tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65196001227977216712024-02-07T02:25:42.921+00:00Queen of the Bookshelves A blog for everything and anything relating to books.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14221686594109830236noreply@blogger.comBlogger204125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519600122797721671.post-15234279556941605772016-07-15T13:00:00.000+01:002016-07-15T13:00:14.890+01:00Why I Dislike Novellas<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Novellas can be a useful thing in storytelling: you can see a scene from another perspective, you can get a bit more information about a character, maybe an additional story set in the same world but wasn’t important enough to include in the main text. But I really dislike them. Like to the point I barely read them unless I am thoroughly invested in the story or if they are on audible and I can listen to them in one drive to and from work (which is about an hour and a half). <br /><br />I feel like novellas <b>cheapen </b>the original story. Don’t get me wrong, I understand some things need to be cut because books can’t be 20000 pages long, but for me, if it is important enough to have it’s OWN separate story, <i>it should be included in the original novel </i>somewhere along the line. </span><br />
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<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I also don’t like <b>origin stories</b> and it seems as though most novellas like to tell the reader about the past before the main events. I don’t like this. Drop me hints, give me enough to come to some conclusions, <i><b>but don’t give me everything</b></i>! This makes it harder for me to connect to the story not easier. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As well, novellas makes it difficult for non-obsessed fans to understand stories sometimes. What if people don’t follow books obsessively, miss a novella, and then read the next book <b>but are missing some context that was in the novella</b>? How is that fair? I didn’t know about some novellas for series I LOVED until I started using Goodreads extensively. Before then I was still reading 100-200 books a year and I wasn’t “in the know” about novellas. And that is even for books that I was obsessed for the story! I would read book three and feel like I was missing something from book two but really the context was in a novella that I never read.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And finally, they are usually only digitally released (unless they are in a bind up) and some people don’t like to read ebooks. The only good thing about novellas to me is that they are really short and I can finish them quickly to add to my challenge counter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>I have no use for <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">novellas </span>but I know some people love them<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, so </span>what are your thoughts? Do you like novellas? Should I read more of them?</b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519600122797721671.post-84471643377352671992016-07-13T13:00:00.000+01:002016-07-13T13:00:09.897+01:00Waiting on Wednesday: LOSING IT by Emma Rathbone<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Welcome to Waiting on Wednesday as hosted by <a href="http://breakingthespine.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Breaking the Spine</a>. Each week we will be highlighting an upcoming novel that we are excited about. We will include links to add it to your Goodreads “To Be Read” shelf and where to pre-order it! Today’s featured book is…<b>LOSING IT by Emma Rathbone</b>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: Riverhead Books</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Publication</b> <b>Date</b>: July 19, 2016</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>A poignant, hilarious novel about a woman who still has her virginity at the age of twenty-six, and the summer she's determined to lose it—and find herself.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Julia Greenfield has a problem: she's twenty-six years old and she's still a virgin. Sex ought to be easy. People have it all the time! But, without meaning to, she made it through college and into adulthood with her virginity intact. Something's got to change. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To re-route herself from her stalled life, Julia travels to spend the summer with her mysterious aunt Vivienne in North Carolina. It's not long, however, before she unearths a confounding secret—her 58 year old aunt is a virgin too. In the unrelenting heat of the southern summer, Julia becomes fixated on puzzling out what could have lead to Viv's appalling condition, all while trying to avoid the same fate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Filled with offbeat characters and subtle, wry humor, Losing It is about the primal fear that you just. might. never. meet. anyone. It's about desiring something with the kind of obsessive fervor that almost guarantees you won't get it. It's about the blurry lines between sex and love, and trying to figure out which one you're going for. And it's about the decisions—and non-decisions—we make that can end up shaping a life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I want to venture into Adult Fiction more, so what could be better than a contemporary novel about losing your virginity at 26? I am hoping that this is a mix of The Mindy Project and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt with good humour but a feminist look at what it means to make decisions. I am really looking forward to this one and have already requested that my library gets it in!</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519600122797721671.post-9404522634026081132016-07-06T13:00:00.000+01:002016-07-06T13:00:04.558+01:00Waiting on Wednesday: FLYING by Carrie Jones<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Welcome to Waiting on Wednesday as hosted by <a href="http://breakingthespine.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Breaking the Spine</a>. Each week we will be highlighting an upcoming novel that we are excited about. We will include links to add it to your Goodreads “To Be Read” shelf and where to pre-order it! Today’s featured book is…<b>FLYING by Carrie Jones</b>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Series</b>: Unknown #1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: Tor Teen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Publication</b> <b>Date</b>: July 19, 2016</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">New York Times bestselling author Carrie Jones introduces sassy alien-hunting cheerleader Mana in Flying, the launch of a sparkling new YA SF series.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">People have always treated seventeen-year-old Mana as someone in need of protection. She's used to being coddled, being an only child, but it's hard to imagine anything could ever happen in her small-town, normal life. As her mother's babying gets more stifling than ever, she's looking forward to cheering at the big game and getting out of the house for a while.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But that night, Mana's life goes haywire.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">First, the hot guy she's been crushing on at school randomly flips out and starts spitting acid during the game. Then they get into a knockdown, drag-out fight in the locker room, during which Mana finds herself leaping around like a kangaroo on steroids. As a flyer on the cheerleading squad, she's always been a good jumper, but this is a bit much. By the time she gets home and finds her house trashed and an alien in the garage, Mana starts to wonder if her mother had her reasons for being overprotective.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It turns out, Mana's frumpy, timid mom is actually an alien hunter, and now she's missing--taking a piece of technology with her that everyone wants their hands on, both human and alien. Now her supposed partner, a guy that Mana has never met or heard of (and who seems way too young and way too arrogant to be hunting aliens), has shown up, ordering Mana to come with him. Now, on her own for the first time, Mana will have to find a way to save her mother--and maybe the world--and hope she's up to the challenge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Aliens and cheerleaders? Count me IN. I am so excited to see the two overlap and I think this is going to be one of my new favourites. I can feel it in my bones. Also, how do I become an alien hunter?? Aliens are my life man. </span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519600122797721671.post-59581857074284948942016-07-04T13:00:00.000+01:002016-07-04T15:16:42.174+01:00ARC #Review: THE FANGIRL LIFE by Kathleen Smith<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You'd probably know a "fangirl" when you see one, but the majority stay relatively closeted due to the stigma of being obsessed with fictional characters. However, these obsessions are sometimes the fangirl's solutions for managing stress, anxiety, and even low self-esteem. Fangirling is often branded as behavior young women should outgrow and replace with more adult concerns. Written by a proud fangirl, The Fangirl Life is a witty testament to the belief that honoring your imagination can be congruous with good mental health, and it's a guide to teach fangirls how to put their passion to use in their own lives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The Fangirl Life</i> encourages you to use an obsession not as a distraction from the anxieties of life, but rather as a test lab for your own life story: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">How can a character girl crush be useful instead of a waste of time? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">How can writing fan fiction be a launching point for greater endeavors?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">How do you avoid the myths that fictional romance perpetuates? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">By showing you how to translate obsession into personal accomplishment while affirming the quirky, endearing qualities of your fangirl nature, <i>The Fangirl Life </i>will help you become your own ultimate fangirl.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Title</b>: THE FANGIRL LIFE</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Author</b>: Kathleen Smith</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: TarcherPerigee</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication</b> <b>Date</b>: July 5, 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Rating</b>: 5 stars</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Amazon | <a href="https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/the-fangirl-life-a-guide/9781101983690-item.html?ikwid=the+fangirl+life&ikwsec=Home&ikwidx=0" target="_blank">Chapters</a> | <a href="http://www.bookdepository.com/The-Fangirl-Life-Kathleen-Smith/9781101983690?ref=grid-view" target="_blank">TBD</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is a non-fiction, self-help book about how to channel your inner BAMF Fangirl into a BAMF Fanwoman that can rock the world. I so so so wish I had read this while I was in university because it would have been so helpful. Instead, I had to do some trial and error to figure out how to use my skillz to advance myself in the Real World. I would recommend this for any teenage fangirl who is FREAKING OUT about college apps, life decisions, and how to balance real life and fangirl-ing. I would also recommend it to people like me who have some idea what they want to do but want their interests and their goals to overlap so we can get paid to do things we actually enjoy doing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Smith has a good handle on what it's like to be a fangirl and how to transfer those feelings into what it means in real life. I think one of the hardest things for people to do is to see how their skills impact their real life. I used to think that writing meta about Sterek on the internet was The Best Thing Ever™ only for a couple of months (and some rude comments) later to completely erase it from the internet. But how did this help me? It tightened my writing, I was able to analyze and critique things better. All great skills for writing papers in university. And EVERY ONE OF US has something like this. Even if you are just writing book reviews, you have to synthesize what you read and put it in a way that will persuade others to either pick it up or not. Those are valuable abilities to have.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">FIND YOUR INNER GODDESS AND SET HER FREE MY LITTLE CHICKADEES. And pick this one up to remind you that sometimes people have those horrible plot lines before they get back on the right track.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519600122797721671.post-37924364736261142462016-07-01T13:00:00.000+01:002016-07-01T13:00:00.201+01:002017 Releases on my Radar NOW!<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With only six months left until 2017, I have a few books that I am already looking forward to releasing next year! I have a list of <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/97301.2017_Debut_YA_MG_Novels" target="_blank">2017 YA/MG Debuts on Goodreads</a>, but here are some releases I really want to read once they release...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Author</b>: Tricia Levenseller</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: Feiwel & Friends</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: February 21, 2017</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Summary</b>:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>If you want something done right . . .</i><br />When the ruthless pirate king learns of a legendary treasure map hidden on an enemy ship, his daughter, Alosa, knows there's only one pirate for the job—herself. Leaving behind her beloved ship and crew, Alosa deliberately facilitates her own kidnapping to ensure her passage on the ship, confident in her ability to overcome any obstacle. After all, who's going to suspect a seventeen-year-old girl locked in a cell? Then she meets the (surprisingly perceptive and unfairly attractive) first mate, Riden, who is charged with finding out all her secrets. Now it's down to a battle of wits and will . . . . Can Alosa find the map and escape before Riden figures out her plan?<br /><br />Debut author Tricia Levenseller blends action, adventure, romance, and a little bit of magic into a thrilling YA pirate tale.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Author</b>: Stephanie Garber</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Series</b>: Untitled #1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: Flatiron Books</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: January 10, 2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Before you enter the world of Caraval, you must remember that it’s all a game . . .</i><br /><br />Scarlett has never left the tiny island where she and her beloved sister, Tella, live with their ruthless father. Now Scarlett’s father has arranged a marriage for her, and Scarlett thinks her dreams of seeing Caraval, the legendary, once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the show, are over.<br /><br />Then, Scarlett’s long-dreamt of invitation to Caraval finally arrives. So, Tella enlists a mysterious sailor’s help to whisk Scarlett away to this year’s show. But as soon as the trio arrives, Tella is kidnapped by Caraval’s mastermind organizer, Legend.<br /><br />Scarlett has been told that everything that happens during Caraval is only an elaborate performance. But she nonetheless soon becomes enmeshed in a game of love, heartbreak, and magic with her sister, with Legend, and with the other players in the game. And whether Caraval is real or not, she must find Tella before the five nights of the game are over, a dangerous domino effect of consequences is set off, and her sister disappears forever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">YOU DON'T KNOW ME BUT I KNOW YOU</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Author</b>: Rebecca Barrow</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: 2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A girl receives an unexpected letter from her birth mother as she and her boyfriend struggle to decide what to do about an accidental pregnancy, while facing a growing distance with her best friend, who's keeping secrets of her own. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Edited By</b>: Eric Smith</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: JollyFish Press</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: Fall 2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Out with Jolly Fish Press in the Fall of 2017, Eric Smith’s anthology WELCOME HOME, is a collection that explores the emotional complexities of adoption, featuring new, multi-genre short stories from an array of authors including Adi Alsaid, Dave Connis, Helene Dunbar, Kate Leth, Libby Cudmore, Lauren Gibaldi, Matthew Quinn Martin, Mindy McGinnis, Sammy Nickalls, Shannon M. Parker, Randy Ribay, Nic Stone, Smith himself, and others to-be-revealed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">27 HOURS</span></h2>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Author</b>: Tristina Wright</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: Entangled Teen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: Fall 2017</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Summary</b>:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In which a group of queer teens living on a colonized moon must race against the clock to stop an attack that would make the war between their cultures a war of extinction.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519600122797721671.post-22327754244253722632016-06-29T13:00:00.000+01:002016-06-29T13:00:05.537+01:00Waiting on Wednesday: THIS SAVAGE SONG by Victoria Schwab<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Welcome to Waiting on Wednesday as hosted by <a href="http://breakingthespine.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">Breaking the Spine</a>. Each week we will be highlighting an upcoming novel that we are excited about. We will include links to add it to your Goodreads “To Be Read” shelf and where to pre-order it! Today’s featured book is…<b>THIS SAVAGE SONG by Victoria Schwab</b>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">THIS SAVAGE SONG</span></h2>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht70qKWuvgE0F7LSPUy6DPpWZpDh7NfZhmrpuO2wr6Z4Em7GM55w9yE0MU70vQh3kyCRKKNoXuQSvE2Lg0t5HTzLVT3L3sksyjtE2k3TfWg_je0bXTrwvN-RO1B4BQr15fBgoSh8BdhSVL/s1600/23299512.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht70qKWuvgE0F7LSPUy6DPpWZpDh7NfZhmrpuO2wr6Z4Em7GM55w9yE0MU70vQh3kyCRKKNoXuQSvE2Lg0t5HTzLVT3L3sksyjtE2k3TfWg_je0bXTrwvN-RO1B4BQr15fBgoSh8BdhSVL/s400/23299512.jpg" width="265" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Author</b>: Victoria Schwab</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Series</b>: Monsters of Verity #1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: Greenwillow Books</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Publication</b> <b>Date</b>: July 5, 2016</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Summary</b>:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There’s no such thing as safe in a city at war, a city overrun with monsters. In this dark urban fantasy from acclaimed author Victoria Schwab, a young woman and a young man must choose whether to become heroes or villains—and friends or enemies—with the future of their home at stake. The first of two books, THIS SAVAGE SONG is a must-have for fans of Holly Black, Maggie Stiefvater, and Laini Taylor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Kate Harker and August Flynn are the heirs to a divided city—a city where the violence has begun to breed actual monsters. All Kate wants is to be as ruthless as her father, who lets the monsters roam free and makes the humans pay for his protection. All August wants is to be human, as good-hearted as his own father, to play a bigger role in protecting the innocent—but he’s one of the monsters. One who can steal a soul with a simple strain of music. When the chance arises to keep an eye on Kate, who’s just been kicked out of her sixth boarding school and returned home, August jumps at it. But Kate discovers August’s secret, and after a failed assassination attempt the pair must flee for their lives. In THIS SAVAGE SONG, Victoria Schwab creates a gritty, seething metropolis, one worthy of being compared to Gotham and to the four versions of London in her critically acclaimed fantasy for adults, A DARKER SHADE OF MAGIC. Her heroes will face monsters intent on destroying them from every side—including the monsters within.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/This-Savage-Song-Monsters-Verity/dp/0062380850/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1463015489&sr=8-1&keywords=this+savage+song" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/this-savage-song/9780062380852-item.html?ikwid=this+savage+song&ikwsec=Books&ikwidx=0" target="_blank">Chapters</a> | <a href="http://www.bookdepository.com/This-Savage-Song/9780062380852" target="_blank">TBD</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Why I'm Waiting On It</span></h3>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My favourite author is coming out with another book that will start a new series. And I am hyperventilating already. I have this one <a href="http://www.booksofwondershop.com/thissavagesongmonstersofverity1.aspx" target="_blank">pre-ordered from Books of Wonder</a> so I could get it signed and personalized and also get temporary tattoos. I am so in love with anything and everything that Victoria Schwab writes that I have a personal investment in her life. I can't wait to read this one and see what new methods of heart break she has created for me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519600122797721671.post-25815619023707147042016-06-28T13:00:00.000+01:002016-07-04T15:17:45.781+01:00ARC #Review: THE CITY'S SON by Tom Pollock<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">THE CITY'S SON</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Running from her traitorous best friend and her estranged father, graffiti artist Beth Bradley is looking for sanctuary. What she finds is Urchin, the ragged and cocky crown prince of London’s mystical underworld. Urchin opens Beth’s eyes to the city she’s never truly seen-where vast spiders crawl telephone wires seeking voices to steal, railwraiths escape their tethers, and statues conceal an ancient priesthood robed in bronze.<br /><br />But it all teeters on the brink of destruction. Amid rumors that Urchin’s goddess mother will soon return from her 15-year exile, Reach, a malign god of urban decay, wants the young prince dead. Helping Urchin raise an alleyway army to reclaim his skyscraper throne, Beth soon forgets her old life. But when her best friend is captured, Beth must choose between this wondrous existence and the life she left behind.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Title</b>: THE CITY'S SON</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Author</b>: Tom Pollock</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Series</b>: The Skyscraper Throne #1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Source</b>: eARC via the Publisher</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: Jo Fletcher Books</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication</b> <b>Date</b>: April 5, 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Rating</b>: 4 stars</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>"War's coming, Filius. The King of The Cranes and the Lady of the Streets will not share the city"</i></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />I was a bit skeptical when I first started this one because not only did it switch perspectives, but it also switched how these perspectives were told, and it was also about electric creature things that I'm still not sure what to call. But I am really glad I picked this one up because it was actually really good and a lot of fun for me to read.</span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />My biggest problem was the fact that I couldn't fully connect to the story because I couldn't picture any of the creature things. This made it hard for me to imagine the characters and their fighting techniques. I feel like I got more used to it as time passed, but I was very weary of it at the beginning and throughout the novel to the point that I just kinda gave up on trying to imagine them in general. Which did really detract from my reading.<br /><br />But I LOVED all the characters. I loved how Beth really took charge and put herself 100% into everything she did. I loved that she saw the streets as her own too because of her nights spent tagging. I loved that she was an artist. I loved everything about Beth tbh. And Filius was just as attached to my heart strings. He was scared and vulnerable but also had to make tough decisions. But he really lived up to them. He bore the weight of all the decisions he made on his shoulders and didn't let them make him into any less of an individual. I also liked their relationship because they made each other into better versions of themselves.<br /><br />I liked Pen as well. I liked that she had her own story and her own problems that she hid from Beth but also that she saved Beth's ass more than once. I would have liked a bit more from her throughout but I did like what we saw and do hope that she will be more involved in the next book. I would have liked a bit more of Pen and Beth's relationship at the beginning but I did like seeing snippets of it from Beth as the story went along and she and Filius came across places that the two of them had been together. I liked that Pen also tried to hang on to her individuality while she was ... possessed but I was very confused during these chapters because of how they were written.<br /><br />I think some of the writing was easy to read and follow and then some of it I had to read multiple times to really get a good grasp on what was happening. I think this wouldn't have been the case if I could picture the creatures better but this is still a good book to read. The plot also really made sense, considering it was an urban fantasy novel in literally every sense of those two words. I liked how it ended as well because it tied up some loose ends but also left other things open for a sequel.<br /><br />I really enjoyed this one and will definitely be continuing with the series! I recommend you checking this one out but be warned that it will be hard to imagine the characters. If you can get past that, you will be reading a really good book, I promise.</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519600122797721671.post-81517973746845027182016-06-24T13:00:00.000+01:002016-06-24T13:00:21.574+01:00Paperbacks: Why They Rock!<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In a previous discussion post, I talked about how paperbacks will help you keep your budget down. Today I'm going to tell you all about the merits of paperbacks! Even though we own both hardcovers and paperbacks, bookworms seem to buy hardcovers more but why? Because that is what comes out first? Pish posh! I say no more! Here are my top reasons for loving paperback novels...</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Less money!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">If it is a series, the paperbacks will have the same cover schemes if they get changed after book one!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Smaller so more fit on your bookshelf</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">More flexible to fit in your bag</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Not as heavy when you carry them around</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Sometimes they have extra bonus stuff at the end that the hardcovers don't</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Did I mention that if it is a series they all have the same covers?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">They come out after all the hype for a book has died down so you can actually enjoy the story</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Make the phrrrrp noise</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Usually have cool spines </span></li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519600122797721671.post-58482164018783200812016-06-22T13:00:00.000+01:002016-06-22T14:03:47.158+01:008 Most Anticipated July 2016 Releases!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Author</b>: Elise Kova</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Series</b>: Air Awakens #5 </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: Silver Wing Press</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: July 12, 2016</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Long live Solaris.</i><br /><br />One bloodthirsty ruler has been overthrown by another, casting the shadow of death over the Solaris Empire. Vhalla Yarl stands upon the stage of fate, prepared to do battle one final time. Fragile alliances will be tested and new bonds will be formed as the world is reshaped. She fights as the champion of peace, but when the night is darkest will she be able to pay the price of a new dawn? </span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB8Sqjnv9cUAvb9Ckh04ENh7CpJ16l18c10daUjxa4xXMrgdxixApbwWcPZvlp5QFnom8x1MX2qegzro-vJZnPVemjuD50YoJvALCwcBH5Uj584l27aWhfZ-0WD75W9HeS-NOMSoTBBRhm/s1600/26095500.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB8Sqjnv9cUAvb9Ckh04ENh7CpJ16l18c10daUjxa4xXMrgdxixApbwWcPZvlp5QFnom8x1MX2qegzro-vJZnPVemjuD50YoJvALCwcBH5Uj584l27aWhfZ-0WD75W9HeS-NOMSoTBBRhm/s320/26095500.jpg" width="213" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">THE KILLER IN ME</span></b></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Author</b>: Margot Harrison</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: Disney-Hyperion</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: July 12, 2016</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hasn't he lived long enough? Why not? I could take him like a thief in the night.<br /><br />This is how the Thief thinks. He serves death, the vacuum, the unknown. He’s always waiting. Always there.<br /><br />Seventeen-year-old Nina Barrows knows all about the Thief. She’s intimately familiar with his hunting methods: how he stalks and kills at random, how he disposes of his victims’ bodies in an abandoned mine in the deepest, most desolate part of a desert.<br /><br />Now, for the first time, Nina has the chance to do something about the serial killer that no one else knows exists. With the help of her former best friend, Warren, she tracks the Thief two thousand miles, to his home turf—the deserts of New Mexico.<br /><br />But the man she meets there seems nothing like the brutal sociopath with whom she’s had a disturbing connection her whole life. To anyone else, Dylan Shadwell is exactly what he appears to be: a young veteran committed to his girlfriend and her young daughter. As Nina spends more time with him, she begins to doubt the truth she once held as certain: Dylan Shadwell is the Thief. She even starts to wonder . . . what if there is no Thief?<br /><br />From debut author Margot Harrison comes a brilliantly twisted psychological thriller that asks which is more terrifying: the possibility that your nightmares are real<br />. . . or the possibility that they begin and end with you?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><b>Author</b>: Laura Stampler</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: Simon Pulse</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: July 19, 2016</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Harper Anderson always believed she belonged somewhere more glamorous than her sleepy Northern California suburb. After all, how many water polo matches and lame parties in Bobby McKittrick's backyard can one girl take? That's why Harper is beyond ecstatic when she lands her dream internship as a dating blogger at the elite teen magazine Shift. Getting to spend the summer in New York City to live her dream of becoming a writer? Harper's totally in.<br /><br />There's just one teeny, tiny, infinitesimal problem: Apart from some dance floor make-outs, Harper doesn't have a lot of - or, really, any - dating expertise. In fact, she might have sort of stolen her best friend's experiences as her own on her Shift application. But she can learn on the job...right?<br /><br />From awkward run-ins with the cute neighborhood dog-walker to terrifying encounters with her crazed editor, from Brooklyn gallery openings to weekends in the Hamptons, Harper finds out what it takes to make it in the Big City--and as the writer of her own destiny.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">BLACK RIVER FALLS</span></b></i></span><br />
