Stuck in Y.A. Books

Title: Dear Cassie Author: Lisa Burstein Pages: 352 Publisher: Entangled Teen Release Date: March 2013 Summary:    What if the last place you should fall in love is the first place that you do? You’d think getting sent to Turning Pines Wilderness Camp for a month-long rehabilitation “retreat” and being forced to re-live it in this journal would be the worst thing that’s ever happened to me. You’d be wrong. There’s the reason I was sent to Turning Pines in the first place: I got arrested. On prom night. With my two best friends, who I haven’t talked to since and probably never will again. And then there’s the real reason I was sent here. The thing I can’t talk about with the guy I can’t even think about. What if the moment you’ve closed yourself off is the moment you start to break open? But there’s this guy here. Ben. And the more I swear he won’t—he can’t—the deeper under my skin he’s getting. After the thing that happened, I promised I’d n...

Title: Renegade (The Elysium Chronicles #1)  Author: J.A. Souders Pages: 352 Publisher: Tor Teen/Raincoast Books Release Date: November 13, 2012 Buy: AmazonCA | Amazon | Chapters Indigo | Barnes & Noble | Kobo | Summary ( Goodreads )  Since the age of three, sixteen-year-old Evelyn Winters has been trained to be Daughter of the People in the underwater utopia known as Elysium. Selected from hundreds of children for her ideal genes, all her life she’s thought that everything was perfect; her world. Her people. The Law. But when Gavin Hunter, a Surface Dweller, accidentally stumbles into their secluded little world, she’s forced to come to a startling realization: everything she knows is a lie. Her memories have been altered. Her mind and body aren’t under her own control. And the person she knows as Mother is a monster. Together with Gavin she plans her escape, only to learn that her own mind is a ticking time bomb... and Mother has one last secr...

Title: Onyx (Lux #2) Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout Pages: 416 Publisher: Entangled Publishing Release Date: August 14, 2012 Buy: AmazonCA | Amazon | Chapters Indigo | Barnes & Noble | Book Depository | Kobo Summary: ( Goodreads ) Being connected to Daemon Black sucks… Daemon’s determined to prove what he feels for me is more than a product of our bizarre connection. I’ve sworn him off even though he’s running more hot than cold these days. But against all common sense, I’m falling for him. Hard. Our relationship issues aren’t out biggest problem… The Department of Defense is here. If they ever find out what Daemon can do and that we’re linked, I’m a goner. So is he. And when a new boy shows up a school with a secret of his own, things get complicated fast. I need to choose between my own instincts and Daemon’s. But then everything changes… I’ve seen someone who shouldn’t be alive. Daemon’s never going to stop searching until gets the truth. W...

Title: Transparent Author: Natalie Whipple Pages: 352 Publisher: HarperTeen Release Date: May 21, 2013 Summary:   Plenty of teenagers feel invisible. Fiona McClean actually is. An invisible girl is a priceless weapon. Fiona’s own father has been forcing her to do his dirty work for years—everything from spying on people to stealing cars to breaking into bank vaults. After sixteen years, Fiona’s had enough. She and her mother flee to a small town, and for the first time in her life, Fiona feels like a normal life is within reach. But Fiona’s father isn’t giving up that easily. Of course, he should know better than anyone: never underestimate an invisible girl.

Ellie James: This or That Movie or book?           Books! Sleep or awake?       Awake. Cats or Dogs?               Cats Reese pieces or Kit Kat ? Reese’s Anything J Could you tell us a bit about yourself? Sure!   I’m a dreamer. I believe anything is possible, that we’re all stronger and far more capable than we realize. I believe in trying new things, especially those that frighten you, that the only way to fly is to spread your wings. I believe attitudes are contagious and adversity makes you stronger. I believe in love and friendship, that promises are meant to be kept and forever is more than a word. I believe sunrises and sunsets are equally beautiful, that the best way to predict your future is to create it, and that imagination can take you anywhere. Aside from all that, I’m a mom and a wife, an animal lover, chocola...

Review:  Crash (Visions #1) by Lisa McMann The Friday Society by Adrienne Kress The Lives We Lost (Fallen World #2) by Megan Crewe The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay  *Thank you Simon Schuster Canada, Razorbill CA, Hatchette Book Group Canada, Disney Hyperion, and Simon Schuster.  Gifted: Breaking Point Cards *signed*  *Hugs* Kristen Simmons  Bought: The Way We Fall (Fallen World #1) by Megan Crewe  The Farm (The Farm #1) by Emily McKay The Almost Truth by Eileen Cook Obsidian (Lux #1) by Jennifer L. Armentrout *READ/Loved/Reviewed* Signed Onyx (Lux #2) by Jennifer L. Armentrout *Read* Signed Thanks Ginger!! Opal (Lux #3) by Jennifer L. Armentrout *Read and OMG soo good* Bittersweet by Sarah Ockler *read*

Title: Stealing Parker Author: Miranda Kenneally Pages: 245 Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire Release Date: October 1, 2012 Buy: AmazonCA | Amazon | Chapters Indigo | Barnes & Noble | Book Depository  Summary ( Goodreads )  Parker Shelton pretty much has the perfect life. She’s on her way to becoming valedictorian at Hundred Oaks High, she’s made the all-star softball team, and she has plenty of friends. Then her mother’s scandal rocks their small town and suddenly no one will talk to her. Now Parker wants a new life. So she quits softball. Drops twenty pounds. And she figures why kiss one guy when she can kiss three? Or four. Why limit herself to high school boys when the majorly cute new baseball coach seems especially flirty? But how far is too far before she loses herself completely? * Received ARC for review by Raincoast Books for honest review*  Review:   I LOVE Miranda Kenneally!!! I loved Catching Jordan last year,...