Fourth Musketeer

Release date: January 5, 2016 Author info: Website | Twitter | Facebook Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books Pages: 432 Format: Egalley Source: Publisher provided for review Buy the book: Barnes & Noble | Amazon | The Book Depository Sixteen-year-old Elli was a small child when the Elders of Kupari chose her to succeed the Valtia, the queen who wields infinitely powerful ice and fire magic. Since then, Elli has lived in the temple, surrounded by luxury and tutored by magical priests, as she prepares for the day when the Valtia perishes and the magic finds a new home in her. Elli is destined to be the most powerful Valtia to ever rule. But when the queen dies defending the kingdom from invading warriors, the magic doesn’t enter Elli. It’s nowhere to be found. Disgraced, Elli flees to the outlands, the home of banished criminals—some who would love to see the temple burn with all its priests inside. As she finds her footing in this new world, Elli uncovers devastating new infor...

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga's Reviews where we get to share the books we've bought, been gifted, or received for review! Well hey there! Long time, no see, y'all! I have no excuses--except to say I'm lazy? Does that work? I've worked to keep myself from making blogging stressful, and I've certainly done a good job of that, having not posted, like, at all. It definitely keeps stress down! :) Anyway, I've got some fun books to show y'all! For review: Pax by Sara Pennypacker Firstlife by Gena Showalter Orhan's Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian The Madwoman Upstairs by Catherine Lowell The coolest thing was the package Pax came in! I tried to get it set up and take a picture, but you can see how well that worked... The Star-Touched Queen   by Roshani Chokshi Siren's Song by Mary Weber And I Darken by Kiersten White Purchased: A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab (and it's signed! Whee!) Books I read this week (or h...

Title: Cross My Heart Series: Cross My Heart #1 Author: Katie Klein Published: March 14,2011 Format: E-book Author's Website: http://katiekleinwrites.blogspot.com/ Purchase the book: Amazon B&N Synopsis:  True love can blossom in unexpected places. This is Jaden pretending not to notice. . . . Jaden McEntyre and Parker Whalen are a wrong fit from the start. Jaden is driven and focused, Harvard Med School within reach. Parker has a past-a reputation-and the rumors about his mysterious habits abound. So there's no reason why, when they're assigned to work together on a project in English, they should discover they have anything in common, or even like each other, and they definitely shouldn't be falling in love. As they bond over Edith Wharton's tragic novella, Ethan Frome, the "bad boy" vibe Parker plays begins to dissipate. Soon, Jaden finds herself shedding her own "good girl" image: sneaking around to be with him, confiding in h...

Release date: February 9, 2016 Author info: Website | Twitter | Facebook Publisher: Simon Pulse Pages: 384 Format: Egalley Source: Publisher provided for review Buy the book: Barnes & Noble | Amazon | The Book Depository Blackbeard the pirate was known for striking fear in the hearts of the bravest of sailors. But once he was just a young man who dreamed of leaving his rigid life behind to chase adventure in faraway lands. Nothing could stop him—until he met the one girl who would change everything. Edward "Teach" Drummond, son of one of Bristol's richest merchants, has just returned from a year-long journey on the high seas to find his life in shambles. Betrothed to a girl he doesn’t love and sick of the high society he was born into, Teach dreams only of returning to the vast ocean he’d begun to call home. There's just one problem: convincing his father to let him leave and never come back. Following her parents' deaths, Anne Barrett is left penniless ...

Release date: April 5, 2016 Author info: Website | Twitter Publisher: Delacorte Press Pages: 336 Format: ARC Source: Publisher provided for review Buy the book: Barnes & Noble | Amazon | The Book Depository What if the person you need the most is someone you’ve never met?   Everything about Jessie is wrong. At least, that’s what it feels like during her first week of junior year at her new ultra-intimidating prep school in Los Angeles. Just when she’s thinking about hightailing it back to Chicago, she gets an email from a person calling themselves Somebody/Nobody (SN for short), offering to help her navigate the wilds of Wood Valley High School. Is it an elaborate hoax? Or can she rely on SN for some much-needed help? It’s been barely two years since her mother’s death, and because her father eloped with a woman he met online, Jessie has been forced to move across the country to live with her stepmonster and her pretentious teenage son. In a leap of faith—or an act of comple...

Release date: November 4, 2014 Author info: Website | Twitter | Facebook Publisher: HarperTeen Pages: 357 Format: Egalley Source: Publisher provided for review through Edelweiss Buy the book: Barnes & Noble | Amazon | The Book Depository Cloud Atlas meets Orphan Black in this epic dimension-bending trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray about a girl who must chase her father's killer through multiple dimensions. Marguerite Caine's physicist parents are known for their groundbreaking achievements. Their most astonishing invention, called the Firebird, allows users to jump into multiple universes—and promises to revolutionize science forever. But then Marguerite's father is murdered, and the killer—her parent's handsome, enigmatic assistant Paul— escapes into another dimension before the law can touch him. Marguerite refuses to let the man who destroyed her family go free. So she races after Paul through different universes, always leaping into ...

Release date: February 2, 2016 Author info: Website | Twitter | Facebook Publisher: William Morrow Pages: 400 Format: Egalley Source: Publisher provided for review through Edelweiss Buy the book: Barnes & Noble | Amazon | The Book Depository The highly anticipated return of Meg’s bestselling Mediator series featuring fan-favorite ghost whisperer, Susannah Simon. You can take the boy out of the darkness. But you can’t take the darkness out of the boy. All Susannah Simon wants is to make a good impression at her first job since graduating from college (and since becoming engaged to Dr. Jesse de Silva). But when she’s hired as a guidance counselor at her alma mater, she stumbles across a decade-old murder, and soon ancient history isn’t all that’s coming back to haunt her. Old ghosts as well as new ones are coming out of the woodwork, some to test her, some to vex her, and it isn’t only because she’s a mediator, gifted with second sight.  What happens when old ghosts come back...

I am so excited to have Lisa Maxwell visiting the blog today, and with a guest post, on her release day for her new novel, Unhooked ! I've so enjoyed Lisa's books so far, so I'm dying for Unhooked ! I mean, just read about it: About Unhooked : For as long as she can remember, Gwendolyn Allister has never had a place to call home—all because her mother believes that monsters are hunting them. Now these delusions have brought them to London, far from the life Gwen had finally started to build for herself. The only saving grace is her best friend, Olivia, who’s coming with them for the summer. But when Gwen and Olivia are kidnapped by shadowy creatures and taken to a world of flesh-eating sea hags and dangerous Fey, Gwen realizes her mom might have been sane all along. The world Gwen finds herself in is called Neverland, yet it’s nothing like the stories. Here, good and evil lose their meaning and memories slip like water through her fingers. As Gwen struggles to remember wher...