Smart Girls Get What They Want Author: Sarah Strohmeyer Genre: Young Adult Format: ARC Publisher: Harper Teen Release Date: 6-26-12 Gigi, Bea, and Neerja are best friends and total overachievers. Even if they aren’t the most popular girls in school, they aren’t too worried. They know their “real” lives will begin once they get to […]
Month: June 2012
Small Medium at Large by Joanne Levy
Small Medium at Large Author: Joanne Levy Genre: Middle Grade Publisher: Bloomsbury Release Date: 7-2-12 After she’s hit by lightning at a wedding, twelve-year-old Lilah Bloom develops a new talent: she can hear dead people. Among them, there’s her overopinionated Bubby Dora; a prissy fashion designer; and an approval-seeking clown who livens up a séance. […]
Such A Rush by Jennifer Echols
Such A Rush Author: Jennifer Echols Category: Young Adult Publisher: MTV Books Release Date: 7-10-12 High school senior Leah Jones loves nothing more than flying. While she’s in the air, it’s easy to forget life with her absentee mother at the low-rent end of a South Carolina beach town. When her flight instructor, Mr. Hall, […]
Team Human by Sarah Rees Brennan and Justine Larbalestier
Team Human Authors: Sarah Rees Brennan and Justine Larbalestier Genre: Young Adult Format: ARC Publisher: Harper Teen Release Date: 7-3-12 Just because Mel lives in New Whitby, a city founded by vampires, doesn’t mean she knows any of the blood-drinking undead personally. They stay in their part of town; she says in hers. Until the […]
700 Follower Giveaway!
I am very excited to hold my 700 follower giveaway this week! Thank you to all of the wonderful people that stop by every day! I have even more books up for grabs this time. There will be 7 winners and each winner gets to pick 2 books! The first place winner picks first, the […]
Weekly Remainders (8)
I picked up one book this week via NetGalley and Random House: My reviews this week:Between The Lines by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van LeerDust Girl by Sarah ZettelEnchanted by Alethea KontisDon’t You Wish by Roxanne St. ClairGrave Mercy by Robin LaFevers I also participated in the trailer reveal for Anastasia Forever by Joy Preble.You […]
Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers
We first meet Ismae as she is married off by her cruel father to an equally cruel (and disgusting) man. She is completely powerless, but soon finds that she does have power. Quite a lot of it, actually. I heard many people talk about how wonderful Grave Mercy was and I have to say […]
Don’t You Wish by Roxanne St. Claire
Don’t You Wish Author: Roxanne St. Claire Genre: Young Adult Format: ebook Publisher: Delacorte Release Date: 7-10-12 When plain and unpopular Annie Nutter gets zapped by one of her dad’s whacked-out inventions, she lands in a parallel universe where her life becomes picture-perfect. Now she’s Ayla Monroe, daughter of the same mother but a different […]
Enchanted by Alethea Kontis
Enchanted Author: Alethea Kontis Genre: Young Adult Format: ARC Publisher: Harcourt Release Date: 5-8-12 It isn’t easy being the rather overlooked and unhappy youngest sibling to sisters named for the other six days of the week. Sunday’s only comfort is writing stories, although what she writes has a terrible tendency to come true.When Sunday meets […]
Dust Girl by Sarah Zettel
Dust Girl Author: Sarah Zettel Genre: Young Adult Format: ebook Publisher: Random House Release Date: 6-26-12 Callie LeRoux lives in Slow Run, Kansas, helping her mother run their small hotel and trying not to think about the father she’s never met. Lately all of her energy is spent battling the constant storms plaguing the Dust […]