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Review: Taken by Erin Bowman

Review: Taken by Erin Bowman

Dystopian world, a village full of twists, rebel forces, hot twins and everything Kat ever dreamed of – yet somehow Taken just wasn’t her cup of tea. Come find out why!

Review: Gone by Michael Grant

Review: Gone by Michael Grant

Thankfully, however, “Gone” manages to be just about as good as I remember. Sure, there are some things that irk me, and they had enough of a presence in my reading experience that I was forced to give this one a relatively mediocre score, rather than the perfect five stars that I had hoped to bestow. But what Grant does right far outshines the little issues, and that makes this book worthwhile, despite its flaws.

Buzz Worth News: 24 December 2012

Buzz Worth News: 24 December 2012

In this week’s Buzz Worthy News: Penguin finally settles, Macmillan announces the launch of Swoon Reads – The publishing world’s answer to So You Think You Can Dance? Neil Gaiman breaks everyone’s hearts but this time not with a book, a seventeen year old gets a book deal after her online writing gets over 19 million views, and Beth Revis is going where no YA author has gone before! All this and much, much more! Click to read more!

Buzz Worthy News is Cuddlebuggery’s weekly, regular Monday post bringing you all the most interesting news on the publishing world. For cover reveals and new releases, check out our Sunday post, Hot New Titles.

Review: Revolution 19 by Gregg Rosenblum

Review: Revolution 19 by Gregg Rosenblum

Stephanie Sinclair reviews Revolution 19 by Gregg Rosenblum, shares her utter disappointment and shares flashbacks of times when creative minds actually thought up scary robots. Sadly, no one is that creative anymore.

Review War: Crewel by Gennifer Albin

Review War: Crewel by Gennifer Albin

Kat Kennedy and Stephanie Sinclair duke it out over Crewel by Gennifer Albin. Steph is for it and Kat is against – who wins? You decide! Read on to find out.

Christmas Gift Book Guide for Teens

Christmas Gift Book Guide for Teens

Kat Kennedy and Stephanie Sinclair present to you a list of Books to buy for Christmas this year. For confused parents, interested teens and the young at heart. Get involved in the Christmas spirit by buying your books from GoodBooks Interational – an online book site that donates proceeds to Oxfam!

Review: Everbound by Brodi Ashton

Review: Everbound by Brodi Ashton

Stephanie Sinclair reviews the hotly anticipated sequel to Brodi Ashton’s Everneath, Everbound. She drowns in her feelings and wonders where she can ship her downpayment of children off for book three.

Review: Crewel by Gennifer Albin

Review: Crewel by Gennifer Albin

Kat Kennedy reviews Crewel by Gennifer Albin – a novel woven from terrible characters, stitched hastily into a hodge-podge of dullery and torn from the fabric of horribleness. Come see what sparked Kat’s ire.

Hot New Titles: 2 December 2012

Hot New Titles: 2 December 2012

Welcome to Hot New Titles! Check out the this week’s YA releases like The Lucky Ones, Lullaby, and Fragile Darkness. And this week we had really HOT new cover reveals for titles like the sequel to Pushing the Limits, Dare You To, the dystopian survival thriller, Uprising, and 2013 debut, Charm and Strange. All this and more!

Hot New Titles is Cuddlebuggery’s weekly post for YA releases and cover reveals. Clicking the covers takes you to the book’s GoodReads page. As always, thank you Stories and Sweeties for compiling a great list of new releases! For all the latest book world news and book blogging gossip, check out our weekly Monday feature, Buzz Worthy News.

Review: Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi

Review: Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi

Adrienne Fray reviews the dystopian novel, Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi.

Review: Pivot Point by Kasie West

Review: Pivot Point by Kasie West

Kat Kennedy reviews Pivot Point by Kasie West, a novel about a young woman who can see alternate realities into the future and decide which path in life she wants to take. Kat Kennedy wants to take all paths in life that involve alcohol. Oh wow! That’s all the paths anyway! YEY!

Review: Prodigy by Marie Lu

Review: Prodigy by Marie Lu

Stephanie Sinclair reviews Prodigy by Marie Lu, regrets ever complaining about the characters in Legend and has a moment of angst. She’s sorry. It was unavoidable.

