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Nevernight — Jay Kristoff

TITLE: Nevernight AUTHOR: Jay Kristoff SERIES: The Nevernight Chronicle, #1 RELEASED: August 9th, 2016; Thomas Dunne Books GENRE: Fantasy AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family. Daughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father’s failed rebellion with her life. Alone and friendless, she hides in a city built from the bones of a dead god,...

Emergency Contact — Mary H.K. Choi

TITLE: Emergency Contact AUTHOR: Mary H.K. Choi RELEASED: March 27th, 2018; Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers GENRE: Contemporary AGE RANGE: YA/NA SYNOPSIS: For Penny Lee high school was a total nonevent. Her friends were okay, her grades were fine, and while she somehow managed to land a boyfriend, he doesn’t actually know anything about her. When Penny heads to college in Austin, Texas, to learn how to become a writer, it’s seventy-nine miles and a zillion light years away from everything she...

Fresh Ink — Lamar Giles (ARC/Anthology Review)

TITLE: Fresh Ink EDITOR: Lamar Giles RELEASES: August 14th, 2018; Crown Books for Young Readers GENRE: Contemporary, Sci-fi, Anthology AGE RANGE: YA SYNOPSIS: Careful–you are holding fresh ink. And not hot-off-the-press, still-drying-in-your-hands ink. Instead, you are holding twelve stories with endings that are still being written–whose next chapters are up to you. Because these stories are meant to be read. And shared. Thirteen of the most accomplished YA authors deliver a label-defying anthology that includes ten short stories, a graphic novel, and a one-act play....

The Way You Make Me Feel — Maurene Goo (ARC Review)

TITLE: The Way You Make Me Feel AUTHOR: Maurene Goo RELEASES: May 8th, 2018; Farrar, Straus and Giroux GENRE: Contemporary AGE RANGE: YA SYNOPSIS: Clara Shin lives for pranks and disruption. When she takes one joke too far, her dad sentences her to a summer working on his food truck, the KoBra, alongside her uptight classmate Rose Carver. Not the carefree summer Clara had imagined. But maybe Rose isn’t so bad. Maybe the boy named Hamlet (yes, Hamlet) crushing on her is pretty cute....

The Devil and the Deep — Ellen Datlow

TITLE: The Devil and the Deep EDITOR: Ellen Datlow RELEASED: March 20th, 2018; Night Shade Books GENRE: Horror AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: It’s only water, so why should we fear large bodies of it, such as the sea or the ocean? However, when you’re all alone, you realize how scary a place it can be. In Devil and the Deep, award-winning editor Ellen Datlow shares an original anthology of horror that covers the depths of the deep blue sea. Whether its tales of murderous...

Undead Girl Gang — Lily Anderson (ARC Review / Blog Tour)

TITLE: Undead Girl Gang AUTHOR: Lily Anderson RELEASES: May 8th, 2018; Razorbill GENRE: Mystery AGE RANGE: YA SYNOPSIS: Veronica Mars meets The Craft when a teen girl investigates the suspicious deaths of three classmates and accidentally ends up bringing them back to life to form a hilariously unlikely–and unwilling–vigilante girl gang. Meet teenage Wiccan Mila Flores, who truly could not care less what you think about her Doc Martens, her attitude, or her weight because she knows that, no matter what, her BFF Riley is...

A Court of Frost and Starlight — Sarah J. Maas

TITLE: A Court of Frost and Starlight AUTHOR: Sarah J. Maas SERIES: A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3.1 RELEASED: May 1st, 2018; Bloomsbury USA Childrens GENRE: Fantasy AGE RANGE: NA SYNOPSIS: Months after the explosive events in A Court of Wings and Ruin, Feyre, Rhys, and their companions are still busy rebuilding the Night Court and the vastly-changed world beyond. But Winter Solstice is finally near, and with it, a hard-earned reprieve. Yet even the festive atmosphere can’t keep the shadows of the past...

A Court of Wings and Ruin — Sarah J. Maas (REREAD Review!)

TITLE: A Court of Wings and Ruin AUTHOR: Sarah J. Maas SERIES: A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3 RELEASED: May 2nd, 2017; Bloomsbury USA Childrens GENRE: Fantasy AGE RANGE: NA SYNOPSIS: Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin’s manoeuvrings and the invading king threatening to bring Prythian to its knees. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit – and one slip may spell doom not only for Feyre, but for her world...

Six of Crows — Leigh Bardugo

TITLE: Six of Crows AUTHOR: Leigh Bardugo SERIES: Six of Crows, #1 RELEASED: September 29th, 2015; Henry Holt and Company GENRE: Fantasy AGE RANGE: YA SYNOPSIS: Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price–and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can’t pull it off alone… A convict with a thirst for revenge....

The Raven King / Opal — Maggie Stiefvater

TITLE: The Raven King AUTHOR: Maggie Stiefvater SERIES: The Raven King, #4 RELEASED: April 26, 2016; Scholastic Press GENRE: Fantasy AGE RANGE: YA SYNOPSIS: The fourth and final installment in the spellbinding series from the irrepressible, #1 New York Times bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater. All her life, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love’s death. She doesn’t believe in true love and never thought this would be a problem, but as her life becomes caught up in the strange and...