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Saturday, July 26, 2014

Fresh Batch (New Releases July 27th – August 2nd)

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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:

Let’s Get Lost
Adi Alsaid
Publication date: July 29th 2014
by Harlequin Teen

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Five strangers. Countless adventures. One epic way to get lost.

Four teens across the country have only one thing in common: a girl named LEILA. She crashes into their lives in her absurdly red car at the moment they need someone the most.

There’s HUDSON, a small-town mechanic who is willing to throw away his dreams for true love. And BREE, a runaway who seizes every Tuesday—and a few stolen goods along the way. ELLIOT believes in happy endings…until his own life goes off-script. And SONIA worries that when she lost her boyfriend, she also lost the ability to love.

Hudson, Bree, Elliot and Sonia find a friend in Leila. And when Leila leaves them, their lives are forever changed. But it is during Leila’s own 4,268-mile journey that she discovers the most important truth— sometimes, what you need most is right where you started. And maybe the only way to find what you’re looking for is to get lost along the way.


Other releases this week:
* In no particular order *




Lead (Stage Dive #3) by Kylie Scott [Purchase]
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty [Purchase]
Kalona’s Fall (House of Night Novellas #4) by P.C. Cast [Purchase]
The Young World (The Young World Trilogy #1) by Chris Weitz [Purchase]


Lucky Us by Amy Bloom [Purchase]
Only with You (The Best Mistake #1) by Lauren Layne [Purchase]
The Fortune Hunter by Daisy Goodwin [Purchase]
The Bridge from Me to You by Lisa Schroeder [Purchase]


Between by Megan Whitmer [Purchase]
Beautifully Forgotten (Beautifully Damaged #2) by L.A. Fiore [Purchase]
The Good Girl by Mary Kubica [Purchase]
The Time of the Fireflies by Kimberley Griffiths Little [Purchase]


Since You’ve Been Gone by Anouska Knight [Purchase]
Rogue (Real #4) by Katy Evans [Purchase]
Dear Daughter by Elizabeth Little [Purchase]
His Reverie by Monica Murphy [Purchase]


Silver Shadows (Bloodlines #5) by Richelle Mead [Purchase]
Breakdown (Stay Alive #3) by Joseph Monninger [Purchase]
Oceanborn (The Aquarathi #2) by Amalie Howard [Purchase]
The Graveyard Book Graphic Novel, Volume 1 (The Graveyard Book Graphic Novel #1) by P. Craig Russell (Adapter) and Neil Gaiman [Purchase]


Enough: 10 Things We Should Tell Teenage Girls by Kate Conner [Purchase]
Put Your Diamonds Up by Ni-Ni Simone and Amir Abrams [Purchase]
Shipwreck Island by S.A. Bodeen [Purchase]
Afraid by Jo Gibson [Purchase]


Every Second Counts (Split Second #2) by Sophie McKenzie [Purchase]
Before You (Before & After #1) by Amber Hart [Purchase]
Lone Wolf (Aramov #4) by Robert Muchamore [Purchase]
The Fourth Wish (The Art of Wishing #2) by Lindsay Ribar [Purchase]


Grace and the Guiltless by Erin Johnson [Purchase]
The Devil’s Intern (The Devil’s #1) by Donna Hosie [Purchase]


What are you most excited for this week?

 

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Review: The Girl from the Well by Rin Chupeco

Review: The Girl from the Well by Rin Chupeco

Posted by on 07/25/2014 • 13 Comments

Even with the great premise and creepy as heck scenes throughout, I can’t say I liked this one much, unfortunately. Though this is all due to the writing, and if you’re a fan of it you will have a much better experience with this book than I.

The writing is one that, although may work for some, I could never get used to. The narrative voices (plural because I “think” there were more than 1, but I’m not 100% sure…) are in 3rd person which is always harder for me to connect with regardless, but in this case even more so because of this particular all-knowing perspective the author adopts. Then when you add in the fact that the perspective changes – often abruptly without a chapter change or even…

Review: Can’t Look Away by Donna Cooner

Review: Can’t Look Away by Donna Cooner

Posted by on 07/24/2014 • 10 Comments

What an interesting book this was to read for someone who has an online presence. Granted, my online presence is nothing compared to the thousands upon thousands of fans beauty vlogger Torrey Grey had in this book, but I do put myself out there for the public just as she did in the novel. Can’t Look Away was a pitch perfect contemporary that features a lot of honesty, a sweet romance and just enough heartbreak to really pull at your heartstrings.

