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I would like to thank  NetGalley  and the publisher for the eARC :)  Never thought I would actually get approved, and it was definitely one of the best Thanksgivings ever.  Woke up everyone in my house from their Thanksgiving nap with my screaming and hyperventilating.   Goodreads  summary: My name is Meaghan Chase.   I thought it was over.That my time with the fey, the impossible choices I had to make, the sacrifices of those I loved, was behind me. But a storm is approaching, an army of Iron fey that will drag me back, kicking and screaming. Drag me away from the banished prince who's sworn to stay by my side. Drag me into the core of a conflict so powerful, I'm not sure anyone can survive it.   This time, there will be no turning back. My Thoughts  *(I'm going to try to make this spoiler free, but may contain a couple spoilers from the first 2 books): Loved this.  So much love.  I've loved the first two books as ...

Title: Bad Apple Author: Laura Ruby Page Numbers: 247 Publisher and Date Published: 2009 by HarperTeen Summary (from Inside Cover): "If I really wanted to open up, I'd confess that I really am the liar everyone believes I am." High-school junior Tola Riley has green hair, a nose ring, an attitude problem, and a fondness for fairy tales, which are a great escape from real life. Everyone thinks she's crazy; everyone says so. Everyone except Mr. Mymer, her art teacher. He gets her paintings and lets her hang out in the art room during lonely lunch periods. But then rumors start flying and Tola is suddenlt the center of a scandal. The whole town is judging her - even her family. When Mr. Mymer is suspended for what everyone thinks is an affair, she has no choice byt to break her silence. Fairy tales won't help her this time . . . so how can she tell the truth? And, more importantly, will anyone believe her? About the Author (from the back cover): La...

No one entered the fall contest, so there are no winners. :( Be sure to enter the next contest!!!!!!!

Congratulations to: Daisy - who won a necklace Aik - who won SillyBandz Vivien - who won a signed picture of the creator of PrincessReviews Thank you all who entered! An email was sent out, please reply by December 1st to claim your prize!

I would like to start off by saying Thank You to everyone who participated in the Gratitude Giveaway held at PrincessReviews! Because of all of our wonderful followers, we had 82 entries!!!!!!!!! :) Since we had over 75 entries, 4 winners were chosen to recieve one of the 5 books listed below. The winners are...drum roll, please..... 1. Jacque Stengel!!!! 2. Lisa Faber!!! 3. Linda Henderson!! 4. Lora1967! I have emailed them and if they do not reply before December 1st, 2010, a new winner will be chosen! Thier prizes:      

  Title: Grown Ups Length: 102 minutes Rating: PG-13 Genre: Comedy Release Date: June 25, 2010 Director: Dennis Dugan Writers: Adam Sandler, Fred Wolf Stars: Adam Sandler, Salma Hayek, and Kevin James IMDb Summary: After their high school basketball coach passes away, five good friends and former teammates reunite for a Fourth of July holiday weekend. IMDb Rating: 5.8/10 stars My rating: 9.8/10 stars My Thoughts: When Coach "Buzzer" passes away, Lenny, Eric, Kurt, Marcus, and Rob, get together to go to his funneral. Lenny only has a day to stay, since his fashion designer wife, Roxanne, has to be in Milan for a fashion show. He convinces ber to stay one more day, and by the end of the 2nd day, she will not go and wants to stay. The movie is about the grown ups being the kids, and teaching the kids how to be kids. Greg, Lenny's son, (played by Jake Goldberg <3 ) beats the son of the guy on the other basket ball team that lost when coach buzzer was...

Six Word Saturday is a meme hosted by Show My  Face, where you have to describe your life or something else in a phrase using only six words. I'm describing: My Dog Description: My dog is nice and smart. You're turn! Describe your dog (or if you don't have one, why you don't have one) in 6 words in  the comments section! Then check out these cool blogs! http://www.showmyface.com/2010/11/six-word-saturday_20.html

The Pet Blogger's Hop is just another blog hop where we go from blog to blog and see all the new blogs out there!

