YA Book Release: Solving For Ex by LeighAnn Kopans

Publisher: N/A  
Genre: YA, Contemporary Romance  
Release Date: February 11th, 2014


Blurb from Goodreads:

1 crush on your best friend +
1 gorgeous, scheming new girl +
1 Mathletics competition =
1 big mess

SIMPLIFY.

Ashley Price doesn’t have much in life after being bullied so hard she had to leave her old school to live with her aunt and uncle in Pittsburgh. But the camera she borrowed from her best friend and secret crush Brendan, and her off the charts math abilities, make things a lot more bearable. Plus, since Brendan is the captain, making the school Mathletes team should be easy.

But when gorgeous new girl Sofia rolls in and steals Brendan, Ashley's place on the team, and her fragile foothold on the Mansfield Park Prep social totem pole, it’s on. Sofia is everything Ashley left her old school to escape. The only thing Ashley didn’t count on is Sofia’s sexy twin brother Vincent.

Vincent is not only the hottest boy in school, he’s charming, sweet, and he’s got his eye on Ashley. He’s also not taking no for an answer. There's no real reason Ashley shouldn't like Vincent, but with thebattle lines being drawn between her and Sofia, Ashley’s not sure which side he’s on. Or which side she wants him to be on.

She does know Sofia is trouble with a capital T, and she’s determined to make Brendan see it.

SOLVING FOR EX is a YA contemporary romance that remixes Mansfield Park as Clueless meets Mean Girls in a crazy mix of high school society, mathletic competition, and teenage romance.

Cute title! (:

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About the author: 

Raised on comic books and classic novels, Leigh Ann developed an early love of science fiction and literature. After earning degrees in Sociology and Hebrew, she went on to become a rabbi at The Ohio State University. Surrounded by college students, she found her niche writing science fiction and romance for teens.

Leigh Ann, her husband, and four children live in Columbus, Ohio, which sadly lacks superheroes but does have the best football and fabulous ice cream.

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Book Release: Unite Me by Tahereh Mafi

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Publisher: HarperCollins
Genre: YA, Fantasy, Dystopia, Romance, Science Fiction
Series: (Shatter Me #1.5, 2.5)
Release Date: February 4th, 2014

Blurb from Goodreads:

Destroy Me tells the events between Shatter Me and Unravel Me from Warner’s point of view. Even though Juliette shot him in order to escape, Warner can’t stop thinking about her—and he’ll do anything to get her back. But when the Supreme Commander of The Reestablishment arrives, he has much different plans for Juliette. Plans Warner cannot allow.

Fracture Me is told from Adam’s perspective and bridges the gap between Unravel Me and Ignite Me. As the Omega Point rebels prepare to fight the Sector 45 soldiers, Adam's more focused on the safety of Juliette, Kenji, and his brother. The Reestablishment will do anything to crush the resistance . . . including killing everyone Adam cares about.

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That's right guys! Not only did Ignite Me also come out, this contains Adam's AND Warner's point of view! These two were only available as an ebook. This book collects her two companion novellas, Fracture Me and Destroy Me, in print for the first time ever!

About the author: 
Tahereh Mafi is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the SHATTER ME series. She was born in a small city somewhere in Connecticut and currently resides in Santa Monica, California, where she drinks too much caffeine and finds the weather to be just a little too perfect for her taste.
When unable to find a book, she can be found reading candy wrappers, coupons, and old receipts. 
SHATTER ME is her first novel.
Foreign rights have sold in 25+ territories to-date and film rights have been optioned by 20th Century Fox.
Her work is represented by Jodi Reamer of Writers House, LLC.
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Beautiful. :)

Two YA Book Releases! Cress by M.M and Ignite Me by T.M!

Are you excited?! Cress Marissa Meyer and Ignite Me by Tahereh Mafi is out today!

 

So like, um... it came out February 4, 2014...and like, I'm so excited to read it. And like, Omg. I just needed to spread the word.

