What's New: December YA Release List & Giveaway!

Hello December and holidays and hot chocolate and cozy scarves and houses covered in holiday lights!!! I love this time of year, guys.  And while December is always the slowest month of the year for new book releases, there is no shortage of awesome in that list below!! I am hurriedly finishing up this post so I can run out to buy my copy of Their Fractured Light!! 

So if you're new to Stories & Sweeties, here's a little run-down of this feature: at the start of each month, I do a little thing called the "What's New List & Giveaway" where you'll find a full list of the new releases in YA for the month, and entry to the international giveaway. At the end of each month, one lucky winner will get to choose any new release as their prize!

First things first! The winner of November's giveaway is Maria V. ! Congrats!

December 2015 Releases:
Just like previous months, I've put a little l♥ve by those books that I am really anticipating!

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All We Left Behind by Ingrid Sundberg

The Devil's Engine: Hellraisers by Alexander Gordon Smith

Did I Mention I Love You by Estelle Maskame

Forbidden by Eve Bunting ♥

Gateway to Fourline by Pam Brondos ♥

Hawthorn by Carol Goodman

Nexis by A.L. Davroe

Not If I see You First by Eric Lindstrom

Tarnished by Kate Jarvik Birch

Their Fractured Light by Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner ♥♥!

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Come Back to Me by Mila Gray

Inherit the Stars by Tessa Elwood

Instructions for the End of the World by Jamie Kain ♥

The Trouble with Destiny by Lauren Morrill ♥

Wandering Star by Romina Russell

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The Forsaken by C.J. Hart

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Frozen Tides by Morgan Rhodes

Half in Love with Death by Emily Ross ♥

Unbound by Neal Shusterman

Untamed by A.G. Howard

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How to Break a Heart by Kiera Stewart

See How They Run by Ally Carter

This Raging Light by Estelle Laure

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Reduced to Dust by Gabrielle Arrowsmith

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Endure by Sara B. Larson

Thicker than Water by Brigid Kemmerer

What's Broken Between Us by Alexis Bass

(All links go to Goodreads)
Please feel free to email me if you notice any YA titles missing! :)

Giveaway Details: 
One winner will win a YA December release of their choice! *see note below
• Contest ends December 31th, 2015 at 11:59 PM
• Must be 13 or older.
• Open internationally. *International winners will be required to choose a book that is available through BookDepository.com up to $20 value.
•Extra entries can be earned by commenting on November or December reviews, and can be done once per review. Come back throughout December whenever you comment on my reviews and get your extra points!    

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Thanksgiving-Away Day 4! Win a signed trio!

WHoopsie! Sorry for the little break, there, people! Life is just getting away from me lately. But I'm back with day 4 of the these giveaways of gratitude! :D  

Today I'm offering up this gorgeous

SIGNED TRIO!! 

I've been incredibly lucky this past year to be able to attend some great trade shows and conferences, and meet some really incredibly authors.  So today I want to pass some of the spoils of that onto someone else! All three of these lovely copies are signed (not personalized) by the authors!  

Who wants to win them?? 

Enter below! 

US mailing addresses only.

(Just an fyi for my overseas visitors! The final giveaway tomorrow WILL be open internationally!)

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New Shelf Goodies & The Weekly Nutshell {148}

For New Shelf Goodies, I'll be showing you what lovely books I acquired this week, whether from publishers, or the library, or from whatever half-crazed book-buying binge I happened to go on. :D (Inspired by Tynga's Stacking the Shelves) The Weekly Nutshell will be just that...my week here at Stories & Sweeties, in a nutshell. (inspired by Ginger @ GReads and her recaps at the end of the TGIF posts)

This is my last two weeks worth of goodies!

From #booksfortrade:
The Mirror King by Jodi Meadows
So excited!! Thanks so much, Brittany! :D

Won:
The Steep & Thorny Way by Cat Winters
Eeeee, new Cat Winters book. She is absolutely one of my favorite authors.

For review:
Curio by Evangeline Denmark
Reading this one now. Really enjoying this so far!
Outrun the Moon by Stacey Lee
This looks incredible. A story of diversity set around the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
Map of Fates by Maggie Hall
Really enjoyed book one! Can't wait to see what happens next!
Half in Love with Death by Emily Ross
Set in the 60s, this one looks like it's got a creepy twist to it!
Rules for 50/50 Chances by Kate McGovern
Excited for this one! Oh and don't forget to enter to win your own copy here! 