Weekend Brain Parties is a meme created by me where there is an acedemic question that needs answering and the correct answers get put into a giveaway. Last week's winners: None. No one entered. :( This week's question: About how much money do people in the USA spend on Black Friday alone? Don't forget to get your blog in it too!

http://fivecrookedhalos.blogspot.com/search/label/five%20question%20friday Question for Friday, November 26th: Today's Questions all come right off the top of my wee lil' brain! (PS...feel free to come to my community to offer up your best question suggestions...we're in need of some new ones!) 1. What is your favorite part of a Thanksgiving meal? The turkey! And all the other good food! 2. Are you a host or a guest for Thanksgiving this year? Guest at my grandmother's 3. When you think of one Thanksgiving tradition, what comes to mind? The traditional dinner and going to my grandmother's 4. You have two pieces of pie in front of you and you HAVE to eat one...do you choose pumpkin or pecan? Pumpkin 5. Are you a Black Friday Shopper? Nope :(

Social Parade Friday is where you go around to other blogs and follow them! (Again I can't seem to get the linkly list, so click on the button to go to it!)

Hop Along Friday is a weekly meme hosted by Chubby Cheeks Thinks. It is all about going to new blogs and seeing what blogs you like!  I'm not sure how to post this linky up, so go here for the list of awesome blogs to visit!

Aloha Friday is a weekly meme hosted by Kailani at An Island Life, where the goal is to take it easy on postings on Fridays. For the meme, a simple question is asked, and the answer doesn't have to be long. This week's question is: Black Friday . . . love it or avoid it? My answer: I'd love to go shopping on a Black Friday, but I never have. So for now, it's avoid it. What's your answer? Post below in a comment! (Linky is not here because I'm not paying $5 for it)

We have found a sponser for the Holiday Gift Giveaway Hop! :) Jasmere  is willing to donate a $25 credit to thier site to us for the giveaway!  Unfotunatley, it is only open to people from the United States of America. :( If you have another sponser that would be willing to donate something internationally, I'd really appreciate it if you could help out! Send me an email at princessreviews@aol.com if you can! Thanks! On another note, leave me a comment saying what Christmas/Winter Holiday item(s) you want me to giveaway here, and whether you want it US, Us/Can, or Inter.  Thanks!

H A P P Y T H A N K S G I V I N G !  Happy Thanksgiving, to everyone here, from PrincessReviews! Here at PrincessReviews, we are thankfull for our wonderful followers! What are YOU thankful for? We want to know! Leave a comment telling us what you're thankful for!!!

Waiting on Wednesday is a meme hosted by Breaking the Spine's Jill. Blogs can post what book they can't wait to read! I have a ton of books that I have that I have not yet read, but can't wait to read! The current book I have that I can't wait to read the most is If You're Reading This, It's Too Late by Pseudonymous Bosch.  I got this book at last year's book fair and can't wait to start it! Summary (from Wikipedia ): For 500 years, the secret society of the Midnight Sun has been waiting for the homunculus, the man-made man, to rise, and now the evil Dr. L and Ms. Mauvais are going to throw Cass and Max-Ernest to the sharks unless they tell them where he resides. After going on an excursion with their science teacher, the two are tricked by Dr. L after receiving a note from Pietro saying he will meet them on a ship, from which they barely escape. After finding out their teacher is really Owen, the accent changing member of the Terces Society, t...

I know I'm a day late, but I still want to participate! Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by Miz B at Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: Grab your current read Open to a random page Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!) Share the title and author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers. My Teasers: from Bad Apple by Laura Ruby pg. 103 "When my mom sits down, she doesn't even look at me. She's as rigid and virtuous as a nun."

