Title: Fall For Anything Author: Courtney Summers Release Date: December 21, 2010 (trade paperback) Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Pages: 224 Source: Bought Overall: 4.5 Stars Summary: From the author of Cracked Up to Be and Some Girls Are comes a gripping story about one girl’s search for clues into the mysterious death of her father. When Eddie Reeves’s father commits suicide her life...

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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine spotlighting upcoming releases we're eagerly anticipating. Publisher: HyperionRelease Date: January 11, 2011 Summary: Zahra, Kali, and Syd would never have met if their parents' marriages hadn't  fallen apart. But when the three girls collide in group counseling, they discover they have something else in common: they've each been triple-timed by the same nefarious charmer, Eric, aka Rico, aka Rick. Talk about eye-opening...

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In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by Kristi at The Story Siren where we share any new books or goodies we bought, received, borrowed, etc. during the week. This is more like a Christmas edition of IMM! This is what I got... Gift/Bought:  A Blue So Dark by Holly Schindler My Soul to Steal (Soul Screamers #4) by Rachel Vincent Rhymes...

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Merry Christmas everyone! May today be a special one with all your friends and family!! And for those not celebrating, I hope you're having a great holiday season and that today is wonderful anyways!   ...

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Title: How Not To Be Popular Author: Jennifer Ziegler Release Date: March 9, 2010 (paperback, first published January 8, 2008) Publisher: Delacorte Press Pages: 339 Source: Borrowed From Library Overall: 4 Stars Summary: Maggie Dempsey is tired of moving all over the country. Her parents are second-generation hippies who uproot her every year or so to move to a new city. When Maggie...

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Follow Friday and Book Blogger Hop are weekly events hosted by Rachel at Parajunkee and Jennifer at Crazy-for-Books respectively. Book Blogger Hop is on break until January 7, so no question to answer this week! This week's FF question is: What are your plans for Christmas Day? On Christmas Day, I'll be opening presents with my family and once that's finished, probably relaxing...

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YA blogger extraordinaire Kristi, The Story Siren, is hosting the 3rd annual Debut Author Challenge! I'm signing up for the very first time and seeing as I love trying out new novels by debut authors, I think this will be the perfect challenge! The goal is to read at least 12 novels by debut YA or MG authors, with the challenge running from...

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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine spotlighting upcoming releases we're eagerly anticipating. Publisher: FluxRelease Date: March 8, 2011 Summary: Star basketball player Chelsea "Nitro" Keyes had a full ride to college—and everyone's admiration back home. Then she took a horrible fall during senior year. Now a metal plate holds her together and she feels like a stranger...

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Rachel Vincent revealed the book trailer for My Soul to Steal, the fourth novel in her Soul Screamers series, yesterday on her blog! Release Date: January 1, 2011Publisher: Harlequin Teen Summary (from Chapters/Indigo):**May contain slight spoilers if you have not read the third, previous novel My Soul to Keep.** Trying to work things out with Nash—her maybe boyfriend—is hard enough for Kaylee Cavanaugh....

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I came across the book trailer for Unearthly by Cynthia Hand today and thought I'd share it with everyone! Unearthly is Cynthia's debut YA novel and is the first in a new trilogy. Release Date: January 4, 2011 Publisher: HarperTeen Summary (from Amazon.ca):  In the beginning, there's a boy standing in the trees...Clara Gardner has recently learned that she's part angel. Having angel...

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In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by Kristi at The Story Siren where we share any new books or goodies we bought, received, borrowed, etc. during the week. This week I got... Received for Review:ARC of Cryer's Cross by Lisa McMann Thanks so much to Simon and Schuster Canada for sending it to me!  Bought: Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie...

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Title: The Worst Thing She Ever Did Author: Alice Kuipers Release Date: May 10, 2010 (trade paperback) Publisher: HarperCollins Canada Pages: 224 Source: Borrowed from Library Overall: 4.5 Stars Summary: All Sophie wants is to forget what happened last summer. But that’s not easy when people keep asking if she’s okay, and her mother locks herself behind closed doors for hours at a...

