Confessions of a Bibliovore

Title: Kiss of Broken Glass Author:  Madeleine Kuderick Publisher: HarperTeen Release date: September 9th 2014 Pages: 224 Genre: Young Adult contemporary Source: Edelweiss - I received a free eGalley of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Thanks! Add to Goodreads | Purchase from Amazon In the next seventy-two hours, Kenna may lose everything—her friends, her freedom, and maybe even herself. One kiss of the blade was all it took to get her sent to the psych ward for seventy-two hours. There she will face her addiction to cutting, though the outcome is far from certain. When fifteen-year-old Kenna is found cutting herself in the school bathroom, she is sent to a facility for mandatory psychiatric watch. There, Kenna meets other kids like her—her roommate, Donya, who’s there for her fifth time; the birdlike Skylar; and Jag, a boy cute enough to make her forget her problems . . . for a moment. My rating: 3 out of 5 stars I love the premise of Kiss of Br...

Title: Falling into Place Author: Amy Zhang Publisher: Greenwillow Books Release date: September 9th 201 4 Pages: 304 Genre: Young Adult contemporary Source: BEA 2014 Add to Goodreads  |  Purchase from Amazon Why? Why did Liz Emerson decide that the world would be better off without her? Why did she give up? Vividly told by an unexpected and surprising narrator, this heartbreaking and nonlinear novel pieces together the short and devastating life of Meridian High’s most popular junior girl. Mass, acceleration, momentum, force—Liz didn’t understand it in physics, and even as her Mercedes hurtles toward the tree, she doesn’t understand it now. How do we impact one another? How do our actions reverberate? What does it mean to be a friend? To love someone? To be a daughter? Or a mother? Is life truly more than cause and effect? My rating: 4 out of 5 stars Falling Into Place combines so many factors that I usually hate - an omniscient narrator, non-linear storytelling with lots of...

Top Ten Tuesday  is a weekly meme brought to you by  The Broke and the Bookish .  Each week a new Top Ten list topic is posted and book bloggers fill in their own choices.  This Week's Topics is Top 10 Books I Really Want to Read But Don't Own Yet So I could've easily made a whole list of books that aren't out yet that I would give up my first born for (I kid....possibly). But, I realized that there are a lot of books, especially series, that I haven't yet finished and would really love to. So, this list is split in half. The first half consists of book series that I've started, but don't yet have the final books. The second half consists of books coming out in the future that I'm incredibly psyched for.  Already Released 1. Allegiant  (Divergent #3)  by Veronica Roth I read Divergent when it first came out a long time ago. In between waiting for the next in the series, I found new books to read. Which means this series was left by the wayside. Th...

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by  The Broke and the Bookish  with a different topic for a top-ten list each week. You can find out more about it  here . This week's topic is:  Top Ten Books I Really Want to Read But Don't Own Yet 1.  The Book of Broken Hearts  by Sarah Ockler I loved most of Sarah Ockler's books, and I really want to read The Book of Broken Hearts. (To be honest, the only reason I haven't bought it is the embarrassing cover. But I'll just have to get over that.) 2.  Isla and the Happily Ever After  by Stephanie Perkins Let's just get this one out of the way. Obviously I need to buy Isla as soon as possible. 3.  Fault Line  by Christa Desir I love Christa Desir's Bleed Like Me , and Christa is awesome on Twitter, so I really need to read her debut. 4.  Raw Blue by Kirsty Eagar I feel like everyone who has read Raw Blue has loved it like no other; I don't think I've read a single bad review for this one. I re...

Title: No One Needs to Know Author: Amanda Grace Publisher: Flux Release date: September 8th 2014 Pages: 240 Genre: Young Adult contemporary Source: NetGalley - I received a free eGalley of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Thanks! Add to Goodreads  |  Purchase from Amazon Sometimes, the cost of love is too steep. Olivia's twin brother, Liam, has been her best friend her whole life. But when he starts dating, Olivia is left feeling alone, so she tries to drive away Liam's girlfriends in an effort to get her best friend back. But she meets her match in Zoey, Liam's latest fling. A call-it-like-she-sees-it kind of girl, Zoey sees right through Olivia's tricks. What starts as verbal sparring between the two changes into something different, however, as they share their deepest insecurities and learn they have a lot in common. Olivia falls for Zoey, believing her brother could never get serious with her. But when Liam confesses that he's in ...

I'm  ALIVEEEEEEEEEEE!!! Yes, I'm sure that most of you probably thought something horrible happened to me since I basically became nonexistent over the past couple weeks. Sorry. But I have a good explanation. I promise. And it's a doozy..... I had no internet. Shocker, I know! How, oh how, did I live before the wondrous internet deemed me worthy of its time? These past couple weeks of lack of internet have really given me time to take a step back and figure out my priorities. And I've realized by priorities include Netflix. #NoShame. And blogging. Oh how I missed you blogging! See, I didn't know that I wasn't going to have internet, else I may have scheduled stuff (just kidding, when do I ever schedule posts?). I was planning on taking a couple days off because I was moving to my new apartment, but I hadn't realized my roommate hadn't had internet hooked up yet. I said no big deal because I thought I could set it up when I got there and they'd come t...