Why was my last review in 3 parts, you ask? Well, I reviewed it on my phone, same as this post. Since I am not paying for internet on my phone to actually create a post, I have to send a text message email to this blog as my post. My phone only allows me to send 1000 characters (letters, numbers, symbols, and spaces) per message. Every time I hit that 1000 mark, it won't let me type anymore and I have to send a new message, which posts as a new post. For more info on email posting, you can comment this post or email me at princessreviews@aol.com and I'll send you some more info on how to do it, or at least how I do it. Thank you for your understanding, and I hope you continue to come back to PrincessReviews. Please realize that I will use Blogger.com to create most of my posts, not my phone, so this 3 part reviews thing will be rare. Again, thank you! Come again! This message was sent using the Picture and Video Messaging service from Verizon Wireless! To learn how you can sn...

from Scratch, the main character is a woman who lost a loved one 2 years ago, exactly. I would give this book a 2\5 on my liking, but I think for quality I'd have to give it a 3.7/5. Check out this book if you want, or not.

Stein is the author of three novels, including the New York Times bestseller The Art of Racing in the RAin and How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets, and a play, Brother Jones. He has worked as a documentary filmmaker, and he lives in Seattle with his family. My Thoughts on the Book: I thought this book was very dry and boring with WAY too many words! I started this book over a month ago and am only on page 130 because it is so boring. I am writing this review without finishing it because it was too wordy and time consuming to finish. All that has happened to Jenna so far in this book is she has travelled back to Alaska to get herself together after freaking out at a party. If I did not recieve this book complimentary of a review, I do not think I would have picked it to read by myself, but I do not regret getting it. I like to expand my reading horizons past what I would normally read, and this book has done that for me. I did however, like how, just like in the book Simply

Title: Raven Stole The Moon Author: Garth Stein Page Numbers : 441 Publisher and Date Published: HarperCollins Publishers, 2010 Back of the Book Summary: When Jenna Rosen abandons her comfortable Seattle life to visit Wrangell, Alaska, it's a wrenching return to her past. The hometown of her Native American grandmother, Wrangell is located near Thunder Bay Resort, where Jenna's young son, Bobby, disappeared two years before. His body was never recovered, and Jenna is determind to lay to rest the aching mystery of his death. But wispers of ancient legonds begin to suggest a frightening new possiblility about Bobby's fate, and Jenna must sift through the beliefs of her ancestors, the Tlingit, who still tell of powerful, menacing forces at work in the Alaskan wilderness. Armed with nothing but a mother's protective instincts, Jenna's quest for the truth behind her son's disapperance is about to pull her into a terrifying and life-changing abyss. About the Aut...

Attention, my good followers! I am now a co-author on ReviewBlog101 , so I will be posting some reviews and interviews on there that I am not posting on here. If you love me, please follow ReviewBlog101 as well as PrincessReviews to get all of my reviews, interviews, articles, giveaways, contests, etc.  Thank you all, and have a wonderfull Thanksgiving! :)  

Guest Post by Trisha Wolfe Review: Sleepless by Cyn Balog BOOK and SIGNED SWAG GIVEAWAY! I received some awesome signed swag from the super nice Ms. Balog and want to share the wealth! I'll also be giving away a copy of SLEEPLESS. All you need to do to be entered to win is follow my site http://yabound.blogspot.com/  +2, comment on the review +2, and tweet about it (leave link in comment box) +2. Not necessarily all of those things, but if you'd like to do all three to earn extra points, GREAT! All you need to really do is comment on this post =) To check out what I'm giving away there's a pic on my website @ http://trishawolfe.com/  Good luck! From Goodreads: Eron DeMarchelle isn't supposed to feel this connection. He is a Sandman, a supernatural being whose purpose is to seduce his human charges to sleep. Though he can communicate with his charges in their dreams, he isn't encouraged to do so. After all, becoming too involved in one human's life...

