Good News!

Hi!

This is just a quick post to let everyone know Amy's Book Den will be returning to regular activities next week. I've managed to somewhat solve the crashing problem (though it still slows down sometimes). Anyways, it seems it was a Firefox problem not a Blogger one.

I'm still working on the improvements to the blog, but those I'll be implementing AFTER the super cool update I've got in the works. Two words people. Major. Overhaul ;)

Have a great week everybody!

PS: And OMG is that 100k pageviews I see there O__O!

Hiatus Extended

Dear readers,

I’ve decided to extend Amy’s Book Den's hiatus a little bit longer for the following reasons:

1. The issue with blogger slowing down and crashing still continues and I haven't found a solution other than migrating to another blog host like wordpress (which I don't want to do).

2. I've come up with a couple of changes and improvements to the blog which still need a bit of tweaking and finishing touches. Also, it's useless to implement them now when this thing keeps crashing.

3. I'm still debating whether to mix my writerly posts with my book posts here. Keeping up two separate blogs will be almost impossible for me to do now that I've started with edits & revisions on my thesis.

I hope you can all be patient while I figure out these things ♥

Musing Mondays (63) & It's Monday! (61)

 Hosted by Should Be Reading.

 This week’s musing is…

~Tell us what book you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that book~

I read Ready Player One for last terms Fantasy and Scifi class, and the second I finished it I went online and bought my best friend a copy. He's a gamer freak, and I say that with all the love, so I knew he'd totally get hooked on the book the same way I did. Now that I think about it, with all the craziness of the holidays, I haven't even asked him about the book. lol

Waiting on Wednesday (78)

Hosted at Breaking the Spine, spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

I am eagerly waiting for... 

Shades of Earth

Beth Revis

January 5 2013

Goodreads:

Amy and Elder have finally left the oppressive walls of the spaceship Godspeed behind. They're ready to start life afresh--to build a home--on Centauri-Earth, the planet that Amy has traveled 25 trillion miles across the universe to experience.

But this new Earth isn't the paradise Amy had been hoping for. There are giant pterodactyl-like birds, purple flowers with mind-numbing toxins, and mysterious, unexplained ruins that hold more secrets than their stone walls first let on. The biggest secret of all? Godspeed's former passengers aren't alone on this planet. And if they're going to stay, they'll have to fight.

Amy and Elder must race to discover who--or what--else is out there if they are to have any hope of saving their struggling colony and building a future together. They will have to look inward to the very core of what makes them human on this, their most harrowing journey yet. Because if the colony collapses? Then everything they have sacrificed--friends, family, life on Earth--will have been for nothing.

FUELED BY LIES.
RULED BY CHAOS.
ALMOST HOME.

Why am I waiting for it?

I can’t believe this is the end of the journey, but OMG I can’t wait to read it! Even my mom is waiting for this one! No joke!

Review: Avow by Chelsea Fine

Avow

(The Archers of Avalon 3)

Author: Chelsea Fine

Publisher: Firefall Publishing, 2012

Genre: YA Paranormal Romance

Buy: Amazon ♥ B&N

Overview

Scarlet remembers. Everything. Her past lives, Tristan, Gabriel, Nate: she remembers it all--including how to get to the Fountain of Youth. But time is running out.

Heather and Gabriel have been kidnapped by Raven, while the curse that has plagued Scarlet and Tristan for centuries has shifted, putting the star-crossed lovers in more danger than ever before. Water from the Fountain of Youth is the only thing that can save Scarlet and her loved ones. But the water comes at a price.

With lives--and hearts--at stake, Scarlet leads her friends on a dangerous journey to the Fountain of Youth. Where eternal life is possible, but death is certain. 

Waiting on Wednesday (77)

Hosted at Breaking the Spine, spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

I am eagerly waiting for... 

Prodigy

(Legend 2)

Marie Lu

January 29 2013

Goodreads:

June and Day arrive in Vegas just as the unthinkable happens: the Elector Primo dies, and his son Anden takes his place. With the Republic edging closer to chaos, the two join a group of Patriot rebels eager to help Day rescue his brother and offer passage to the Colonies. They have only one request—-June and Day must assassinate the new Elector.

It’s their chance to change the nation, to give voice to a people silenced for too long.

But as June realizes this Elector is nothing like his father, she’s haunted by the choice ahead. What if Anden is a new beginning? What if revolution must be more than loss and vengeance, anger and blood—what if the Patriots are wrong?

Why am I waiting for it?

Day ♥

Waiting on Wednesday (76)

Hosted at Breaking the Spine, spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

I am eagerly waiting for... 

Everbound

(Everneath 2)

Brodi Ashton

January 22 2013

Goodreads:

Nikki Beckett could only watch as her boyfriend, Jack, sacrificed himself to save her, taking her place in the Tunnels of the Everneath for eternity — a debt that should’ve been hers. She’s living a borrowed life, and she doesn’t know what to do with the guilt. And every night Jack appears in her dreams, lost and confused and wasting away.

Desperate for answers, Nikki turns to Cole, the immortal bad boy who wants to make her his queen — and the one person least likely to help. But his heart has been touched by everything about Nikki, and he agrees to assist her in the only way he can: by taking her to the Everneath himself.

Nikki and Cole descend into the Everneath, only to discover that their journey will be more difficult than they’d anticipated — and more deadly. But Nikki vows to stop at nothing to save Jack — even if it means making an incredible sacrifice of her own.

Why am I waiting for it?

The first book captivated me so much. I can’t wait to read what happens next!