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Title: When It's Real Author: Erin Watt Pages: 384 Genre: YA/New Adult, Contemporary  Publisher: Harlequin Teen Release Date: May 30, 2017 Summary (Goodreads)  From #1 New York Times bestselling author duo Erin Watt comes the addictive contemporary tale of a teen rock star in need of an image makeover and the teen girl hired to be his fake girlfriend.  Meet Oakley Ford-teen celebrity, renowned pop star, child of famous movie stars, hottie with millions of fangirls… and restless troublemaker. On the surface he has it all, but with his home life disintegrating, his music well suddenly running dry, and the tabloids having a field day over his outrageous exploits, Oakley's team decides it's time for an intervention. The result: an image overhaul, complete with a fake girlfriend meant to show the world he's settled down. Enter seventeen-year-old Vaughn Bennett-devoted sister, part-time waitress, the definition of "normal." Under ordinary ci...

Title: Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass #5) Author: Sarah J. Maas Pages: 693 Genre: Fantasy, Teen, YA, New Adult Publisher: Bloomsbury Kids/Raincoast Books Release Date: September 6, 2016 Buy: Amazon| Chapters Indigo | Kobo | Summary ( Goodreads ) The long path to the throne has only just begun for Aelin Galathynius. Loyalties have been broken and bought, friends have been lost and gained, and those who possess magic find themselves at odds with those who don't. As the kingdoms of Erilea fracture around her, enemies must become allies if Aelin is to keep those she loves from falling to the dark forces poised to claim her world. With war looming on all horizons, the only chance for salvation lies in a desperate quest that may mark the end of everything Aelin holds dear. Aelin's journey from assassin to queen has entranced millions across the globe, and this fifth installment will leave fans breathless. Will Aelin succeed in keeping her world from splinteri...

  Title: Roar (Stealing Storms #1) Author: Cora Carmack Pages: 352 Genre: YA/Fantasy Publisher: Tor Teen  Release Date: June 13, 2017 Summary (Goodreads) In a land ruled and shaped by violent magical storms, power lies with those who control them. Aurora Pavan comes from one of the oldest Stormling families in existence. Long ago, the ungifted pledged fealty and service to her family in exchange for safe haven, and a kingdom was carved out from the wildlands and sustained by magic capable of repelling the world’s deadliest foes. As the sole heir of Pavan, Aurora’s been groomed to be the perfect queen. She’s intelligent and brave and honorable. But she’s yet to show any trace of the magic she’ll need to protect her people. To keep her secret and save her crown, Aurora’s mother arranges for her to marry a dark and brooding Stormling prince from another kingdom. At first, the prince seems like the perfect solution to all her problems. He’ll guarantee her ...

Title: The Unexpected Everything Author: Morgan Matson Pages: 496 Genre: YA Contemporary Publisher: Simon & Schuster Release Date: May 3, 2016 Buy: Amazon| Chapters Indigo | Kobo | *ARC was provided by Simon Schuster Canada & Edelweiss for review* Summary ( Goodreads ) Andie had it all planned out.  When you are a politician’s daughter who’s pretty much raised yourself, you learn everything can be planned or spun, or both. Especially your future. Important internship? Check. Amazing friends? Check. Guys? Check (as long as we’re talking no more than three weeks) But that was before the scandal. Before having to be in the same house with her dad. Before walking an insane number of dogs. That was before Clark and those few months that might change her whole life. Because here’s the thing - if everything's planned out, you can never find the unexpected.  And where’s the fun in that? Review:  I loved this book!! Morgan Matson definitely got me hooke...

