Book Birthday Shout Out - Forever Squeeing

Birthday Book Shout Out is a weekly meme from the Bewitched Bookworms to celebrate anxiously awaited new releases and their authors!

Today's pick is FOREVER by Maggie Steifveter.

Forever is going to be the OMG, Hells to the NOES, final installment in the Wolves of Mercy Falls series. What on earth is going to become of Sam, Grace, Cole, and Isabel? What about the rest? Have you started reading this series yet? Like, what are you waiting for? RUN! Quickly! To the store!! Grab the book!! (I would say library but trust me... you're gonna wind up buying it anyways). AND BUY BUY BUY! Then go home and read! What will happen next?!!!!


ABOUT THE AUTHOR


The Shiver Lady lives on the east coast, has a dog or two, writes most awesome books, has a car named Loki, and really enjoys wearing hats that obsessive fans make her. She is most excellent and we here at Paranormal Wastelands love her!





Last week we had "WAITING ON FOREVER" Week. This week we are doing

OMG HAMSTER FACE

because we for reals can't wait to get our sticky little fingers on FOREVER!! We sooo can't wait!! It has been a year since Linger and OMG do we need more!! Sad Panda Frowny Face that this will be the last one but you bet your bottom dollar that we know it will be worth it!

Till next week. Here's hoping that you fall in love with Sam!!

Special Thanks to OnePushyFox for hooking Greta up with FOREVER. She was most awesome and went out of her way at BEA to snag her a copy and even get it autographed. Greta is FOREVER in her debt :)

Waiting on Forever - Day 6 - Forever Squees and Youtube Tease

Are you on the edge of your seat?

Are you howling with anticipation?

Have you been told to calm down by your husband like a jillion times because it's only a book?

Well, you've come to the right place, then!

Because here at Paranormal Wastelands we can't WAIT for FOREVER to be released.

And in honor of our awesome skills of sitting on our hands, squirming a bit, and looking at the calendar to change to June 12th we have come up with a whole week of Wolves of Mercy Falls Extravaganza.

So, sit back my girly girls and enjoy!

What could be more awesome than Robocop riding on a unicorn?

Not much out there, huh?

How about Maggie reading us the first couple pages of Forever?!!!??!!

Squee squee!!

We hope you enjoyed our squee countdown to Forever. It's been loads of fun! Now, we're gonna get out of here and read. Till next time!

Random Fact # 6: Beck was married to a girl he met in college, but she died of cancer. She was also the only other human to know the truth about the wolves.

HEY!! And make sure you stop by Paranormal Wastelands on July 12th for a review and an EPIC ONE OF A KIND GIVEAWAY that will be full of all sorts of Squees, Howls, and OMGS! *hints* Pay attention to the random facts for xtra points!!

Waiting on Forever - Day 5 - The Cole Explosion

Are you on the edge of your seat?

Are you howling with anticipation?

Have you been told to calm down by your husband like a jillion times because it's only a book?

Well, you've come to the right place, then!

Because here at Paranormal Wastelands we can't WAIT for FOREVER to be released.

And in honor of our awesome skills of sitting on our hands, squirming a bit, and looking at the calendar to change to June 12th we have come up with a whole week of Wolves of Mercy Falls Extravaganza.

So, sit back my girly girls and enjoy!

Today's post goes to the smoldering sexy mess that is COLE !!

Oh snapples, how we love love LOVE Cole!!

We love his sexy rock hair. We shiver at the way he answers a phone.

Darkfallen: Did you get your hubz to start answering the phone like that?

Greta: Yeah, finally!!

Darkfallen: Really? How did you do it?

Greta: Clicker and rewards.

Darfallen: That worked?

Greta: Kind of, but now every time he hears a phone ring he thinks he's going to get a bag of potato chips. I fear he'll get fat but it will be worth it!!

We love how he lets someone smaller push him into walls.

***Darkfallen and Greta jump up and down and say "Hooray for shortness!"

We love his rippling back muscles and hope there is more COLE-TIME in Forever. Cuz we needs him!!

