Why My Love Life Sucks - Review & Giveaway

Why My Love Life Sucks by Shevi Arnold
Series: The Legend of Gilbert the Fixer, #1
Publication: February 1st, 2013
Genre: Humorous YA Sci-Fi

Gilbert Garfinkle is the ultimate tech geek. He has a compulsive need to take apart, figure out, and fix things; and he dreams of one day fixing the world. But a funny thing happens on the way to the future. Gilbert encounters the one thing he'll never be able to figure out: a gorgeous, teenage vampire girl named Amber, who wants to turn Gilbert into her platonic BFF--literally forever! This leaves the ultimate geek pondering life's ultimate question: "Why me?"

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Thoughts:
Y'all, this book was so darn funny! I am definitely adding Shevi to my list of authors to watch.

Our main character, Gilbert, is a nerdy guy just getting through life until he can get to college and do something with his life. His mother doesn't like him, his father is dead, and he's the poorest rich kid there is.

Just by chance, he met Amber. She was beautiful and talked to him. He figured it wasn't going anywhere since she was gorgeous and he was just...him. When she asked to walk home with him, he was so confused. (It's adorable!)

After being bitten by Amber and transforming into a vampire, Gilbert can't handle being a hottie. He's been so comfortable being a nerdy guy with glasses, curly hair, Dungeons & Dragons, and acne. He's always been fine being the nerd and had his plans of going to college and inventing something...to better the world. He doesn't understand why Amber did this to him! To Gilbert, being a vampire is the worst thing that could have happened to him.

Gilbert's friends are all great characters and I loved all of them. It took me a while to like and appreciate Amber. The songs that Shevi uses in the story are great! There seems to be a song on the radio that is saying exactly what he's thinking. 

The biggest question and discovery through the book is "Why me?" Gilbert asks this a lot of Amber. The answer:... well, you just need to read it! WMLLS is such a cute and funny book! You'll be glad you did! :)

Shevi definitely has a knack of telling a funny story and keeping it interesting! I loved me some Gilbert!

I want to thank Giselle from Xpresso Tours and Shevi for including me on this tour. I thoroughly enjoyed Why My Love Life Sucks!

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AUTHOR BIO:

Shevi Arnold writes funny. She can't help it. She's been writing funny since she was a kid, cracking up her class and her teachers with her humorous essays.

In high school she studied sitcoms when she was supposed to be doing her homework, and in college she took a couple of courses in comedy and clowning, as part of her degrees in English Literate and Theater Studies. She just had to find out what made something funny.

Eventually she cracked the code, and that led to jobs as a political cartoonist, a comic-strip magazine editor, and an arts-and-entertainment writer specializing in children's entertainment and, of course, comedy.

Shevi on the web!

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Unspoken: Cover Reveal

Unspoken by Camille Dixon
Publication Date: May 2013
Genre: YA Contemporary Romance

Synopsis:

Jaxon Michaels is every father's worst nightmare for his teenage daughter, but Clarice Gibson knows him better than anyone. Best friends since the sixth grade, Clare and Jax have walked the fine line of friendship for six years.

But when Clarice's friend Jessica starts dating Jax, Clare finds herself starting to notice him in a different way, one she's not entirely prepared to face. As their senior year approaches and her true feelings are unburied, Clare begins asking herself the one question she vowed never to think about: What if she's in love with her best friend? Their friendship is further strained when the captain of the football team - and Jessica's twin brother - sets his eyes on Clare. As loyalties and friendships are tested, Clare and Jax find it harder to keep themselves firmly planted on the friends side of the relationship line.

A line they are getting dangerously close to crossing.

Cover Reveal: 

About the Author:

I'm a Southern girl who's spent the last few years freezing my toosh off up north. Except for the snow, things are pretty good. I love sunshine, sweet tea, and romances that touch my heart. A lifelong romantic, I found my own prince charming at an online dating site. Six months later, he asked me to marry him. Picture Perfect is my debut novel.

Author links:

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Pencils of Promise

This blogger is stepping out of the book atmosphere for just a moment to share a fundraiser that one of our 4th grade classes is doing at school. They are going to collect money for Pencils of Promise -- an organization which builds schools! As readers, we can all definitely appreciate the value and love for such an adventure! 

