I’ve decided to join the Debut Author Challenge that’s run by Tara from Hobbitsies. For this challenge, you have to read and review at least 12 debut YA (or MG) books in 2013. The books have to be released in 2013 and they have to either be the author’s very first book OR their first YA book. This seems like a fun challenge, and I love the idea of discovering some new authors so why not […]
Title: The Secret Circle Trilogy (The Initiation & The Captive Part I/The Captive Part II & The Power) Author: L.J. Smith Publisher: Harper Teen Release Date: 2008/2009 Pages: 396/390, Paperback Goodreads Rating: 4/4.15 stars My Rating: 4/5 stars Summary from Goodreads: THE CIRCLE’S POWER HAS LURED HER HOME… Forced to move from sunny California to gloomy New England, Cassie longs for her old life. Even so, she feels a strange kinship to a terrifying group of teens who seem to rule her school. […]
I found this fun idea on I’m Loving Books. Sarah came up with the idea of picking one random book out of your Goodreads To-Read list (using Random.org) to read within the month. Check out her site for more details… This sounded like a fun way to pick my next book, so I decided to go for it. Random.org chose book #38 for me, which happened to be The Power by L.J. Smith. The only problem […]
Title: Splintered (Splintered #1) Author: A.G. Howard Publisher: Amulet Books Release Date: January 1, 2013 Pages: 371, Hardcover Goodreads Rating: 4.02 stars My Rating: 4/5 stars Summary from Goodreads: This stunning debut captures the grotesque madness of a mystical under-land, as well as a girl’s pangs of first love and independence. Alyssa Gardner hears the whispers of bugs and flowers—precisely the affliction that landed her mother in a mental hospital years before. This family curse stretches back to her ancestor Alice Liddell, the real-life […]
Title: The Best of All Possible Worlds Author: Karen Lord Publisher: Del Rey Release Date: February 12th, 2013 Pages: 308, Hardcover Goodreads Rating: 3.8 stars My Rating: 4/5 stars Summary from Goodreads: A proud and reserved alien society finds its homeland destroyed in an unprovoked act of aggression, and the survivors have no choice but to reach out to the indigenous humanoids of their adopted world, to whom they are distantly related. They wish to preserve their cherished way of life but come […]
Title: Requiem (Delirium #3) Author: Lauren Oliver Publisher: HarperCollins Children’s Books Release Date: March 5, 2013 Pages: 391, Hardcover Goodreads Rating: 3.87 stars My Rating: 4/5 stars Summary from Goodreads: They have tried to squeeze us out, to stamp us into the past. But we are still here. And there are more of us every day. Now an active member of the resistance, Lena has been transformed. The nascent rebellion that was under way in Pandemonium has ignited into an […]
Title: Boundless (Unearthly #3) Author: Cynthia Hand Publisher: Harper Teen Release Date: January 22, 2013 Pages: 438, Hardcover Goodreads Rating: 4.2 stars My Rating: 3.5/5 stars Summary from Goodreads: The past few years have held more surprises than part-angel Clara Gardner could ever have anticipated. Yet from the dizzying highs of first love, to the agonizing low of losing someone close to her, the one thing she can no longer deny is that she was never meant to live a normal life. Since […]
Title: Blood Promise (Vampire Academy #4) Author: Richelle Mead Publisher: Razorbill Release Date: August 25, 2009 Pages: 503, Paperback Goodreads Rating: 4.42 stars My Rating: 4/5 stars Summary from Goodreads: Rose Hathaway’s life will never be the same. The recent attack on St. Vladimir’s Academy devastated the entire Moroi world. Many are dead. And, for the few victims carried off by Strigoi, their fates are even worse. A rare tattoo now adorns Rose’s neck, a mark that says she’s killed far too many […]
As the summary says, this is a sequel to the 2007 book, Unwind. If you haven’t read Unwind, run now to your nearest bookstore and see what you’ve been missing. It was an amazing book that Neal Shusterman originally planned as a stand-alone. But, here we are, five years later, and he decided that there was more to the story that needed to be told. All I can say is thank you, thank you, […]
Title: Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy #3) Author: Richelle Mead Publisher: Razorbill Release Date: November 13, 2008 Pages: 443, Paperback Goodreads Rating: 4.44 stars My Rating: 5/5 stars Summary from Goodreads: It’s springtime at St. Vladimir’s Academy, and Rose Hathaway is this close to graduation. Since making her first Strigoi kills, Rose hasn’t been feeling quite right. She’s having dark thoughts, behaving erratically, and worst of all… might be seeing ghosts.As Rose questions her sanity, new complications arise. Lissa has begun experimenting with […]