Swoon Thursday {35}

Swoon Thursday is a  cool (more like HOT) meme the girls over at YA Bound created :) Here's how it works: 

From the book you’re currently reading, or one you just finished, tell us what made you SWOON. What got your heart pounding, your skin tingling, and your stomach fluttering. 

Shout it out on Twitter with the hashtag #YABound, post it here in the comments, or grab the adorable button above and share it on your blog! We want to know :-)

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He worked his way down my neck while I worked my way up from his stomach, dragging his tee up with my hands, trying to touch all of him at once. When my fingers crawled over his collarbones, he leaned back and lifted his arms so I could pull his shirt off.                                                           
I have no idea where it landed.                                                                              
Tod lifted me and turned, and suddenly I was looking up at him, propped up on my elbows. His eyes churned with an intense bleed of pain, and fear, and need, and anger, but at the centre, just outside of his pupils, there was a deep spiral of something more powerful than all the others. Something stronger, like it could swallow everything else he was feeling, and with a sudden, startling leap of intuition, I realized that that spiral was me. That deep, bright blue that grew and twisted throughout the other colours- that was how he felt about me....

Is anybody else as in love with Tod as I am?! *Reads excerpt again* Just....wow ! ....Give me a second to form some sort of sentence that doesn't involve swoon or faint or he's mine :P What did you think about this week's swoon?! Be sure to let me know in the comments below! Keep Reading!

Your Y.A. Bookworm,

Caitlin <3

With All My Soul @ Amazon

500 Follower Giveaway Winner!

After 2 weeks and 1415 entries, The Y.A. Bookworm Blogger's 500 Follower Giveaway has come to an end! Before I announce the winner, I just want to say a huge thank-you to all of you who entered, tweeted and spread the word about this giveaway! Your enthusiasm is what made this giveaway so successful and it makes me want to do even more giveaways in the future! So without further ado, the winner of this giveaway is...

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Entry #76, Marissa

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Your Y.A. Bookworm Blogger,

Caitlin <3

Sweet Peril By: Wendy Higgins Review

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Sweet Peril (Sweet Evil #2)
Author: Wendy Higgins
Publisher: Harper Teen
Pages: 371
Rating: 5/5

Anna Whitt, the daughter of a guardian angel and a demon, promised herself she’d never do the work of her father—polluting souls. She’d been naive to make such a vow. She’d been naive about a lot of things.                                                   
Haunted by demon whisperers, Anna does whatever she can to survive, even if it means embracing her dark side and earning an unwanted reputation as her school’s party girl. Her life has never looked more bleak. And all the while there’s Kaidan Rowe, son of the Duke of Lust, plaguing her heart and mind.                                                                            
When an unexpected lost message from the angels surfaces, Anna finds herself traveling the globe with Kopano, son of Wrath, in an attempt to gain support of fellow Nephilim and give them hope for the first time. It soon becomes clear that whatever freedoms Anna and the rest of the Neph are hoping to win will not be gained without a fight. Until then, Anna and Kaidan must put aside the issues between them, overcome the steamiest of temptations yet, and face the ultimate question: is loving someone worth risking their life?

      I (as I'm sure many of you) have been eagerly awaiting for the release of Sweet Peril by Wendy Higgins for what feels like forever! When I reviewed Sweet Evil last summer (review link here), I couldn't stop talking about how much I loved Anna, the unique plot and how bloody hot Kaidan Rowe was (there may have been a bit of an emphasis on that last point *blushes* ). Let me just stop the intro right here by saying Sweet Peril heightened my sweet love for this series and *coughs* Kaidan Rowe to crazy, possibly obsessive, levels!

     Based off of the ending of Sweet Evil and the synopsis for Sweet Peril, I went into this book preparing for a love triangle between Anna, Kaidan, and Kaidan's brother Kopano. To a certain extent there was some love triangle drama, but nothing that ever made me question Anna's dedication to Kaidan. Unlike some love triangles where the main heroine goes back and forth between two guys, Anna's heart is always with Kaidan and her consideration of Kopano is like waxing- quick, painful but necessary. Needless to say, although there's always some tension between Kaidan and Kope, I don't think the love-traingle haters out there should be concerned about the direction Sweet Peril takes. The strongest relationship Anna builds with Kopanao is a friendship I hope lasts well into book three. :)

     I can't write this review without pointing out how bad ass Anna is in Sweet Peril! Not only is she embracing her new role as nephilim of substance addiction to keep the demons happy, but I feel like she's a character that actually puts some thought into her actions! Although she prefers to have Kaidan by her side, she proves herself to be an independent character that is more than capable of taking care of herself. The growth she experiences in this book is tremendous and I think readers will be happily surprised to see she is no longer the innocent girl that she was in Sweet Evil!