Greta: I think if I was to make a Cole it would be a Hugh Jackman / Nick Simmons monster meld.





Darkfallen: Wolverine and Gene Simmons' son? DUDE!!??!!!

Greta: NO NO NO! Bear with me. Look at the nom we can create!!






Darkfallen: He looks like he has scoliosis!! That's the best you can do?

Greta: Oh shut up! What do you have for us?

Darkfallen: Something way more awesome then your franken-wolverine over there.

Greta: And? WE're waiting.....

Darkfallen: I present to you the most awesome COLE related song:

Darkfallen: And look here is cover art for the album to just show you HOW perfect this song is for our sexy Cole....

Greta: Annnndddd just to show you how obsessed she is she has even included a pic of the band for you...but you have to agree that album cover and title is perfect;)

Darkfallen: SHUT up!!! I am NOT obsessed...just dilieously inthrawed...and slightly enchanted...and

Greta: I think the word you are looking for my pet is..OBSESSED!!! Don't let her fool you. I've seen her get lost in thier music and play a mean air guitar like she is some long lost band member...she is obsessed I assure you *winks*

Darkfallen: A-n-y-waaaaayyyyssss *rolls eyes*. Meet the band would ya!

Greta: Hmmms.... It's possible that THAT might be more awesome than my Cole picture

Darkfallen: YOu mean Franken-Wolverine. DUde! YOu just wanted an excuse to show Wolverine on our website. I am appalled!! We all know what your doing.

Greta: Don't make me smack you. We need to go to our happy place.

Darkfallen: TO the land of Franken-Wolverines?

xXxXx Techical Difficulties xXxXx

Darkfallen: Well kids. I hope you enjoyed our Cole-lovin' post. Even though Greta tried to turn it into a Franken-Wolverine love fest. See you next time!

Greta: Best 2 out of 3

Darkfallen: Don't make me smack you again! Bye kids! Come back tomorrow. We've got one more squeeful day of Forever waiting for you.

Random Fact # 5: Cole is a mess of a man. What he did to his ex-girl friend Angie haunts him to no end. Angie is also Erics sister.

(Yes there will be a test on this later *winks*)

HEY!! And make sure you stop by Paranormal Wastelands on July 12th for a review and an EPIC ONE OF A KIND GIVEAWAY that will be full of all sorts of Squees, Howls, and OMGS! *hints* Pay attention to the random facts for xtra points!!

Waiting on Forever - Day 4 - Our Forever Predictions

Are you on the edge of your seat?

Are you howling with anticipation?

Have you been told to calm down by your husband like a jillion times because it's only a book?

Well, you've come to the right place, then!

Because here at Paranormal Wastelands we can't WAIT for FOREVER to be released.

And in honor of our awesome skills of sitting on our hands, squirming a bit, and looking at the calendar to change to July 12th we have come up with a whole week of Wolves of Mercy Falls Extravaganza.

So, sit back my girly girls and enjoy!

~*~ What We Think will Happen in Forever ~*~

Have you read the back cover for Forever by Maggie Stiefvater?

NOES!! Don't tell us!!!

Cuz we totally haven't! Not at ALL! Well, as we write this post we haven't. Its probably pretty likely that Darkfallen has already gobble Forever up ;) Greta on the other hand is waiting till she can stand still long enough to read without being interrupted.

So, today we bring you what WE at Paranormal Wastelands believe will happen in Forever (written before either of us have read the book)

Darkfallen's Forever:

Sam is lost without Grace. Unable to find her since that day she shifted into her wolf and jumped out the window at the hospital. Now he is left to protect the pack, with no will to do anything but miss her, and Cole.


Cole who seems to have so much trouble staying the wolf he desperately needs to be. He needs to forget himself, lose himself to the beast, but he can’t seem to make it stick. Tired of always being the broken screw up he dives into his head, trying to find a cure. To give Sam some hope, to give someone something for a change instead of always taking. Maybe then he can have something for himself…Isabel.


