1 year giveaway

So I have been running my facebook page YA indie Princess for one year on the 17th Oct 2011. So if I can get the page up to 1,500 likers/fans before that date I will do a giveaway of my top 5 books I have read between 17th Oct 2010 - 17th Oct 2011. It will be open internationaly so tell all your friends and family I need 29 likes as I'am at 1,471. https://www.facebook.com/pages/YA-indie-princess/108905649155587

The Valefar boy tricked Ivy Taylor into kissing him, but he took much more than a kiss - he stole her soul and left her within inches of death. By surviving, Ivy is drawn into the conflict between the Martis and the Valefar. The war between these two immortal forces has raged for millennia without distraction. Until now. Ivy is an anomaly-she is the only person who has ever walked away from a demon kiss alive. Her survival gives her unique and deadly abilities. Too powerful to ignore, Ivy is a threat to both armies. These two ancient enemies will stop at nothing to kill the seventeen-year-old. Surviving is nothing new for headstrong Ivy, but her survival has never depended on another person before. This time it does. And if she misplaces her trust, she's dead. To her horror, she starts falling in love at the worst possible time—with the enemy. He appears to be protecting her. But she can't be certain if he is trying to help her, or help himself to her power. For Ivy, trusting the right person is the difference between love and survival, or a deadly demon kiss.

3/5 STARS

I really dont know what to say about Demon kissed parts I liked then the other parts I could have justed skipped them. When I first heard about Demon kissed I read the 1st chapter on the authors website and really enjoyed it and couldn't wait to get the book but I think as some time happens you build the book up to be amazing and it just isn't as good as you think it will be. The book is told from Ivy's POV and starts with her boyfriend Jake taking her soul through you got it a kiss. Ivy is still trying to get over the death of her sisters 1 year before and has been going off the rails ever since then her best friend Collin has let her be when she has lost all her other friends. Then after Jake has nearly killed her Eric finds her and he has his own secret for Ivy. At times I really like Eric and Wanted Ivy to like him like that but after reading the book Ivy has to be with Collin with out a doubt. Ivy & Collin have such a nice relonship within the book with is what keep me reading. Demon Kissed had some twist's I didn't see come and I adored the ending. I liked the take on angels and demons with them being Martis & Valefar. Can't wait to see what happens in book 2. Favourite Quote "The past and the present crashed together in a deafening silence.I wanted the past to die,so I could distance myself from the pain,and forget even for a little while"

Seventeen-year-old Holly Mullen has felt lost and lonely ever since her boyfriend, Rob, died in a tragic accident. The fact that she has to spend most of her free time caring for her little sister and Alzheimer’s-stricken grandfather doesn’t help. But Holly has no idea that as she goes about her days, Rob’s ghost is watching over her. He isn’t happy when he sees his best friend, Jason, reach out to help Holly with her grandfather—but as a ghost, he can do nothing to stop it. Is his best friend really falling for his girlfriend? As Holly wonders whether to open her heart to Jason, the past comes back to haunt her. Her grandfather claims to be communicating with the ghost of Rob. Could the messages he has for Holly be real? And if so, how can the loved ones Rob left behind help his tortured soul make it to the other side? Told from the perspectives of Holly, Jason, and Rob, Wherever You Go is is a poignant story about making peace with the past, opening your heart to love, and finding the courage to move forward into the light.(release date 14th Nov 2011)

4/5 STARS

Wherever you go is Heather Davis third book and one that I really wanted to read so I was super excited to have got an ARC. All that being said I read her first book "don't cry werewolf" and didn't really enjoy it so was hoping for a much better read and i'm very happy to say Wherever you go is one emontionally packed novel with an outstanding plot and has been beautifuly writen. Wherever you go is told from the POV of the three main chacarters Holly,Jason and Rob. Holly is still trying to cope with the death of her boyfriend Rob while also looking after her kid sister as there mum works two jobs. As Holly's grandad Aldo gets to sick to live by himself he has to move in with them so now it falls on Holly again to be the adult/mum and help look after him aswell. I just could help but feel so sorry for her because of his you just want her to at least have some time to be a teenager. As Aldo spends time with Holly he tells her that a boy named Rob is talking to him but Holly does not believe that it is Rob's ghost and thinks it's Aldo's Alzheimers making him see things that are not there. I loved the Aldo and the relonship that him and Holly share with each other. Aldo ask for her help to remmeber a list he has made of all the things that have a special place in his heart. As Holly starts the list she tells only one other person about it Rob's best friend Jason he then agrees to help her and Aldo complete the list. Holly and Jason grow closer while doing the list and was so touching reading about them I couldn't help but want them to be together. Rob gets very jealous of the two of them spending time with each other and I really do feel for him as he watches his best friend and girlfriend but sometimes his POV just got on my nerves. Wherever you go is a great read with topics of death/depression/second chances with a amazing love story rolled into it and a book that will stay with me for a very long time to come. I look forward to whatever Heather Davis writes next. Favourite Quotes 1= When you grow older,you love again,and the new love feels so different that the love before feels like make-belive. The way you love changes throughout your life. Even the way you love the same person changes." 2=" All of it washed away in a tidal wave of love you see rushing towards her shore" 3= " You try to radiate your feeling because there are things you know that you want get the chance to say"

