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Anna and the French Kiss — Stephanie Perkins

TITLE: Anna and the French Kiss AUTHOR: Stephanie Perkins RELEASED: December 2nd, 2010; Speak GENRE: Contemporary AGE RANGE: YA Anna never wanted to spend her senior year in Paris. Maybe it would’ve been a dream for most American girls, but for Anna, she wanted to spend her last year of high school in Atlanta, with her best friend and new romantic interest. How’s she supposed to spend an entire year in a French boarding school surrounded by people she’s never met—and a cute boy...

Girls of Paper and Fire — Natasha Ngan

TITLE: Girls of Paper and Fire SERIES: Girls of Paper and Fire, #1 AUTHOR: Natasha Ngan RELEASED: November 6th, 2018; Jimmy Patterson Books GENRE: Fantasy AGE RANGE: YA In this fantasy world, every year, the violent and oppressive Demon King—the strongest of a caste of people marked by their animal-like appearances—takes eight Paper Girls (of the plain, human Paper caste) to become his concubines. Lei never expected to become one of those girls, but even more shocking was the twist of fate she...

A Quiet Kind of Thunder — Sara Barnard

TITLE: A Quiet Kind of Thunder AUTHOR: Sara Barnard RELEASED: January 9th, 2018; Simon Pulse GENRE: Contemporary AGE RANGE: YA ACQUIRED: gift from Kathy Huge thank you to my sweet friend Kathy for sending me a surprise gift copy of this book! She read it and loved it so much that she wanted me to read it too, and I’m so glad that she did, because it was so beautifully diverse, and sweet, and funny, and altogether just a precious story of friendship, love,...

My Favorite Half-Night Stand — Christina Lauren

I’m trying a brand new review format, complete with writing my own summaries and new graphics, so please let me know what you think of the new style! ♥ TITLE: My Favorite Half-Night Stand AUTHOR: Christina Lauren RELEASES: December 4th, 2018; Gallery Books GENRE: Contemporary AGE RANGE: Adult I am such a sucker for the friends-to-lovers trope it’s not even funny, so when I heard that the writer duo Christina Lauren was putting out this story about best-friends/colleagues turned friends-with-benefits turned lovers? I...

The Kiss Quotient — Helen Hoang

TITLE: The Kiss Quotient AUTHOR: Helen Hoang RELEASED: May 30th, 2018; Berkley GENRE: Contemporary AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases–a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with, and way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old. It doesn’t help that Stella has Asperger’s and French kissing reminds her of a shark getting its teeth cleaned...

The Graveyard Book — Neil Gaiman

TITLE: The Graveyard Book AUTHOR: Neil Gaiman RELEASED: September 30th, 2008; HarperCollins GENRE: Horror/Paranormal AGE RANGE: Middle Grade SYNOPSIS: Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn’t live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy – an ancient indigo man,...

Bedfellow — Jeremy C. Shipp

TITLE: Bedfellow AUTHOR: Jeremy C. Shipp RELEASES: November 13th, 2018; TorDotCom GENRE: Horror AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: When the . . . thing first insinuated itself into the Lund family household, they were bemused. Vaguely human-shaped, its constantly-changing cravings seemed disturbing, at first, but time and pressure have a way of normalizing the extreme. Wasn’t it always part of their lives? As the family make more and greater sacrifices in service to the beast, the thrall that binds them begins to break down....