Month: October 2012


Covet by Melissa Darnell

This review is spoiler free if you have read book one, Crave. CovetAuthor: Melissa DarnellGenre: Young AdultFormat: ebookPublisher: Harlequin TeenRelease Date: 9-25-12Dangerous to be together. Painful to be apart.Savannah Colbert knows she broke up with Tristan Coleman for the right reasons. Most of all, to keep from killing him with her new vampire abilities. But […]

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Mystic City by Theo Lawrence

Mystic CityAuthor: Theo LawrenceGenre: Young AdultFormat: ebookPublisher: DelacorteRelease Date: 10-9-12Aria Rose, youngest scion of one of Mystic City’s two ruling rival families, finds herself betrothed to Thomas Foster, the son of her parents’ sworn enemies. The union of the two will end the generations-long political feud—and unite all those living in the Aeries, the privileged […]

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The Evolution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

If you have read The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, this review is spoiler free. The Evolution of Mara DyerAuthor: Michelle HodkinGenre: Young AdultFormat: ebookPublisher: Simon and SchusterRelease Date: 10-23-12Mara Dyer once believed she could run from her past. She can’t. She used to think her problems were all in her head. They aren’t. She couldn’t […]

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Beta by Rachel Cohn

BetaAuthor: Rachel CohnGenre: Young AdultFormat: ARCPublisher: Disney-HyperionRelease Date: 10-16-12Elysia is created in a laboratory, born as a sixteen-year-old girl, an empty vessel with no life experience to draw from. She is a Beta, an experimental model of a teenage clone. She was replicated from another teenage girl, who had to die in order for Elysia […]

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The Innocents by Lili Peloquin

The InnocentsAuthor: Lili PeloquinGenre: Young AdultFormat: ARCPublisher: RazorbillRelease Date: 10-16-2012Nothing ever came between sisters Alice and Charlie. Friends didn’t. Boys couldn’t. Their family falling apart never would. Until they got to Serenity Point. “The Innocents” is the first in a new series of young adult novels that weave a saga of nail-biting drama, breathless romance, […]

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Shadowfell by Juliet Marillier

Shadowfell Author: Juliet Marillier Genre: Young Adult Publisher: Knopf Release Date: 9-11-12 Sixteen-year-old Neryn is alone in the land of Alban, where the oppressive king has ordered anyone with magical strengths captured and brought before him. Eager to hide her own canny skill—a uniquely powerful ability to communicate with the fairy-like Good Folk—Neryn sets out […]

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Valkyrie Rising by Ingrid Paulson

Valkyrie RisingAuthor: Ingrid PaulsonGenre: Young AdultFormat: ARCPublisher: Harper TeenRelease Date: 10-9-12 Nothing ever happens in Norway. But at least Ellie knows what to expect when she visits her grandmother: a tranquil fishing village and long, slow summer days. And maybe she’ll finally get out from under the shadow of her way-too-perfect big brother, Graham, while […]

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The Shadow Society by Marie Rutoski

The Shadow Society Author: Marie Rutoski Genre: Young Adult Format: ebook Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Release Date: 10-16-12 Darcy Jones doesn’t remember anything before the day she was abandoned as a child outside a Chicago firehouse. She has never really belonged anywhere—but she couldn’t have guessed that she comes from an alternate world where […]

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Emily’s Dress and Other Missing Things by Kathryn Burak

Emily’s Dress and Other Missing ThingsAuthor: Kathryn BurakGenre: Young AdultFormat: ebookPublisher: Roaring Brook PressRelease Date: 10-2-12When Claire’s best friend Richy went missing, he disappeared without a trace. But when Emily Dickinson’s dress goes missing from the Amherst museum, she knows exactly where it is: in her closet. As Claire and her student teacher, Tate, attempt to […]

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