In 1692, when witch trials gripped the community of Salem, Massachusetts, twenty-six children were accused as witches, exiled, and left for dead. Fourteen of them survived.
The Survivors is the first installment of the tantalizing tales of the fourteen ill-fated Survivors and their descendants, who have been content in hiding for over three centuries. Isolated on a Montana mountainside, only Sadie, the rogue daughter, dares to abandon the family's sacred hiding place. But no matter how far Sadie runs, something always pulls her back.
On a muggy summer night in Tennessee, she witnesses a shocking scene that will change her life forever. It is the first in a sequence of events that will drag her from the human world she's sought to belong to for over a century and send her back to her Puritanical family and into an uncertain future filled with cunning witches, mysterious nosferatu shape-shifters, dangerous eretica and vieczy vampires, millennia-old mythology, and the search for her own mortality. After all...
HOW DO YOU KILL A SURVIVOR?
The Survivors will steal your heart and invade your mind. Fall into the pages of Sadie's life, a world so frighteningly similar to your own, you'll find yourself wanting to go to the Montana mountains to find the Survivors for yourself.
And it is only the beginning.

4/5 STARS

The survivours was a book I just had to have after reading the summary and was very lucky to be given a ARC by Amanda Havard (thank-you Amanda) I loved the premise for "The Survivours" as I have never read anything on the salem witch trails before and was not let down at all. This book has witches,shape shifters and different types of vampires what is not to love about all of them in one book. The book is told from Sadie's POV. I loved her voice and you just couldn't help but like her right from the start.All the other charaters make this book what it is and it has the right amount of character interaction. I am totally in love with Everett such a gentlemen. While reading The Survivours I wanted to know where all Sadie's money came from and was really glad when I found out. Also I felt that it couldn't make up it's mind if it was a YA book or a adult paranormal book but either it didn't take away from the amazing writing and was still suitable for younger YA readers. I loved the twist that I didn't see coming with the winters family towards the ending. I would have given the book 5 stars if it had just a bit more action in it but fingers crossed that book 2 has a bit extra on the action front. All in all I can't wait for book 2 after reading the sneak peek at the back of the book please please say that I don't have to wait a year for it. A great start to a new YA series :) Favourite Quotes= 1/ "For better or worse,I had kept that promise.I regretted it every day." 2/ "I realized only then that I had always assumed isolation was about naivete, but what if it was aboutmore than that?" 3/ " I can compete with anything except you not wanting me to know you.I'll listen to anything you want to say.If it's tough stuff, I'll hold you while you cry. If it's strange, I'll believe you. If it's terrible,then I'll forgive you.I just want to know who you are." 4/ "I need you to love me more than death"

Theia Alderson has always led a sheltered life in the small California town of Serendipity Falls. But when a devastatingly handsome boy appears in the halls of her school, Theia knows she's seen Haden before- not around town, but in her dreams. As the Haden of both the night and the day beckons her closer one moment and pushes her away the next, the only thing Theia knows for sure is that the incredible pull she feels towards him is stronger than her fear. And when she discovers what Haden truly is, Theia's not sure if she wants to resist him, even if the cost is her soul.

