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Review Time! What's Left Of Me by Kat Zhang is a 2012 YA Debut published in October by HarperCollins. This is definitely a book that's gotten a lot of hype before it's release and I was really excited to receive this one for review! You can purchase a copy of the book from  Fishpond  |  The Nile  |  Booktopia  |  Bookworld . Thanks to HaperCollins for the review copy! (Goodreads)  Eva and Addie started out the same way as everyone else—two souls woven together in one body, taking turns controlling their movements as they learned how to walk, how to sing, how to dance. But as they grew, so did the worried whispers. Why aren’t they settling? Why isn’t one of them fading? The doctors ran tests, the neighbors shied away, and their parents begged for more time. Finally Addie was pronounced healthy and Eva was declared gone. Except, she wasn’t . . . For the past three years, Eva has clung to the remnants of her life. Only Addie knows she’s still there, ...

Review Time! Throughout the month of November I did a little Iron Fey read-a-thon so that I could read The Lost Prince before the end of November and VICTORY. Firstly, if you haven't read the Iron Fey series, YOU SHOULD. Secondly, if you haven't read The Lost Prince, YOU SHOULD. You can purchase a copy of The Lost Prince from  Fishpond  |  The Nile  |  Booktopia  |  Bookworld . Thanks to Harlequin Teen for the review copy! (Goodreads)  Don’t look at Them. Never let Them know you can see Them. That is Ethan Chase’s unbreakable rule. Until the fey he avoids at all costs—including his reputation—begin to disappear, and Ethan is attacked. Now he must change the rules to protect his family. To save a girl he never thought he’d dare to fall for. Ethan thought he had protected himself from his older sister’s world—the land of Faery. His previous time in the Iron Realm left him with nothing but fear and disgust for the world Meghan Chase has made her home...

I never thought I was going to become one of those people who did a monthly book haul but somehow - accidentally - that's exactly what I've done for the past two months! In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by Kristi @The Story Siren. Got a massive haul to show you guys today (19 books!) and I'm super excited for all of them! November Book Haul Overview of everything!  Large Paperbacks! Trade Paperbacks! Hardcovers! For Review - Burn Bright by Marianne de Pierres Angel Arias by Marianne de Pierres Hot Blooded by Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie The Skeleton Key by Tara Moss Days of Blood and Starlight by Laini Taylor Unfed by Kirsty McKay Tiger's Destiny by Colleen Houck The Farm by Emily McKay ARC Scent of Magic by Maria V. Snyder Beautiful Redemption by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl Echo Alyson Noel ARC Dance of Shadows by Yelena Black  The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by D...

IT'S THAT TIME OF THE YEAR AGAIN.  Badass Bookie Presents...  The 3rd Annual Debutante Event... The 2013 Debutante Event Save these Deets - What? -  2013 Debutante Event  When? -  1st - 25th of December Who? -  Erin Bowman ( Taken)               Jessica Verdi ( My Life After Now)               Lenore Appelhans ( Level Two)               Elsie Chapman ( Dualed)                Megan Shepherd ( The Madman's Daughter)               Ellen Oh (Prophecy)                Erica Lorraine Scheidt ( Uses for Boys)                Kasie West ( Pivot Point)                Mindee Arnett ( The Nightmare Affair)                Miriam Forster ...

Review Time! The Diviners is the latest book from the bestselling YA author of The Gemma Doyle Trilogy - Libba Bray! Libba also wrote Going Bovine and Beauty Queens (which was absolutely brilliant - you can check out my review  Here ). This is definitely a book that's been getting a great deal of hype lately. You can purchase a copy of The Diviners from  Fishpond  |  The Nile  |  Booktopia  |  Bookworld  Thanks to Allen and Unwin for the review copy! (Goodreads)  1920s New York. A teen clairvoyant. An old evil. It has begun... Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old home town and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City - and she is pos-i-tute-ly thrilled! New York is the city of speak-easies, rent parties, shopping and movie palaces, and soon enough Evie is running with glamorous Ziegfeld girls and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that Evie has to live with her Uncle Will, curator of the Museum of American Folk...

