By Your Side by Kasie West

ARC, 342 pages Release Date: Jannuary 31, 2017 Published by: HarperTeen Read from: January 30- February 6, 2017  Stand-alone Source: Publisher (I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for a just and honest review. This did nothing to influence my review.)  For fans of: Romance, Adventure, Chick-lit, Contemporary,  Realistic Fiction, YA       In this…

You Don’t Know my Name by Kristen Orlando

e-ARC, 320 pages Release Date: January 10, 2017 Published by: Swoon Reeads Read from: January 7-11, 2017  The Black Angel Chronicles, #1 Source: Netgalley (I recieved this book for free from the publisher. This in no way shaped my review of the book.) For fans of: Spies, Contemporary, Romance, Action, Realistic Fiction, YA      Fighter, Faker, Student, Spy. Seventeen-year-old…

My Sister Rosa by Justine Larbalestier

Hardcover, 309 pages Release Date: November 15, 2016 Published by: Soho Teen Read from: December 16-20, 2016  Stand-alone Source: Edelweiss/ Library For fans of: Contemporary, Dark & Stabby, Thriller, Diversity, Realistic Fiction, Romance, YA      What if the most terrifying person you know is your ten-year-old sister?     Seventeen-year-old Aussie Che Taylor loves his younger sister, Rosa. But he’s…

Last Seen Leaving by Caleb Roehrig

ARC,  324 pages Release Date: October 4, 2016 Published by: Feiwel & Friends Read from: October 22, 2016- Stand-alone Source: BEA For fans of: Thrillers, Romance, Own Voices, Humor, Stand-alones, Bombshell Endings      Flynn’s girlfriend has disappeared. How can he uncover her secrets without revealing his own?     Flynn’s girlfriend, January, is missing. The cops are asking questions he…

Everyone We’ve Been by Sarah Everett

ARC,  391 pages Release Date: October 4, 2016 Published by: Knopf Books for Young Readers Read from: October 11, 2016-October 21, 2016 Stand-alone Source: BEA For fans of: Mysteries, Contemps, Romance, YA, Chick-lit, Debut Authors, Diverse Reads      Addison Sullivan has been in an accident. In its aftermath, she has memory lapses and starts talking to a boy that…

As I Descended by Robin Talley

ARC,  370 pages Release Date: September 6, 2016 Published by: HarperTeen Read from: August 24- August 31, 2016 Stand-alone Source: TxLA For fans of: Retellings, Creepy, LGBTQIA, Diversity, Fantasy, Ghosts, Disability, Stand-alones, YA      Maria Lyon and Lily Boiten are their school’s ultimate power couple—even if no one knows it but them.     Only one thing stands between them…

100 Days by Nicole McInnes

ARC,  387 pages Release Date: August 23, 2016 Published by: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux(BYR) Read from: August 17- August 20, 2016 Stand-alone Source: TxLA For fans of: Contemporary, Romance, Realistic Fiction, Diversity (physical disorder), YA      Agnes doesn’t know it, but she only has one hundred days left to live. When she was just a baby, she was diagnosed…

Kill the Boy Band by Goldy Moldavsky

Audio,  6 parts Release Date: February 23, 2016 Published by: Scholastic Point Read from: July 24-28, 2016 Stand-alone Source: Library (Overdrive)  For fans of: Dark Humor, Contemporary,       Just know from the start that it wasn’t supposed to go like this. All we wanted was to get near them. That’s why we got a room in the hotel where they…

Towers Falling by Jewell Parker Rhodes

ARC, 227  pages Release Date: July 12, 2016 Published by: Little, Brown BYFR Read from: July 18-21, 2016 Stand-alone Source: TLA 2016 For fans of: Historical Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Children’s, Diverse Reads, #OwnVoices, Contemporary, DEAR,       From award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes, a powerful novel set fifteen years after the 9/11 attacks.     When her fifth-grade teacher hints…

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