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EMERGENCY CONTACT by Mary H.K. Choi Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (March 27, 2018) Language: English Goodreads | Amazon For Penny Lee high school was a total nonevent. Her friends were okay, her grades were fine, and while she somehow managed to land a boyfriend, he doesn’t actually know anything about her. When Penny heads to college in Austin, Texas, to learn how to become a writer, it’s seventy-nine miles and a zillion light years away from everything she can’t wait to leave behind. Sam’s stuck. Literally, figuratively, emotionally, financially. He works at a café and sleeps there too, on a mattress on the floor of an empty storage room upstairs. He knows that this is the god-awful chapter of his life that will serve as inspiration for when he’s a famous movie director but right this second the seventeen bucks in his checking account and his dying laptop are really testing him. When Sam and Penny cross paths it’s less meet-cute a...

Review by Andye THE PASSION OF DOLSSA by Julie Berry Age Range: 12 - 17 years Grade Level: 7 and up Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers (April 12, 2016) Audible Audio Edition Listening Length: 11 hours and 42 minutes Program Type: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Publisher: Listening Library Goodreads | Amazon | Audible I must write this account, and when I have finished, I will burn it. Buried deep within the archives of a convent in medieval France is an untold story of love, loss, and wonder and the two girls at the heart of it all. Dolssa is an upper-crust city girl with a secret lover and an uncanny gift. Branded a heretic, she’s on the run from the friar who condemned her mother to death by fire, and wants Dolssa executed, too. Botille is a matchmaker and a tavern-keeper, struggling to keep herself and her sisters on the right side of the law in their seaside town of Bajas. When their lives collide by a dark riverside, Botille rescues a dyi...

With BEA and everything going on right now, I haven't had a chance to do a review of this book, but I just wanted to put it out there and get it on your radar. This was such a great book, and the audiobook is awesome too. It's emotional, moving, mysterious, romantic and gripping. If you haven't heard of it, check it out . And if you've been wondering if you should pick it up, I'd definitely recommend it! A nail-biting story of survival by a medical student and avid swimmer GIRL UNDERWATER On Sale: March 31, 2015 | Dutton Books By Claire Kells Advance Praise for Girl Underwater: "Skillfully interspersing flashbacks with current events, debut novelist Kells has written an absorbing tale that will grip anyone who enjoys survival stories or psychological dramas." –Library Journal (starred review) "Kells's visceral story is quite memorable and eminently readable." —Publishers Weekly "With its subzero temperatures tha...

Sometimes I wonder what on earth is wrong with me. Is it the expectation? I don't think so. There are plenty of books that are super-hyped that I end up loving right along with everyone else. But every once in awhile, everyone I know absolutely adores a book, and I just don't get it at all. Such is the case with a recent UBER-HYPED releases. Ugh. Here it goes... Yep. The infamous ACOTAR. Let me first say, I adore Sarah. Like ADORE! I think she's an amazing person and an incredible writer. But . . . I've had this book since last November, and I've picked it up about seventy-two thousand times. Just ask all my YADC friends who basically wanted to slap me with this book. At first I thought maybe I just wasn't in the mood. I mean it took me a bit to get into the Throne of Glass series (like until book two...) so I put it down and decided to try again later. Over the months one person after the other went on and on about their undying love for this book,...

Gone Reading Prize Pack Giveaway "Banned Books" Coffee Mug from GoneReading.com "Paperback" Body Lotion from GoneReading.com A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab Fall With Me by Jennifer L. Armentrout  (release date: March 31, 2015) Hello to all you faithful readers and supporters of Reading Teen. You know we love you all and the support you show for the blog is very much appreciated.  We have this wonderful giveaway donated to us by Gone Reading , a really cool website that offers a ton of bookish goodies and gifts for the book nerd in all of us. Not only do we have two awesome books in this giveaway, we also have some neat bookish items that are worth mentioning. I especially love the two items that is offered in this giveaway. First, the decadent, luxurious "Paperback" body lotion ($19.99). The lotion is so thick and creamy, Yes, it does smell like paper too. I keep my lotion on my bookshelf and add a little to my h...