<b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjImrqzCV4G5S95w_UqYYOAOqtVP6JA27Reqjp7YAwFL25vmt1RyuQLDJvoqcZc4V5GXvqRDawCAJKUsmsRrZQp1YGnbddP6c0rL4-yUkr96qa4YHKfAfDgFsrrAEwPaQ_bh7rZUWB-k5ry/s1600/25897670.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjImrqzCV4G5S95w_UqYYOAOqtVP6JA27Reqjp7YAwFL25vmt1RyuQLDJvoqcZc4V5GXvqRDawCAJKUsmsRrZQp1YGnbddP6c0rL4-yUkr96qa4YHKfAfDgFsrrAEwPaQ_bh7rZUWB-k5ry/s320/25897670.jpg" width="213" /></a></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Author</b>: Jeff Hirsch</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: July 5, 2016</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Seventeen-year-old Cardinal has escaped the virus that ravaged his town, leaving its victims alive but without their memories. He chooses to remain in the quarantined zone, caring for a group of orphaned kids in a mountain camp with the help of the former brutal school bully, now transformed by the virus into his best friend. But then a strong-willed and mysterious young woman appears, and the closed-off world Cardinal has created begins to crumble.<br /><br />A thrilling, fast-paced work of speculative fiction for teens, from a bestselling author, Black River Falls is an unforgettable story about survival, identity, and family.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Author</b>: Sonya Mukherjee</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: Simon and Schuster Books For Young Readers</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: July 26, 2016</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In a powerful and daring debut novel, Sonya Mukherjee shares the story of sisters Clara and Hailey, conjoined twins who are learning what it means to be truly extraordinary.<br /><br />Seventeen-year-old conjoined twins, Clara and Hailey, have lived in the same small town their entire lives—no one stares at them anymore. But there are cracks in their quiet existence and they’re slowing becoming more apparent. Clara and Hailey are at a crossroads. Clara wants to stay close to home, avoid all attention, and study the night sky. Hailey wants to travel the world, learn from great artists, and dance with mysterious boys. As high school graduation approaches, each twin must untangle her dreams from her sister’s, and figure out what it means to be her own person.<br /><br />Told in alternating perspectives, this unconventional coming-of-age tale shows how dreams can break your heart—but the love between sisters can mend it</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Author</b>: Be<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">th Revis</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: Razorbill</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication Dat</b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>e</b>: J<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">uly 19, 2016</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Seventeen-year-old Bo has always had delusions that he can travel through time. When he was ten, Bo claimed to have witnessed the Titanic hit an iceberg, and at fifteen, he found himself on a Civil War battlefield, horrified by the bodies surrounding him. So when his concerned parents send him to a school for troubled youth, Bo assumes he knows the truth: that he’s actually attending Berkshire Academy, a school for kids who, like Bo, have "superpowers."<br /><br />At Berkshire, Bo falls in love with Sofia, a quiet girl with a tragic past and the superpower of invisibility. Sofia helps Bo open up in a way he never has before. In turn, Bo provides comfort to Sofia, who lost her mother and two sisters at a very young age. <br /><br />But even the strength of their love isn’t enough to help Sofia escape her deep depression. After she commits suicide, Bo is convinced that she's not actually dead. He believes that she's stuck somewhere in time — that he somehow left her in the past, and now it's his job to save her. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">LEARNING TO SWEAR IN AMERICA</span></b></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Author</b>: Katie Kennedy</span></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">Publisher</b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">: Bloomsbury USA Children</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: July 5, 2016</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Brimming with humor and one-of-a-kind characters, this end-of-the world novel will grab hold of Andrew Smith and Rainbow Rowell fans.<br /><br />An asteroid is hurtling toward Earth. A big, bad one. Yuri, a physicist prodigy from Russia, has been called to NASA as they calculate a plan to avoid disaster. He knows how to stop the asteroid: his research in antimatter will probably win him a Nobel prize--if there's ever another Nobel prize awarded. But Yuri's 17, and having a hard time making older, stodgy physicists listen to him. Then he meets Dovie, who lives like a normal teenager, oblivious to the impending doom. Being with her, on the adventures she plans when he's not at NASA, Yuri catches a glimpse of what it means to save the world and save a life worth living.<br /><br />Prepare to laugh, cry, cringe, and have your mind burst open with questions of the universe.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">LUCKY STRIKES</span></b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: July 5, 2016</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With her mama recently dead and her scoundrel pa sight unseen since birth, fourteen-year-old Amelia is suddenly in charge of her younger brother and sister--and of the family gas station. Harley Blevins, local king and emperor of Standard Oil, is in hot pursuit to clinch his fuel monopoly. To keep him at bay and to stay out of the state orphanage, Melia must come up with a father--and fast. And so when a hobo rolls out of a passing car into their drive, Melia grabs opportunity by its beard. Can she hold off the hounds till she turns sixteen?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR</span></h2>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“I love you,” Polly says suddenly when I’m almost to the door.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“I know,” I say.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hermione Winters has been a flyer. She’s been captain of her cheerleading team. The envied girlfriend and the undisputed queen of her school. Now it’s her last year and those days and those labels are fading fast. In a few months she’ll be a different person. She thinks she’s ready for whatever comes next.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But then someone puts something in her drink at a party, and in an instant she finds herself wearing new labels, ones she never imagined:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Victim. Survivor. That raped girl.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Even though this was never the future she imagined, one essential thing remains unchanged: Hermione can still call herself Polly Olivier’s best friend, and that may be the truest label of all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Heartbreaking and empowering, Exit, Pursued by a Bear is the story of transcendent friendship in the face of trauma.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“I love you,” I say, because I really, really do.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></i>
<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“I know,” says Polly. </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Title</b>: EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Author</b>: E.K. Johnston</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Source</b>: Purchased from Chapters</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: Dutton Books For Young Reader</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication</b> <b>Date</b>: March 15, 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Rating</b>: 5 stars</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Today, everything is ours if we want it."<br />"Yes," I tell her. "It is."</span></i></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Warning: This book deals with rape. In a VERY EXCELLENT WAY, but it is still there. So please be careful if you are triggered by this before reading this book and my review.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Man, this was a tough read. It was a one chapter at a time one because I had to emotionally prepare myself for what could potentially come next. Because even though this was handled so so so perfectly, it was still so so so hard to read about. I loved how sensitive to the topic this was but also how honest it was as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I loved that instead of spiraling out of control, Hermione took control of her life in a different way. I enjoyed seeing how she coped with the aftermath because everyone is different but that doesn't mean anyone's reactions are less valid than any other. And I think that even though she put on a brave face, she was still able to acknowledge that she was different -- and not by her choice. She was so strong and fierce, especially when given tough choices and having to make very adult decisions at 17. She never let this get in her way though, and instead of being victim or taking the labels that people gave her, Hermione made one of her own for herself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I also really liked the positive portrayal of therapy in this one. I liked that Hermione acknowledges that she trusts her therapist wholeheartedly. Because she takes his advice, knows she can contact him when she's having problems, and still wants to reach out to him. I liked that instead of the typical portrayals of therapy, we got one that is what really, truly happens. I think that Hermione's character and her ability to open up was part of the reason that it worked so well, but it was nice to see a character who was so adamant about having a therapist that would work for their problems in a YA novel. It was also so great to see real panic attacks, PTSD, and dissociation shown in this novel as well. Not everyone experiences these things in the same way, but having Hermione explain her feelings and her thoughts made it so easy to relate to her -- even if you haven't been in the same situation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I loved Hermione's relationship with everyone around her, especially Polly. I loved their friendship and how they were both willing to go the extra mile for one another. I liked that this event was looked at through the lens of how it affected everyone in Hermione's life, but that she made a point of saying that she shouldn't have to hide her feelings just to make someone else feel better. And I loved that she didn't want to be the reason for someone to have some "character growth" to become a better person: she wanted people to treat her the same as everyone else.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mostly what EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR gives you is another Hermione that all young girls can relate to: smart, tough, and having to make hard decisions but doing them anyway and being the better person for it.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519600122797721671.post-80140225641905894912016-06-17T13:00:00.000+01:002016-06-17T13:00:03.802+01:00Top 5 Beach Reads!<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Everyone loves a light contemporary novel that you can read and not think too much while doing so. That way you can soak up the sun while reading. We label these as "Beach Reads" and I love them, even though I typically read them in the winter. #CanadianProbz</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">But for those of you getting ready to hit the sand and the surf in the near future (or maybe even right now!), here are some of my top choices for books you should bring along...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">SUMMER OF SLOANE</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: Disney-Hyperion</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: May 3, 2016</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Warm Hawaiian sun. Lazy beach days. Flirty texts with her boyfriend back in Seattle.<br /><br />These are the things seventeen-year-old Sloane McIntyre pictured when she imagined the summer she’d be spending at her mom’s home in Hawaii with her twin brother, Penn. Instead, after learning an unthinkable secret about her boyfriend, Tyler, and best friend, Mick, all she has is a fractured hand and a completely shattered heart.<br /><br />Once she arrives in Honolulu, though, Sloane hopes that Hawaii might just be the escape she needs. With beach bonfires, old friends, exotic food, and the wonders of a waterproof cast, there’s no reason Sloane shouldn’t enjoy her summer. And when she meets Finn McAllister, the handsome son of a hotel magnate who doesn’t always play by the rules, she knows he’s the perfect distraction from everything that’s so wrong back home.<br /><br />But it turns out a measly ocean isn’t nearly enough to stop all the emails, texts, and voicemails from her ex-boyfriend and ex-best friend, desperate to explain away their betrayal. And as her casual connection with Finn grows deeper, Sloane’s carefree summer might not be as easy to find as she’d hoped. Weighing years of history with Mick and Tyler against their deception, and the delicate possibility of new love, Sloane must decide when to forgive, and when to live for herself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Summer-Sloane-Erin-L-Schneider/dp/1484725255/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1459095220&sr=8-1&keywords=summer+of+sloane" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/summer-of-sloane/9781484725252-item.html?ikwid=summer+of+sloane&ikwsec=Home&ikwidx=0" target="_blank">Chapters</a> | <a href="http://www.bookdepository.com/Summer-of-Sloane-Erin-L-Schneider/9781484725252?ref=grid-view" target="_blank">TBD</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">THE TRUTH ABOUT FOREVER</span></h2>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ0bG0ggL-3N6A9fQ31MZQg791j0z5rN1mCvSBFzVnjcUW8TeHu_Hq2zl8mG1NKts2mZPhpZ46g6c_CB_CZ8R8yXWMSiy0K64aq4l_45W3RLoAjGEV8ZEdd7Xmz7VuGScos5dMF37dxcMB/s1600/51737.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ0bG0ggL-3N6A9fQ31MZQg791j0z5rN1mCvSBFzVnjcUW8TeHu_Hq2zl8mG1NKts2mZPhpZ46g6c_CB_CZ8R8yXWMSiy0K64aq4l_45W3RLoAjGEV8ZEdd7Xmz7VuGScos5dMF37dxcMB/s320/51737.jpg" width="206" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Author</b>: Sarah Dessen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: Penguin Group</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: May 11, 2004</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A long, hot summer...<br /><br />That's what Macy has to look forward to while her boyfriend, Jason, is away at Brain Camp. Days will be spent at a boring job in the library, evenings will be filled with vocabulary drills for the SATs, and spare time will be passed with her mother, the two of them sharing a silent grief at the traumatic loss of Macy's father.<br /><br />But sometimes, unexpected things can happen—things such as the catering job at Wish, with its fun-loving, chaotic crew. Or her sister's project of renovating the neglected beach house, awakening long-buried memories. Things such as meeting Wes, a boy with a past, a taste for Truth-telling, and an amazing artistic talent, the kind of boy who could turn any girl's world upside down. As Macy ventures out of her shell, she begins to question her sheltered life.<br /><br /><i>Is it really always better to be safe than sorry?</i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Truth-About-Forever-Sarah-Dessen/dp/0142406252/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1459095354&sr=8-1&keywords=the+truth+about+forever" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/the-truth-about-forever/9780142406250-item.html?ikwid=the+truth+about+forever&ikwsec=Home&ikwidx=0" target="_blank">Chapters</a> | <a href="http://www.bookdepository.com/The-Truth-about-Forever-Sarah-Dessen/9780142406250?ref=grid-view" target="_blank">TBD</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">PEACHES</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Series</b>: Peaches #1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: HarperTeen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: April 24, 2012</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In a <i>Ya-Ya Sisterhood</i> for teens, <b>Peaches </b>combines three unforgettable heroines who have nothing in common but the troubles that have gotten them sentenced to a summer of peach picking at a Georgia orchard.<br /><br />Leeda is a debutante dating wrong-side-of-the-tracks Rex.<br /><br />Murphy, the wildest girl in Bridgewater, likes whichever side Rex is on.<br /><br />Birdie is a dreamer whose passion for Girl Scout cookies is matched only by her love for a boy named Enrico.<br /><br />When their worlds collide, <i>The Breakfast Club</i> meets <i>The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants</i> in an entirely original and provocative story with a lush, captivating setting. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">THE TAMING OF THE DREW</span></h2>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd4PyicFMNwr6NawPBqaVvWvpMcld4F6KXPrBuTiYaHoqttZVpDJLEzCjQvLIzOHUP0ck65_I8EJnyajV5XBuICmKjIUBfnmVP7cyEEzD2hm1S04CBG2oZq4zq1YrHgQOl1rrDT_yJeVk4/s1600/25898488.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd4PyicFMNwr6NawPBqaVvWvpMcld4F6KXPrBuTiYaHoqttZVpDJLEzCjQvLIzOHUP0ck65_I8EJnyajV5XBuICmKjIUBfnmVP7cyEEzD2hm1S04CBG2oZq4zq1YrHgQOl1rrDT_yJeVk4/s320/25898488.jpg" width="213" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Author</b>: Stephanie Kate Strohm</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: Sky Pony Press</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: April 12, 2016</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Cass McKay has been called stubborn, temperamental, difficult, and that word that rhymes with “witch” more times than she cares to count. But that’s all about to pay off. She has finally landed the role she was born to play—Kate, in The Taming of the Shrew—in the summer apprentice program of a renowned Shakespeare theater company in the forests of Vermont.