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Book Review | Open Road Summer | Emery Lord

Jun 27

Title: Open Road Summer
Author: Emery Lord (web | twitter)
Genre: Contemporary YA
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Publisher: Walker Childrens
Release date: April 15, 2014
Source: ARC from the publisher via NetGalley (Thanks, Walker Childrens!)

After breaking up with her bad-news boyfriend, Reagan O’Neill is ready to leave her rebellious ways behind. . . and her best friend, country superstar Lilah Montgomery, is nursing a broken heart of her own. Fortunately, Lilah’s 24-city tour is about to kick off, offering a perfect opportunity for a girls-only summer of break-up ballads and healing hearts. But when Matt Finch joins the tour as its opening act, his boy-next-door charm proves difficult for Reagan to resist, despite her vow to live a drama-free existence. This summer, Reagan and Lilah will navigate the ups and downs of fame and friendship as they come to see that giving your heart to the right person is always a risk worth taking. A fresh new voice in contemporary romance, Emery Lord’s gorgeous writing hits all the right notes.

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Filed Under: Reviews, Young Adult Tagged With: Bloomsbury, Contemporary YA, debut 2014, Emery Lord

Waiting on Wednesday (56) | The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Jun 25

The Slow Regard of Silent Things: The Kingkiller Chronicle #2.5 • Patrick Rothfuss

Deep below the University, there is a dark place. Few people know of it: a broken web of ancient passageways and abandoned rooms. A young woman lives there, tucked among the sprawling tunnels of the Underthing, snug in the heart of this forgotten place.
Her name is Auri, and she is full of mysteries.

The Slow Regard of Silent Things is a brief, bittersweet glimpse of Auri’s life, a small adventure all her own. At once joyous and haunting, this story offers a chance to see the world through Auri’s eyes. And it gives the reader a chance to learn things that only Auri knows….

In this book, Patrick Rothfuss brings us into the world of one of The Kingkiller Chronicle’s most enigmatic characters. Full of secrets and mysteries, The Slow Regard of Silent Things is the story of a broken girl trying to live in a broken world.

GUYSSSSSS. I am deep into a Kingkiller Chronicle fanzone right now. I’m in the middle of re-listening to THE WISE MAN’S FEAR after just finishing a re-listen of THE NAME OF THE WIND, and I am loving all up on these books anew. When I found out that Patrick Rothfuss was writing a short story about one of my favorite secondary characters at The University, Auri, I was so excited. I mean, I can’t lie, I was hoping against hope that his big announcement would be something related to book 3, THE DOORS OF STONE, but Auri is going to be an excellent diversion, I think.

Auri is, as the synopsis states, “a broken girl.” Not everyone who attends The University is mentally strong enough to handle the pressure, and Auri is one of those former students. She’s simple, but not in the way of a disability. More in the way of no longer encumbered by the strictures of society. She speaks with whimsy and is skittish around strangers. But she has a very loyal, very sweet brother-sister relationship with Kvothe, and I just adore them. The idea of seeing more of Auri and where she lives is enormously intriguing to me. I AM STOKED.

THE SLOW REGARD OF SILENT THINGS comes out October 28, 2014 from DAW

Filed Under: Waiting on Wednesday Tagged With: anticipation!, fantasy, Patrick Rothfuss, series, The Kingkiller Chronicle, waiting on wednesday, WANT

Top Ten Tuesday (121) | Book Cover Trends

Jun 24

Top Ten Book Cover Trends

I originally thought this topic would be difficult. I was wrong. There were a few recent trends in book cover design that I’d known I wanted to highlight here, but other than that, I was kind of at a loss. Until I went and looked through my TBR and that most excellent Listopia feature on Goodreads. THEN I discovered things that I forgot I’d noticed, or things that I didn’t realize happened more than once. Below are ten trends that I like, but there are more that I just didn’t have the time to include. There are several books that apply to more than one trend, as you might notice, and SO MANY BOOKS that I didn’t have room to include! To the pictures!

Mirror Images

I noticed this trend when I first saw the cover for A THOUSAND PIECES OF YOU, but then I remember that something similar was going on with THE VANISHING SEASON. ALIENATED is kind of the same deal–an image that is inverted from top to bottom, or different on the top and bottom. I like this. It’s visually interesting and a fun metaphor for whatever might be going on INSIDE.

