Confessions of a Bibliovore

Title: All the Bright Places Author: Jennifer Niven Publisher: Knopf Release date: January 6th 2015 Pages: 384 Genre: Young Adult contemporary Source: NetGalley - I received a free advance eGalley of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Thanks! Add to Goodreads | Purchase from Amazon Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of ways he might kill himself. But each time, something good, no matter how small, stops him. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister's recent death. When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it's unclear who saves whom. And when they pair up on a project to discover the "natural wonders" of their state, both Finch and Violet make more important discoveries: It's only with Violet that Finch can be himself-a weird, funny, live-out-loud guy who's not su...

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 Wouldn't Mind Santa Bringing Dangerous Boys by Abigail Haas Everything Leads to You  by Nina LaCour Love and Other Foreign Words by Erin McCahan Golden by Jessi Kirby In Deep by Terra Elan McVoy Bright Before Sunrise by Tiffany Schmidt The Theory of Everything by Kari Luna Where the Stars Still Shine by Trish Doller The Book of Broken Hearts by Sarah Ockler Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins What books would you like Santa to bring you?

Title: Dead Girls Don't Lie Author: Jennifer Shaw Wolf Publisher: Walker Childrens Release date: September 17th 2013 Pages: 352 Genre: Young Adult contemporary mystery Source: Bought Add to Goodreads  |  Purchase from Amazon Rachel died at two a.m . . . Three hours after Skyler kissed me for the first time. Forty-five minutes after she sent me her last text. Jaycee and Rachel were best friends. But that was before. . .before that terrible night at the old house. Before Rachel shut Jaycee out. Before Jaycee chose Skyler over Rachel. Then Rachel is found dead. The police blame a growing gang problem in their small town, but Jaycee is sure it has to do with that night at the old house. Rachel’s text is the first clue—starting Jaycee on a search that leads to a shocking secret. Rachel’s death was no random crime, and Jaycee must figure out who to trust before she can expose the truth.  My rating: 3 out of 5 stars Dead Girls Don't Lie is one of those books where I can't reall...

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 of 2014 Here are my ten favorite books I read in 2014, in no particular order: Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira This was my first read of 2014, but I still knew it would be on my list of favorites. It touched me in a very personal way, and I had all of the feels. If you're looking for an emotional read, Love Letters to the Dead is definitely the way to go!  Breathe, Annie, Breathe  by Miranda Kenneally All books in Miranda Kenneally's Hundred Oaks series are exceptionally well-done romances, but I think this one might be my new favorite. It's a bit darker than the previous ones, but it's still a romance at heart, and I loved everything about it. I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson I'll Give You the Sun is too complex for me to even try to explain why it...

Title: Break Author: Hannah Moskowitz Publisher: Simon Pulse Release date: August 25th 2009 Pages: 262 Genre: Young Adult contemporary Source: Bought Add to Goodreads  |  Purchase from Amazon Jonah is on a mission to break every bone in his body. Everyone knows that broken bones grow back stronger than they were before. And Jonah wants to be stronger—needs to be stronger—because everything around him is falling apart. Breaking, and then healing, is Jonah’s only way to cope with the stresses of home, girls, and the world on his shoulders. When Jonah's self-destructive spiral accelerates and he hits rock bottom, will he find true strength or surrender to his breaking point? My rating: 4 out of 5 stars I loved Hannah Moskowitz's newer releases, but for some reason I'd been holding off on reading her debut. Both because just generally, it can be kind of disappointing to have seen what a writer can do now, and then go back to their possibly-not-as-strong debut, and just because ...

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 . 99 Days by Katie Cotugno Release date: April 21st 2015 Day 1: Julia Donnelly eggs my house my first night back in Star Lake, and that’s how I know everyone still remembers everything—how I destroyed my relationship with Patrick the night everything happened with his brother, Gabe. How I wrecked their whole family. Now I’m serving out my summer like a jail sentence: Just ninety-nine days till I can leave for college, and be done. Day 4: A nasty note on my windshield makes it clear Julia isn’t finished. I’m expecting a fight when someone taps me on the shoulder, but it’s just Gabe, home from college and actually happy to see me. “For what it’s worth, Molly Barlow,” he says, “I’m really glad you’re back.” Day 12: Gabe got me to come to this party,...

Title: The Secrets of Lily Graves Author: Sarah Strohmeyer Publisher: Balzer + Bray Release date: May 6th 2014 Pages: 298 Genre: Young Adult contemporary mystery Source: Bought Add to Goodreads  |  Purchase from Amazon Growing up in a house of female morticians, Lily Graves knows all about buried secrets. She knows that perfect senior-class president Erin Donohue isn’t what she seems. She knows why Erin’s ex-boyfriend, hot football player Matt Houser, broke up with her. And she also knows that, even though she says she and Matt are just friends, there is something brewing between them—something Erin definitely did not like. But secrets, even ones that are long buried, have a way of returning to haunt their keeper. So when Erin is found dead the day after attacking Lily in a jealous rage, Lily's and Matt’s safe little lives, and the lives of everyone in their town of Potsdam, begin to unravel. And their relationship—which grew from innocent after-school tutoring sessions to lat...

Title: The Lucy Variations Author: Sara Zarr Publisher: Little, Brown BYR Release date: January 1st 2013 Pages: 336 Genre: Young Adult contemporary Source: BEA 2014 Add to Goodreads  |  Purchase from Amazon Lucy Beck-Moreau once had a promising future as a concert pianist. Now, at sixteen, it's over. A death, and a betrayal, led her to walk away. But without music in her life, Lucy's not sure who she is, or who she wants to be. Then she meets Will, her brother's new piano teacher, who is young, kind, and interested in helping Lucy find her way back to piano-not for an audience, but on her own terms. My rating: 3 out of 5 stars It's no secret I love Sara Zarr. She is one of my favorite writers, and Sweethearts is one of my all-time favorite books. And while I definitely saw some of the things I loved about Sara Zarr's previous books in this one, I just didn't connect with The Lucy Variations as much as I wanted to. Honestly, a large part of why I didn't co...

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'm Looking Forward to in 2015 Because there will be another topic about 2015 debuts a couple of weeks from now, I'm only listing books by authors I've read before in this list. Making Pretty  by Corey Ann Haydu Things We Know By Heart  by Jessi Kirby All the Rage  by Courtney Summers Hold Me Like a Breath  by Tiffany Schmidt Vanishing Girls  by Lauren Oliver The Start of Me and You  by Emery Lord Not Otherwise Specified  by Hannah Moskowitz I Was Here  by Gayle Forman The Devil You Know by Trish Doller Saint Anything by Sarah D essen What 2015 releases are you most excited for?