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Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater Series: Raven Cycle (Book 3) Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Scholastic Press; 1st edition (October 21, 2014) Language: English Buy the book: Amazon Blue Sargent has found things. For the first time in her life, she has friends she can trust, a group to which she can belong. The Raven Boys have taken her in as one of their own. Their problems have become hers, and her problems have become theirs. The trick with found things, though, is how easily they can be lost. Friends can betray. Mothers can disappear Visions can mislead. Certainties can unravel. In a starred review, The Bulletin called The Dream Thieves, the previous book in The Raven Cycle, "a complex web of magical intrigue and heart-stopping action." Now, with Blue Lily, Lily Blue, the web becomes even more complex, snaring readers at every turn. Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater was--and typically so--a weavingly creative addition to the Raven Boy...

Review by Elisa   RIDERS by Veronica Rossi Publisher: Tor Teen (February 16, 2016) Publication Date: February 16, 2016 Sold by: Macmillan  Goodreads   | Amazon For eighteen-year-old Gideon Blake, nothing but death can keep him from achieving his goal of becoming a U.S. Army Ranger. As it turns out, it does. Recovering from the accident that most definitely killed him, Gideon finds himself with strange new powers and a bizarre cuff he can't remove. His death has brought to life his real destiny. He has become War, one of the legendary four horsemen of the apocalypse. Over the coming weeks, he and the other horsemen--Conquest, Famine, and Death--are brought together by a beautiful but frustratingly secretive girl to help save humanity from an ancient evil on the emergence. They fail. Now--bound, bloodied, and drugged--Gideon is interrogated by the authorities about his role in a battle that has become an international incident. If he stands any ch...

Review by Elisa THE GOLDEN YARN By Cornelia Funke Series: MirrorWorld #3 Hardcover: 464 pages Publisher: Breathing Books (December 1, 2015) Language: English Goodreads | Amazon   Jacob Reckless continues to travel the portal in his father's abandoned study. His name has continued to be famous on the other side of the mirror, as a finder of enchanted items and buried secrets. His family and friends, from his brother, Will to the shape-shifting vixen, Fox, are on a collision course as the two worlds become connected. Who is driving these two worlds together and why is he always a step ahead? This new force isn’t limiting its influence to just Jacob’s efforts – it has broadened the horizon within MirrorWorld. Jacob, Will and Fox travel east and into the Russian folklore, to the land of the Baba Yaga, pursued by a new type of being that knows our world all to well. In a Nutshell:  I think Cornelia Funke would be one of those authors I’d like to visit. Not jus...

Review by Elisa  FORGET TOMORROW by Pintip Dunn Age Range: 12 and up Series: Forget Tomorrow (Book 1) Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Entangled: Teen (November 3, 2015) Goodreads | Amazon Imagine a world where your destiny has already been decided...by your future self. It's Callie's seventeenth birthday and, like everyone else, she's eagerly awaiting her vision -- a memory sent back in time to sculpt each citizen into the person they're meant to be. A world-class swimmer. A renowned scientist. Or in Callie's case, a criminal. In her vision, she sees herself murdering her gifted younger sister. Before she can process what it means, Callie is arrested and placed in prison. The only person who can help is her childhood crush, Logan, a boy she hasn't spoken to in five years. Logan breaks her free, but can she trust him? He's almost the same boy she remembers, but now he's a whole lot hotter. And he's got his own past to deal with. Callie...

by Elisa The Man-Eating Horses of Autumn: Having moved to the sunny shores of San Diego, I haven’t yet become used to the mild weather. Unsurprisingly, it just didn’t click that it was the Fall. To help me beginning to enjoy pumpkin lattes, I decided to listen to the Scorpio Races to get me in an autumnal mood. The season for man-eating water horses to climb onto shore begins in October and goes through November. In celebration, the water horses (also called the kelpie or cabyll-ushtey) run wild and free in the ancient festival of the Scorpio Races. The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater is one of my favorite books ever. I can’t perfectly pin-point why. It is so simple, but deeply character driven.  I don't even like horses much, but rugged Sean Kendrick's love of for his dangerous Cabyll-ushtey is just so dang sexy. And I admire the tough Katie Connelly deeply. Despite her tragedies, she is so firey and brave and silent in all the ways I am not. Their connection is...

Review by Elisa CRIMSON BOUND by Rosamund Hodge Hardcover: 448 pages Publisher: Balzer + Bray (May 5, 2015) Language: English Amazon | Goodreads An exhilarating tale of darkness, love, and redemption inspired by the classic fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood and the extravagant court of Versailles, from the author of Cruel Beauty. A doomed warrior and the king's most notorious bastard must join forces to defeat a dark evil in this gorgeously intricate fantasy—perfect for fans of An Ember in the Ashes and A Court of Thorns and Roses. When Rachelle was fifteen she was good—apprenticed to her aunt and in training to protect her village from dark magic. But she was also reckless—straying from the forest path in search of a way to free her world from the threat of eternal darkness. After an illicit meeting goes dreadfully wrong, Rachelle is forced to make a terrible choice that binds her to the very evil she had hoped to defeat. Three years later, Rachelle has given her life ...