Blurb from goodreads:
Rapunzel’s tower is a satellite. She can’t let down her hair—or her guard. 

In this third book in the bestselling Lunar Chronicles series, Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they’re plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and her army. 

Their best hope lies with Cress, who has been trapped on a satellite since childhood with only her netscreens as company. All that screen time has made Cress an excellent hacker—unfortunately, she’s just received orders from Levana to track down Cinder and her handsome accomplice. 

When a daring rescue goes awry, the group is separated. Cress finally has her freedom, but it comes at a high price. Meanwhile, Queen Levana will let nothing stop her marriage to Emperor Kai. Cress, Scarlet, and Cinder may not have signed up to save the world, but they may be the only ones who can.

So, like, um... if you haven't noticed, Ignite Me is also out. So..um...YES. I'M SO EXCITED TO READ THIS TOO! I love today, the thing that sucks is that I can't get it today.

Blurb from goodreads: 

Juliette now knows she may be the only one who can stop the Reestablishment. But to take them down, she'll need the help of the one person she never thought she could trust: Warner. And as they work together, Juliette will discover that everything she thought she knew-about Warner, her abilities, and even Adam-was wrong.

Right? Short blurb. After reading some reviews on goodreads, there were some minor spoilers, so I'm not as excited. I mean...I just hope this book is a good ending to the trilogy and that it's not a time wasting book...especially after the first two amazing books.

Book Review: Starcrush by Justine Erler

Published: December 19th, 2013

Publisher: Trio Capital LLC

Pages: 237(ebook)

Genres: Young Adult, Paranormal

Blurb :
Close encounters of the crush-worthy kind. In the first novel of the Starcrush series, author Justine Erler introduces Genna Savoy, a psychically-gifted high school senior who finds herself torn between rival aliens who look ... spectacularly human.

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                                                                Review Time!

I received this book in exchange for an honest review.

 

I love this book! It's amazing from the start to finish. Once you're reading, you're a goner. You're going to be so captivated by this book it's not even funny.

 

This is about a girl, named Genna who is a psychically-gifted high school senior. She falls in love between two rival aliens, Elon and Byron. We meet Byron in the first book. He's amazing..to Genna..at least. Then, we meet Elon in the second book. He's gorgeous and so perfect. Just perfect.

 

Right after I started reading, I was captured. The plot is amazing and the alien characters are also amazing. You can see them develop throughout the whole novel, which is cool. Your mind is practically filled with hot boys like Byron and Elon everywhere. And Genna. She's beautifully written and I love how she isn't alien, like Byron and Elon, but someone who has a gift. A psyhic gift.

 

The characters are so surreal. Justine is amazing at creating characters so perfect and so detailed. I literally felt like I was there, watching them develop and their amazingly written love story. I wish the supporting characters were more involved though. Like Nick, Josh and the band. I felt like they were just painting the background, which is their job, but I prefer novels that have their supporting characters kind of like the main protagonist.

 

 I loved how the novel was split in two, where we meet Byron first, then we meet Elon. It was very, very interesting, indeed, to read about one character when the other was gone. Also, Nick. Ah. Broke my heart.

Justine does an amazing job writing this novel. The dialogue was funny, yet serious and romantic at times. The details provided in this book gave me a clear image of their alien world. This novel is also very unpredictable. At the end of the book, you find out more about Elon and Byron. I hadn't and wasn't expecting what Byron was going to say. Incredible book!

 About the Author:

Justine Erler is a consultant with a background in health care management. She lives in central New Jersey with her husband and daughter. Starcrush is her first novel of the series, combining Books I and II, and was written while in search of the perfect vampire-alternative story.

 

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YA Book Release: Infinite by Jodi Meadows

Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books

Genre: YA, Fantasy, Dystopia, Romance, Paranormal, Science Fiction

Series: (Incarnate #3)

Release Date: January 28th, 2014

Blurb from Goodreads:

DESTRUCTION
The Year of Souls begins with an earthquake—an alarming rumble from deep within the earth—and it’s only the first of greater dangers to come. The Range caldera is preparing to erupt. Ana knows that as Soul Night approaches, everything near Heart will be at risk.


