The Diary of a Mood Reader

" Waiting On " Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine , that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. Check them out for links to more blogs! :) This week's pre-publication "can't wait to read" selection is... Publication Date: April 8th 2016 Publisher:  Bergren Creative Group, Inc. About the book ... BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR. BECAUSE YOU JUST MIGHT GET IT. Zara Ruiz is a normal California girl on the verge of graduating high school and thinking about her dawning future. But when dusk brings a shattering loss—and she discovers a priceless object in the shallows of a tide pool—she is thrust a hundred-and-eighty years into the past. There she meets handsome ranchero Javier de la Ventura—who has big dreams and bigger secrets—along with his enchanting family, in a land that is at once familiar, and yet utterly foreign. Between cattle rustlers, pirates and a growing call for statehood,...

Series: Into the Dim #1 Source: Netgalley Format: ebook Pages: 432 Genre: YA fantasy  + time-travel Rating: 4 Stars Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers Release: March 1st 2016 Author's Website  | Goodreads Sixteen year-old Hope Walton travels back in time to rescue her mother who is trapped in twelfth century England in the age of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Along the way, she becomes entangled with a secret society of time travelers and a mysterious boy who could be vital to setting her mother free... or the key to Hope's undoing. Addictive, romantic, and rich with historical detail, "Into the Dim" is an "Outlander "for teens. My Review for Into the Dim ... Want a time-travel book that will knock your socks off? Look no further, Into the Dim is your book! (Take it from me, I’m always in search of a sock-knocker-offer-time-travel book!) Not only am I a sucker for time-travel books but did you know this book takes place in Scotl...

Release: January 5th 2016 Series: Passenger Publisher: Hyperion Source: Won in a giveaway from It Starts At Midnight book blog Genre: YA fantasy (time-travel) Rating: 6 Stars Website passage, n. i . A brief section of music composed of a series of notes and flourishes. ii . A journey by water; a voyage. iii . The transition from one place to another, across space and time. In one devastating night, violin prodigy Etta Spencer loses everything she knows and loves. Thrust into an unfamiliar world by a stranger with a dangerous agenda, Etta is certain of only one thing: she has traveled not just miles but years from home. And she’s inherited a legacy she knows nothing about from a family whose existence she’s never heard of. Until now. Nicholas Carter is content with his life at sea, free from the Ironwoods—a powerful family in the colonies—and the servitude he’s known at their hands. But with the arrival of an unusual passenger on his ship comes the insistent pull ...

If you're like me and love books that center around time travel in some way then you've come to the right place! Any time I read a book summary and time travel is mentioned my interest are immediately piqued! Well my all-time absolute favorite time travel series is.... (insert drumroll) River of Time series!! Now if you've never heard of this series it's because this AMAZING series is WAY underrated! Here are the books: (click on the cover for the Goodreads page) Book 1 Book 2 Book 3 Book 4 There are also two novellas: Book 3.1 Book 3.2 As you can see in the photo below there are some amazing scenes in this series! I just love (yes I'm repeating myself, sorry!) the time-travel aspect, plus the adventure of being in medieval Italy! Now the biggest thing about these books is the endearing romance mixed with amazing action-adventure around every corner!  So what are some of your favorite time-travel boo...

Remembrance Author: Michelle Madow Source: Netgalley Publisher: Dreamscape Publishing Format: ebook Pages: 324 Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Rating: 3 Stars Release: July 25th 2011 Author's Website Lizzie Davenport has been reincarnated from 1815, England ... but she doesn't realize it until she meets her soul mate from the past and he triggers her memories to gradually return. When Drew Carmichael transfers into Lizzie's high school, she feels a connection to him, like she knows him. But he wants nothing to do with her. Reaching Drew is more difficult because she has a boyfriend, Jeremy, who has become full of himself after being elected co-captain of the varsity soccer team, and her flirtatious best friend Chelsea starts dating Drew soon after his arrival. So why can't she get him out of her mind? Lizzie knows she should let go of her fascination with Drew, but fighting fate isn’t easy, and she’s determined to unravel the mysteries of the past. ...

" Waiting On " Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine , that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. Check them out for links to more blogs! :) This week's pre-publication "can't wait to read" selection is... Passenger  by Alexandra Bracken Publisher: Disney-Hyperion Publication Date: January 5th 2016 I am a sucker for time-travel stories, especially when the protagonist goes BACK in time! Super duper excited for this one!! :)  Summary for  Passenger... Violin prodigy Etta Spencer had big plans for her future, but a tragedy has put her once-bright career at risk. Closely tied to her musical skill, however, is a mysterious power she doesn't even know she has. When her two talents collide during a stressful performance, Etta is drawn back hundreds of years  through time .  Etta wakes, confused and terrified, in 1776, in the midst a fierce sea battle. Nicholas Carter, the han...