Sam praying that he can find Grace. Praying for the shift of the warm summer to bring home his summer girl. For once he finds himself yearning for his wolf, at least then he could find her. You always want what you can’t have. But what is Grace doesn’t haven’t any summer’s in her. What if all those years of never shifting means now that she is a wolf she will never be human again…just like Sam can never be a wolf. Why does it feel like the world always pull them apart?

Sam will find himself at a crossroads. His choices are: Give up the war he has been fighting. The only life he has ever know...fighting to BE SAM not wolf, or to never have Grace. Because Grace can never be human again. The only way for Sam to be with her is as a wolf. So he will take the bite from Cole to re-join his wolf and live with his summer girl. Surrendering all that made Sam, SAM...forever

Greta's Forever:

I think Forever will be set in the future. Sam will be 25 and I guess that will make Grace 24 and they will still be hunting for a cure. Sam is still cured but trying to figure out ways to dodge the cold for Grace, who is falling more and more in love with the idea of staying a wolf forever.

Olivia will have been caught in wolf form and Cole's mad scientist Daddy's creepy (let's assume) laboratory will have been used for tests but in the process of not enough time and not enough trail runs they will have killed her.

In the end there will only be enough of the cure for one person. Grace looks at Sam. Sam knows that look. Knows the only way to promise her forever. And the cure is given to Cole.

But before Cole takes the cure he has to bite Sam. He has to give him the gift that he thought was a curse.

Grace and Sam shift into wolves to live out the rest of their forever days in the free form of the wolf while Cole and Isabel take over Beck's house just in case they ever come back and to keep the pack alive.

Now, that we've squeed you ours... if you don't know what's going to happen... Predict the future and tell us what you think will happen in Forever.

Random Fact # 4: Isabel and Jack moved to Mercy Falls from California.

(Yes there will be a test on this later *winks*)

HEY!! And make sure you stop by Paranormal Wastelands on July 12th for a review and an EPIC ONE OF A KIND GIVEAWAY that will be full of all sorts of Squees, Howls, and OMGS! *hints* Pay attention to the random facts for xtra points!!

Waiting on Forever-Day 3-Shiver/Linger Squee Edition

Are you on the edge of your seat?

Are you howling with anticipation?

Have you been told to calm down by your husband like a jillion times because it's only a book?

Well, you've come to the right place, then!

Because here at Paranormal Wastelands we can't WAIT for FOREVER to be released.

And in honor of our awesome skills of sitting on our hands, squirming a bit, and looking at the calendar to change to June 12th we have come up with a whole week of Wolves of Mercy Falls Extravaganza.

So, sit back my girly girls and enjoy!

In Day 3 of Waiting On Forever we have hooked up with The Bewitched Bookworms to offer our SQUEES on the first of the two books.

If you haven't read the books it is possible you won't have a clue what's going on. But I assure you that is OK. This will just amp you up even more to read the books that have Darkfallen and Greta going SQUEE SQUEE SQUEE!

~~ Darkfallen's Shiver Squee ~~


This was my first wolfy book, and OMG RAWR!! I'm never going back. Vampires?

 Vampires who?

I'm sorry I only speak wolf now;)

This book filled with quiet book store stares behind yellow eyes that make you shiver every time you think about them is simply awesome in the purest form.

Grace and her tire swing reads wolf obsessions make you love her. Want to hug her. Give her anything she asks for and more for no other reason than she deserves it.

One page after the next you find yourself lost in their world...hoping against hope that you'll stay that way. With the crunch of dying leaves under your paws, and warm fur under you palms.

You find yourself dreaming of boys with lemon jolly rancher eyes and what it would be like to be him. To shed your skin to the cold for a winter coat of fur, forest, and hunting.

Start wondering things like...just how illegal is it to have a pet wolf? And if I had one could I convince him to eat something other than live prey? Even though you know it wouldn't be the same because it wouldn't be Sam, you'll take what you can get at this point.

