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Title: The Beauty of Darkness Author: Mary E. Pearson Pages: 688 Genre: Fantasy/YA Publisher: Henry Holt and Co/Raincoast Books Release Date: August 2, 2016 Summary ( Goodreads ) Lia and Rafe have escaped Venda and the path before them is winding and dangerous - what will happen now? This third and final book in The Remnant Chronicles is not to be missed. Bestselling author Mary E. Pearson's combination of intrigue, suspense, romance and action make this a riveting page turner for teens. My Thoughts on the first few chapters: After reading the first chapters of The Beauty of Darkness, I was instantly hooked because they way The Heart of Betrayal ended was like an epic hangover. I definitely love where its going to be heading and I am looking forward to see Lia's decisions will take her after Rafe and her escape from Venda. Now to wait patiently for the book!  Series as a whole: Mary E. Pearson has taken us readers on an incredible journey through...

  The Winner's Kiss by Marie Rutkoski On Sale March 29th, 2016 War has begun. Arin is in the thick of it with untrustworthy new allies and the empire as his enemy. Though he has convinced himself that he no longer loves Kestrel, Arin hasn’t forgotten her, or how she became exactly the kind of person he has always despised. She cared more for the empire than she did for the lives of innocent people—and certainly more than she did for him. At least, that’s what he thinks. In the frozen north, Kestrel is a prisoner in a brutal work camp. As she searches desperately for a way to escape, she wishes Arin could know what she sacrificed for him. She wishes she could make the empire pay for what they’ve done to her. But no one gets what they want just by wishing. As the war intensifies, both Kestrel and Arin discover that the world is changing. The East is pitted against the West, and they are caught in between. With so much to lose, can anybody really win? ...

Title: Delicate Monsters Author: Stephanie Kuehn Pages: 240 Genre: YA, Mystery/Thriller Publisher: Raincoast Books/St. Martins Griffin Release Date: June 9, 2015 Buy: AmazonCA | Chapters Indigo | Kobo Received for review from Raincoast Books Summary ( Goodreads ) From the Morris-Award winning author of  Charm & Strange , comes a twisted and haunting tale about three teens uncovering dark secrets and even darker truths about themselves. When nearly killing a classmate gets seventeen-year-old Sadie Su kicked out of her third boarding school in four years, she returns to her family’s California vineyard estate. Here, she’s meant to stay out of trouble. Here, she’s meant to do a lot of things. But it’s hard. She’s bored. And when Sadie’s bored, the only thing she likes is trouble. Emerson Tate’s a poor boy living in a rich town, with his widowed mother and strange, haunted little brother. All he wants his senior year is to play basketball and make something ha...

Title: Truthwitch (The Witchlands #1)  Author: Susan Dennard  Pages: N/A Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Tor Teen  Release Date: January 5, 2016  Summary (Goodreads)  On a continent ruled by three empires, some are born with a “witchery”, a magical skill that sets them apart from others. In the Witchlands, there are almost as many types of magic as there are ways to get in trouble—as two desperate young women know all too well. Safiya is a Truthwitch, able to discern truth from lie. It’s a powerful magic that many would kill to have on their side, especially amongst the nobility to which Safi was born. So Safi must keep her gift hidden, lest she be used as a pawn in the struggle between empires. Iseult, a Threadwitch, can see the invisible ties that bind and entangle the lives around her—but she cannot see the bonds that touch her own heart. Her unlikely friendship with Safi has taken her from life as an outcast into one of reckless adventure,...

Title: The Winner's Crime (The Winner's Trilogy #2) Author: Marie Rutkoski Pages: 352 Genre: Fantasy/YA Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux/Raincoast Books Release Date: March 3, 2015 Buy: Amazon | Chapters Indigo | Kobo | B&N *Received for review from publisher* Summary: ( Goodreads ) Book two of the dazzling Winner's Trilogy is a fight to the death as Kestrel risks betrayal of country for love. The engagement of Lady Kestrel to Valoria’s crown prince means one celebration after another. But to Kestrel it means living in a cage of her own making. As the wedding approaches, she aches to tell Arin the truth about her engagement…if she could only trust him. Yet can she even trust herself? For—unknown to Arin—Kestrel is becoming a skilled practitioner of deceit: an anonymous spy passing information to Herran, and close to uncovering a shocking secret. As Arin enlists dangerous allies in the struggle to keep his country’s freedom, he can’t fight the suspic...