Five Ways to Survive Reading a Bad Book

Five Ways to Survive Reading a Bad Book

Kat Kennedy details five awesome methods for surviving truly horrible book reading experiences. Read on to find out how you too can be a book ninja!

Review: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Review: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

That rare book that deserves the titling of “novel,” David Mitchell’s work is an ambitious piece of literature that manages to tell a wide-reaching story without once losing its focus.

Five Tips for Seducing Book Bloggers

Five Tips for Seducing Book Bloggers

Ever struggled to generate interest in your book and hook book bloggers into reviewing it? Looking desperately at the magical 50 reviews on Amazon and wondering how best to make it happen? Kat Kennedy lays down some tips and advice based on the many, many review requests that Cuddlebuggery receives and the experience we have with the requests we approve. What’s the difference between acceptance and rejection for us at Cuddlebuggery? Read on to find out!

4 Reasons Self-Published titles are sometimes better

4 Reasons Self-Published titles are sometimes better

Kat Kennedy runs through four great reasons to be reading self-pubbed novels, if you’re not already. Check it out to see what you could be missing.

Review: Article 5 by Kristen Simmons

Review: Article 5 by Kristen Simmons

Stephanie Sinclair reviews Article 5 by Kristen Simmons and talks about how she likes her dystopians. Hint: With world building!

Shit I’m Sick of Reading Part 3

Shit I’m Sick of Reading Part 3

Stephanie Sinclair muses about bad romances in YA literature, how it portrays unhealthy relationships and gives her list of the 6 Worst Male YA Love Interests.

Review: Crewel by Gennifer Albin

Review: Crewel by Gennifer Albin

Stephanie Sinclair reviews Gennifer Albin’s debut novel, Crewel, and contemplates how she could ever survive in a world where she could never wear her sneakers. She hopes the world never comes to such an all-time low.

Review: What’s Left of Me by Kat Zhang

Review: What’s Left of Me by Kat Zhang

Dystopian novels have been disappointing me left and right these […]

Hot New Titles 6 July 2012

Hot New Titles 6 July 2012

This week’s How New Titles includes the much anticipated release of Seraphina by Rachel Hartman, Such a Rush by Jennifer Echols and The Forsaken by Lisa M. Stasse. As well as cover reveals for Lauren Oliver’s Requiem, Mila 2.0 and Fragments. As usual, thanks to Stories and Sweeties for helping us compile this list.

Hot New Titles is Cuddlebuggery’s weekly Friday post for all the hottest new YA releases and Cover reveals. For book world news and the latest book blogging scandals, check out our weekly Monday post Buzz Worthy News.

Buzz Worthy News 18th June 2012

Buzz Worthy News 18th June 2012

This week in Buzz Worthy News Harper Collins starts its own YA social sites, an author shoots themselves, The Diviners is optioned for a movie, and there’s been a seven figure deal for a controversial book. And, of course, scandalous scandals!

Buzz Worthy News is Cuddlebuggery’s weekly regular Monday post updating you on all the important book world news. For the latest and hottest cover reveals and Young Adult book releases, check out our Friday post, Hot New Titles.

Review War: Delirium by Lauren Oliver and Giveaway

Review War: Delirium by Lauren Oliver and Giveaway

Kat Kennedy and Isabelle Doan of Wake Up at Seven meet for an epic battle of wills for a Review War of Lauren Oliver’s YA dystopian novel, Delirum! Who’s right and who’s wrong? You be the judge!

Hot New Titles 1 June 2012

Hot New Titles 1 June 2012

Cuddlebuggery’s weekly Friday feature highlighting Young Adult releases and amazing cover reveals!

For Buzz Worthy News about the Book world, YA and the best Book blogosphere gossip, tune in on Monday’s for Buzz worthy News!

Review: Insurgent by Veronica Roth

Review: Insurgent by Veronica Roth

Stephanie Sinclair, the black sheep in Young Adult land, reviews the highly anticipated sequel to Divergent, Insurgent by Veronica Roth. She does so with the help of her trusty assistants, Spock and his eyebrows.