The Romance Bookie

So I'm back!! So sorry everyone!! This past week has been NUTS!! I started school on Monday.  I have to be there only two days a week, but it's a commute, plus when I get back I have to work until the evening, plus on the days I don't have school I also worked, so yeah...crazy!! And barely any time for reading!! ;( Diana is being so patient with me, so THANK YOU for that Diana!! You rule!! Anyway so this week I have unfortunately nothing to contribute review wise...and unfortunately I'm not sure if I'll have time to read very much in the coming weeks, but I do have something extremely exciting to share with you all that is Meg Cabot related... Look what I got in the mail last week from the amazing Harper Collins.... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I got an ARC of The Bride Wore Size 12 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  OMG I am so freaking excited!! If I wasn't behind on my reading the books I promised others I would be devouring this ...

Hey Everyone!! s So I'm participating in the Books to Movie Giveaway Hop hosted by  I Am a Reader  and  Book Hounds ! For my part in the Giveaway Hop I am giving away a Hardcover of Catching Fire , the second book in The Hunger Games Trilogy .  This was my favorite book in the series, and so I'm very much looking forward to the movie coming out in November!! :) Image from Goodreads It's coming up, the release date, so winning this book will give you plenty of time to either read it for the first time or reread it before the release to refresh your memory! :) r All you have to do is enter the Rafflecopter widget below, if you are in US!  I want to apologize to the international readers, unfortunately shipping is just too much internationally. a Rafflecopter giveaway Thanks everyone! :) The Romance Bookie :)

***WARNING!!! May Contain Spoilers!!!!*** Hey Everyone!! So after what feels like years and years of waiting (in reality it was 2 years) The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones  movie FINALLY came out Wednesday! And I saw it right away Wednesday evening!!!!!!! From IMDb So let's see where to begin...overall, when not comparing it to the book I liked it.  I am a bit different to most people on the opinion of book to movie adaptations, in that I'm very open to their interpretations. Overall, what brought my heart to ease was knowing how much say Cassandra Clare had in the making of this movie, so for the most part I'm sure that the changes that were made, Cassie was okay with. So let's see changes I noticed...and this is going to be a bit difficult, because it has been over two years since I read City of Bones... I noticed that they added a few things into the first movie, that didn't actually happen until the second book. They changed Hodge's ...

Hey everyone! So I finished Cora Carmack's new novella!! Love her Losing It  series! From Goodreads : Garrick Taylor and Bliss Edwards managed to find their happily-ever-after despite a rather . . . ahem . . . complicated start. By comparison, meeting the parents should be an absolute breeze, right? But from the moment the pair lands in London, new snags just keep cropping up: a disapproving mother-in-law-to-be, more than one (mostly) minor mishap, and the realization that perhaps they aren't quite as ready for their future as they thought. As it turns out, the only thing harder than finding love is keeping it. My Thoughts: With only about a 100 pages this is such a cute continuation of Garrick and Bliss's story from  Losing It .  I truly enjoyed it!  These two make such a cute couple that have the reader hoping more than anything that they will make it. Overall rating: Super cute! Only complaint I have is that I wish we could have gotten more of a...

Hey Everyone!! Another IMM and Stacking the Shelves coming your way! :) I got some great books this month! Thanks to some fabulous publishers and one even from a friend! :)  It's actually been a few months since I bought a book! Shocker right?!  Especially given that I have about $50 worth of Barnes and Noble Giftcards waiting to be spent! :) Anyway, here's what I got this month in books: From Publishers: Wallbanger by Alice Clayton  (read this one back when it was independently published, and absolutely loved it! Thanks to Gallery books for sending me a finished copy! :) It's going to look great on my shelves! :)) You can check out my review HERE! This Girl (#3 in Slammed Series) by Colleen Hoover The Marriage Merger by Jennifer Probst Beautiful Bombshell (#2.5 in Beautiful Bastard Series) by Christina Lauren  (ARC) (OMG CAN'T WAIT TO READ THIS ONE!!!) A HUGE THANK YOU to Atria and Gallery Books for these fabulous works!! :) Won: ...

Hey Everyone! So I feel horrible, I've been so irresponsible lately when it comes to The Romance Bookie, but I will soon be writing a post to explain what the near future of TRB will hold (Don't worry!! Nothing bad!). So anyway, I'm a little late on this post (SO SORRY!!!) but here is some information on an awesome new book that was recently released!! Solstice High  by Ardash Vartparonian! Matt, Rochelle, Daphne and Jonas are four students starting their senior year of high school, but suffer a freak-accident the very first day and start to realize that they are developing superhuman abilities. They quickly realize that the school principal, Mr. Devlin, has in fact more than just education on his agenda, and is using the school for his own purposes. Not only must the four friends try to figure out what Devlin’s plans are, but when he will strike, and seeing as how they cannot turn to grown-ups for help without exposing themselves, must themselves grow-up in ord...

