Blog Tour: Grasshopper Jungle

I received this book for free from Blog Tour, 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.Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith Published by Penguin Group USA on February 20, 2014 Genres: Action & Adventure, Humorous Stories, Monsters, Survival Stories, Young Adult Source: Blog Tour, FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads In this truly shocking, grotesquely original coming-of-age, end-of-the-world novel, sixteen-year-old Austin Szerba interweaves the legacy of his family's history in Poland and emigration to the United States while narrating the story of how he and his best friend brought about the end of humanity and the rise of...

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Blog Tour: Butterman (Time) Travel, Inc.

Butterman (Time) Travel, Inc. by P.K. Hrezo Published by Self-Published on November 12, 2013 Genres: Young Adult -Fantasy, Young Adult-Science Fiction Source: Blog Tour, FTC: Exchange for honest opinion Buy on Amazon Goodreads It’s the year 2069 and even though eighteen-year-old Bianca Butterman is heir to the family biz, she may never see the day her time-craft license becomes official. When a government agent starts nosing around the operation, Butterman Travel, Inc. gets stuck with a full audit—part of a government take-over scheme to shut down all private time travel agencies. Enter former boy band superstar, Tristan Helms, desperate to retrieve a lost item from his past and willing to pay triple fare for a time-trip to get there, and Bianca has to find a way...

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Review: Fire

I received this book for free from Blog Tour, 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.Fire by Mats Strandberg, Sara Bergmark Elfgren Published by Overlook Juvenile on January 30th 2014 Genres: Young Adult- Supernatural/Paranormal Source: Blog Tour, FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads Praised by Lev Grossman as "stunning, ?raw, real, smart, very thrilling and very, very wicked,” The Circle, the first book in the internationally bestselling Engelsfors Trilogy, introduced a group of high school girls with special powers who became the Chosen Ones. As book two, Fire, begins, Minoo, Vanessa, Linnéa, Anna-Karin and Ida have been...

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Review: The Circle

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 Circle by Mats Strandberg, Sara Bergmark Elfgren Published by Overlook Juvenile on May 2nd 2013 Genres: Young Adult- Fantasy/ Paranormal Source: Bought Buy on Amazon Goodreads On a night after the apparent suicide of high school student Elias Malmgren, a blood-red moon fills the night sky. Minoo wakes up outside her house, still in her pajamas, and is drawn by an invisible force to an abandoned theme park on the outskirts of town. Soon five of her classmates--Vanessa, Linnea, Anna-Karin, Rebecka and Ida--arrive, compelled the same force. A mystical being takes over Ida's body and tells them they are fated to fight an ancient...

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Review: Proxy

I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Proxy by Alex London Published by Philomel on June 8, 2013 Genres: Young Adult-Science Fiction/Dsytopian Buy on Amazon Goodreads Knox was born into one of the City’s wealthiest families. A Patron, he has everything a boy could possibly want—the latest tech, the coolest clothes, and a Proxy to take all his punishments. When Knox breaks a vase, Syd is beaten. When Knox plays a practical joke, Syd is forced to haul rocks. And when Knox crashes a car, killing one of his friends, Syd is branded and sentenced to death. Syd is a Proxy. His life is not his own. Then again, neither is Knox’s. Knox and Syd have more in common than...

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Review: Infinite

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.Infinite by Jodi Meadows Published by HarperCollins on January 28, 2014 Genres: Emotions & Feelings, Fantasy & Magic, Love & Romance, Social Issues, Young Adult Source: FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads The stunning conclusion to the Incarnate trilogy, a fantasy series about a girl who is the first new soul born into a society where everyone else has been reborn hundreds of times.Ana knows that soon life in Heart will be at risk so she escapes with her friends, seeking answers and allies to stop Janan's ascension and keep the other...

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