Genre: Social Issues

Review – Breathe, Annie, Breathe by Miranda Kenneally

Title: Breathe, Annie, Breathe Series: Hundred Oaks #5 Author: Miranda Kenneally Release Date: July 15, 2014 Pages: 306 Goodreads Rating: 4.10/5 Stars My Rating: 4.5/5 Stars My Content Rating: Mature YA (Sexual activity, not explicit, but described; Some language) Summary from Goodreads: Annie hates running. No matter how far she jogs, she can’t escape the guilt that if she hadn’t broken up with Kyle, he might still be alive. So to honor his memory, she starts preparing for the marathon he intended to race. But the training […]

Posted August 12, 2014 in Reviews / 0 Comments

Review – Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry

Title: Pushing the Limits Series: Pushing the Limits #1 Author: Katie McGarry Release Date: 2012 Pages: 392 Goodreads Rating: 4.12/5 Stars My Rating: 4.5/5 Stars My Content Rating: Mature YA (Sex is discussed, but not shown; Some language) Summary from Goodreads: So wrong for each other …and yet so right. No one knows what happened the night Echo Emerson went from popular girl with jock boyfriend to gossiped-about outsider with “freaky” scars on her arms. Even Echo can’t remember the whole truth of that horrible night. […]

Posted July 28, 2014 in Reviews / 3 Comments

ARC Review, Guest Post & Giveaway – Let’s Get Lost by Adi Alsaid

Title: Let’s Get Lost Author: Adi Alsaid Release Date: July 29, 2014 Pages: 352 Goodreads Rating: 4.00/5 Stars My Rating: 4/5 Stars My Content Rating: YA (Nothing more than kissing; Some language and illegal behavior) Summary from Goodreads: Five strangers. Countless adventures. One epic way to get lost. Four teens across the country have only one thing in common: a girl named LEILA. She crashes into their lives in her absurdly red car at the moment they need someone the most. There’s HUDSON, a […]

Posted July 25, 2014 in Giveaways (Ended), Reviews / 1 Comment

Review – I Am the Weapon by Allen Zadoff

Title: I Am the Weapon (Previous Title: Boy Nobody) Series: The Unknown Assassin #1 Author: Allen Zadoff Release Date: May 13, 2014 Pages: 368 Goodreads Rating: 3.93/0.5 Stars My Rating: 4.5/5 Stars My Content Rating: Mature YA (Characters have sex, but it’s not described; Violence) Summary from Goodreads: They needed the perfect assassin. Boy Nobody is the perennial new kid in school, the one few notice and nobody thinks much about. He shows up in a new high school in a new town under a […]

Posted June 7, 2014 in Reviews / 4 Comments

ARC Review & Giveaway – My Last Kiss by Bethany Neal

Title: My Last Kiss Author: Bethany Neal Release Date: June 10, 2014 Pages: 368 Goodreads Rating: 3.87/5 Stars My Rating: 4/5 Stars My Content Rating: YA (Nothing more than kissing, Some violence) Genre: YA Paranormal Summary from Goodreads: What if your last kiss was with the wrong boy? Cassidy Haines remembers her first kiss vividly. It was on the old covered bridge the summer before her freshman year with her boyfriend of three years, Ethan Keys. But her last kiss–the one she shared with […]

Posted May 28, 2014 in Giveaways (Ended), Reviews / 0 Comments

5 Star Review & Giveaway – Prisoner of Night and Fog by Anne Blankman

“Debut novelist Blankman’s account of life in Munich prior to Hitler’s 1933 elevation to the chancellorship is completely engrossing….Blankman creates riveting tension for her heroine and pulls readers through with an irresistible subplot featuring forbidden love.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) “I’m in awed envy of the daring with which Anne Blankman plunges into her difficult and sensitive subject matter. To read Prisoner of Night and Fog is to be immersed in a breathtaking evocation […]

Posted April 18, 2014 in Giveaways (Ended), Reviews / 0 Comments

Review – This Song Will Save Your Life by Leila Sales

Title: This Song Will Save Your Life Author: Leila Sales Release Date: September, 2013 Pages: 279 Goodreads Rating: 4.06 stars My Rating: 4.5/5 stars My Content Rating: Mature YA (Themes of suicide and bullying; sex, though not explicit) Summary from Goodreads: Making friends has never been Elise Dembowski’s strong suit. All throughout her life, she’s been the butt of every joke and the outsider in every conversation. When a final attempt at popularity fails, Elise nearly gives up. Then she stumbles upon a warehouse […]

Posted March 4, 2014 in Reviews / 0 Comments

Review – You Look Different in Real Life by Jennifer Castle

Title: You Look Different in Real Life Author: Jennifer Castle Release Date: June 4, 2013 Pages: 355 Goodreads Rating: 3.63 Stars My Rating: 4/5 stars My Content Rating: PG-13 (Somewhat mature situations) Summary from Goodreads: For the rest of the world, the movies are entertainment. For Justine, they’re real life. The premise was simple: five kids, just living their lives. There’d be a new movie about them every five years, starting in kindergarten. But no one could have predicted what the cameras […]

Posted January 28, 2014 in Reviews / 0 Comments

Review – My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick

Title: My Life Next Door Author: Huntley Fitzpatrick Release Date: 2012 Pages: 394, Hardcover Goodreads Rating: 4.07 stars My Rating: 5/5 stars My Content Rating: PG-16 (Sexual content, but it’s handled tastefully and is not at all graphic) Summary from Goodreads: “One thing my mother never knew, and would disapprove of most of all, was that I watched the Garretts. All the time.” The Garretts are everything the Reeds are not. Loud, messy, affectionate. And every day from her rooftop perch, Samantha Reed […]

Posted December 1, 2013 in Reviews / 0 Comments

Review – Allegiant (Divergent #3) by Veronica Roth

Title: Allegiant Series: Divergent #3 Author: Veronica Roth Release Date: October 22, 2013 Pages: 526, Hardcover Goodreads Rating: 4.07 stars My Rating: 4.5/5 stars My Content Rating: PG-16 (Sex is not directly described, but some intense violence) Summary from Goodreads: One choice will define you. What if your whole world was a lie? What if a single revelation—like a single choice—changed everything? What if love and loyalty made you do things you never expected? The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered—fractured […]

Posted October 28, 2013 in Reviews / 4 Comments