Feature and Follow Friday is hosted by Alison Can Read & Parajunkee  Ten Reasons You Read Your Favorite Genre My favorite genres include: YA, Romance, Fiction  1. I love it! It is never boring  2. Variety of genres  3. The characters go through growth (easier to connect with) 4. They are popular and are now becoming movies 5. Its my go to genre 6. All the authors are so friendly and amazing 7. Lots of my friends love YA as well  8. The writing is addicting  9. Love how the plots are set out  10. Connecting with other bloggers 

Title: The Last Star (The 5th Wave #3) Author: Rick Yancey Pages: 368 Genre: Science Fiction/YA Publisher: Razorbill Canada/G.P. Putnam's Sons BYR Release Date: May 24, 2016 Summary (Goodreads) We’re here, then we’re gone, and that was true before they came. That’s always been true. The Others didn’t invent death; they just perfected it. Gave death a face to put back in our face, because they knew that was the only way to crush us. It won’t end on any continent or ocean, no mountain or plain, jungle or desert. It will end where it began, where it had been from the beginning, on the battlefield of the last beating human heart. Master storyteller Rick Yancey invokes triumph, loss, and unrelenting action as the fate of the planet is decided in the conclusion to this epic series.

Title:  A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses #1) Author: Sarah J. Maas Pages: 432 Genre: Fantasy, Fairy Tale Retelling Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's/RazorbillCA Release Date: May 5, 2015 Buy: Amazon | Chapters Indigo | Kobo | B&N Summary ( Goodreads ) A thrilling, seductive new series from  New York Times bestselling author Sarah J. Maas, blending  Beauty and the Beast  with faerie lore. When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand retribution for it. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin—one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled their world. As she dwells on his estate, her feelings for Tamlin transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every lie and warning she's been told about the beautiful, dangerous world of the Fae. But an ancient...

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...

Title: I'll Meet You There Author: Heather Demetrios Pages: 400 Genre: Contemporary/YA Publisher: Henry Holt and Co (BYR)/ Raincoast Books Release Date: February 3, 2015 Buy: Amazon | Chapters Indigo | Kobo | B&N *Received for review from Raincoast/Macmillan Kids* Summary ( Goodreads ) If seventeen-year-old Skylar Evans were a typical Creek View girl, her future would involve a double-wide trailer, a baby on her hip, and the graveyard shift at Taco Bell. But after graduation, the only thing standing between straightedge Skylar and art school are three minimum-wage months of summer. Skylar can taste the freedom—that is, until her mother loses her job and everything starts coming apart. Torn between her dreams and the people she loves, Skylar realizes everything she’s ever worked for is on the line. Nineteen-year-old Josh Mitchell had a different ticket out of Creek View: the Marines. But after his leg is blown off in Afghanistan, he returns home, a shell of t...

Title: Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass #2) Author:  Sarah J. Maas Pages: 420 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens/Razorbill Canada Release Date: August 27, 2013 *Read in 2013* Buy: Amazon | Kobo | Chapters Indigo | B&N | Book Depository Summary: ( Goodreads ) An assassin’s loyalties are always in doubt. But her heart never wavers. After a year of hard labor in the Salt Mines of Endovier, eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien has won the king's contest to become the new royal assassin. Yet Celaena is far from loyal to the crown – a secret she hides from even her most intimate confidantes. Keeping up the deadly charade—while pretending to do the king's bidding—will test her in frightening new ways, especially when she's given a task that could jeopardize everything she's come to care for. And there are far more dangerous forces gathering on the horizon -- forces that threaten to destroy her entire world, and will surely force Celaena to make ...

Title: Famous in Love (Famous in Love #1) Author: Rebecca Serle Pages: 336 Genre: YA/Contemporary  Publisher: Poppy/Hatchette Book Group Canada Release Date: October 21, 2014 Buy: Amazon | Chapters Indigo | Kobo | B&N   Summary ( Goodreads )  The romantic story of a girl who gets plucked from obscurity to star in the next major feature film franchise based on a book and the ensuing love triangles she gets entangled in on—-and off screen.  Meet Paige Townsen, Rainer Devon, and Jordan Wilder… When Paige Townsen, a young unknown, gets cast in the movie adaptation of a blockbuster book series, her life changes practically overnight. Within a month, Paige has traded the quiet streets of her hometown for a crowded movie set on the shores of Maui, and is spending quality time with her co-star Rainer Devon, one of People’s Sexiest Men Alive. But when troubled star Jordan Wilder lands the role of the other point in the movie’s famous love triangle, Paige’s...

