Furyborn by Claire Legrand Series: The Empirium Trilogy #1 Genre: High Fantasy, Young Adult Published by Sourcebooks Fire (5.22.2018) ARC, 491 pages Source: I own it (Illumicrate) When assassins ambush her best friend, the crown prince, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing her ability to perform all seven kinds of elemental magic. The only people who should possess this extraordinary power are a pair of prophesied queens: a queen of light and salvation and a queen of blood and destruction. […]

Stealing Snow by Danielle Paige  Series: Stealing Snow #1 Genre: Urban Fantasy, Young Adult Published by Bloomsbury USA Children’s (9.20.2016) eARC, 375 pages Source: NetGalley Seventeen-year-old Snow has spent her life locked in Whittaker Psychiatric—but she isn’t crazy. And that’s not the worst of it. Her very first kiss proves anything but innocent…when Bale, her only love, turns violent. Despite Snow knowing that Bale would never truly hurt her, he is taken away—dashing her last hope for any sort of future in the mental ward she calls home. […]

Brightly Woven by Alexandra Bracken  Genre: High Fantasy, Young Adult Published by Egmont USA (3.23.2010) Hardcover, 354 pages Source: I own it The day the rains came was like any other, blistering air coating the canyon in a heavy stillness…. Just as the rains come after ten long, dry years, a young wizard, Wayland North, appears, to whisk Sydelle Mirabil away from her desert village. North needs an assistant, and Sydelle is eager to see the country – and to join him on his quest to stop […]

Okay, let’s face it – I’ve been horrible about putting together these posts lately. The books that I haven’t finished have been a lack of interest, not outright distaste, so I just set the book aside as still being ‘currently reading’ and just never picked them back up again. But it’s time to face the fact that I’m probably not going to be finishing them.   The Mermaid’s Secret by Katie Schickel  Genre: Urban Fantasy, Young Adult Published by Tor (5.14.2016) Paperback, 288 pages Source: From Publisher Life on […]

Bluescreen by Dan Wells Series: Mirador #1 Genre: Science Fiction, Young Adult Published by Balzer + Bray (2.16.2016) eARC, 352 pages Source: Edelweiss Los Angeles in 2050 is a city of open doors, as long as you have the right connections. That connection is a djinni—a smart device implanted right in a person’s head. In a world where virtually everyone is online twenty-four hours a day, this connection is like oxygen—and a world like that presents plenty of opportunities for someone who knows how to manipulate it. Marisa […]