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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event that is hosted by Jill at   Breaking the Spine to show the  upcoming titles that we're mostly eager for. Summary (from Goodreads)   Title : Winterkill Author : Kate A Boorman Publication Date : September 9th 2014 Publisher : Abrams/Amulet Goodreads   Emmeline knows the woods outside her settlement are forbidden. The mysterious enemy that wiped out half her people lurks there, keeping them isolated in an unfamiliar land with merciless winters. Living with the shame of her grandmother's insubordination, Emmeline has learned to keep her head down and her quick tongue silent. When the settlement leader asks for her hand in marriage, it's a rare opportunity to wash the family stain clean--even if she has eyes for another. But before she is forced into an impossible decision, her dreams urge her out to the woods, where she finds a path she can't help but follow. The trail leads to a secret that someone in the settlement wi...

Summary (from Goodreads) Title : The Chapel Wars Author : Lindsey Leavitt Publication Date : May 6th 2014 Publisher : Bloomsbury  Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble Acclaimed author Lindsey Leavitt brings her trademark heart, humor, and romance to her hometown--Vegas Sixteen-year-old Holly wants to remember her Grandpa forever, but she’d rather forget what he left her in his will: his wedding chapel on the Las Vegas strip. Whatever happened to gold watches, savings bonds, or some normal inheritance? And then there's Grandpa's letter. Not only is she running the business with her recently divorced parents, but she needs to make some serious money--fast. Grandpa also insists Holly reach out to Dax, the grandson of her family's mortal enemy and owner of the cheesy chapel next door. No matter how cute Dax is, Holly needs to stay focused: on her group of guy friends, her disjointed family, work, school and... Dax. No wait, not Dax. Holly’s chapel represents eve...

Summary (from Goodreads) Title : The Treatment (The Program #2) Author : Suzanne Young Publication Date : April 29th 2014 Publisher : Simon Pulse  Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble Can Sloane and James survive the lies and secrets surrounding them, or will The Program claim them in the end? Find out in this sequel to The Program, which Publishers Weekly called “chilling and suspenseful.” How do you stop an epidemic? Sloane and James are on the run after barely surviving the suicide epidemic and The Program. But they’re not out of danger. Huge pieces of their memories are still missing, and although Sloane and James have found their way back to each other, The Program isn’t ready to let them go. Escaping with a group of troubled rebels, Sloane and James will have to figure out who they can trust, and how to take down The Program. But for as far as they’ve come, there’s still a lot Sloane and James can’t remember. The key to unlocking their past lies with the Treat...

Summary (from Goodreads)   Title : Make It Double (Last Call #2) Author : Sawyer Bennett Publication Date : April 21st 2014 Publisher : Self-Published Goodreads - Amazon Brody Markham has endured a nightmare, spending the last five years in prison and losing everything that was dear to him. Now he’s back home, trying to survive in a world he doesn’t recognize anymore. While his family and friends desperately try to reach through to him, he shelters himself further and further away from their love. Alyssa Myers has worked her entire life to distance herself from the luxurious and privileged lifestyle in which she was raised. Running her non-profit agency, The Haven, she is content to spend her days helping abused animals find sanctuary, which fulfills her in a way that money just can’t buy. Maybe it’s that she recognizes in Brody some of the same characteristics she sees in her homeless wards, but Alyssa is powerless to stop her personal quest to make Brody whole again...

Summary (from Goodreads) Title : We Were Liars Author : E.Lockhart  Publication Date : May 13th 2014 Publisher : Delacorte Press Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble A beautiful and distinguished family. A private island. A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy. A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive. A revolution. An accident. A secret. Lies upon lies. True love. The truth. We Were Liars is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel from National Book Award finalist and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart. Read it. And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE. Personal Thoughts Before going into We Were Liars , I was quite excited. The blurb sounded mysterious and it was receiving some very strong reviews. The minute I read the first line, though, I knew that We Were Liars was not going to be the book for me. The writing style just wasn't up to my liking. It's written in a very strange way, with short sentences and chapters, which ul...

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event that is hosted by Jill at   Breaking the Spine to show the  upcoming titles that we're mostly eager for. Summary (from Goodreads)   Title : Dove Arising Author : Karen Bao Publication Date : August 19th 2014 Publisher : Viking Juvenile Goodreads   Phaet Theta has lived her whole life in a colony on the Moon. She’s barely spoken since her father died in an accident nine years ago. She cultivates the plants in Greenhouse 22, lets her best friend talk for her, and stays off the government’s radar. Then her mother is arrested. The only way to save her younger siblings from the degrading Shelter is by enlisting in the Militia, the faceless army that polices the Lunar bases and protects them from attacks by desperate Earth-dwellers. Training is brutal, but it’s where Phaet forms an uneasy but meaningful alliance with the preternaturally accomplished Wes, a fellow outsider. Rank high, save her siblings, free her mom: ...