3.5/5 STARS
When I first started reading "Falling Under" I had no idea it was about demon's but liked the premise and carried on reading. But for me Falling Under just felt like the average YA book with nothing outstanding to set it apart. The last 100 pages saved it from being totally bad. All that being said there where parts that I did enjoy. I really like the book in Theia's POV with parts of what Haden was thinking added in small parts. Also towards the end the book filped to Haden's POV with added bits from Theia worked in to it. The romance between Theia & Haden was the saving grace of this book. Favourite Quotes= 1/ "I've wished I could walk away from you-even stop thinking of you for an hour,a minute.But I can't.I've tried.I need you with a longing that will surely kill me if I don't give in to it-but it will kill you if I do." 2/"This isn't a crush;it's obsession.You are never not in my thoughts.Your scent carries across a room and paralyzes me with longing.I don't want to hold your hand.Part of me wants to set you on fire and hold you while the flame consumes us both, to eat your heart so I know that only I possess it entirely" 3/"No, I don't remember you. I don't remember holding you or talking to you or falling in love with you-but I walk around with a giant hole in my heart all the time. I feel your absence every secondof the day.It aches and nothing soothes it. Losing you is bad enough, but I don't even get the comfort of remembering that I had you once." I will be reading the second book because I do think that it has potencial to be even better than Falling Under and I enjoy Gwen Hayes.

Where there is love and power, there is always... betrayal. At seventeen, Cordelia is an ordinary teen with an extraordinary and frightening secret. A secret that induces vivid dreams which she not only experiences true love, but crippling fear while barely escaping with her life each night. After a life altering event, Cordelia has an unexpected encounter with Evan, the mysterious boy from her dreams, who reveals who and what she is; a descendant of the Greek gods. At that moment everything she knows of her world is a lie, and she must leave the present and go into the past to assume the role she was put on this earth for; safeguarding her ancient empire amidst evil forces that toil hastily to destroy it. In a race against time, Cordelia must decide if she is truly a part of this dangerous world, or risk defying the gods, and ultimately lose the boy who has put a claim on her heart.

4/5 STARS

First off I would like to say thank you to Mayandree for letting me have the chance to read an ARC of Betrayal before it's release date. When I first read the plot summary I was like I need this book NOW. I have to say god,goddess and myths are becoming my favourite book subject to read about and Betrayal didn't let me down although I found that it didn't hit the right pace until 100 pages in but then it was like a run away train and I just could stop reading It just was amazing. I loved all the characters even the baddies. Betrayal is a must read for any YA fan. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don't say I have to wait to long for book 2????????

What if you knew exactly when you would die? Thanks to modern science, every human being has become a ticking genetic time bomb—males only live to age twenty-five, and females only live to age twenty. In this bleak landscape, young girls are kidnapped and forced into polygamous marriages to keep the population from dying out. When sixteen-year-old Rhine Ellery is taken by the Gatherers to become a bride, she enters a world of wealth and privilege. Despite her husband Linden's genuine love for her, and a tenuous trust among her sister wives, Rhine has one purpose: to escape—to find her twin brother and go home. But Rhine has more to contend with than losing her freedom. Linden's eccentric father is bent on finding an antidote to the genetic virus that is getting closer to taking his son, even if it means collecting corpses in order to test his experiments. With the help of Gabriel, a servant Rhine is growing dangerously attracted to, Rhine attempts to break free, in the limted time she has left.

5/5 STARS

WOW what can I say about "Wither" and after reading it the one word that won't stop repeating is WOW. Wither took me on a emtional roll coaster ride and shocked me to my very core at this amazing well written novel. Wither is the stand out debut of 2011. After waiting soooooo long for it to be released it didn't let me down at all. It held me while reading and when I wasn't reading it I just couldn't stop thinking about it. I'm 25 years old myself and i couldn't help but thinking if I lived in Lauren Destefano story I would have been dead for 5 years already. I just can't get my head around a world were men die at 25 and women at 20. The characters were all well rouned and had a clear voice within the book. I loved the relionship between Rhine the main character and her sister wife's(such a great term)Jenna & Cecily. Rhine has such a strong voice through out the whole book you can't but want her to run away from Linden and his father Vaughn. At times I found I liked Linden as a character and hated myself for it because of all he does but just like Rhine finds out he is just a puppet for this fathers choices. The sadest moment for me has to be Jenna she broke my heart in to two. The happiest moment has to be the ending because it has such a awesome ending but one that leaves me craving the second book because I NEED it NOW. Wither has one of the best cover's of 2011 and can't wait to see how they can top it for book 2. My Favourite Quotes 1/ "real is a dirty word in this place" 2/ "what has the free world got that you can't get here?" 3/ "He always gets the final say. So what-ever he ask of you,please,for your own good listen to him"