Category Archives: Young Adults

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May 8, 2012
by Patricia
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Review: Matched by Ally Condie

Cas­sia has always trusted the Soci­ety to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Match­ing cer­e­mony, Cas­sia knows with com­plete cer­tainty that he is her ideal mate... until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black.

The Soci­ety tells her it's a glitch, a rare mal­func­tion, and that she should focus on the happy life she's des­tined to lead with Xan­der. But Cas­sia can't stop think­ing about Ky, and as they slowly fall in love, Cas­sia begins to doubt the Society's infal­li­bil­ity and is faced with an impos­si­ble choice: between Xan­der and Ky, between the only life she's known and a path that no one else has dared to fol­low. Con­tinue read­ing →

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May 5, 2012
by Patricia
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Review: The White Oak by Kim White

In The White Oak, the first book in the Imper­fect Dark­ness series, Cora Alexan­der falls through a sink­hole and enters the under­world still alive.

Her liv­ing pres­ence threat­ens the tyran­ni­cal rule of Minos and the infer­nal judges who have hijacked the after­life and rebuilt it, trap­ping human souls in a mechan­i­cal, computer-controlled city that lies at the core of the earth. To sur­vive, Cora must rely on her untrust­wor­thy guide, Mino­taur, an arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence built by Minos. She is helped by a mys­te­ri­ous voice, and by Sybil, under­world librar­ian and author of each person's book of life. Sybil's col­lec­tion holds the key to humankind's inter­twined life stories.

When Cora's own book is destroyed, Sybil gives her a mag­i­cal golden pen and sends her to the under­world city to write her own des­tiny. Along the way, Cora finds the ghost of her dead brother, Lucas, a genius pro­gram­mer who alone is capa­ble of find­ing the chink in Minos's armor. But will he be able to get Cora out alive, or will they both suc­cumb to the seem­ingly inescapable under­world trap? Con­tinue read­ing →

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May 3, 2012
by Patricia
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Review: Jersey Angel by Ann Beth Bauman

Jer­sey Angel by Beth Ann Bau­man Genre: Real­is­tic Fic­tion for Young Adults Series: Stand­alone Excerpt: n/a • Source: Net­Gal­ley Rat­ing: Not For Me, Barely Read­able T – M Hard­cover: 208 pages Pub­lisher: Wendy Lamb Books (May 8, 2012) ISBN-10: 0385740204 · ISBN-13: 978–0385740203 Buy: Amazon.de or com · BookDepository.com · BookDepository.co.uk Blurb It’s the sum­mer before senior year and the allur­ing … Con­tinue read­ing →

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April 19, 2012
by Patricia
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Review: Struck by Jennifer Bosworth

Mia Price is a light­ning addict. She’s sur­vived count­less strikes, but her crav­ing to con­nect to the energy in storms endan­gers her life and the lives of those around her.
Los Ange­les, where light­ning rarely strikes, is one of the few places Mia feels safe from her addic­tion. But when an earth­quake dev­as­tates the city, her haven is trans­formed into a mine­field of chaos and dan­ger. The beaches become mas­sive tent cities. Down­town is a crum­bling waste­land, where a trav­el­ing party moves to a dif­fer­ent empty build­ing each night, the rev­el­ers drawn to the destruc­tion by a force they can­not deny. Two war­ring cults rise to power, and both see Mia as the key to their oppos­ing dooms­day prophe­cies. They believe she has a con­nec­tion to the freak elec­tri­cal storm that caused the quake, and to the far more dev­as­tat­ing storm that is yet to come.
Mia wants to trust the enig­matic and allur­ing Jeremy when he promises to pro­tect her, but she fears he isn’t who he claims to be. In the end, the pas­sion and power that brought them together could be their down­fall. When the final dis­as­ter strikes, Mia must risk unleash­ing the full hor­ror of her strength to save the peo­ple she loves, or lose every­thing. Con­tinue read­ing →

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March 27, 2012
by Patricia
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Review: The Vampire's Kiss by Veronica Wolff

If you're going to be part­nered with a vam­pire, you have to work the night shift.

