Review: The Nightmare Affair (The Arkwell Academy #1) by Mindee Arnett

Title: The Nightmare Affair

Series: The Arkwell Academy #1

Author: Mindee Arnett

Publication date: March 5th, 2013

Published by: Tor Teen

Source: from the publishers via Netgalley

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Synopsis:

Sixteen-year-old Dusty Everhart breaks into houses late at night, but not because she’s a criminal. No, she’s a Nightmare.

Literally.

Being the only Nightmare at Arkwell Academy, a boarding school for magickind, and living in the shadow of her mother’s infamy, is hard enough. But when Dusty sneaks into Eli Booker’s house, things get a whole lot more complicated. He’s hot, which means sitting on his chest and invading his dreams couldn’t get much more embarrassing. But it does. Eli is dreaming of a murder.

Then Eli’s dream comes true.

Now Dusty has to follow the clues—both within Eli’s dreams and out of them—to stop the killer before more people turn up dead. And before the killer learns what she’s up to and marks her as the next target.

My rating: ★★★★★
This book was UH-MAZE-ING! It was just great and a very fun read! And I love the title of the book...it's very fitting :)

Spring Break Read-A-Thon!

Guys, guess what? As of 9:30 AM today I am officially on...

*Happy dance* Oh my gods, I survived quarter 2 out of 7 of nursing school (and got A's on both of my finals! Woot woot!)...so proud of myself *grins* So now that I don't have to worry about school for one and a half weeks, it's time for me to catch up on my reading and reviewing! I've got quite a few books to read and reviews to write, so this will be the time for that. Below I have listed my to-read books and I'll be updating the list as I go. I will also try to update my reading status on Goodreads and/or Twitter plus I am also thinking of writing up a blog post at the end of each day to document my progress. My read-a-thon will go from today (March 19th) to March 31st (gotta go back to school on the 1st, unfortunately =/)

To-Read:

Goddess Inheritance (Goddess Test #3) by Aimee Carter [currently reading]

Dark Genesis by Dave Ferraro

Glitch (Glitch #1) by Heather Anastasiu

Override (Glitch #2) by Heather Anastasiu

The Nightmare Affair (The Arkwell Academy #1) by Mindee Arnett

Hide and Seek (Games of Zeus #1) by Aimee Laine

Silent Echos (Games of Zeus #2) by Aimee Laine

Deep Betrayal (Lies Beneath #2) by Anne Greenwood Brown

Hysteria by Megan Miranda

My Ex From Hell (The Blooming Goddess Trilogy #1) by Tellulah Darling

Spellbinding by Maya Gold

Proximity by M.A. George

Godsmacked by by Paul Cicchini

The New Death and Others by James Hutchings

Narrative Loserdom by Ryan Collins

Sliding Beneath the Surface (The St. Augustine Trilogy #1) by Doug Dillon

That's 16 books in 13 days. My goal, originally, was to read all of these books. But now, I think I'm gonna go for reading at least one book a day. That's at least 13 books, which is still a pretty attainable goal :)

I am SO excited!! After all that studying and all the hair pulling and binging on chocolate ice cream (AKA stress!) I am ecstatic to have this time for myself to just read something non-school-related. Eeeep! And if anyone wants to join me on this read-a-thon, feel free! You can choose as many or as little books as you'd wish, and just leave me a link to your post in the comments so I can check it out! This is going to be fun!!

Giveaway + Interview: Dark Genesis by Dave Ferraro

Hey guys! I've got an awesome post for you all! I've got a really fun interview with the author AND a giveaway at the end! Let's get started!

Know Me Better (#4)

I have decided to join Inspired Kathy from I Am A Reader, Not A Writer, in this fun weekly post. Here we take 5 questions from our Author Interview list and answer them in a post. I highly encourage you, my readers, to answer theses long with me. Not only do I want you guys to get to know me better, but it would be great if I got to know my readers better, as well!

Things you’d rather be doing right this moment:

Being out doing something fun, as opposed to studying. That or reading a non-school related book.

Time wasters:

Hmm, can't think of anything, really (My brain must really be fried after all that homework I did! lol)

Books they should make into movies:

• Croak by Gina Damico
• Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
• Touch of Frost by Jennifer Estep (!!!)
• Incarnate by Jodi Meadows
• Eve Hallows and the Book of Shrieks by Robert Gray
• Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake (This one would make such a great horror movie!)
• My Fair Godmother (books 1 AND 2) by Janette Rallison
• Ghost Hand by Ripley Patton

It's always a bad idea to ask me to list books about something 'cause I always have these looong lists! lol

Things you wish you knew before getting into nursing school:

That the first quarter in fact, is NOT the hardest. And that things actually DO NOT get easier as they go. From my 2 quarters so far, I fell like I've been lied to, lol. I am hoping, however, that things WILL get easier as I go. 1st quarter was a piece of cake compared to this one! And I've still got 5 quarters to go.......wish me luck!

Games you like to play:

Pfft, like I have time to play, lol. I do like to play games on my free time though:

• Super Mario Bros on Wii
• Thrillville on Wii or PS2
• Uno
• Solitaire
• Brain Age on Nintendo DS

Those are the only ones I can think of off the top of my head.

Now it's your turn! Share an answer to one or more of these questions as a comment or post your answers on your blog and leave me a link here!

Showcase Sunday (#35)

Welcome to Showcase Sunday, hosted by Books, Biscuits and Tea. The aim of this event is to showcase our newest books or book related swag and to see what everyone else received for review, borrowed form the libraries, bought in bookshops and downloaded onto eReaders this week. For more information about how this feature works and to join in, click here.

2 weeks worth, again. Here's what I bought:

For review:

Thanks to the authors for these!

Borrowing from the library:

Okay, I think that's all I got in the last 2 weeks. What bookish things did you get?