Illustrated People

This one starts with ELEANOR & PARK, but it’s continuing on with GUY IN REAL LIFE and ONE MAN GUY. I will always, ALWAYS see the appeal of an illustrated cover. It’s one of my favorite trends of anything. I’d always be drawn to an illustrated cover over one with photos and models on it.

Feathers

This one popped out at me while I was scrolling through my TBR. I’m particularly fond of the illustrated feather on the cover for Ava Lavender, and it irks me a touch that the covers for FIRE & FLOOD and ANTIGODDESS are nearly identical. But I do love feathers. And I love how the feathers are all symbolic of the contents: Ava’s feather is whimsical and odd (for a feather), FIRE & FLOOD’s feather is a flame, and ANTIGODDESS’ feather is bleeding.

Rainbowish/Ombre Things

I don’t know how else to describe this style element. It’s rainbowish, it’s colorful, it’s shiny, it’s ombre. So, all of those things. I’ve read none of these books, alas, so I don’t know how apropos they are of the stories, but they sure are pretty.

Frames

This one didn’t strike me until I went looking for similarities, and it struck me that there were a number of books recently released or still to come that had some kind of frame, whether it’s the deliberate shape of EGG & SPOON, the more ornate design of THE QUEEN OF THE TEARLING, or the dark edge of THE SUMMONING. Lots of other examples of this as well, and I like it. Makes the covers seem more like pieces of art.

Vertical Titles

THIS ONE is a trend I LOVE. I LOVE when the titles are oriented differently. It’s LOTS of fun. I had to leave off a bunch of examples of this because I literally couldn’t fit any more images in my collage. But FUN.

Broken Titles

This is an interesting one, friends. Not sure if I LOVE love it, but I do like the way it looks. It’s a little weird to see what is normally a typesetting error done deliberately, and it is kind of jarring to read, but it does catch my eye. That’s likely helped along by the dark background and the vibrant text color, but still. (Also, MORE FEATHERS!)

Shape Overlays

Shapes! This is an interesting way to turn what might otherwise be unspectacular covers into more visually catchy ones. And I like the way they are used differently on each: one to break up an image and a face, another to indicate some kind of barrier (the curtainy thing on DARK METROPOLIS), and another to change the vibe of the whole cover.

Calligraphy

CALLIGRAPHYYY!! I love calligraphy. I love it. I wish I could do it. I would read ANY book that had calligraphy–especially when it looks so handwritten and not like a clean font–on the cover. SALT & STORM is probably my favorite of the group, but I really do love them all. So, so gorgeous. MORE OF THIS, PLEASE!

White Covers

Guys, I LOVE this trend. I love it to bits and tiny pieces. White covers–or whitish covers–always grab my attention because they stand out so well, especially on a shelf. There’s not much that pops quite as much to my eye than white or very light colors. There are so many other covers that follow this trend that I didn’t include here, but it’s officially A Thing, and probably my favorite trend around right now.

Filed Under: Top Ten Tuesday Tagged With: covers, top ten tuesday

Book Review | The Chapel Wars | Lindsey Leavitt

Jun 20

Title: The Chapel Wars
Author: Lindsey Leavitt (web | twitter)
Genre: Contemporary YA
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Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Release date: May 6, 2014
Source: ARC from the publisher via NetGalley (Thanks, Bloomsbury!)
Related reviews: GOING VINTAGE

Sixteen-year-old Holly wants to remember her Grandpa forever, but she’d rather forget what he left her in his will: his wedding chapel on the Las Vegas strip. Whatever happened to gold watches, savings bonds, or some normal inheritance?

And then there’s Grandpa’s letter. Not only is Holly running the business with her recently divorced parents, but she needs to make some serious money—fast. Grandpa also insists Holly reach out to Dax, the grandson of her family’s mortal enemy and owner of the cheesy chapel next door. No matter how cute Dax is, Holly needs to stay focused: on her group of guy friends, her disjointed family, work, school and… Dax. No wait, not Dax.

Holly’s chapel represents everything she’s ever loved in her past. Dax might be everything she could ever love in the future. But as for right now, there’s a wedding chapel to save.

