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Feature & Follow #9 #FF- Before blogging how would you find out about new books? -

Gain new followers and make new friends with the Book Blogger Feature & Follow! If this is your first time here, welcome! You are about to make some new friends and gain new followers -- but you have to know -- the point of this hop is to follow other bloggers also. I follow you, you follow me.

The Feature & Follow is hosted by TWO hosts, Parajunkee of Parajunkee's View and Alison of Alison Can Read. Each host will have their own Feature Blog and this way it'll allow us to show off more new blogs!

Week Two for OUR favorites, Day Three: Blogs and Bloggers, Next up "Elfswood*+ Ellen Oh's Prophecy/Warrior & Sarwat Chadda's The Savage Fortress/The City of Death giveaway!

So were half way through the week, and only have three blogs left XD Blast the weeks for being so short! This next Book Blogger we chose for her honest reviews, and pretty blog layout. We've been an avid follower for some time, and it'd be awesome to highlight why we chose her.

So the third favorite Book Blogger goes to...

Elfswood: Dream.Escape.Read

One of the things we've enjoyed about elfswood's blog is her no nonsense approach to book reviewing. Many book blogs will only rate and review books that they love or wouldn't give more than 4 stars to.

That's great and all, no one wants to be a bad guy when they dont like a book, but then again, how is that constructive to the person reading the review, who is on the fence about purchasing a book.

If you're like us, 3 or less stars don't turn you off of a book. For the most part, 3 stars or less tend to be more critical, or even emotional, on why a reader may not have connected with the book(except for the occasional troll, not insinuating all 1-2-3 star reviews are fair).

If people only rated the books they liked, there'd be nothing but 4 and 5 star reviews, and that seems to defeat the purpose of a book review.

 

Week Two for OUR favorites, Day Two: Blogs and Bloggers, Next up *(un)Conventional Bookviews*aka Lexxie Lin+ Ellen Oh's Prophecy/Warrior & Sarwat Chadda's The Savage Fortress/The City of Death giveaway!

Up next! Ok so ,some blogs you follow for the book rec's, some you follow for the messages being put out there by the blogger themselves, others, well...Because they're just damn fun!

Our second honor goes to...

*(Un)Conventional Book Views*

Sorting through the excess that is the blogosphere, it's great to see the a book blog that takes an unconventional look at the way they review.

Originally from Europe, between sloshing through close to 150+books a year, (Un)Convential Bookviews, aka *Lexxie* brings up excellent discussions on her blog, on the state of sexuality amongst women, and young women in novels.

They are topics one should read if you get a chance. Slut shaming and robbing girls and women of their right to explore their sexuality the way they want to should be unacceptable, but has become so apart of our culture, very few don't even realize when they're doing so.

 

Week Two of OUR Favorites, Day One: Blogs and Bloggers, First up *Donnie Darko Girl*aka Jennifer + Ellen Oh's Prophecy/Warrior & Sarwat Chadda's The Savage Fortress/The City of Death giveaway!

So we all have them. Blogs and Bloggers that we follow religiously! Oh yes! We are not ashamed to say that we have a list full of sites that we stalk on a regular basis. In fact, we thought, Why not turn an event out of it. So that brings us to Week Two of our favorites month:

Favorite Blogs and Bloggers. 

Our first honor goes to a Blog/Blogger that we totally love and adore who goes by the pseudonym, *Donnie Darko Girl*

This blogger ranks high with us because I mean let's face it, She's pretty DAMN COOL! I mean would you look at her hair! 

Dope, right???

I think what we love most about this blogger is that she's so dedicated to the content that's on her blog. As a fellow book blogger, We know it can be difficult sometimes to by consistent with content and some days, you just don't feel like it. She's also pretty diverse with her choice of books that she reviews, so you can always look forward to all types of different reviews on her blog! There's nothing like a book blog reviewer that is totally limited to just YA, NA or romance!

 Not this blogger! Don't you love that!

We can always count on Jennifer to for awesome reviews, Stellar posts and tons of love! We hear she's also an aspiring writer, so with that larger than life online persona, we look extra forward to her future works!