Pushy and Danny here and we want to talk about one of our most favorite series! *insert happy dance* Last year, book 1 of the series, Shadow & Bone, totally blew our minds and we were so incredibly and epically in love!!! Now, with Siege and Storm, being a sequel, how afraid were you picking it up? Danny: Oh .. holy cow.. I was scared shitless!!! As much as…
Katie McGarry’s Second Book Takes Angsty Contemporary Romance To New Levels of Awesome! Beth…a girl with a past Pushy: Oh man, I was so excited when I heard the next book would be about Beth. And then I realized she wouldn’t be with Isaiah at the end. ENORMOUS FROWNY FACE!!! Beth and Isaiah go together like tattoos and hot guys!!!! Still, you know there’s no way I wasn’t going to read this book!…
Intense Action is a Reading Rush Better With Science Anna’s world at the beginning of this book is fairly enclosed. Homeschooled by her scientist father, living in a remote location where he conducts his work, she spends the formative years of her life living with few interactions with her peers. Still, she has her boys, the subjects of her father’s research, that she gets to help with. They seem to…
Hardcore West Grayer lives in a bleak world. In her walled off, sectioned up city of Kersh, she’s seen in a lot in her 15 years. Her parents have died. Her siblings have been slaughtered. All she has left is her brother and the knowledge that one day her turn will come. She will be tested and only the strongest will survive. While I loved the premise of this book…
Beautiful Sorrows by Mercedes M. Yardley (website, Facebook, Twitter) Genre: Fantasy Publication: 2012 by Shock Totem Publications eBook gifted by friend Get your own: Amazon | B&N synopsis from Goodreads Rating: There is a place where sorrows pile up like snow and rest in your hair like cherry blossoms. Boys have wings, monsters fall in love, women fade into nothingness, and the bones of small children snap like twigs. Darkness…
Level 2 by Lenore Appelhans (website, Facebook, Twitter) Genre: YA Paranormal Publication: January 15th 2013 by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Audiobook borrowed from library Get your own: Amazon | B&N | Indiebound synopsis from Goodreads Rating: Three levels. Two loves. One choice. Debut novelist, Lenore Appelhans has written a thrilling otherworldly young adult novel about a place that exists between our world (Level 1) and what comes…
Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi (website, Facebook, Twitter) Genre: YA Dystopian Publication: February 5th 2013 by HarperCollins Audiobook purchased by reviewer Get your own: Amazon | B&N | Indiebound synopsis from Goodreads Rating: tick tick tick tick tick it’s almost time for war. Juliette has escaped to Omega Point. It is a place for people like her—people with gifts—and it is also the headquarters of the rebel resistance. She’s finally…
Happy Friday, and welcome to the latest installment of our monthly feature where we review Children’s books. Fancy Nancy: Nancy Clancy, Secret Admirer By Jane O’Connor Illustrations by Robin Preiss Glasser Amazon / B&N / Indiebound / Goodreads 112 pages (Hardcover, Paperback and eBook) Published January 2nd, 2013 by HarperCollins Received as gift Nancy Clancy and her best friend, Bree, have love on the brain–after all, they’re learning about the…
Scarlet by Marissa Meyer (website | twitter | facebook) Series: Lunar Chronicles #2 Genre: YA, Parnormal, Dystopian, Fantasy Publication: February 5th 2013 by Feiwel and Friends Copy from publisher Get your own: amazon | BookDepository Rating: Scarlet by Marissa Meyer on Goodreads: Cinder returns in the second thrilling installment of the New York Times-bestselling Lunar Chronicles. She’s trying to break out of prison—even though if she succeeds, she’ll be the Commonwealth’s most wanted fugitive. Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit’s grandmother…
Through the Ever Night by Veronica Rossi (website, twitter) Series: Under the Never Sky #2) Genre: YA Dystopian/Paranormal Publication: January 8th 2013 by HarperCollins Copy from publisher Get your own: amazon | BookDepository Rating: Through the Ever Night by Veronica Rossi on goodreads: t’s been months since Aria last saw Perry. Months since Perry was named Blood Lord of the Tides, and Aria was charged with an impossible mission. Now, finally, they are about to…
Shades of Earth (Across the Universe #3) (Goodreads, Amazon) by Beth Revis (Goodreads, Amazon, Website) Published January 2013 by Razorbill The final book in the New York Times bestselling trilogy, perfect for fans of Battlestar Galactica and Prometheus! Amy and Elder have finally left the oppressive walls of the spaceshipGodspeed behind. They’re ready to start life afresh–to build a home–on Centauri-Earth, the planet that Amy has traveled 25 trillion miles across the universe to experience. But…
Happy Friday, and welcome to the latest installment of our monthly feature where we review Children’s books. Liesl and Po By Lauren Oliver Illustrations by Kei Acedera Amazon / B&N / Indiebound / Goodreads 307 pages (Hardcover, Paperback and Audiobook) Published October 4th 2011 by HarperCollins Audiobook borrowed from library Liesl lives in a tiny attic bedroom, locked away by her cruel stepmother. Her only friends are the shadows and…
The Luxe by Anna Godbersen (website, Facebook) Genre: YA Historical Romance Publication: November 20, 2007 by HarperCollins Audiobook borrowed from library Get your own: Amazon | B&N | Indiebound synopsis from Goodreads Rating: Pretty girls in pretty dresses, partying until dawn. Irresistible boys with mischievous smiles and dangerous intentions. White lies, dark secrets, and scandalous hookups. This is Manhattan, 1899. Beautiful sisters Elizabeth and Diana Holland rule Manhattan’s social scene….
