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ReaderGirls are participating in the Hoppy Easter Eggstravaganza Giveway Hop hosted by Kathy from I Am A Reader Not A Writer and Yara from Once Upon a Twilight . The hop runs from Wednesday, April 20th to Monday, April 25th. Over 240 blogs are participating so don't forget to stop by all of them. We are offering one prize pack for YA readers and one prize pack for adults. Our giveaway is open internationally. One entry per person. All entrants must be followers. Good luck and thanks for stopping by. Prize Pack 1 for YA readers:   An ARC of Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love edited by Trisha Telep and Nightshade by Andrea Cremer. Kiss Me Deadly: For those who thirst for accounts of paranormal romance, Trisha Telep has compiled some of the most thrilling takes of forbidden love in this collection. First crushes and last rites; dark spells and bright magic; forbidden lovers and enchanted beings -- and always, always the hungry games of desire. Pucker up for a darkl...

**2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Young Adult Fiction Quarter Finalist** Paperback: 234 pages Publisher: CreateSpace (June 10, 2010) Summary: Escaping from them had been difficult enough, now Laney needs to keep hidden. All she wanted was to be on her own. Laney is not like other girls... she has very special abilities that set her apart from others. How or why she came about these abilities is a mystery she has yet to unfold. Haunted by memories and flashbacks of the suffering she endured at the hands of her captors, she changes her appearance and hides out in a small town. Ignoring her own warnings, she begins a relationship with a local boy. The relationship turns dangerous when the boy begins developing similar abilities. This development does not fall under the radar of the men who are trying to recapture her. A young doctor's interest is piqued when he witnesses her mysteriously curing a young child's illness. He befriends her due to his growing fascination w...

The day of the week is Tuesday and we offer a teaser of one book we're reading. This week's choice is from the YA novel,  Stay by Deb Caletti. "You'd imagine with a feeling like that, a person could sleep easy.  I guess I was thinking, though, that if someone was walking around  outside, even right outside my window, you wouldn't hear those footsteps in the soft sand." Summary: Clara’s relationship with Christian is intense from the start, and like nothing she’s ever experienced before. But what starts as devotion quickly becomes obsession, and it’s almost too late before Clara realizes how far gone Christian is—and what he’s willing to do to make her stay. Now Clara has left the city—and Christian—behind. No one back home has any idea where she is, but she still struggles to shake off her fear. She knows Christian won’t let her go that easily, and that no matter how far she runs, it may not be far enough.... Stay by Deb Caletti, 320 pages, is publish...

Reading level: Young Adult Hardcover: 464 pages Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books (February 15, 2011) Summary: First there are nightmares. Every night Ellie is haunted by terrifying dreams of monstrous creatures that are hunting her, killing her. Then come the memories. When Ellie meets Will, she feels on the verge of remembering something just beyond her grasp. His attention is intense and romantic, and Ellie feels like her soul has known him for centuries. On her seventeenth birthday, on a dark street at midnight, Will awakens Ellie's power, and she knows that she can fight the creatures that stalk her in the grim darkness. Only Will holds the key to Ellie's memories, whole lifetimes of them, and when she looks at him, she can no longer pretend anything was just a dream. Now she must hunt. Ellie has power that no one can match, and her role is to hunt and kill the reapers that prey on human souls. But in order to survive the dangerous and ancient battle of th...

ReaderGirls would like to welcome author Desiree Holt and the tour for her latest book,   Downstroke,  to our blog today. Ms. Holt wants to share her thoughts on how she writes and has also provided an excerpt of what promises to be a sizzling adult read (with a sizzling cover). The Giveaway can be found after the blurb. Jazzing the creative juices  by Desiree Holt It seems like it was forever since I sat down to write my first book, but in reality it was only seven years ago. Wow! Time sure flies! When I realized that my 100th title was about to be released I thought, Holy cow! Did I realy write all of those? And it really doesn’t seem as if my brain is slowing down.  I think from the beginning my problem has been, not a lack of ideas but too many. I could hardly decide where to start or which plot to develop first. There are so many things that interest me and flip a switch in my brain. I live in the Texas Hill Country, surrounded by ranches and–w...

Choosing a pick for Waiting on Wednesday  lately has been very hard with the slew of fantastic sounding and looking (can't forget to mention the covers) books scheduled for publication this year. Our choice this week is Breath of Angel (The Angeleon Circle, Book One) by Karyn Henley. Check out the blurb for yourself and see if this isn't a Must Get title. Summary: The stranger’s cloak had fallen back, and with it, a long, white, blood-stained wing. When Melaia, a young priestess, witnesses the gruesome murder of a stranger in the temple courtyard, age-old legends recited in song suddenly come to life. She discovers wings on the stranger, and the murderer takes the shape of both a hawk and a man. Angels. Shape-shifters. Myths and stories—until now. Melaia finds herself in the middle of a blood feud between two immortal brothers who destroyed the stairway to heaven, stranding angels in the earthly realm. When the feud turns violent and Melaia becomes a target, she find...

Today we are ecstatic to host the Invincible Summer Blog Tour . Don't forget to enter our giveaway below. About the author: Hannah Moskowitz wrote her first story, about a kitten named Lilly on the run from cat hunters, for a contest when she was seven years old. She was disqualified, as her story was dubbed too violent. Her first book, BREAK, was on the ALA's 2010 list of Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults. She is a student at The University of Maryland (from Goodreads).  Her website , blog  and Goodreads page. ReaderGirls review Reading level: Young Adult Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Simon Pulse; Original edition (April 19, 2011) Summary: Noah’s happier than I’ve seen him in months. So I’d be an awful brother to get in the way of that. It’s not like I have some relationship with Melinda. It was just a kiss. Am I going to ruin Noah’s happiness because of a kiss? Across four sun-kissed, drama-drenched summers at his family’s beach house, Chase is falling ...