Toward A Secret Sky by Heather Maclean Published April 4th 2017 368 Pages Goodreads Summary: Shortly after 17-year-old Maren Hamilton is orphaned and sent to live with grandparents she’s never met in Scotland, she receives an encrypted journal from her dead mother that makes her and everyone around her a target. It confirms that her… Read More Toward A Secret Sky – Book Review
Title: Thirteen Reasons Why Author: Jay Asher My rating: 4/5 Synopsis: Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker–his classmate and crush–who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah’s voice tells him that… Read More Thirteen Reasons Why – Book Review
Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor Rating: 5/5 stars Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult About this Book: The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around—and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. Since he was five years old he’s been obsessed with the mythic lost… Read More Strange the Dreamer – Book Review
City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare ISBN: 9781406307634 Published: 7th July 2008 Paperback, 411 pages Genre: YA, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance Rating: 8.5/10 WARNING: This review may contain spoilers from the first book in the series City of Bones. By the Angel! Everything kicks off in the second installment of The Mortal Instruments series.… Read More City of Ashes – Book Review
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Format: Hardcover Pages: 464 pages Published: February 28, 2017 Publisher: Balzer + Bray Genre: Young Adult, Fiction Synopsis: Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the… Read More The Hate U Give – Book Review
Author: Roshani Chokshi Series: The Star-Touched Queen #2 Source: ARC via Publisher Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin Publication Date: March 28, 2017 Rating: 5/5 stars Summary: Gauri, the princess of Bharata, has been taken as a prisoner of war by her kingdom’s enemies. Faced with a future of exile and scorn, Gauri has nothing left… Read More A Crown of Wishes – Book Review
Quanta Rewind (The Shadow Ravens #4) by Lola Dodge Genre: Dystopian Romance Release Date: April 25th 2017 Publisher: Ink Monster Publishing About the Book With more and more Red Helixes turning up missing or dead, the Shadow Ravens are ready to take their fight to Doctor Nagi himself. But breaking into Alpha Citadel… Read More Quanta Rewind – Book Review
Pretty Fierce by Kieran Scott Published by Sourcebooks Fire on April 4, 2017 Genres: Fantasy & Supernatural, Romance, Thriller & Suspense Pages: 320 Format: Kindle Source: Netgalley Pretty Fierce by Kieran Scott is described as an action movie in written form, so naturally I was intrigued. I have not read anything by Scott (or… Read More Pretty Fierce – Book Review
The Mansion’s Twins Author: Rose M. Channing Publisher: Createspace Published on: July 23rd 2014 Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Synopsis (via Goodreads): Ellie and Savannah Senka, fourteen year old twins, ran away from their unhappy homes, thinking they’d return after a brief adventure. Together, they journey to another world.
This is a review for the COYER Challenge! Rating: 4/5 Stars Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Publication date: January 10th, 2017 I received a copy of this book from Edelweiss in exchange for an honest, unbiased review. Seventeen-year-old Ruby is a fireblood who must hide her powers of heat and flame from the cruel frostblood… Read More The You I’ve Never Known – Book Review
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