Stuck in Y.A. Books

Release date is March 26th Blurb: How do you keep going when you feel like your life is over? Maggie never thought she’d see Clay again. So, she attempts to put her life back together after her heart has been shattered to pieces. Moving on and moving forward, just as Clay wanted her to. Clay never stopped thinking of Maggie. Even after ripping their lives apart and leaving her behind to get the help he so desperately needed. He is healing...slowly. But his heart still belongs to the girl who tried to save him. When a sudden tragedy brings Maggie and Clay face to face again, nothing is the same. Yet some things never change. Can the darkness that threatened to consume them be transformed into something else and finally give them what they always wanted? And can two people who fought so hard to be together, finally find their happiness? Or will their demons and fear drive them apart for good? The thing about love, is even when it destroys you, it has a w...

While He Was Away Walmart-Exclusive Cover Reveal   and How Inspiration Can Come From Anywhere: Even a Trip to the Grocery Store and a Handful of Long-Lost Photographs By Karen Schreck I sometimes wonder what my mother would say if she knew that her story—one of the saddest, sweetest love stories I’ve ever heard—was retold in a new way in my young adult novel, While He Was Away . Now Sourcebooks Fire is sharing the story yet again, in a second, exclusive edition, released nation-wide at Walmart.   The fact that Sourcebooks believed enough in While He Was Away to bring it to life the first time felt like a much-needed confirmation of years of hard work.   The fact that they are standing behind my book again in this way . . . well, it feels like a miracle.   I’m truly grateful. I wonder what my mother would say to this incredible news? I like to think she would be grateful too.   I like to think she would be happy.   She ...

Title: Rush (The Game #1) Author: Eve Silver Pages: 352 Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books Release Date : June 11, 2013 Pre-Order: Chapters Indigo | AmazonCA | HarperCollinsCA | Book Depository Summary: ( Goodreads )   So what’s the game now? This, or the life I used to know? When Miki Jones is pulled from her life, pulled through time and space into some kind of game—her carefully controlled life spirals into chaos. In the game, she and a team of other teens are sent on missions to eliminate the Drau, terrifying and beautiful alien creatures. There are no practice runs, no training, and no way out. Miki has only the guidance of secretive but maddeningly attractive team leader Jackson Tate, who says the game isn’t really a game, that what Miki and her new teammates do now determines their survival, and the survival of every other person on this planet. She laughs. He doesn’t. And then the game takes a deadly and terrifying turn.

Review:  The Book Of Broken Hearts by Sarah Ockler Golden by Jessi Kirby Invisibility by Andrea Cremer & David Levithan The Moon and More by Sarah Dessen  Tarnish (The Royal Circle #2) by Katherine Longshore Thank You Penguin Canada & Penguin YR, Simon Schuster YR Bought:  Everbound (Everneath #2) by Brodi Ashton  Boundless (Unearthly #3) by Cynthia Hand Level 2 (The Memory Chronicles #1) by Lenore Appelhans Greta and the Goblin King (Mylena Chronicles #1) by Chloe Jacobs  Hooked (Hooked #1) by Liz Fichera Cinders and Sapphires (At Somerton #1) by Leila Rasheed

Title: Elegy (Hereafter #3) Author: Tara Hudson Pages: 400 Publisher : HarperTeen Release Date: June 4, 2013 Summary: ( Goodreads )  A stalker ghost, misguided Seers, and spellbinding wraiths—Amelia Ashley has faced them all. Now her greatest hope is to spend the rest of her afterlife with her living boyfriend, Joshua. But the demonic forces return to give her an ultimatum: turn herself over to the darkness or watch them murder one living person per week until she does. Amelia fears she might really be doomed, until the forces of light give her another option. She can join them in their quest to gather souls, with a catch: Once she joins them, she can never see Joshua again. Faced with impossible choices, Amelia decides to take her afterlife into her own hands—and fight back.

Title: If You Stay Author: Courtney Cole Publisher: Lakehouse Press Release Date: February 12, 2013 Genre: New Adult Summary: ( Goodreads ) 24-year old Pax Tate is an asshole. Seriously. He’s a tattooed, rock-hard bad-boy with a bad attitude to match. But he’s got his reasons. His mother died when Pax was seven, leaving a hole in his heart filled with guilt although he doesn’t understand why. What he does know is that he and his dad are left alone and with more issues than they can count. As Pax grew up, he tried to be the kid his father always wanted; the perfect golden boy, but it didn’t work. His dad couldn’t overcome his grief long enough to notice and Pax couldn’t keep up the impossible perfect façade. So he slipped far, far from it. Now, he uses drugs and women to cope with the ugliness, the black void that he doesn’t want to deal with. If he pretends that the emptiness isn’t there, then it isn’t, right? Wrong. And it’s never more apparent th...

Review: If You Stay by Courtney Cole *READ* Apollyon (Covenant #4) by Jennifer L. Armentrout None of the Regular Rules by Erin Downing  *Blog Tour* *Thank You Spencer Hill Press and Courtney Cole Bought: Altered (Altered #1) by Jennifer Rush The Gates of Paradise (Blue Bloods #7) by Melissa De La Cruz Catherine by April Lindner Shades of Earth (Across the Universe #3) by Beth Revis Shadowlands (Shadowlands #1) by Kate Brian *Currently reading*

Hi Amanda, I’m waving really madly from New Zealand. Thanks for having me over to blog today. It’s my first visit here, for my first contemporary release-perfect! What was the hardest part of writing your book? Hmmm, everything – no, only joking! As it was my first contemporary everything felt foreign. I had to get use to changing the speech, language, clothes, description, setting used by my characters.   However, I guess the toughest part of writing THE RELUCTANT WIFE,   was dealing with a topic that is quite emotional for me. I suffer from endometriosis and have had to deal with all the issues this condition brings. The journey was rather cathartic   actually. It was fun to give Abby, my heroine, her happy ever after. Favorite book that you read? Gosh, you’re asking some tough questions. I have so many it would be too hard to pick one. The latest book I’ve read, which I loved, is my critique partner, Gracie O’Neil’s, Shadow Seer: Book Two of T...