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Title: Bloodleaf (Bloodleaf #1) Author: Crystal Smith Pages: 384 Genre: Fantasy, YA Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers/Raincoast Books Release Date: March 12, 2019 Buy: Amazon | Chapters | Kobo  *Received for honest review from publisher* Summary ( Goodreads ) Princess Aurelia is a prisoner to her crown and the heir that nobody wants. Surrounded by spirits and banned from using her blood-magic, Aurelia flees her country after a devastating assassination attempt. To escape her fate, Aurelia disguises herself as a commoner in a new land and discovers a happiness her crown has never allowed. As she forges new bonds and perfects her magic, she begins to fall for a man who is forbidden to rule beside her. But the ghosts that haunt Aurelia refuse to abandon her, and she finds herself succumbing to their call as they expose a nefarious plot that only she can defeat. Will she be forced to choose between the weight of the crown and the freedom of her new life? Review:...

Title: You Owe Me A Murder Author: Eileen Cook Pages: 368 Genre: YA/Mystery/Thriller Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers/Raincoast Books Release Date: March 5,  2019 Buy: Amazon | Chapters Indigo | Kobo * This book was sent to me by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.* Summary ( Goodreads ) Seventeen-year-old Kim gets more than she bargained for when she is set up for murder. Perfect for fans of  One of Us is Lying , E. Lockhart, and Gillian Flynn. 17-year-old Kim never expected to plot a murder. But that was before her boyfriend dumped her for another girl. Now, Kim’s stuck on a class trip to London with him and his new soulmate and she can’t help wishing he was a little bit dead, even if she’d never really do that.   But when Kim meets Nicki, a stranger on the plane who’s more than willing to listen to Kim’s woes, things start to look up. Nicki's got a great sense of humor, and when she jokes about swapping murders, Kim plays along—tha...

Title: Bloodleaf  Author: Crystal Smith  Pages: 384 Genre: Fantasy, YA Publisher: HMH for Young Readers/Raincoast Books Release Date : March 12, 2019  Summary (Goodreads)  Princess Aurelia is a prisoner to her crown and the heir that nobody wants. Surrounded by spirits and banned from using her blood-magic, Aurelia flees her country after a devastating assassination attempt. To escape her fate, Aurelia disguises herself as a commoner in a new land and discovers a happiness her crown has never allowed. As she forges new bonds and perfects her magic, she begins to fall for a man who is forbidden to rule beside her. But the ghosts that haunt Aurelia refuse to abandon her, and she finds herself succumbing to their call as they expose a nefarious plot that only she can defeat. Will she be forced to choose between the weight of the crown and the freedom of her new life?  

Title: With Malice Author: Eileen Cook  Pages: 320 Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers Release Date: June 7, 2016 Summary (Goodreads)  A read about a teenage girl who wakes up in a hospital bed and cannot remember the last six weeks of her life, including the accident that killed her best friend--only what if the accident wasn't an accident? Eighteen-year-old Jill Charron wakes up in a hospital room, leg in a cast, stitches in her face and a big blank canvas where the last 6 weeks should be. She comes to discover she was involved in a fatal accident while on a school trip in Italy three days previous but was jetted home by her affluent father in order to receive quality care. Care that includes a lawyer. And a press team. Because maybe the accident...wasn't an accident. Wondering not just what happened but what she did, Jill tries to piece together the events of the past six weeks before she loses her thin hold on her once-perfect life.

Title: Into the Dim Author: Janet B. Taylor Pages: 432 Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers Release Date: March 1, 2016 Summary (Goodreads) “Seventy-two hours, then we have to be back at the clearing. Sunrise on the third day.”     Being “the homeschooled girl,” in a small town, Hope Walton’s crippling phobias and photographic memory don’t help her fit in with her adoptive dad’s perfectly blonde Southern family. But when her mother is killed in a natural disaster thousands of miles from home, Hope’s secluded world crumbles. After an aunt she’s never met invites her to spend the summer in Scotland, Hope discovers that her mother was more than a brilliant academic. She’s a member of a secret society of time travelers, and is actually trapped in the twelfth century in the age of King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Now Hope must conquer her numerous fears and travel back in time to help rescue her mother before she’s lost for good. Along the way, ...

Title: Mortal Heart (His Fair Assassin #3)  Author: Robin LaFevers  Pages: 444 Genre: YA Publisher: HMH Young Readers/Thomas Allen Ltd  Release Date: November 4, 2014 Buy: Amazon | Chapters Indigo | Kobo | B&N *ARC was provided by the publisher for honest review* Summary ( Goodreads ) Annith has watched her gifted sisters at the convent come and go, carrying out their dark dealings in the name of St. Mortain, patiently awaiting her own turn to serve Death. But her worst fears are realized when she discovers she is being groomed by the abbess as a Seeress, to be forever sequestered in the rock and stone womb of the convent. Feeling sorely betrayed, Annith decides to strike out on her own. She has spent her whole life training to be an assassin. Just because the convent has changed its mind doesn't mean she has... Review:  Mortal Heart is the last book in the His Fair Assassin series which has now become one of my favorites because this book wa...