Let Your Summer Be Happy I’m a fan of epistolary forms of books, so I was delighted to find This is What Happy Looks Like opened in the email version of this format. With the delightfully simple device of a misaddressed missive, Jennifer Smith introduces us to Graham and Ellie, two teens with well suited […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]