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Follow Friday and Book Blogger Hop are weekly events hosted by Rachel at Parajunkee and Jennifer at Crazy-for-Books respectively.  This week's FF question is: What did you study in college, or are currently studying and did it lead to your current 9 to 5 or are you doing something totally different? I'm currently a first-year university student studying life sciences but hoping to...

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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine spotlighting upcoming releases we're eagerly anticipating. Publisher: RazorbillRelease Date: January 4, 2011 Summary: A love out of time. A spaceship built of secrets and murder. Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the...

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Bree Despain revealed the book trailer for The Lost Saint yesterday on her blog! The Lost Saint is the sequel to The Dark Divine.  Release Date: December 28, 2010Publisher: Egmont USA ** Summary and book trailer may contain spoilers if you have not read The Dark Divine yet.**   Summary (from Goodreads):  Grace Divine made the ultimate sacrifice to cure Daniel Kalbi. She was...

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Yay!! The cover of City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare, the fourth novel in The Mortal Instruments series, was revealed this afternoon on Entertainment Weekly's Shelf Life and there's also a short excerpt you can read there too! You can also check out Cassandra Clare's blog for more details on the cover (and a close-up shot of it!), including the fact that...

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Title: The Oracle of Dating (The Oracle of Dating #1) Author: Allison van Diepen Release Date: May 1, 2010 (paperback) Publisher: Harlequin Teen Pages: 256 Source: Bought Overall: 5 Stars Summary: For five bucks, the Oracle of Dating will tell you: * How to flirt * If that cute guy you're crushing on likes you, too * Whether your new romance will last...

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In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by Kristi at The Story Siren where we share any new books or goodies we bought, received, borrowed, etc. during the week. This week I got... Won:The Eyes of a King (The Last Descendants #1) by Catherine Banner Voices in the Dark (The Last Descendants #2) by Catherine Banner I won both novels from Bookurious...

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Title: Personal Demons  Author: Lisa Desrochers  Release Date: September 14, 2010  Publisher: Tor Teen  Pages: 368  Source: Bought  Overall: 4 Stars  Summary: Frannie Cavanaugh is a good Catholic girl with a bit of a wicked streak. She has spent years keeping everyone at a distance---even her closest friends---and it seems as if her senior year is going to be more of the same......

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I don't post about contests too much but there are 2 contests that have just begun from two 2011 debut YA authors, Beth Revis and Kristi Cook, who's novels sound wicked awesome! Beth Ravis, author of the upcoming novel Across The Universe, is having an Epic Contest of Epic right now with a little help from her publisher Penguin/Razorbill. She's giving away 100...

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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine spotlighting upcoming releases we're eagerly anticipating. Publisher: Simon PulseRelease Date: July 12, 2011 Summary:On the last day of her junior year, Hannah's boyfriend Ryan dumped her. Facing a summer of loneliness, Hannah turns to her best friend Ava for comfort. Ava does what BFFs do: she stays by Hannah's side...until...

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Title: Trash Author: Andy Mulligan Release Date: October 12, 2010 (hardcover) Publisher: David Fickling Books Pages: 240 Source: ARC received from publisher through Bookurious  Overall: 3.5 Stars  Summary:  In an unnamed Third World country, in the not-so-distant future, three "dumpsite boys" make a living picking through the mountains of garbage on the outskirts of a large city. One unlucky-lucky day, Raphael finds something...

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In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by Kristi at The Story Siren where we share any new books or goodies we bought, received, borrowed, etc. during the week. I missed last week's IMM, so this is what I got last week and this week! Won via Twitter:Fixing Delilah by Sarah Ockler Bought:The Mockingbirds by Daisy Whitney Received:ARC of The Lost Saint...

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