FLIGHT
Ana’s exile is frightening, but it may also be fortuitous, especially if she can convince her friends to flee Heart and Range with her. They’ll go north, seeking answers and allies to stop Janan’s ascension. And with any luck, the newsouls will be safe from harm’s reach.

CHOICE
The oldsouls might have forgotten the choice they made to give themselves limitless lifetimes, but Ana knows the true cost of reincarnation. What she doesn’t know is whether she’ll have the chance to finish this one sweet life with Sam, especially if she returns to Heart to stop Janan once and for all.


The covers are so colorful. Gorgeous :3
With gorgeous romance and thrilling action, the final book in the Incarnate trilogy offers a brilliant conclusion to the compelling questions of this fascinating world, where one new girl is the key to the lives of millions.

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About the author:

Jodi Meadows lives and writes in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, with her husband, a Kippy*, and an alarming number of ferrets. She is a confessed book addict, and has wanted to be a writer ever since she decided against becoming an astronaut.

*A Kippy is a cat.

 
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YA Book Release: Into the Still Blue by Veronica Rossi

Publisher: HarperCollins

Genre: YA, Romance, Dystopia, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Paranormal, Apocalyptic

Series: (Under the Never Sky #1)

Release Date: January 28th, 2014

Blurb from Goodreads:

Their love and their leadership have been tested. Now it's time for Perry and Aria to unite the Dwellers and the Outsiders in one last desperate attempt to bring balance to their world.

The race to the Still Blue has reached a stalemate. Aria and Perry are determined to find this last safe-haven from the Aether storms before Sable and Hess do-and they are just as determined to stay together.

Meanwhile, time is running out to rescue Cinder, who was abducted by Hess and Sable for his unique abilities. And when Roar returns to camp, he is so furious with Perry that he won't even look at him, and Perry begins to feel like they have already lost.

Out of options, Perry and Aria assemble a team to mount an impossible rescue mission-because Cinder isn't just the key to unlocking the Still Blue and their only hope for survival, he's also their friend. And in a dying world, the bonds between people are what matter most.


Are you guys excited for this? In this final book in her stunning Under the Never Sky trilogy, Veronica Rossi raises the stakes to their absolute limit and brings her epic love story to an unforgettable close.

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About the author: 

Veronica Rossi is the author of post-apocalyptic fiction for young adults. Her debut novel, UNDER THE NEVER SKY, is the first in a trilogy. Released in January 2012, it was deemed one of the Best Books of Year by School Library Journal. The second book in the trilogy, THROUGH THE EVER NIGHT, debuted in January on the NY Times and USA Today Best Seller Lists. The final book in the series, INTO THE STILL BLUE, is expected to release January 2014.

She completed undergraduate studies at UCLA and then went on to study fine art at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. She lives in Northern California with her husband and two sons. When not writing, she enjoys reading, painting, and counting down the minutes until she can get back to making up stories about imaginary people. 

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YA Book Release: Uninvited by Sophie Jordan

Publisher: HarperTeen

Genre: YA, Dystopia, Paranormal, Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction

Series: (Uninvited #1)

Release Date: January 28th, 2014

Blurb from Goodreads:

When Davy Hamilton's tests come back positive for Homicidal Tendency Syndrome (HTS)-aka the kill gene-she loses everything. Her boyfriend ditches her, her parents are scared of her, and she can forget about her bright future at Juilliard. Davy doesn't feel any different, but genes don't lie. One day she will kill someone.

Only Sean, a fellow HTS carrier, can relate to her new life. Davy wants to trust him; maybe he's not as dangerous as he seems. Or maybe Davy is just as deadly.


HEEEYYY. DO YOU GUYS NOTICE THE DNA IN HER HAIR?

