Stuck in Y.A. Books

Title: Be the Girl  Author: K.A. Tucker Release Date: January 21, 2019  Summary (Goodreads)  From the national bestselling author of the Ten Tiny Breaths series and The Simple Wild comes a poignant story about a girl trying to change her future while evading her past. Almost sixteen-year-old Aria Jones is starting over. New postal code, new last name, new rules. But she doesn’t mind, because it means she can leave her painful regrets behind. In the bustling town of Eastmonte, she can become someone else. Someone better. With the Hartford family living next door, it seems she will succeed. Sure, Cassie Hartford may be the epitome of social awkwardness thanks to her autism, but she also offers an innocent and sincere friendship that Aria learns to appreciate. And Cassie’s older brother, Emmett—a popular Junior A hockey player with a bright future—well … Aria wishes that friendship could lead to something more. If he didn’t already have a girlfriend, maybe it...

MY MOST ANTICIPATED YA BOOKS OF 2019 Summary ( Goodreads )  June 4, 2019 From the  New York Times  bestselling author of  An Enchantment of Ravens  comes an imaginative fantasy about an apprentice at a magical library who must battle a powerful sorcerer to save her kingdom. All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer’s Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery—magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. She hopes to become a warden, charged with protecting the kingdom from their power. Then an act of sabotage releases the library’s most dangerous grimoire. Elisabeth’s desperate intervention implicates her in the crime, and she is torn from her home to face justice in the capital. With no one to turn to but her sworn enemy, the sorcerer Nathan...

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?  

Hate Notes  by Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward Pub date: November 6, 2018 Publisher: Montlake Romance Available in Canada through Thomas Allen & Son Add to Goodreads:   https://bit.ly/2OKkaQE Description:  From  New York Times bestselling authors Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward comes an unexpected love story of secondhand hearts and second chances… It all started with a mysterious blue note sewn into a wedding dress. Something blue. I’d gone to sell my own unworn bridal gown at a vintage clothing store. That’s when I found another bride’s “something old.” Stitched into the lining of a fabulously feathered design was the loveliest message I’d ever read:  Thank you for making all of my dreams come true. The name embossed on the blue stationery:  Reed Eastwood , obviously the most romantic man who ever lived. I also discovered he’s the most gorgeous. If only my true-love fantasies had stopped there. Because I’ve since found out something e...

Title: Never-Contented Things Author: Sarah Porter Pages: 368 Genre: Fantasy/YA Publisher: Tor Teen/Raincoast Books  Release Date: March 19, 2019 Summary (Goodreads)  Seductive. Cruel. Bored Be wary of…  Prince and his fairy courtiers are staggeringly beautiful, unrelentingly cruel, and exhausted by the tedium of the centuries―until they meet foster-siblings Josh and Ksenia. Drawn in by their vivid emotions, undying love for each other, and passion for life, Prince will stop at nothing to possess them. First seduced and then entrapped by the fairies, Josh and Ksenia learn that the fairies' otherworldly gifts come at a terrible price―and they must risk everything in order to reclaim their freedom.

Title:  The Darkest Star (Origin #1) Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout Pages: 368 Genre: Young Adult, Science Fiction Publisher: Tor Teen Release Date: October 30, 2018 Buy: Amazon | Chapters Indigo | Kobo | *Received for review by publisher for honest review* Summary : ( Goodreads ) When seventeen-year-old Evie Dasher is caught up in a raid at a notorious club known as one of the few places where humans and the surviving Luxen can mingle freely, she meets Luc, an unnaturally beautiful guy she initially assumes is a Luxen...but he is in fact something much more powerful. Her growing attraction for Luc will lead her deeper and deeper into a world she'd only heard about, a world where everything she thought she knew will be turned on its head... #1  New York Times, USA Today,  and internationally bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout returns to the universe of the Lux in this brand new series, featuring beloved characters both new and old. Review:...

Title: All We Ever Wanted Author: Emily Giffin Pages: 400 Genre: Fiction/ Contemporary Publisher: Ballantine Books/Penguin Random House Canada Release Date: June 26, 2018 Buy: Amazon | Chapters Indigo | Kobo * Received for review by Penguin Random House Canada* Summary ( Goodreads ) In the riveting new novel from the #1  New York Times bestselling author of  First Comes Love  and  Something Borrowed , three very different people must choose between their family and their values. Nina Browning is living the good life after marrying into Nashville’s elite. More recently, her husband made a fortune selling his tech business, and their adored son has been accepted to Princeton. Yet sometimes the middle-class small-town girl in Nina wonders if she’s strayed from the person she once was. Tom Volpe is a single dad working multiple jobs while struggling to raise his headstrong daughter, Lyla. His road has been lonely, long, and hard, but he finally starts t...