mortal.  Uncertain with her new found fey (who owes her his allegiance and happened to be a knight), her knowledge of fairies and instinct to survive may be the only things that will help her come out breathing in the world of fairies. 

A must read for teens and fairy tale lovers alike.  Because we have to wake up and see that it's not all beauty and kindness in the world, here or theirs.

Rating:

Cassie's Birthday Gift to Mundie Moms

Cassie just gave Mundie Moms a very wonderful birthday gift.  It just happened to be the chapter titles of the upcoming sequel to the Mortal Instruments series, City of Fallen Angels!  Head on to MMs page and check it out!!

Ink Exchange: A Review

From Goodreads:

Unbeknownst to mortals, a power struggle is unfolding in a world of shadows and danger. After centuries of stability, the balance among the Faery Courts has altered, and Irial, ruler of the Dark Court, is battling to hold his rebellious and newly vulnerable fey together. If he fails, bloodshed and brutality will follow.

Seventeen-year-old Leslie knows nothing of faeries or their intrigues. When she is attracted to an eerily beautiful tattoo of eyes and wings, all she knows is that she has to have it, convinced it is a tangible symbol of changes she desperately craves for her own life.

The tattoo does bring changes; not the kind Leslie ha dreamed of, but sinister, compelling changes that are more than symbolic. Those changes will bind Leslie and Irial together, drawing Leslie deeper and deeper into the faery world, unable to resist its allures, and helpless to withstand its perils. . . .

Review:

The second book of the Wicked Lovely series focuses on another story where Leslie, one of Aislinn's friend, gets involved with a faery of the Dark Court.  Caught clueless in-between contrasting faery courts, Leslie only wishes to get a momentary reprieve of her wretched life (which she tried to hide) and feel good about herself again.  Despite being drawn to one of Keenan's uncle/adviser, Niall she feels that he is too good to be true for her.  When her tattoo brings about change in her and mysteriously being pulled towards Irial, she is thrust in a situation that rivals her own nightmares.

This one is my second favorite after Wicked Lovely.  I adore Niall!  I can feel his pain on wanting but not allowed, trying to be a changed man or a better person only to be betrayed in the end.  And here the tension between Niall and Irial is introduced, as well as other important characters that will play significant roles in the later books. 

Leslie's story will be set as the background or main focus where we will get to glimpse what is happening in the Summer Court, how Aislinn is balancing her life as the new Summer Queen, living a mortal life, and continuing her relationship with Seth.  Her choices will not only have consequences for her court but for Leslie as well.

I wanted to have a tattoo afterwards, because it's more than art, it has meaning for a person.

Happy Hearts' Day!

Happy Hearts' Day, everyone!  And in the light of the love day, I share this picture with you.  I happened to see this picture of once lovers, Alex Pettyfer and Emma Roberts.  I saw them as Jace and Clary from the Mortal Instruments.  Their love story still clings to my memory like the scent of the first rain in summer. 

We all have our own love story.  We all have loved, lost and found love again.  What matters is that we have loved and know how to.  For those who were lucky to have kept their love, congratulations.  To those who haven't, "love is patient.  love is kind".  And so we wait.

Contest Time from Undercover Booklover

Undercover Booklover is having a birthday giveaway.  Deadline is March 10.  Open Internationally so head on to the main site and join!

Repost:

Hey guys! It's still pretty far away from my birthday, but that's why I'm posting this giveaway now! So that it'll end on my birthday! I'm turning 15, so yay! I'm super excited! And my birthday cake is going to be themed on The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting! I'll post a picture of it on March 10th! It's going to be so exciting! Now, onto the giveaway! And since my birthday is on March 10, I'll be giving away TEN books as well and all of them are March releases except for Shade =) Fill in the form below to join!

The Prizes: (One winner takes all!!!)


1 Finished copy of The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson
1 Finished copy of The Sight by Judy Blundell
1 Finished copy of Voices of Dragons by Carrie Vaughn
1 Finished copy of Shade by Jeri Smith-Ready
1 Finished copy of The Line by Teri Hall
1 Finished copy of The Unwritten Rule by Elizabeth Scott
1 Finished copy of The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting
1 Finished copy of Brightly Woven by Alexandra Bracken
1 Finished copy of Forget-Her-Nots by Amy Brecount White
1 Finished copy of Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver

Note: I'll be ordering them from Amazon and have it shipped straight to the winner from there.

RIP Alexander McQueen

I am no fashionista but I know how to appreciate fashion.  And Alexander McQueen is one of this generation's talented artist.  He will be greatly missed.

Cover of third Hunger Games book revealed!

 

Cover of the third book of Suzanne Collins'  best selling series, The Hunger Games is just unveiled! 

Books Giveway!

Hey!  Teenager of the Year is giving away three books.  To join the contest, head on to the main page.

Here's the repost.

In celebration of my birthday, and reaching 500 followers, I am giving away another three-book prize pack! No theme this time, just some favourite books - The Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan, Paper Towns by John Green and Liar by Justine Larbalestier! This competition is open internationally, and closes on February the 14th. Get your entries in quick, and spread the word for extra entries!

Alice in Wonderland Tag Giveaway!

