Currently Reading A Midsummer’s Nightmare by Kody Keplinger Release Date: 5th June, 2012 Publisher: Poppy Pages: 304 (Hardcover) Details:  Whitley Johnson’s dream summer with her divorce dad has turned into a nightmare. She’s just met his new fiancee and her kids. The fiancee’s son? Whitley’s one-night stand from graduation night. Just freakin’ great. Worse, she totally doesn’t fit in with her dad’s perfect new country-club family. So Whitley acts out. She parties. Hard. So hard she doesn’t even notice the good things right under her nose: a sweet little future stepsister who is just about the only person she’s ever liked, a best friend (even though Whitley swears she doesn’t “do” friends), and a smoking-hot guy who isn’t her stepbrother…at least, not yet. It will take all three of them to help Whitley get through her anger and begin to put the pieces of her family together.  Filled with authenticity and raw emotion, Whitley is Kody Keplinger’s most compelling character to date: a cynical Holden Caulfield-esque girl you will wholly care about.[via Amazon] Twitter || Goodreads || LibraryThing || Amazon || B&N || Shelfari || G+
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Currently Reading A Midsummer’s Nightmare by Kody Keplinger

Release Date: 5th June, 2012

Publisher: Poppy

Pages: 304 (Hardcover)

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Whitley Johnson’s dream summer with her divorce dad has turned into a nightmare. She’s just met his new fiancee and her kids. The fiancee’s son? Whitley’s one-night stand from graduation night. Just freakin’ great.

Worse, she totally doesn’t fit in with her dad’s perfect new country-club family. So Whitley acts out. She parties. Hard. So hard she doesn’t even notice the good things right under her nose: a sweet little future stepsister who is just about the only person she’s ever liked, a best friend (even though Whitley swears she doesn’t “do” friends), and a smoking-hot guy who isn’t her stepbrother…at least, not yet. It will take all three of them to help Whitley get through her anger and begin to put the pieces of her family together. 

Filled with authenticity and raw emotion, Whitley is Kody Keplinger’s most compelling character to date: a cynical Holden Caulfield-esque girl you will wholly care about.[via Amazon]

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Currently Reading The Fault in Our Stars by John Green Release Date: 10th January, 2012 Publisher: Dutton Juvenile Pages: 336 (Hardcover) Details: Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.[via Amazon] Twitter || Goodreads || LibraryThing || Amazon || B&N || Shelfari || G+
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Currently Reading The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Release Date: 10th January, 2012

Publisher: Dutton Juvenile

Pages: 336 (Hardcover)

Details: Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.[via Amazon]

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Currently Reading Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl Release Date: 14th September, 2010 Publisher: Little Brown Books for Young Readers Pages: 592 (Paperback) Details: Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she’s struggling to conceal her power, and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever. Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town’s oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them. In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything.[via Amazon] Twitter || Goodreads || LibraryThing || Amazon || B&N || Shelfari || G+
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Currently Reading Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

Release Date: 14th September, 2010

Publisher: Little Brown Books for Young Readers

Pages: 592 (Paperback)

Details: Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she’s struggling to conceal her power, and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.

Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town’s oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them.

In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything.[via Amazon]

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Currently Reading Silver Smoke by Monica Leonelle Release Date: 8th February, 2011 Publisher: Self-Publish Pages: 400 (Paperback) Details: Brie van Rossum has fame, fortune, and beauty, but there’s one thing she doesn’t have—the name of her mother’s supernatural killer. The Hallows, descendants of the archangels, don’t think Milena was murdered.. but can Brie trust them when their government, the New Order, wants her dead? She better figure it all out soon… because when Brie finds out who she really is, the hunt will begin. And Milena might not be the only casualty. Like mother, like daughter…[via amazon] Twitter || Goodreads || LibraryThing || Amazon || B&N || Shelfari || G+
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Currently Reading Silver Smoke by Monica Leonelle

Release Date: 8th February, 2011

Publisher: Self-Publish

Pages: 400 (Paperback)

Details: Brie van Rossum has fame, fortune, and beauty, but there’s one thing she doesn’t have—the name of her mother’s supernatural killer.

The Hallows, descendants of the archangels, don’t think Milena was murdered.. but can Brie trust them when their government, the New Order, wants her dead?

She better figure it all out soon…

because when Brie finds out who she really is, the hunt will begin.

And Milena might not be the only casualty.

