My Thoughts: Book five in the Songs of Magic series finds The Rioting Zebras jetting off to India, Australia, and other points east on their World Tour where they’re worked to exhaustion with little downtime while bigger changes are brewing back in Fairie. A documentary crew is following Jason, Erin, Mitch, and Dred around during the world tour, filming them nearly twenty-four/seven for a reality show. When they don’t find…

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…

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…

Prophecy by Ellen Oh (blog, twitter, facebook Series: The Dragon King Chronicles #1 Genre: YA Fantasy Publication: January 2nd 2013 by HarperTeen Copy from publisher Get your own: amazon | BookDepository Rating: Prophecy by Ellen Oh  on goodreads:  The greatest warrior in all of the Seven Kingdoms… is a girl with yellow eyes. Kira’s the only female in the king’s army, and the prince’s bodyguard. She’s a demon slayer and an outcast, hated by nearly…

Days of Blood and Starlight by Laini Taylor (website, Facebook, Twitter) Genre: YA Fantasy Publication: November 6th 2012 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Audiobook purchased by review Get your own: Amazon | B&N | Indiebound synopsis from Goodreads Rating: Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love and dared to imagine a world free of bloodshed and war. This is not that world. Art…

The Peculiar by Stefan Bachmann (website, Twitter) Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy Publication: September 18th, 2012 by HarperCollins/Greenwillow Audiobook provided by publisher Get your own: Amazon | B&N | Indiebound synopsis from Goodreads Rating: Don’t get yourself noticed and you won’t get yourself hanged.In the faery slums of Bath, Bartholomew Kettle and his sister Hettie live by these words. Bartholomew and Hettie are changelings–Peculiars–and neither faeries nor humans want anything to…

Path of Beasts by Lian Tanner (website, Facebook) Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy Publication: October 9th 2012 by Delacorte Books for Young Readers ARC won from author’s website Get your own: Amazon | B&N | Indiebound synopsis from Goodreads Rating: The city of Jewel is in peril once again, as it is held captive by the frightful Fugleman, his band of Blessed Guardians, and an army of merciless mercenaries. There’s no…

The Assassin’s Curse by Cassandra Rose Clarke (web | Book 1 The Assassin’s Curse  Genre: YA Fantasy Expected publication: October 2nd 2012 by Strange Chemistry Copy from publisher Get your own: amazon | BookDepository Rating: The Assassin’s Curse by Cassandra Rose Clarke  on goodreads:  Ananna of the Tanarau abandons ship when her parents try to marry her off to an allying pirate clan: she wants to captain her own boat, not serve as second-in-command…

Crewel by Gennifer Albin (web | facebook | twitter) Book I  Crewel World  Genre: YA, Dystopian, Fantasy Expected publication: October 16th 2012 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Copy from publisher Get your own: amazon | BookDepository Rating: Crewel by Gennifer Albin  on goodreads:  Incapable. Awkward. Artless. That’s what the other girls whisper behind her back. But sixteen year-old Adelice Lewys has a secret: she wants to fail. Gifted with the ability to…

The Flint Heart by Katherine Paterson and John Paterson (website, Facebook Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy Publication: September 27th by Candlewick Press Audiobook borrowed from library Get your own: Amazon | B&N | Indiebound synopsis from Goodreads Rating: A robust and wildly entertaining fairy tale, freely abridged from Eden Phillpotts’s 1910 fantasy and wryly retold by Katherine and John Paterson. An ambitious Stone Age man demands a talisman that will harden…

Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff (web | Book 1 in the The Lotus War  Genre: YA, Fantasy, Steampunk Expected publication: September 18th 2012 by Thomas Dunne Books Copy from publisher Get your own: amazon | BookDepository Rating: Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff  on goodreads:  A DYING LAND  The Shima Imperium verges on the brink of environmental collapse; an island nation once rich in tradition and myth, now decimated by clockwork industrialization and the machine-worshipers of the Lotus…

Today I’m super excited to host Sara Walsh and her debut The Dark Light on the Bookworms. The wonderful Mia – main character of The Dark Light took her time, drank a coffee with me and chatted a little about her journey! and… I have a wonderful Giveaway for you at the end! So, please welcome Mia – our fearless heroine who snatched this awesome boy with the big tattoo…