Reading Stats:
Total Books Read: 14Average Rating: 3.5*
Books Purchased: 27 (to be fair, 18 of them were free)
Books Received For Review: 14 (Week One, Week Two, Week Three, Week Four)
Books Pre-ordered for Next Month: 4 (BOY ROBOT, IRON CAST, WHEN THE MOON WAS OURS, THIS ADVENTURE ENDS)
Books Reviewed: 0 (on here, but I reviewed a lot on BAMF and Dani Reviews Things!)
HOW TO MAKE OUT
Author: Brianna ShrumSeries: N/A
Source: eARC via Publisher
Publisher: Sky Pony Press
Publication Date: September 6, 2016
Rating: 4/5 stars
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Summary:
Sixteen-year-old Renley needs three thousand dollars for the math club’s trip to New York City, and she knows exactly how to get it: she’s going to start a how-to blog where people pay for answers to all of life’s questions from a “certified expert.” The only problems: 1) She doesn’t know how to do anything but long division and calculus. 2) She’s totally invisible to people at school. And not in a cool Gossip Girl kind of way.
So, she decides to learn to do . . . well . . . everything. When her anonymous blog shifts in a more scandalous direction and the questions (and money) start rolling in, she has to learn not just how to do waterfall braids and cat-eye makeup, but a few other things, like how to cure a hangover, how to flirt, and how to make out (something her very experienced, and very in-love-with-her neighbor, Drew, is more than willing to help with).
As her blog’s reputation skyrockets, so does “new and improved” Renley’s popularity. She’s not only nabbed the attention of the entire school, but also the eye of Seth Levine, the hot culinary wizard she’s admired from across the home-ec classroom all year.
Soon, caught up in the thrill of popularity both in and out of cyberspace, her secrets start to spiral, and she finds that she’s forgotten the most important how-to: how to be herself. When her online and real lives converge, Renley will have to make a choice: lose everything she loves in her new life, or everyone she loves in the life she left behind.
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WHAT'S BROKEN BETWEEN US
Author: Alexis BassSource: Purchased from Chapters
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication Date: December 29, 2015
Rating: 4.5/5 stars
Summary:
Alexis Bass’s heartbreakingly beautiful second novel is a tale of love, loss, and learning to forgive, perfect for fans of Gayle Forman and of Robyn Schneider's The Beginning of Everything.
A year and a half ago, Amanda Tart's brother got behind the wheel drunk and killed his best friend. Today, he's coming home from prison.
Amanda's been the one living with the fallout, made worse by her brother's recent unapologetic TV interview. People think he's a monster. Still, she loves him. It's her dark secret, until she starts getting close to Henry again--whose sister is paralyzed from the accident.
A year and a half ago, her brother destroyed his life. Now Amanda has to decide if she'll let his choice destroy hers.
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THE GRACES
Author: Laure EveSeries: The Graces #1
Source: eARC via Publisher
Publisher: Amulet Books
Publication Date: September 6, 2016
Rating: 3/5 stars
Summary:
Everyone loves the Graces.
Fenrin Grace is larger than life, almost mythical. He’s the school Pan, seducing girls without really meaning to. He’s biding his time until someone special comes along. Someone different, who will make him wonder how he got along all this time without her. Someone like me.
Fenrin’s twin, Thalia, is a willowy beauty with rippling, honey-colored hair. Wherever she goes, Thalia leaves behind a band of followers who want to emulate her. She casts spells over everyone she encounters, just like Fenrin—even if they both deny it.
Then there’s Summer. She’s the youngest Grace, and the only one who admits she’s really a witch. Summer is dark on the outside—with jet-black hair and kohl-rimmed eyes—and on the inside. It was inevitable that she’d find me, the new girl—a loner with secrets lurking under the surface.
I am River. I am not a Grace. But I’ll do anything to become one.
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RAILHEAD
Author: Philip ReeveSeries: N/A
Source: Borrowed from Library
Publisher: Switch Press
Publication Date: April 1, 2016
Rating: 4/5 stars
Summary:
The Great Network is an ancient web of routes and gates, where sentient trains can take you anywhere in the galaxy in the blink of an eye.
But the Network is also a hazardous mess of twists and turns, and nothing is as it seems. So when petty thief and railhead Zen Starling is hired by the mysterious Raven, the job appears simple enough. Steal one small box from the Emperor’s train, live the rest of his days in luxury. Secrets and danger lie in wait on the rails, and that little box might just bring everything in this galaxy—and the next—to the end of the line.