Hey Everyone! Week 7 has come and gone for Meg-A Readers and now it's time for that recap!! :) But first it's time for my weekly Meg Cabot themed tidbit! :) This week I've got a review of Meg's How to Be Popular , which I started during the Meg-A Readers Read-A-Thon, but unfortunately was unable to finish in time, just because this summer has been CRAZY!! Anyway... From  Goodreads : Do you want to be popular? Everyone wants to be popular or at least, Stephanie Landry does. Steph's been the least popular girl in her class since a certain cherry Super Big Gulp catastrophe five years earlier. Does being popular matter? It matters very much to Steph. That's why this year, she has a plan to get in with the It Crowd in no time flat. She's got a secret weapon: an old book called what else? "How to Be Popular." What does it take to be popular? All Steph has to do is follow the instructions in The Book, and soon she'll be partying wit...

Hey Everyone!! :) So I've got some exciting news!! Sylvia Day's new book "Aftershock" is out today!! It's part of Harlequin's new Cosmo Red Hot Reads series! Thanks to the people at Harlequin, I was lucky enough to get to read the first two chapters of this sure-to-be-exciting release, and let me just say: I'm SOOOO excited to get my hands on this one!!! If you're a fan of Sylvia's Crossfire  series, which I am! then you are sure to enjoy this new mini series too!! :) Here's the description Harlequin sent me: Never mix business with pleasure . Never bring politics into the bedroom. In a way I did both when I took Jackson Rutledge s a lover . I can't say I wasn't warned . Two years later, he was back.  Walking into a deal I'd worked hard to close.  Under the tutelage of Lei Yeung, one of the sharpest businesswomen in New York, I had picked up a thing or two since Jax walked away.  I wasn't the girl ...

Hey Everyone!! Week 6 of Meg-A Readers is over, and I'm here to share with you all the awesomeness of this week! :) We've got some awesome questions already to ask Meg for the Meg-A Readers last recap interview!   Keep asking those questions!! And then we also had the Meg Cabot Read-a-Thon to mark off the halfway point of Meg-A Readers!!  Only 6 more weeks and Meg-A Readers is already over! ;( So anyway, here's what I accomplished in this week's Read-a-Thon: I read: Short Stories by Meg Cabot, which okay, isn't really a title, but it's the series of short stories that Meg released for free last year!  If you want to read them, here is the link:  http://www.megcabot.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/MegCabot-free-stories-dec2012.pdf So for this week's Meg-A Readers post, I'll be doing a review on those short stories! :) The first one: Reunion , which is written in the same format as Meg's Boy Series, aka emails, is super cu...

Yay Happy Release Day for Rachel Harris's A Tale of Two Centuries !!! :) This is the second book in the My Super Sweet Sixteenth Century  Series, I read the first book  My Super Sweet Sixteenth Century  back October of last year, so I definitely was looking forward to its successor! :) And I'm so excited to say I finished it just in time! :) From Goodreads : Alessandra D’Angeli is in need of an adventure. Tired of her sixteenth-century life in Italy and homesick for her time-traveling cousin, Cat, who visited her for a magical week and dazzled her with tales of the future, Alessandra is lost. Until the stars hear her plea. One mystical spell later, Alessandra appears on Cat’s Beverly Hills doorstep five hundred years in the future. Surrounded by confusing gadgets, scary transportation, and scandalous clothing, Less is hesitant to live the life of a twenty-first century teen…until she meets the infuriating—and infuriatingly handsome—surfer Austin Michaels. Austi...

Hey Everyone!! :) Diana and I are so excited for this week's recap!! So Diana and I found out something super exciting last week!!  Meg will be doing another interview for Meg-A Readers this year!!! How awesome is Meg??!! Like seriously??!!! So since Diana and I both asked the questions to Meg  last year  to end Meg-A Readers, this year we want to ask YOU to ask the questions!! So here's what we want you all to do! In the comments of either my recap here, or Diana's over at  Little Miss Drama Queen , we want you to ask any question you have for Meg, involving your favorite Meg Cabot book, a recent release, upcoming releases, any new news to share?, whatever!  We want your questions, and Diana and I are going to pick our favorites and reveal Meg's answers in the last recap of Meg-A Readers on Saturday September 28th!! :) Yes we are at the half way point of Meg-A Readers!  So next week we are also doing the Read-a-Thon of Meg-A Readers!! ...