December Wrap Up 2014!

Hey everyone! It is 2015, how bloody fast did this year go by? It feels like only yesterday that it was the start of 2014 and now a year on, soon I will no longer be a teenager (which is kind of strange) and half way through my degree! I read a lot of books in 2014 (440 when I have written this post), I know that this year I won't read that many because I am going to have to focus more on uni (even though I said that last year) so my goal will be 200 (which is what originally 2014 was). 

I mainly got books for Christmas this year, which I am in no way complaining about! I also got a crystal glass dressing table set (family inheritance/pass down), a hockey stick, money for some shopping in Sydney to come later this month, Veronica Mars S3 & Rizzoli & Isles S4, and Taylor Swift 1989 tickets for November! 

This months posts:

• Review Time #74
• Review Time #75
• Summer TBR
• Top 14 of 2014: YA
• Top 14 of 2014: NA & Adult
• Most Anticipated for 2015

Christmas books:

Some Christmas books/presents

• Fetish, Split, Covet, Hit and Siren by Tara Moss
• Love and Other Unknown Variables by Shannon Lee Alexander
• Dark Triumph and Mortal Heart by Robin LaFevers
• Dangerous Boys by Abigail Haas
• Breaking The Rules by Katie McGarry

Bought:

The super pretty new hardcover editions of Nancy Drew!

• Nancy Drew #1-#4 by Carolyn Keene
• Captivate by Aimee Carter
• Percy Jackson Series #1-#5 by Rick Riordan

Review Books:

The amazing ARC of I Was Here!

• I Was Here by Gayle Forman
• The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E.Lockhart
• Jardine by Lessa Bow

Thanks Simon & Schuster, Allen & Unwin and Lessa Bow for these review books!

E-Books:

• Forever With Me by Kristen Proby
• You Were Mine by Abbi Glines
• That One Summer by C.J Duggan
• Mai Tai'd Up by Alice Clayton
• Upside Down by Lia Riley
• Breathe, Annie, Breathe by Miranda Kenneally
• Jaden by Tijan
• Seaside Sunsets by Melissa Foster

So many books this month! Let me know what books you got for Christmas/this month in the comments! Have an awesome 2015 everyone!

Keely xx

Waiting on Wednesday #10

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine that allows readers to showcase eagerly awaited upcoming releases. The week I have been waiting on Crash Into You by Katie McGarry!

From acclaimed author Katie McGarry comes an explosive new tale of a good girl with a reckless streak, a street-smart guy with nothing to lose, and a romance forged in the fast lane 

The girl with straight As, designer clothes and the perfect life-that's who people expect Rachel Young to be. So the private-school junior keeps secrets from her wealthy parents and overbearing brothers...and she's just added two more to the list. One involves racing strangers down dark country roads in her Mustang GT. The other? Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Walker-a guy she has no business even talking to. But when the foster kid with the tattoos and intense gray eyes comes to her rescue, she can't get him out of her mind. 

Isaiah has secrets, too. About where he lives, and how he really feels about Rachel. The last thing he needs is to get tangled up with a rich girl who wants to slum it on the south side for kicks-no matter how angelic she might look. 

But when their shared love of street racing puts both their lives in jeopardy, they have six weeks to come up with a way out. Six weeks to discover just how far they'll go to save each other.

After loving McGarry's debut of Pushing the Limits and loving Dare You Too, I am super excited for Crash Into You AND it is Isaiah's story :D *squeell* 

Crash Into You is out November 26th! So get onto it and if you haven't read PTL or DYT you should go check them out! You can find my review of DYT here! 

What are you waiting on this week? Let me know!

Keely xx

Review Time #33

Dare You To by Katie McGarry 

Ryan lowers his lips to my ear. "Dance with me, Beth."

"No." I whisper the reply. I hate him and I hate myself for wanting him to touch me again....

"I dare you..."

If anyone knew the truth about Beth Risk's home life, they'd send her mother to jail and seventeen-year-old Beth who knows where. So she protects her mom at all costs. Until the day her uncle swoops in and forces Beth to choose between her mom's freedom and her own happiness. That's how Beth finds herself living with an aunt who doesn't want her and going to a school that doesn't understand her. At all. Except for the one guy who shouldn't get her, but does....

Ryan Stone is the town golden boy, a popular baseball star jock-with secrets he can't tell anyone. Not even the friends he shares everything with, including the constant dares to do crazy things. The craziest? Asking out the Skater girl who couldn't be less interested in him.