Like mother, like daughter…[via amazon]

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Currently Reading The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen Release Date: 1st April, 2012 Publisher: Scholastic Pages: 352 (Hardcover) Details: The False Prince is the thrilling first book in a brand-new trilogy filled with danger and deceit and hidden identities that will have readers rushing breathlessly to the end. In a discontent kingdom, civil war is brewing. To unify the divided people, Conner, a nobleman of the court, devises a cunning plan to find an impersonator of the king’s long-lost son and install him as a puppet prince. Four orphans are recruited to compete for the role, including a defiant boy named Sage. Sage knows that Conner’s motives are more than questionable, yet his life balances on a sword’s point — he must be chosen to play the prince or he will certainly be killed. But Sage’s rivals have their own agendas as well. As Sage moves from a rundown orphanage to Conner’s sumptuous palace, layer upon layer of treachery and deceit unfold, until finally, a truth is revealed that, in the end, may very well prove more dangerous than all of the lies taken together. An extraordinary adventure filled with danger and action, lies and deadly truths that will have readers clinging to the edge of their seats. [via amazon] Twitter || Goodreads || LibraryThing || Amazon || B&N || Shelfari || G+
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Currently Reading The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen

Release Date: 1st April, 2012

Publisher: Scholastic

Pages: 352 (Hardcover)

Details: The False Prince is the thrilling first book in a brand-new trilogy filled with danger and deceit and hidden identities that will have readers rushing breathlessly to the end.

In a discontent kingdom, civil war is brewing. To unify the divided people, Conner, a nobleman of the court, devises a cunning plan to find an impersonator of the king’s long-lost son and install him as a puppet prince. Four orphans are recruited to compete for the role, including a defiant boy named Sage. Sage knows that Conner’s motives are more than questionable, yet his life balances on a sword’s point — he must be chosen to play the prince or he will certainly be killed. But Sage’s rivals have their own agendas as well.

As Sage moves from a rundown orphanage to Conner’s sumptuous palace, layer upon layer of treachery and deceit unfold, until finally, a truth is revealed that, in the end, may very well prove more dangerous than all of the lies taken together.

An extraordinary adventure filled with danger and action, lies and deadly truths that will have readers clinging to the edge of their seats. [via amazon]

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Currently Reading The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa Release Date: 24th April, 2012 Publisher: Harlequin Teen Pages: 512 (Hardcover) Details: In a future world, vampires reign. Humans are blood cattle. And one girl will search for the key to save humanity. Allison Sekemoto survives in the Fringe, the outermost circle of a vampire city. By day, she and her crew scavenge for food. By night, any one of them could be eaten. Some days, all that drives Allie is her hatred of them. The vampires who keep humans as blood cattle. Until the night Allie herself is attacked—and given the ultimate choice. Die…or become one of the monsters. Faced with her own mortality, Allie becomes what she despises most. To survive, she must learn the rules of being immortal, including the most important: go long enough without human blood, and you will go mad. Then Allie is forced to flee into the unknown, outside her city walls. There she joins a ragged band of humans who are seeking a legend—a possible cure to the disease that killed off most of humankind and created the rabids, the mindless creatures who threaten humans and vampires alike. But it isn’t easy to pass for human. Especially not around Zeke, who might see past the monster inside her. And Allie soon must decide what—and who—is worth dying for. [via amazon] Twitter || Goodreads || LibraryThing || Amazon || B&N || Shelfari || G+
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Currently Reading The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa

Release Date: 24th April, 2012

Publisher: Harlequin Teen

Pages: 512 (Hardcover)

Details: In a future world, vampires reign. Humans are blood cattle. And one girl will search for the key to save humanity.

Allison Sekemoto survives in the Fringe, the outermost circle of a vampire city. By day, she and her crew scavenge for food. By night, any one of them could be eaten.

Some days, all that drives Allie is her hatred of them. The vampires who keep humans as blood cattle. Until the night Allie herself is attacked—and given the ultimate choice. Die…or become one of the monsters.

Faced with her own mortality, Allie becomes what she despises most. To survive, she must learn the rules of being immortal, including the most important: go long enough without human blood, and you will go mad.

Then Allie is forced to flee into the unknown, outside her city walls. There she joins a ragged band of humans who are seeking a legend—a possible cure to the disease that killed off most of humankind and created the rabids, the mindless creatures who threaten humans and vampires alike.

But it isn’t easy to pass for human. Especially not around Zeke, who might see past the monster inside her. And Allie soon must decide what—and who—is worth dying for. [via amazon]

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Currently Reading Ten Things We Did by Sarah Mlynowski Release Date: 7th June, 2011 Publisher: HarperTeen Pages: 368 (Hardcover) Details: 2 girls + 3 guys + 1 house – parents = 10 things April and her friends did that they (definitely, maybe, probably) shouldn’t have. If given the opportunity, what sixteen-year-old wouldn’t jump at the chance to move in with a friend and live parent-free? Although maybe “opportunity” isn’t the right word, since April had to tell her dad a tiny little untruth to make it happen (see #1: “Lied to Our Parents”). But she and her housemate Vi are totally responsible and able to take care of themselves. How they ended up “Skipping School” (#3), “Throwing a Crazy Party” (#8), “Buying a Hot Tub” (#4), and, um, “Harboring a Fugitive” (#7) at all is kind of a mystery to them. In this hilarious and bittersweet tale, Sarah Mlynowski mines the heart and mind of a girl on her own for the first time. To get through the year, April will have to juggle a love triangle, learn to do her own laundry, and accept that her carefully constructed world just might be falling apart … one thing-she-shouldn’t-have-done at a time. [via amazon] Twitter || Goodreads || LibraryThing || Amazon || B&N || Shelfari || G+
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Currently Reading Ten Things We Did by Sarah Mlynowski

Release Date: 7th June, 2011

Publisher: HarperTeen

Pages: 368 (Hardcover)

Details: 2 girls + 3 guys + 1 house – parents = 10 things April and her friends did that they (definitely, maybe, probably) shouldn’t have.

