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3.5 Stars

Of Triton by Anna Banks

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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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2013 Debut Author Challenge

Review & Giveaway: The Beautiful and the Cursed by Page Morgan

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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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4.5 Stars

Of Beast and Beauty by Stacey Jay

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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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5 Stars

The Trouble With Flirting by Claire LaZebnik

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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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3.5 Stars

Jane Austen Goes to Hollywood by Abby McDonald

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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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3 Stars

Gorgeous by Paul Rudnick

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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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