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Title: The Secret History of Us  Author: Jessi Kirby Pages: 288 Genre: Contemporary YA Publisher: Harper Teen Release Date: August 1, 2017 Summary: (Goodreads) Gorgeously written and emotionally charged,  The Secret History of Us  explores the difficult journey of a teenage girl who must piece her life together after losing her memory in a near-fatal accident. When Olivia awakes in a hospital bed following a car accident that almost took her life, she can’t remember the details about how she got there. She figures the fog is just a symptom of being in a week-long coma, but as time goes on, she realizes she’s lost more than just the last several days of her life—she’s lost her memory of the last four years. Gone is any recollection of starting or graduating high school; the prom; or her steady boyfriend Matt. Trying to figure out who she is feels impossible when everyone keeps telling her who she was.  As Liv tries to block out what her fami...

Title: Things We Know by Heart Author: Jessi Kirby Pages: 304 Genre: YA Contemporary Publisher: HarperTeen Release Date: April 21, 2015 Buy: Amazon | Chapters Indigo | Kobo | B&N *Received from publisher for honest review* Summary ( Goodreads ) When Quinn Sullivan meets the recipient of her boyfriend’s donated heart, the two form an unexpected connection. After Quinn loses her boyfriend, Trent, in an accident their junior year, she reaches out to the recipients of his donated organs in hopes of picking up the pieces of her now-unrecognizable life. She hears back from some of them, but the person who received Trent’s heart has remained silent. The essence of a person, she has always believed, is in the heart. If she finds Trent’s, then maybe she can have peace once and for all. Risking everything in order to finally lay her memories to rest, Quinn goes outside the system to track down nineteen-year-old Colton Thomas—a guy whose life has been forever changed by th...

As a blogger we get the opportunity to read advanced copies of many books from many publishers that allow us to read for review purposes. Author's are great to work with because as we get to know them they become our friends. There are so many 2015 books coming out in upcoming months that I had to put up some of my most anticipating books! *Note- There are so many more that I would love to add to this list!* This list from--> Goodreads 1.   The Heart of Betrayal (The Remnant Chronicles #2) by Mary E. Pearson  I absolutely need this sequel immediately! The first book was definitely one of my favorite books of this year and I look forward to where Pearson will take the series!  2. Confess by Colleen Hoover I can read any of Colleen Hoover's books and be in a book hangover. All her books feel real and you can connect with her characters so easily. Great New Adult writer! I will read anything that she put out! 3. The Winner's Crime (The Winner'...

Title: Golden Author: Jessi Kirby Pages: 288 Publisher: Simon Schuster Book for Young Readers Genre: Young Adult Release Date: May 14, 2013 Read: February 2013 Buy: AmazonCA | Kobo| Chapters Indigo | B&N | Book Depository Summary ( Goodreads ) Seventeen-year-old Parker Frost has never taken the road less traveled. Valedictorian and quintessential good girl, she’s about to graduate high school without ever having kissed her crush or broken the rules. So when fate drops a clue in her lap—one that might be the key to unraveling a town mystery—she decides to take a chance. Julianna Farnetti and Shane Cruz are remembered as the golden couple of Summit Lakes High—perfect in every way, meant to be together forever. But Julianna’s journal tells a different story—one of doubts about Shane and a forbidden romance with an older, artistic guy. These are the secrets that were swept away with her the night that Shane’s jeep plunged into an icy river, leaving behind a...

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

  Review: Shattered Dreams (Midnight Dragonfly #1) by Ellie James Broken Illusions (Midnight Dragonfly #2) by Ellie James  Betrayed (Guardian Legacy #1) by Ednah Walters  ~Thank You St. Martins Press & Spencer Hill Press Bought: Hemlock (Hemlock #1) by Kathleen Peacock  Enchanted by Alethea Kontis Second Chance Summer by Morgan Matson (e-book) In Honor by Jessi Kirby (e-book) What was in your Shelves?

Title: In Honor  Author: Jessi Kirby Pages: 288 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing  Expected Publication : May 8, 2012 Summary: ( Goodreads ) Honor receives her brother’s last letter from Iraq three days after learning that he died, and opens it the day his fellow Marines lay the flag over his casket. Its contents are a complete shock: concert tickets to see Kyra Kelly, her favorite pop star and Finn's celebrity crush. In his letter, he jokingly charged Honor with the task of telling Kyra Kelly that he was in love with her. Grief-stricken and determined to grant Finn's last request, she rushes to leave immediately. But she only gets as far as the driveway before running into Rusty, Finn's best friend since third grade and his polar opposite. She hasn't seen him in ages, thanks to a falling out between the two guys, but Rusty is much the same as Honor remembers him: arrogant, stubborn. . . and ruggedly good loo...