But what begins as a dare becomes an intense attraction neither Ryan nor Beth expected. Suddenly, the boy with the flawless image risks his dreams-and his life-for the girl he loves, and the girl who won't let anyone get too close is daring herself to want it all...

This is Beth and Ryan's story, we've heard Echo's and Noah's, now it is time to hear about Beth & what she is going through. 

“Screw what Mom and Dad think. Screw the rest of the town. Screw perfection. This girl is mine.” 

Who would ever think that a single dare could change someone's life? Ryan's friends dare him to get Skater's Girl (aka Beth) number & name, what he didn't realise is what the dare turned out to be, attraction. Beth knows she feels the same, however, with everything going on in her life can she just be?

“Fine," I say. "Dare accepted."

Game on, Skater Girl. Game on.” 

After loving Pushing the Limits and falling in love with McGarry's writing, I knew that I couldn't wait for Dare you To. Her writing captures you and doesn't let you go... I should know seeing as I starting reading and didn't finish until 1am. There is no denying that Ryan and Beth are from different groups, socioeconomic groups and neighborhoods, Ryan is your town's golden boy & jock with secrets of his own, Beth the new girl with dark & hidden secrets. 

“I like you. I. Like. You. I'll admit you're annoying. Sometimes you agitate me to the brink of insanity, but you can throw it back at me like no one else. When you laugh, I want to laugh. When you smile, I want to smile. Hell, I want to be the one to make you smile.”

Beth's life with her aunt and uncle is for the better, being away from her alcoholic and drug addict mum and her abusive boyfriend is for the best. Isaiah makes a few appearances in this one, while Beth wants to runaway like she always does, Isaiah knows that it is better for her to just stay. Isaiah knows that he has to let her go, no matter how much he loves her, he wants what is best for her. The scenes between these two are heart breaking and will emotionally get to you. Ryan's perfect life isn't as perfect as it seems, he maybe the town's golden boy on the outside, on the inside he is hiding secrets just like Beth is. 

“You're falling for me like I'm falling for you. That's why you're pushing me so hard.” 

The rollarcoaster ride this book takes you on is one that you will never forget, the way that these two find out each others secrets and begin to understand this relationship that is forming between the two. McGarry's writing just takes you away in this one, Dare you To is an emotional & brilliant ride that you just have to read in one go!

Thanks to Harlequin (UK) Limited for the review copy on netgalley!

Rating: 5/5

Keely xx

Top 10 Tuesday! #1

Top Ten Tuesday is a week feature hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Every Tuesday, book bloggers post a top ten list in response to predetermined prompt. To learn more about Top Ten Tuesday or to see a list of future topics, head on  over to The Broke and the Bookish.

This week it is Top Ten Books On My Summer TBR List! However since it is winter here in Aus, I am going to do my Winter TBR!

1. My Life Next Door by Huntly Fitzpatrick

This Contemp YA debut is right up my ally! Romance and Friendship! It looks like an amazing read and the cover is adorable!

2. The Summer Of No Regrets by Katherine Bond

This book is on order! I love Summer and Summer romances (Yes there will be a summer theme on my TBR, Yes I am having beach withdrawal) It just looks like a book that I would read over and over until Summer comes around.

3. The Fine Art of Truth or Dare by Melissa Jensen

This debut contemp YA looks amazing! It seems to like the romance in Anna and the French Kiss! Romance is what I love so this book looks like a great read!

4. Instructions for a Broken Heart by Kim Culbertson

This book may have been out for a while but I have just recently found it and cannot wait for it to arrive!

5. Siernsong by Jenna Black

This series is a different take on Fairies which I love, I really wanna see how this series pans out after the last two.

6. The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han

I've heard nothing but great things about this book and just wanna read it! Also it would get me out of this beach withdrawal I'm going through!

7. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

My best friend reccommened this read and well, she is never wrong! So I can't wait to read it!

8. Flirting in Italian by Lauren Henderson

This YA contemp looks different and interesting! Summer + Italy + Hot Boys = Something I Want To Read!

9. Pushing The Limits by Katie McGarry

This YA contemp sounds amazing after her so much great things from other book bloggers I can't wait to read it!

10. The Pledge by Kimberly Derting

After loving Derting's body finder series I am looking forward to reading this one!

And that is my Top 10 Winter TBR!

Keely xx