#BookReview: The Midnight Dance by Nikki Katz #Netgalley

Reviewed By: Lauren

Publisher: Swoon Reads

Number of Pages: 320
Recommended Age Group: Young Adult

Fiction Genre: Contemporary 

How I Acquired this book: Netgalley 

Overall rating: ★★
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About the Book:
When the music stops, the dance begins.

Seventeen-year-old Penny is a lead dancer at the Grande Teatro, a finishing school where she and eleven other young women are training to become the finest ballerinas in Italy. Tucked deep into the woods, the school is overseen by the mysterious and handsome young Master who keeps the girls ensconced in the estate – and in the only life Penny has never known.

But when flashes of memories, memories of a life very different from the one she thinks she’s been leading, start to appear, Penny begins to question the Grand Teatro and the motivations of the Master. With a kind and attractive kitchen boy, Cricket, at her side, Penny vows to escape the confines of her school and the strict rules that dictate every step she takes. But at every turn, the Master finds a way to stop her, and Penny must find a way to escape the school and uncover the secrets of her past before it’s too late. 

#BookReview: Uncanny by Sarah Fine

Reviewed by: Lauren

Publisher: Skyscape

Number of Pages: 316
Recommended Age Group: Young Adult

Fiction Genre: Science Fiction

How I Acquired this book: Netgalley

Overall rating: ★★★
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About the Book:
Two sisters. One death. No memories.

Cora should remember every detail about the night her stepsister, Hannah, fell down a flight of stairs to her death, especially since her Cerepin—a sophisticated brain-computer interface—may have recorded each horrifying moment. But when she awakens after that night, her memories gone, Cora is left with only questions—and dread of what the answers might mean.

When a downward spiral of self-destruction forces Cora to work with an AI counselor, she finds an unexpected ally, even as others around her grow increasingly convinced that Hannah’s death was no accident. As Cora’s dark past swirls chaotically with the versions of Hannah’s life and death that her family and friends want to believe, Cora discovers the disturbing depths of what some people may do—including herself.

With her very sanity in question, Cora is forced to face her greatest fear. She will live or die by what she discovers.

#BookReview: The Love Letters of Abelard and Lily by Laura Creedle #NetGalley

Reviewed By: Lauren

Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers

Number of Pages: 352
Recommended Age Group: Young Adult

Fiction Genre: Young Adult, Mental Health

How I Acquired this book: Netgalley

Overall rating: ★★★★
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About the Book:
When Lily Michaels-Ryan ditches her ADHD meds and lands in detention with Abelard, who has Asperger’s, she’s intrigued—Abelard seems thirty seconds behind, while she feels thirty seconds ahead. It doesn't hurt that he’s brilliant and beautiful.

When Abelard posts a quote from The Letters of Abelard and Heloise online, their mutual affinity for ancient love letters connects them. The two fall for each other. Hard. But is it enough to bridge their differences in person?

This hilarious, heartbreaking story of human connection between two neurodivergent teens creates characters that will stay with you long after you finish reading. 

This title will be released on December 26, 2017.

#Top10Tuesday: Top Ten Favorite Books of 2017 with @authorlindsayc @DemitriaLunetta @peternelleva @KatBaldwin @BAParisAuthor

Welcome to this weeks Top 10 Tuesday!! This weeks topic is: Top Ten Favorite Books of 2017

#BookReview: Enchant (Enchanted #1) by Micalea Smeltzer

Fiction Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy 

How I Acquired this book: Netgalley 

Overall rating: ★★
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About the Book:
Mara Pryce never imagined that her life was anything but normal and then a strange gray-eyed young man appears at her graduation. When he vanishes without a trace, she’s convinced he’s a figment of her imagination. Then he appears again and shatters her whole world.

Mara is an enchanter, part of an ancient line of Wiccan power, and a war is raging—one of good and evil—between the Enchanted and the Iniquitous. 

The Iniquitous want her dead and it’s Theodore’s job as her protector to keep her safe.

When Mara and Theodore arrive at a safe house, where Mara will remain hidden while learning about her powers, they find that the real threat might be a little closer to home than they want to believe.

#BookRecommendations with @Allison_Pang Magpie's Song (IronHeart Chronicles)

This weeks book is one that I reviewed a little while ago and couldn't put down!! This one will knock your socks off and then some!! Check out this fantasy it won't do you wrong! 

#BookReview: Never Apart Romily Bernard

Publisher: Entangled Teen

Number of Pages: 400

Fiction Genre: Young Adult, Science Fiction 

How I Acquired this book: Netgalley 

Overall rating: ★★★

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About the Book:
How many times would you die for love?

What if you had to relive the same five days over and over?

And what if at the end of it, your boyfriend is killed…

And you have to watch. Every time.

You don’t know why you’re stuck in this nightmare.

But you do know that these are the rules you now live by:

Wake Up.

Run.

Die.

Repeat.

Now, the only way to escape this loop is to attempt something crazy. Something dangerous. Something completely unexpected. This time…you’re not going to run.

Combining heart-pounding romance and a thrilling mystery Never Apart is a stunning story you won’t soon forget.

#BookReview: Freefall by Joshua David Bellin

Publisher: McElderry Books

Number of Pages: 320

Fiction Genre: Young Adult, Science Fiction 

How I Acquired this book: Netgalley, Edelweiss 

Overall rating: ★★★
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About the Book:
In the Upperworld, the privileged 1% are getting ready to abandon a devastated planet Earth. And Cam can’t wait to leave. After sleeping through a 1,000-year journey, he and his friends will have a pristine new planet to colonize. And no more worries about the Lowerworld and its 99% of rejects.

Then Cam sees a banned video feed of protesters in the Lowerworld who also want a chance at a new life. And he sees a girl with golden eyes who seems to be gazing straight though the feed directly at him. A girl he has to find. Sofie.

When Cam finds Sofie, she opens his eyes to the unfairness of what’s happening in their world, and Cam joins her cause for Lowerworld rights. He also falls hard for Sofie. But Sofie has her own battles to fight, and when it’s time to board the spaceships, Cam is alone.

Waking up 1,000 years in the future, Cam discovers that he and his shipmates are far off-course, trapped on an unknown and hostile planet. Who has sabotaged their ship? And does it have anything to do with Sofie, and the choices—and the enemies—he made in the past?

#BookReview: Steal the Stars by @natcassidy @macwrites

Publisher: Tor Books

Fiction Genre: Young Adult, Science Fiction

How I Acquired this book:

Time it took to read: 4H 

Overall rating: ★★★★
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About the Book:

Steal the Stars, a debut novel by Nat Cassidy, is based on the debut science fiction podcast from Tor Labs. 

Dakota “Dak” Prentiss guards the biggest secret in the world. 

They call it “Moss.” It’s your standard grey alien from innumerable abduction stories. It still sits at the controls of the spaceship it crash-landed eleven years ago. A secret military base was built around the crash site to study both Moss and the dangerous technology it brought to Earth. 

The day Matt Salem joins her security team, Dak’s whole world changes. 

It’s love at first sight—which is a problem, since they both signed ironclad contracts vowing not to fraternize with other military personnel. If they run, they’ll be hunted for what they know. Dak and Matt have only way to be together: do the impossible. Steal Moss and sell the secret of its existence.

And they can’t afford a single mistake.