Finding yourself breathless at stolen midnight kisses. And hidden hand squeezes under rumpled covers. Remembering the excitement of cuddling when you were that young and in love.

With broken windshield shatter soundtrack's the floor falls out of you chest, and breathless as taken on a whole new meaning entirely.

Then in the end you find yourself gripping the sterile counter top of a free clinic praying to anyone who will listen that this doesn't end the way you think it will, because your heart won't take it. It can't take it. And now your crying....wiping tears from my face I grab Linger and dive in...

~~ Greta's Linger Squee ~~

Super duper most awesome squees!!

I freaking lovers Linger!! Its full of RAWRS, orange flavored kisses, fisted t-shirts shrugs, sweatpant thighs, rock-n-roll hair, omg gasping deer, and GREEN INK!!


Unfinished song lyrics, summer girls in the spring, neck pinches, chest pounding, heart throbbing, closed eyes finished with an open squee. I mean seriously, can I say anymore?

Onstage broken rock stars, Ice Queen who start to melt, Old time diners that smell like yesterday, hospital beds laying empty as you wear you emotions on your sleeve.

Knock out drag out bruising cheeks, sneaking in when you should be out, left behind only to turn around and sigh.... EEEEEEEEE!! WHat else can I say? I freaking LOVE this book!!!!!!

Indie band cover art, drumkit magazine, adventures in wonderland where wonderland sleeps, WOLF WOLF WOLF !


This book made me want a boyfriend all over again. A young edition of John Mayer because that's how I see Sam. Don't judge me!! LOLZ


Yeah yeah yeah.. I know.. I'm married and all... But remember how everything felt when it was new? Remember the fluttering of your heartbeat and the holding of your breath whenever he walked into a room. OH SQUEES! This book brought back all those memories... and made me look at youtube videos of how to fold paper cranes. Maybe I can subliminally talk my husband into learning how to fold them without figuring out exactly what I'm doing. I want my thousand paper cranes, damn it!!

I loved the suspense of this book, the hidden secrets behind closed doors, and the intense emotion of it all. It felt like I was listening to my favorite cd instead of reading a book. Absolutely amazing with whipped cream, cherry tomatoes, and watermelon sprinkles on top!

All I can say is WOLF WOLF WOLF MORE!! The wait for FOREVER is going to kill me. I know its not far off now but it's freaking going to KILL ME!!!

And kids... I cried during this one. That should make you all squee ;)

Join us back here tomorrow!! There is way more FOREVER SQUEES to be had!!

Random Fact # 3: Sam takes Grace to a candy store in Duluth. He buys her peppermint hot chocolate and buttercreams.

HEY!! And make sure you stop by Paranormal Wastelands on July 12th for a review and an EPIC ONE OF A KIND GIVEAWAY that will be full of all sorts of Squees, Howls, and OMGS! *hints* Pay attention to the random facts for xtra points!!

Waiting on Wednesday - Forever Edition

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we just can't wait to get our sticky fingers on.


Title: Forever
Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Published: July 12, 2011
Synopsis from Goodreads



In Maggie Stiefvater's SHIVER, Grace and Sam found each other. In LINGER, they fought to be together. Now, in FOREVER, the stakes are even higher than before. Wolves are being hunted. Lives are being threatened. And love is harder and harder to hold on to as death comes closing in.



We here at Paranormal Wastelands are super mondo excited about this book.

Darkfallen: Wait wait wait wait!!!
Greta: What?
Darkfallen: Are you serious? That's the description you are going to post?
Greta: What's wrong with it?
Darkfallen: It's kinda short and vague, don't ya think?
Greta: Yeah, so.....
Darkfallen: Don't you think it should say more?
Greta: Uhh... noes
Darkfallen: YOu still haven't looked into what "Forever" is about, have you?
Greta: Ummm... noes... and I posted that description with my eyes shut. Don't judge
Darkfallen: I'm seriously worried about you
Greta: And what do we say about a book that makes Darkfallen worry about me?

