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Better late than never! It took me quite some time to post my review, mostly because I need to sort out my feelings and translate them into words and coherent thoughts and sentences, but here it is! Title: Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia Release Date: May 30th 2017 Published by: HarperCollins Source: From the publisher Buy online: Book Depository Summary: Eighteen-year-old Eliza Mirk is the anonymous creator of Monstrous Sea, a wildly popular webcomic, but when a new boy at school tempts her to live a life offline, everything she’s worked for begins to crumble. In the real world, Eliza Mirk is shy, weird, smart, and friendless. Online, Eliza is LadyConstellation, the anonymous creator of a popular webcomic called Monstrous Sea. With millions of followers and fans throughout the world, Eliza’s persona is popular. Eliza can’t imagine enjoying the real world as much as she loves her digital community. Then Wallace Warland transfers to her school, and Eliza begins to wonder...

" The days are strange and the nights feel like some hyper realistic dream I can't wake up from. " p. 275 This is exactly how I feel about the book, in a nutshell. Title: Places No One Knows by Brenna Yovanoff Release Date: May 17th 2016 Published by: Delacorte Press Source: From the publisher (Thanks Julia!) Buy online: Book Depository Summary: Waverly Camdenmar spends her nights running until she can’t even think. Then the sun comes up, life goes on, and Waverly goes back to her perfectly hateful best friend, her perfectly dull classes, and the tiny, nagging suspicion that there’s more to life than student council and GPAs. Marshall Holt is a loser. He drinks on school nights and gets stoned in the park. He is at risk of not graduating, he does not care, he is no one. He is not even close to being in Waverly’s world. But then one night Waverly falls asleep and dreams herself into Marshall’s bedroom—and when the sun comes up, nothing in her life can ever be the same. In...

Keeping in mind the title of the book, and the conversation format between Jessie and SN (Somebody Nobody), I will tell you my initial reactions after finishing this book in the same way: 1. Oh wow, the feels . I am drowning in feelings. And by feelings I mean this in a good way. It alternates from drowning in a tsunami of fluff and me sporting a goofy smile, to feeling emphatic and soaking in grief and all the teenage drama that unfolds in the pages. 2. This is like a movie in my head . So very entertaining and such a fun read. I love how I can just imagine every single moment in this book vividly. 3. Ethan. Because Ethan is Ethan is Ethan. (You'll get this once you read the book!) And that's all that matters. He makes everything better and I just can't get enough of him! I'm sure a lot of readers feel the same way. Title: Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum Release Date: April 5th 2016 Published by: Delacorte Press Source: From the publisher (Thanks Julia!) Buy l...

I am typing this review literally 10 minutes after I finish reading the book, so forgive me for the review that is also thinly disguised as me fangirling. Oh man. The feels. It's all about the feels in this book. ( I've actually live tweeted while I was reading the book, so if you're interested in my reactions, you can follow the hashtag, # KaireadsNoLoveAllowed . ) Title: No Love Allowed by Kate Evangelista Release Date: April 19th 2016 Published by: Swoon Reads Source: Won from the author's contest Buy: Amazon | Book Depository Summary: It's all fun and parties until someone falls in love in this modern fairy tale from author Kate Evangelista. Caleb desperately needs a fake girlfriend. Either he attends a series of parties for his father’s law firm with a pretty girl on his arm, or he gets shipped off to Yale to start a future he’s not ready for and isn’t sure he wants. And sadly, the last unattached girl in his social circle has just made the grievous mistak...

Goodbye, reading slump. Thank you, Victoria Scott! Title: Titans by Victoria Scott Release Date: February 23rd 2016 Published by: Scholastic Press Source: Publisher Buy: Amazon | Book Depository Summary: Ever since the Titans first appeared in her Detroit neighborhood, Astrid Sullivan’s world has revolved around the mechanical horses. She and her best friend have spent countless hours watching them and their jockeys practice on the track. It’s not just the thrill of the race. It’s the engineering of the horses and the way they’re programmed to seem so lifelike. The Titans are everything that fascinates Astrid, and nothing she’ll ever touch. She hates them a little, too. Her dad lost everything betting on the Titans. And the races are a reminder of the gap between the rich jockeys who can afford the expensive machines to ride, and the working class friends and neighbors of Astrid’s who wager on them. But when Astrid’s offered a chance to enter an early model Titan in this year’s derby...

Today is one of those rare days where I tell myself: "Well, it looks like we've been introduced to another great author, eh?" . *spreads arms to meet the legions of fellow Sarah Maas fans* Title: A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses #1) by Sarah J. Maas Release Date: May 5th 2015 Published by: Bloomsbury Children's Source: Publisher (Thanks Bloomsbury!) | Bought a physical copy Buy: Amazon | Book Depository Summary: A thrilling, seductive new series from New York Times bestselling author Sarah J. Maas, blending Beauty and the Beast with faerie lore. When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand retribution for it. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin—one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled their world. As she dwells on his estate, her feelings for Tamlin transform from icy hostili...

