[ARC Reviews]

White Raven

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White Raven (Raven #1) by J.L. Weil (2015)
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white raven

YA Fiction | Paranormal Romance4 StarsBlurb:

“DREADFUL LIES.
UNEXPECTED LOVE.
IMPOSSIBLE TRUTH.

It only took one heartbeat to change my life—one chilling phone call in the middle of the night.
And then, as if my life didn’t already suck, my dad sends my brother and me to some idyllic island for the summer to live with a grandma we never met. WTH. Naturally, I rebel. In the end, I find myself shipped off to Raven Hallow…and bored to tears.
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Ascension

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Ascension (The Indigo Project) by Christopher DeSousa (2016)
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Ascension

YA Fiction | Science Fiction

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“Katherine Munroe is most definitely not your typical teen and just about the only thing typical are her high school boy problems. She does however have quite the amazing ability to draw and much to her own confusion she accidentally lights things on fire. Even more plaguing are her reoccurring hallucinations, always thinking she is losing it, or so she thought. But then, after a horrific attack on her life resulting in the death of her father, she realizes there is something…more. Anzu, a winged beast of a different sort, and subject of Katherine’s hallucinations, saves her and become’s her guardian. Continue reading →

Bound

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Bound (Cage of Lies #4) by Susanne Valenti (2016)
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bound

YA Fiction | Dystopian Sci-Fi4.5 starsBlurb:

With the impossible returned from the dead, Maya must reunite with her family as their enemies line up each vying for the kill shot. But with life and hope restored nothing will keep them from completing their original goal: setting the truth free. They just have to make sure they survive long enough to strike.  Continue reading →

Hatred Day

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Hatred Day (Hatred Day #1) by T.S. Pettibone (2016)
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hatred day

NA Fiction | Science Fiction3.5 StarsBlurb:

“In the year 2052, it’s not love but hate that unites the world.

Humanity is unified against the Inborns, an extraterrestrial species with godlike intelligence and abilities whose arrival on earth caused an environmental and biological crisis.  Continue reading →

Nora & Kettle

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Nora & Kettle by Lauren Nicolle Taylor (2016)
-eARC Review-

Nora & Kettle

YA Fiction | Historical | Light Romance4.5 starsBlurb:

“What if Peter Pan was a homeless kid just trying to survive, and Wendy flew away for a really good reason?”

Seventeen-year-old Kettle has had his share of adversity. As an orphaned Japanese American struggling to make a life in the aftermath of an event in history not often referred to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and the removal of children from orphanages for having “one drop of Japanese blood in them” things are finally looking up. He has his hideout in an abandoned subway tunnel, a job, and his gang of Lost Boys.

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The Map of Bones

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The Map of Bones (The Fire Sermon #2) by Francesca Haig (2016)
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The Map of Bones

YA Fiction | Dystopian4 StarsBlurb:

“Book Two in the critically acclaimed The Fire Sermon trilogy—The Hunger Games meets Cormac McCarthy’s The Road in this richly imagined post-apocalyptic series by award-winning poet Francesca Haig.

Four hundred years in the future, the Earth has turned primitive following a nuclear fire that has laid waste to civilization and nature. Though the radiation fallout has ended, for some unknowable reason every person is born with a twin. Of each pair, one is an Alpha—physically perfect in every way; and the other an Omega—burdened with deformity, small or large. With the Council ruling an apartheid-like society, Omegas are branded and ostracized while the Alphas have gathered the world’s sparse resources for themselves. Though proclaiming their superiority, for all their effort, Alphas cannot escape one harsh fact: whenever one twin dies, so does the other.  Continue reading →

The War of Words

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The War of Words (The Orphanage of Miracles #3) by Amy Neftzger (2016)
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the war of words

Middle Grade Fiction | Fantasy

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“Battles against darkness, a quest for truth, and a search for the book that no one can read are all part of the fantasy adventure in The War of Words. As an evil sorcerer wages war with mysterious shadows and seeks to gain control by confusing the residents as to what s real and what isn’t, the fate of the kingdom rests in the hands of Kelsey and Nicholas.

As the youngest officer in the king s army, Kelsey fights the evil sorcerer s shadows on the battlefield as she explores the kingdom searching for the key to winning the war. Nicholas, a young sorcerer in training who is mastering his craft, discovers how the right words can change the course of the future.  Continue reading →

Railhead

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Railhead (Railhead #1) by Philip Reeve (2016)
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Railhead

YA Fiction | Sci-Fi4.5 starsBlurb:

“The Great Network is an ancient web of routes and gates, where sentient trains can take you anywhere in the galaxy in the blink of an eye. Zen Starling is a nobody. A petty thief from the filthy streets of Thunder City who aimlessly rides the rails of the Network. So when the mysterious stranger Raven offers Zen a chance to escape the squalor of the city and live the rest of his days in luxury, Zen can’t believe his luck. All he has to do is steal one small box from the Emperor’s train with the help of Nova, an android girl. But the Great Network is a hazardous mess of twists and turns, and that little box just might bring everything in this galaxy — and the next — to the end of the line. The highly anticipated novel from Carnegie-medal-winning author Philip Reeve, Railhead is a fast, immersive, and heart-pounding ride perfect for any sci-fi fan. Step aboard — the universe is waiting.”
–Goodreads

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Fairly Certain

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Fairly Certain (Love of Fairs #1) by Deborah Ann Davis (2015)
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Fairly Certain

Teen | Fantasy3.5 StarsBlurb:

“What would you do if you thought you couldn’t fail?

Fairly Certain is the unlikely adventure of Petir Capota, a nineteen year old computer geek who finds himself back in the days of Robin Hood after falling out of a tree. He awakens in the forest surrounded by a band of young British scavengers, clothed as if in Old England. His instinct to freak out is tempered by the arrival of a lovely maiden wearing a bow…and arrow. Coming from college life where fair maiden types don’t ordinarily go for computer geek types, Petir is fairly certain he can try whatever he wants in this strange realm, and without consequence…so why not pursue Maid Rianne?  Continue reading →

Embers

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Embers (Cage of Lies, #3.5) by Susanne Valenti (2016)
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embers

YA Novella | Dystopian Sci-Fi4.5 starsBlurb:

“Alone in the darkness, memories threaten to overwhelm him. The truth of what has happened haunts him day and night. It would be easy to let go. To forget who he was and where he came from. Easier if he didnt exist anymore at all. Every moment is a reminder of what he had and what he has lost. But there is one thing worth living for, fighting for, breathing for. He made a promise. And he intends to honour it.”
–Goodreads

Expected Publication Date: January 31, 2016

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