Review: Breaking Point

Breaking Point by Kristen Simmons Published by Tor Teen on February 12th 2013 Genres: Young Adult-Dystopian/ Apocalyptic Source: FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Publisher "The second installment in Kristen Simmons's fast-paced, gripping YA dystopian series. After faking their deaths to escape from prison, Ember Miller and Chase Jennings have only one goal: to lay low until the Federal Bureau of Reformation forgets they ever existed. Near-celebrities now for the increasingly sensationalized tales of their struggles with the government, Ember and Chase are recognized and taken in by the Resistance—an underground organization working to systematically take down the government. At headquarters, all eyes are on the sniper, an anonymous assassin taking out FBR...

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Review: Dark Companion

Dark Companion by Marta Acosta Series: Stand Alone Published by Tor Teen on July 3rd 2012 Genres: Young Adult- Fantasy/ Paranormal Source: FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads "When foster teen Jane Williams is invited to attend elite Birch Grove Academy for Girls and escape her violent urban neighborhood, she thinks the offer is too good to be true. She's even offered her own living quarters, the groundskeeper's cottage in the center of the birch grove. Something's not quite right about the school -- or is it Jane? She thinks she sees things in the birch grove at night. She's also beginning to suspect that the elegant headmistress and her sons are hiding secrets. Lucky is the gorgeous, golden son who is especially attentive to...

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Review: Article 5

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.Article 5 by Kristen Simmons Series: Article 5 # 1 Published by Tor Teen on January 31, 2012 Genres: Young Adult- Dystopian Source: FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads "New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., have been abandoned. The Bill of Rights has been revoked, and replaced with the Moral Statutes. There are no more police—instead, there are soldiers. There are no more fines for bad behavior—instead, there are arrests, trials, and maybe worse. People who get arrested usually don't come back. Seventeen-year-old Ember Miller is old enough to...

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Review: Anna Dressed in Blood

I received this book for free from Blog Tour, FTC: Exchange for honest opinion in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake Series: Anna Dressed in Blood # 1 Published by Tor Teen on August 30, 2011 Genres: Young Adult- Supernatural/Paranormal Source: Blog Tour, FTC: Exchange for honest opinion Buy on Amazon Goodreads Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead. So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. Together they follow legends and local lore, trying...

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Review: Conspiracies

Conspiracies by Mercedes Lackey, Rosemary Edghill Published by Tor Teen on July 5th 2011 Genres: Young Adult- Fantasy/ Paranormal Source: FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Publisher Goodreads The second book in the Shadow Grail series by the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling authors Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill Spirit and her friends Burke, Loch, Muirin, and Addie have managed to defeat the evil force that has been killing students at Oakhurst Academy for the past forty years—or so they think. When a series of magical attacks disrupts the school, Doctor Ambrosius calls upon alumnus Mark Rider to secure the campus—and start training the students for war. The only student without magic, Spirit doesn’t trust Mark or his methods....

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