The Weekly Nutshell:
In case you missed these last few posts:
Fantastic Fives! Interview & Giveaway
Waiting on Wednesday: Siren's Song by Mary Weber
And be sure to visit all of the 2015 Thanksgiving-Away Posts:
Win a Signed Winter by Marissa Meyer!
Win a choice of my 2016 most-anticipated pre-orders!
Win a Mystery Box of 2015 titles!

Hope everyone who celebrates Thanksgiving had a wonderful holiday!  Ours was nice--lots of food & family.  I don't even want to think how much pie and cookies I ate. LOL  This week I finished up reading The Love That Split the World. It was good, but I found I didn't love it as much as I'd hoped I would, but I know some others are really loving this one.  So maybe it's just me--after all this week was pretty awful, I dare say one of the worst weeks of my life. To say I was emotionally distracted would be an understatement.  So it might not have been fair to be reading much of anything.  Now, I'm reading Curio and enjoying it, but I'm still in the first 50 pages, so we'll see how it goes!

The holiday season is official kicked-off, my friends!! Stay safe and warm out there! :D

Thanksgiving-Away Day #3! Win a box of 2015 books!

And here we go with Day 3!! Have you all entered days 1 and 2?? 

Today I'm offering up a mystery box of 2015 YA titles! There will be a bit of everything in there and 5-7 books inside--as much as I can fit in! Who wants it?? :D

Enter below! 

US mailing address only (sorry, but GAH the shipping!)

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Thankgiving-Away Day 2! Win a 2016 Pre-Order!

On to day two of the giveaway!  This one, as promised, is international! 

GUYS, it's nearly 2016, and the YA sweet 16s are shaping up to be incredible!! Seems like every single day we are hearing about some great new 2016 release that just leaves us all salivating and wishing away the year so that the books will just be IN OUR HOT LITTLE READER HANDS!!

So for today's giveaway, I'm going to show you a few of my most anticipated 2016's and one lucky reader is going to win a pre-order!!  Here we go!

  LOOK at all the lovelies.  Will YOU be able to decide? :D There are a few that I wanted to include here (Heartless, anyone?), but that aren't yet available for pre-order. *sigh*

Enter away, from anywhere in the big wide world! :D

Ends December 11th, 2015

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Thanksgiving-Away!! :D

So I know this is getting posted just before Thanksgiving is actually OVER :D  But I was bad and didn't pre-schedule this as I'd planned, and then today just completely got away from me as I spent the day stuffing my face with pie and enjoying my family (as it should be, am I right??)

So starting right now, and for the rest of the November, I want to show my lovely blog friends and readers just how much I appreciate them!! I did this little event a few years ago and now I'm officially resurrecting it! So...

Starting today and everyday until December 1st, I'm raining down gratitude on everyone who comes here to read this little blog, whether you comment or just stop by and peruse, follow faithfully or just visit whenever you can.  With GIVEAWAYS of course!! There will be a new giveaway posted every day, so be sure to come by and enter as many of them as you want!

For today's kick-off, I'm giving away a copy of the finale of one of my fave series of all time, all signed and gorgeous:

Enter below!! 

US mailing addresses only (sorry, there will be giveaways in the next few days that are international,  I promise!)

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Waiting on Wednesday

"Waiting on Wednesday" is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. It lets us all gush about what soon-to-be released books we are jumping-up-and-down excited for.

Siren's Song

by Mary Weber

hitting shelves March 1st, 2016

from Thomas Nelson Books

The realization hits: We re not going to win. It s why I couldn"t defeat Draewulf in Bron because this power was never mine anyway. I drop my arms and let the energy die off.And turn around to face Eogan. After a fierce battle with Draewulf, Nym barely escaped with her life. Now, fleeing the scorched landscape of Tulla, her storm-summoning abilities are returning; only... the dark power is still inside her. Broken and bloodied, Nym needs time to recover, but when the full scope of the shapeshifter s horrific plot is revealed, the strong-willed Elemental must race across the Hidden Lands and warn the other kingdoms before Draewulf s final attack. From the crystalline palaces of Cashlin to the legendary Valley of Origin, Nym scrambles to gather an army. But even if she can, will she be able to uncover the secret to defeating Draewulf that has eluded her people for generations? With a legion of monsters approaching, and the Hidden Lands standing on the brink of destruction, the stage is set for a battle that will decide the fate of the world. This time, will the Siren s Song have the power to save it?"

My thoughts: LOVE love love this series. So much. Incredible characters and world building and adventure. Each time the endings just tear your heart out and leave you absolutely freaking out for the next book. If you haven't read these, check out my reviews of Storm Siren & Siren's Fury. Is it March yet???