I’m a little bit bummed about THE CHAPEL WARS, friends. I routinely look forward to Lindsey Leavitt’s books, ever since I read SEAN GRISWOLD’S HEAD, which remains one of the most surprisingly wonderful books I can recall reading ever. THE CHAPEL WARS had a great premise: Las Vegas, wedding chapels, a Romeo and Juliet-esque family feud. All super interesting, exciting things! And I suppose there were things about this book that lived up to the promise of awesomeness I saw in the synopsis, and I finished it, but mostly I was let down. And I hate using the line, “well, at least I finished it,” because that sounds awful. But…it fits. Bummer.

As I mentioned just before, THE CHAPEL WARS is about Holly. Her story begins with her beloved grandfather’s funeral and the subsequent reading of his will. He throws everyone—Holly included—for a loop by leaving her in charge of the family’s business, a wedding chapel off the strip. Holly and her now-divorced parents have been working the chapel for years, and for just as long (or longer), their chapel has been GOING AT IT with the chapel across the parking lot. Holly’s grandfather and the owner of the other chapel literally hated each other; the guy shows up at the funeral and TALKS SHIZZ about the dead person. I mean…doesn’t get worse than that. But now that Holly is left in charge of the chapel, she realizes how much work she’ll have to do to save her family’s lifeblood. Things in this arena are complicated by the cute, sweet grandson of the shizz-talking meanie, Dax.

One of my favorite aspects of THE CHAPEL WARS was the business. The wedding chapel angle was pretty fun. It’s not something I’ve ever encountered before, so I enjoyed the newness of it. And, come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve read many YA books that take place in Las Vegas, so getting to live in that place and see what life is like for the locals and not just the people who visit was also good fun. I’ve never been to Vegas, but I’ve seen movies. Somehow I think that doesn’t quite capture what life is actually like there. Talking about the wedding packages and the neon sign museum and the old casinos set the perfect atmosphere.

This is where I get to that part of my review where I try and figure out whether I actually liked things or didn’t like them so much. THE CHAPEL WARS was good enough. But there were also a number of things that didn’t capture my attention or my feelings or my interest. One of these mixed bags is, unfortunately, Holly herself. I liked her. I did. She’s going through a tough loss and is a high-schooler that literally has a REAL JOB. And not just any REAL JOB, but one that her entire family depends on. On top of this (yes, there’s more), she’s IN CHARGE of this incredibly important family business that is FAILING. Laying it all out here makes it seem a bit much, to be honest, but it sets up the main drama. Despite all of this, PLUS the romantic drama with Dax, I had a hard time connecting with Holly. She’s very type A and committed and fierce, which is great, but I couldn’t work up any real emotions about her or her situation. Which is ironic because Holly herself struggles mightily with feels. WAHH!

Speaking of Dax, he was adorable. Shady sometimes, but adorable. His relationship with Holly is inherently imperfect given the relationship between their families, and so they struggle with things on and off. When they’re on, they’re cute enough, but much like my feelings about Holly, I felt no tingly-butterflies-swoons for them. THIS IS SUCH A BUMMER. MAJOR SAD FACE. Not feeling swoons is pretty upsetting, friends. I wanted to! I wanted to swoon so badly! But one of my biggest issues with THE CHAPEL WARS is that my emotional connections to the characters were almost nonexistent, and that applies to the romance in a big way.

I’ve been trying to write this review without blatantly using the word (or whatever it is) “meh,” but that really is the best word/sound for my overall opinion of THE CHAPEL WARS. ALAS ALAS! There were great angles in Lindsey Leavitt’s book that I wish we got more time with, particularly some issues with Holly’s family and her little brother. That was some meaty stuff, but we didn’t get as much of it as I would’ve liked. I also had a hard time believing that Holly could be an excellent, full-time high-school student as well as THE BOSS of an epically struggling business. Holly had some great friends, and they helped things along, but I also thought there was a lot more to be mined from Dax and his background. Basically I saw glimpses of awesome things, but got big scoopfuls of other stuff instead.