If given the opportunity, what sixteen-year-old wouldn’t jump at the chance to move in with a friend and live parent-free? Although maybe “opportunity” isn’t the right word, since April had to tell her dad a tiny little untruth to make it happen (see #1: “Lied to Our Parents”). But she and her housemate Vi are totally responsible and able to take care of themselves. How they ended up “Skipping School” (#3), “Throwing a Crazy Party” (#8), “Buying a Hot Tub” (#4), and, um, “Harboring a Fugitive” (#7) at all is kind of a mystery to them.

In this hilarious and bittersweet tale, Sarah Mlynowski mines the heart and mind of a girl on her own for the first time. To get through the year, April will have to juggle a love triangle, learn to do her own laundry, and accept that her carefully constructed world just might be falling apart … one thing-she-shouldn’t-have-done at a time. [via amazon]

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Currently Reading Let Justice Roll Down by John Perkins Release Date: 6th December, 2006 Publisher: Regal Books Pages: 219 (Hardcover) Details: His brother died in his arms, shot by a deputy marshall. He was beaten and tortured by the sheriff and state police. But through it all he returned good for evil, love for hate, progress for prejudice and brought hope to black and white alike. The story of John Perkins is no ordinary story. Rather, it is a gripping portrayal of what happens when faith thrusts a person into the midst of a struggle against racism, oppression and injustice. It is about the costs of discipleship—the jailings, the floggings, the despair, the sacrifice. And it is about the transforming work of faith that allowed John to respond to such overwhelming indignities with miraculous compassion, vision and hope. [via amazon] Twitter || Goodreads || LibraryThing || Amazon || B&N || Shelfari || G+
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Currently Reading Let Justice Roll Down by John Perkins

Release Date: 6th December, 2006

Publisher: Regal Books

Pages: 219 (Hardcover)

Details: His brother died in his arms, shot by a deputy marshall. He was beaten and tortured by the sheriff and state police. But through it all he returned good for evil, love for hate, progress for prejudice and brought hope to black and white alike. The story of John Perkins is no ordinary story. Rather, it is a gripping portrayal of what happens when faith thrusts a person into the midst of a struggle against racism, oppression and injustice. It is about the costs of discipleship—the jailings, the floggings, the despair, the sacrifice. And it is about the transforming work of faith that allowed John to respond to such overwhelming indignities with miraculous compassion, vision and hope. [via amazon]

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Currently Reading Pure by Jennifer L. Armentrout Release Date: 2nd April, 2012 Publisher: Spencer Hill Press Pages: 320 (Paperback) Details: Alex lives—and loves—recklessly, until a single decision leads to a heartbreaking revelation. As a mysterious threat closes in and she confronts a Council that wants to see her in servitude, Alex face a choice between love that is fated… and love that is forbidden. [via amazon] Twitter || Goodreads || LibraryThing || Amazon || B&N || Shelfari || G+
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Currently Reading Pure by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Release Date: 2nd April, 2012

Publisher: Spencer Hill Press

Pages: 320 (Paperback)

Details: Alex lives—and loves—recklessly, until a single decision leads to a heartbreaking revelation. As a mysterious threat closes in and she confronts a Council that wants to see her in servitude, Alex face a choice between love that is fated… and love that is forbidden. [via amazon]

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Currently Reading The Selection by Kiera Cass Release Date: 24th April, 2012 Publisher: HarperTeen Pages: 336 (Hardcover) Details: For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape the life laid out for them since birth. To be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels. To live in a palace and compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon. But for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. It means turning her back on her secret love with Aspen, who is a caste below her. Leaving her home to enter a fierce competition for a crown she doesn’t want. Living in a palace that is constantly threatened by violent rebel attacks. Then America meets Prince Maxon. Gradually, she starts to question all the plans she’s made for herself—and realizes that the life she’s always dreamed of may not compare to a future she never imagined. [via amazon] Twitter || Goodreads || LibraryThing || Amazon || B&N || Shelfari || G+
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Currently Reading The Selection by Kiera Cass

Release Date: 24th April, 2012

Publisher: HarperTeen

Pages: 336 (Hardcover)

Details: For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape the life laid out for them since birth. To be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels. To live in a palace and compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon.

But for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. It means turning her back on her secret love with Aspen, who is a caste below her. Leaving her home to enter a fierce competition for a crown she doesn’t want. Living in a palace that is constantly threatened by violent rebel attacks.

Then America meets Prince Maxon. Gradually, she starts to question all the plans she’s made for herself—and realizes that the life she’s always dreamed of may not compare to a future she never imagined. [via amazon]

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