Monday, October 30, 2017

Review: Hideaway (Devil's Night #2) by Penelope Douglas

 
Hideaway by Penelope Douglas
Hideaway
(Devil's Night #2)
by Penelope Douglas
October 2, 2017
466 pages


Goodreads Summary:
DEVIL'S NIGHT is returning! Hiding places, chases, and all the games are back...

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Buried in the shadows of the city, there’s a hotel called The Pope. Ailing, empty, and dark—it sits abandoned and surrounded by a forgotten mystery.

But you think it’s true, don’t you, Kai Mori? The story about the hidden twelfth floor. The mystery of the dark guest who never checked in and never checks out. You think I can help you find that secret hideaway and get to him, don’t you?

You and your friends can try to scare me. You can try to push me. Because even though I struggle to hide everything I feel when you look at me—and have ever since I was a girl—I think maybe what you seek is so much closer than you’ll ever realize.

I will never betray him.

So sit tight.

On Devil’s Night, the hunt will be coming to you.

KAI

You have no idea what I seek, Little One. You don’t know what I had to become to survive three years in prison for a crime I would gladly commit again.

No one can know what I’ve turned into.

I want that hotel, I want to find him, and I want this over.

I want my life back.

But the more I’m around you, the more I realize this new me is exactly who I was meant to be.

So come on, kid. Don’t chicken out. My house is on the hill. So many ways in, and good luck finding your way out.

I’ve seen your hideaway. Time to see mine.


Saturday, October 28, 2017

Stacking the Shelves #165


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Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga's Reviews that lets us share what we've added to our shelves.


I received my pre-order of Gray Wolf Island in the mail yay!! Can you tell Ripple and I are so pumped to jump into this one? ;)

Ripple's ready for Gray Wolf Island!

I got a mixture of new books this week. Short History of the Girl Next Door is a win from the lovely Jen @ Jen Ryland Reviews. She left me with a very cryptic '...woah' so I'm curious to see what that's about ;) Sleeping in the Ground was a surprise from PRHC (thank you!) and I got Rick Riordan's newest Magnus Chase book from Costco since it was the special poster edition. I forgot I had already hauled the picture book The Dog so here it is again lol...

Pickles with Short History of the Girl Next Door, The Ship of the Dead, Sleeping in the Ground and The Dog.

What did you add to your shelves this week?

Friday, October 27, 2017

Review: Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe by Melissa De La Cruz


Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe by Melissa De La CruzPride and Prejudice and Mistletoe
by Melissa De La Cruz
October 17, 2017
224 pages


Goodreads Summary:
From bestselling author MELISSA DE LA CRUZ, comes a dazzling retelling of Pride and Prejudice with a Christmas twist.

Darcy Fitzwilliam is 29, beautiful, successful, and brilliant. She dates hedge funders and basketball stars and is never without her three cellphones—one for work, one for play, and one to throw at her assistant (just kidding). Darcy’s never fallen in love, never has time for anyone else’s drama, and never goes home for Christmas if she can help it. But when her mother falls ill, she comes home to Pemberley, Ohio, to spend the season with her dad and little brother.

Her parents throw their annual Christmas bash, where she meets one Luke Bennet, the smart, sardonic slacker son of their neighbor. Luke is 32 and has never left home. He’s a carpenter and makes beautiful furniture, and is content with his simple life. He comes from a family of five brothers, each one less ambitious than the other. When Darcy and Luke fall into bed after too many eggnogs, Darcy thinks it’s just another one night stand. But why can’t she stop thinking of Luke? What is it about him? And can she fall in love, or will her pride and his prejudice against big-city girls stand in their way?