Tag: young adult

Review: Wicked Games by Sean Olin

Posted June 13, 2014 by Lauren in Review / 1 Comment
Review: Wicked Games by Sean Olin

Pages: 352Published: June 10th 2014 by Katherine Tegen Books Series: Wicked Games #1Source: Katherine Tegen Books via Edelweiss Amazon • TBD • Kobo • Goodreads Wicked Games is the first book in a sexy thriller series where passion, lies, and revenge collide-perfect for fans of Simone Elkeles and Sara Shepard. To all the locals in the small beach town of Dream Point, Carter and […]

Review: All the Truth That’s in Me by Julie Berry

Posted May 2, 2014 by Lauren in Review / 3 Comments
Review: All the Truth That’s in Me by Julie Berry

Pages: 274Published: September 26th 2013 by Viking Juvenile Series: N/A – Stand AloneSource: Purchased at Indigo Spirit Amazon • TBD • Kobo • Goodreads Four years ago, Judith and her best friend disappeared from their small town of Roswell Station. Two years ago, only Judith returned, permanently mutilated, reviled and ignored by those who were once her friends and family. Unable to speak, Judith […]

Review: The Taking by Kimberly Derting

Posted May 1, 2014 by Lauren in Review / 7 Comments
Review: The Taking by Kimberly Derting

Pages: 368Publication: April 29th 2014 by HarperTeen Series: The Taking #1Source: Harper Teen via Edelweiss Amazon • TBD • Kobo • Goodreads A flash of white light . . . and then . . . nothing.  When sixteen-year-old Kyra Agnew wakes up behind a Dumpster at the Gas ’n’ Sip, she has no memory of how she got there. With a terrible headache and […]

Review: Nearly Gone by Elle Cosimano

Posted April 28, 2014 by Lauren in Review / 7 Comments
Review: Nearly Gone by Elle Cosimano

Pages: 388Published: March 25th 2014 by Kathy Dawson BooksSeries: N/A – Stand AloneSource: Borrowed from the library Amazon • TBD • Kobo • Goodreads Nearly Boswell knows how to keep secrets. Living in a DC trailer park, she knows better than to share anything that would make her a target with her classmates. Like her mother’s job as an exotic dancer, her obsession with […]

Review: Don’t Call Me Baby by Gwendolyn Heasley

Posted April 21, 2014 by Lauren in Review / 12 Comments
Review: Don’t Call Me Baby by Gwendolyn Heasley

Pages: 304Publication: April 22nd 2014 by Harper Teen Series: N/A – Stand AloneSource: Harper Teen via Edelweiss Amazon • TBD • Kobo • Goodreads All her life, Imogene has been known as the girl on THAT blog. Imogene’s mother has been writing an incredibly embarrassing, and incredibly popular, blog about her since before she was born. Hundreds of thousands of perfect strangers knew when […]

Review: House of Ivy & Sorrow by Natalie Whipple

Posted April 18, 2014 by Lauren in Review / 2 Comments
Review: House of Ivy & Sorrow by Natalie Whipple

Pages: 352Publication: April 15th 2014 by HarperTeen Series: N/A – Stand AloneSource: Harper Teen via Edelweiss Amazon • TBD • Goodreads Josephine Hemlock has spent the last 10 years hiding from the Curse that killed her mother. But when a mysterious man arrives at her ivy-covered, magic-fortified home, it’s clear her mother’s killer has finally come to destroy the rest of the […]

Review: Great by Sara Benincasa

Posted April 13, 2014 by Lauren in Review / 13 Comments
Review: Great by Sara Benincasa

Pages: 272Publication Date: April 08th 2014 by HarperTeen Series: N/A – Stand AloneSource: Harper Teen via Edelweiss Amazon • TBD • Kobo • Goodreads Everyone loves a good scandal. Naomi Rye usually dreads spending the summer with her socialite mother in East Hampton. This year is no different. She sticks out like a sore thumb among the teenagers who have been summering (a verb […]

Review: Allegiant by Veronica Roth

Posted October 28, 2013 by Lauren in Review / 6 Comments
Review: Allegiant by Veronica Roth

It’s books like this that make it hard to write a review spoiler free. Anytime I try to formulate a sentence I just have one thing I want to say… and I can’t. I started the Divergent series straight off the heels of The Hunger Games trilogy. Prior to reading that, I had only read […]

Review: Hysteria by Megan Miranda

Posted August 11, 2013 by Lauren in Review / 2 Comments
Review: Hysteria by Megan Miranda

Hysteria was high up on my reading list well before it came out so when I first got my library card it was one of the first books I requested, and then patiently(um, not) waited for my hold to come through. I had heard mixed things about Hysteria but that didn’t stop me, I love […]