Summary (from Goodreads) Title : Stolen Songbird (The Malediction Trilogy #1) Author : Danielle L. Jensen Publication Date : April 1st 2014 Publisher : Strange Chemistry Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble For five centuries, a witch’s curse has bound the trolls to their city beneath the ruins of Forsaken Mountain. Time enough for their dark and nefarious magic to fade from human memory and into myth. But a prophesy has been spoken of a union with the power to set the trolls free, and when Cécile de Troyes is kidnapped and taken beneath the mountain, she learns there is far more to the myth of the trolls than she could have imagined. Cécile has only one thing on her mind after she is brought to Trollus: escape. Only the trolls are clever, fast, and inhumanly strong. She will have to bide her time, wait for the perfect opportunity. But something unexpected happens while she’s waiting – she begins to fall for the enigmatic troll prince to whom she has been bonded and marr...

Summary (from Goodreads) Title : Something Real Author : Heather Demetrios Publication Date : February 4th 2014 Publisher : Henry Holt BYR Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble There’s nothing real about reality TV. Seventeen-year-old Bonnie™ Baker has grown up on TV—she and her twelve siblings are the stars of one-time hit reality show Baker’s Dozen. Since the show’s cancellation and the scandal surrounding it, Bonnie™ has tried to live a normal life, under the radar and out of the spotlight. But it’s about to fall apart…because Baker’s Dozen is going back on the air. Bonnie™’s mom and the show’s producers won’t let her quit and soon the life she has so carefully built for herself, with real friends (and maybe even a real boyfriend), is in danger of being destroyed by the show. Bonnie™ needs to do something drastic if her life is ever going to be her own—even if it means being more exposed than ever before. Personal Thoughts Something Real has been receiving some fanta...

Summary (from Goodreads) Title : My Not So Super Sweet Life (My Super Sweet Sixteenth Century #3) Author : Rachel Harris Publication Date : April 21st 2014 Publisher : Entangled Teen Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble Cat Crawford just wants to be normal—or at least as normal as a daughter of Hollywood royalty can be. And it looks like fate is granting her wish: she’s got an amazing boyfriend, Lucas; her fabulous cousin, Alessandra, living with her; and her dad planning his second marriage to a great future stepmom. That is, until her prodigal mother reveals on national television that she has something important to tell her daughter…causing a media frenzy. Lucas Capelli knows his fate is to be with Cat, and he’s worked hard to win her over once and for all. Unfortunately, Lucas has his own issues to deal with, including a scandal that could take him away from the first place he’s truly belonged. As secrets are revealed, rumors explode, and the world watches, Cat and ...

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event that is hosted by Jill at   Breaking the Spine to show the  upcoming titles that we're mostly eager for. Summary (from Goodreads)   Title : Talon (Talon #1) Author : Julie Kagawa Publication Date : October 28th 2014 Publisher : Harlequin Teen Goodreads   Long ago, dragons were hunted to near extinction by the Order of St. George, a legendary society of dragon slayers. Hiding in human form and growing their numbers in secret, the dragons of Talon have become strong and cunning, and they're positioned to take over the world with humans none the wiser. Ember and Dante Hill are the only sister and brother known to dragonkind. Trained to infiltrate society, Ember wants to live the teen experience and enjoy a summer of freedom before taking her destined place in Talon. But destiny is a matter of perspective, and a rogue dragon will soon challenge everything Ember has been taught. As Ember struggles to accept her future, sh...

Summary (from Goodreads) Title : The Taking (The Taking #1) Author : Kimberly Derting Publication Date : April 29th 2014 Publisher : HarperTeen Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble A flash of white light . . . and then . . . nothing. When sixteen-year-old Kyra Agnew wakes up behind a Dumpster at the Gas ’n’ Sip, she has no memory of how she got there. With a terrible headache and a major case of déjà vu, she heads home only to discover that five years have passed . . . yet she hasn’t aged a day. Everything else about Kyra’s old life is different. Her parents are divorced, her boyfriend, Austin, is in college and dating her best friend, and her dad has changed from an uptight neat-freak to a drunken conspiracy theorist who blames her five-year disappearance on little green men. Confused and lost, Kyra isn’t sure how to move forward unless she uncovers the truth. With Austin gone, she turns to Tyler, Austin’s annoying kid brother, who is now seventeen and who she has a s...

Summary (from Goodreads) Title : Unfixable Author : Tessa Bailey Publication Date : April 14th 2014 Publisher : Entangled Embrace Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble He’s the last thing she wants...but the only thing she needs. Willa Peet isn’t interested in love. She’s been there, done that, and has the shattered heart to prove it. Ready to shake the breakup,she heads to Dublin, Ireland. But there’s a problem. A dark-haired, blue-eyed problem with a bad attitude that rivals her own. And he’s not doling out friendly Irish welcomes. Shane Claymore just wants to race. The death of his father forced him off the Formula One circuit, but he’s only staying in Dublin long enough to sell the Claymore Inn and get things in order for his mother and younger sister. He never expected the sarcastic American girl staying at the inn to make him question everything . But even as Willa and Shane’s fiery natures draw them together, their pasts threaten to rip them apart. Can Shane giv...