Thank you to everyone who is following PrincessReviews!!!! :) You make this blog so much. It would not be possible to have and do half the things we do without such wonderful followers like you!!!! There are 3 very important follower numbers we have passed (99, 100, 101), so we have 3 prizes to give away to our followers! To enter, YOU MUST BE A FOLLOWER!!!!! The prizes are: An Avon snowflake necklace A YooHoo & Friends keychain A pack of Disney Princess SillyBandz All you need to do to enter is be a follower! To enter, just fill out the form below: Thank you!!!! Our next follower giveaway will be when we reach the 500 follower point! So tell your friends!!!

This is an excellent book! IF you liked Marley and Me, then you will love this book. It takes the reader on a journey thru the eyes and life of man's best friend--a dog. It is written as if Enzo ( the dog )is telling the story. It takes you from his puppy years until the end. It shows how that the love between a man and his best friend expand through time and is always there for you. You can always count on the companionship and loyalty even in the worst of time. This book is a definite read for all animal lovers!

For what it is, how to enter your blog, etc, go here . This weekend's question: "Since Thanksgiving is coming up next week, let's use this week's Hop to share what we are most thankful for and what our holiday traditions are!" My answer: I am most thankful for my dog, all of my followers, my grandmother, and my friends and family. Each Thanksgiving, my daddy is usually working, so we have our dinner at my grandmother's house before actual Thanksgiving Day, with turkey, cranberries, stuffing, the usual. Then the next day, on Thanksgiving, we watch the parade. Your answer: Let me know in comments below!

Just a reminder: If you would like to post for PrincessReviews, email Tasha at princessreviews@aol.com and she'll send you some information and you'll be all set to go! You can post giveaways, contests, reviews, interviews, articles, whatever is normally up on PrincessReviews. Or if you just want a single post up, look for the Guest Post post in the list of posts on the sidebar and fill out the form. We'll have your post up in no time! If you would like an advertisement for a good cause up, email princessreviews at aol dot com and we'll put it up, maybe. And don't forget to TELL FRIENDS about PrincessReviews! :)

This Weekend's Question: How many words can you create from the term Deoxyribonucleic Acid ?  In you're answer, be sure to list all of the words. You cannot use 2-letter words or proper names! This includes place names as well. You also cannot include abriviations, such as CID or DNA.  For a bonus point, (include this in your answer BEFORE you list all of the words!) what is Deoxyribonucleic Acid? You are playing for: A virtual badge that you can print out and display non-virtually, or you can email to your friends and brag about. The form: The Linky for Blogs and Websites to Enter:

What is Weekend Brain Parties? Weekend Brain Parties is a new thing that I have come up with to again involve the blogging community. All blogs can participate, and they can either have thier own question for followers to answer, or use mine. Weekend Brain Parties lasts from Friday to Monday, and each weekend a new linkly will be created that you will have to put your blog link in if you are participating. How do I participate? Just fill out the form I provide and a winner will be picked the next week and announced when the next Weekend Brain Party gets put up. If you are a blog/website that would like to participate, each week add your link to the linky so people can start visiting your site! Do I need to participate each week? Nope! Do it as many times as you want, or as few as you want. That is why for blogs we have a different linky each weekend. How do I start? Look for the Weekend Brain Parties post in my list of posts.

Attention to all followers in the MD, DE, VA, or DC area!!!!!!!! The Queen Anne County High School Swim Team, located on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, is having a Family Night and Silent Auction at Doc's Riverside Grille  ( http://www.docsriversidegrille.com/ ) on Wednesday, December 1, 2010 from 7-9 PM. There will be a silent auction (*MORE ITEMS STILL NEED TO BE DONATED*), which all of the profits and a portion of Docs' profits will be going to the Swim Team at QACHS. They will use this money to purchase equipment to use, apperal, and other sport-related items. Please pass along the message to anyone you know who might be able to come, and we hope you can come! *This message was asked to be put up by a follower who wishes to remain annonymous. If you have a message you would like put up, email Tasha at princessreviews@aol.com Doc's Riverside Grille 511 Chesterfield Avenue Centreville, MD 21617-2309 (410) 758-1707 +If you have any items, or know any one with items, th...

