FRIDAY STARS – Your Weekly Must Knows 02/05/16

FRIDAY STARS – Your Weekly Must Knows 02/05/16

Happy Friday! Below you will find:
Giveaways!
What we just finished and loved!
What we are planning to read next.
Upcoming releases, in the next week, that we are extremely excited about!
And of course the latest sales and freebies, which we have either read or have on our to-read lists.

♥ Enjoy!

Giveaways:

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Just Finished and Loved:

Six of Crows (Six of Crows #1) by Leigh Bardugo 5 Stars!  What Six of Crows offered me is a plot that kept me guessing, in a Locke Lamora fashion, with complex and interesting characters I loved. Well done!  Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price–and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can’t pull it off alone… A convict with a thirst for revenge. A sharpshooter who can’t walk away from a wager. A runaway with a privileged past. A spy known as the Wraith.  A Heartrender using her magic to survive the slums.  A thief with a gift for unlikely escapes.  Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz’s crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction—if they don’t kill each other first.  Anna’s Review

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Riders (Riders #1) by Veronica Rossi (Releases 2/16) 5 Stars!  Riders was enthralling, addicting and I fell madly in love with this story. This landed right on my favorites shelf! Riders is definitely a must read!  For eighteen-year-old Gideon Blake, nothing but death can keep him from achieving his goal of becoming a U.S. Army Ranger. As it turns out, it does.  Recovering from the accident that most definitely killed him, Gideon finds himself with strange new powers and a bizarre cuff he can’t remove. His death has brought to life his real destiny. He has become War, one of the legendary four horsemen of the apocalypse.  Over the coming weeks, he and the other horsemen–Conquest, Famine, and Death–are brought together by a beautiful but frustratingly secretive girl to help save humanity from an ancient evil on the emergence.  They fail.  Now–bound, bloodied, and drugged–Gideon is interrogated by the authorities about his role in a battle that has become an international incident. If he stands any chance of saving his friends and the girl he’s fallen for–not to mention all of humankind–he needs to convince the skeptical government officials the world is in imminent danger.  But will anyone believe him? Jen’s Review

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Our Other Reviews:

4 Stars:
Falling Kingdoms (Falling Kingdoms #1)by Michelle Rowan, Morgan Rhodes Chelsea’s Review
It’s All Your Fault by Paul Rudnick Anna’s Review

We also had two huge posts listing all of our favorite books that we read in 2015. If you missed them, definitely check out our 2015 Favorites from a Series & 2015 Favorite Singles.

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Reading Next:

Scarlet (Scarlet, #1) by A.C. Gaughen -Posing as one of Robin Hood’s thieves to avoid the evil Lord Gisbourne, Scarlet has kept her identity secret from all of Nottinghamshire. Only Big John and Robin Hood know the truth-that the agile thief posing as a whip of a boy is actually a fearless young woman with a secret past. It’s getting harder to hide as Gisbourne’s camp seeks to find Scarlet and drive Robin Hood out of Nottinghamshire. But Scarlet’s instinct for self-preservation is at war with a strong sense of responsibility to the people who took her in when she was on the run, and she finds it’s not so easy to turn her back on her band and townspeople. As Gisbourne draws closer to Scarlet and puts innocent lives at risk, she must decide how much the people of Nottinghamshire mean to her, especially John Little, a flirtatious fellow outlaw, and Robin, whose quick smiles and temper have the rare power to unsettle Scarlet. Full of exciting action, secrets, and romance, this imaginative retelling of the classic tale will have readers following every move of Robin Hood and band of thieves.

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Morning Star (Red Rising #3) by Pierce Brown – The final book in the trilogy!  In the first book, Red Rising, Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children.   But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and lush wilds spread across the planet. Darrow—and Reds like him—are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class.   Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow sacrifices everything to infiltrate the legendary Institute, a proving ground for the dominant Gold caste, where the next generation of humanity’s overlords struggle for power.  He will be forced to compete for his life and the very future of civilization against the best and most brutal of Society’s ruling class. There, he will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies . . . even if it means he has to become one of them to do so.