<br /><br />But Cass can barely lace up her corset before her troubles begin. Her leading man, Drew, is a complete troll, and he’s going to ruin Cass’s summer. Even worse, Cass’s bunkmate Amy has somehow fallen head over heels for Drew. Cass can’t let Amy throw herself at a total jerk, so she comes up with a genius plan to give Drew the personality makeover he so desperately needs: they’ll tame Drew just as Petruchio tames Kate! But as Shakespeare’s classic plays out offstage, Cass finds it harder and harder to resist falling for Drew herself.<br /><br />The best kind of entertainment, The Taming of the Drew is smart, funny, fresh, and original. You’re going to love this badass heroine and her friends. You might even end up liking Drew, too.<br /><br />For the 12+ reader, this is an ideal book for the theater-loving teen or light romance readers. With solid messages about being a good friend, following your dreams, and learning to stick up for yourself, this book is more than just lightweight fluff--though the snarky voice of the main character is sure to draw readers in from the start. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Series</b>: Hundred Oaks</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: July 7, 2015</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Everyone at Hundred Oaks High knows that career mentoring day is a joke. So when Maya Henry said she wanted to be a rock star, she never imagined she’d get to shadow *the* Jesse Scott, Nashville’s teen idol.<br /><br />But spending the day with Jesse is far from a dream come true. He’s as gorgeous as his music, but seeing all that he’s accomplished is just a reminder of everything Maya’s lost: her trust, her boyfriend, their band, and any chance to play the music she craves. Not to mention that Jesse’s pushy and opinionated. He made it on his own, and he thinks Maya’s playing back up to other people’s dreams. Does she have what it takes to follow her heart—and go solo? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Jesses-Girl-Miranda-Kenneally/dp/1492622230/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1459095444&sr=8-1&keywords=jesse%27s+girl" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/home/search/?keywords=jesse%27s%20girl#page=0&pid=978149262223" target="_blank">Chapters</a> | <a href="http://www.bookdepository.com/Jesse-s-Girl/9781492622239" target="_blank">TBD</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Author</b>: A.J. Hartley</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Series</b>: Alternate Detective #1</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: Tor Teen</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: June 28, 2016</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Summary</b>:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thoughtfully imaginative and action-packed, Steeplejack is New York Times bestselling A. J. Hartley's YA debut set in a 19th-century South African fantasy world<br /><br />Seventeen-year-old Anglet Sutonga, Ang for short, repairs the chimneys, towers, and spires of Bar-Selehm, the ethnically-diverse industrial capital of a land resembling Victorian South Africa. The city was built on the trade of luxorite, a priceless glowing mineral. When the Beacon, a historical icon made of luxorite, is stolen, it makes the headlines. But no one cares about the murder of Ang's new apprentice, Berrit—except for Josiah Willinghouse, an enigmatic young politician, who offers Ang a job investigating Berrit's death. On top of this, Ang struggles with the responsibility of caring for her sister's newborn child.<br /><br />As political secrets unfold and racial tensions surrounding the Beacon's theft rise, Ang navigates the constricting traditions of her people, the murderous intentions of her former boss, and the conflicting impulses of a fledgling romance. With no one to help her except a savvy newspaper girl and a kindhearted herder from the savannah, Ang must resolve the mysterious link between Berrit and the missing Beacon before the city is plunged into chaos.<br /><br />A fresh take on historical fantasy attune to today's demand for multicultural YA, Steeplejack will resonate with readers of all ages.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">SHIVER</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For years, Grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf—her wolf—is a chilling presence she can't seem to live without.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Meanwhile, Sam has lived two lives: In winter, the frozen woods, the protection of the pack, and the silent company of a fearless girl. In summer, a few precious months of being human… until the cold makes him shift back again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now, Grace meets a yellow-eyed boy whose familiarity takes her breath away. It's her wolf. It has to be. But as winter nears, Sam must fight to stay human—or risk losing himself, and Grace, forever.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Title</b>: SHIVER</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Author</b>: Maggie Stiefvater</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Series</b>: The Wolves of Mercy Falls #1<br /><b>Source</b>: Purchased from Lakeside Books and Art</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: Scholastic</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication</b> <b>Date</b>: August 1, 2009</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I really really liked this one. I think I almost liked this one more than The Raven Boys but shhh don't tell it that. I thought this was as magical and wonderful as every other Stiefvater book but the romance was weird and awkward at the beginning and at some points throughout. As well, the secondary characters were meh. But the mythology was so good and, as I've said before, what Stiefvater does best is take what is "common knowledge" and twist it to be her own story.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I really liked Grace and Sam. I liked how easy their relationship became after a couple weeks. But I was a little weary at the beginning. Even though they "knew" one another, they didn't really know one another and the rush from "hey I think I know you" to "we're in love" was a bit much for me. I thought they had a good relationship and they were very supportive of one another but I just couldn't get there at the beginning and that left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth for the rest. But!! If you want to take me on a date to buy me a book, hit me up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The mythology in this was SO GOOD. I loved the idea that cold weather changed the wolves. I also liked that it was looked at from all sides and that the wolves tried to get around it by going to warmer climates but didn't succeed. I liked that it wasn't a quick and easy "fix" and that there really wasn't a fix for it because it made it that much more believable for me. I liked that the wolves communicated via images and that Sam had a hard time explaining one form and the other to Grace when he was in opposite forms. I also really liked that they came up with temporary solutions to keep him human.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I think one of Stiefvater's biggest downfalls in all the books I've read by her is that her secondary characters are meh and this is very true in this one as well. There is such opportunity for these characters to play important roles in the story, especially Jack, Olivia, and Shelby, and it almost feels like they are overlooked and only brought in when it is convenient to the plot. I feel like we don't get to spend enough time with them to understand them or to care about them at all. We only see them through the eyes of the MCs and only when it is important for the MCs to see them. But I would have loved so much more about Olivia and Jack trying to figure out the bite and cure! I feel like having Olivia's POV in this one would have just added that extra depth of mythology and care for the characters that I felt was missing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Overall though, this is a great introduction to a series. I am so glad I have the rest of the books at home so I can continue on with them immediately. I feel like there hasn't been anything this well done in terms of werewolves in a long time so I am really excited by the prospect of what is to come out of this series.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><b>the longing.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">Once Grace and Sam have found each other, they know they must fight to stay together. For Sam, this means a reckoning with his werewolf past. For Grace, it means facing a future that is less and less certain.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><b>the loss.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">Into their world comes a new wolf named Cole, whose past is full of hurt and danger. He is wrestling with his own demons, embracing the life of a wolf while denying the ties of being a human. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><b>the linger.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">For Grace, Sam, and Cole, life a constant struggle between two forces--wolf and human--with love baring its two sides as well. It is harrowing and euphoric, freeing and entrapping, enticing and alarming. As their world falls apart, love is what lingers. But will it be enough? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><b>Author</b>: Maggie Stiefvater</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><b>Series</b>: The Wolves of Mercy Falls #2</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><b>Publication</b> <b>Date</b>: July 13, 2010</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">I think this is becoming my new favourite Stiefvater series. Where The Raven Cycle has great characters, The Wolves of Mercy Falls has amazing mythology. I am #obsessed with the werewolf mythology and the shifting. I had a couple issues with this one but overall I would highly recommend this series to people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">I thought Grace and Sam acted like children in this one. I understand that Grace's parents weren't previously around but the way she acted and treated them was ridiculous and made her seem like a kid having a tantrum, not someone in love. I feel like during the arguments she had, it would have been better for her to keep a level head and be more rational about things rather than just exploding. I was okay with her breaking her grounding and stuff but having her run away made me roll my eyes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">I thought the characters this time around were definitely more fleshed out. I am simultaneously happy and irritated that we got more povs because we got to learn more about the secondary characters. I liked Isabel a lot this time. She is easily my favourite character. I did not like Cole but I think I am on the minority of this one. He had his issues and backstory and blah blah blah but he did not turn my crank. I would have liked more Sam screentime than any of the time we got with Cole. I think Sam and Grace kinda stayed static in this one which would account for why their povs were the shortest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">The fact that we had so many povs was really jarring though. It felt like we switched to a different pov every couple of pages. I also didn't like switching povs in the middle of a chapter or a scene to see someone else's opinion on the exact same scene. It didn't feel necessary to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">But MAN THE MYTHOLOGY IS SO GREAT. SO GREAT. I love them trying to figure out what is happening and why and omg I am just so in love with the shifting system and all that jazz. I am so excited to see what happens and if Sam can find a cure and !!! I am just really into the mythology. Honestly, the characters are a little weak for me, but it is made up for with the fact that this mythology is so engrossing and is something just a little different and new from what has been seen before.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">I am so excited to continue on with the rest of this series! I can't wait to see what happens and where the story continues on from here. I know that the original trilogy ends after the next book, Forever, but I also have Sinner sitting on my bookshelves. I am hoping to finish off the next two books by the end of the weekend</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><b>Summary</b>:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><b>then.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">When Sam met Grace, he was a wolf and she was a girl. Eventually he found a way to become a boy, and their loved moved from curious distance to the intense closeness of shared lives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><b>now.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">That should have been the end of their story. But Grace was not meant to stay human. Now she is the wolf. And the wolves of Mercy Falls are about to be killed in one final, spectacular hunt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><b>forever.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">Sam would do anything for Grace. But can one boy and one love really change a hostile, predatory world? The past, the present, and the future are about to collide in one pure moment--a moment of death or life, farewell or forever.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><b>Title</b>: FOREVER</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><b>Author</b>: Maggie Stiefvater</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><b>Series</b>: The Wolves of Mercy Falls #3</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><b>Source</b>: Purchased at Lakeside Books and Art</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: Scholastic</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;"><b>Publication</b> <b>Date</b>: July 12, 2011</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">I really liked this series. I know there is another one, but it is more of a companion, if I'm not mistaken, so I am going to read that next. I actually think this ending was better than the one for The Raven Cycle. I didn't mind the bit of the open-ended-ness because it allows us to decide for ourselves what happens to Grace and Sam at the end. I also think having a concrete answer would have ruined the mythology a bit for me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">Stiefvater's writing, as always, is perfect. I love how engaging her writing is and how descriptive and beautiful. I thought she really fleshed out the series in this one and made me really happy. I definitely understand why this series was the breakout for Stiefvater because it is magical. The writing really draws you in and makes you feel as though you are running through the woods with wolves. You're basically Kevin Costner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">I still really like Grace and Sam as individuals. I also like their relationship but whenever she talks to her parents I'm just like "no bby no." I still think they were rushing into things and I definitely rolled my eyes when Grace was like "I don't know what to say to Sam" and then ten seconds later said to him, "Want to get married?" I was confused by the 180 there. And then their relationship just went downhill from there for me. I did get pulled back into them when they were wolves together at the end, but it still almost wasn't enough for me. But individually, I REALLY enjoyed them. I liked that Grace wanted to finish school and go to college. I liked that Sam wanted to take care of the wolves and work in the bookstore. I liked that they both had their own dreams that semi-overlapped with one another. I just couldn't get there with some of the other things they discussed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">I also really liked Isabel. I mean, she was the best character in this series. I was really glad that she was a part of this story. I just felt like she was only around when someone else needed something. I felt like she was under-utilized until the very end and even then it wasn't enough for me. I needed more Isabel (and less Cole). Because honestly, Cole didn't do it for me. He took a lot of risks that weren't necessary. I liked that he was science driven and realized he didn't want to die. But I just didn't get it. I don't get the appeal. At all. And every time we were in his POV I wanted to skip ahead. