Grave Mercy (His Fair Assassin #1) by Robin LaFevers Published by Houghton Mifflin HarcourtPublish Date: April 3, 2012509 PagesMy Source: Borrowed/NetGalley Why be the sheep, when you can be the wolf? Seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where the sisters still serve the […]
Partials (Partials #1) by Dan Wells Published by Balzer + Bray Publish Date: February 28, 2012 472 Pages My Source: ARC from publisher Humanity is all but extinguished after a war with Partials–engineered organic beings identical to humans–has decimated the world’s population. Reduced to only tens of thousands by a weaponized virus to which only […]
What Happened to Hannahby Mary Kay McComasPublished by William Morrow PublishingPublish Date: February 7, 2012352 PagesMy Source: William Morrow/TLC Book Tours As a teenager, Hannah Benson ran away from home in order to save herself. Now, twenty years later, the past comes calling and delivers life-changing news: her mother and sister have passed away, leaving […]
Bewitching (The Kendra Chronicles #1) by Alex Flinn Published by HarperTeen Publish Date: February 14, 2012 336 Pages My Source: Borrowed Bewitching can be a beast. . . . Once, I put a curse on a beastly and arrogant high school boy. That one turned out all right. Others didn’t. I go to a new school now—one […]
Airel (The Airel Saga #1) by Aaron Patterson & Chris White Published by StoneHouse Ink Publish Date: May 1, 2011 My Source: review copy from the author All Airel ever wanted was to be normal, to disappear into the crowd. But bloodlines can produce surprises, like an incredible ability to heal. Then there’s Michael Alexander, […]
Harbinger by Sara Wilson Etienne Published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons BYR Publish Date: February 2, 2012320 PagesMy Source: Borrowed Plagued by waking visions and nightmares, inexplicably drawn to the bones of dead animals, Faye thinks she’s going crazy. Fast. Her parents beleive Holbrook Academy might just be the solution. Dr. Mordoch tells her it’s the […]
Masque of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin Published by HarperCollins Publish Date: April 24, 2012 320 Pages My Source: Borrowed Everything is in ruins. A devastating plague has decimated the population. And those who are left live in fear of catching it as the city crumbles to pieces around them. So what does Araby Worth have […]
A Million Suns (Across the Universe #2) by Beth Revis Published by Razorbill Publish Date: January 10, 2012386 PagesMy Source: Borrowed 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 […]
The Raft by S.A. Bodeen Published by Feiwel & Friends Publish Date: August 21, 2012231 PagesMy Source: Borrowed Robie, 15, lives with her family on the Midway atoll, a group of islands in the middle of the Pacific. Her parents are scientists; it’s an isolated life. Robie enjoys visiting her aunt in Hawaii – she […]
The Flight of Gemma Hardy by Margot Livesey Published by HarperCollins Publishers Publish Date: January 24, 2012 464 Pages My Source: HarperCollins/TLC Book Tours A captivating tale, set in Scotland in the early 1960s, that is both an homage to and a modern variation on the enduring classic Jane Eyre. Fate has not been kind to […]