Today J.A. Souders and Rockstar Book Tours are revealing the cover for REBELLION, book 3 in the Elysium Chronicles releasing in June 5, 2015! Check out the gorgeous cover and enter to win the books! On to the reveal!  Title: REBELLION Author: J.A. Souders Publisher: TOR Teen Pub. Date: June 9, 2015 Find it: Goodreads About J.A. Souders  J.A. SOUDERS is the author of the Elysium Chronicles and lives in the land of sunshine and palm trees with her husband and two children where she spends her time writing about the monsters under the bed, day dreaming about living in an underwater colony, and failing miserably at playing video games. Website / Blog / Twitter / Facebook / Goodreads / Pinterest Giveaway Details: 1 winner will receive ELYSIUM and book REVELATIONS plus the e-shorts as well as ASK AGAIN LATER by Liz Czukas.. If you have J.A.s books already, she will do an amazon or book depository gift card of the same value. Int...

Title:  The Kiss of Deception (The Remnant Chronicles #1)  Author:  Mary E. Pearson  Pages: 492 Genre: YA/Fantasy Publisher : Henry Holt/ Raincoast/ Macmillan  Release Date: July 15, 2014 *Received to review by Raincoast Books/Macmillan Kids* Buy: Amazon | Chapters Indigo | Kobo | B&N 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 ...

Title: The Winner's Curse (The Winner's Trilogy #1) Author: Marie Rutkoski Pages: 368 Genre: YA Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux/ Raincoast Books/ Macmillan Release Date: March 4, 2014 My Rating: 5/5 Buy: Amazon | Kobo | Chapters Indigo | B&N| *Thank you Macmillan for letting me review this ARC* Summary ( Goodreads ) Winning what you want may cost you everything you love   As a general’s daughter in a vast empire that revels in war and enslaves those it conquers, seventeen-year-old Kestrel has two choices: she can join the military or get married. But Kestrel has other intentions.  One day, she is startled to find a kindred spirit in a young slave up for auction. Arin’s eyes seem to defy everything and everyone. Following her instinct, Kestrel buys him—with unexpected consequences. It’s not long before she has to hide her growing love for Arin.  But he, too, has a secret, and Kestrel quickly learns that the price she paid for a fellow human is much...

Title: Revelations (The Elysium Chronicles #2) Author: J.A. Souders Pages: 320 Publisher: Tor Teen Release Date: November 5, 2013 Summary:  The follow-up to J. A. Souders’s riveting SF psychological thriller for teens, Renegade Six weeks ago, Evelyn Winters was locked away in Elysium, a city hidden miles beneath the sea, brainwashed into submission. With the help of Gavin, she fought free of her captors and the fog in her own mind. He took her back with him to the Surface, a world she's never known. Now she will begin a new life. But her past is closer than she thinks...

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...

Review: Where We Belong by Emily Giffin--> REVIEW Dark Companion by Marta Acosta  Stealing Parker by Miranda Kenneally  Entice (The Violet Eden Chapters #2) by Jessica Shirvington Wake (Watersong #1) by Amanda Hocking Who I Kissed by Janet Gurtler  Death and the Girl Next Door (Darklight #1) by Darynda Jones  Heaven ( Halo #3) by Alexandra Adornetto  Eve & Adam by Katherine Applegate, Micheal Grant  Thank You- St. Martin Press, Tor Teen, Macmillan, and the Awesome Raincoast Books Bought: Endlessly (Paranormalcy #3) by Kiersten White Something Strange and Deadly (#1) by Susan Dennard  Seraphina (#1) by Rachel Hartman Shadow and Bone (The Grisha Trilogy #1) by Leigh Bardugo