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif;">There were also a lot of other things that happened in this one that just kinda felt out of place. I understand that the police probably would suspect Sam but it felt like it was thrown in there last minute and not really developed in a way that made sense. It also ... went away pretty easily. A lot of things that were introduced either in the late part of the last book or the beginning of this book were easily cleaned up at the end and that was meh to me. But I am okay with the overall ending of it, so I wasn't too hung up on this.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519600122797721671.post-32123299676780518592016-06-10T13:00:00.000+01:002016-07-04T16:06:24.072+01:00Discussion: Blogging on a Budget!<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We're not millionaires (but if you are, hmu); we all love reading and staying current on new releases, so how do we do it on minimal funds? I'm going to give you some tips for how to stay in budget and still be able to buy some books! Take these with a grain of salt, they may not work for everyone and I am definitely NOT a financial advisor so if you need help with budgeting for reals ask someone who actually does it for a living.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A lot of<b> used bookstores</b> will buy books off of you either for cash money or for store credit! It is basically <i>trading books you have already read in for shiny new books</i>! I would recommend checking out a couple different places before you do this to make sure the bookstore has books you would actually want to purchase if they only do store credit! <b>You don’t want to have $50 to a place that you may only spend $5 at</b>! You can also sell your books on Ebay and Amazon, but remember <b>ARCs ARE NOT FOR SALE</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Your library should become your new best friend. A lot of libraries <b>will order in titles</b> if you request them, so if you have an upcoming release you want to read but can't shell out the cash for, request your library to get a copy in! If you want to be the FIRST to read a new release, make sure you <b>put your name on the hold list</b>. This will allow you to read the book soon after it releases so you can chat with all your friends about the title!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One of the biggest ones is <b>BookOutlet</b> which has a physical store if you are in the Niagara Region in Ontario, Canada or has an online store if you are everywhere else! They have some fairly new releases in stock and a lot of great backlist titles! I think the most expensive book I've purchased from them was $15 -- and it was signed! <b>Thriftbooks</b> is also a good site to use as well as <b>Books A Million</b>. Just<b> be careful with shipping costs</b> -- you want to make sure you are getting enough books that the shipping is justified <i>but you don't want to spend $40 on shipping</i>! Think of all the books you could buy with $40!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A lot of major retailers will have <b>sales for new releases</b> or have them a bit discounted when they are first released. Wait for this! There may be a time when they <b>have a coupon</b> for double points or an extra 10% off YA titles, so spend your money at this time when you can get more for less. <b>Amazon and Kobo both do pre-order guarantee </b>where they charge you the lowest price for your pre-orders so <i>if you do pre-order a book, do it early</i>! You never know how much you may save!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Budget your money</b>. Can you afford to spend $50 a month on books? Then only spend $50 a month on books and once it's gone, it's gone. You can always fill your cart for next month, but don't check out! I would recommend <b>spreading out your purchases</b> so that you aren't purchasing a lot of books on the 1st and then waiting for the next month to come around to buy more books.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Gift cards are basically free books</b> because you aren't REALLY spending your own money. <i><b>But you don't need to use them right away!</b></i> Save them for a time you are really desperate for a new book but don't have the extra money in your budget to buy one!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I used to be really good at this and would wait for a book to come out in paperback before buying it. They are almost half the price! You can <b>basically get two paperbacks for the price of ONE hardcover</b>. I will be talking about the merits of paperbacks in a future discussion post but really you save lots by purchasing paperbacks instead of hardcovers! If you don't need a physical copy and like<b> reading ebooks</b>, purchasing them saves you a lot of money as well. Especially if you watit about <b>six months because they are usually discounted by then!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And that's it! Of course you are probably going to have months where you spend too much, but make sure you can still pay your bills and don't have to build a house out of your books to survive.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519600122797721671.post-25486207123817140242016-06-08T13:00:00.000+01:002016-06-08T13:00:00.155+01:00Waiting on Wednesday: UNPLUGGED by Donna Freitas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Author</b>: Donna Freitas</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Series</b>: The Wired #1</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: HarperTeen</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: June 21, 2016</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>The first book in a provocative new series from acclaimed author Donna Freitas—Feed for a new generation.</b><br /><br />Humanity is split into the App World and the Real World—an extravagant virtual world for the wealthy and a dying physical world for the poor. Years ago, Skylar Cruz’s family sent her to the App World for a chance at a better life.<br /><br />Now Skye is a nobody, a virtual sixteen-year-old girl without any glamorous effects or expensive downloads to make her stand out in the App World. Yet none of that matters to Skye. All she wants is a chance to unplug and see her mother and sister again.<br /><br />But when the borders between worlds suddenly close, Skye loses that chance. Desperate to reach her family, Skye risks everything to get back to the physical world. Once she arrives, however, she discovers a much larger, darker reality than the one she remembers.<br /><br />In the tradition of M. T. Anderson’s Feed and Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies, Unplugged kicks off a thrilling and timely sci-fi series for teens from an award-winning writer. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Sixteen-year-old Deirdre Monaghan is a painfully shy but prodigiously gifted musician. She's about to find out she's also a cloverhand—one who can see faeries. Deirdre finds herself infatuated with a mysterious boy who enters her ordinary suburban life, seemingly out of thin air. Trouble is, the enigmatic and gorgeous Luke turns out to be a gallowglass—a soulless faerie assassin. An equally hunky—and equally dangerous—dark faerie soldier named Aodhan is also stalking Deirdre. Sworn enemies, Luke and Aodhan each have a deadly assignment from the Faerie Queen. Namely, kill Deirdre before her music captures the attention of the Fae and threatens the Queen's sovereignty. Caught in the crossfire with Deirdre is James, her wisecracking but loyal best friend. Deirdre had been wishing her life weren't so dull, but getting trapped in the middle of a centuries-old faerie war isn't exactly what she had in mind . . .</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Lament is a dark faerie fantasy that features authentic Celtic faerie lore, plus cover art and interior illustrations by acclaimed faerie artist Julia Jeffrey.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Title</b>: LAMENT</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Author</b>: Maggie Stiefvater</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Series</b>: Books of Faeries #1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Source</b>: Purchased from TBD</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: Flux</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: October 8, 2008</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lament-Faerie-Deception-Maggie-Stiefvater/dp/0738713708/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1461269955&sr=8-1&keywords=lament+maggie+stiefvater" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/lament/9781443113625-item.html?ikwid=lament+maggie+stiefvater&ikwsec=Home&ikwidx=0" target="_blank">Chapters</a> | <a href="http://www.bookdepository.com/Lament-Maggie-Stiefvater/9780738713700?ref=grid-view" target="_blank">TBD</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I am both enthralled with this book and extremely confused with this book. I feel like there was something I was missing while reading it but I also couldn't put it down. This wasn't Stiefvater's best book, but it was still really interesting and definitely a new and invigorating take on fae mythology.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">As always, Stiefvater's writing was flawless. I was transported to Deirdre's world and was fully captivated by her life and experiences. I liked that we were in her head because I feel like that gave usa better perspective on what was happening than if we had been in third person, especially when it came to her using her powers. It was really easy to get into this one for me, but I feel like if you think Stiefvater's other books are slow paced, you aren't going to enjoy this one. But LAMENT is a lyrical and beautiful masterpiece that perfectly blends story telling with the riddles of the fae and understanding who you are as a person.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I would have liked more out of some of the secondary characters in this one. I thought some of them were really well developed and others were lacking a bit -- or just didn't have enough screentime to fully develop into the characters they should be. For me, I would have liked a lot more of Sara. I think she was interesting because she was scared of what she saw but she was also quick to believe and very blunt. I think she handled things in a really believable way and I would have liked to see more of her relationship with Dee than what we got. I think James was underused in this one since he had this power and ability but we barely got to see it. And Dee's family knew a lot more than they let on but we never got all their knowledge and I crave it. But there is a sequel so I have high hopes for us to get more information from Dee's family in the future.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I loved the twist on mythology in this one. It was a really fresh take on fae as it was grounded in what is "common knowledge" (if you are as #obsessed as me, at least) but given a bit more depth and woven in with Irish mythology and folk tunes and it was everything I could have ever wanted from this book and more. I think what Stiefvater does best is take what we know and twist it in her own way to make a mythology story character driven and that is phenomenally done in Lament. I think in terms of mythology and making a story more than what meets the eye, Lament does this better than The Raven Cycle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I was a bit confused throughout though -- it always felt like Dee knew more and less than what she let on and considering we were in her head I had a bit of disconnect in this sense. I felt like there was a couple missing puzzle pieces and I couldn't see the full picture and while this was okay at the beginning when Dee didn't know what was happening either, it started to make less sense for me not to know what was happening as Dee simultaneously knew more and less about what was happening. I feel like there needed to be a couple more scenes of Dee learning things (maybe from her Granna) for me to have it all click into place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Otherwise, I am really happy with this one. I like that I feel like this story adds more to the fae canon rather than just tells the same story over again. I recommend this one if you are a fan of Stiefvater's other work but would suggest staying away if you aren't a fan of her writing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In this mesmerizing sequel to Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception, music prodigy James Morgan and his best friend, Deirdre, join a private conservatory for musicians. James' musical talent attracts Nuala, a soul-snatching faerie muse who fosters and feeds on the creative energies of exceptional humans until they die. Composing beautiful music together unexpectedly leads to mutual admiration and love. Haunted by fiery visions of death, James realizes that Deirdre and Nuala are being hunted by the Fey and plunges into a soul-scorching battle with the Queen of the Fey to save their lives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Author</b>: Maggie Stiefvater</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Series</b>: Books of Faeries #2</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: Flux</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: October 1, 2009</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I really enjoyed LAMENT. I thought it was the perfect mix of faerie mythology and Irish mythology that blended together with how great Dee and Luke were together. Therefore, I should have loved the sequel, Ballad. However, I did not.<br /><br />I didn't like the shift from Dee and Luke to James and Nuala. Their characters and story were not nearly as engaging as Dee and Luke's had been. I was mostly just waiting for the story to be over rather than really enjoying myself. I think most of this stemmed from the fact that Nuala was not likeable and was constantly butting in to where she was explicitly told she was not wanted: James's life. And James, while funny, was too much. I couldn't relate to him at all except when it came to realizing he was better off without Dee in his life because he found better friends who actually cared about him.<br /><br />The plot for this one was meh. I liked that it brought all the characters together and showed us the darker side to the fae that Stiefvater had created but I was kinda bored with how much time it took to get there. I felt like there were a lot of filler aspects to this one to make it a full novel rather than a novella. I also would have liked actual scenes from Dee rather than her weird text messages (with bad grammar, which is how people texted in 2009 but not how people text now and it drove me up the wall). I felt like Dee was wasted in this one because she was such a huge, important part of James's life and was given cameo scenes at best.<br /><br />But, Stiefvater's writing was flawless again. Even though I wasn't a huge fan of the plot or characters, I was still engrossed in the writing and the world. I loved the descriptions of both the faerie world and the human world and how they intertwined. I loved that we got to see the faerie world from a faerie who wasn't quite faerie or human because it gave us a different perspective than what we had seen before. This version felt more real than what we saw in LAMENT because it wasn't as romanticized in a sense.<br /><br />I do recommend this one, still. Especially if you loved LAMENT. You can also read this one as a standalone, but I would recommend reading them both if you are going to read this one anyway. I hope that if there is another book to this series that it shifts its focus back to Dee and Luke because they are much more interesting than James and Naula.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">CRYSTAL STORM</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Series</b>: Falling Kingdoms #5</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: Razorbill</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: December 13, 2016</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Summary</b>:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>An epic clash between gods and mortals threatens to tear Mytica apart . . . and prove that not even the purest of love stands a chance against the strongest of magic.</b><br /><br />MAGNUS and CLEO are forced to test the strength of their love when Gaius returns to Mytica claiming he's no longer the King of Blood but a changed man seeking redemption.<br /><br />LUCIA, pregnant with the child of a Watcher, has escaped the clutches of the unhinged fire god. Her powers are dwindling as she goes forth to fulfill a prophecy that will keep her baby safe . . . but could mean her demise.<br /><br />JONAS treks back to Mytica with a plan to overtake Amara, but fate takes hold when he runs into the beautiful Princess Lucia and joins her on her perilous journey.<br /><br />AMARA has taken the Mytican throne, but with no way to unleash the water magic trapped within her stolen crystal, she'll never be able to seize glory and get sweet revenge.<br /><br />And what kind of darkness will descend--and who will be safe--after Prince Ashur reveals the dangerous price he paid to cheat death?