Stuck in Y.A. Books

Over the past few months I have noticed a significance loss of my blog followers.  Just recently I found out why. At the end of the year I closed out at 1655 followers on my blog, now at 1480 or maybe even less in the next few days . I was really shocked when I saw all these changes that I was curious if others were having this issue. Update: Followers now at 1468. 1453, ( 1433 Final Number) Explained in this blog post from blogger:  https://t.co/CagZQlPEou " In 2011, we announced the retirement of Google Friend Connect for all non-Blogger sites. We made an exception for Blogger to give readers an easy way to follow blogs using a variety of accounts. Yet over time, we’ve seen that most people sign into Friend Connect with a Google Account. So, in an effort to streamline, in the next few weeks we’ll be making some changes that will eventually require readers to have a Google Account to sign into Friend Connect and follow b...

Title: The Last Star (The 5th Wave #3) Author: Rick Yancey Pages: 368 Genre: Science Fiction/YA Publisher: Razorbill Canada/G.P. Putnam's Sons BYR Release Date: May 24, 2016 Summary (Goodreads) We’re here, then we’re gone, and that was true before they came. That’s always been true. The Others didn’t invent death; they just perfected it. Gave death a face to put back in our face, because they knew that was the only way to crush us. It won’t end on any continent or ocean, no mountain or plain, jungle or desert. It will end where it began, where it had been from the beginning, on the battlefield of the last beating human heart. Master storyteller Rick Yancey invokes triumph, loss, and unrelenting action as the fate of the planet is decided in the conclusion to this epic series.

Title: Things I Can't Forget Author: Miranda Kenneally Pages: 304 Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire/ Raincoast Books Release Date: March 1, 2013 Read in 2013 Buy: AmazonCA | Amazon | Chapters Indigo | Kobo |  Summary: ( Goodreads )  Companion to Catching Jordan and Stealing Parker. Kate has always been the good girl. Too good, according to some people at school—although they have no idea the guilty secret she carries. But this summer, everything is different… This summer she’s a counselor at Cumberland Creek summer camp, and she wants to put the past behind her. This summer Matt is back as a counselor too. He’s the first guy she ever kissed, and he’s gone from a geeky songwriter who loved The Hardy Boys to a buff lifeguard who loves to flirt…with her. Kate used to think the world was black and white, right and wrong. Turns out, life isn’t that easy… Read an excerpt here. *Received for review from Raincoast Books/Sourcebooks Fire for honest review* Rev...

The 5th Wave Book by: Rick Yancey  Release Date: January 22, 2016 Just after watching The 5th Wave in theaters, I know already that I want to watch it again. The movie is roughly 2 hours long and it followed Rick Yancey's novel. Since the book came out back in 2013, I knew I had to instantly read it because it was going to be a hit. Thank you Penguin Canada for allowing me to review this book! The 5th Wave is one of my favorite books.  The acting that Chloe Grace Moretz who portrays Cassie (our heroine in the books) did an amazing job. Any movie she has done recently has been really good. The novel had me at the edge of my toes and now I really want to re-read the book.  Plus the actors who played Ben and Evan were beyond hot and did a great job with their characters (especially with one scene with Evan and Cassie). If you haven't already seen the movie, I recommend you buy your ticket to this movie, see it today or even read the book because you wil...

    We are absolutely thrilled to be able to bring you the Prologue and Chapter 1 Reveal for K.A. Tucker’s HE WILL BE MY RUIN! HE WILL BE MY RUIN is a Romantic Suspense novel, published by Atria books, an Imprint of Simon & Schuster, and is set to be released February 2, 2016! Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iBooks | Kobo IndieBound | Book Depository | Audible   K.A. Tucker’s HE WILL BE MY RUIN – Prologue and Chapter One: Prologue Maggie December 23, 2015 My wrists burn. Hours of trying to break free of the rope that binds my hands behind my back have left them raw, the rough cord scrubbing away my skin and cutting into my flesh. I’m sure I’ll have unsightly scars. Not that it will matter when I’m dead. I resigned myself to that reality around the time that I finally let go of my bladder. Now I simply lie here, in a pool of urine and vomit, my teeth numb from knocking with each bump in the road, my body frozen by the co...

Title: Passenger (Passenger #1) Author: Alexandra Bracken Pages: 496 Genre: Fantasy/YA Release Date: January 5, 2016 Publisher: Disney-Hyperion/HBG Canada Buy: Amazon | Chapters Indigo | B&N | Kobo *Received for review from publisher* Summary ( Goodreads ) passage , n. i. A brief section of music composed of a series of notes and flourishes. ii. A journey by water; a voyage. iii. The transition from one place to another, across space and time. In one devastating night, violin prodigy Etta Spencer loses everything she knows and loves. Thrust into an unfamiliar world by a stranger with a dangerous agenda, Etta is certain of only one thing: she has traveled not just miles but years from home. And she’s inherited a legacy she knows nothing about from a family whose existence she’s never heard of. Until now. Nicholas Carter is content with his life at sea, free from the Ironwoods—a powerful family in the colonies—and the servitude he’s known at their hands. But with the a...

Title: The Star-Touched Queen Author: Roshani Chokshi  Pages: 352 Genre: Fantasy/YA Publisher: Raincoast Books/St. Martins Griffin  Release Date: May 3, 2016 Buy: Amazon | Chapters Indigo | Kobo Summary (Goodreads)  Cursed with a horoscope that promises a marriage of Death and Destruction, sixteen-year-old Maya has only earned the scorn and fear of her father's kingdom. Content to follow more scholarly pursuits, her world is upheaved when her father, the Raja, arranges a wedding of political convenience to quell outside rebellions. But when her wedding takes a fatal turn, Maya becomes the queen of Akaran and wife of Amar. Yet neither roles are what she expected. As Akaran's queen, she finds her voice and power. As Amar's wife, she finds friendship and warmth. But Akaran has its own secrets - thousands of locked doors, gardens of glass, and a tree that bears memories instead of fruit. Beneath Akaran's magic, Maya begins to suspect her life is in...

Title: Unrivaled (Beautiful Idols #1)  Author: Alyson Noel Pages : 432 Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books Release Date: May 10, 2016  Summary (Goodreads)  Everyone wants to be someone. Layla Harrison wants to leave her beach-bum days for digs behind a reporter’s desk. Aster Amirpour wants to scream at the next casting director who tells her “we need ethnic but not your kind of ethnic.” Tommy Phillips dreams of buying a twelve-string guitar and using it to shred his way back into his famous absentee dad’s life. But Madison Brooks took destiny and made it her bitch a long time ago. She’s Hollywood’s hottest starlet, and the things she did to become the name on everyone’s lips are merely a stain on the pavement, ground beneath her Louboutin heel. That is, until Layla, Aster, and Tommy find themselves with a VIP invite to the glamorous and gritty world of Los Angeles’s nightlife and lured into a high-stakes competition where Madison Brooks is the target....