Valentine's Tea Party Wrap Up and RESULTS!

So it's the last day of February... which also means it's time to end our Valentine's Tea Party!  Jen and I have had such fun hosting this and getting to interview all our favourite bloggers and we hope you enjoyed reading them!

If you missed them, here are the links to the tea parties we hosted:

Keertana from Ivy Book Bindings
Eileen from ***Singing and Reading in the Rain***
Aneeqah from My Not So Real Life
Vy from Vy's Blog
Hilda from Catch the Lune
Shirley from Shiirleyy's Bookshelf
Riya from The Teen Book Guru
Jasprit from The Readers Den

Don't forget to enter the giveaway to win a paperback copy of Easy by Tammara Webber!

And... you probably remembered us asking you in the kick-off to vote for your favourites out of the different categories.  They have all been counted and we're delighted to announce our winners of 2013...

Favourite YA Couple

Beatrice Prior and Tobias Eaton (Divergent by Veronica Roth)

Sweetest Fictional Boy

Augustus Waters (The Fault in Our Stars by John Green)

Favourite Fictional Bad Boy

Will Herondale (The Infernal Devices series by Cassandra Clare)

Most Swoon-Worthy Fictional Boy

Etienne St Clair (Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins)

Favourite Love Triangle

Will-Tessa-Jem (The Infernal Devices series by Cassandra Clare)

Best Author of Romance in YA Fiction

Stephanie Perkins

Book with the HOTTEST cover

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

Are you happy with the results?  Did the ones you voted for win?  Let us know in the comments - we'd love to hear your thoughts!

Thank you again from Jen and I for all your support this month - we've had such a blast and you, as our readers, have made this experience extra fun!  So it's even more sad to bring all this gushing and swooning to a close - we hope you have had as much of a great time as us!

Here's to February next year - keep your schedules free so you don't miss the next tea party ;)

Happy reading,

Beverley and Jen xxx

One Year Blogoversary Celebrations Wrap Up!

It's a wrap... This post concludes our One Year Blogoversary Celebrations!  I've had tremendous fun writing up all these posts and reading all your wonderful comments wishing us a Happy Blogoversary! It's been such an incredible journey and I would like to thank you again for your kindness and all-round awesomeness!  Your support is what kept me going XD And I can't leave the blogosphere now, can I? I'm already craving the two year blogoversary ;)  Here's to 2013 being even bigger and better than before for all of us *cheers*

And because we like to wrap things up, if you've missed all the posts, here they are in one handy, condensed list:

Kick Off + International Giveaway, in which I marvel at my own stats, hyperventilate and give away a copy of a YA book of your choice

My Blogging Journey + Highlights, in which I talk about my year of blogging, gradually move up the CRAZY scale and... transform into a wise Asian master (don't ask :P) 

Author + Publisher Thanks, in which I thank the authors who showed me so much kindness from the start and to the publishers who send me books, accept my requests etc.

Spreading the Blogger Love, in which I thank my wonderful blogging friends who are super amazing and supportive and friendly in every way!

Giveaway #2: Signed copy of Kiss, Date, Love, Hate by Luisa Plaja (INT)

Giveaway #3: Two Prize Packs from Templar Publishing (UK only)

Giveaway #4: Copy of Witch's Brew by Heidi R. Kling (INT)

Giveaway #5: YA Prize Pack from Simon & Schuster (UK only)

It's been such a fun-filled past two weeks and I still have the blogoversary 'afterglow'... Now to get on to revision in preparation for exams next month :(

Hope you guys are having a fabulous first month of the year!

Happy reading,

Beverley xxx