Another contemporary that covers stereotyping. I love these types of books. This one happens to have a forbidden type romance as well. I really liked the characters a lot. Especially Arden. He was fantastic and totally not what you are initially expecting. I really liked the story to this too. It’s much deeper than the town sheriff’s kid falling for the poor “Mexican” girl, which by the way, she was born and raised in the US, not that it matters either way. Also, it focuses on the pressure that are put on kids. They are sometimes forced to grow up way too quickly or to follow what is expected instead of finding what they want out of life. I thought it was well done with some extra messed up stuff…
Fresh Batch (May 17th – 23rd)
Posted by Giselle • 7 Comments
Fresh Batch, posted weekly, keeps you up to date on the hottest releases of the upcoming week.
Flavor of the week:
Made You Up
Francesca Zappia
Publication date: May 19th 2015
by Greenwillow Books
Reality, it turns out, is often not what you perceive it to be—sometimes, there really is someone out to get you. Made You Up tells the story of Alex, a high school senior unable to tell the difference between real life and delusion. This is a compelling and provoking literary debut that will appeal to fans of Wes Anderson, Silver Linings Playbook, and Liar. Alex fights a daily battle to figure out the difference between reality and delusion. Armed with a take-no-prisoners attitude, her camera, a Magic 8-Ball, and her only ally (her little sister), Alex wages a war against her schizophrenia, determined to stay sane long enough to get into college. She’s pretty optimistic about her chances until classes begin, and she runs into Miles. Didn’t she imagine him? Before she knows it, Alex is making friends, going to parties, falling in love, and experiencing all the usual rites of passage for teenagers. But Alex is used to being crazy. She’s not prepared for normal. Funny, provoking, and ultimately moving, this debut novel featuring the quintessential unreliable narrator will have readers turning the pages and trying to figure out what is real and what is made up.
Other releases this week:
* In no particular order *
– Thor’s Serpents (The Blackwell Pages #3) by K.L. Armstrong and M.A. Marr [Purchase]
– Maximum Ride Forever (Maximum Ride #9) by James Patterson [Purchase]
– Eighth Grave After Dark (Charley Davidson #8) by Darynda Jones [Purchase]
– Illusionarium by Heather Dixon [Purchase]
– Dangerous Deception (Dangerous Creatures #2) by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl [Purchase]
– Uprooted by Naomi Novik [Purchase]
– Conviction by Kelly Loy Gilbert [Purchase]
– The Ice Twins by S.K. Tremayne [Purchase]
– Seveneves by Neal Stephenson [Purchase]
– The Improbable Theory of Ana and Zak by Brian Katcher [Purchase]
– A School for Unusual Girls (Stranje House #1) by Kathleen Baldwin [Purchase]
– Lion Heart (Scarlet #3) by A.C. Gaughen [Purchase]
– The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan [Purchase]
– Nothing but Shadows (Tales from Shadowhunter Academy #4) by Cassandra Clare and Sarah Rees Brennan [Purchase]
– The Choosing by Rachelle Dekker [Purchase]
– Off the Page (Between the Lines #2) by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer [Purchase]
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– The Last Good Day of the Year by Jessica Warman [Purchase]
– A Sense of the Infinite by Hilary T. Smith [Purchase]
– Scarlett Undercover by Jennifer Latham [Purchase]
– From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess (From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess #1) by Meg Cabot [Purchase]
– Chantress Fury (Chantress Trilogy #3) by Amy Butler Greenfield [Purchase]
– Nimona by Noelle Stevenson [Purchase]
– In Real Life: My Journey to a Pixelated World by Joey Graceffa [Purchase]
– Center Ice (Corrigan Falls Raiders #1) by Cate Cameron [Purchase]
– Ruins (Sentinel Trilogy #2) by Joshua Winning [Purchase]
– From a Distant Star by Karen McQuestion [Purchase]
– Mia and the Bad Boy (Backstage Pass #2) by Lisa Burstein [Purchase]
– Eternity’s Wheel (InterWorld #3) by Michael Reaves, Neil Gaiman, and Mallory Reaves [Purchase]
– Bone Deep by Kim O’Brien [Purchase]
– Elena Vanishing by Elena Dunkle and Clare B. Dunkle [Purchase]
– Hold Me Like a Breath (Once Upon a Crime Family #1) by Tiffany Schmidt [Purchase]
– Hit Count by Chris Lynch [Purchase]
– Three Day Summer by Sarvenaz Tash [Purchase]
– Sparks in Scotland by Rhonda Helms [Purchase]
– Killer Within (Killer Instinct #2) by S. E. Green [Purchase]
Anything on your wishlist this week?
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