Saturday, September 17, 2016

Fresh Batch (September 18th – 24th)

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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:

A Shadow Bright and Burning
Jessica Cluess
Series: Kingdom on Fire #1
Publication date: September 20th 2016
by Random House BFYR

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I am Henrietta Howel. The first female sorcerer. The prophesied one. Or am I?

Henrietta Howel can burst into flames. When she is brought to London to train with Her Majesty’s sorcerers, she meets her fellow sorcerer trainees, young men eager to test her powers and her heart. One will challenge her. One will fight for her. One will betray her. As Henrietta discovers the secrets hiding behind the glamour of sorcerer life, she begins to doubt that she’s the true prophesied one. With battle looming, how much will she risk to save the city–and the one she loves?

Other releases this week:
* In no particular order *


– Nothing More (Landon Gibson #1) by Anna Todd [Purchase]
– Stealing Snow (Stealing Snow #1) by Danielle Paige [Purchase]
– Stalking Jack the Ripper (Stalking Jack the Ripper #1) by Kerri Maniscalco [Purchase]
– Witch’s Pyre (The Worldwalker Trilogy #3) by Josephine Angelini [Purchase]


– The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis [Purchase]
– Frost Like Night (Snow Like Ashes #3) by Sara Raasch [Purchase]
– The Queen of Blood (The Queens of Renthia #1) by Sarah Beth Durst [Purchase]
– Vassa in the Night by Sarah Porter [Purchase]


– Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew’d (Flavia de Luce #8) by Alan Bradley [Purchase]
– The Odds of Lightning by Jocelyn Davies [Purchase]
– Kids of Appetite by David Arnold [Purchase]
– The Initiation (Lock and Key #1) by Ridley Pearson [Purchase]


– The Swan Riders (Prisoners of Peace #2) by Erin Bow [Purchase]
– Every Hidden Thing by Kenneth Oppel [Purchase]
– Afterward by Jennifer Mathieu [Purchase]
– Metaltown by Kristen Simmons [Purchase]


– Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns #1) by Kendare Blake [Purchase]
– The Dark Army (The Starblade Chronicles #2) by Joseph Delaney [Purchase]
– The Surrendered by Case Maynard [Purchase]
– Ripple by Heather Smith Meloche [Purchase]


– Fatal Green (Dimensions in Death #3) by The Brothers Washburn [Purchase]


What’s on your wishlist this week?

 

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Review: Vassa in the Night by Sarah Porter

Posted by on 09/16/2016 • 6 Comments

Here is the thing about this book, it would have hands down been a favorite of the year were it not so flipping confusing. I am not the kind of person that is immediately turned off from a book when something doesn’t make sense to me. In fact, I enjoy it when my mind is being twisted into a pretzel because everything is SO COMPLICATED but that isn’t Vassa in the Night. Vassa in the Night has beautiful writing, an interesting plot and a gorgeous atmosphere but the problem is that the world building needs a LOT of work. I don’t understand at ALL how the world works. This book is trying so hard to be whimsical and eerie that the bare bones are kind of just forgotten about. I…

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Review: The Women in the Walls by Amy Lukavics

Posted by on 09/13/2016 • 9 Comments

I literally don’t know how to start this review because there are a lot of things to say but they can all just be covered with a big NO. There is potential in this book but it’s all potential that is unrealized. From the spoilt MC who is a cardboard cutout to the world building, this book is just lacking. It isn’t BAD but it isn’t GOOD which is especially disappointing because I was really looking forward to reading this book.

The MC was a clear let down but I was really upset that the MC’s cutting is not at all talked about in ways that isn’t a character trait. It’s used as a description of the MC in the way an adjective might be used.

There are…

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Fresh Batch (September 11th – 17th)

Fresh Batch (September 11th – 17th)

Posted by on 09/10/2016 • 4 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

The Forgetting Sharon Cameron Publication date: September 13th 2016by Scholastic Press

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What isn’t written, isn’t remembered. Even your crimes.

Nadia lives in the city of Canaan, where life is safe and structured, hemmed in by white stone walls and no memory of what came before. But every twelve years the city descends into the bloody chaos of the Forgetting, a day of no remorse, when each person’s memories – of parents, children, love, life, and self – are lost. Unless they have been written.

In Canaan, your book is your truth and your identity, and Nadia knows exactly who hasn’t…

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Review: And the Trees Crept in by Dawn Kurtagich

Posted by on 09/08/2016 • 8 Comments

I read The Dead House last year and immediately fell in love. It was eerie, scared the bejezus out of me, and twisted my mind into a pretzel. I LOVED the thriller aspects, the mystery and just the plain horror of it so I was excited to dive into And the Trees Crept In. While I definitely enjoyed the novel, I wasn’t as blown away by it as I was by The Dead House.

This novel starts with a happily ever after. Silla and Nori  have escaped their abusive household and are ready to start over at their aunt’s but then things go downhill. Kurtagich is the queen of building tension. When I was half-way through the novel, I had no idea how things could get any worse but holy…

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Fresh Batch (September 4th – 10th)

Fresh Batch (September 4th – 10th)

Posted by on 09/03/2016 • 3 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

Empire of Storms Sarah J. Maas Series: Throne of Glass #5 Publication date: September 6th 2016by Bloomsbury USA Childrens

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The long path to the throne has only just begun for Aelin Galathynius. Loyalties have been broken and bought, friends have been lost and gained, and those who possess magic find themselves at odds with those don’t.

As the kingdoms of Erilea fracture around her, enemies must become allies if Aelin is to keep those she loves from falling to the dark forces poised to claim her world. With war looming on all horizons, the only chance for salvation lies in…

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Review: The Boy is Back by Meg Cabot

Posted by on 09/01/2016 • 8 Comments

Earlier this year, Remembrance came out – an adult add-on to one of my favorite series growing up – and I was d.i.s.a.p.p.o.i.n.t.e.d. I had come to expect so much from Meg Cabot but the book failed to deliver and I was filled with sadness. But when I heard about The Boy is Back, I was pumped and ready to dive into the book. Fortunately, The Boy is Back is as amazing as a Cabot book should be and filled with all the sugary goodness that makes me squeal with delight.  

I am trash for good second chance romance novels and even though it was Meg Cabot,  I was a little vary because I hate the second chance romances where two people were in love in HS and 10 years later,…

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