Must have NOWS!
We needs it!!
We wants it!!
We can't lives without it!!

Now that you've heard what our CAN'T WAIT book is... What's yours? Drop us a comment so we can find out what has you on pins and needles.

HEY!! And make sure you stop by Paranormal Wastelands on July 12th for a review and an EPIC ONE OF A KIND GIVEAWAY that will be full of all sorts of Squees, Howls, and OMGS!

Waiting on Forever - Day 1 - Music Madness

Are you on the edge of your seat?

Are you howling with anticipation?

Have you been told to calm down by your husband like a jillion times because it's only a book?



Well, you've come to the right place, then!

Because here at Paranormal Wastelands we can't WAIT for FOREVER to be released.

And in honor of our awesome skills of sitting on our hands, squirming a bit, and looking at the calendar to change to June 12th we have come up with a whole week of Wolves of Mercy Falls Extravaganza.



So, sit back my girly girls and enjoy!



*~* Day 1 - The Music *~*



Today we celebrate the passion of getting jiggy with it.

NA na na na NA NA NA!

Ok.. maybe not like that.

Today we find that one song that suits the books of Mercy Falls. The one song that reminds us of a Shivery nom and a Lingering stare.



~SHIVER~

~LINGER~

Now that we've shown your our Mercy Falls song, why don't you show us yours?

Random Fact # 1: Paul taught Sam how to play the guitar.

(Yes there will be a test later so pay attention *winks*)

HEY!! And make sure you stop by Paranormal Wastelands on July 12th for a review and an EPIC ONE OF A KIND GIVEAWAY that will be full of all sorts of Squees, Howls, and OMGS! *hints* Pay attention to the random facts for xtra points!!

My entry for 'It's a Wolves of Mercy Falls art contest'!

Hello all.. and MAGGIE MAGGIE MAGGIE!!


The Shiver Lady is hosting a fan art contest to win a most awesome arc.


What is that arc?



Uhh... duhs? Why it's FOREVER!!


ferret yes!


In order to win such mondo lovely arc the rules to her contest state that one must create fan art to relate to "The Wolves of Mercy Falls"



This is my entry in the competition.

This picture was taken in Leeds, Alabama
Across the street from the library
With my neighbor Laney
Wearing a hat that I hand-knit for the contest

Fingers crossed and good luck to all the contestants.
You can see all the rules and info about the contest by going to the Shiver Lady's website.

My entry for 'It's a Wolves of Mercy Falls art contest'!

Hello all.. and MAGGIE MAGGIE MAGGIE!!



The Shiver Lady is hosting a fan art contest to win a most awesome arc.



What is that arc?




Uhh... duhs? Why it's FOREVER!!



ferret yes!



In order to win such mondo lovely arc the rules to her contest state that one must create fan art to relate to "The Wolves of Mercy Falls"




This is my entry in the competition.

This picture was taken in Leeds, Alabama
Across the street from the library
With my neighbor Laney
Wearing a hat that I hand-knit for the contest

Fingers crossed and good luck to all the contestants.

You can see all the rules and info about the contest by going to the Shiver Lady's website.

My entry for 'It's a Wolves of Mercy Falls art contest'!

Hello all.. and MAGGIE MAGGIE MAGGIE!!

The Shiver Lady is hosting a fan art contest to win a most awesome arc.

What is that arc?

Uhh... duhs? Why it's FOREVER!!

ferret yes!

In order to win such mondo lovely arc the rules to her contest state that one must create fan art to relate to "The Wolves of Mercy Falls"

This is my entry in the competition.

I present to you the hat that I knitted all by myself for the contest.

It is made from Vanna White yarn (snazzy) and fun fur (fuzzy).

The hat took about a week to construct and and countless hours of convincing my cats that it was not their new toy.

Fingers crossed and good luck to all the contestants.

You can see all the rules and info about the contest by going to the Shiver Lady's website.