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C rown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas - I loved this sequel to Throne of Glass because it was even better than the first one. The characters were kick a** and the plot was amazing +beautifully written The Secret of Ella and Micha by Jessica Sorensen - This book tore my heart out! Its New Adult and definitely one of my favorites since I have been reading the entire series. Ella and Micha are great characters who go through a lot as well as falling in love.  Suddenly Royal by Nichole Chase - LOVED It!! I love a good story that reminded me of The Princess Diaries. The writing was addicting and made me want to find my own Alex! (he is mine!!) I look forward to many more books by Nichole :) How to Love by Katie Cotungo - This was beautifully written and I read it in 2 days. Its heartbreaking and also put together. The characters are true to themselves. Definitely a favorite for the year! Finding It (Losing It #3) by Cora Carmack - I fell in love with this...

Title: How To Love Author: Katie Cotugno Pages: 320 Publisher: Blazer + Bray/ HarperCollins Canada Genre: Young Adult/New Adult Release Date: October 1, 2013 Read: June 07 to 08, 2013 Source: Publisher (ARC)  Buy: Amazon | Chapters Indigo | B&N | Book Depository | Kobo Summary: ( Goodreads ) Before: Reena Montero has loved Sawyer LeGrande for as long as she can remember: as natural as breathing, as endless as time. But he’s never seemed to notice that Reena even exists…until one day, impossibly, he does. Reena and Sawyer fall in messy, complicated love. But then Sawyer disappears from their humid Florida town without a word, leaving a devastated—and pregnant—Reena behind. After: Almost three years have passed, and there’s a new love in Reena’s life: her daughter, Hannah. Reena’s gotten used to being without Sawyer, and she’s finally getting the hang of this strange, unexpected life. But just as swiftly and suddenly as he disappeared, Sawyer turns...

Title: Nantucket Blue Author: Leila Howland Publisher: Disney- Hyperion  Release Date: May 7, 2013 Summary (Goodreads) For Cricket Thompson, a summer like this one will change everything. A summer spent on Nantucket with her best friend, Jules Clayton, and the indomitable Clayton family. A summer when she’ll make the almost unattainable Jay Logan hers. A summer to surpass all dreams. Some of this turns out to be true. Some of it doesn’t. When Jules and her family suffer a devastating tragedy that forces the girls apart, Jules becomes a stranger whom Cricket wonders whether she ever really knew. And instead of lying on the beach working on her caramel-colored tan, Cricket is making beds and cleaning bathrooms to support herself in paradise for the summer. But it’s the things Cricket hadn’t counted on--most of all, falling hard for someone who should be completely off-limits--that turn her dreams into an exhilarating, bittersweet reality. A beautiful future is w...

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Title: The Book of Broken Hearts Author: Sarah Ockler Pages: 352 Publisher: Simon Pulse Release Date: May 21, 2013 Summary: (Goodreads) Jude has learned a lot from her older sisters, but the most important thing is this: The Vargas brothers are notorious heartbreakers. She’s seen the tears and disasters that dating a Vargas boy can cause, and she swore an oath — with candles and a contract and everything — to never have anything to do with one.  Now Jude is the only sister still living at home, and she’s spending the summer helping her ailing father restore his vintage motorcycle. No one wants to end up with a toaster on wheels, so they hire a mechanic to help out. Is it Jude’s fault he happens to be cute? And surprisingly sweet? And a Vargas? Jude tells herself it’s strictly bike business with Emilio. Her sisters will never find out, and Jude can spot those flirty little Vargas tricks a mile away — no way would she fall for them. But old warnings fade fast, bec...

Title: The Dollhouse Asylum  Author: Mary Gray Publisher: Spencer Hill Press Release Date: October 8, 2013 Summary:  A virus that had once been contained has returned, and soon no place will be left untouched by its destruction. But when seventeen-year-old Cheyenne wakes up in Elysian Fields--a subdivision cut off from the world and its monster-creating virus--she is thrilled to have a chance at survival. At first, Elysian Fields,with its beautiful houses and manicured lawns, is perfect. Teo Richardson, the older man who stole Cheyenne's heart, built it so they could be together. But when Teo tells Cheyenne there are tests that she and seven other couples must pass to be worthy of salvation, Cheyenne begins to question the perfection of his world. The people they were before are gone. Cheyenne is now "Persephone," and each couple has been re-named to reflect the most tragic romances ever told. Everyone is fighting to pass the test,...

Title: Breaking Point (Article 5 #2)  Author: Kristen Simmons Pages: 384 Publisher: Tor Teen Release Date: February 5, 2013 Summary: ( Goodreads )  The second installment in Kristen Simmons's fast-paced, gripping YA dystopian series. After faking their deaths to escape from prison, Ember Miller and Chase Jennings have only one goal: to lay low until the Federal Bureau of Reformation forgets they ever existed. Near-celebrities now for the increasingly sensationalized tales of their struggles with the government, Ember and Chase are recognized and taken in by the Resistance—an underground organization working to systematically take down the government. At headquarters, all eyes are on the sniper, an anonymous assassin taking out FBR soldiers one by one. Rumors are flying about the sniper’s true identity, and Ember and Chase welcome the diversion…. Until the government posts its most-wanted list, and their number one suspect is Emb...

Title: Mind Games (Mind Games #1)  Author: Kiersten White Pages: 256 Publisher: HarperTeen Release Date: February 19, 2013 Summary:  Fia was born with flawless instincts. Her first impulse, her gut feeling, is always exactly right. Her sister, Annie, is blind to the world around her—except when her mind is gripped by strange visions of the future. Trapped in a school that uses girls with extraordinary powers as tools for corporate espionage, Annie and Fia are forced to choose over and over between using their abilities in twisted, unthinkable ways… or risking each other’s lives by refusing to obey. In a stunning departure from her New York Times bestselling Paranormalcy trilogy, Kiersten White delivers a slick, edgy, heartstoppingly intense psychological thriller about two sisters determined to protect each other—no matter the cost

Title: Taken (Taken #1) Author: Erin Bowman Pages: 352 Publisher: HarperTeen Release Date: April 16, 2013 Summary (Goodreads) There are no men in Claysoot. There are boys—but every one of them vanishes at midnight on his eighteenth birthday. The ground shakes, the wind howls, a blinding light descends...and he’s gone. They call it the Heist. Gray Weathersby’s eighteenth birthday is mere months away, and he’s prepared to meet his fate–until he finds a strange note from his mother and starts to question everything he’s been raised to accept: the Council leaders and their obvious secrets. The Heist itself. And what lies beyond the Wall that surrounds Claysoot–a structure that no one can cross and survive. Climbing the Wall is suicide, but what comes after the Heist could be worse. Should he sit back and wait to be taken–or risk everything on the hope of the other side?