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 […]

The Almost Girl by Amalie Howard Series: The Riven Chronicles #1 Genre: Science Fiction, Young Adult Published by Strange Chemistry (12.17.2013) Paperback, 432 pages Source: Library Seventeen-year-old Riven comes from a world parallel to Earth, a world that has been ravaged by a devastating android war. As a Legion General, she is the right hand of Prince Cale, the young Prince of Neospes. In her world, she’s had everything: rank, responsibility, and respect. But when Prince Cale sends her away to rescue his long-lost brother, Caden, who has […]

Zodiac by Romina Russell Series: Zodiac #1 Genre: High Fantasy, Science Fiction, Young Adult Published by Razorbill (12.9.2014) Hardcover, 336 pages Source: Library       At the dawn of time, there were 13 Houses in the Zodiac Galaxy. Now only 12 remain…. Rhoma Grace is a 16-year-old student from House Cancer with an unusual way of reading the stars. While her classmates use measurements to make accurate astrological predictions, Rho can’t solve for ‘x’ to save her life—so instead, she looks up at the night sky and makes […]

Black City by Elizabeth Richards Series: Black City Genre: Dystopian, Romance, Young Adult Published by Putnam (11.13.2012) Paperback, 374 pages Source: I own it         In a city where humans and Darklings are now separated by a high wall and tensions between the two races still simmer after a terrible war, sixteen-year-old Ash Fisher, a half-blood Darkling, and Natalie Buchanan, a human and the daughter of the Emissary, meet and do the unthinkable—they fall in love. Bonded by a mysterious […]