Recap: Razorbill Fall 2013 Preview

Last Friday, a group of bloggers and avid readers were invited to the Penguin Canada head office for the Razorbill Fall Preview. Arriving just before 6pm and bumping into Ardo by the elevators, we were greeted with a jam-packed boardroom full of familiar faces who were excited to see each other as well as what’s [...]

Blog Tour Review: The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

The unthinkable has happened. After 4 previous waves that have taken out most of humanity, Cassie is seemingly among the few left on Earth struggling to survive. She has learned the hard way not to trust anyone so her survival instincts are put to the test when she meets Evan along the path to rescue [...]

Review: The Indigo Spell by Richelle Mead

Slight spoiler warning for the books that come before The Indigo Spell since this is part of a series. In this third installment of Richelle Mead’s Bloodlines series, Sydney finds herself conflicted between how she has been brought up to feel about the Moroi versus how she actually feels after a forbidden moment in the [...]

Recap: #BreathlessReads / Faze Magazine party

The initial announcement of the #BreathlessReads tour making a stop in Toronto was met with a lot of excitement among the bloggers on Twitter. Quite a few were going to make the journey from out of town to see Morgan Rhodes, Andrea Cremer (who ended up not being able to make it, so the lovely [...]

Blog Tour Review & Guest Post: The Friday Society by Adrienne Kress

The Friday Society follows the lives of three clever & capable women, all three assistants to powerful men in turn of the century London. Cora, a lab assistant to an inventor often found in opium labs, Nellie, a magician’s assistant to the highly-acclaimed Great Raheem, and Michiko, a Japanese fight assistant whose employer can’t understand [...]

Waiting on Wednesday 24

I just received the ARC of this on Monday and am reading it for my blog tour stop on the 1st.. I’m loving it already! And I can’t wait for the actual book release (and book launch party!) in December The Friday Society by Adrienne Kress From Goodreads: An action-packed tale of gowns, guys, guns –and [...]

Review: Spookygirl: Paranormal Investigator by Jill Baguchinsky

Violet Addison was only seven when her mother died under mysterious circumstances during a paranormal investigation. Since then, Violet has been shepherded between her Aunt Thelma and her father, a man who was starting up a funeral home business while determined not to have any memories of his former paranormal investigator life. When she starts [...]

Review: The Golden Lily by Richelle Mead

Picking up where Bloodlines left off, Sydney is holding onto her role of Alchemist to keep the rest of the world from finding out about the existence of vampires (known as Moroi and Strigoi). While being praised by her elders, she is struggling to maintain a neutral relationship with those who have now become her [...]

Recap: Razorbill Signing – Jay Asher, Lesley Livingston & Charles de Lint

On Thursday, April 19th, Indigo Yorkdale hosted a fantastic signing event with three YA authors: Jay Asher (Th1rteen R3asons Why & The Future of Us), Lesley Livingston (Wonderous Strange trilogy, Once Every Never) and Charles de Lint (Under My Skin being his latest). I anxiously watched on Twitter as many of the bloggettes showed up [...]

Razorbill Launch Party

Like a good mystery book, this venture took us bloggers down a dark alleyway in the Queen West area of Toronto to The Baitshop. This skateshop/gallery was the venue for the launch party of Penguin’s new YA imprint, Razorbill, and is quite the eclectic gem hidden among a revitalizing neighbourhood. After meeting up with Wendy [...]

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