The story is a fantasy historical, in that it takes place in a fantasy version of England, eventually moving to a fantasy version of the US, all set in a fantasy 19th century, The problem is that I just didn’t really buy Adelaide’s desperation. At great risk to pretty much everyone around her, she pretends […]
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Cut Me Free By J.R. Johansson
Cut Me Free begins with a girl who you can tell right away has survived something traumatic. What you find as you read this book is that she is rebuilding her life after surviving horrible circumstances. The descriptions of abuse are pretty detailed, so they could be triggering for some readers. Charlotte’s character, despite being […]
Vivian Divine Is Dead By Lauren Sabel
Vivian Divine Is Dead was a short, wild ride of a book that started in Hollywood and ended up in rural Mexico. Vivian is convinced that she is going to be murdered, and at first I wondered if we had an unreliable narrator on our hands. Unfortunately, the unreliable nature of the story was due […]
Wicked Games By Sean Olin
I began reading this book thinking I would get a suspense novel centered around a broken relationship and that is what I got, to a certain extent. Carter and Lilah are a golden couple, but when times get rocky things, of course, start to fall apart. Lilah is quite obviously mentally ill. Her parents […]
Hopeless by Colleen Hoover
Hopeless Author: Colleen Hoover Category: Young Adult Publisher: Atria Release Date: 5-7-13 That’s what seventeen-year-old Sky realizes after she meets Dean Holder. A guy with a reputation that rivals her own and an uncanny ability to invoke feelings in her she’s never had before. He terrifies her and captivates her all in the span of […]
Rush by Eve Silver
Rush Author: Eve Silver Category: Young Adult Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books Release Date: 6-11-13 When Miki Jones is pulled from her life, pulled through time and space into some kind of game—her carefully controlled life spirals into chaos. In the game, she and a team of other teens are sent on missions to eliminate the […]
Towering by Alex Flinn
Towering Author: Alix Flinn Category: Young Adult Publisher: Harper Teen Release Date: 5-13-13 Rachel is trapped in a tower, held hostage by a woman she’s always called Mama. Her golden hair is growing rapidly, and to pass the time, she watches the snow fall and sings songs from her childhood, hoping someone, anyone, will hear […]
The Murmurings by Carley Ann West
The MurmuringsAuthor: Carly Anne WestCategory: Young AdultFormat: eGalleyPublisher: Simon PulseRelease Date: 3-5-13 Everyone thinks Sophie’s sister, Nell, went crazy. After all, she heard strange voices that drove her to commit suicide. But Sophie doesn’t believe that Nell would take her own life, and she’s convinced that Nell’s doctor knows more than he’s letting on. As […]
The Pretty One: A Novel About Sisters by Lucinda Rosenfeld
The Pretty One: A Novel About SistersAuthor: Lucinda RosenfeldCategory: FictionFormat: eGalleyPublisher: Little, BrownRelease Date: 2-5-13Perfect. Pretty. Political. For nearly forty years, The Hellinger sisters of Hastings-on-Hudson-namely, Imperia (Perri), Olympia (Pia), and Augusta (Gus)–have played the roles set down by their loving but domineering mother Carol. Perri, a mother of three, rules her four-bedroom palace in […]
Hooked by Liz Fichera
HookedAuthor: Liz FicheraCategory: Young AdultFormat: eGalleyPublisher: Harlequin TeenRelease Date: 1-29-13When Native American Fredricka ‘Fred’ Oday is invited to become the only girl on the school’s golf team, she can’t say no. This is an opportunity to shine, win a scholarship and go to university, something no one in her family has done. But Fred’s presence […]