After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: trust no one. Now, it’s the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human,...
young adult
Saturday Showcase (October 25)
Saturday Showcase is a weekly event hosted here at The In-Between Place which features books that you wish more people had read (or, at least, heard about). This week’s featured book is The Diviners by Libba Bray. Evie O’Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City—and she...
Book Review: To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
Lara Jean’s love life goes from imaginary to out of control in this heartfelt novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer I Turned Pretty series. What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them… all at once? Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters in a hatbox her...
Top Ten Bookish Places I’d Love To Visit
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly book meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Each week, she posts an idea relating to books and encourages other book bloggers to respond with their own top ten lists. This week’s topic is “top ten places books have made me want to visit.” A Gatsby Gala – The Great Gatsby by...
Book Review: My True Love Gave to Me by Stephanie Perkins
If you love holiday stories, holiday movies, made-for-TV-holiday specials, holiday episodes of your favorite sitcoms and, especially, if you love holiday anthologies, you’re going to fall in love with MY TRUE LOVE GAVE TO ME: TWELVE HOLIDAY STORIES by twelve bestselling young adult writers, edited by international bestselling author Stephanie Perkins. Whether you celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah, Winter...
Waiting on Wednesday (October 8)
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly book meme hosted by Breaking the Spine, which spotlights upcoming releases that are eagerly anticipated. This week, I’m waiting on The Witch Hunter by Virginia Boecker, which has an expected publication date of June 2, 2015. The magic and suspense of Graceling meet the political intrigue and unrest of Game of Thrones...
Book Review: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
Mara Dyer doesn’t think life can get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there. It can. She believes there must be more to the accident she can’t remember that killed her friends and left her mysteriously unharmed. There is. She doesn’t believe that after everything she’s been through, she...
Waiting on Wednesday (October 1)
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly book meme hosted by Breaking the Spine, which spotlights upcoming releases that are eagerly anticipated. This week, I’m waiting on The Retribution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin, which has an expected publication date of November 4, 2014. Mara Dyer wants to believe there’s more to the lies she’s been told. There...
This Month in Books: October 2014
October is here, which means that fall is finally here! I personally cannot wait to curl up in my coziest sweater with Rolo hot chocolate and many of these new releases. As always, if you’re interested in one of the books, click on its cover image to be taken to its Goodreads page. October 1 October 6 October...
Book Review: Dangerous Boys by Abigail Haas
Three teens venture into the abandoned Monroe estate one night; hours later, only two emerge from the burning wreckage. Chloe drags one Reznick brother to safety, unconscious and bleeding; the other is left to burn, dead in the fire. But which brother survives? And is his death a tragic accident? Desperate self-defense? Or murder? Chloe is the only...