The blurb: The Los Angeles Conservatory for the Arts is supposed to be a new beginning for Sadie Bryant. Moving across the country is exactly what she needs to escape the gossip surrounding her injury, the devastating betrayal of her ex-partner, and to rebuild her career as a solo dancer. When the school announces that […]
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books on my Spring TBR List
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and The Bookish featuring lists of all of our favorite bookish things. This week’s topic is the top books on our TBR list for Spring, which is juuussstt around the corner. I’ve split my list into two parts, the top five new releases for […]
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Publisher: Wendy Lamb Books Publish Date: November 30th, 2004 Source: Purchased Goodreads Rating: 4.5/5 – Definitely an unusual read but I’m so glad I decided to give this one a chance. About the book: “Every war has turning points and every person too.” Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England to visit her aunt and […]
Read the rest of this entry »Top Ten Tuesday: My top sci-fi books/series!
Top ten Tuesday is a weekly feature posted by The Broke and the Bookish, and as someone with an unending love of lists, I can’t resist. This weeks topic is Top Ten Favorite Books in X Genre, and seeing as I’ve had a great year in sci-fi reading so far, I decided to roll […]
Read the rest of this entry »Review: Independent Study by Joelle Charbonneau
Series: The Testing, #2 Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers Publish Date: January 7th, 2014 Source: ARC Goodreads Rating: 4/5 – Surprise, surprise! Even better than the first one! About the book: In the series debut The Testing, sixteen-year-old Cia Vale was chosen by the United Commonwealth government as one of the best and brightest graduates of […]
Read the rest of this entry »February Recap and March TBR Jar Picks
So February was an… interesting month for reading. I barely got a chance to read much of anything for the first 2/3rds of the month, and then once my vacation hit I made up for lost time a little but still ended up behind where I wanted to be. Still, as of today my total […]
Read the rest of this entry »Review: Elusion by Claudia Gabel and Cheryl Klam
Series: Elusion, #1 Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books Publish Date: March 18th, 2014 Source: ARC Goodreads Rating: 3/5 – A thought provoking take on the direction that virtual reality technology can go and some of the side effects that go with it. About the book: Soon, Elusion® will change the world and life as we know it. […]
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