Title: To All the Boys I've Loved Before Author: Jenny Han Publisher: Simon & Schuster BYR Release date: April 15th 2014 Pages: 368 Genre: Young Adult contemporary Source: Bought Add to Goodreads  |  Purchase from Amazon What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them... all at once? Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They aren't love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she's written. One for every boy she's ever loved—five in all. When she writes, she pours out her heart and soul and says all the things she would never say in real life, because her letters are for her eyes only. Until the day her secret letters are mailed, and suddenly, Lara Jean's love life goes from imaginary to out of control. My rating: 4 out of 5 stars I loved Jenny Han's Summer series, but it's been a while since I read those books, so I tried to keep my expectations low for To All the Boys I've Lov...

Title: yolo (Internet Girls #4) Author: Lauren Myracle Publisher: Amulet Books Release date: August 26th 2014 Pages: 208 Genre: Young Adult contemporary Source: BEA 2014 Add to Goodreads  |  Purchase from Amazon Through texts and messages, the mega-bestselling, beloved Internet Girls series followed the ups and downs of school for three very different, very close friends. Now it’s freshman year of college for the winsome threesome, and *everything* is different. For one, the best friends are facing their first semester apart. Way, way apart. Maddie’s in California, Zoe’s in Ohio, and Angela’s back in Georgia. And it’s not just the girls who are separated. Zoe’s worried that Doug wants to break up now that they’re at different schools, and Maddie’s boyfriend, Ian, is on the other side of the country.In the face of change and diverging paths, Maddie’s got a plan to keep the friends close, and it involves embracing the present, making memories, and . . . roller derby! Using of-th...

Title: Torn Away Author: Jennifer Brown Publisher: Little, Brown BYR  Release date: May 6th 2014 Pages: 288 Genre: Young Adult contemporary Source: NetGalley - I received a free galley of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Thanks! Add to Goodreads  |  Purchase from Amazon Born and raised in the Midwest, Jersey Cameron knows all about tornadoes. Or so she thinks. When her town is devastated by a twister, Jersey survives -- but loses her mother, her young sister, and her home. As she struggles to overcome her grief, she's sent to live with her only surviving relatives: first her biological father, then her estranged grandparents. In an unfamiliar place, Jersey faces a reality she's never considered before -- one in which her mother wasn't perfect, and neither were her grandparents, but they all loved her just the same. Together, they create a new definition of family. And that's something no tornado can touch. My rating: 5 out of 5 stars I'...

Bookish Anticipation is a feature I do every once in a while to spotlight future releases I'm excited for. It was inspired by  Breaking the Spine 's Waiting on Wednesday. You can check out more of my Bookish Anticipation posts  here . I Was Here  by Gayle Forman Release date: January 27th 2015 When her best friend Meg drinks a bottle of industrial-strength cleaner alone in a motel room, Cody is understandably shocked and devastated. She and Meg shared everything—so how was there no warning? But when Cody travels to Meg’s college town to pack up the belongings left behind, she discovers that there’s a lot that Meg never told her. About her old roommates, the sort of people Cody never would have met in her dead-end small town in Washington. About Ben McAllister, the boy with a guitar and a sneer, who broke Meg’s heart. And about an encrypted computer file that Cody can’t open—until she does, and suddenly everything Cody thought she knew about her best friend’s death gets t...

Title: Six Feet Over It Author: Jennifer Longo Publisher: Random House BYR Release date: August 28th 2014 Pages: 352 Genre: Young Adult contemporary Source: NetGalley - I received a free eGalley of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Thanks! Add to Goodreads | Purchase from Amazon Leigh sells graves for her family-owned cemetery because her father is too lazy to look farther than the dinner table when searching for employees. Working the literal graveyard shift, she meets two kinds of customers: Pre-Need: They know what’s up. They bought their graves a long time ago, before they needed them. At Need: They are in shock, mourning a loved one’s unexpected death. Leigh avoids sponging their agony by focusing on things like guessing the headstone choice (mostly granite). Sarcastic and smart, Leigh should be able to stand up to her family and quit. But her world’s been turned upside down by the sudden loss of her best friend and the appearance of Dario, the sl...

Title: Five Summers Author: Una LaMarche Publisher: Razorbill Release date: May 16th 2013 Pages: 384 Genre: Young Adult contemporary Source: Bought Add to Goodreads  |  Purchase from Amazon Four best friends, five summers of camp memories... The summer we were nine: Emma was branded “Skylar’s friend Emma” by the infamous Adam Loring... The summer we were ten: Maddie realized she was too far into her lies to think about telling the truth... The summer we were eleven: Johanna totally freaked out during her first game of Spin the Bottle... The summer we were twelve: Skylar’s love letters from her boyfriend back home were exciting to all of us—except Skylar... Our last summer together: Emma and Adam almost kissed. Jo found out Maddie’s secret. Skylar did something unthinkable... and whether we knew it then or not, five summers of friendship began to fall apart. Three years after the fateful last night of camp, the four of us are coming back to camp for reunion weekend—and for a se...