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Review: Bring Me Back by B.A. Paris

On the way home from a vacation Finn and Layla stop at a service station to use the restroom. When he returns to the car Layla is gone. At least that's the story Finn told the police. It is ten years later and Finn is engaged, to Ellen, Layla's sister of all people.  With the wedding just months away, Finn begins to get emails.  Someone knows what really happened to Layla. B. A.…
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Review: Alex, Approximately by Jenn Bennett

Bailey Rydell has spent months crushing on a witty film geek she only knows online as Alex.  Bailey was a very safe distance away making this online crush just a fantasy until she moves in with her dad, who just happens to live in the same California surfing town as her online crush. Bailey is not one to take risks so she doesn’t tell Alex she’s moved to his hometown. Instead, she sets…
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Review: Sky in the Deep by Adrienne Young

Eelyn fights alongside her Asks clansmen against their rivals, the Riki.  While on the battlefield she sees the impossible— her brother, fighting with the enemy — the fact that he is fighting for the enemy would be surprising enough, except that he's been dead for five years. Distracted in battle by her brother's return, she is captured by the Riki, and take to their village as a slave.  But when the Riki village…
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Review: The Opposite of Here by Tara Altebrando

Months after the tragic accident that killed her boyfriend, Natalie's parents decide to have a  sail-a-bration for her seventeenth birthday.  Natalie, her parents and her three best friends board the ship where Natalie meets a guy the very first night. When Natalie goes to meet him later, he is nowhere to be found and something he said earlier makes her think that maybe be jumped.  While Natalie tries to figure out what happened to…
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Review: Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge

Since birth, Nyx has been groomed to take down the Gentle Lord (Ignifex), and break the curse on her people.  She resents her family for making her carry out this mission but goes to meet her fate by marrying the Ignifex on her seventeenth birthday. But the Gentle Lord is not exactly what she expected, and soon her heart is torn between love and duty, I read this years ago and really enjoyed it. …
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Review: Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson

Review As I said, I really enjoyed the character of Stevie, but she wasn't the only one.  The whole cast of characters was great.  I liked that they all seemed to be real and fit into a school like the one in Truly Devious. And Nate is just the best! The mystery itself was very interesting.  I liked that there were two, it reminded me a lot of Veronica Mars (one of my…
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Review: Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare

Short synopsis: Emma and Julian are Parabatai, and in love... Not only does this break Shadow Hunter law, it could drive them mad.  Their only hope is finding the Black Volume of the Dead.  Unfortunately, they aren't the only ones that want it. Initial Thoughts: Well that was depressing... Characters: 4 – So Magnus Bane is in this, right away the characters got a lot better.  To be honest I don't really love…
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
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The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Synopsis Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger.…
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Review: To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo

Short synopsis: Its just basically the little mermaid. Initial Thoughts: I was so indifferent to this book, I didn't care about anyone in the entire story or the story for that matter. Characters: 1 – Yeah, like I said I didn't care. Plot: 2 –  This was a very slow book, I kept waiting and waiting for something to happen and of course it does in a rush in the last 50 or…
The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw
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The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw

Synopsis Welcome to the cursed town of Sparrow…Where, two centuries ago, three sisters were sentenced to death for witchery. Stones were tied to their ankles and they were drowned in the deep waters surrounding the town.Now, for a brief time each summer, the sisters return, stealing the bodies of three weak-hearted girls so that they may seek their revenge, luring boys into the harbor and pulling them under.Like many locals, seventeen-year-old Penny Talbot…