We meet Torrey Grey right after her family moves from Colorado to Texas. They decide to make the move shortly after Torrey’s younger sister, Miranda, is hit and killed by a drunk driver. From the very first pages of this book I knew that it was going to be…

Book Girls Don’t Cry… Or Like All of the MC’s

Book Girls Don’t Cry… Or Like All of the MC’s

Posted by on 07/23/2014 • 14 Comments

Book Girls Don’t Cry is a feature where we will discuss/vent/advise on a bookish topic. This feature is co-hosted with the lovely Amy at Book Loving Mom.

We are back with yet another collaboration between myself and the lovely Stella from It’s Too Late To Apologize.  This time around we are talking about unlikeable characters in books.  I was reading a book recently and was talking to Stella about how much I hated the MC and how much I was loving the book overall and she was pretty floored by that whole concept so we had to vlog about it! Hope you enjoy!

 

Can you get down with a book even if you don’t like the main character? We’re looking for topic suggestions for future BGDC posts! What would…

Review: The Fever by Megan Abbott

Review: The Fever by Megan Abbott

Posted by on 07/22/2014 • 13 Comments

The Fever ended up being quite the interesting read, especially psychologically speaking. It’s both a puzzling mystery as well as a look into the rashness of teenage girls burning with jealousy.

What I noticed almost immediately was the writing style, to which I can’t say I’m exactly a fan. Megan tells this story with the help of three family members who are each given a perspective in the story. We switch back and forth from father, son, and daughter in a very spastic manner, each perspective lasting from a mere paragraph to no more than a couple of pages. While, in a way, I enjoyed the style in which it told the story with quick back-and-forth glimpses from several point-of-views, constantly being pulled in all directions made me feel very…

Review: Breaking Butterflies by M. Anjelais

Review: Breaking Butterflies by M. Anjelais

Posted by on 07/21/2014 • 15 Comments

I don’t even really know where to start with this book. While reading it all I could think was “this reading is somehow intoxicating but this story is really one of the worst I have ever read.” So, I guess you can take that for what it is.

From the first page I was a fan of the writing, it was strong, pretty and sucked me in as fast as could be. I enjoyed Sphinx’s (yes, her mother named her Sphinx) voice even though I didn’t really come to like her for who she was. The pace of the story was also really fast, stuff kept happening, people kept moving, emotions kept rising and that really kept me engrossed in the story. It was a trainwreck really, you know you…

Fresh Batch (New Releases July 20th – 26th)

Fresh Batch (New Releases July 20th – 26th)

Posted by on 07/19/2014 • 15 Comments

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

Flavor of the week:

One Past Midnight Jessica Shirvington Publication date: July 22nd 2014by Bloomsbury USA Childrens

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Name of overseas edition of Between The Lives.

Above all else, though I try not to think about it, I know which life I prefer. And every night when I Cinderella myself from one life to the next a very small, but definite, piece of me dies. The hardest part is that nothing about my situation has ever changed. There is no loophole.

Until now, that is…

For as long as she can remember, Sabine has lived two lives. Every 24 hours she Shifts…

Review: Dissonance by Erica O’Rourke

Review: Dissonance by Erica O’Rourke

Posted by on 07/18/2014 • 19 Comments

Incredibly well thought-out with fascinating world building, Dissonance is a really good sci-fi with a heavy dose of romance.

Delancy is a Walker, she has a genetic ability to manipulate matter and visit alternate worlds created by the choices people make. Walkers monitor and fix anomalies that affect the key world. I was wary of this premise at first, it’s something that could have been a huge flop if the world building was lacking, fortunately it’s anything but. It’s clear that a ton of research – not to mention creativity – went into crafting the world inside Dissonance. It has an impressive amount of detail, it’s ambitious, and, more as a warning: it’s also hard to grasp. Kinda like the Tempest series by Julie Cross; it’s a series I…