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Saturday, November 28, 2015

Fresh Batch (Nov 29th – Dec 5th)

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

Flavor of the week:

Their Fractured Light
Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner
Series: Starbound #3
Publication date: December 1st 2015
by Disney-Hyperion

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A year ago, Flynn Cormac and Jubilee Chase made the now infamous Avon Broadcast, calling on the galaxy to witness for their planet, and protect them from destruction. Some say Flynn’s a madman, others whisper about conspiracies. Nobody knows the truth. A year before that, Tarver Merendsen and Lilac LaRoux were rescued from a terrible shipwreck—now, they live a public life in front of the cameras, and a secret life away from the world’s gaze.

Now, in the center of the universe on the planet of Corinth, all four are about to collide with two new players, who will bring the fight against LaRoux Industries to a head. Gideon Marchant is an eighteen-year-old computer hacker—a whiz kid and an urban warrior. He’ll climb, abseil and worm his way past the best security measures to pull off onsite hacks that others don’t dare touch.

Sofia Quinn has a killer smile, and by the time you’re done noticing it, she’s got you offering up your wallet, your car, and anything else she desires. She holds LaRoux Industries responsible for the mysterious death of her father and is out for revenge at any cost.

When a LaRoux Industries security breach interrupts Gideon and Sofia’s separate attempts to infiltrate their headquarters, they’re forced to work together to escape. Each of them has their own reason for wanting to take down LaRoux Industries, and neither trusts the other. But working together might be the best chance they have to expose the secrets LRI is so desperate to hide.


Other releases this week:
* In no particular order *




The Best Goodbye (Rosemary Beach #13) by Abbi Glines[Purchase]
Anarchy Found (SuperAlpha Series) by J.A. Huss

Blood, Ink & Fire by Ashley Mansour[Purchase]


Did I Mention I Love You? (The DIMILY Trilogy #1) by Estelle Maskame[Purchase]
Forgetting August (Lost & Found #1) by J.L. Berg[Purchase]
Hawthorn (Blythewood #3) by Carol Goodman[Purchase]
Hellraisers (The Devil’s Engine #1) by Alexander Gordon Smith[Purchase]


Glow (Glimmer and Glow #2) by Beth Kery[Purchase]
Blood Salt Water (Alex Morrow #5) by Denise Mina[Purchase]
Resolution (Swept Away #3) by J.S. Cooper[Purchase]
Tarnished (Perfected #2) by Kate Jarvik Birch[Purchase]


Daughter of Sand and Stone by Libbie Hawker[Purchase]
Gateway to Fourline (The Fourline Trilogy #1) by Pam Brondos[Purchase]
Forbidden by Eve Bunting[Purchase]
Morrison (Caldwell Brothers #2) by Chelsea Camaron and M.J. Fields[Purchase]


The Rosemary Spell by Virginia Zimmerman[Purchase]
Not If I See You First by Eric Lindstrom[Purchase]
Oblivion (Lux #1.5) by Jennifer L. Armentrout[Purchase]
Sweet Ruin (Immortals After Dark #16) by Kresley Cole[Purchase]


Saving Grace (Love Under the Big Sky #2.5) by Kristen Proby[Purchase]
Searching for You (Searching For #2.5) by Jennifer Probst[Purchase]
Nexis (Tricksters #1) by A.L. Davroe[Purchase]
More Than Once (Chasing the Dream #4) by Elizabeth Briggs[Purchase]


All We Left Behind by Ingrid Sundberg[Purchase]
Deadly Sweet Lies (The Dream War Saga #2) by Erica Cameron[Purchase]
Virtually in Love (Flirt) by A. Destiny & Catherine Hapka[Purchase]


What’s catching your eye this week?

 

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DNF Review: Hotel Ruby by Suzanne Young

Posted by on 11/27/2015 • 11 Comments

Welcome to the Hotel California Such a lovely place (Such a lovely place) Such a lovely face Plenty of room at the Hotel California Any time of year (Any time of year) You can find it here

Let me tell you something about my childhood. Back when I was a kid, I would fly to the Sultanate of Oman (a very peaceful Middle Eastern country) to spend time with my father. He worked there as the head Quality Surveyor of a pretty kick-ass construction company, and the times I spent there were one of the very few times I could be with him (the rest of the year would be spent in the Philippines, away from his loving arms). Every time we were in the car, he would put on…

Fresh Batch (November 22nd – 28th)

Fresh Batch (November 22nd – 28th)

Posted by on 11/21/2015 • 3 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Rules for 50/50 Chances Kate McGovern Publication date: November 24th 2015by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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A heartrending but ultimately uplifting debut novel about learning to accept life’s uncertainties; a perfect fit for the current trend in contemporary realistic novels that confront issues about life, death, and love.

