Daisy Chain Book Reviews

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine spotlighting upcoming releases we're eagerly anticipating. Release Date: May 31, 2016 Publisher: Doubleday Canada ADD TO GOODREADS From Governor General award-winner Teresa Toten comes a powerful and twisted psychological thriller that will rightly draw comparisons to We Were Liars and Gone Girl . Beware That Girl will keep readers guessing until the very last line.   The Haves. The Have Nots. Kate O'Brien appears to be a Have Not. Her whole life has been a series of setbacks she's had to snake her way out of--some more sinister than others. But she's determined to change that. She's book smart. She's street-smart. And she's also a masterful liar.   As the scholarship student at the elite Waverly School in NYC, Kate has her work cut out for her: her plan is to climb the social ranks and land a spot at Yale. She's already found her "people" among the senior class ...

Title: Unhooked Author: Lisa Maxwell Release Date: February 2, 2016 Publisher: Simon Pulse Pages: 352 Source: ARC provided by Simon & Schuster Canada Add to Goodreads | Amazon.ca | Indigo Overall: 4.5 STARS SUMMARY From “talented wordsmith” ( Publishers Weekly ) Lisa Maxwell comes a lush, atmospheric fantasy novel filled with twists and turns about a girl who is kidnapped and brought to an island inhabited by fairies, a roguish ship captain, and bloodthirsty beasts. For as long as she can remember, Gwendolyn Allister has never had a place to call home. Her mother believes they are being hunted by brutal monsters, and those delusions have brought them to London, far from the life Gwen had finally started to build for herself. Gwen’s only saving grace is that her best friend, Olivia, is with her for the summer. But shortly after their arrival, the girls are kidnapped by shadowy creatures and dragged to a world of flesh-eating sea hags and dangerous Fey. And Gwen begins to realize...

Title: Inferno (Blood for Blood #2) Author: Catherine Doyle Release Date: January 7, 2016 Publisher: Chicken House Pages: 416 Source: Bought Add to Goodreads | Amazon.ca | Kobo | Book Depository Overall: 5 STARS SUMMARY Romeo and Juliet meets The Godfather in the second installment of Catherine Doyle's Blood for Blood series. Sophie's life has been turned upside-down, and she's determined to set things right. But Nic, the Falcone brother who represents everything she's trying to forget, won't give up on their love - and it's Luca's knife she clutches for comfort. Soon another mafia clan spoils the fragile peace - and with her heart drawn in one direction and her blood in another, Sophie's in deeper than ever.   MY THOUGHTS  One of my favourite novels last year was Catherine Doyle's underrated debut Vendetta . Seriously, why isn't everyone proclaiming their love for the book? It's a YA mafia romance story! Secrets and lies, complex family...

On Monday, January 25th, the two- hour series premiere of The Magicians begins at 9 pm EST on Showcase in Canada! Based on Lev Grossman's bestselling novel of the same name, The Magicians is set at Brakebills University, a secretive and exclusive school where students learn modern magic.  Here 's some more information ab out The Magicians from  Showcase's official website for the new TV series : Based on Lev Grossman’s best-selling book series, The Magicians follows Quentin Coldwater, a highly intelligent but socially withdrawn twenty-something secretly obsessed with a series of fantasy novels he read as a child about a magical land called Fillory. Beyond that, Quentin's life is dull until he finds himself admitted to a very secret, exclusive college of magic in Upstate New York, where he receives a thorough and rigorous education in the practice of modern sorcery. However, magic doesn’t bring the happiness, adventure, and meaning that he thought it would…until ...

Title: Between Shadows (Assassins #1) Author: Chanel Cleeton Release Date: January 19, 2016 Publisher: Chanel Cleeton Pages: 271 Source: eARC provided by author Add to Goodreads | Amazon.ca | Kobo | Barnes & Noble | iBooks | Google Play Overall: 5 S TARS SUMMARY A sexy new thriller about love and revenge from the author of the Capital Confessions and International School series… X lives by three rules: Show no weakness. Trust no one. Don’t get caught. She lives by the rules they gave her. The Academy—set in London, shrouded in secrecy—it trains spies, computer experts, and assassins. Their mission? Dispensing justice and altering the course of world politics. Or so they think. In a world where secrets are weapons and some kills are impossible to forget, everything X thought she knew about her life is about to change. They taught her to fight. To blend into the shadows like a ghost, to operate on the fringes of society, to change her identity with ease. They taught her to kill...

I'm so excited to be taking part in the cover reveal for Chanel Cleeton's Fly With Me , the first book in her brand new Wild Aces series! I've been highly anticipating this adult romantic contemporary novel for months and months, and finally, we're another step closer to its release day in May!   I love t his cover!! It to tally screams ALERT: SEXY FIGHT ER P ILOT.   Release Date: May 3, 2016 Publisher: Penguin/Berkley Add to Goodreads Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Google Play | iBooks | Kobo From the author of the Capital Confessions Novels comes the first in the steamy Wild Aces Romance series. U.S. Air Force fighter pilot Noah Miller—call sign Burn—loves nothing more than flying hard and fast. When he meets a gorgeous and sassy woman while partying in Las Vegas, he immediately locks on to her. Jordan Callahan owns a thriving clothing boutique, but her love life is far less successful. Her luck changes when six feet, two inches of sexy swagger asks her to dance an...

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine spotlighting upcoming releases we're eagerly anticipating. Release Date: June 14, 2016 Publisher: Simon Pulse ADD TO GOODREADS This electric cross-country thriller follows the game of cat and mouse between a girl on the run from a murder she witnessed—or committed?—and the boy who’s sent to kill her. Nicolette Holland is the girl everyone likes. Up for adventure. Loyal to a fault. And she’s pretty sure she can get away with anything...until a young woman is brutally murdered in the woods near Nicolette’s house. Which is why she has to disappear. Jack Manx has always been the stand-up guy with the killer last name. But straight A’s and athletic trophies can’t make people forget that his father was a hit man and his brother is doing time for armed assault. Just when Jack is about to graduate from his Las Vegas high school and head east for college, his brother pulls him into the family business with inesc...

Title: Of Light and Darkness (Of Light and Darkness #1) Author: Shayne Leighton Release Date: January 11, 2016 Publisher: Shayne Leighton Pages: 400 Source: e book provided by author Add to Goodreads | Amazon.ca | Kobo Overall: 2.5 STARS SUMMARY Shayne Leighton's stunning NA debut is a fiercely imaginative, multilayered contemporary fantasy where Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus meets Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles in a story about a girl caught between two societies . . . two sides . . . and two loves. Raised by a Vampire in a secret society of Witches, Shifters, and Elves, Charlotte finds that she is the freak in her world of magic and wonder. When she stands before an army of impossible obstacles, the likelihood of survival in this coming-of-age modern fairy tale is slim, resulting in a war between light and darkness. Charlotte knows no other home than the one nestled deep in the woods of Eastern Europe, where Witches draw spells of enchantment, Shifters ...