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Review: EVE by Anna Carey

 EVEAnna Carey336 pagesPublisher: HarperTeenRelease Date: Octobe 4th, 2011Source: ARC from PublisherRating: LIKED The year is 2032, sixteen years after a deadly virus—and the vaccine intended to protect against it—wiped out most of the earth’s population. The night before eighteen-year-old Eve’s graduation from her all-girls school she discovers what really happens to new graduates, and the…

Review: VARIANT by Robison Wells

 VARIANTRobison Wells373 pagesPublisher: HarperTeenRelease Date: September 26th, 2011Source: ARC from PublisherRating: LOVED Benson Fisher thought that a scholarship to Maxfield Academy would be the ticket out of his dead-end life. He was wrong. Now he’s trapped in a school that’s surrounded by a razor-wire fence. A school where video cameras monitor his every move. Where…

Review: BREADCRUMBS by Anne Ursu

 BREADCRUMBSAnne Ursu312 pagesPublisher: HarperCollinsRelease Date: September 27th, 2011Source: ARC from PublisherRating: LOVED Once upon a time, Hazel and Jack were best friends. They had been best friends since they were six, spending hot Minneapolis summers and cold Minneapolis winters together, dreaming of Hogwarts and Oz, superheroes and baseball. Now that they were eleven, it was…

Waiting on Wednesday (55) — Shadows Cast By Stars by Catherine Knutsson

“Waiting On” Wednesday spotlights upcoming releases that everyone’s excited about (created by Jill at Breaking The Spine.) Two hundred years from now, the great cities of the west coast of the United Americas are under water. Blood has become the most valuable commodity on the planet – especially the blood of aboriginal peoples, for it…