When no one listens, what’s the point of talking? Kyle McGinley doesn’t say a word. Fed up with being shuttled from one foster care home to another, he has stopped speaking. But at the home of Scott and Jill Wardman, with the help of a crow, and a swamp, and an excess of blank paint, he begins to...
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Cover Reveal: Awakening by Christy Dorrity
Today, I am participating in the cover reveal of Awakening by Christy Dorrity. Awakening is a young adult fantasy novel that will be published on September 24, and is the first book in The Geis series. Synopsis …because some Celtic stories won’t be contained in myth. A little magic has always run in sixteen-year-old McKayla McCleery’s family—at least...
Saturday Showcase (August 3)
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 books are the Chaos Walking series by Patrick Ness. Prentisstown isn’t like other towns. Everyone can hear everyone else’s thoughts in an overwhelming, never-ending stream of Noise. Just...
Book Review: I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga
What if the world’s worst serial killer…was your dad? Jasper “Jazz” Dent is a likable teenager. A charmer, one might say. But he’s also the son of the world’s most infamous serial killer, and for Dear Old Dad, Take Your Son to Work Day was year-round. Jazz has witnessed crime scenes the way cops wish they could—from the...
Waiting on Wednesday (July 31)
Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine, which spotlights upcoming releases that are eagerly anticipated. This week’s release that I’m (not so) patiently awaiting is Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by April Genevieve Tucholke, which has an expected publication date of August 15. You stop fearing the devil when you’re...
ARC Review: Grasping at Eternity by Karen Amanda Hooper
Leave it to Maryah Woodsen to break the one rule that will screw up eternity: Never erase your memories. Before entering this life, Maryah did the unthinkable—she erased. Now, at seventeen years old, she’s clueless that her new adoptive family has known her for centuries, that they are perpetually reincarnated souls, and that they have supernatural abilities. Oh,...
Book Review: The Bunker Diary by Kevin Brooks
Room meets Lord of the Flies, The Bunker Diary is award-winning, young adult writer Kevin Brooks’s pulse-pounding exploration of what happens when your worst nightmare comes true – and how will you survive? I can’t believe I fell for it. It was still dark when I woke up this morning. As soon as my eyes opened I knew...
Saturday Showcase (July 27)
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 A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle, #1) by Libba Bray. A Victorian boarding school story, a Gothic mansion mystery, a gossipy romp about a clique...
ARC Review: Arrow of the Mist by Christina Mercer
Terror strikes the Celtic inspired kingdom of Nemetona when barbed roots breach the veil of a forbidden land and poison woodsmen, including 15-year-old Lia’s beloved father. Lia and three others embark on a quest to the forbidden land of Brume to gather ingredients for the cure. But after her elder kinsman is attacked and poisoned, she and her...
ARC Review: Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick
In addition to the P-38, there are four gifts, one for each of my friends. I want to say good-bye to them properly. I want to give them each something to remember me by. To let them know I really cared about them and I’m sorry I couldn’t be more than I was—that I couldn’t stick around—and that...