All in all, I expected better from THE CHAPEL WARS because I know that Lindsey Leavitt has done better, at least in my reading of her books. This doesn’t make me want to stop looking forward to new things from her, though. Not by any means. Everyone has some blips in the radar, right? Unfortunately, for me, THE CHAPEL WARS was just that.

Check out some other reviews of The Chapel Wars by Lindsey Leavitt!

Danielle @ Love at First Page: “The Chapel Wars is a fresh, memorable story, made all the more exciting by its Las Vegas setting.”

Brittany @ The Book Addict’s Guide: “THE CHAPEL WARS was a lot of fun to read, but given that I had such a strong connection in GOING VINTAGE, it fell juuuust a bit shy of a new favorite for me.”

Filed Under: Reviews, Young Adult Tagged With: Bloomsbury, Contemporary YA, Lindsey Leavitt

Waiting on Wednesday (55) | A Thousand Pieces of You

Jun 18

A Thousand Pieces of You: Firebird #1 by Claudia Gray

Every Day meets Cloud Atlas in this heart-racing, space- and time-bending, epic new trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray.

Marguerite Caine’s physicist parents are known for their radical scientific achievements. Their most astonishing invention: the Firebird, which allows users to jump into parallel universes, some vastly altered from our own. But when Marguerite’s father is murdered, the killer—her parent’s handsome and enigmatic assistant Paul—escapes into another dimension before the law can touch him.

Marguerite can’t let the man who destroyed her family go free, and she races after Paul through different universes, where their lives entangle in increasingly familiar ways. With each encounter she begins to question Paul’s guilt—and her own heart. Soon she discovers the truth behind her father’s death is more sinister than she ever could have imagined.

A Thousand Pieces of You explores a reality where we witness the countless other lives we might lead in an amazingly intricate multiverse, and ask whether, amid infinite possibilities, one love can endure.

Can we talk about this cover? I know I’m maybe missing the point by talking about the cover of A THOUSAND PIECES OF YOU before anything else, but I love it. I love covers that have lots of white. But I also love that this cover has lots of other colors, too, and WHOA, WHAT IS THAT CITY ON THE FLIP SIDE THERE? Incredibly stoked, just from looking at it.

A THOUSAND PIECES OF YOU sounds fantastic, though. Parallel universes always bring out the extreme nerd in me. Plus this murder sounds like more than meets the eye for sure, and THAT intrigues me to no end. I’ve never read a book by Claudia Gray, but I’m very excited for A THOUSAND PIECES OF YOU to be the first.

A THOUSAND PIECES OF YOU comes out November 4, 2014 from Harper Teen

Filed Under: Waiting on Wednesday Tagged With: anticipation!, Claudia Gray, Harper Teen, science fiction YA, waiting on wednesday, WANT

Top Ten Tuesday (120) | Top Ten Books on My Summer TBR

Jun 17

Top Ten Books on My Summer TBR

HUZZAH FOR SUMMER READING! I always loved summer reading when I was in school, so now you know just what kind of nerd you’re dealing with here. But even though my taste in books has changed from “required reading plus lots of adult books” to mostly YA, I still love reading while I’m sitting outside, or on the beach, or just enjoying the long days and warm weather. I didn’t have a chance to write about these individual books this week–alas! I’ll try and update this post tomorrow–but I’ve got a mix of books coming out this summer and books that are already out. I CAN CONQUER THIS LIST!

What books are you guys looking forward to this summer??

Filed Under: Top Ten Tuesday Tagged With: summer, top ten tuesday

Book Review | The Falconer | Elizabeth May

Jun 16

book cover The Falconer Elizabeth May
Title: The Falconer
Author: Elizbeth May (web | twitter)
Series: The Falconer #1
Genre: Fantasy YA, Historical Fiction YA, faeries
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Publisher: Chronicle Books
Release date: May 6, 2014
Source: egalley from the publisher via Edelweiss (Thanks, Chronicle!)

Heiress. Debutant. Murderer. A new generation of heroines has arrived.

Edinburgh, Scotland, 1844

Lady Aileana Kameron, the only daughter of the Marquess of Douglas, was destined for a life carefully planned around Edinburgh’s social events – right up until a faery killed her mother.

