Tag: 4 stars

Review: The Jewel by Amy Ewing

Posted August 28, 2014 by Lauren in Review / 8 Comments
Review: The Jewel by Amy Ewing

Pages: 358Publication: September 02nd 2014 by Harper Teen  Series: The Lone City #1Source: HarperTeen via Edelweiss Amazon • TBD • Kobo • Goodreads The Jewel means wealth. The Jewel means beauty. The Jewel means royalty. But for girls like Violet, the Jewel means servitude. Not just any kind of servitude. Violet, born and raised in the Marsh, has been trained as a surrogate for […]

Review: The Dolls by Kiki Sullivan

Posted August 27, 2014 by Lauren in Review / 0 Comments
Review: The Dolls by Kiki Sullivan

Pages: 384Publication: September 2nd 2014 by Balzer + BraySeries: Dolls #1Source: Balzer & Bray via Edelweiss Amazon • TBD • Kobo • Goodreads Eveny Cheval just moved back to Louisiana after spending her childhood in New York with her aunt Bea. Eveny hasn’t seen her hometown since her mother’s suicide fourteen years ago, and her memories couldn’t have prepared her for what she […]

Review: Mine to Tarnish by Janeal Falor

Posted August 18, 2014 by Lauren in Review / 0 Comments
Review: Mine to Tarnish by Janeal Falor

Pages: 128Published: December 02nd 2013 by Chardonian PressSeries: Mine  #0.5Source: Free on Kindle Amazon • Kobo • Goodreads Katherine’s place is the same as any woman’s—on the shelf next to the dresses and bolts of cloth. When she’s sold to a warlock, life grows even bleaker. Her new owner is as old and rancid as he is cruel, driving her to […]

Review: This Summer by Katlyn Duncan

Posted August 11, 2014 by Lauren in Review / 2 Comments
Review: This Summer by Katlyn Duncan

I’ve noticed over the past few months I’ve really been looking for “summer reads”. Light hearted, romantic contemporaries that give me the warm fuzzies inside so This Summer immediately caught my interest… I adored the main character Hadley. There was just something about her that I immediately liked and I also really loved her relationship […]

Review: Descendant by Lesley Livingston

Posted August 7, 2014 by Lauren in Review / 1 Comment
Review: Descendant by Lesley Livingston

Pages: 325Published: August 27th 2013 by Harper Teen Series: Starling #2Source: Purchased at Harper Collins Booth (Fan Expo 2013) Amazon • TBD • Kobo • Goodreads The last thing Mason Starling remembers is the train crossing a bridge. An explosion . . . a blinding light . . . then darkness. Now she is alone, stranded in Asgard—the realm of Norse legend—and the only […]

Review: Mine to Spell by Janeal Falor

Posted August 6, 2014 by Lauren in Review / 0 Comments
Review: Mine to Spell by Janeal Falor

Pages: 291Published: May 05th 2014 by Chardonian Press Series: Mine #2Source: From author for review Amazon • Kobo • Goodreads Cynthia has always hidden from her father’s hexes behind her older sister. When her family gains independence unheard of for women, she’s relieved that her days of harsh punishments are over. But as her seventeenth birthday approaches—the typical age to be sold […]

Review: Bittersweet by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

Posted July 30, 2014 by Lauren in Review / 2 Comments
Review: Bittersweet by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

Pages: 400Published: May 13th 2014 by Crown Series: N/A – Stand AloneSource: Random House via Edelweiss Amazon • TBD • Kobo • Goodreads On scholarship at a prestigious East Coast college, ordinary Mabel Dagmar is surprised to befriend her roommate, the beautiful, blue-blooded Genevra Winslow. Ev invites Mabel to spend the summer at Bittersweet, her cottage on the Vermont estate where her family has […]

Review: What Happens to Men When They Move to Manhattan? by Jill Knapp

Posted July 28, 2014 by Lauren in Review / 0 Comments
Review: What Happens to Men When They Move to Manhattan? by Jill Knapp

Pages: 182Published: July 24th 2014 by Harper ImpulseSeries: What Happens to Men When They Move to Manhattan #1Source: Author for review Amazon • Kobo • Goodreads The question that 23-year old Amalia Hastings wants the answer to is: What happens to men when they move to Manhattan? Life in the big city gives Amalia a ride she is not expecting. As she […]

Review: Dissonance by Erica O’Rourke

Posted July 22, 2014 by Lauren in Review / 3 Comments
Review: Dissonance by Erica O’Rourke

Pages: 496Publication: July 22nd 2014 by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Series:  Dissonance #1Source: Simon & Schuster via Edelweiss Amazon • TBD • Kobo • Goodreads Delancy Sullivan has always known there’s more to reality than what people see. Every time someone makes a choice, a new, parallel world branches off from the existing one. Eating breakfast or skipping it, turning […]

Review: On the Fence by Kasie West

Posted July 9, 2014 by Lauren in Review / 2 Comments
Review: On the Fence by Kasie West

Pages: 304Published: July 01st 2014 by Harper Teen Series: N/A – Stand AloneSource: HarperTeen via Edelweiss Amazon • TBD • Kobo • Goodreads She’s a tomboy. He’s the boy next door…Charlie Reynolds can outrun, outscore, and outwit every boy she knows. But when it comes to being a girl, Charlie doesn’t know the first thing about anything. So when she starts working at a […]