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Title: The Thousandth Floor (The Thousandth Floor #1) Author: Katharine McGee Pages: 448 Genre: Dystopia, Science Fiction, YA Publisher: HarperCollins Release Date: August 30, 2016 Buy: Amazon| Chapters Indigo | Kobo Rating: 5/5 *Received for review by publisher* Summary ( Goodreads ) New York City as you’ve never seen it before. A thousand-story tower stretching into the sky. A glittering vision of the future, where anything is possible—if you want it enough. Welcome to Manhattan, 2118. A hundred years in the future, New York is a city of innovation and dreams. But people never change: everyone here wants something…and everyone has something to lose. Leda Cole’s flawless exterior belies a secret addiction—to a drug she never should have tried and a boy she never should have touched. Eris Dodd-Radson’s beautiful, carefree life falls to pieces when a heartbreaking betrayal tears her family apart. Rylin Myers’s job on one of the highest floors sweeps her into a world...

Title: Firstlife (Everlife #1)  Author: Gena Showalter  Pages: 480 Publisher: Harlequin Teen Release Date: February 23, 2016 Summary (Goodreads) ONE CHOICE. TWO REALMS. NO SECOND CHANCE. Tenley “Ten” Lockwood is an average seventeen-year-old girl…who has spent the past thirteen months locked inside the Prynne Asylum. The reason? Not her obsession with numbers, but her refusal to let her parents choose where she’ll live—after she dies. There is an eternal truth most of the world has come to accept: Firstlife is merely a dress rehearsal, and real life begins after death. In the Everlife, two realms are in power: Troika and Myriad, longtime enemies and deadly rivals. Both will do anything to recruit Ten, including sending their top Laborers to lure her to their side. Soon, Ten finds herself on the run, caught in a wild tug-of-war between the two realms who will do anything to win the right to her soul. Who can she trust? And what if the realm she’s drawn to is...

Title: The Jewel (The Jewel #1) Author: Amy Ewing Pages: 304 Genre: YA Publisher: HarperTeen/HarperCollins Canada Release Date: September 2, 2014 Buy: Amazon | Kobo | Chapters Indigo | B&N *Received for review via Edelweiss + HCCFrenzy Summary: ( Goodreads ) The Jewel means wealth. The Jewel means beauty. The Jewel means royalty. But for girls like Violet, the Jewel means servitude. Not just any kind of servitude. Violet, born and raised in the Marsh, has been trained as a surrogate for the royalty—because in the Jewel the only thing more important than opulence is offspring. Purchased at the surrogacy auction by the Duchess of the Lake and greeted with a slap to the face, Violet (now known only as #197) quickly learns of the brutal truths that lie beneath the Jewel’s glittering facade: the cruelty, backstabbing, and hidden violence that have become the royal way of life. Violet must accept the ugly realities of her existence... and try to stay alive. But then a f...

Title: The Kiss of Deception (The Remnant Chronicles #1) Author: Mary E. Pearson Pages: 492 Genre: YA/Dystopian/Fantasy Publisher: Raincoast Books/ Henry Holt Release Date: July 15, 2014 Summary: (Goodreads)  In this timeless new trilogy about love and sacrifice, a princess must find her place in a reborn world. In a society steeped in tradition, Princess Lia’s life follows a preordained course. As First Daughter, she is expected to have the revered gift of sight—but she doesn’t—and she knows her parents are perpetrating a sham when they arrange her marriage to secure an alliance with a neighboring kingdom—to a prince she has never met. On the morning of her wedding, Lia flees to a distant village. She settles into a new life, hopeful when two mysterious and handsome strangers arrive—and unaware that one is the jilted prince and the other an assasin sent to kill her. Deception abounds, and Lia finds herself on the brink of unlocking perilous secrets—even as s...

Title: Defy (Defy #1) Author: Sara B. Larson Pages: 336 Genre: YA/Fantasy Publisher: Scholastic Press Release Date: January 7, 2014 Rating: 5/5 Received for Review by Publisher and Work Buy: Amazon | Kobo | Chapters Indigo | Summary: ( Goodreads ) A lush and gorgeously written debut, packed with action, intrigue, and a thrilling love triangle. Alexa Hollen is a fighter. Forced to disguise herself as a boy and serve in the king's army, Alex uses her quick wit and fierce sword-fighting skills to earn a spot on the elite prince's guard. But when a powerful sorcerer sneaks into the palace in the dead of night, even Alex, who is virtually unbeatable, can't prevent him from abducting her, her fellow guard and friend Rylan, and Prince Damian, taking them through the treacherous wilds of the jungle and deep into enemy territory. The longer Alex is held captive with both Rylan and the prince, the more she realizes that she is not the only one who has been keeping da...

