{Guest Post+G!veaway} Advice to Our Teenage Selves by Kim Askew and Amy Helmes

Dear Me: Advice to Our Teenage SelvesBy Kim Askew and Amy Helmes,Authors of the Shakespeare-inspired YA series Twisted Lit, featuring Tempestuous and Exposure (Merit Press) As teenage girls go, the heroines in our Twisted Lit novels couldn’t be more different. In Tempestuous (our take on Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”), Miranda Prospero is powerful, assertive, and confident, perhaps too much so at times. […]

Posted January 7, 2013 by Michelle @ Book Briefs in Giveaways, Guest Post / 2 Comments

{ARC Review+G!veaway} Elder by Raine Thomas

Elder by Raine ThomasPages: 268Published: December 27th 2012 by Iambe BooksAge Group: YA Source: eARC from AuthorSeries: Firstborn Trilogy #3Summary:  Clara Kate is one of the eight beings needed to activate the Elder Scroll, an ancient artifact causing tragedy and darkness on the Estilorian plane. She knows that her focus needs to be on finding the final […]

Posted January 3, 2013 by Michelle @ Book Briefs in Giveaways, Reviews / 4 Comments

{Interview} Falling by J. Bennett

Falling by J. BennettSummary:  The intellectual challenge of college and the warm embrace of a serious boyfriend have given Maya the wings she needs to break away from her bookish and shy reserve. Her ideal life comes crashing down when she and her boyfriend are accosted by a stranger. A stranger with glowing hands.Maya’s boyfriend […]

Posted January 3, 2013 by Michelle @ Book Briefs in Interview / 2 Comments

2012 Wrap up & 2013 Goals!

I can’t believe that 2012 is already over!  2012 was a great blogging year for me. I did A LOT on the blog. Here is my 2012 blog year in review:  2012 Reading Challenge Michelle has completed her goal of reading 175 books in 2012! hide 198 of 175 (113%) view books I finished my […]

Posted December 31, 2012 by Michelle @ Book Briefs in / 6 Comments