The book trailer for Soman Chainani's debut MG novel The School for Good and Evil, the first book in a new fantasy trilogy, recently premiered on EW's Shelf Life! I'm not sure how The School for Good and Evil eluded my notice for so long, but as soon as I watched its fantastic book trailer, I was immediately captivated and just had to...

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Title: Things I Can't Forget (Hundred Oaks #3) Author: Miranda Kenneally Release Date: March 1, 2013 (paperback) Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire Pages: 320 Source: ARC provided by publisher Overall: 4.5 Stars Summary: SOME RULES WERE MEANT TO BE BROKEN. Kate has always been the good girl. Too good, according to some people at school—although they have no idea the guilty secret she carries. But...

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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: October 15, 2013 Publisher: Balzer + Bray Add to Goodreads Summary (from Goodreads):  Centuries after wars nearly destroyed civilization, the two islands of New Pacifica stand alone, a terraformed paradise where even the Reduction—the devastating brain disorder that sparked the wars—is a...

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Title: The Lives We Lost (Fallen World #2) Author: Megan Crewe Release Date: February 12, 2013 (hardcover) Publisher: Disney Hyperion Pages: 288 Source: ARC provided by publisher Overall: 5 Stars Summary: First, the virus took Kaelyn’s friends. Then, her family. Now it’s taken away her home. But she can't look back—the life she once had is gone forever.A deadly virus has destroyed Kaelyn’s...

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Title: Mila 2.0 (Mila 2.0 #1) Author: Debra Driza Release Date: March 12, 2013 (hardcover) Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books Pages: 480 Source: ARC provided by publisher Overall: 3.5 Stars Summary: Mila was living with her mother in a small Minnesota town when she discovered she was also living a lie. She was never meant to learn the truth about her identity. She was...

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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: July 2, 2013 Publisher: HarperTeen Add to Goodreads Summary (from Goodreads):  Seventeen-year-old Caymen Meyers studies the rich like her own personal science experiment, and after years of observation she’s pretty sure they’re only good for one thing—spending money on useless stuff, like...

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Title: Unremembered (Unremembered #1) Author: Jessica Brody Release Date: March 5, 2013 (hardcover) Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR) Pages: 320 Source: ARC provided by publisher Overall: 4 Stars Summary:  When Freedom Airlines flight 121 went down over the Pacific Ocean, no one ever expected to find survivors. Which is why the sixteen-year-old girl discovered floating among the wreckage—alive—is making headlines across the...

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Title: Emblaze (The Violet Eden Chapters #3) Author: Jessica Shirvington Release Date: March 5, 2013 (hardcover) Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire Pages: 464 Source: ARC provided by publisher Overall: 4.5 Stars Summary: NO GOOD CHOICES When you're hanging off the edge of a volcano, how do you make the most important decision of your life? For Violet Eden the decisions between right and wrong are...

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Title: Wicked Kiss (Nightwatchers #2) Author: Michelle Rowen Release Date: February 26, 2013 (paperback) Publisher: Harlequin Teen Pages: 448 Source: Bought Overall: 4.5 Stars Summary: My kiss can kill. I used to be ordinary Samantha Day, but that's changed. Now, after one dark kiss from a dangerous boy, I can steal someone's soul…or their life. If I give in to the constant hunger...

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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: June 6, 2013 Publisher: HarperTeen Add to Goodreads Summary (from Goodreads): For the rest of the world, the movies are entertainment. For Justine, they're real life.The premise was simple: five kids, just living their lives. There'd be a new movie about them...

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Title: The Darkest Minds (The Darkest Minds #1) Author: Alexandra Bracken Release Date: December 18, 2012 (hardcover) Publisher: Disney-Hyperion Pages: 496 Source: Copy provided by publisher Overall: 4.5 Stars Summary: When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that gets her...

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Title: Starstruck Author: Rachel Shukert Release Date: March 12, 2013 (hardcover) Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers Pages: 352 Source: ARC provided by publisher Overall: 4 Stars Summary: “Wit, pluck, darkness, pitch perfect period details, juicy twists, and big heart. This book is one to savor.”--Anna Godbersen, New York Times bestselling author of the Luxe and Bright Young Things seriesA golden age of...

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Title: For Darkness Shows the Stars Author: Diana Peterfreund Release Date: June 12, 2012 (hardcover) Publisher: Balzer + Bray Pages: 416 Source: ARC provided by publisher Overall: 5 Stars Summary: It's been several generations since a genetic experiment gone wrong caused the Reduction, decimating humanity and giving rise to a Luddite nobility who outlawed most technology. Elliot North has always known her place...

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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: June 4, 2013 Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. Add to Goodreads Summary (from Goodreads):  Darkness never dies. Hunted across the True Sea, haunted by the lives she took on the Fold, Alina must try to make a life with Mal in an...

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Marissa Meyer is coming to Toronto to promote the release of Scarlet, the second novel in The Lunar Chronicles! This upcoming Saturday, March 9, 2013, Marissa Meyer will have a book signing, author reading and Q&A at Indigo Yorkdale. I cannot wait for this event! I absolutely loved reading both Cinder and Scarlet, and the wait for Cress already feels so far away......

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Title: Pulse (Pulse Trilogy #1) Author: Patrick Carman Release Date: February 26, 2013 (hardcover) Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books Pages: 384 Source: ARC provided by publisher Overall: 3.5 Stars Summary: In the year 2051, who has a pulse? With the help of her mysterious classmate Dylan Gilmore, Faith Daniels discovers that she can move objects with her mind. This telekinetic ability is called a...

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