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About the author:
Sophie Jordan took her adolescent daydreaming one step further and penned her first historical romance in the back of her high school Spanish class. This passion led her to pursue a degree in English and History.

A brief stint in law school taught her that case law was not nearly as interesting as literature - teaching English seemed the natural recourse. After several years teaching high school students to love Antigone, Sophie resigned with the birth of her first child and decided it was time to pursue the long-held dream of writing.

In less than three years, her first book, Once Upon A Wedding Night, a 2006 Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Nominee for Best First Historical, hit book shelves. Her second novel, Too Wicked To Tame, released in March 2007 with a bang, landing on the USA Today Bestseller's List.

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YA Book Release: Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge

Publisher: Balzer + Bray

Genre: Fantasy, YA, Romance, Paranormal, Retellings

Release Date: January 28th, 2014

Blurb from Goodreads:

Based on the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, Cruel Beauty is a dazzling love story about our deepest desires and their power to change our destiny.

Since birth, Nyx has been betrothed to the evil ruler of her kingdom-all because of a foolish bargain struck by her father. And since birth, she has been in training to kill him.

With no choice but to fulfill her duty, Nyx resents her family for never trying to save her and hates herself for wanting to escape her fate. Still, on her seventeenth birthday, Nyx abandons everything she's ever known to marry the all-powerful, immortal Ignifex. Her plan? Seduce him, destroy his enchanted castle, and break the nine-hundred-year-old curse he put on her people.

But Ignifex is not at all what Nyx expected. The strangely charming lord beguiles her, and his castle-a shifting maze of magical rooms-enthralls her.

As Nyx searches for a way to free her homeland by uncovering Ignifex's secrets, she finds herself unwillingly drawn to him. Even if she could bring herself to love her sworn enemy, how can she refuse her duty to kill him? With time running out, Nyx must decide what is more important: the future of her kingdom, or the man she was never supposed to love.


Her mission was to kill him.
Her destiny was to love him.Just lovely. <3

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About the author:

When her older brother was thirteen, he started a writing club with his friends and wouldn’t let her join because sje was only eight. She promptly swore that she would become a writer and make him sorry.

He still isn’t sorry. But in 2014 she will publish my first novel with Balzer+Bray/HarperCollins, so she guessed everything worked out okay.

Some other facts about her:

• She practices Shorinji Kempo, a Japanese martial art based on Shaolin Kung Fu.

• Cruel Beauty is her debut novel, but it is somewhere between the third and sixth that she ever completed, depending on how you count things. (There was the 40,000-word mess she called a novel when she was sixteen, and the 220,000-word mess she briefly pretended was a single novel in 2009.)

• NaNoWriMo changed her life and got her finishing novels again after a long hiatus. But Cruel Beauty is not a NaNoWriMo novel. (The NaNoWriMo project that changed everything was the 220,000-word mess. Someday she may even revise it.)

• She grew up as a homeschooler in Los Angeles, and she spent her childhood marinating in Greek mythology, which is where all the Greek elements in Cruel Beauty came from.

• Then she got a B.A. in English at the University of Dallas, and an M.St. in Medieval English at Oxford. Naturally, she moved to Seattle and got a job with computers.

• She had studied five languages (Spanish, French, Latin, Old Norse, and Japanese), though sadly she am still not able to speak any of them.

• She loves some things more than T. S. Eliot’s poetry. But not many things.

• She is represented by Hannah Bowman of Liza Dawson Associates.

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YA Book Release: Evertrue by Brodi Ashton

Publisher: Balzer + Bray

Genre: YA, Fantasy, Mythology, Paranormal, Romance, Urban Fantasy

Release Date: January 21st, 2014

Series: (Everneath #3)

Blurb from Goodreads:
Now that Nikki has rescued Jack, all she wants is to be with him and graduate high school. But Cole tricked Nikki into feeding off him, and she’s begun the process of turning into an Everliving herself... which means she must feed on a Forfeit soon — or die.