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span id="goog_436485782"></span><span id="goog_436485783"></span>GAP LIFE</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: Feiwel & Friends</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: November 22, 2016</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Summary</b>:<br />Cray got into the same college his father attended and is expected to go. And to go pre-med. And to get started right away. His parents are paying the tuition. It should be an easy decision.<br /><br />But it's not.<br /><br />All Cray knows is that what's expected of him doesn't feel right. The pressure to make a decision—from his family, his friends—is huge. Until he meets Rayne, a girl who is taking a gap year, and who helps him find his first real job, at a home of four adults with developmental disabilities. What he learns about himself and others will turn out to be more than any university could teach him—and twice as difficult. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">BEAST</span></h2>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy87XNOTkNtQZk6_I5CLbmeUfT9wXC1LhfAbcnT7zrYQP1JtujFu8rpgrY_ZPk9f2gxwtbmlyQhDCh7CWL8en8AsFmZ59RE3NiJwNM92mvO1OEuRZVkY2eKtB5MxUG8v2Hb10yNo34eh-k/s1600/28588098.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy87XNOTkNtQZk6_I5CLbmeUfT9wXC1LhfAbcnT7zrYQP1JtujFu8rpgrY_ZPk9f2gxwtbmlyQhDCh7CWL8en8AsFmZ59RE3NiJwNM92mvO1OEuRZVkY2eKtB5MxUG8v2Hb10yNo34eh-k/s320/28588098.jpg" width="211" /></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Author</b>: Brie Spangler</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: Knopf Books For Young Readers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: October 11, 2016</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Summary</b>:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A witty, wise, and heart-wrenching novel that will appeal to fans of Rainbow Rowell and David Levithan.<br /><br />Tall, meaty, muscle-bound, and hairier than most throw rugs, Dylan doesn’t look like your average fifteen-year-old, so, naturally, high school has not been kind to him. To make matters worse, on the day his school bans hats (his preferred camouflage), Dylan goes up on his roof only to fall and wake up in the hospital with a broken leg—and a mandate to attend group therapy for self-harmers.<br /><br />Dylan vows to say nothing and zones out at therapy—until he meets Jamie. She’s funny, smart, and so stunning, even his womanizing best friend, JP, would be jealous. She’s also the first person to ever call Dylan out on his self-pitying and superficiality. As Jamie’s humanity and wisdom begin to rub off on Dylan, they become more than just friends. But there is something Dylan doesn’t know about Jamie, something she shared with the group the day he wasn’t listening. Something that shouldn’t change a thing. She is who she’s always been—an amazing photographer and devoted friend, who also happens to be transgender. But will Dylan see it that way? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Beast-Brie-Spangler/dp/1101937165/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1459089956&sr=8-1&keywords=beast+brie" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/beast/9781101937167-item.html?ikwid=beast+brie&ikwsec=Home&ikwidx=0" target="_blank">Chapters</a> | <a href="http://www.bookdepository.com/Beast-Brie-Spangler/9781101937167?ref=grid-view" target="_blank">TBD</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">CLANLESS</span></h2>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Author</b>: Jennifer Jenkins</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Series</b>: Nameless #2</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: Month9Books</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: October 4, 2016</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">WHEN THE MOON WAS OURS</span></h2>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQToqeg6pusMT1MCNxVS1Xtw43wIDOOuAIA3F9ioivrbuJPdsxdyEyeVJ9vBKcwNWd6VONai4X93XuksI44l7z6LamKQVoWq6a-FyhYU5juFudWghEQZ0rdgtG7_Fg91zIDB4edzYqmbZ-/s1600/28220826.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQToqeg6pusMT1MCNxVS1Xtw43wIDOOuAIA3F9ioivrbuJPdsxdyEyeVJ9vBKcwNWd6VONai4X93XuksI44l7z6LamKQVoWq6a-FyhYU5juFudWghEQZ0rdgtG7_Fg91zIDB4edzYqmbZ-/s320/28220826.jpg" width="209" /></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Author</b>: Anna-Marie McLemore</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: Thomas Dunne Books</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: October 4, 2016</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Summary</b>:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>When the Moon Was Ours</b> follows two characters through a story that has multicultural elements and magical realism, but also has central LGBT themes—a transgender boy, the best friend he’s falling in love with, and both of them deciding how they want to define themselves.<br /><br />To everyone who knows them, best friends Miel and Sam are as strange as they are inseparable. Roses grow out of Miel’s wrist, and rumors say that she spilled out of a water tower when she was five. Sam is known for the moons he paints and hangs in the trees, and for how little anyone knows about his life before he and his mother moved to town.<br /><br />But as odd as everyone considers Miel and Sam, even they stay away from the Bonner girls, four beautiful sisters rumored to be witches. Now they want the roses that grow from Miel’s skin, convinced that their scent can make anyone fall in love. And they’re willing to use every secret Miel has fought to protect to make sure she gives them up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/When-Moon-Ours-Anna-Marie-McLemore/dp/125005866X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1459089989&sr=8-1&keywords=when+the+moon+was+ours" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/when-the-moon-was-ours/9781250058669-item.html?ikwid=when+the+moon+was+ous&ikwsec=Home&ikwidx=0" target="_blank">Chapters</a> | <a href="http://www.bookdepository.com/When-the-Moon-Was-Ours-Ann-marie-Mclemore/9781250058669?ref=grid-view" target="_blank">TBD</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">THE GRACES</span></h2>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfEqfT56188wiYV2Mpa2GCyjVwATFuK9JO80KeYAd_bfLVy73Su-Hik4WRCD33Y7j3jTNKanxfryiIGEAKRRAeGri-cWO7C4952TeO1PGz1eczf3EvoaFVs19ya1u6z-nLsuGd1aPNmOM5/s1600/28818369.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfEqfT56188wiYV2Mpa2GCyjVwATFuK9JO80KeYAd_bfLVy73Su-Hik4WRCD33Y7j3jTNKanxfryiIGEAKRRAeGri-cWO7C4952TeO1PGz1eczf3EvoaFVs19ya1u6z-nLsuGd1aPNmOM5/s320/28818369.jpg" width="211" /></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Author</b>: Laure Eve</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: Amulet Books</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: September 6, 2016</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Summary</b>:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In <b>The Graces</b>, the first rule of witchcraft states that if you want something badly enough, you can get it . . . no matter who has to pay.<br /><br />Everyone loves the Graces. Fenrin, Thalia, and Summer Grace are captivating, wealthy, and glamorous. They’ve managed to cast a spell over not just their high school but also their entire town—and they’re rumored to have powerful connections all over the world. If you’re not in love with one of them, you want to be them. Especially River: the loner, new girl at school. She’s different from her peers, who both revere and fear the Grace family. She wants to be a Grace more than anything. And what the Graces don’t know is that River’s presence in town is no accident.<br /><br />This fabulously addictive fantasy combines sophisticated and haunting prose with a gut-punching twist that readers will be dying to discuss. Perfect for fans of We Were Liars as well as nostalgic classics like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the 1996 movie The Craft, The Graces marks the beginning of a new wave of teen witches. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Graces-Laure-Eve/dp/1419721232/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1459090035&sr=8-1&keywords=the+graces+laure" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/the-graces/9781419721236-item.html?ikwid=the+graces+laure+eve&ikwsec=Home&ikwidx=0" target="_blank">Chapters</a> | <a href="http://www.bookdepository.com/The-Graces-Laure-Eve/9780571326808?ref=grid-view" target="_blank">TBD</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">THE BOY WHO KILLED GRANT PARKER</span></h2>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdTLyhSuVEh67UX-SavzYBuD9RRsQajBTbGajnSRWHHUNmNWDDImtmzvcv-gJqkFx8LTGCIqP6-QK1FLJzBq_vKc3vVbyzlaGcfaLXV72EMYij2SjAGZde5lbJcwBs01h_yCLGCmLNi2SG/s1600/28220925.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdTLyhSuVEh67UX-SavzYBuD9RRsQajBTbGajnSRWHHUNmNWDDImtmzvcv-gJqkFx8LTGCIqP6-QK1FLJzBq_vKc3vVbyzlaGcfaLXV72EMYij2SjAGZde5lbJcwBs01h_yCLGCmLNi2SG/s320/28220925.jpg" width="213" /></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Author</b>: Kat Spears</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: St. Martin's Griffin</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: September 13, 2016</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Summary</b>:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Luke Grayson's life might as well be over when he's forced to go live in rural Tennessee with his Baptist pastor father. His reputation as a troublemaker has followed him there, and as an outsider, Luke is automatically under suspicion by everyone from the principal at his new school to the local police chief. His social life is no better. The new kid in town is an easy target for Grant Parker, the local golden boy with a violent streak who has the entire community of Ashland under his thumb.<br /><br />But things go topsy-turvy when a freak accident removes Grant from the top of the social pyramid, replacing him with Luke. This fish out of water has suddenly gone from social outcast to hero in a matter of twenty-four hours. For the students who have lived in fear of Grant all their lives, this is a welcome change. But Luke’s new found fame comes with a price. Nobody knows the truth about what really happened to Grant Parker except for Luke, and the longer he keeps living the lie, the more like Grant Parker he becomes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Killed-Grant-Parker/dp/1250088860/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1459090065&sr=1-1&keywords=the+boy+who+killed+grant+parker" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/the-boy-who-killed-grant/9781250088864-item.html?ikwid=the+boy+who+killed+grant+parker&ikwsec=Home&ikwidx=0" target="_blank">Chapters</a> | <a href="http://www.bookdepository.com/The-Boy-Who-Killed-Grant-Parker-Kat-Spears/9781250088864?ref=grid-view" target="_blank">TBD</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">THIS SAVAGE SONG</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Series</b>: Monsters of Verity #1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: Greenwillow Books</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: July 5, 2016</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Summary</b>:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There’s no such thing as safe in a city at war, a city overrun with monsters. In this dark urban fantasy from acclaimed author Victoria Schwab, a young woman and a young man must choose whether to become heroes or villains—and friends or enemies—with the future of their home at stake. The first of two books, <b>This Savage Song</b> is a must-have for fans of Holly Black, Maggie Stiefvater, and Laini Taylor.<br /><br />Kate Harker and August Flynn are the heirs to a divided city—a city where the violence has begun to breed actual monsters. All Kate wants is to be as ruthless as her father, who lets the monsters roam free and makes the humans pay for his protection. All August wants is to be human, as good-hearted as his own father, to play a bigger role in protecting the innocent—but he’s one of the monsters. One who can steal a soul with a simple strain of music. When the chance arises to keep an eye on Kate, who’s just been kicked out of her sixth boarding school and returned home, August jumps at it. But Kate discovers August’s secret, and after a failed assassination attempt the pair must flee for their lives. In This Savage Song, Victoria Schwab creates a gritty, seething metropolis, one worthy of being compared to Gotham and to the four versions of London in her critically acclaimed fantasy for adults, A Darker Shade of Magic. Her heroes will face monsters intent on destroying them from every side—including the monsters within. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Author</b>: Elise Kova</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Series</b>: Air Awakens #5</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: Silver Wing Press</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: July 2016</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Long live Solaris.</i><br /><br />One bloodthirsty ruler has been overthrown by another, casting the shadow of death over the Solaris Empire. Vhalla Yarl stands upon the stage of fate, prepared to do battle one final time. Fragile alliances will be tested and new bonds will be formed as the world is reshaped. She fights as the champion of peace, but when the night is darkest will she be able to pay the price of a new dawn? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">EVERYONE WE'VE BEEN</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: Knopf Books For Young Readers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: October 4, 2016</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Summary</b>:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>For fans of Jandy Nelson and Jenny Han comes a new novel that asks, can you possibly know the person you’re becoming if you don’t know the person you’ve been?</b><br /><br />Addison Sullivan has been in an accident. In its aftermath, she has memory lapses and starts talking to a boy that no one else can see. It gets so bad that she’s worried she’s going crazy.<br /><br />Addie takes drastic measures to fill in the blanks and visits a shadowy medical facility that promises to “help with your memory.” But at the clinic, Addie unwittingly discovers it is not her first visit. And when she presses, she finds out that she had certain memories erased. She had a boy erased.<br /><br />But why? Who was that boy, and what happened that was too devastating to live with? And even if she gets the answers she’s looking for, will she ever be able to feel like a whole person again? </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Everyone-Weve-Been-Sarah-Everett/dp/0553538446/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1459090114&sr=1-1&keywords=everyone+we%27ve+been" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/everyone-weve-been/9780553538441-item.html?ikwid=everyone+we%27ve+been&ikwsec=Home&ikwidx=1" target="_blank">Chapters</a> | <a href="http://www.bookdepository.com/Everyone-Weve-Been-Sarah-Everett/9780553538441?ref=grid-view" target="_blank">TBD</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519600122797721671.post-18807233575329966482016-06-02T13:00:00.000+01:002016-06-02T13:00:14.343+01:00REVIEW: DON'T TELL, DON'T TELL, DON'T TELL by Liane Shaw<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">DON'T TELL, DON'T TELL, DON'T TELL</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sixteen-year-old Frederick has a lot of rules for himself. Like if someone calls him Freddy he doesn’t have to respond; he only wears shirts with buttons and he hates getting dirty. His odd behavior makes him an easy target for the “Despisers” at school, but he’s gotten used to eating lunch alone in the Reject Room.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Angel, in tenth grade but already at her sixth school, has always had a hard time making friends because her family moves around so much. Frederick is different from the other kids she’s met - he’s annoyingly smart, but refreshingly honest - and since he’s never had a real friend before, she decides to teach him all her rules of friendship.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But after Angel makes a rash decision and disappears, Frederick is called in for questioning by the police and is torn between telling the truth and keeping his friend’s secret. Her warning to him - don’t tell, don’t tell, don’t tell - might have done more harm than good. