The Fire Wish takes the oft used idea of two girls from different worlds who switch places, but sets it in a magically alternate Baghdad, where the humans and the Jinni have been at war for centuries. From the beginning, I really enjoyed the excellent world building and the way the story […]
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Enders By Lissa Price
Enders (Starters #2) Author: Lissa Price Category: Young Adult Publisher: Random House Release Date: 1-7-14 With the Prime Destinations body bank destroyed, Callie no longer has to rent herself out to creepy Enders. But Enders can still get inside her mind and make her do things she doesn’t want to do. Like hurt someone she […]
The Waking Dark by Robin Wasserman
The Waking Dark Author: Robin Wasserman Category: Young Adult Publisher: Random House Release Date: 9-10-13 They called it the killing day. Twelve people dead, all in the space of a few hours. Five murderers: neighbors, relatives, friends. All of them so normal. All of them seemingly harmless. All of them now dead by their own […]
A Clockwork Heart By Liesel Schwarz
A Clockwork Heart (The Chronicles of Light & Shadow #2) Author: Liesel Schwarz Category: Fiction Publisher: Del Rey Release Date: 8-13-13 As Elle devotes herself to her duties as the Oracle—who alone has the power to keep the dark designs of Shadow at bay—Marsh finds himself missing the excitement of his former life as a […]
Untold by Sarah Rees Brennan
“Kami had never been like other people. She had never had to cry herself to sleep alone. It was overwhelming to realize that there was not going to be any comfort ever again. She was going to spend the rest of her life living the way other people did, in terrible everyday loneliness, […]
Gated by Amy Christine Parker
Welcome to my stop n the Gated Blog Tour, hosted by Book Nerd Tours. I am very pleased to share my thoughts about this intense story! Don’t forget to enter the giveaway, as well! Gated Author: Amy Christine Parker Category: Young Adult Publisher: Random House Release Date: 8-27-13 In Mandrodage Meadows, life seems perfect. The […]
Raven Flight by Juliet Marillier
Raven Flight (Shadowfell #2) Author: Juliet Marillier Category: Young Adult Publisher: Knopf Release Date: 7-9-13 Neryn has finally found the rebel group at Shadowfell, and now her task is to seek out the elusive Guardians, vital to her training as a Caller. These four powerful beings have been increasingly at odds with human kind, and […]
The Sweetest Dark by Shana Abe
The Sweetest Dark (The Sweetest Dark #1) Author: Shana Abe Category: Young Adult Publisher: Bantam Release Date: 4-2-13 Lora Jones has always known that she’s different. On the outside, she appears to be an ordinary sixteen-year-old girl. Yet Lora’s been keeping a heartful of secrets: She hears songs that no one else can hear, dreams […]
A Conspiracy of Alchemists by Liesel Schwarz
A Conspiracy of Alchemists (The Chronicles of Light & Shadow #1) Author: Liesel Schwarz Category: Fiction Publisher: Del Rey Release Date: 3-5-13 It is 1903, and the world is divided between light and shadow. On the side of light is a wondrous science that has transformed everyday life by harnessing magical energies to ingenious new […]
Dualed by Elsie Chapman
DualedAuthor: Elsie ChapmanCategory: Young AdultFormat: eGalleyPublisher: Random HouseRelease Date: 2-26-13The city of Kersh is a safe haven, but the price of safety is high. Everyone has a genetic Alternate—a twin raised by another family—and citizens must prove their worth by eliminating their Alts before their twentieth birthday. Survival means advanced schooling, a good job, marriage—life. […]