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RUINED
Author: Amy TinteraSeries: Ruined #1
Source: Borrowed from Library
Publisher: HarperTeen
Publication Date: May 3, 2016
Rating: 3.5/5 stars
Summary:
A revenge that will consume her. A love that will ruin her.
Emelina Flores has nothing. Her home in Ruina has been ravaged by war. She lacks the powers of her fellow Ruined. Worst of all, she witnessed her parents’ brutal murders and watched helplessly as her sister, Olivia, was kidnapped.
But because Em has nothing, she has nothing to lose. Driven by a blind desire for revenge, Em sets off on a dangerous journey to the enemy kingdom of Lera. Somewhere within Lera’s borders, Em hopes to find Olivia. But in order to find her, Em must infiltrate the royal family.
In a brilliant, elaborate plan of deception and murder, Em marries Prince Casimir, next in line to take Lera’s throne. If anyone in Lera discovers Em is not Casimir’s true betrothed, Em will be executed on the spot. But it’s the only way to salvage Em’s kingdom and what is left of her family.
Em is determined to succeed, but the closer she gets to the prince, the more she questions her mission. Em’s rage-filled heart begins to soften. But with her life—and her family—on the line, love could be Em’s deadliest mistake.
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UNRIVALED
Author: Alyson NoelSeries: Beautiful Idols #1
Source: Borrowed from Library
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Publication Date: May 10, 2016
Rating: 3/5 stars
Summary:
Everyone wants to be someone.
Layla Harrison wants to leave her beach-bum days for digs behind a reporter’s desk. Aster Amirpour wants to scream at the next casting director who tells her “we need ethnic but not your kind of ethnic.” Tommy Phillips dreams of buying a twelve-string guitar and using it to shred his way back into his famous absentee dad’s life.
But Madison Brooks took destiny and made it her bitch a long time ago.
She’s Hollywood’s hottest starlet, and the things she did to become the name on everyone’s lips are merely a stain on the pavement, ground beneath her Louboutin heel.
That is, until Layla, Aster, and Tommy find themselves with a VIP invite to the glamorous and gritty world of Los Angeles’s nightlife and lured into a high-stakes competition where Madison Brooks is the target. Just as their hopes begin to gleam like stars through the California smog, Madison Brooks goes missing. . . . And all of their hopes are blacked out in the haze of their lies.
Unrivaled is #1 New York Times bestselling author Alyson Noël’s first book in a thrilling suspense trilogy about how our most desperate dreams can become our darkest nightmares.
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I hosted a whole month of Guest Posts and Interviews for We Can(ada) Read! You can see them all by clicking here and going through the full schedule.
This month I started my grad school courses! I am taking my MA in Political Science at the University of Windsor, so I've been trying to balance my time between reading, blogging, school, and social life, but mostly school is winning out. I did pay a lot of money for it, so.... Also I celebrated my 24th birthday this month! I am almost allowed to have my quarter-life crisis even though I've been stressed about it for a good 4 years already.
Next month I will be reading...
- SPEED OF LIFE by J.M. Kelly
- BLACK FLOWERS, WHITE LIES by Yvonne Ventresca
- THE POSSIBILITY OF SOMEWHERE by Julia Day
- MAKE ME STAY by M.E. Gordon
- THIS SAVAGE SONG by Victoria Schwab (with Sarah)
- A DARKLY BEATING HEART by Lindsay Smith
- CLANLESS by Jennifer Jenkins
- HOW TO KEEP A BOY FROM KISSING YOU by Tara Eglington
- HOW IT ENDS by Catherine Lo
- THE RAINS by Gregg Hurwitz
- THE BEST POSSIBLE ANSWER by E. Katherine Kottaras
THIS ADVENTURE ENDS
Author: Emma MillsSeries: N/A
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Publication Date: October 4, 2016
Rating: 4.5/5 stars
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Summary:
Sloane isn't expecting to fall in with a group of friends when she moves from New York to Florida—especially not a group of friends so intense, so in love, so all-consuming. Yet that's exactly what happens.
Sloane becomes closest to Vera, a social-media star who lights up any room, and Gabe, Vera's twin brother and the most serious person Sloane's ever met. When a beloved painting by the twins' late mother goes missing, Sloane takes on the responsibility of tracking it down, a journey that takes her across state lines—and ever deeper into the twins' lives.
Filled with intense and important friendships, a wonderful warts-and-all family, shiveringly good romantic developments, and sharp, witty dialogue, this story is about finding the people you never knew you needed.
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