Yearly Archives:: 2017

Saturday, June 24, 2017

Fresh Batch (June 25th – July 1st)

Posted by Giselle • 1 Comment

Fresh Batch, posted weekly, keeps you up to date on the hottest releases of the upcoming week.

Flavor of the week:

The Impossible Vastness of Us
Samantha Young
Publication date: June 27th 2017
by Harlequin Teen

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I know how to watch my back. I’m the only one that ever has.

India Maxwell hasn’t just moved across the country—she’s plummeted to the bottom rung of the social ladder. It’s taken years to cover the mess of her home life with a veneer of popularity. Now she’s living in one of Boston’s wealthiest neighborhoods with her mom’s fiancé and his daughter, Eloise. Thanks to her soon-to-be stepsister’s clique of friends, including Eloise’s gorgeous, arrogant boyfriend Finn, India feels like the one thing she hoped never to be seen as again: trash.

But India’s not alone in struggling to control the secrets of her past. Eloise and Finn, the school’s golden couple, aren’t all they seem to be. In fact, everyone’s life is infinitely more complex than it first appears. And as India grows closer to Finn and befriends Eloise, threatening the facades that hold them together, what’s left are truths that are brutal, beautiful, and big enough to change them forever…

Other releases this week:
* In no particular order *

– Stillhouse Lake (Stillhouse Lake #1) by Rachel Caine [Purchase]
– The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee [Purchase]
– Midnight Jewel (The Glittering Court #2) by Richelle Mead [Purchase]
– Damaged Like Us (Like Us #1) by Krista Ritchie & Becca Ritchie [Purchase]

– Every Last Lie by Mary Kubica [Purchase]
– Reign of Serpents (Blood of Gods and Royals #3) by Eleanor Herman [Purchase]
– If Birds Fly Back by Carlie Sorosiak [Purchase]
– Girl on the Verge by Pintip Dunn [Purchase]

– Now I Rise (The Conqueror’s Saga #2) by Kiersten White [Purchase]
– The Waking Land by Callie Bates [Purchase]
– Aftercare Instructions by Bonnie Pipkin [Purchase]
– Until It Fades by K.A. Tucker [Purchase]

– His Frozen Fingertips by Charlotte Bowyer [Purchase]
– Five Nights at Freddy’s: The Twisted Ones (Five Nights at Freddy’s #2) by Scott Cawthon & Kira Breed-Wrisley [Purchase]
– Riding with Brighton by Haven Francis [Purchase]
– Generation One (Lorien Legacies Reborn #1) by Pittacus Lore [Purchase]

– Diving Under (Spark of Life Book 1) by Ginna Moran [Purchase]

What’s on your wishlist this week?

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Fresh Batch (June 18th – 24th)

Posted by Giselle on 06/17/2017 • 0 Comments

Fresh Batch, posted weekly, keeps you up to date on the hottest releases of the upcoming week.

Flavor of the week:

Trusting You & Other Lies Nicole Williams Publication date: June 20th 2017by Crown Books for Young Readers

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USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Nicole Williams delivers a seductive summer romance worth swooning over. Perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen and Stephanie Perkins.

Phoenix can’t imagine anything worse than being shipped off to family summer camp. Her parents have been fighting for the past two years—do they seriously think being crammed in a cabin with Phoenix and her little brother, Harry, will make things better?

On top of that, Phoenix is stuck training with Callum—the head counselor who is…

A Poignant Novel That Deals With Immigration: The Lines We Cross by Randa Abdel-Fattah

Posted by Rashika on 06/16/2017 • 2 Comments

Maybe you know or maybe you have no idea who I even am or how you ended up on this site but Randa Abdel-Fattah changed my life when I was a kid. On more than one occasion, I’ve talked about how Does My Head Look Big In This is one of the three most important books in my life that helped redefine how I felt about my identity and about myself as a human being. So, when I heard that she had a new book coming out, I was over the moon. Of course, this was ages ago and this was when the book was coming out in Australia and I was all the way here, sad because I didn’t think I’d get to read the book. Then I found out…

For the summer feel-good vibes: I Believe In A Thing Called Love by Maurene Goo

Posted by Rashika on 06/15/2017 • 1 Comment

I honestly cannot believe I haven’t seen more hype for I Believe in A Thing Called Love because it is one of my favorite books of the year (out of the 100 I’ve read so far.) It’s charming, a little unrealistic but PACKED with fun, joy, and general happiness.

Those are very general, descriptive terms that could describe any fluffy book that some people might write off all together but you know what? They would be missing out. For one, ‘fluff’ isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Charles Dickens wrote commercial fiction (and while it wasn’t fluff, he was getting paid by the sentence so those painfully boring pages weren’t because he was being ~literary~), Shakespeare’s works were definitely mean for entertainment, etc etc.

On the surface, I Believe in a Thing Called…

5 Books to Cool Down With in the Summer Heat

Posted by Rashika on 06/13/2017 • 2 Comments

🎶It’s getting hot in here so take the dust jackets off all your books🎶

It was 90+ degrees here today and I cannot deal with anything in this heat so TODAY, I am bringing you a list of 5 books that look like a good way to cool down in this summer heat.

1. Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch 2. See You at Harry’s by Jo Knowles 3. The Summer of Firsts and Lasts by Terra Alan McVoy 4. Rocky Road by Rose Kent 5. Shug by Jenny Han Do you have any book recommendations for this heat? Please tell me because I will die soon from being overheated and want to get some reading done before that happens.

Fresh Batch (June 11th – 17th)

Posted by Giselle on 06/10/2017 • 0 Comments

Fresh Batch, posted weekly, keeps you up to date on the hottest releases of the upcoming week.

Flavor of the week:

Bad Romance Heather Demetrios Publication date: June 13th 2017by Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

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Grace wants out. Out of her house, where her stepfather wields fear like a weapon and her mother makes her scrub imaginary dirt off the floors. Out of her California town, too small to contain her big city dreams. Out of her life, and into the role of Parisian artist, New York director—anything but scared and alone.

Enter Gavin: charming, talented, adored. Controlling. Dangerous. When Grace and Gavin fall in love, Grace is sure it’s too good to be true. She has no idea their relationship…

Blog Tour: Like/Try/Why And Then There Were Four by Nancy Werlin

Posted by Rashika on 06/07/2017 • 5 Comments

Today Xpresso Reads is on the blog tour for AND THEN THERE WERE FOUR and I am going to be doing a round of Like/Try/Why. Lez goooo

Like Rocks Fall Everyone Dies by Lindsay Ribar –> Try And Then There Were Four by Nancy Werlin

Why: So ROCKS FALL, EVERYONE DIES is actually a very underrated title that needs more love so I am trying to push both books with this rec. Both books have families that cannot be trusted, secrets and psychological thriller vibes.

Like Mystic River by Dennis Lehane –> Try And Then There Were Four by Nancy Werlin

Why: MYSTIC RIVER is somewhat of a classic psychological thriller AND THEN THERE WERE FOUR has similar vibes complete with bizarre twists you didn’t really think would occur.

Like Pretty…