Review: Immaculate

Review: Immaculate
Apr 21
2015

I received this book for free from FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Immaculate by Katelyn Detweiler Series: Stand Alone Published by Viking Juvenile on May 26th 2015 Genres: Young Adult- Fantasy/ Paranormal, Young Adult- Supernatural/Paranormal Pages: 464 Source: FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Publisher Goodreads Mina is seventeen. A virgin. And pregnant. Mina is top of her class, girlfriend to the most ambitious guy in school, able to reason and study her way through anything. But when she suddenly finds herself pregnant—despite having never had sex—her orderly world collapses. Almost nobody believes Mina’s claims of virginity. Her father...

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Review: Just One Night

Review: Just One Night
Jun 7
2014

Just One Night by Gayle Forman Published by Viking Juvenile on June 7, 2014 Genres: Young Adult-Contemporary/Romance Source: Bought Buy on Amazon Goodreads After spending one life-changing day in Paris with laid-back Dutch actor Willem De Ruiter, sheltered American good girl Allyson “Lulu” Healey discovered her new lover had disappeared without a trace. Just One Day followed Allyson’s quest to reunite with Willem; Just One Year chronicled the pair’s year apart from Willem’s perspective. Now, back together at last, this delectable e-novella reveals the couple’s final chapter. To short. Why did this have to be this short? These are the thoughts that are running through my head as soon as I turned the last page. Gayle Forman has ripped my heart from my chest so many...

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Review: A Mad, Wicked Folly

Review: A Mad, Wicked Folly
Apr 6
2014

I received this book for free from FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.A Mad, Wicked Folly by Sharon Biggs Waller Series: Stand Alone Published by Viking Juvenile on January 23rd 2014 Genres: Young Adult-Historical/Contemporary Source: FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads Welcome to the world of the fabulously wealthy in London, 1909, where dresses and houses are overwhelmingly opulent, social class means everything, and women are taught to be nothing more than wives and mothers. Into this world comes seventeen-year-old Victoria Darling, who wants only to be an artist—a nearly impossible dream for a girl. After Vicky...

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Book Blast: Half-Bad + Giveaway

Book Blast: Half-Bad + Giveaway
Mar 3
2014

Half-Bad by Sally Green Published by Viking Juvenile on March 4th 2014 Genres: Young Adult- Fantasy/ Paranormal Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads A stunning, magical debut. An international sensation. In modern-day England, witches live alongside humans: White witches, who are good; Black witches, who are evil; and fifteen-year-old Nathan, who is both. Nathan’s father is the world’s most powerful and cruel Black witch, and his mother is dead. He is hunted from all sides. Trapped in a cage, beaten and handcuffed, Nathan must escape before his sixteenth birthday, at which point he will receive three gifts from his father and come into his own as a witch—or else he will die. But how can Nathan find his father when his every action is tracked, when there is...

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Review: The Impossible Knife of Memory

Review: The Impossible Knife of Memory
Jan 13
2014

I received this book for free from FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.This book may be unsuitable for people under 17 years of age due to its use of sexual content, drug and alcohol use, and/or violence.The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson Published by Viking Juvenile on January 7, 2014 Genres: Young Adult-Contemporary, Young Adult-Realistic Fiction Source: FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads For the past five years, Hayley Kincaid and her father, Andy, have been on the road, never staying long in one place as he struggles to escape the demons that have tortured him since his return from Iraq. Now...

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