GingerRead Reviews

Enter to win an e-book of Lost Princess Journey Home. This book looks amazing so you can't miss the chance to win it, it's international!  Enter using the Rafflecopter below but first here's some more about the book and an awesome book trailer that the author made herself. Eighteen years after two caring strangers decided to take her in, Anne is faced with the harsh reality that everything in her life has been a complete and utter fabrication. With the help of her friend and Protector, she sets out on a journey back home, to a planet she never even knew existed. Will she be able to defeat the terrifying evil that awaits her and uncover the truth about what's really happening there before it's too late? a Rafflecopter giveaway

Sorry I haven't posted any giveaways for the last week or so but I've been ill and haven't mustered the motivation to do any posts. So to fit in all the giveaways I'm going to do two today and one every other day until Sunday which is my birthday. So without further ado: Title:  Broken City   Author:  D.D. Chant Publisher:  Self published Genre:  Dystopian/Romance/Adventure Length:  Novel Description:  Deeta Richards has never seen the outside world. Before she was born a banking crisis brought civilization to an end and now no one leaves the safety of the compounds unless they need to, but Deeta still dreams of seeing more than the building she was born in.Tom is in the guard, this group are the only people that the tribal elders allow to leave the compound and Tom knows only too well that Deeta could never survive the harshness that exists outside. Then tragedy strikes and Deeta and her Sister Jan fin...

Cover Rating: 3/5 Stars Overall Rating: 4/5 Stars Synopsis: Look at the person sitting just across from you.  It doesn't matter whether they’re a loved one, a friend, or a  complete  stranger.  Now look at their face.  Are they happy?  Are they sad?  Or are they angry?  Can you even tell?  How well do you actually know the people closest to you?  Have you ever seen the real person that lies just underneath what you see…? A copy of Underneath was kindly given to me by the author, Michael Cargill, in exchange for an honest review. Underneath was a short book but the story suited that. It is about seeing the side of a person that they keep hidden, we all do it but hopefully not as much as the main character Hugh. He can appear nice and pleasant but underneath he's a raving madman - to put it nicely. The whole story revolves around a number of characters whose stories all interrelate at some point. It was really interesting t...

Today is the first day of July and you know what that means, it is the first day of my Birthday Bonanza giveaway event. To kick us off is a giveaway of The Weeping Empress by Sadie  Forsythe. Before I go to the giveaway though here is a guest post that the author kindly put together for us to enjoy. Why do fantasy authors insist on using names no one can pronounce? Have you noticed this? I imagine most fantasy readers have. I’ve been party to more than a few forum discussions on just such a gripe   and I’ve been just a vocal on the subject as everyone else. I hate it when I can’t pronounce a name. Granted, while reading it is easy enough to simply gloss over it and still identify the character. But you’re in for an embarrassing afternoon if you want to tell someone else about them. Here’s the rub. The question in the title is a direct quote from a commenter on my book’s page99test.com submission   and it wasn’t the only one. WTF? I am exactly what I have disparaged? How d...

Cover Rating: 4/5 Stars Overall Rating: 5/5 Stars 'I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. Not in a mean way. In a curious way. It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day... or wondering who did the heart breaking and why.' Charlie is a freshman. And while he's not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. Shy, introspective, intelligent beyond his years yet socially awkward, he is a wallflower, caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it. Charlie is attempting to navigate his way through uncharted territory: the world of first dates and mixed tapes, family dramas and new friends; the world of sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when all one requires is that perfect song on that perfect drive to feel infinite. But Charlie can't stay on the sideline forever. Standing on the fringes of life offe...

Cover Rating: 4.5/5 Stars Overall Rating: 3.5/5Stars Synopsis:   Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She's quiet, keeps to herself, and doesn't get out much. Not because she's not pretty. She is. It's just that, well, Sookie has this sort of "disability." She can read minds. And that doesn't make her too dateable. And then along comes Bill. He's tall, dark, handsome - and Sookie can't 'hear' a word he's thinking. He's exactly the kind of guy she's been waiting for all her life.  But Bill has a disability of his own: He's a vampire. Worse than that, hangs with a seriously creepy crowd, with a reputation for trouble - of the murderous kind.   And when one of Sookie's colleagues is killed, she begins to fear she'll be next. Dead Until Dark was a light, fluffy read. It was a lot less adult than I actually thought it was going to be considering what I've seen of the TV show is ...

Stacking the shelves is hosted over at  Tynga's Reviews . This week I bought seven books even though I haven't actually read any of the others I bought last week. I really do need to stop buying books, I have officially completely run out of space. Bought: I'm excited to read Hallowed since I absolutely loved the first book, Unearthly.  Everneath is my Random Read this month and how could have I not bought it with such a stunning cover? I may have bought it because of that alone.          I have been waiting to read  Forbidden for a long time and I saw it in the shop and had to get it.  My friend has been going on at me to read Starcrossed  for ages so I got that at the same time.         I bought Unravelling because somehow reading the blurb pulled me in, a countdown to save the world? I needed to know what happens.  I've seen Paranormalcy around about and thought it was about time I had a look at it....