 

Today's giveaway is for 8 Alice In Wonderland Tags/Bookmarks from Etsy seller PinkCherryMama! She has over 100 Alice items in her shop so check it out at http://www.etsy.com/shop/pinkcherrymama

PinkCherryMama's Bioi am a stay-at-home mom of 3 beautiful kids. i have the most awesome hubby in the whole world and God has blessed me more than i can express! i love to create pretty much anything and everything!

some random facts about me:

i am a stay at home mom of 3; ages 3, 15 and 16. in my "spare time", i am a youth leader to the teens at our church. our home seams to have a never ending stream of kids coming and going...which we LOVE, but can get exhausting at times!

i love all things vintage! my brain never slows down. i am a never-ending journal keeper and have to keep journals in every room of my house and car, just to keep my ideas from overtaking me! i am hispanic, but i can't eat spicy things and I am an only child...go figure!?!? i collect african violets, vintage furniture, vintage jewelry, vintage buttons, vintage books, vintage bottles and teenagers... my most favorite fairytales are "alice in wonderland" and "peter pan". i love marie antoinette's style...she was so...embellished! i have my cosmetologists license...my hair usually has some shade of pink, blue or purple in it...

i have been creating since i was 4 years old, thanks to my very supportive family and their belief that i am the best at anything and everything i do, even when it is not true :P !

I love to travel and, although, i have not traveled much, i had the awesomely rad opportunity to visit russia---while it was still the USSR....one of the best experiences of my life!

my hobbies include baking, cake decorating, scrapbooking, art journals, book making, jewelry making....oh, let's be honest, if it's creative, i probably do it, have done it or would like to do it!

To Enter: (Please Click here to go to MAIN SITE)

Good Luck Contest ends March 1st, 2010 and is open to International Entries.

Book Bound Best of YA 2009 Mega Giveaway!

Reposted from Book Bound:

Head on to the main blog to fill-out the form!

I think it's about time for Book Bound's first Mega Giveaway!

As I'm sure you all know by now, I am a para-freak. Paranormal Romance = LOVE.

But 2009 was a year for spectacular YA novels. I have never filled my bookshelves with so much YA...and more importantly, GOOD YA.

That being said, here's what's up for grabs:



1. The Dark Divine by Bree Despain
2. Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
3. Fallen by Lauren Kate
4. The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove by Lauren Kate
5. Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
6. Eyes Like Stars: Theatre Illuminata, Act I by Lisa Mantchev
7. The Seven Rays by Jessica Bendinger
8. The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
9. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
10. The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson
11. Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
12. Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games) by Suzanne Collins
13. The Awakening (Darkest Powers, Book 2) by Kelley Armstrong
14. Fragile Eternity by Melissa Marr
15. City of Glass (Mortal Instruments) by Cassandra Clare

Awesome, right? Well, it gets even better. As you can see, there are currently 15 books to choose from. To start, there will be three winners.

1st Prize: Three (3) books of choice
2nd Prize: Two (2) books of choice
3rd Prize: One (1) book of choice

I am currently sitting at 264 followers. If I reach 300 followers, I will add another winner, as well as add one more book to each prize. So at 300 followers:

1st Prize: Four (4) books of choice
2nd Prize: Three (3) books of choice
3rd Prize: Two (2) books of choice
4th Prize: One (1) book of choice

For every 50 new followers, I will add a new winner. However, the top prize will be five (5) books. So after 350 followers, the top 4 prizes will be maxed out.

If I make it up to 400 followers, another winner will be added and will win their choice of one book and so on. (Sorry if it's confusing. I know what I mean, so I will update everyone when a new winner is added.)

I will also add two (2) books to the pile everytime we have a new winner!

I would like to thank the following authors/publishers for contributing to this giveaway:

Bree Despain
Lauren Kate
Simon & SchusterLisa Mantchev
Jessica Bendinger
I have some of these books in my possession, some will be shipped by the author, and the rest will be purchased and shipped through The Book Depository.

Giveaway Rules:

1) You MUST be a follower!
2) You MUST fill out the form below.
3) You MUST provide the link(s) to any posts/ads in order to receive giveaway points.
4) Contest is open to Canada, US and International residents.
5) Deadline for entries is February 5th, 2010 at 11:59pm.

Winners will be contacted by e-mail and given 48 hours to reply with their book choices. If a reply is not received within the allotted time, another winner will be choosen in their stead.

Giveaway Points:

* Receive 5 entries for being an old follower.
* Receive 3 entries for being a new follower.
* Receive 5 entries for advertising the contest. (Sidebar, Twitter, etc.)
* Receive 10 entries for posting about the contest.
* Receive 5 entries for following Book Bound on Twitter. (http://twitter.com/BookBound)
* Receive 5 entries for subscribing to Book Bound's RSS feed.
* Receive 5 entries for displaying Book Bound's button (on left side bar) on your blog.
* Receive 15 entries for telling me why you love YA.

All giveaway points will be confirmed. If you submit a falsified form, your entry will be null. You may enter only ONCE. Multiple entries will also be null.

Good luck!

Valentine's Day Giveaway from Fallen Archangel!

 

Here's a fun giveaway we conbtributed Etsy items to from Fallen Archangel!

A dozen red roses? Nope. A box of chocolates? No way. A stuffed teddy bear. Never.
Here at Fallen Archangel we think Patch is a little too dark and brooding for the traditional Valentine's gifts. But we want to see what all of you think.


Show us the kind of Valentine you see Patch sending Nora or Nora sending Patch. You can make a video, write a letter, create your own Valentine graphic or card, write a poem...whatever! We'll choose the most original "Valentine" to win an awesome Fallen Archangel prize pack, including, handmade jewelry/accessories from Heather Zahn Gardner and much more!

All you need to do to enter is .... submit your "Valentine" to admin@fallenarchangel.com (be sure to include "Valentine" in the subject line) by midnight EST on Saturday, February 13th. We'll announce the winner on Valentine's Day.

Did we mention?? This contest IS open Internationally!!

GO enter now!