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Sky in the Deep — Adrienne Young

TITLE: Sky in the Deep AUTHOR: Adrienne Young RELEASED: April 24th, 2018; Wednesday Books GENRE: Fantasy AGE RANGE: YA SYNOPSIS:OND ELDR. BREATHE FIRE. Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient rivalry against the Riki clan. Her life is brutal but simple: fight and survive. Until the day she sees the impossible on the battlefield — her brother, fighting with the enemy — the brother she watched die five years ago. Faced with her brother’s betrayal, she...

Crown of Midnight — Sarah J. Maas

TITLE: Crown of Midnight AUTHOR: Sarah J. Maas SERIES: Throne of Glass, #2 RELEASED: August 15th, 2013; Bloomsbury USA Childrens GENRE: Fantasy AGE RANGE: NA SYNOPSIS: From the throne of glass rules a king with a fist of iron and a soul as black as pitch. Assassin Celaena Sardothien won a brutal contest to become his Champion. Yet Celaena is far from loyal to the crown. She hides her secret vigilantly; she knows that the man she serves is bent on evil. Keeping up...

Throne of Glass — Sarah J. Maas

TITLE: Throne of Glass AUTHOR: Sarah J. Maas RELEASED: August 2nd, 2012; Bloomsbury USA Childrens GENRE: Fantasy AGE RANGE: NA SYNOPSIS: When magic has gone from the world, and a vicious king rules from his throne of glass, an assassin comes to the castle. She does not come to kill, but to win her freedom. If she can defeat twenty-three killers, thieves, and warriors in a competition to find the greatest assassin in the land, she will become the King’s Champion and be released...

Heart of Iron — Ashley Poston (ARC Review)

TITLE: Heart of Iron AUTHOR: Ashley Poston RELEASES: February 27th, 2018; Balzer + Bray GENRE: Sci-fi AGE RANGE: YA SYNOPSIS: Seventeen-year-old Ana is a scoundrel by nurture and an outlaw by nature. Found as a child drifting through space with a sentient android called D09, Ana was saved by a fearsome space captain and the grizzled crew she now calls family. But D09—one of the last remaining illegal Metals—has been glitching, and Ana will stop at nothing to find a way to fix him. Ana’s...

Nice Try, Jane Sinner – Lianne Oelke (ARC Review)

TITLE: Nice Try, Jane Sinner AUTHOR: Lianne Oelke RELEASED: January 9th, 2018; Clarion Books/HMH Teen GENRE: Contemporary AGE RANGE: YA SYNOPSIS: The only thing 17-year-old Jane Sinner hates more than failure is pity. After a personal crisis and her subsequent expulsion from high school, she’s going nowhere fast. Jane’s well-meaning parents push her to attend a high school completion program at the nearby Elbow River Community College, and she agrees, on one condition: she gets to move out. Jane tackles her housing problem by signing up for House of Orange, a student-run reality show...

The Assassin’s Blade – Sarah J. Maas

TITLE: The Assassin’s Blade AUTHOR: Sarah J. Maas RELEASED: March 4th, 2014; Bloomsbury USA Childrens GENRE: Fantasy AGE RANGE: NA SYNOPSIS: Celaena Sardothien is her kingdom’s most feared assassin. Though she works for the powerful and ruthless Assassin’s Guild, Celaena yields to no one and trusts only her fellow killer-for-hire, Sam. When Celaena’s scheming master, Arobynn Hamel, dispatches her on missions that take her from remote islands to hostile deserts, she finds herself acting independently of his wishes—and questioning her own allegiance. Along the...

The Cruel Prince – Holly Black

  TITLE: The Cruel Prince AUTHOR: Holly Black RELEASED: January 2nd, 2018; Little, Brown Books for Young Readers GENRE: Fantasy AGE RANGE: YA SYNOPSIS: Of course I want to be like them. They’re beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever. And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe. Jude was seven years old when her parents...

Down the TBR Hole #13

Down the TBR Hole was originally created over at Lost in a Story, and is a super fun (and simultaneously productive) tag to help you whittle away at those never-ending TBRs! (By the way, you can click on the covers to go to the Goodreads listings!) It works like this: Go to your goodreads to-read shelf. Order on ascending date added. Take the first 5 (or 10 or 15 if you’re feeling adventurous) books Read the synopses of the books Decide: keep...

One of Us is Lying – Karen M. McManus

Pay close attention and you might solve this. On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention. Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule. Addy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess. Nate, the criminal, is already on probation for dealing. Cooper, the athlete, is the all-star baseball pitcher. And Simon, the outcast, is the creator of Bayview High’s notorious gossip app. Only, Simon never makes it out of that classroom. Before the end of detention Simon’s dead. And according to investigators,...

There’s Someone Inside Your House – Stephanie Perkins

I had a looooot of feelings about this book – actually, about how people have reacted to this book. So, I’m going to get a rant out of the way. Feel free to skip this paragraph if you don’t like rants. People told me it was going to be absolutely horrible, that no self-respecting horror fan would enjoy it, that it didn’t fit the horror genre, so on… alright. Lemme tell y’all something. I’ve been obsessed with horror movies AND books since I was five years...