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Title: Blood Rose Rebellion (#1) Author : Rosalyn Eves Pages: 416 Genre: Fantasy, YA, Historical  Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers/Penguin Random House Canada Release Date: March 28, 2017 Summary (Goodreads) The thrilling first book in a YA fantasy trilogy for fans of  Red Queen . In a world where social prestige derives from a trifecta of blood, money, and magic, one girl has the ability to break the spell that holds the social order in place. Sixteen-year-old Anna Arden is barred from society by a defect of blood. Though her family is part of the Luminate, powerful users of magic, she is Barren, unable to perform the simplest spells. Anna would do anything to belong. But her fate takes another course when, after inadvertently breaking her sister’s debutante spell—an important chance for a highborn young woman to show her prowess with magic—Anna finds herself exiled to her family’s once powerful but now crumbling native Hungary. Her life migh...

Title: First Comes Love Author: Emily Giffin  Pages: 400 Genre: Contemporary  Publisher: Ballantine Books/Random House Canada Release Date: June 28, 2016 Summary (Goodreads)  In this dazzling new novel, Emily Giffin, the #1  New York Times bestselling author of  Something Borrowed, Where We Belong,  and The One & Only  introduces a pair of sisters who find themselves at a crossroads.   Growing up, Josie and Meredith Garland shared a loving, if sometimes contentious relationship. Josie was impulsive, spirited, and outgoing; Meredith hardworking, thoughtful, and reserved. When tragedy strikes their family, their different responses to the event splinter their delicate bond.   Fifteen years later, Josie and Meredith are in their late thirties, following very different paths. Josie, a first grade teacher, is single—and  this close  to swearing off dating for good. What she wants more than the right guy, howe...

Title: And I Darken (The Conquerors Saga #1) Author: Kiersten White Pages: 475 Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult Publisher: Delacorte Press/Random House Canada Release Date: June 28, 2016 Summary (Goodreads)  NO ONE EXPECTS A PRINCESS TO BE BRUTAL. And Lada Dragwlya likes it that way. Ever since she and her gentle younger brother, Radu, were wrenched from their homeland of Wallachia and abandoned by their father to be raised in the Ottoman courts, Lada has known that being ruthless is the key to survival. She and Radu are doomed to act as pawns in a vicious game, an unseen sword hovering over their every move. For the lineage that makes them special also makes them targets. Lada despises the Ottomans and bides her time, planning her vengeance for the day when she can return to Wallachia and claim her birthright. Radu longs only for a place where he feels safe. And when they meet Mehmed, the defiant and lonely son of the sultan, who’s expected to rule a nation, Ra...

Title: Tell Me Three Things Author: Julie Buxbaum  Pages: 270 Genre: YA Contemporary  Publisher: Delacorte Press  Release Date: April 15, 2016 Summary (Goodreads) What if the person you need the most is someone you’ve never met? Julie Buxbaum mixes comedy and tragedy, love and loss, pain and elation, in her debut YA novel whose characters will come to feel like friends.  Tell Me Three Things  will appeal to fans of Rainbow Rowell, Jennifer Niven, and E. Lockhart.    Everything about Jessie is wrong. At least, that’s what it feels like during her first week at her new ultra-intimidating prep school in Los Angeles. Just when she’s thinking about hightailing it back to Chicago—the closest place she has to something like home—she gets an email from a person calling themselves Somebody/Nobody (SN for short), offering to help her navigate the wilds of Wood Valley High School. Is it an elaborate hoax? Or can she rely on SN for some much...

Title: For the Record Author: Charlotte Huang  Pages: 320  Genre: YA Contemporary  Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers/Random House Canada Release Date: November 10, 2015  Summary (Goodreads)  If  Almost Famous  were a YA novel . . . a raw, honest debut celebrating music, friendship, romance, and life on the road. Chelsea thought she knew what being a rock star was like . . . until she became one. After losing a TV talent show, she slid back into small-town anonymity. But one phone call changed everything    Now she’s the lead singer of the band Melbourne, performing in sold-out clubs every night and living on a bus with three gorgeous and talented guys. The bummer is that the band barely tolerates her. And when teen hearthrob Lucas Rivers take an interest in her, Chelsea is suddenly famous, bringing Melbourne to the next level—not that they’re happy about that. Her feelings for Beckett, Melbourne’s bassist,...