Terrified for her survival, Nikki and Jack begin a desperate attempt to reverse the process using any means possible. Even Cole, who they expected to fight them at every turn, has become an unlikely ally — but how long can it last? Nikki needs to feed on Cole to survive, Cole needs Nikki to gain the throne in the Everneath, Jack needs Nikki because she is everything to him — and together, they must travel back to the Underworld to undo Nikki’s fate and make her mortal once more. But Cole isn’t the only one with plans for Nikki: the Queen has not forgotten Nikki’s treachery, and she wants her destroyed for good. Will Nikki be forced to spend eternity in the Underworld, or does she have what it takes to bring down the Everneath once and for all?


I really shouldn't read the synopsis since I haven't read Everneath yet. :P

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About the author:
Because of two parents who were Greek myth geeks, she grew up thinking the latest fashion trends were inspired by Aphrodite, and a good conversational opener was, “So, which mythological character do you most resemble?” Despite these social shortcomings, she found a great husband who’s always her first reader. She lives in Utah with her two young boys, who still have no idea why she's at the computer all the time.

She received a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism from the University of Utah and a Master’s degree in International Relations from the London School of Economics.


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YA Book Release: Defy by Sara B. Larson

Publisher: Scholastic Press

Genre: Fantasy, YA, Romance, Adventure, Action

Release Date: January 7th, 2014

Blurb from Goodreads:
Alexa Hollen is a fighter. Forced to disguise herself as a boy and serve in the king's army, Alex uses her quick wit and fierce sword-fighting skills to earn a spot on the elite prince's guard. But when a powerful sorcerer sneaks into the palace in the dead of night, even Alex, who is virtually unbeatable, can't prevent him from abducting her, her fellow guard and friend Rylan, and Prince Damian, taking them through the treacherous wilds of the jungle and deep into enemy territory.

The longer Alex is held captive with both Rylan and the prince, the more she realizes that she is not the only one who has been keeping dangerous secrets. And suddenly, after her own secret is revealed, Alex finds herself confronted with two men vying for her heart: the safe and steady Rylan, who has always cared for her, and the dark, intriguing Damian. With hidden foes lurking around every corner, is Alex strong enough to save herself and the kingdom she's sworn to protect?


Are you guys a fan of love triangles?


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About the author:
 She loves writing, reading, and dessert--but the order varies by the day. She wrote her first book in second grade about a woman who had a premature baby, complete with a "to scale" drawing of the baby's size--while her mom was pregnant. To say she was a bit precocious is putting it lightly. Now that she's an adult, she write books for teens that have magic and romance and kick-butt girls (and very few premature babies). She lives in Utah with her husband, two young sons and baby girl. She writes during naptime and the hours when most people are sleeping. Her  husband claims she should have a degree in "the art of multitasking." On occasion you will find here hiding in a bubble bath with a book and some Swedish Fish. She is represented by Josh Adams of Adams Literary.

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Quotes:
“I couldn't breathe. I wanted him to keep touching me; I wanted to feel his whole body against mine again. But Rylan was here. Rylan was listening. Rylan, who had cared for me all along.
"Thank you," I said, my voice unsteady, and somehow I made myself move and turn away from his touch to stare at the tent again, my heart hammering. Rylan's back was still turned to me, but I could see how stiff he was, as if every muscle in his body was clenched.
"I hope you are able to rest well Alex," Damien said.
"You too," I said, making myself close my eyes, to pretend I was going to sleep. But inside, I thought, Rest well? Is he serious?
It was going to be a long night.” 


“You're perfect," He said roughly, cutting off my protest. "And if I had to do it over again, I would save you every time." His mouth closed over mine and there was no more thought. No more worry. No more pain or loss or fear. There was only Damian. His arm tightened around me, crushing me to him. I clung to him as his lips moved on mine with a need and hunger that nearly overwhelmed me.”