Bloodlines Author: Richelle Mead Narrator: Emily Shaffer Performance: Excellent Publisher: Penguin Audio Available Now Sydney is an alchemist, one of a group of humans who dabble in magic and serve to bridge the worlds of human and vampires. They protect vampire secrets – and human lives. When Sydney is torn from her bed in the […]
Tag: Young Adult
Meant To Be by Lauren Morrill
Meant To Be Author: Lauren Morrill Genre: Young Adult Format: ARC Publisher: Delacorte Release Date: 11-13-12 It’s one thing to fall head over heels into a puddle of hazelnut coffee, and quite another to fall for the—gasp—wrong guy. Straight-A junior Julia may be accident prone, but she’s queen of following rules and being prepared. That’s […]
Torched by Andrea Lynn Colt
Torched Author: Andrea Lynn Colt Genre: Young Adult Format: ebook Publisher: Self-Published Release Date: 9-2012 Rose Whitfield’s senior year just went up in smoke. Instead of having a blast with her best friend, her cheerleading squad, and her boyfriend Ryan, she’s framed for arson. Popularity and criminal records don’t mix, apparently. Luckily, Rose knows who’s […]
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 […]
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 […]
Send Me A Sign by Tiffany Schmidt
Send Me A Sign Author: Tiffany Schmidt Genre: Young Adult Format: ebook Publisher: Bloomsbury Release Date: 10-2-12 Mia is always looking for signs. A sign that she should get serious with her soccer-captain boyfriend. A sign that she’ll get the grades to make it into an Ivy-league school. One sign she didn’t expect to look […]
Eve and Adam by Michael Grant and Katherine Applegate
Eve and Adam Authors: Michael Grant and Katherine Applegate Genre: Young Adult Format: ARC Publisher: Feiwel and Friends Release Date: 10-2-12 Sixteen-year-old Evening Spiker lives an affluent life in San Francisco with her mother, EmmaRose, a successful geneticist and owner of Spiker Biotech. Sure, Evening misses her father who died mysteriously, but she’s never really […]
Time Between Us by Tamara Ireland Stone
Time Between Us Author: Tamara Ireland Stone Genre: Young Adult Format: ARC Release Date: 10-9-12 Publisher: Hyperion Anna and Bennett were never supposed to meet: she lives in 1995 Chicago and he lives in 2012 San Francisco. But Bennett’s unique ability to travel through time and space brings him into Anna’s life, and with him, […]
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
Henrietta is a small, southern town with its fair share of both poverty and privilege. Within that framework, which is common enough, is a very uncommon and appealingly quirky story about spirits, quests and destiny. The first thing that struck me about this book was its duality of energies. Blue is from a family […]
Burn For Burn by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian
I was very excited to hear that two gifted storytellers were teaming up to write a book, but when I heard it was all about revenge, I thought – even better! Revenge is such a layered and complicated issue. It’s so tempting to hurt those that have wronged you, yet it almost always backfires […]