Title: The 5th Wave (The Fifth Wave #1) Author: Rick Yancey Pages: 480 Publisher: Razorbill/Putnam Juvenile Source: Razorbill Canada (ARC) Release Date: May 7, 2013 Buy: AmazonCA | Chapters Indigo | Kobo | B&N | Book Depository Summary: ( Goodreads ) The Passage meets Ender’s Game in an epic new series from award-winning author Rick Yancey. After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one. Now, it’s the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth’s last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie’s only hope for rescuing her brother—or even saving herself. But Cassie must choose: between...

Title: The Elite (The Selection #2)  Author: Kiera Cass Pages: 323 Publisher: HarperTeen/HarperCollins Canada Genre: YA/Dystopia/Romance Release Date: April 23, 2013 HarperCollinsCA Buy: AmazonCA | Chapters Indigo | Kobo | B&N | Book Depository Summary: ( Goodreads ) The hotly-anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestseller The Selection . Thirty-five girls came to the palace to compete in the Selection. All but six have been sent home. And only one will get to marry Prince Maxon and be crowned princess of Illea. America still isn’t sure where her heart lies. When she’s with Maxon, she’s swept up in their new and breathless romance, and can’t dream of being with anyone else. But whenever she sees Aspen standing guard around the palace, and is overcome with memories of the life they planned to share. With the group narrowed down to the Elite, the other girls are even more determined to win Maxon over—and time is running out for America to decide. ...

Title: The Glimpse Author: Clarie Merle Pages: 432 Publisher: Faber & Faber (UK) Expected Release: June 7, 2012 Buy: Book Depository |  Summary: (Goodreads) Once you've seen into the future, can you change your destiny? In a near future, society is segregated according to whether people are genetically disposed to mental illness. 17-year-old Ana has been living the privileged life of a Pure due to an error in her DNA test. When the authorities find out, she faces banishment from her safe Community, a fate only thwarted by the fact that she has already been promised to Pure-boy Jasper Taurell. Jasper is from a rich and influential family and despite Ana’s condition, wants to be with her. The authorities grant Ana a tentative reprieve. If she is joined to Jasper before her 18th birthday, she may stay in the Community until her illness manifests. But if Jasper changes his mind, she will be cast out among the Crazies. As Ana’s joining ceremony and her birthda...

Title: Article 5 (Article 5 #1)  Author: Kristen Simmons Pages: 384 Publisher: TorTeen/Raincoast Books Release Date: January 31, 2012  Buy: Amazon | Chapters Indigo | Barns & Noble | Book Depository  Summary: ( Goodreads ) New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., have been abandoned. The Bill of Rights has been revoked, and replaced with the Moral Statutes. There are no more police—instead, there are soldiers. There are no more fines for bad behavior—instead, there are arrests, trials, and maybe worse. People who get arrested usually don't come back. Seventeen-year-old Ember Miller is old enough to remember that things weren’t always this way. Living with her rebellious single mother, it’s hard for her to forget that people weren’t always arrested for reading the wrong books or staying out after dark. It’s hard to forget that life in the United States used to be different. Ember has perfected the art of keeping a low profile. She knows how ...

Review: I just loved, loved, loved this book. It is such a great book that I had to read it. I found the book on Netgalley (Thank You) The plot sounded really interesting (it is a dystopian) Dystopian novels are one of my favorites because someday it will happen, we will never know. The first page is of a letter to Eve from her mother which was really sad and what is going on:( It is very informative of what was happening when her mother was with her before we are in the present! Based in Anna Carey's novel Eve, which its is set in 2032 after a horrible deadly virus that mostly all the parents have died leaving tons of orphans. The orphans are then led to Schools where they learn a fine education, and later for other things! Eve is one of the brightest from her school, top marks and everything, the prettiest. and inquisitive girls in her "School." The school really twist on what they think out men, they tell the girls that they only want sex and to reproduce. On her g...