Review by J THE RETURN  Titan #1  by Jennifer Armentrout  Series: A Titan Novel (Book 1)  Paperback: 344 pages  Publisher: Spencer Hill Press (February 16, 2015)   Goodreads | Amazon The Fates are cackling their bony asses off... It's been a year since Seth made the deal with the gods that pledged his life to them. And so far, the jobs they've given him have been violent and bloody--which is kind of all right with him. But now Apollo has something else in mind for Seth. He's got to play protector while keeping his hands and fingers off, and for someone who really has a problem with restraint, this new assignment might be the most challenging yet. Josie has no idea what this crazy hot guy's deal might be, but it's a good bet that his arrival means the new life she started after leaving home is about to be thrown into an Olympian-sized blender turned up to puree. Either Josie is going insane or a nightmare straight out of ancient myth is gunnin...

"Review My Books" Review by Natalie WICKED by Jennifer Armentrout Series: A Wicked Trilogy Paperback: 382 pages Publisher: Jennifer L. Armentrout (December 8, 2014) Goodreads | Amazon Things are about to get Wicked in New Orleans. Twenty-two year old Ivy Morgan isn’t your average college student. She, and others like her, know humans aren’t the only thing trolling the French Quarter for fun… and for food. Her duty to the Order is her life. After all, four years ago, she lost everything at the hands of the creatures she’d sworn to hunt, tearing her world and her heart apart. Ren Owens is the last person Ivy expected to enter her rigidly controlled life. He’s six feet and three inches of temptation and swoon-inducing charm. With forest-green eyes and a smile that’s surely left a stream of broken hearts in its wake, he has an uncanny, almost unnatural ability to make her yearn for everything he has to offer. But letting him in is as dangerous as hunting the cold-blooded k...

Welcome to day 3 of the BREAKING THE RULES Excerpt Tour! Review: If you were a fan of Katie McGarry's first book, PUSHING THE LIMITS you're going to be super stoked right now. Two of our favorite characters, Noah and Echo, have their story continued in this super steamy YA/NA crossover. What I loved about this book was that it would've been really easy for Katie to make this just about Noah and Echo's "happily ever after." But I think anyone who read PtL would agree, that couple had a lot more to work out if their relationship was going to work. In BREAKING THE RULES they actually get their chance to do just that. While Echo is still dealing with the way her past has made her insecure, Noah is facing the decision of whether or not to open his life up to further rejection by meeting the extended family he didn't know he had. Add to that the issues that Noah and Echo have to work out together, and you have a recipe for a nuclear explosive. Just l...

Series:  The Dark Elements (Book 2) Paperback:  400 pages Publisher:  Harlequin Teen (February 25, 2014) Language:  English ISBN-10:  0373211104 ISBN-13:  978-0373211104 BUY LINKS: Amazon Barnes and Noble iTunes Kobo One kiss could be the last.  Seventeen-year-old Layla just wants to be normal. But with a kiss that kills anything with a soul, she's anything but normal. Half demon, half gargoyle, Layla has abilities no one else possesses.  Raised among the Wardens—a race of gargoyles tasked with hunting demons and keeping humanity safe—Layla tries to fit in, but that means hiding her own dark side from those she loves the most. Especially Zayne, the swoon-worthy, incredibly gorgeous and completely off-limits Warden she's crushed on since forever.  Then she meets Roth—a tattooed, sinfully hot demon who claims to know all her secrets. Layla knows she should stay away, but she's not sure she wants to—especially ...

Hello, my name is Amy and I write book reviews for Reading Teen. I have been writing young adult book reviews for years. Right at this moment I've been indulging in more new adult, collage age, adult books. I will still read young adult, just because every time I do, I love it so very much. I will continue to write young adult reviews for you, however I have set aside Sundays just for my more adult content book reviews. Stay tuned for more... *Sassy Sundays disclaimer: Books will have strong adult sexual, profanity and/or violent content.   Series:  The Rosemary Beach Series Paperback:  288 pages Publisher:  Atria Books (February 25, 2014) Language:  English ISBN-10:  1476756546 ISBN-13:  978-1476756547 Buy the Book: Amazon From #1  New York Times  bestselling author Abbi Glines comes the story of Grant, the sexy playboy who first captured readers’ hearts in  Fallen Too Far .  When Harlow Manning’s rocker f...