“Don’t worry, Anna. I’ll tell her, okay? Just let me think about the best way to do it.” “Okay.” “Promise me? Promise you won’t say anything?” “Don’t worry.” I laughed. “It’s our secret, right?” According to Anna’s best friend, Frankie, twenty days in Zanzibar Bay is the perfect opportunity to have a summer fling, and if they meet...
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Book Review: The Night After I Lost You by Sarah Rees Brennan
Set the night after the end of Unspoken, before all the action of Untold. You have to keep moving in a Gothic mystery. But sometimes you can take a night to be sad. My Rating: The Night After I Lost You is an excellent way to bridge the gap between Unspoken and Untold although it...
Book Review: Unspoken by Sarah Rees Brennan
Kami Glass loves someone she’s never met . . . a boy she’s talked to in her head ever since she was born. She wasn’t silent about her imaginary friend during her childhood, and is thus a bit of an outsider in her sleepy English town of Sorry-in-the-Vale. Still, Kami hasn’t suffered too much from not fitting in....
Book Review: The Liar Society by Lisa Roecker
Kate Lowry didn’t think dead best friends could send e-mails. But when she gets an e-mail from Grace, she’s not so sure. To: [email protected] Sent: Sun 9/14 11:59 PM From: [email protected] Subject: (no subject) Kate, I’m here… sort of. Find Cameron. He knows. I shouldn’t be writing. Don’t tell. They’ll hurt you. Now Kate has no choice but...
Waiting on Wednesday (January 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 We Were Liars by E. Lockhart which has an expected publication date of May 13, 2014. A beautiful and distinguished family. A private island. A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy....
Saturday Showcase (January 4)
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 Butterfly Clues by Kate Ellison. Penelope (Lo) Marin has always loved to collect beautiful things. Her dad’s consulting job means she’s grown up moving from...
Book Review: Pawn by Aimee Carter
YOU CAN BE A VII. IF YOU GIVE UP EVERYTHING. For Kitty Doe, it seems like an easy choice. She can either spend her life as a III in misery, looked down upon by the higher ranks and forced to leave the people she loves, or she can become a VII and join the most powerful family in...
Friday Finds (January 3)
Friday Finds is a weekly event hosted by Should Be Reading, where you discuss books that you’ve discovered and added to your to-read list over the course of the week. These books don’t have to be ones that you’ve purchased – they can be books that you’ve borrowed, found online, heard about from a friend, etc. As always,...
Book Review: Something Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard
The year is 1876, and there’s something strange and deadly loose in Philadelphia… Eleanor Fitt has a lot to worry about. Her brother has gone missing, her family has fallen on hard times, and her mother is determined to marry her off to any rich young man who walks by. But this is nothing compared to what she’s...
This Month In Books: January 2014
I can’t think of a better way to ring in the new year than reading some much-anticipated new releases, and thankfully this month doesn’t look like it’s going to disappoint. Here are some of the January releases on my to-read list that I’m most looking forward to reading: January 7 January 14 January 23 January 28 What January...