I am copying the text from the website of my co-worker, Kyle Wood. If you can help with a donation, please send me an email, Dizneeee (at gmail), or message me on Twitter, @Dizneeee. If you can send a donation and receive a t-shirt (They are charcoal gray, heathered Hanes 50/50 tees resembling the picture of "I AM THE CHANGE" just below. They are $12 with over $6 going back to the charity), I will gladly ship that to you! It's the least I can do for your help! If you want to just send a flat donation, you're welcome to do that as well. Send me a message (email or Twitter) and I can send you our school address!

It began with a simple question. Adam Braun asked a street beggar what he wanted most in the world..... The kid said, "A pencil."

We are raising money for Pencils of Promise.They are a non-profit organization that builds schools for people who do not have a education. 75,000 kids today do not have an education in this world and together we can help change that. 112 school have been built as of today and 14 more are on the way.

What does PoP do?
Pencils of Promise, or ''PoP,'' as they are called, document each ''PoP'' student , they also track village wide student enrollment. If you still don't understand ''PoP'' here are some steps they use when building a school:

1. They identify sites to build educational structures,
2. Then with local labor and materials, they build the school. With your support they build an education.
3. They go around the village and hire adults to help educate the children. 
4. Finally, they evaluate the program's impact. 

For more information on PoP, go to www.pencilsofpromise.org

This is what you can do to help...

1. If you would like you can buy a t-shirt for $12.00 a shirt.
2. In our school, we have a wall that is gray and for every $50.00 we raise we will paint a block Bright Yellow. Students raising $25.00 or more will be displayed on a sign divided into three levels-$25+: Silver, $50+:Gold, and $100+: Platinum.
3. If we can make the gray wall turn yellow, we just built a school. If that wall can turn yellow, we just raised over $28,000. 

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Unbreakable Book Blast

It's time for a NERD BLAST! Well, a Book Nerd book blast, that is! Today, we have UNBREAKABLE by Elizabeth Norris.

About the Book

Four months after Ben disappeared through the portal to his home universe, Janelle believes she'll never see him again. Her world is still devastated, but life is finally starting to resume some kind of normalcy. Until Interverse Agent Taylor Barclay shows up. Somebody from an alternate universe is running a human trafficking ring, kidnapping people and selling them on different Earths—and Ben is the prime suspect. Now his family has been imprisoned and will be executed if Ben doesn't turn himself over within five days.

And when Janelle learns that someone she cares about—someone from her own world—has become one of the missing, she knows that she has to help Barclay, regardless of the danger. Now Janelle has five days to track down the real culprit. Five days to locate the missing people before they’re lost forever. Five days to reunite with the boy who stole her heart. But as the clues begin to add up, Janelle realizes that she’s in way over her head—and that she may not have known Ben as well as she thought. Can she uncover the truth before everyone she cares about is killed?

Purchase UNBREAKABLE

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 About the Author

Elizabeth Norris briefly taught high school English and history before trading the southern California beaches and sunshine for Manhattan's recent snowpocalyptic winter.

She harbors dangerous addictions to guacamole, red velvet cupcakes, sushi, and Argo Tea, fortunately not all together.

Her first novel, UNRAVELING (Balzer+Bray, April 2012), is the story of one girl’s fight to save her family, her world, and the one boy she never saw coming.

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April is Awesome - Post 5 (Giveaway!)

Hello, lovely readers! I have been enlisted to help Ruby at Ruby's Reads announce some new books during her APRIL IS AWESOME event!

Who: Well, me, obviously--Ruby from Ruby's Reads

What: April is Awesome--a month-long celebration of books that will be published during the awesomest month of the year! Author interviews and guest posts, excerpts and giveaways, I’ve got a lot planned!

Where: Ruby's Reads, of course!

When: The entire month of April!

Why: Because it's my birthday month and I wanted to celebrate in a big way. 

I hope y'all have enjoyed the 4 books that Ruby had me feature this week! I am looking forward to them and hope you've added them to your TBR lists!

Now, we have the GIVEAWAY!

The giveaway begins at Midnight EST on Saturday, April 20 and will end at 11:59PM EST on Tuesday, April 30

One lucky winner will get to choose one book from the four books I've featured this week as his/her prize.

This is an International giveaway, as long as The Book Depository ships to your location.

As always, the winner must be at least 13 years old.

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