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Title</b>: DON'T TELL, DON'T TELL, DON'T TELL</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Author</b>: Liane Shaw</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Source</b>: Purchased from Bryan Prince Bookseller</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: Second Story Press</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication</b> <b>Date</b>: April 5, 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Rating</b>: 2.5 stars</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Tell/dp/1927583950/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1460434830&sr=1-1&keywords=don%27t+tell+don%27t+tell+don%27t+tell+liane+shaw" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/dont-tell-dont-tell-dont/9781927583951-item.html?ref=item_page%3avariation" target="_blank">Chapters</a> | <a href="http://www.bookdepository.com/Dont-Tell-Dont-Tell-Dont-Tell-Liane-Shaw/9781927583951?ref=grid-view" target="_blank">TBD</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I did like this one but I had a couple issues with it. I always have a hard time getting into books that use stream of consciousness to tell the story but this one wasn't too bad until we switched from Frederick's point of view to Angel's. One of the main problems for me was the scene were Frederick finds Angel was very confusing. I had to read it three times until I fully understood what was happening and even still I have some questions. It didn't flow the way the rest of the story did and was really jarring.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I did like that both characters had something they didn't want to tell and I liked being in Angel's mind as she tried to figure out if she should tell or keep it to herself. However, being in Angel's mind was very underwhelming after having been in Frederick's mind. She was very one dimensional and didn't really add a whole lot to the story once we were in her mind. She added more, in my opinion, when Frederick was trying to analyze her and her motives and emotions. Because I always understood Angel since she was fairly neurotypical compared to Frederick. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This was a really quick and easy read but it didn't feel like too much really happened. I feel like it could have had a bit better narrative while still telling the same story. Instead it felt a bit pieced together to create something that it wasn't. The plot wasn't anything special and was a little underdeveloped in my opinion. The real star of the show was Frederick but the rest of the story and characters didn't live up to what he brought to the page.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I still really enjoyed the characters and being in Frederick's mind, but this isn't a book you HAVE to pick up and read. It is just sort of meh to me.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519600122797721671.post-6430067745446824402016-06-01T13:00:00.000+01:002016-06-01T13:00:00.289+01:00Waiting on Wednesday: MY BRILLIANT IDEA by Stuart David<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">The book I'm waiting on this week SCREAMS for my attention. It is a mix of everything I have ever had to deal with in my life. I am really excited for it's release so I can read...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">MY BRILLIANT IDEA by Stuart David</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Title</b>: MY BRILLIANT IDEA</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Author</b>: Stuart David</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: HMH Books For Young Readers</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: June 7, 2016</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Summary</b>:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Meet fifteen-year-old Jack “The Jackdaw” Dawson, a young man with a serious plan. Daydreaming in class one day, Jack gets an idea he knows can't fail: an app that stops you from daydreaming in class. (Ahem . . . ) Fame, glory, and tons of money seem just around the corner. But Jack runs into some trouble, and suddenly this sure thing doesn’t seem quite so sure.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ricocheting from the absurd to the profound in his first book for teens, Stuart David uses his extraordinary intelligence and wit to tell the story of a boy trying to scheme his way out from under the weight of his parents’ expectations. Readers will root for The Jackdaw from beginning to end.</span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6519600122797721671.post-18325621821298563512016-05-27T13:00:00.000+01:002016-05-27T13:00:05.195+01:00ARC REVIEW: THE HIDDEN TWIN by Adi Rule<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Summary</b>:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For eighteen years a girl with no name, a Redwing, has been hidden away in a small attic room within a city of hissing pipes and curving temples perched on the side of the great volcano, Mol, while her sister, Jey-identical except for her eyes-has lived her life in public as an only child. Their father had hoped the hidden girl would one day grow up to be a normal human girl and not the wicked creature mythology has promised, so he secretly spared her life as an infant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But when she switches places with her sister, striking up a flirtation with the son of the Empress while working in the royal gardens and gets attacks by two suspicious priests on her journey home, she is forced to call forth fire to protect herself, unleashing her previously dormant powers and letting her secret out. She soon catches the attention of a cult with a thousand year old grudge as well as a group of underground rebels, both seeking her for their own gain. But when her sister goes missing and the Redwing uncovers a great plot to awaken Mol and bring fiery destruction upon them all, she is forced to embrace her powers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In Adi Rule's new novel, The Hidden Twin, the girl with no name, must choose a name and a path for herself, drawing a line between myth and history to prove herself more than a monster if she is to save both her sister and her home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Title</b>: THE HIDDEN TWIN</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Author</b>: Adi Rule</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Source</b>: eARC via the Publisher</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: St. Martin's Griffin</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication</b> <b>Date</b>: March 22, 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Rating</b>: 2.5 stars</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Twin-Adi-Rule/dp/1250036321/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1460434892&sr=1-1&keywords=the+hidden+twin" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/the-hidden-twin/9781250036322-item.html?ikwid=the+hidden+twin&ikwsec=Books&ikwidx=0" target="_blank">Chapters</a> | <a href="http://www.bookdepository.com/The-Hidden-Twin-Adi-Rule/9781250036322?ref=grid-view" target="_blank">TBD</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This one started off really confusing but ended up being pretty good. I think the mythology was good here but left some to be desired. I think we learned too little at the beginning that didn't really make sense and then once we actually saw it play out I understood it. The issue I had is that it felt like the author tried to make it sound much more poetic than it had to be and it ended up being more confusing than interesting. I spent a good chunk of the book being confused tbh.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But I think what confused me the most is that Lin (I guess that's what I'll call her) knew what she was but didn't want to acknowledge it? It seemed to me like she was 100% sure of what she was but then would kind of deny it to herself and it left me a bit confused. But again, I think this was also partly due to how it was written. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It seemed like there was a weird setup for a love triangle but I also didn't really enjoy the bits of romance that we got. It felt a bit forced and rushed and I wasn't really into either of the dudes and thought there were bigger fish to fry. I'm all for making out at the end of the world but this dude wasn't really worth it imo. He had the personality of a wet paper towel. Actually, all the secondary characters did.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I thought Lin's character did like a 180 from what we got in the first couple of chapters to her switching places with her sister. She was very brash and a little rude to people when she was under the guise of her sister which didn't really make sense to me because she should have been trying to be invisible, not standout.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Anyway, the ending was pretty interesting but also a little predictable. I think there could have been a bit more in terms of worldbuilding and mythology because none of it really made sense to me. I feel like we just scraped the surface of what is to be known and I would have liked to delve a little deeper.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This week I'm waiting on a book that I first heard about during the FAC16 chat back in July 2015! It's been almost a YEAR and I am still waiting on this book! Time sure flies when you're having fun! I really enjoyed this one and loved the way it was written. I really connected with the story! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">IVORY AND BONE by Julie Eshbaugh</span></b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Author</b>: Julie Eshbaugh</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: HarperTeen</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: June 14, 2016</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span id="freeText559676536461455545">The only life
seventeen-year-old Kol knows is hunting at the foot of the Great Ice
with his brothers. But food is becoming scarce, and without another clan
to align with, Kol, his family, and their entire group are facing an
uncertain future.<br /><br />Traveling from the south, Mya and her family
arrive at Kol’s camp with a trail of hurt and loss behind them, and hope
for a new beginning. When Kol meets Mya, her strength, independence,
and beauty instantly captivate him, igniting a desire for much more than
survival.<br /><br />Then on a hunt, Kol makes a grave mistake that
jeopardizes the relationship that he and Mya have only just started to
build. Mya was guarded to begin with—and for good reason—but no apology
or gesture is enough for her to forgive him. Soon after, another clan
arrives on their shores. And when Mya spots Lo, a daughter of this new
clan, her anger intensifies, adding to the already simmering tension
between families. After befriending Lo, Kol learns of a dark history
between Lo and Mya that is rooted in the tangle of their pasts.<br /><br />When
violence erupts, Kol is forced to choose between fighting alongside Mya
or trusting Lo’s claims. And when things quickly turn deadly, it
becomes clear that this was a war that one of them had been planning all
along.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dill has had to wrestle with vipers his whole life—at home, as the only son of a Pentecostal minister who urges him to handle poisonous rattlesnakes, and at school, where he faces down bullies who target him for his father’s extreme faith and very public fall from grace.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He and his fellow outcast friends must try to make it through their senior year of high school without letting the small-town culture destroy their creative spirits and sense of self. Graduation will lead to new beginnings for Lydia, whose edgy fashion blog is her ticket out of their rural Tennessee town. And Travis is content where he is thanks to his obsession with an epic book series and the fangirl turning his reality into real-life fantasy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Their diverging paths could mean the end of their friendship. But not before Dill confronts his dark legacy to attempt to find a way into the light of a future worth living.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Title</b>: THE SERPENT KING</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Author</b>: Jeff Zentner</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: Crown BFYR</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication</b> <b>Date</b>: March 8, 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Rating</b>: 5 stars</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Serpent-King-Jeff-Zentner/dp/055352402X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1460434937&sr=1-1&keywords=the+serpent+king" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/the-serpent-king/9781770498839-item.html?ikwid=the+serpent+king&ikwsec=Books&ikwidx=0" target="_blank">Chapters</a> | <a href="http://www.bookdepository.com/The-Serpent-King-Jeff-Zentner/9781783443819?ref=grid-view" target="_blank">TBD</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have been sitting on writing up this bit of a review for three days because I don't think I can adequately put into words how amazing THE SERPENT KING is. I am an avid reader of contemporary novels, but if you only read one more contemporary novel in your entire life, make sure it is THE SERPENT KING. I just. The writing, the characters, the feeling of moving on, it is all so beautifully done and written that I just cannot handle how amazing this is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I think what Zentner did amazingly right in this one was give you perspective into how three people from one town can have their lives overlap in some ways but not others. When you are in a friend group of three, there will always be some things you tell one person and not the other, which is true for everyone. And this is wonderfully shown in this novel. Each of the characters has something they keep to themselves and shares a piece of themselves with the others, but not necessarily both. Their friendship is squad goals to be honest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I kept flipping back and forth between who I liked the most with each point of view chapter. And as much as I don't really like when there are too many points of view, I think it REALLY worked here because Zentner had such a firm grasp on each of the characters that he could move seamlessly between all of them and not leave the reader waiting until we got back to a different point of view. I liked seeing how all three of the characters interacted and the ways they supported (and had a bit of resentment, in some cases) each other.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I feel like the dynamic between Dill and Lydia with him torn between being grateful for helping him try to get out of town while also feeling a bit of anger for having that support system that he doesn't have to encourage him to continue with his education was the best part of the novel. I think we all want to do better and be the best version of ourselves but sometimes it is hard when you see someone else succeed where you haven't because of something you can't control -- the family you are born into. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I also really liked how Travis and Dill interacted. They were both your typical small town outcasts: have dreams much larger than what a traditional small town can handle but don't know how to fulfill their dreams because they are Stuck in a never-ending loop. I kinda liked that they were close in a silent way whereas Lydia was the louder of the three of them. I think they fit together perfectly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have a lot more I could say but I don't want to be too ~spoilery~ so all in all, this was the BEST contemporary novel I have read this year. It was so raw and real and it was so easy to get lost in the lives of Travis, Dill, and Lydia and forget about your own life for a bit. I know I say this a lot when I like a book, but I do highly recommend this one. If I had to only save one book from a burning house, this would be the one. Read it!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">WE WERE NEVER HERE</span></span></b></i></span><br />