ATTENTION ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am still in need of a sponser for the Holiday Hop Giveaway! Please contact me ASAP if you are interested! Below is the form you need to submit if interested and the link to the original post asking for help. That post has all the information on it. PLEASE GET BACK TO ME ASAP! http://5678princessreviews.blogspot.com/2010/11/what-is-holiday-gift-giveaway-hop-and.html

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We have offically reached 100 followers, and counting! Currently, we have 101 followers, which means it is time for another giveaway! I'm a bit busy right now, but by Monday, we should have a new giveaway up. Until then, don't forget to look for the other contests and giveaways going on!

Offical Gratitude Giveaways link: http://iamareadernotawriter.blogspot.com/p/gratitude-giveaways.html Hello! We are participating in this year's Gratitude Giveaways to thank all of our fabulous followers this year! If you are not currently a follower of PrincessReviews, you need to be to participate in this giveaway! You may follow this blog in 1 of 2 ways to participate in the giveaway - follow on Google Friend Connect or Networked Blogs. You are only required to follow this blog in one of the two ways to participate. For extra entries, you can follow us both ways, add Princess Reviews on facebook ( www.facebook.com/princessreviews ), and be an email subscriber. The prizes are: A to Z Mysteries: The Falcon's Feather The Canary Caper OR BOTH! Unforgettable Americans Harriet Beecher Stow and The Beecher Preachers Suddenly Supernatural School Spirit Daughters of the Sea Hannah   If you win, you may pick your prize out of these. If we have more than 25 p...

Sorry this is a day late.  Yesterday was very very hectic, but I picked the winners today! Thanks to everyone who entered and spread the word!  :D  And because we reached more than 50 entrants, there is a second winner!  So congrats to... 1st winner: Elizabeth Briggs 2nd winner: Samantha Estrada I shall email you both soon about the details! *Edit:  Unexpected complications have arisen, but its not necessarily a bad complication... So I will probably email you both tomorrow!

Sorry that I've been slacking on my reviews!  I've been trying (keyword: trying) NaNoWriMo and so far its been kinda flop because I am easily distracted and changed my story 4 days into it.  (And I just need writing lessons lol.)  Most of my reviews have been YA so I'm reviewing something different today.  Title: The Spirit Thief Author:  Rachel Aaron Published October 1st by Orbit ISBN: 0316069051 Series: The Legend of Eli Monpress #1 Summary (from Goodreads):  Eli Monpress is talented. He's charming. And he's a thief. But not just any thief. He's the greatest thief of the age - and he's also a wizard. And with the help of his partners - a swordsman with the most powerful magic sword in the world but no magical ability of his own, and a demonseed who can step through shadows and punch through walls - he's going to put his plan into effect. The first step is to increase the size of the bounty on his head, so he'll need to steal some bi...

Check out her Brookehaven Vampires series website here ! 1. Which genre would you classify you're books as being? Young Adult Paranormal Romance 2. How would you describe the target audience for your books? Although it’s classified as young adult, anyone who loves vampires would enjoy the series. 3. Do you enjoy being an author? Yep. 4. What is the best part about being an author? Readers loving the book. I love hearing how much people are enjoying Laney and how happy it makes them. 5. Why did you decide to start writing?  I couldn’t find a book to fill the need I had. It seemed that at the end of each book I read it was missing what I was looking for. So I wrote what I wanted. I wrote what was missing. 6 What is something you did not know before you started writing? A whole heck of a lot! I have learned so much from writing and publishing Laney. I could probably write a book on it…. Maybe I will. LOL! 7 Do you do any research on any of your books' subjec...

