ARC, 383 pages Release Date: May 5, 2015 Published by: Bloomsbury Once Upon a Crime Family, #1 Source: ATWAT For fans of: Thrillers, Re-tellings, YA Penelope Landlow has grown up with the knowledge that almost anything can be bought or sold—including body parts. She’s the daughter of one of the three crime families…
e-ARC, 408 pages Release Date: May 12, 2015 Published by: Putnam Juvenile The Wrath and the Dawn, #1 Source: Penguin Teen First Reads (I received this e-ARC from the publisher. This in no way shaped my opinion on the book. All thoughts of this are my own.) For fans of: High Fantasy, Romance, Diversity, Magic, Series,…
ARC, 328 pages Release Date: October 14, 2014 Published by: Disney-Hyperion Stand-alone Source: ATWT For fans of: Re-tellings, Fantasy, Sci-Fi Princess Snow is missing. Her home planet is filled with violence and corruption at the hands of King Matthias and his wife as they attempt to punish her captors. The king will…
Swoon Thursday is a weekly event hosted by YA Bound. Here’s what you do: From the book you’re currently reading, or one you just finished, tell me what made you swoon. What got your heart pounding, your skin tingling, and your stomach fluttering. Shout it out on twitter with the hashtag #YABound, post it here in…
e-ARC, 193 pages Release Date: May 13, 2014 Published by: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux Stand-alone Source: Netgalley For fans of: YA, Contemporary, Romance, Retellings A twisty story about love, loss, and lies, this contemporary oceanside adventure is tinged with a touch of dark magic as it follows seventeen-year-old Wendy Darling on a search…
ARC, 263 pages Release Date: April 8, 2014 Published by: Balzer + Bray Stand-alone Source: Around the World ARC Tours For fans of: Retellings, Chick-lit, LGBTQ, Cntemporary In Sara Benincasa’s contemporary retelling of The Great Gatsby, a teenage girl becomes entangled in the drama of a Hamptons social circle, only to be implicated…
Nook Book, 150 pages Release Date: November 12, 2013 Published by: HarperCollins Dorothy Must Die, #0.5 Source: Own For fans of: Retellings, Fantasy, Novellas, YA In this digital original novella, Dorothy travels back to Oz to reunite with old friends, but her story may not have a happy ending. No Place Like Oz is a…
ARC, 550 pages Release Date: February 4, 2014 Published by: Feiwel & Friends The Lunar Chronicles, #3 Source: Around the World ARC Tours For fans of: Fantasy, YA, Romance, Retellings, Sci-fi, Fantasy, YA Rapunzel’s tower is a satellite. She can’t let down her hair—or her guard. In this third book in…
e-ARC, 352 pages Release Date: January 28, 2014 Published by: Balzer + Bray Cruel Beauty Universe, #1 Source: Edelweiss For fans of: Fantasy, YA, Romance, Retellings Graceling meets Beauty and the Beast in this sweeping fantasy about one girl’s journey to fulfill her destiny and the monster who gets in her way-by stealing her heart. …
ARC, 339 pages Release Date: March 12, 2013 Published by: Random House Children’s Books Strands of Bronze and Gold, #1 Source: Own For fans of: Historical Fiction, Retellings, Gothic The Bluebeard fairy tale retold. . . . When seventeen-year-old Sophia Petheram’s beloved father dies, she receives an unexpected letter. An invitation—on…