Review Time! The Raven Boys is the first instalment in the Raven Cycle, the brand new series from the bestselling author of The Wolves of Mercy Falls, Maggie Stiefvater! I read this one last month and I just haven't gotten around to reviewing it. You can purchase a copy of the book from  Fishpond  |  The Nile  |  Booktopia  |  Bookworld  Thanks to Scholastic for the review copy! (Goodreads)  “There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.” It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive. Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her. His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away fr...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Book Profile Name - Auracle ( Goodreads ) Author - Gina Rosati (  Debutante Profile  ) Genre - YA Paranormal Release Date - September 7th 2012 16 year old Anna Rogan has a secret she's only shared with her best friend, Rei; she can astrally project out of her body, allowing her spirit to explore the world and the far reaches of the universe. When there's a fatal accident and her classmate Taylor takes over Anna's body, what was an exhilarating distraction from her repressive home life threatens to become a permanent state. Faced with a future trapped in another dimension, Anna turns to Rei for help. Now the two of them must find a way to get Anna back into her body and stop Taylor from accusing an innocent friend of murder. Together Anna and Rei form a plan but it doesn't take into account the deeper feelings that are beginning to grow between them. Available -  The BookDepository  |  Fishpond  |  Amazon  |  Barnes and Noble ...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Debutante Profile Name – Gina Rosati  Debut – Auracle Genre – Paranormal  Website–  HERE Blog -   Here Twitter -  HERE Gina Rosati’s YA paranormal romance debut, AURACLE, launched August 7, 2012, from Roaring Brook Press. Born and raised in Boston suburbia, Gina now lives with her husband and two children in New Hampshire. Gina is a long time volunteer at her local middle school library, and a member of SCBWI, the Apocalypsies and the Class of 2k12 debut author groups.   Dream Debutante Dress -   Isn't this pretty? :P  By Ryan Jude Novelline (available online at artist's website) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 )], via Wikimedia Commons Notes from a YA Debutante A little bit about me: The Unofficial Bio Ohai, I’m Gina Rosati, author of Auracle (Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan). I live in New Hampshire which, for those who aren’t too familiar with the United States, is a small state in northern ...

Review Time! E X A M S are over and you know what that means! I'm back to blogging regularly! :)  Defiance by C.J. Redwine is a 2012 YA Debut published by Atom in September. Read this one a while back and just haven't gotten around to reviewing it! You can purchase a copy of the book from  Fishpond  |  The Nile  |  Booktopia  | Bookworld Thanks to Hachette for the review copy! (Goodreads) Within the walls of Baalboden, beneath the shadow of the city's brutal leader, Rachel Adams has a secret. While other girls sew dresses and obey their male Protectors, Rachel knows how to survive in the wilderness and deftly wield a sword. When her father, Jared, fails to return from a courier mission and is declared dead, the Commander assigns Rachel a new Protector, her father's apprentice, Logan--the same boy Rachel declared her love for two years ago, and the same one who handed her heart right back to her. Left with nothing but a fierce belief in her father's su...

Welcome to the final stop on the Shine Light blog tour! At each stop we’ve revealed something new about the characters in Shine Light. What makes them tick? Do they have any secrets? We saved the most important character in the Night Creatures trilogy until last (for the most important blog) ... Retra/Naif Blog Stop 13 - Final Destination, Notes from the Author - I could probably write thousands of words about Retra/Naif (I shall now just call her Naif) – where her character came from, how she developed in the course of things, her relationships with those around her. But you don’t want to oodles of ramblings, so I’ll try and condense it. Some of her character is definitely informed by my own experiences as a teenager at boarding school. Rather that recreate a representation of those experiences, I took the emotions that I felt back then and poured them into a brand new person in a brand new world. So in that sense, Naif is partly me but most definitely, largely herself. She is far bra...