Allow me to borrow that swear word often used in the book and use it in a sentence that will somehow express my feelings for this sequel, which I loved more than I ever did with Red Rising. That was bloodydamn amazing and traumatically painful . I just suffered full emotional carnage of the worst kind at the hands of this book, and I wouldn't have it any other way. And when I say carnage, it was like I opened a box that held all my emotions and Pierce Brown took everything, the joy, laughter, sadness, pain, surprise and ripped every single one of them into shreds. Title: Golden Son (Red Rising Trilogy #2) by Pierce Brown Release Date: January 6th 2015 Published by: Del Rey Source: Publisher (Thank you, Penguin Random House!) Buy: Amazon | Book Depository Summary: With shades of The Hunger Games , Ender’s Game , and Game of Thrones , debut author Pierce Brown’s genre-defying epic Red Rising hit the ground running and wasted no time becoming a sensation. Golden Son continues th...

My brain, my heart and my soul isn't fully functioning a few minutes before I wrote this review. I am THAT affected by this book. Title: The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle #2) by Maggie Stiefvater Release Date: September 17th 2013 Published by: Scholastic Press Source: Publisher (Thanks Ms. Joyce!) Buy: Amazon | Book Depository Summary: Now that the ley lines around Cabeswater have been woken, nothing for Ronan, Gansey, Blue, and Adam will be the same. Ronan, for one, is falling more and more deeply into his dreams, and his dreams are intruding more and more into waking life. Meanwhile, some very sinister people are looking for some of the same pieces of the Cabeswater puzzle that Gansey is after... I don't really know where to start, but this book has just made me feel so much emotion that I am not sure what to discuss, what to say, and what to feel. All I know is this, The Dream Thieves is very, very good. After reading The Raven Boys, I have gotten used to the very slo...

Once in a while I get to read a book full of poems that has just the right amount of kick, sass and bite. This time it's a book called Poisoned Apples, and for good reason. Title: Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty by Christine Heppermann Release Date: September 23rd 2014 Published by: Greenwillow Books Source: Edelweiss Buy: Amazon | Book Depository Summary: Every little girl goes through her princess phase, whether she wants to be Snow White or Cinderella, Belle or Ariel. But then we grow up. And life is not a fairy tale. Christine Heppermann's collection of fifty poems puts the ideals of fairy tales right beside the life of the modern teenage girl. With piercing truths reminiscent of Laurie Halse Anderson and Ellen Hopkins, this is a powerful and provocative book for every young woman. E. Lockhart, author of We Were Liars, calls it "a bloody poetic attack on the beauty myth that's caustic, funny, and heartbreaking." Cruelties come not just from wicked...

When an imaginative mind takes the what ifs and the possibilities and spin an amazing story out of it? Even better. This is why I love alternate universes. Title: The Only Thing to Fear by Caroline Tung Richmond Release Date: September 30th 2014 Published by: Scholastic Press Source: Publisher (Thanks Ms. Joyce!) Buy: Amazon | Book Depository Summary: It's been nearly 80 years since the Allies lost WWII in a crushing defeat against Hitler's genetically engineered super soldiers. America has been carved up by the victors, and 16-year-old Zara lives a life of oppression in the Eastern America Territories. Under the iron rule of the Nazis, the government strives to maintain a master race, controlling everything from jobs to genetics. Despite her mixed heritage and hopeless social standing, Zara dreams of the free America she's only read about in banned books. A revolution is growing, and a rogue rebel group is plotting a deadly coup. Zara might hold the key to taking dow...

A shivery tale based on the popular legend that spawned Sadako, guaranteed to make the hairs at the back of your neck stand quite a few times, with an unlikely protagonist and an unusual style of storytelling. Strange yet not without a satisfying ending. All of the words before this just means I loved the book. Title: The Girl from the Well by Rin Chupeco Release Date: August 5th 2014 Published by: Sourcebooks Fire Source: Author (Thanks Rin!) Buy: Amazon | Book Depository Summary: A dead girl walks the streets. She hunts murderers. Child killers, much like the man who threw her body down a well three hundred years ago. And when a strange boy bearing stranger tattoos moves into the neighborhood so, she discovers, does something else. And soon both will be drawn into the world of eerie doll rituals and dark Shinto exorcisms that will take them from American suburbia to the remote valleys and shrines of Aomori, Japan. Because the boy has a terrifying secret - one that would just k...

I'm not too sure how to put into words what I feel for this book. Title: We Are the Goldens by Dana Reinhardt Release Date: May 27th 2014 Published by: Wendy Lamb Books Source: Publisher (Thanks Ms. Jenny!) Buy: Amazon | Book Depository Summary: Nell knows a secret about her perfect, beautiful sister Layla. If she tells, it could blow their world apart. When Nell and Layla were little, Nell used to call them Nellayla. Because to Nell, there was no difference between where she started and her adored big sister ended. They're a unit; divorce made them rely on each other early on, so when one pulls away, what is the other to do? But now, Nell's a freshman in high school and Layla is changing, secretive. And then Nell discovers why. Layla is involved with one of their teachers. And even though Nell tries to support Layla, to understand that she's happy and in love, Nell struggles with her true feelings: it's wrong, and she must do something about it. There are variou...