Weariland by Mary Shotwell Genre: YA Release Date: May 10th 2016 Merge Publishing Summary: For fifteen-year-old Lason Davies, it all started with a text. “HIDING PLACE.” The last words of her murdered grandmother haunt Lason as she travels to England with her sheltering mother for the funeral. The crime is a sensation, but the clamoring reporters … More YA Spotlight & Giveaway: Weariland by Mary Shotwell
The Last Winter Moon (The Cycle of the Six Moons #3) by Adelle Yeung Genre: YA Fantasy Release Date: November 11th 2016 Summary from Goodreads: The Goddess of Starrs has vanished… Arriscyal has fallen… Gediyon is missing… Dreana holds the answers to everyone’s pasts… When Michelle returns to Starrs, the world is in chaos. No one knows who to trust, … More YA Spotlight & Giveaway: The Last Winter Moon by Adelle Yeung
Happy Halloween everyone! I’m thrilled to feature a Q & A with an author that definitely knows how to put chills on the page…C.C. Hunter! Her Shadow Falls series has come to a close with the release of MIDNIGHT HOUR and C.C. took time out of her busy schedule to answer a few of my questions … More Q & A with bestselling author C.C. Hunter
About the book: Over one million readers have already fallen in love with CC Hunter’s Camp Shadow Falls between the Shadow Falls series and the After Dark series. Now comes the conclusion of Hunter’s massive saga MIDNIGHT HOUR (St. Martin’s Griffin; October 25, 2016), a thrilling finale involving a missing sister, a heart in quandary, … More YA Spotlight & Giveaway: Midnight Hour by C.C. Hunter
CERTAIN DARK THINGS: A Novel By Silvia Moreno-Garcia Published by Thomas Dunne Books Publication date: October 25, 2016 | In 2015, Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s debut, SIGNAL TO NOISE, jump started her writing career as one of the best of the year on seven lists including RT, BookRiot, Buzzfeed, io9, Vice, and Tor.com. The debut was also … More Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Fast-Pitch Love by Clay Cormany Genre: YA Romance Release Date: November 4th 2014 Clean Reads Summary: What does a high school boy do if he thinks the girl of his dreams will be an assistant for the softball team his mother coaches? Easy! He volunteers to be an assistant, too. That’s what Jace Waldron does in Fast-Pitch Love. It … More YA Spotlight: Fast-Pitch Love by Clay Cormany
From talented debut YA author Tara Eglington comes a page-turning, funny and delicious romp of a book, HOW TO KEEP A BOY FROM KISSING YOU (Thomas Dunne Books; October 25, 2016). Tara wonderfully captures the hopes that are so often woven around first kisses. Everybody wants their first kiss to be perfect, and to the … More YA Spotlight with Excerpt: How to Keep a Boy From Kissing You by Tara Eglington
Title: GLITTER by Aprilynne Pike Pub. Date: October 25, 2016 Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers From #1 New York Times bestselling author Aprilynne Pike comes a truly original new novel—Breaking Bad meets Marie Antoinette in a near-future world where the residents of Versailles live like it’s the eighteenth century and an almost-queen turns … More YA Spotlight: Glitter by Aprilynne Pike
The Row by J.R. Johansson Genre: YA Mystery Release Date: October 11th 2016 FSG/Macmillan Summary from Goodreads: A death sentence. A family torn apart. One girl’s hunt for the truth. Seventeen-year-old Riley Beckett is no stranger to prison. Her father is a convicted serial killer on death row who has always maintained that he was falsely accused. … More YA Spotlight with Character Interview: The Row by J.R. Johansson (Plus a Giveaway!)
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