Seventeen-year-old Rose Levenson has a decision to make: Does she want to know how she’s going to die? Because when Rose turns eighteen, she can take the test that tells her if she carries the genetic mutation for Huntington’s disease, the degenerative condition that is slowly killing her mother.

With a…

Review: Sweep in Peace by Ilona Andrews

Posted by on 11/20/2015 • 3 Comments

Guys, if you haven’t read an Ilona Andrews book, please, for the love of all things sane and holy, GET YOUR PRIORITIES STRAIGHT AND READ HER NOW! Specifically the Innkeeper Chronicles series! Clean Sweep! Sweep in Peace! ALL OF HER BOOOKS!

This is, by far, the BEST urban fantasy I’ve ever read. EVER EVER EVER READ. You’re probably thinking, “But, Faye, didn’t you say a few months ago that it was Ilona Andrews’ Kate Daniels series that was the best you’ve ever read?” That tidbit was very much true… until I’ve stumbled upon her more recent work, to which I would gleefully and willingly pay a limb to read the succeeding books. As soon as fucking possible.

Okay, fine, I’d also sacrifice a limb to read Anne Bishop’s Marked in Flesh (The…

Review: Soundless by Richelle Mead

Posted by on 11/17/2015 • 13 Comments

A fantasy with a Chinese-inspired setting? An isolated village high up in the mountains, full of deaf people? A heroine who regains her hearing back and aims to use it to make a difference? WOW, BADUM-TSS!

On a perfect, ideal day, this would have been an absolutely great treat. Just from these few sentences, we can already feel the diversity of the premise!

But, alas, it is not a perfect and ideal day, because this book is boring and dull as hell. But hey, there’s one thing positive from this: I’m done with it! Yay!

First of all, let me just say that I’ve read the first book of Vampire Academy and I’ve read her GAME OF X series which I absolutely, absolutely adore (to the moon and back). I’ve seen what…

Fresh Batch (November 15th – 21st)

Fresh Batch (November 15th – 21st)

Posted by on 11/14/2015 • 3 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Just Visiting Dahlia Adler Publication date: November 17th 2015by Spencer Hill Contemporary

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Reagan Forrester wants out—out of her trailer park, out of reach of her freeloading mother, and out of the shadow of the relationship that made her the pariah of Charytan, Kansas.

Victoria Reyes wants in—in to a fashion design program, in to the arms of a cute guy who doesn’t go to Charytan High, and in to a city where she won’t stand out for being Mexican.

One thing the polar-opposite best friends do agree on is that wherever they go, they’re staying together. But when they set…

Fresh Batch (November 8th – 14th)

Fresh Batch (November 8th – 14th)

Posted by on 11/07/2015 • 8 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Winter Marissa Meyer Series: The Lunar Chronicles #4 Publication date: November 10th 2015by Feiwel and Friends

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Princess Winter is admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, and despite the scars that mar her face, her beauty is said to be even more breathtaking than that of her stepmother, Queen Levana.

Winter despises her stepmother, and knows Levana won’t approve of her feelings for her childhood friend–the handsome palace guard, Jacin. But Winter isn’t as weak as Levana believes her to be and she’s been undermining her stepmother’s wishes for years. Together with the cyborg mechanic, Cinder, and her…

Fresh Batch (November 1st – 7th)

Fresh Batch (November 1st – 7th)

Posted by on 10/31/2015 • 10 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

The Lies About Truth Courtney C. Stevens Publication date: November 3rd 2015by HarperTeen

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Sadie Kingston, is a girl living in the aftermath. A year after surviving a car accident that killed her friend Trent and left her body and face scarred, she can’t move forward. The only person who seems to understand her is Trent’s brother, Max.

As Sadie begins to fall for Max, she’s unsure if she is truly healed enough to be with him — even if Max is able to look at her scars and not shy away. But when the truth about the accident and subsequent…