A Bookanistas Relaunch Party - With Giveaways!!

As May draws to a close, we're celebrating the start of summer and another great beginning: THE RELAUNCH OF THE BOOKANISTAS! New members, new logo, new website design and a whole lot more of the book love we all adore!
 

I am so super excited to join this group! Reading and talking about the books I love has always been important to me. Check in most Thursdays to find new reviews of some of my favorites. 

 

Enter the Bookanistas amazing new website here.  It looks fabulous! 

While you're there make sure to enter the giveaway!!

  http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/87642b0/

 

And don't forget the prizes!! 

 

THE WINNER OF THE BOOKANISTA RELAUNCH GIVEAWAY OF AWESOME WILL RECEIVE

Signed copies of these Bookanista-authored books…

IF I LIE and TOUCHED by Corrine Jackson PLUS ARCs of JUST ONE DAY and SPEECHLESS

LET THE SKY FALL by Shannon Messenger

BY BLOOD by Tracy Banghart

POSSESSION, SURRENDER and ABANDON by Elana Johnson

TOUCHING THE SURFACE by Kimberly Sabatini (plus a swag surprise)

BAD TASTE IN BOYS by Carrie Harris

AUDITION by Stasia Ward Kehoe

THE GIRL GUIDE by Christine Fonseca (plus sweet swag)

MILA 2.0 by Debra Driza

LEVEL ONE by Lenore Appelhans

 

AND A SECOND WINNER WILL GET A BOX FILLED WITH Bookanista-beloved reads including DITCHED by Robin Mellom, JELLICO ROAD by Melina Marchetta, TAKEN by Erin Bowman, CLOCKWORK ANGEL by Cassandra Clare, MONSTROUS BEAUTY by Elizabeth Fama and SPARROW ROAD by Sheila O’Connor.

 You can find lots more Bookanista Relaunch Book Love at our sites around the interwebs: Carolina Valdez Miller, Carrie Harris,  Christine Fonseca, Corrine Jackson, Debra Driza, Elana Johson, Jessica Love, Katy Upperman, Kimberly Sabatini, Lenore Appelhans,  Nikki Katz, Rebecca Behrens, Shannon Messenger , Shelli Johannes-Wells, Stasia Ward Kehoe, Tracey Neithercott , Tracy Banghart  

 

 

The Bookanistas Review: The Reece Malcolm List by Amy Spalding

Here is the official blurb from Goodreads:

The Reece Malcolm List by Amy Spalding

 Things I know about Reece Malcolm:

1. She graduated from New York University.
2. She lives in or near Los Angeles.
3. Since her first novel was released, she’s been on the New York Times bestseller list every week.
4. She likes strong coffee and bourbon.
5. She’s my mother.

Devan knows very little about Reece Malcolm, until the day her father dies and she’s shipped off to live with the mother she’s never met. All she has is a list of notebook entries that doesn’t add up to much.

L.A. offers a whole new world to Devan—a performing arts school allows her to pursue her passion for show choir and musicals, a new circle of friends helps to draw her out of her shell, and an intriguing boy opens up possibilities for her first love.

But then the Reece Malcolm list gets a surprising new entry. Now that Devan is so close to having it all, can she handle the possibility of losing everything?

Cute cover, right? So, yeah.

When I purchased this one I wasn't quite sure what to expect. It sounded interesting, and somewhere along the way someone compared it to a Stephanie Perkins novel, which was really all I needed to hear, you know?
What I didn't expect was how real the characters were, or how completely wrapped up in the story I would become. 
I loved that Devan was all into show choir. Seeing that side of her high school experience — especially since the book takes place in a performing arts high school in L.A. —was like being sucked into a My-So-Called-Life-hijacked episode of Glee. Except even more awesome.
And then there's Devan's relationship with her mother, Reece Malcolm. Each chapter begins with a few more entries on the Reece Malcolm list, the list of things Devan is compiling as she slowly gets to know her mother.

This book is real in a way that effected me, romantic in a heart-melts kind of way, completely addicting because I had to know what would happen next and it definitely left me wanting more. Like seriously. I could have read a few more books worth of this story.

So. Go check it out. I think you'll like it. I freaking loved it.