Title: Dark Souls Author: Paula Morris Release Date: August 1, 2011 (hardcover) Publisher: Point Pages: 304 Source: Copy provided by publisher Overall: 3.5 Stars Summary: Welcome to York, England. Mist lingers in the streets.  Narrow buildings cast long shadows.  This is the most haunted city in the world. . . .Miranda Tennant arrives in York with a terrible, tragic secret. She is eager...

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Title: Texas Gothic Author: Rosemary Clement-Moore Release Date: July 12, 2011 (hardcover) Publisher: Delacorte Press Pages: 416 Source: Bought Overall: 4.5 Stars Summary: Amy Goodnight's family is far from normal. She comes from a line of witches, but tries her best to stay far outside the family business. Her summer gig? Ranch-sitting for her aunt with her wacky but beautiful sister. Only the...

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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. Release Date: April 17, 2012 Publisher: HarperTeen Summary (from Goodreads): In the end, all that’s left is an echo. Violet kept her morbid ability to sense dead bodies a secret from everyone except her family and her childhood-best-friend-turned-boyfriend, Jay Heaton. That is until forensic...

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Are you a Hush, Hush fan? The wait is almost over for Becca Fitzpatrick's Silence! On October 4, we'll finally found out what happens next after that evil cliffhanger ending in Crescendo...  To celebrate the upcoming release, Simon & Schuster Canada is having an awesome sweepstakes to win the ultimate Hush, Hush fan prize pack exclusively for Canadians which ends on October 16,...

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On Wednesday evening (September 21), I was able to attend one of Sarah Dessen's two stops in Canada on her mini-tour promoting What Happened to Goodbye! I've been so excited for this event since Penguin Canada announced several months ago that Sarah Dessen would be finally coming to Canada for her very first book tour here! Usually, I try to arrive early at...

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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 didn't an IMM post last weekend, so today's post is a combination of the past two weeks! Received for Review: Dark Passage (Dark Mirror #2) by M.J. Putney My Beating Teenage Heart...

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The book trailer for Michelle Hodkin's much hyped debut novel, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, was officially unveiled over at MTV's Hollywood Crush today! I wasn't able to watch it earlier in the day because only Americans could watch it there, but Simon & Schuster has uploaded the trailer onto their YouTube Channel so if you're outside the U.S. like me, then you...

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Title: The Eleventh Plague Author: Jeff Hirsch Release Date: September 1, 2011 (hardcover) Publisher: Scholastic Press Pages: 288 Source: ARC won thanks to Scholastic Canada and Indigo Events Overall: 4 Stars Summary: In an America devastated by war and plague, the only way to survive is to keep moving.  In the aftermath of a war, America's landscape has been ravaged and two-thirds of...

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Title: A Beautiful Dark Author: Jocelyn Davies Release Date: September 27, 2011 (hardcover) Publisher: HarperTeen Pages: 400 Source: ARC provided by publisher Overall: 4 Stars Summary: On the night of Skye’s seventeenth birthday, she meets two enigmatic strangers. Complete opposites—like fire and ice—Asher is dark and wild, while Devin is fair and aloof. Their sudden appearance sends Skye’s life into a tailspin. She...

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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. Release Date: February 7, 2012 Publisher: Putnam Juvenile Summary (from Goodreads): Everybody knows Cate Cahill and her sisters are eccentric. Too pretty, too reclusive, and far too educated for their own good. But the truth is even worse: they're witches. And if their secret...

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Title: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer #1) Author: Michelle Hodkin Release Date: September 27, 2011 (hardcover) Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Pages: 464 Source: ARC provided by publisher Overall: 5 Stars Summary: Mara Dyer doesn't think life can get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there. It can. She believes there...

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By now you've probably seen the cover for Insurgent, the second novel in the Divergent trilogy by Veronica Roth, when it was finally revealed online yesterday on EW's Shelf Life along with a Q&A (no spoilers!). I was just waiting for a larger image of the cover to appear before posting about it! Earlier today, Veronica Roth also posted the cover on her...

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Title: The Glory Wind Author: Valerie Sherrard Release Date: October 25, 2010 (paperback) Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside Pages: 222 Source: Copy provided by publisher Overall: 4 Stars Summary: A young boy must come to terms with the moral prejudices of his small town in the prairies in the 40's when he befriends the daughter of a young widow who moves in next door....

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I'm so happy to be helping take part in the Canadian blog tour for Scott Westerfeld's Goliath today! Set during an alternate history of WWI, Keith Thomson's beautiful illustrations within also perfectly complement the novels as well. Goliath, the final novel in the steampunk trilogy, will be hitting shelves next week! Thanks to Simon & Schuster Canada, I was able to ask Scott...

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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. Release Date: March 6, 2012 Publisher: Simon Pulse Summary (from Goodreads): Gabby Gardiner wakes up in a hospital bed looking like a cautionary ad for drunk driving and lacking a single memory of the accident that landed her there. What she can remember, in...

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Title: You Against Me Author: Jenny Downham Release Date: September 13, 2011 (hardcover) Publisher: Doubleday Canada Pages: 416 Source: Copy provided by publisher Overall: 4 Stars Summary: An intense and riveting novel from the critically acclaimed author of Before I Die.If someone hurts your sister and you're any kind of man, you seek revenge. If your brother's accused of a terrible crime but...

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Jennifer Castle's debut novel, The Beginning of After, was released just last week.. and if you haven't had a chance to pick up a copy yet, I sure hope you do soon! The Beginning of After is a heartfelt contemporary novel that touches on grief, healing and love, all wrapped within a beautiful cover that catches your attention right away. I was able...

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