Title: Two Lies and a Spy (Two Lies and a Spy #1) Author: Kat Carlton Release Date: September 3, 2013 (hardcover) Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Pages: 256 Source: Bought Overall: 4 Stars Summary: Kari plunges into the world of espionage on a mission to save her parents while trying to impress the guy she’s been in love with forever.When...

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Title: The Morning Star (Katerina Trilogy #3) Author: Robin Bridges Release Date: August 27, 2013 (hardcover) Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers Pages: 288 Source: Bought Overall: 4 Stars Summary: Lush and opulent, romantic and sinister, The Morning Star, Vol. III in the Katerina Trilogy, reimagines the lives of Russia's aristocracy in a fabulously intoxicating and page-turning fantasy.St. Petersburg, Russia, 1890 Katerina Alexandrovna,...

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Title: The Distance Between Us Author: Kasie West Release Date: July 2, 2013 (paperback) Publisher: HarperTeen Pages: 320 Source: Bought Overall: 4.5 Stars Summary: Money can't buy a good first impression. Seventeen-year-old Caymen Meyers learned early that the rich are not to be trusted. And after years of studying them from behind the cash register of her mom's porcelain-doll shop, she has seen...

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Title: Of Triton (Of Poseidon #2) Author: Anna Banks Release Date: May 28, 2013 (hardcover) Publisher: Feiwel & Friends Pages: 256 Source: Copy provided by publisher Overall: 3.5 Stars Summary: In this sequel to Of Poseidon, Emma has just learned that her mother is a long-lost Poseidon princess, and now struggles with an identity crisis: As a Half-Breed, she’s a freak in the...

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Title: The Beautiful and the Cursed (The Dispossessed #1) Author: Page Morgan (pseudonym of Angie Frazier) Release Date: May 14, 2013 (hardcover) Publisher: Doubleday Canada Pages: 352 Source: Copy provided by publisher Overall: 4 Stars Summary: It was bizarre and inexplicable, and after it happened, Ingrid Waverly was forced to leave her life in London behind. She had to trade a world full...

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Title: Of Beast and Beauty Author: Stacey Jay Release Date: July 23, 2013 (hardcover) Publisher: Delacorte Press Pages: 400 Source: ARC provided by publisher Overall: 4.5 Stars Summary: In the beginning was the darkness, and in the darkness was a girl, and in the girl was a secret...In the domed city of Yuan, the blind Princess Isra, a Smooth Skin, is raised to...

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Title: The Trouble With Flirting Author: Claire LaZebnik Release Date: February 26, 2013 Publisher: HarperTeen Pages: 336 Source: Bought Overall: 5 Stars Summary: Franny's supposed to be working this summer, not flirting. But you can't blame her when guys like Alex and Harry are around. . . . Franny Pearson never dreamed she'd be attending the prestigious Mansfield Summer Theater Program. And she's...

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Title: Jane Austen Goes to Hollywood Author: Abby McDonald Release Date: April 23, 2013 (hardcover) Publisher: Candlewick Pages: 336 Source: Copy provided by publisher Overall: 3.5 Stars Summary: Abby McDonald gives L.A. the Jane Austen treatment in this contemporary take on Sense and Sensibility.Hallie and Grace Weston have never exactly seen life eye to eye. So when their father dies and leaves everything...

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Title: Gorgeous Author: Paul Rudnick Release Date: April 30, 2013 (hardcover) Publisher: Scholastic Press Pages: 336 Source: Copy provided by publisher Overall: 3 Stars Summary: Screamingly funny and defiant — a must-read book for the summer! This is a book for anyone who's ever faced herself in the mirror, wondered if a new lipstick could change her life, and either read Vogue or...

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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: August 20, 2013 Publisher: Dial Add to Goodreads Summary (from Goodreads): Sometimes you have to break the rules to discover the truth.In this follow up to Legacy of Tril: Soulbound, Kaya has learned that she is Soulbound to Darius, the Barron she...

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The book trailer for Amanda Sun's YA debut Ink, the first book in the Paper Gods series, recently premiered on MTV's Hollywood Crush! If you're looking for a new paranormal romance novel to read, then you simply MUST check out Ink when it's officially released in stores next Tuesday! You'll definitely love it. Amanda Sun transports you to the beautiful country of Japan...

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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: December 3, 2013 Publisher: Razorbill Add to Goodreads Summary (from Goodreads):  Love, power, and magic collide with war in the second book of the Falling Kingdoms series Auranos has fallen and the three kingdoms—Auranos, Limeros, and Paelsia—are now united as one country...

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I'm thrilled to be helping reveal the cover for Lisa Desrochers's A Little Too Far, the first novel in a New Adult series that is sure to be steamy hot!  Release Date: September 17, 2013 Publisher: William Morrow Add to Goodreads Summary (from HarperCollins):  Have you ever gone just a little too far? Lexie Banks has. Yep. She just had mind-blowing sex with...

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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: August 27, 2013 Publisher: HarperTeen Add to Goodreads Summary (from Goodreads):  The last thing Mason Starling remembers is the train crossing a bridge. An explosion . . . a blinding light . . . then darkness. Now she is alone, stranded in...

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The cover for Katie McGarry's Crash Into You, the third novel in the Pushing the Limits series, was revealed earlier today on Harlequin Teen's Facebook page! Release Date: November 26, 2013 Publisher: Harlequin Teen Add to Goodreads Summary (from Goodreads):  From acclaimed author Katie McGarry comes an explosive new tale of a good girl with a reckless streak, a street-smart guy with nothing...

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It's beginning to really feel like summer! I'm taking a couple summer courses right now, but since I've been taking a sort of blogging break, it's been nice to read books for fun. I've been reading a lot of New Adult and romance books lately, so if you have any recommendations, I'd love to hear them! There are also some awesome YA books...

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