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The Hunger Games (a very overdue reread review) — Suzanne Collins

TITLE: The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) AUTHOR: Suzanne Collins GENRE: Dystopia/Sci-fi AGE RANGE: YA SYNOPSIS: In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death...

The Dark Game — Jonathan Janz

TITLE: The Dark Game AUTHOR: Jonathan Janz GENRE: Horror AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: Ten writers are selected for a summer-long writing retreat with the most celebrated and reclusive author in the world. Their host is the legendary Roderick Wells. Handsome, enigmatic, and fiendishly talented, Wells promises to teach his pupils about writing, about magic, about the untapped potential that each of them possesses. Most of all, he plans to teach them about the darkness in their hearts. The writers think they are...

Song of the Dead (Reign of the Fallen, #2) — Sarah Glenn Marsh

TITLE: Song of the Dead AUTHOR: Sarah Glenn Marsh SERIES: Reign of the Fallen, #2 RELEASES: January 29th, 2019; Razorbill GENRE: Fantasy AGE RANGE: YA Karthia has changed, and the people are changing with it—for better and for worse. Odessa has set out on an oceanic journey with Meredy and Kasmira, but nothing can prepare them for the war they’ll find brewing over the open waters, or the destruction they’ll return home to when Valoria’s new queendom is threatened by the people her family has...

Love Looks Pretty On You — Lang Leav

TITLE: Love Looks Pretty On You AUTHOR: Lang Leav RELEASES: January 29th, 2019; Andrews McMeel Publishing GENRE: Nonfic/Poetry AGE RANGE: Adult And if ever you find my name slipping from your memory, I can promise you, by the time this year is through, you will never forget it again. Lang Leav was my first contemporary poetry love, and no matter how many collections she releases, I genuinely don’t believe I’ll ever stop adoring them. She always seems to know exactly the right things to say,...

In An Absent Dream (Wayward Children, #4) — Seanan McGuire

TITLE: In An Absent Dream AUTHOR: Seanan McGuire SERIES: Wayward Children, #4 RELEASES: January 8th, 2019; TorDotCom GENRE: Fantasy AGE RANGE: Adult When a very serious little girl finds a magical door in the woods, she decides to leave behind a life of loneliness to go off in search of adventure, never expecting to find a mystical Market on the other side—where anything can happen, as long as you pay your debts. If you know me, you already know that Seanan McGuire is one of...

The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air, #2) — Holly Black

TITLE: The Wicked King AUTHOR: Holly Black SERIES: The Folk of the Air, #2 RELEASES: January 8th, 2019; Little, Brown Books for Young Readers GENRE: Fantasy AGE RANGE: YA After the shocking turn of events that finished off The Cruel Prince, Jude is fighting with everything she’s got to keep the kingdom of Elfhame from falling to pieces under its new rulers. Unfortunately for Jude, not only is a war brewing in the Undersea, but the court is full of traitors—and a few...