     I have to admit that I was feeling some serious Kaidan withdrawals up until the point where I reached the half-way point of Sweet Peril. He makes appearances here and there at the beginning that acted as a gigantic tease to us Kaidan lovers, but once he becomes a more permanent character in the plot *sighs* your eyes won't be able to leave the book until the very end. There's two specific chapters that I can't help but rereading over and over and over again! I'm a huge lover of character growth, so I was so happy to see an evident difference between the Kaidan and Anna in Sweet Evil, compared to the Kaidan and Anna in Sweet Peril. There's more than just lust and steamy make-out sessions (although there still plenty of that..plenty ;), but there's a deep love woven between them that is intense, addicting, passionate and of course incredibly sweet. I'm going crazy thinking about where they'll be by the end of the next novel. While we're on the topic of "sexy makeout sessions," I can't help but pointing out that one of the many reasosn I adore this series so much is  how edgy it is for YA. Wendy Higgins really pushes the sexiness as far as she can while still managing to keep it  in the YA category. It creates for scenes that are incredibly hot, but still manage to tease us into wanting so much more!

      Swooniness aside, Sweet Peril proved to me that there's so much potential for this world Wendy Higgins has created. This book did not read like a middle book to a trilogy! It was fast paced and so jam packed with plot that it feels like this series could go on to four or five books (and I'm not just saying that because I'm not at all ready to be finished with this series)!

Favourite Quotes...

“I love you," I whispered.

"I've loved you longer," he said.

^I died....absolutely died! =D

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He opened his eyes to reveal the storm within him. "My every instinct is telling me to have my way with you." 

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“Supposedly Kaidan’s having a difficult time ’cause he can’t say swear words in every sentence,” Marna said with a smile. “He’s determined to find signs for cursing or make some up himself.” 

Overall...

     Overall, Sweet Peril was the kind of sequel that I live for! I devoured it in no time at all and am still obsessing over it's pure awesomeness days after finishing it. I highly recommend that if you've read Sweet Evil, you should go out and get your copy of Sweet Peril NOW! And  for those of you who have read Sweet Peril....we've got a long wait ahead of us for Sweet Reckoning! :( Have you read Sweet Peril? Do you stalk Kaidan Rowe's Twitter profile as much as I do? :S Be sure to let me know in the comments below! Keep Reading!

Your Y.A. Bookworm,

Caitlin <3

Sweet Peril @ Amazon

Swoon Thursday {34}

Swoon Thursday is a  cool (more like HOT) meme the girls over at YA Bound created :) Here's how it works: 

From the book you’re currently reading, or one you just finished, tell us what made you SWOON. What got your heart pounding, your skin tingling, and your stomach fluttering. 

Shout it out on Twitter with the hashtag #YABound, post it here in the comments, or grab the adorable button above and share it on your blog! We want to know :-)

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If you've been following my social media updates on Twitter and Instagram, I'm sure that where this week's Swoon Thursday comes from is no surprise! I finished reading Sweet Peril by Wendy Higgins yesterday and have found myself in a mourning period (As described perfectly by booktuber Christine in this video here). Sweet Peril was just so amazing, that I'm unsure as to what to do with myself without having any new smexy Kaidan and Anna scenes to devour! A year long wait just seems impossible at the moment....:'(

Here's just a taste at one of those smexy scenes that had me going a bit crazy....*Sighs for Kai*

     My heart neared bursting when he looked straight into me. We were along. So alone up

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here. As if gravity weighed all the heavy stuff down and we'd risen above it. Jealousies and insecurities couldn't exist this high off the ground.                                                                                                     

     Kaidan moved his head to the side of my face as if to whisper something, but instead his soft lips grazed the sensitive spot beneath my ear. I stilled. The hand that had been blocking the sun slipped beneath my hair in a caress. His mouth moved down my neck, slow, like a playful whisper. At the base of my throat I felt his warm tongue tasting me. I wove my fingers into his hair. When he raised his face to meet mine, our quickened breaths mingled. I took in the sweetness of citrusy pheromones, lifted off him by the breeze. Even sitting, it made me dizzy...

I tried to take a snippet out that was swoony enough for Swoon Thursday, but not too fan-worthy to spoil your emotions while reading! Trust me, there's a LOT more awesome Kaidan and Anna material that I have re-read a million times already and STILL find myself on the edge of fainting :P Have you read Sweet Peril? Are you a Kaidan fan? Be sure to let me know in the comments below, and look out for my full review on Sweet Peril soon! Keep Swooning!

Your Y.A. Bookworm,

Caitlin <3

Sweet Peril @ Amazon