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The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey Review, Trailer and Contest Giveaway - 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. [...]

Breaking Point by Kristen Simmons Review, Excerpt and Giveaway - After faking their deaths to escape from prison, Ember Miller and Chase Jennings have only one goal: to lay low until the Federal Bureau of Reformation forgets they ever existed. [...]

Blog Tour: Prodigy by Marie Lu Review - June and Day arrive in Vegas just as the unthinkable happens: the Elector Primo dies, and his son takes his place. [...]

Miranda wakes up alone on a park bench with no memory. In her panic, she releases a mysterious energy that incites pure terror in everyone around her. Except Peter, a boy who isn’t at all surprised by Miranda’s shocking ability. Left with no choice but to trust this stranger, Miranda discovers she was trained to [...]

Tamora Pierce meets George R. R. Martin in this smart, political, medieval fantasy-thriller. There is a new king on the throne of Tildor. Currents of political unrest sweep the country as two warring crime families seek power, angling to exploit the young Crown's inexperience. At the Academy of Tildor, the training ground for elite soldiers, Cadet [...]

Thank you to Valerie @ Stuck in Books for hosting this blog tour! If the Protector series turned into a movie, which actors would you cast as Chase, Rayna, and Riley? You’re going to hate me for this, but I can’t even tell you. Mostly because when this series started out, I refused to talk [...]

Blog Tour: Falling Kingdoms by Morgan Rhodes Review - Three kingdoms grapple for power--brutally transforming their subjects' lives in the process. [...]

There is an incredible amount of realistic possibilities that a super volcano could unleash on the world. I was incredibly surprised by the amount of research Mike Mullin did. I love it when authors incorporate real-life problems into their books. [...]

Author: Lee Chambers Publication Date: July 20, 2011 Publisher: MISFP Publishing (Pineville Heist Inc.) Formats: ebook, 147 pages Source: Accepted review pitch from Lee Chambers Description Seventeen year old Aaron stumbles into the aftermath of a five million dollar bank heist gone wrong. Hiding under a canoe, Aaron partially catches the murder of one of [...]

Thanks to RandomHouse Canada for hosting this blog tour! Book Nerd asks Moira Young, “How does your writing style or your tone and voice help you to be unique amongst the plethora of YA writers out there?” That’s an interesting one. Saba, the hero of the Dust Lands trilogy, is the voice of these books. [...]

Author: Elizabeth Norris Publication Date: April 23, 2013 Publisher: Balzer + Bray Formats: Hardcover, 496 pages Description Four months after Ben disappeared through the portal to his home universe, Janelle believes she’ll never see him again. Her world is still devastated, but life is finally starting to resume some kind of normalcy. Until Interverse Agent [...]

Author: Kendra C. Highley Publication Date: August 18, 2012 Publisher: CreateSpace Formats: Paperback/e-book, 299 pages Source: An ePub was provided by YA Bound Description Fourteen-year-old Matt Archer spends his days studying Algebra, hanging out with his best friend and crushing on the Goddess of Greenhill High, Ella Mitchell. To be honest, he thinks his life is [...]

Author: Melissa West Publication Date: October 30, 2012 Publisher: Entangled Publishing Formats: Trade paperback, 304 pages Source: An ePub was provided by Shane @ Itching For Books Buy: Add: Description In the future, only one rule will matter: Don’t. Ever. Peek. Seventeen-year-old Ari Alexander just broke that rule and saw the last person she expected [...]

Seventeen-year-old Violet Eden is learning what it means to be Grigori: part angel and part human with a destiny is to protect humans from the vengeance of exiled angels. Knowing who to trust is key, but when Grigori reinforcements arrive, it becomes clear everyone is hiding something. Even her partner, Lincoln. Violet has to learn [...]

Love the visualizations that Shauna Granger has evoked in the elemental series. She writes her action scenes so well that I always have a movie reel playing in my head. And not to mention those spells that they say all rhyme and I always loved any book or movie that had anything to do with [...]