Cover Characteristics (#19): Purple

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My 5 Favorite Covers with the color Purple:

 

SWOON Thursday (#42): With All My Soul by Rachel Vincent

 Hosted by YA Bound

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 :-)

Here's mine:

"I know. Do you think...? I mean, it sounds stupid, but you mom said it was true for my parents...." I blinked and could almost feel myself blush. "Do you think we'll ever be soul mates?"

"I think we already are." The blues in his eyes spun so fast they made me dizzy. "I remember the exact moment you took a piece of my soul. I felt it."

I held my breath, which, as it turns out, is completely different than simply ceasing to breathe. "When?" The word carried no sound, yet he heard it.

"When I found you on your bed, bleeding out. I knew you were going to die. I'd been trying to prepare myself for it, but when the moment came, I couldn't let you go. I knew I couldn't stop it, but at the same time I knew that if you died, you'd have to take me with you, because I couldn't be here without you."

My heart beat so hard my entire body shook with each thump.
- With All My Soul SWOON #YABound

Waiting on Wednesday (#44): With All My Soul by Rachel Vincent

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking The Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

This week's eagerly anticipated release is:

With All My Soul (Soul Screamers #7)
by Rachel Vincent
Expected publication: March 19th 2013 by Harlequin Teen

What does it mean when your school is voted the most dangerous in America? It's time to kick some hellion butt...

After not really surviving her junior year (does "undead" count as survival?), Kaylee Cavanaugh has vowed to take back her school from the hellions causing all the trouble. She's going to find a way to turn the incarnations of Avarice, Envy and Vanity against one another in order to protect her friends and finish this war, once and forever.

But then she meets Wrath and understands that she's closer to the edge than she's ever been. And when one more person close to her is taken, Kaylee realizes she can't save everyone she loves without risking everything she has....

Cover Characteristics (#6): From the Back

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My 5 Favorite Covers From the Back

Cover Characteristics (#1): Red Dresses

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My 5 Favorite Covers with Red Dresses  

(although these are only a few of my favorite covers featuring red dresses):

Cover Ogle (#24): With All My Soul by Rachel Vincent

I cannot tell you how much I absolutely LOVE this cover! I'm really sad that the series is coming to an end! But this is the most beautiful cover in the Soul Screamers series in my opinion, and it's fitting that the best cover be on the last and final book. It's so gorgeous. I love the gold and how the dress fans out, almost all-encompassing, which works with the title With All My Soul. I can't wait for the book summary to come out--this is going to be an EPIC conclusion.

What are your thoughts on the cover? What are you most looking forward to or want to happen in the final book? Let me know in the comments!

SWOON Thursday (#28): Before I Wake by Rachel Vincent

Hosted by YA Bound

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 :-)

Here's mine:

"Can't say I blame them. As scars go, it's pretty damn sexy." Tod grinned and pushed the hem of my shirt up to expose the straight, pinkish line of raised tissue on my stomach. His fingers traced it slowly and chills gathered just below my navel. Then he lowered his head and followed that line again with a series of soft kisses. I closed my eyes and gripped handfuls of my comforter, and those chills at my center became a fire that burned deep inside me.

Suddenly that scar was my very favorite part of my body.

"No fair," I moaned. "Only you could make me love the wound that killed me."

"Never underestimate the therapeutic power of a few well-placed kisses," he mumbled against my skin.
- Before I Wake SWOON #YABound

Waiting on Wednesday (#22): Before I Wake by Rachel Vincent

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking The Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

This week's eagerly anticipated release is:

Before I Wake (Soul Screamers #6)
by Rachel Vincent Expected publication: June 26th 2012 by Harlequin Teen

I died on a Thursday—killed by a monster intent on stealing my soul. 

The good news? He didn’t get it. 

The bad news? Turns out not even death will get you out of high school…

Covering up her own murder was one thing, but faking life is much harder than Kaylee Cavanaugh expected. After weeks spent “recovering,” she’s back in school, fighting to stay visible to the human world, struggling to fit in with her friends and planning time alone with her new reaper boyfriend.

But to earn her keep in the human world, Kaylee must reclaim stolen souls, and when her first assignment brings her face-to-face with an old foe, she knows the game has changed. Her immortal status won’t keep her safe. And this time Kaylee isn’t just gambling with her own life….

The Soul Screamers series is one of my all-time favorite book series. I've been so excited about Before I Wake ever since I finished reading If I Die that I made a deal with my mom that if I could read one book (which happened to be Bloodrose by Andrea Cremer) without looking forward in the book that she would get me a copy of Before I Wake as a late birthday present for me. I WON AND I'M GETTING IT! I can't wait! I'm so so so excited!

Waiting on Wednesday (#4): Never to Sleep by Rachel Vincent

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking The Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

This week's eagerly anticipated release is:

Never to Sleep (Soul Screamers #5.5) 
by Rachel Vincent

Kindle Edition

Expected publication: January 1st 2012 by Harlequin Teen 

Don't Close Your Eyes.

Sophie Cavanaugh is not going to let her freak of a cousin's strange psychiatric condition ruin high school for them both. Not after all the work she's put into cultivating the right look, and friends, and reputation. But then, Sophie sees something so frightening she lets out a blood-curdling scream—and finds herself stuck in a bizarre parallel world where nothing is safe and deadly creatures lurk just out of sight, waiting for her to close her eyes and sleep...forever.

Could this world be real? Or does insanity run in the family...?

I'm really looking forward to seeing what happens to Sophie. Is she a bean sidhe, after all? It'll be interesting to see how Sophie reacts to the truth and how she handles it.