Summary (from Goodreads) Title : Prisoner of Night and Fog (Prisoner of Night and Fog #1) Author : Anne Blankman Publication Date : April 22nd 2014 Publisher : Balzer & Bray Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble In 1930s Munich, danger lurks behind dark corners, and secrets are buried deep within the city. But Gretchen Müller, who grew up in the National Socialist Party under the wing of her "uncle" Dolf, has been shielded from that side of society ever since her father traded his life for Dolf's, and Gretchen is his favorite, his pet. Uncle Dolf is none other than Adolf Hitler. And Gretchen follows his every command. Until she meets a fearless and handsome young Jewish reporter named Daniel Cohen. Gretchen should despise Daniel, yet she can't stop herself from listening to his story: that her father, the adored Nazi martyr, was actually murdered by an unknown comrade. She also can't help the fierce attraction brewing between them, despite everyt...

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event that is hosted by Jill at   Breaking the Spine to show the  upcoming titles that we're mostly eager for. Summary (from Goodreads)   Title : The Perilous Sea (The Elemental Trilogy #2) Author : Sherry Thomas Publication Date : August 26th 2014 Publisher : Harper Teen Goodreads   After spending the summer away from each other, Titus and Iolanthe (still disguised as Archer Fairfax) are eager to return to Eton College to resume their training to fight the Bane. Although no longer bound to Titus by a blood oath, Iolanthe is more committed than ever to fulfilling her destiny—especially with the agents of Atlantis quickly closing in. Soon after arriving at school, though, Titus makes a shocking discovery, one that makes him question everything he previously believed about their mission. Faced with this devastating realization, Iolanthe is forced to come to terms with her new role, while Titus must choose between following h...

Summary (from Goodreads) Title : Hothouse Flower (Calloway Sisters #2) Author : Becca & Krista Ritchie Publication Date : March 28th 2014 Publisher : Self-Published Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble Ryke Meadows, meet Daisy Calloway ... she’s all grown up. Twenty-five-year-old Ryke Meadows knows he’s hard to love. With a billion-dollar inheritance, a track-star resume, and an alpha-male personality—he redefines the term likable asshole . But he’s not living to make friends. Or enemies. He just wants to free climb three of the toughest mountains in Yosemite without drama or interruption. And then he receives a distressed call from a girl in Paris—a girl that he has never been allowed to have. Daisy Calloway is eighteen. Finally. With her newfound independence, she can say goodbye to her overbearing mother and continue her modeling career. Next stop, Paris. Fashion Week begins with a bang, and Daisy uncovers the ugly reality of the industry. She wants to prove to he...

Summary (from Goodreads) Title : The Forever Song (Blood of Eden #3) Author : Julie Kagawa Publication Date : April 15th 2014 Publisher : Harlequin Teen Goodreads - Amazon - Barnes & Noble VENGEANCE WILL BE HERS Allison Sekemoto once struggled with the question: human or monster? With the death of her love, Zeke, she has her answer. MONSTER Allie will embrace her cold vampire side to hunt down and end Sarren, the psychopathic vampire who murdered Zeke. But the trail is bloody and long, and Sarren has left many surprises for Allie and her companions—her creator, Kanin, and her blood brother, Jackal. The trail is leading straight to the one place they must protect at any cost—the last vampire-free zone on Earth, Eden. And Sarren has one final, brutal shock in store for Allie. In a ruined world where no life is sacred and former allies can turn on you in one heartbeat, Allie will face her darkest days. And if she succeeds, triumph is short-lived in the face of surviving f...

Book Haul is weekly feature here at Nick's Book Blog inspired by Stacking the Shelves by Tynga's Review and The Sunday Post by Caffeinated Book Reviewer. Book Haul Don't Touch by Rachel M.Wilson Stolen Songbird by Danielle L. Jensen Something Real by Heather Demetrios Written in Red by Anne Bishop Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop Hi everyone! I hope you're all doing great. I had a bit of a rough week this week and if you probably saw me on Twitter ranting about how my life sucks. My bad mood is one reason I haven't been good with commenting, so I apologize for that. Anyways, I went book shopping on Friday afternoon to cheer me up and I got some pretty awesome reads that I can't wait to read. I was initially not going to download Don't Touch, but that blurb just reeled me in. It sounds so much like the kinds of YA contemporaries that I enjoy reading, so I'm truly excited to read it.  Stolen Songbird has been receiving some amazing reviews and I knew I...