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Captive Prince (Captive Prince #1) by C.S. Pacat – Damen is a warrior hero to his people, and the rightful heir to the throne of Akielos, but when his half brother seizes power, Damen is captured, stripped of his identity, and sent to serve the prince of an enemy nation as a pleasure slave.  Beautiful, manipulative and deadly, his new master Prince Laurent epitomizes the worst of the court at Vere. But in the lethal political web of the Veretian court, nothing is as it seems, and when Damen finds himself caught up in a play for the throne, he must work together with Laurent to survive and save his country.  For Damen, there is just one rule: never, ever reveal his true identity. Because the one man Damen needs is the one man who has more reason to hate him than anyone else . . .

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Upcoming Releases:

Glass Sword (Red Queen #2) by Victoria Aveyard (Releases2/09) – In the first book, Red Queen, Mare Barrow’s world is divided by blood—those with common, Red blood serve the Silver- blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities. Mare is a Red, scraping by as a thief in a poor, rural village, until a twist of fate throws her in front of the Silver court. Before the king, princes, and all the nobles, she discovers she has an ability of her own.  To cover up this impossibility, the king forces her to play the role of a lost Silver princess and betroths her to one of his own sons. As Mare is drawn further into the Silver world, she risks everything and uses her new position to help the Scarlet Guard—a growing Red rebellion—even as her heart tugs her in an impossible direction. One wrong move can lead to her death, but in the dangerous game she plays, the only certainty is betrayal.

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Morning Star (Red Rising #3) by Pierce Brown (Releases 2/09) – The final book in the trilogy!  In the first book, Red Rising, Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children.   But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and lush wilds spread across the planet. Darrow—and Reds like him—are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class.   Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow sacrifices everything to infiltrate the legendary Institute, a proving ground for the dominant Gold caste, where the next generation of humanity’s overlords struggle for power.  He will be forced to compete for his life and the very future of civilization against the best and most brutal of Society’s ruling class. There, he will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies . . . even if it means he has to become one of them to do so.


Check out our list of upcoming releases that we can’t wait for → Click Here

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Sales:

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5 Stars!
Jen’s Review
Chelsea’s Review

4 Stars!
Laura’s Review

$1.99


New Sale   4.5 Stars!
Jen’s Review

New Sale   4.5 Stars!
Jen’s Review

New Sale   4.5 Stars!
Jen’s Review

New Sale   5 Stars!
Chelsea’s Review
Laura’s Review

New Sale   4 Stars!
Chelsea’s Review

New Sale   4.5 Stars!
Chelsea’s Review

New Sale

New Sale   4.5 Stars!
Jen’s Review
Chelsea’s Review

New Sale 5 Stars
Jen’s Review
Chelsea’s Review

New Sale   5 Stars
Jen’s Review

5 Stars!
Chelsea’s Review

5 Stars!
Jen’s Review

4.5 Stars!
Anna’s Review

4.5 Stars!
Chelsea’s Review

Chelsea’s Review

$2.99


New Sale   4.5 Stars
Chelsea’s Review
Anna’s Review

4.5 Stars!
Chelsea’s Review

4.5 Stars!
Chelsea’s Review

5 Stars!
Anna’s Review
Jen’s Review
Chelsea’s Review
$3.99+

5 Stars!
Chelsea’s Review

5 Stars!
Chelsea’s Review
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Freebies

4 Stars!
Anna’s Review

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2 Comments

  1. Leyanis

    I hope you enjoy Captive Prince, I absolutely loved it♥

    • Anna

      Thank you!!! Actually… I binge-read the whole trilogy this weekend… OOPS. And now I don’t know what to do with myself. How can I get over Laurent??? I’ll tell you, I can’t. Even if I was a little disappointed in the ending, these books will stay in my heart forever ♥

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