Paper or Plastic
Title: Paper or Plastic Author: Vivi Barnes Publisher: Entangled: Teen Release Date: February 23, 2015 Format: Paperback Pages: 352 Welcome to SmartMart, where crime pays minimum wage… Busted. Alexis Dubois just got caught shoplifting a cheap tube of lipstick at the local SmartMart. She doesn’t know what’s worse—disappointing her overbearing beauty-pageant-obsessed mother for the zillionth time…or her punishment. Because Lex is forced to spend her summer working at the store, where the only things stranger than the staff are the […]
Seeker
Title: Seeker Series: Seeker, Book 1 Author: Arwen Elys Dayton Genre: Juvenile Fiction Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers Release Date: 2015 Pages: 448 Taking her Oath after a lifetime of training to be a Seeker who protects the weak and wronged in a near-future world, Quin is shattered to discover that her family and the boy she loves are not the people she thought they were. Simultaneous eBook. Review: It’s difficult to categorize “Seeker” because it spans across […]
How (Not) to Fall in Love
Title: How (Not) to Fall in Love Author: Lisa Brown Roberts Publisher: Entangled: Teen Release Date: February 3, 2015 Format: Hardcover Pages: 352 Seventeen-year-old Darcy Covington never had to worry about money or where her next shopping spree was coming from. Even her dog ate gourmet. Then one day, Darcy’s car is repossessed from the parking lot of her elite private school. As her father’s business hit the skids, Dad didn’t just skip town, he bailed on his family. Fortunately, […]
Hades
Title: Hades Series: Archer and Bennett, Book 1 Author: Candice Fox Genre: Mystery Publisher: Kensington Release Date: January 27, 2015 Format: Hardback Pages: 320 Review: It has been quite some time since I have found a new and enjoyable mystery series that features both procedurals and a unique premise, but “Hades” definitely meets all of those requirements and more. If you read the description, it may sound like “Dexter”, but I can assure you there is very little resemblance. […]
The Same Sky
Title: The Same Sky Author: Amanda Eyre Ward Genre: Fiction Publisher: Ballantine Books Release Date: 2015-01-20 Pages: 288 A childless woman looking to adopt crosses paths with a 13-year-old Honduran girl who has embarked on a dangerous journey into Texas with her brother. By the author of How to Be Lost. Review: “The Same Sky” is an intense book told in the stark voices of two narrators, a girl from Honduras named Carla, and a woman from America named […]
The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
Title: The Secret Wisdom of the Earth Author: Christopher Scotton Genre: Fiction Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Release Date: 2015-01-06 Pages: 480 After witnessing the death of his younger brother in a terrible home accident, 14-year-old Kevin and his grieving mother are sent for the summer to live with Kevin’s grandfather. In this peeled-paint coal town deep in Appalachia, Kevin quickly falls in with a half-wild hollow kid named Buzzy Fink who schools him in the mysteries and magnificence of the […]
Inked
Title: Inked Author: Eric Smith Genre: Juvenile Fiction Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA Release Date: 2015-01-20 Pages: 250 Sometimes your only chance to survive, and what you most fear… is to be INKED. Tattoos once were an act of rebellion. Now they decide your destiny the moment the magical Ink settles under your skin. And in a world where Ink controls your fate, Caenum can’t escape soon enough. He is ready to run from his family, and his best friend Dreya, […]
Vivian Apple at the End of the World
Title: Vivian Apple at the End of the World Series: Vivian Apple, Book 1 Author: Katie Coyle Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers Release Date: January 6, 2015 Format: Hardcover Pages: 272 Seventeen-year-old Vivian Apple never believed in the evangelical Church of America, unlike her recently devout parents. But when Vivian returns home the night after the supposed “Rapture,” all that’s left of her parents are two holes in the roof. Suddenly, she doesn’t know who or what to believe. […]
Stone Faced Angel
Title: Stone Faced Angel Series: The Stone Angels Saga, Book 1 Author: Marie McKean Release Date: February 1, 2015 Pages: 275 There are some things I know for sure: I died . . . A long time ago Even in death I was always aware of him. Love has a way of making even angels choose to leave their heaven above. Review: If I could give half stars, “Stone Faced Angel” would get 3 1/2. The story of an […]
The Here and Now
Title: The Here and Now Author: Ann Brashares Genre: Juvenile Fiction Publisher: Delacorte Press Release Date: 2014 Pages: 242 Seventeen-year-old Prenna, an immigrant who moved to New York when she was twelve, came from another time and she and the other travelers must follow strict rules to avoid destroying the new life they have worked so hard to get, as well as the one personPrenna is desperate to protect. Review: I don’t know whether I had high expectations because […]
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