The Unlikelies by Carrie Firestone

ARC, 318 pages Release Date: June 6, 2017 Published by: Henry Holt & Co. Read from: June 17-20, 2017 Stand-alone Source: TxLA 2017 For fans of:  Action, Contemporary, Romance, Stand-alones, YA      One good deed will change everything.     Sadie is not excited for the summer before her senior year. It will be her first without her college-bound best…

Bad Romance by Heather Demetrios

ARC, 354 pages Release Date: June 13, 2017 Published by: Henry Holt & Co. Read from: June 11-17, 2017 Stand-alone Source: TxLA 2017 For fans of: Romance, Realistic Fiction, Contemporary, Dark, New Adult, Sparkly Covers, DEAR      Grace wants out. Out of her house, where her stepfather wields fear like a weapon and her mother makes her scrub imaginary dirt…

Stacking the Shelves #227 & the Weekly Wrap-Up!

This bookish meme tells the blogosphere what all we borrowed, bought, and received for review. It’s hosted over at Tynga’s Reviews. For Review:  The Weekly Wrap-Up! Sunday 06/11/2017: Stacking the Shelves #226 & the Weekly Wrap-Up!  Monday 06/12/17:  Review- Want by Cindy Pon Tuesday 06/13/17: Top Ten Best/Worst Dads in YA!  Wednesday 06/14/17: Waiting on Wednesday: The Serpent’s Secret by Sayantani Dasgupta Thursday 06/15/2017:  Review:…

Book to Movie: The Girl on the Train

R, 112 minutes Release Date: October 7, 2016 A divorcee becomes entangled in a missing persons investigation that promises to send shockwaves throughout her life. Director: Tate Taylor Writers: Erin Cressida Wilson (screenplay), Paula Hawkins (based on the novel by) Stars: Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett, Rebecca Ferguson. (From IMDB) *MY THOUGHTS*       To…

Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy

ARC, 3391 pages Release Date: May 9, 2017 Published by: Balzer + Bray Read from: June 1- 4, 2017 Stand-alone Source: TxLA  For fans of: Contemporary, Romance, Realistic Fiction, Coming of Age, LGBTQ- Bisexual, Own Voices, YA      Ramona was only five years old when Hurricane Katrina changed her life forever.     Since then, it’s been Ramona and her family…

Want by Cindy Pon

ARC, 323 pages Release Date: June 13, 2017 Published by: Simon Pulse Read from: June 4-11 , 2017 Want, #1 Source: TxLA  For fans of: Sci-Fi, YA      From critically acclaimed author Cindy Pon comes an edge-of-your-seat sci-fi thriller, set in a near-future Taipei plagued by pollution, about a group of teens who risk everything to save their city. …

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