My Secret to Tell by Natalie D. Richards Release Date: October 6, 2015 Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire 320 Pages Received: Gifted Format: ARC Rating: 4 Nuts Description: There was blood on his hands. Where was the guilt in his eyes? Emmie’s had a crush on her best friend’s brother […]
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender Leslye Walton Publisher: Candlewick Press Date Published: March 25, 2014 Pages: 320 Source: Purchased Rating: Description: Foolish love appears to be the Roux family birthright, an ominous forecast for its most recent progeny, Ava Lavender. Ava—in all other ways a normal girl—is born with the […]
“Waiting On” Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating! The book I can’t wait for this week is. . . Riders by Veronica Rossi Publisher: Tor Teen February 16, 2016 Description: For eighteen-year-old Gideon Blake, nothing but death can keep him from achieving his […]
Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater October 21st, 2014 Scholastic Press Hardcover Source: Netgalley Rating: Description: There is danger in dreaming. But there is even more danger in waking up. Blue Sargent has found things. For the first time in her life, she has friends she can trust, a group to which she can […]
The White Rose by Amy Ewing Release Date: October 6, 2015 Publisher: HarperTeen 320 Pages Received: From Publisher for review Format: ARC Rating: 4 Nuts Description: Violet is on the run. After the Duchess of the Lake catches Violet with Ash, the hired companion at the Palace of the […]
The Scorpion Rules by Erin Bow Release Date: September 22, 2015 Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books 384 Pages Received: In Trade Format: ARC Rating: 3 Nuts Description: A world battered by climate shift and war turns to an ancient method of keeping peace: the exchange of hostages. […]
Waiting on Wednesday “Waiting On” Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating This week’s eagerly anticipated book is. . . Firsts by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn St. Martin’s Press January 5th, 2016 Description: Seventeen-year-old Mercedes Ayres has an open-door […]
Part of being book obsessed is finding great deals on the books we love. Over the last year, one of the websites I’ve really come to love is Book Outlet. If you haven’t used them before, they sell books at highly discounted rates, either because the titles were overstocked or because they are scratch and […]
It’s Tuesday, pig and a poke! No, actually it’s top ten tuesday, the weekly meme where we answer a topic posed by hosts The Broke and the Bookish. This week is a freebie so my topic is Top Ten Stories I Would Like to See. These are the kind of plots that I would devour […]
I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson September 16th, 2014 256 pages Source: borrowed Rating: Description:Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does the talking […]