Title: The One (The Selection #3) Author: Kiera Cass Pages: 323 Genre: YA/Dystopian Publisher: Harper Teen/HarperCollins Canada Release Date : May 6, 2014 Buy: Amazon | Kobo | Chapters Indigo | B&N| Summary: ( Goodreads) The Selection changed the lives of thirty-five girls forever. And now, the time has come for one winner to be chosen. America never dreamed she would find herself anywhere close to the crown—or to Prince Maxon's heart. But as the competition approaches its end and the threats outside the palace walls grow more vicious, America realizes just how much she stands to lose—and how hard she'll have to fight for the future she wants. From the very first page of The Selection, this #1 New York Times bestselling series has captured readers' hearts and swept them away on a captivating journey... Now, in The One, Kiera Cass delivers a satisfying and unforgettable conclusion that will keep readers sighing over this electrifying fairy-tale long after...

Title: Open Road Summer Author: Emery Lord Pages: 342 Genre: YA Publisher: Walker/Bloomsbury/ Razorbill CA  Release Date: April 15, 2014 Buy: Amazon | Chapters Indigo | Kobo | B&N Summary ( Goodreads )  After breaking up with her bad-news boyfriend, Reagan O’Neill is ready to leave her rebellious ways behind. . . and her best friend, country superstar Lilah Montgomery, is nursing a broken heart of her own. Fortunately, Lilah’s 24-city tour is about to kick off, offering a perfect opportunity for a girls-only summer of break-up ballads and healing hearts. But when Matt Finch joins the tour as its opening act, his boy-next-door charm proves difficult for Reagan to resist, despite her vow to live a drama-free existence. This summer, Reagan and Lilah will navigate the ups and downs of fame and friendship as they come to see that giving your heart to the right person is always a risk worth taking. A fresh new voice in contemporary romance, Emery Lord’s gorgeo...

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: White Hot Kiss (The Dark Elements #1) Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout Pages: 304 Genre: YA Publisher: Harlequin Teen Release Date: February 25, 2014 -Read in December 2013 *received for review by publisher* Buy: Amazon | Kobo | Chapters Indigo | B&N | Book Depo Summary: ( Goodreads ) One kiss could be the last.  Seventeen-year-old Layla just wants to be normal. But with a kiss that kills anything with a soul, she's anything but normal. Half demon, half gargoyle, Layla has abilities no one else possesses.  Raised among the Wardens—a race of gargoyles tasked with hunting demons and keeping humanity safe—Layla tries to fit in, but that means hiding her own dark side from those she loves the most. Especially Zayne, the swoon-worthy, incredibly gorgeous and completely off-limits Warden she's crushed on since forever.  Then she meets Roth—a tattooed, sinfully hot demon who claims to know all her secrets. Layla knows she should stay away, but she's n...

ALIENATED Launch & NOOK Giveaway! Hey, fiction lovers. I’m author Melissa Landers, and I’m thrilled to announce that my debut YA sci-fi romance, ALIENATED, is finally available from Disney-Hyperion! Cue the dancers and toss the confetti, because it’s been a long wait! In a nutshell, ALIENATED is the story of valedictorian Cara Sweeney, who gets more than she bargained for when she agrees to host the nation’s first intergalactic exchange student, the gorgeous but emotionally-stilted Aelyx (pronounced A-licks) from planet L’eihr. The tone is light and humorous, but I explore some deeper themes as well. What do reviewers have to say? “The storyline is out of this world and character development paired with authentic voice is superb. Filled with intrigue and suspense, this book will appeal to both sci-fi and contemporary YA fiction fans.” –VOYA “Interstellar relations heat up in this start to a new romantic science fiction series. Landers [explores] larger soc...