Title: Charmed (The Witch Hunter #2) Author: Michelle Krys Pages: 368 Genre: YA Publisher: Delacorte Press Release Date: May 26, 2015 Summary: (Goodreads)  Indie has spent the last few weeks frantically searching for Paige. She's tried every spell imaginable, but witchcraft has gotten her nowhere, and she's going crazy with guilt. Despite what her warlock boyfriend, Bishop, tells her, Indie knows it's her fault her best friend was kidnapped by the Priory. And with the Priory destroyed, finding Paige feels more hopeless than ever-especially when Indie discovers that Paige isn't even on Earth. She's trapped in Los Demonios, an alternate dimension of Los Angeles filled with evil paranormals. No one who has gone there has ever come out. Fueled by terror and loyalty, Indie is desperate to find a way into the underworld prison. She'll worry about getting out later. But facing the dark world's most dangerous witches and warlocks on her own mea...

Title:  Hexed (The Witch Hunters #1 Author:  Michelle Krys Pages: 384 Genre: YA Publisher: Random House Canada/ Delacorte Press Release Date: June 10, 2014 *Received for review from Random House Canada +Michelle Krys* Buy: Amazon | Kobo | Chapters Indigo | B&N Summary: ( Goodreads ) If high school is all about social status, Indigo Blackwood has it made. Sure, her quirky mom owns an occult shop, and a nerd just won’t stop trying to be her friend, but Indie is a popular cheerleader with a football-star boyfriend and a social circle powerful enough to ruin everyone at school. Who wouldn’t want to be her? Then a guy dies right before her eyes. And the dusty old family Bible her mom is freakishly possessive of is stolen. But it’s when a frustratingly sexy stranger named Bishop enters Indie’s world that she learns her destiny involves a lot more than pom-poms and parties. If she doesn’t get the Bible back, every witch on the planet will die. And that’s serious...

Title: We Were Liars Author: E. Lockhart Pages: 240 Genre: YA/Suspense Publisher: Random House Canada/Delacorte Press Release Date: May 13, 2014 *Received to review* Buy: Amazon | Kobo | Chapters Indigo | B&N Summary: ( Goodreads ) A beautiful and distinguished family. A private island. A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy. A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive. A revolution. An accident. A secret. Lies upon lies. True love. The truth. We Were Liars  is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel from National Book Award finalist and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart.  Read it. And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE. Review: This book was amazing! I was instantly hooked with the story and was guessing until the end of what was happening with the plot. There was also crying involved which is very hard for me but if there is crying it was a good book that must be read by all. A friend of min...

Title: Hexed (The Witch Hunter #1)  Author: Michelle Krys Pages: 369 Publisher: Random House Children's Books Release Date: June 10, 2014 Summary: (Goodreads) If high school is all about social status, Indigo Blackwood has it made. Sure, her quirky mom owns an occult shop, and a nerd just won’t stop trying to be her friend, but Indie is a popular cheerleader with a football-star boyfriend and a social circle powerful enough to ruin everyone at school. Who wouldn’t want to be her? Then a guy dies right before her eyes. And the dusty old family Bible her mom is freakishly possessive of is stolen. But it’s when a frustratingly sexy stranger named Bishop enters Indie’s world that she learns her destiny involves a lot more than pom-poms and parties. If she doesn’t get the Bible back, every witch on the planet will die. And that’s seriously bad news for Indie, because according to Bishop, she’s a witch too. Suddenly forced into a centuries-old war between witches and s...

Review: Timepiece (Hourglass #2) by Myra McEntire ~Thank You Random House Canada! The Girl With Borrowed Wings by Rinsai Rossetti ~Thank You Penguin Canada Origin by Jessica Khoury (Netgalley) Bought: (On Kobo) My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick (READ/LOVED) *LOVE the COVER!!