Dystopian August Wrap Up

Announcements:
Bloggy Awards:
You guys, I have been honored with a nomination for the Bloggy Awards in the category of Best Fantasy review for my review of Stormdancer. If you're so inclined, go here and vote for me. I don't think I'll win, but I am so touched just the same!

A Change:
The time has come for me to make a change to A Reader of Fictions. No, I'm not going anywhere; you can't get rid of me! However, I am removing the music element from my reviews. There are a lot of reasons for this, but I hope that m blog will be less confusing in the future. I'm thinking I'll do special posts about songs from time to time to make up for this change.

Dystopian August Comment Giveaway:
At this point, there are just a few hours left to fill out the form (US) or the Rafflecopter on this post (INT) and leave some comments. Without the form filled out, I don't have your email and can't contact you. I've decided that people can win more than once, so there could be a bunch of winners or several lucky people. I'll be tabulating the results over the weekend (though I'll be at Decatur Book Festival over the weekend too) and will begin contacting people soon. :)

Forthcoming Giveaways:
Check out the end of the post for the Book of the Month giveaway. Check back in the middle of September for my 500 follower giveaway/blogoversary/birthday giveaway.

Book Reviews Posted in August:
38 Young Adult:
Crewel (Crewel World #1) - Gennifer Albin
Glitch (Glitch #1) - Heather Anastasiu
Sneak (Swipe #2) - Evan Angler
Level 2 (The Memory Chronicles #1) - Lenore Appelhans
Above - Leah Bobet
Once (Eve #2) - Anna Carey
Dualed (Dualed #1) - Elsie Chapman
Beta (Beta #1) - Rachel Cohn
After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia - Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, eds.
Eden's Root (Eden's Root Trilogy, #1) - Rachel Fisher
Eve & Adam (Eve & Adam, #1) - Michael Grant  & Katherine Applegate
Masque of the Red Death (Masque of the Red Death #1) - Bethany Griffin
Magisterium - Jeff Hirsch
Origin - Jessica Khoury
Stormdancer (The Lotus Wars, #1) - Jay Kristoff
False Memory (False Memory, #1) - Dan Krokos
Monument 14 (Monument 14, #1) - Emmy Laybourne
Tomorrow Land - Mari Mancusi
Velveteen (Velveteen, #1) - Daniel Marks
Yesterday - C. K. Kelly Martin
The Farm - Emily McKay
Incarnate (Newsoul, #1) - Jodi Meadows
The Glimpse - Claire Merle
Ashen Winter (Ashfall, #2) - Mike Mullin
For Darkness Shows the Stars - Diana Peterfreund
Defiance (Defiance, #1) - C. J. Redwine
A Million Suns (Across the Universe, #2) - Beth Revis
Black City (Black City #1) - Elizabeth Richards
The Testament of Jessie Lamb - Jane Rogers 
Under the Never Sky (Under the Never Sky, #1) - Veronica Rossi
Divergent (Divergent, #1) - Veronica Roth
Altered (Altered #1) - Jennifer Rush
Zom-B (Zom-B, #1) - Darren Shan
Skylark (Skylark #1) - Meagan Spooner
Article 5 (Article 5, #1) - Kristen Simmons
The Loners (Quarantine, #1) - Lex Thomas
Blood Red Road (Dust Lands #1) - Moira Young
What's Left of Me (The Hybrid Chronicles, #1) - Kat Zhang

3 Adult:
The Windup Girl - Paolo Bacigalupi
Anthem - Ayn Rand
The Age of Miracles - Karen Thompson Walker

2 Picture Books:
The Little Stormdancer - Jay Kristoff
BAAA - David Macaulay

1 Middle Grade:
Above World - Jenn Reese

Book of the Month Giveaway:

Even though I had a ton of giveaways this month, I'm still going to do my BotM giveaway. I had two five star reads this month and I already did a giveaway for Stormdancer, so this month I'm offering a copy of Blood Red Road to one reader. It will be shipped from TBD or Fishpond (for Australian folks), so international.

Blood Red Road is the first book that I've ever loved (even liked) told in dialect. If I can love it, so can you! On TBD, the cover shown on the right and the new cover are roughly the same price, so winner's choice of which cover they want.
 a Rafflecopter giveaway