FROSTMarianna Baer396 pagesPublisher: Balzer + BrayRelease Date: September 13th, 2011Source: ARC from PublisherRating: MEH Leena Thomas’s senior year at boarding school starts with a cruel shock: Frost House, the cozy Victorian dorm where she and her best friends live, has been assigned an unexpected roommate—eccentric Celeste Lazar. As classes get under way, strange happenings begin…
In My Mailbox is a meme created by The Story Siren and inspired by Alea of Pop Culture Junkie! It features a list of what books you have received over the previous week, either for review, from the library, or from the bookstore. For Review: The Scorpio Races by Maggie StiefvaterThe Faerie Ring by Kiki Hamilton Won from…
DARKFALLJanice Hardy432 pagesPublisher: Balzer + BrayRelease Date: October 4th, 2011Source: ARC from PublisherRating: REALLY LIKED War has come. Nya’s the one who brought it. And the people love her for it. With Baseer in shambles and Geveg now an impenetrable military stronghold, Nya and the Underground have fled to a safer location—without Tali. Nya is…
“Waiting On” Wednesday spotlights upcoming releases that everyone’s excited about (created by Jill at Breaking The Spine.) The human race is all but extinct after a war with Partials—engineered organic beings identical to humans—has decimated the population. Reduced to tens of thousands by RM, a weaponized virus to which only a fraction of humanity is…
LIESL & POLauren Oliver307 pagesPublisher: HarperCollinsRelease Date: October 4th, 2011Source: ARC from PublisherRating: LOVED Liesl lives in a tiny attic bedroom, locked away by her cruel stepmother. Her only friends are the shadows and the mice,until one night a ghost appears from the darkness. It is Po, who comes from the Other Side. Both Liesl…
ALL THESE THINGS I’VE DONEGabrielle Zevin354 pagesPublisher: MacmillianRelease Date: September 6th, 2011Source: ARC from PublisherRating: LOVED In 2083, chocolate and coffee are illegal, paper is hard to find, water is carefully rationed, and New York City is rife with crime and poverty. And yet, for Anya Balanchine, the sixteen-year-old daughter of the city’s most notorious…
In My Mailbox is a meme created by The Story Siren and inspired by Alea of Pop Culture Junkie! It features a list of what books you have received over the previous week, either for review, from the library, or from the bookstore. For Review: Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini TaylorGoliath by Scott WesterfeldEverneath by Brodi…