Hello! Here at PrincessReviews, we are striving to create a more friendly atmosphere where the viewers are not just boring readers, but actual interacters. One way we allow our readers to interact is through comments. We do not have security questions slowing down the rate you can comment and making commenting more difficult. Another way we have the viewers interacting is through contests and giveaways, which there are plenty of currently up, so go check them out. Our newest way to get the readers to interact with us and become more a part of PrincessReviews and less a part of some outside world that is aware of PrincessReviews, but not involved with it, is the ability for readers to create posts that if approved will be up on PrincessReviews in no time! Each Sunday we will post a new post submitted by one of our guests. At the bottom will be the form to submitt your entry so you don't need to keep coming back to this page. The guest will be able to have the title, the post, a...

Smories is an online site where kids read children books out loud in a video where other children can listen to a story being read to them. It is a terrific site and you can check it out here . Grambo is the story of a child sneaking away on vacation with his grandmother because he found a GPS in her bag from her last trip, and he is curious of her. Following her, Ryan finds out that she is a government spy! When they come back from the mission, no one believes him when he tells his parents she is a spy. It is a good short story, so I'd give it 4/5 stars. I especially like that anyone can watch it and it is a good story for a little one to hear while getting ready for a nap, doing something quiet, or anything else. You can check it out here , and the Facebook event for it here .

Hello! We are currently looking for sponsers for the Holiday Giveaway Hop! What is the Holiday Gift Giveaway Hop? "Simply Stacie, Little Yayas, My Wee View, Review Retreat and Stockpiling Moms are very excited to announce a very special giveaway event that is coming this December called the Holiday Gift Giveaway Hop. This is not your regular giveaway hop. Its a themed giveaway hop modeled after our very successful Follower Giveaway Tours. The prizes will all be cash and gift cards! And guess what? WE WANT YOU TO JOIN US!" How Does It Work? "Each blog will host their own giveaway, but will be linked up through the Holiday Gift Giveaway Hop linky. Entrants just need to “hop” from blog to blog via the linky entering all the giveaways. The theme of this hop is holiday gifts that are easy and quick to ship. The prize must be either cash (ie. paid via Paypal) and/or gift cards. They can be of any amount from any store! You can have one or both and its up to you what th...

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: •Grab your current read •Open to a random page •Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page •BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!) •Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers! My Teaser Tuesday Sentences: "These are desperate times, John Ferguson, he thought. And they demand decisive action." ~page 81 of Raven Stole The Moon by Garth Stein

Happy BlogGiving! What is BG you ask? Well, since I messed up with the dates for Blogfest this year, it is when I have a bunch of blog's and you guys get to visit them! Some might have giveaways and contests up, but it is not reccomended of them, and do not blame me or them for not having them. How long does BG last? BlogGiving lasts for the entire month of November! We will be doing this each year, but this is the only year where I already have a list of blogs and you cannot add your own. At the end of the list of blogs, I will tell you what it will be like next year. How do we get our blogs to participate? Well, this year, the list for blogs is already closed, but you can help in the spirit of it by posting about it, and including the list of blogs in your blog or website. Here's the 2010 BlogGiving list!: and here are some more blogs that need to be added: (ignore the numbers) 171 Marilyn's Romance Reviews 172 Romance Author Buzz 173 The punching bag...

Bullying happens everywhere - online, in school, outside of school. For more information on what bullying is exactly, and other effects, reasons, and ways of bullying, click here . What is Stomp Out Bullying? (Directly from the website) STOMP Out Bullying™ - a national anti-bullying and cyberbullying program for kids and teens is a signature program of Love Our Children USA™ who since 1999, has been the national nonprofit leader and 'Go-To' prevention organization fighting all forms of violence and neglect against children in the U.S. STOMP Out Bullying™ focuses on reducing and preventing bullying, cyberbullying, sexting and other digital abuse, educating against homophobia, racism and hatred, decreasing school absenteeism and truancy, and deterring violence in schools, online and in communities across the country. It includes peer mentoring programs in schools, public service announcements by noted celebrities, in-school education, online and social media campaigns.. Bo...