<b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho_pWXlqBMclmdTioyddGNtbPs-_vRbfU91NTSPWL_sGz_5vZ_-cgaNisa7PNXVZWoQ52BnIRa9LaY3clL00YyNLaZqiyaixumAmUkHCAbaiLUrlG_3WOJy6Dv2uEutT2HsfJCnwWnrjO4/s1600/27064380.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho_pWXlqBMclmdTioyddGNtbPs-_vRbfU91NTSPWL_sGz_5vZ_-cgaNisa7PNXVZWoQ52BnIRa9LaY3clL00YyNLaZqiyaixumAmUkHCAbaiLUrlG_3WOJy6Dv2uEutT2HsfJCnwWnrjO4/s320/27064380.jpg" width="211" /></a></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Author</b>: Jennifer Gilmore</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication D</b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>ate</b>: June 14, 2016</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In this exquisitely written, emotionally charged young adult debut, Jennifer Gilmore explores the bond that is formed between a hospitalized girl and the secretly troubled boy she falls in love with.<br /><br />Did you know your entire life can change in an instant?<br /><br />For sixteen-year-old Lizzie Stoller that moment is when she collapses, out of the blue. The next thing she knows she’s in a hospital with an illness she’s never heard of.<br /><br />But that isn’t the only life-changing moment for Lizzie. The other is when Connor and his dog, Verlaine, walk into her hospital room. Lizzie has never connected with anyone the way she does with the handsome, teenage volunteer. However, the more time she spends with him, and the deeper in love she falls, the more she realizes that Connor has secrets and a deep pain of his own . . . and that while being with him has the power to make Lizzie forget about her illness, being with her might tear Connor apart.</span> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Author</b>: Jennifer Castle</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: June 7, 2016</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"I know what it is to want something so badly, you feel like your cells aren’t properly bonded together without it.<br />I also know what it’s like to get that something.<br />And honestly, I’m still not sure which is worse..."<br /><br />Ari Logan is battling to win her war against depression and the dark night she hurt herself on purpose. It’s not easy: her best friend is drifting away, her mom’s emotionally checked out, and she spends her days playing caregiver to her handful of a half-sister, Danielle. But it’s summer, and anything is possible...<br /><br />That’s when Camden Armstrong steps onto the beach of Ari’s local swimming lake.<br /><br />At first, Ari quietly longs for Camden from afar, seeing in him everything she wants to be. When the two discover a true connection the following summer, Ari lets herself fall not just for the quirky and self-assured Camden but also his friends, tumbling into their world of independence, adventure, and shared sci-fi fandom. As Ari’s romantic dreams come true, she must unlock the mysteries of the very real and troubled boy behind her infatuation, while also struggling with her own demons, obligations, and loyalties.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">AUTOFOCUS</span></span></b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: HarperTeen</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: June 14, 2016</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Family.<br /><br />It’s always been a loaded word for Maude. And when she is given a senior photography assignment—to create a portfolio that shows the meaning of family—she doesn’t quite know where to begin. But she knows one thing: without the story of her birth mother, who died when Maude was born, her project will be incomplete.<br /><br />So Maude decides to visit her best friend, Treena, at college in Tallahassee, Florida, where Maude’s birth mother once lived. But when Maude arrives, she quickly discovers that Treena has changed. With a new boyfriend and a packed social calendar, Treena doesn’t seem to have time for Maude—or helping Maude in her search.<br /><br />Enter Bennett, a cute guy who lives in Treena’s dorm. He understands Maude’s need to find her mother. And as Bennett helps Maude in her search, she starts to find that her mother’s past doesn’t have to define her own future.<br /><br />Lauren Gibaldi has crafted a beautiful and timely coming-of-age story that poses the question: Is who we are determined at birth, or can we change as we grow?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">CHANGE PLACES WITH ME</span></span></b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Balzer + Bray</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: June 14, 2016</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">From Lois Metzger, acclaimed author of A Trick of the Light, comes a work of speculative fiction set in the near future about a teen girl who finds a new, mysterious perspective on her life.<br /><br />Rose has changed. She still lives in the same neighborhood with her stepmother and goes to the same high school with the same group of kids, but when she woke up today, something was just a little different than it was before. The dogs who live upstairs are no longer a terror. Her hair and her clothes all feel brand-new. She wants to throw a party—this from a girl who hardly ever spoke to her classmates before. There is no more sadness in her life; she is bursting with happiness.<br /><br />But something still feels wrong to Rose. Because, until very recently, Rose was an entirely different person—a person who is still there inside her, just beneath the thinnest layer of skin.<br /><br />A bold and original work of speculative fiction set in a familiar future, Lois Metzger’s latest novel is a profoundly authentic and heartbreaking tale of the things we keep locked away inside us, even from ourselves.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Author</b>: Ann Redisch Stampler</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: Simon Pulse</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: June 14, 2016</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This electric cross-country thriller follows the game of cat and mouse between a girl on the run from a murder she witnessed—or committed?—and the boy who’s sent to kill her.<br /><br />Nicolette Holland is the girl everyone likes. Up for adventure. Loyal to a fault. And she’s pretty sure she can get away with anything...until a young woman is brutally murdered in the woods near Nicolette’s house. Which is why she has to disappear.<br /><br />Jack Manx has always been the stand-up guy with the killer last name. But straight A’s and athletic trophies can’t make people forget that his father was a hit man and his brother is doing time for armed assault. Just when Jack is about to graduate from his Las Vegas high school and head east for college, his brother pulls him into the family business with inescapable instructions: find this ruthless Nicolette Holland and get rid of her. Or else Jack and everyone he loves will pay the price.<br /><br />As Nicolette and Jack race to outsmart each other, tensions—and attractions—run high. Told in alternating voices, this tightly plotted mystery and tense love story challenges our assumptions about right and wrong, guilt and innocence, truth and lies.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">THE BOMBS THAT BROUGHT US TOGETHER</span></span></b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: Bloomsbury USA Chi<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ldren</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: June 7<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, 2016</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Fourteen-year-old Charlie Law has lived in Little Town, on the border with Old Country, all his life. He knows the rules: no going out after dark; no drinking; no litter; no fighting. You don't want to get on the wrong side of the people who run Little Town. When he meets Pavel Duda, a refugee from Old Country, the rules start to get broken. Then the bombs come, and the soldiers from Old Country, and Little Town changes for ever.<br /><br />Sometimes, to keep the people you love safe, you have to do bad things. As Little Town's rules crumble, Charlie is sucked into a dangerous game. There's a gun, and a bad man, and his closest friend, and his dearest enemy.<br /><br />Charlie Law wants to keep everyone happy, even if it kills him. And maybe it will... But he's got to kill someone else first.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Author</b>: Alison Umminger</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: F<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">la<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">tiron Books</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: June 7, 2016</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She was looking for a place to land.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />Anna is a fifteen-year-old girl slouching toward adulthood, and she's had it with her life at home. So Anna "borrows" her stepmom's credit card an runs away to Los Angeles, where her half-sister takes her in. But LA isn't quite the glamorous escape Anna had imagined.<br /><br />As Anna spends her days on TV and movie sets, she engrosses herself in a project researching the murderous Manson girls—and although the violence in her own life isn't the kind that leaves physical scars, she begins to notice the parallels between herself and the lost girls of LA, and of America, past and present.<br /><br />In Anna's singular voice, we glimpse not only a picture of life on the B-list in LA, but also a clear-eyed reflection on being young, vulnerable, lost, and female in America—in short, on the B-list of life. Alison Umminger writes about girls, sex, violence, and which people society deems worthy of caring about, which ones it doesn't, in a way not often seen in YA fiction.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">BEFORE WE GO EXTINCT</span></span></b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: Farrar, Straus and Giroux BYR</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication Date</b>: <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">June 28, 2016</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Grief can sometimes feel like being caught in the jaws of a great white shark.</b><br /><br />J.C., who goes by the nickname Sharky, has been having a hard time ever since his best friend died in front of him in a what might or might not have been an accident. Shell-shocked, Sharky spends countless hours holed up in his room, obsessively watching documentaries about sharks and climate change—and texting his dead friend.<br /><br />At her wits end, Sharky’s mom sends him to visit his father on an abandoned island in Canada, where his dad is the caretaker. Over the course of an unforgettable summer, Sharky gets to know his dad . . . and he meets a girl who teaches him how to shows him how to live—and love—again.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Trixie Watson has two very important goals for senior year: to finally save enough to buy the set of Doctor Who figurines at the local comic books store, and to place third in her class and knock Ben West--and his horrendous new mustache that he spent all summer growing--down to number four.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Trixie will do anything to get her name ranked over Ben's, including give up sleep and comic books--well, maybe not comic books--but definitely sleep. After all, the war of Watson v. West is as vicious as the Doctor v. Daleks and Browncoats v. Alliance combined, and it goes all the way back to the infamous monkey bars incident in the first grade. Over a decade later, it's time to declare a champion once and for all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The war is Trixie's for the winning, until her best friend starts dating Ben's best friend and the two are unceremoniously dumped together and told to play nice. Finding common ground is odious and tooth-pullingly-painful, but Trixie and Ben's cautious truce slowly transforms into a fandom-based tentative friendship. When Trixie's best friend gets expelled for cheating and Trixie cries foul play, however, they have to choose who to believe and which side they're on--and they might not pick the same side.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Author</b>: Lily Anderson</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: St. Martin's Griffin</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication</b> <b>Date</b>: May 17, 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Rating</b>: 4 stars</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This was such a cute and fun retelling of Much Ado About Nothing which if you haven't read it (or watched an adaptation), you really should. This is most definitely my favourite Shakespearian comedy and I would recommend this retelling to everyone. Anderson writes a cute narrative that will have you laughing and swooning at the same time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I loved all the little references splattered throughout the book, but I wasn't a fan of the "gatekeeping" that Trixie did with Ben. I understand it was a part of their banter but it still made me feel uncomfortable because she was very much "If you don't know as much as me about the things I love, you aren't worthy of my time" and that overlapped in how she dealt with other people as well. I liked that her friends sort of kept her in check but it still left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I did really like all the other characters though and the way that this played out. I liked the modern, high school take on the original play and thought it was really well done. I liked what was said about the amount of pressure put on teenagers to do well in school and I liked that it was addressed. I liked seeing Trixie go from a little cocky and arrogant to taking a step back to evaluate how she handled people and situations. I think her relationships were the best in the story but I did like that everyone sort of had their own lives, own friends, own interests, and Trixie just happened to be there for some of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The voice and dialogue in this were so fun and witty and I 10/10 would recommend this if you are a fan of hate to love, Marvel comics, and Joss Whedon. Anderson really knows what it's like to be nerdy and cool and I think this is a book that will speak to people of all ages.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">10:00 tonight at the water tower. Tell no one. -Chaos Club</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When Max receives a mysterious invite from the untraceable, epic prank-pulling Chaos Club, he has to ask: why him? After all, he's Mr. 2.5 GPA, Mr. No Social Life. He's Just Max. And his favorite heist movies have taught him this situation calls for Rule #4: Be suspicious. But it's also his one shot to leave Just Max in the dust...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yeah, not so much. Max and four fellow students-who also received invites-are standing on the newly defaced water tower when campus security "catches" them. Definitely a setup. And this time, Max has had enough. It's time for Rule #7: Always get payback.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Let the prank war begin. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Title</b>: DON'T GET CAUGHT</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Author</b>: Kurt Dinan</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Source</b>: eARC via the Publisher</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publisher</b>: Sourcebooks Fire</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Publication</b> <b>Date</b>: April 1, 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Rating</b>: 4 stars</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That was a fun read but a tad bit predictable tbh. I had one of the character's ending pegged immediately, like 10-15% in, and little things along the way just confirmed my suspicions. There were some things that looking back made sense, like who was running the club, but I took a bit of issue with someone that was in the club because it felt to me like it came out of nowhere. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am pretty good at picking up hints and clues along the way but either I missed EVERYTHING that said this person would be part of the club or it was such an obscure clue that there was no way I was going to get it until after I finished reading and reread it. But honestly if you have read a couple heist books, it is pretty obvious what a couple of the twists are along the way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I thought the pranks were pretty funny and I really enjoyed seeing pieces of the set up but not the entire thing until it was completely done. I agreed with Max about some of the pranks being too personal rather than just fun and hilarious but I kind of liked the little bit of revenge. I would have voted for Kate's prank as the best one out of all of them because (view spoiler) I had a lot of fun reading this one though and would recommend it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I really liked all the characters though. They all had such good motives for wanting to do the pranks and being the fake Chaos Club. One thing I found a bit confusing though was at some points Max would reference characters by their last name in his narrative but then people would call them by their first name in real life and I had to keep double checking to see who was who. But I liked that everyone saw Max as their leader and that he inspired them to be better. I think they had a good friendship as a group and are close to being a brot5 for me. I would really like to see the next year, so if Dinan wants to write a sequel, I am here for it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I liked the pacing, the writing style, and the overall story. This was a fun contemporary read with hijinks and hilarity. I would definitely recommend it if you are looking for a fun book that also makes you think about how you define yourself.</span></div>
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