By her wits, blood, and sac­ri­fice, so far Drew has sur­vived the inten­sive train­ing on the Isle of Night. As a second-year Acari, her ulti­mate goal is to become a Watcher, and now she has a shot at her first mis­sion. Except noth­ing is as it seems. The vam­pire Alcán­tara is as sin­is­ter as he is sexy, Ronan is more dis­tant than ever, and it turns out there are other vam­pires out there. Bad ones.

Ancient, blood­thirsty, and pow­er­ful, these undead are really old school. They’ve cap­tured one of the Watcher vamps and are tor­tur­ing him for infor­ma­tion. The only chance to save him is to infil­trate a major sum­mit the bad­dies are hold­ing on their own island. There will be mor­tals there, serv­ing as but­lers, maids, and var­i­ous hired help. Drew had bet­ter brush up on her skills as a serv­ing girl, because she’s about to go undercover…

But, when their vam­pire pris­oner turns out to be a gor­geous bad boy, Drew’s first mis­sion quickly turns into more than she bar­gained for… Con­tinue read­ing →

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February 28, 2012
by Patricia
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Review: Dreaming Awake by Gwen Hayes

She fell for him in a night­time world. But the time for dream­ing is past—and the here-and-now can be just as frag­ile their love…

When Theia Alder­son first encoun­tered a mys­te­ri­ous, hand­some boy in her dreams, she never imag­ined how find­ing Haden Black—and falling in love—could change her life. To save Haden, Theia sac­ri­ficed every­thing. And the dan­ger­ous bar­gain she made could have last­ing repercussions.

Now Theia has returned to Serendip­ity Falls, and she finds her­self strug­gling with the same deadly hungers that have tor­tured Haden. When stu­dents at their high school fall prey to a mys­te­ri­ous ill­ness, Theia can’t help but won­der if Haden’s con­trol is slipping—and how much longer she’ll have a grip on her own.

And still the night­mare realm of Under won’t let them go. Some­one from Haden’s past is deter­mined to destroy Theia from the inside out, start­ing with those clos­est to her, forc­ing Theia to choose between fam­ily and friends and a love that may have been doomed from the start… Con­tinue read­ing →

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February 9, 2012
by Patricia
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Review: Worlds Burn Through by Vicki Keire

Chloe Burke has night­mares of a world burned to ash and the strange boy who saves them both.

Under­neath the dreams lurks a deeply buried real­ity; Chloe and a hand­ful of oth­ers are sur­vivors of a decade old apoc­a­lypse that burned their home world to the ground.

Now their ancient ene­mies hunt them again. To keep their adopted world safe, Chloe must undergo a rit­ual of blood sac­ri­fice that will have life-long con­se­quences if she sur­vives. Her lethal pro­tec­tor, Eliot Gray, must keep her alive long enough to do it.

Together they will uncover even more dan­ger­ous secrets buried in the past’s deep­est, dark­est ashes. Con­tinue read­ing →

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February 2, 2012
by Patricia
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Review: A Million Suns by Beth Revis

God­speed was fueled by lies. Now it is ruled by chaos.

It's been three months since Amy was unplugged. The life she always knew is over. And every­where she looks, she sees the walls of the space­ship God­speed. But there may just be hope: Elder has assumed lead­er­ship of the ship. He's finally free to enact his vision — no more Phy­dus, no more lies.

But when Elder dis­cov­ers shock­ing news about the ship, he and Amy race to dis­cover the truth behind life on God­speed. They must work together to unlock a puz­zle that was set in motion hun­dreds of years ear­lier, unable to fight the romance that's grow­ing between them and the chaos that threat­ens to tear them apart.

In book two of the Across the Uni­verse tril­ogy, New York Times best­selling author Beth Revis mes­mer­izes us again with a bril­liantly crafted mys­tery filled with action, sus­pense, romance, and deep philo­soph­i­cal ques­tions. And this time it all builds to one mind-bending con­clu­sion: They have to get off this ship. Con­tinue read­ing →