Now it’s the 1844 winter season and Aileana slaughters faeries in secret, in between the endless round of parties, tea and balls. Armed with modified percussion pistols and explosives, she sheds her aristocratic facade every night to go hunting. She’s determined to track down the faery who murdered her mother, and to destroy any who prey on humans in the city’s many dark alleyways.

But the balance between high society and her private war is a delicate one, and as the fae infiltrate the ballroom and Aileana’s father returns home, she has decisions to make. How much is she willing to lose – and just how far will Aileana go for revenge?

I sometimes have a hard time really getting into books with super heavy faerie elements, guys. I don’t know what it is, but that particular sub-genre is very hit-or-miss for me. I’ve read faerie books and LOOOOVED THEM, but I’ve also read—or not even finished—others. For whatever reason, I approached Elizabeth May’s THE FALCONER with very little trepidation. I think that had something to do with being set in a historical period, specifically in Scotland, a setting that is Amy-nip. Whatever the reasons for my excitement to read THE FALCONER, it lived up to all of the great things I was hearing from other bloggers as well as my super excitement to read a historical fantasy. BEST.

THE FALCONER is the story of Lady Aileana Kameron, a young Scottish lady who is living not just on the brink of womanhood and marriage, but also under the terrible grief of the brutal death of her mother at the hands of a vicious faery. Juggling her social responsibilities as the daughter of a Marquess and her secret life as a faery assassin is not easy for Aileana. So she helps her own self out by manufacturing her own weapons, specially designed to take out all the faeries. Of course, she is not alone in her quest for revenge against the faery who killed her mother. Aileana has been training with a mysterious and beautiful faery named Kiaran, who is harboring his own secrets about the faeries in Edinburgh, and Lady Aileana will play a much larger role in their story than she ever realized.

First of all, I know I’ve mentioned before how much I endlessly heart books set in Scotland. THE FALCONER was no exception. Historical fiction Scotland is one of my favorite places, and Elizabeth May brings all of that city’s great atmosphere to bear on Alieana’s story. The mists and the city and the dark nights all make THE FALCONER extra special.

But of course, Alieana is the centerpiece of THE FALCONER, and I was constantly blown away by her badassery. She lives to avenge her mother’s death, tracking the faery who killed her–in front of Alieana, taunting her all the while–across Scotland, making her own weapons to kill any faery she finds in the meantime. Alieana is fearless most of the time, and even when she is afraid–of the faeries, of her feelings for Kiaran, of her future, of things about herself that she is only just learning–she doesn’t shy away from it. Plus she’s got a quick wit and a sharp tongue. Big fan of her.

Since faeries are the backbone of THE FALCONER, it stands to reason that the most important relationship is between Alieana and her faery teacher, Kiaran. Kiaran is a powerful fae himself who has been teaching Alieana how to slaughter his own kind for reasons that he keeps to himself. They have a powerful connection that sometimes appears to go beyond a student-teacher relationship. Whatever their relationship is, it’s complicated to start and only becomes more so when the truth about Aileana’s gifts for killing faeries comes to light, and again when the events at the end of THE FALCONER make things incredibly complicated for everyone. Obviously I’m really DYING to know what happens with them. There’s another guy as well, but I’m not getting super strong triangle vibes from that end, which is good. But he’s an excellent character himself.

Another thing that I enjoyed a great deal in THE FALCONER was the steampunk element. Aileana has all kinds of gadgets in her room, and she’s incredibly adept and manufacturing them. She often longs to sit at her worktable tinkering with her weapons. I LOVED THIS. I loved her affinity for engineering, which isn’t something often encountered in YA, and I loved that Aileana had not only an aptitude but a fondness for it because she’d always done it with her mother.

There’s a ton of action in THE FALCONER and I thought it was wonderful. The end was very fast and had a lot of things going on that sometimes got muddled in my brain, but the big picture is pretty intense. Relationships are made more difficult, lives are in danger, and Aileana and Kiaran have not yet seen the worst of what’s to come. But the end was SUPER abrupt.

I enjoyed the CRAP out of THE FALCONER, friends, despite my love-hate relationship with faeries. Elizabeth May’s debut was fun and dramatic and dangerous and all the good things. Can’t wait for book 2!

Check out some other reviews of The Falconer by Elizabeth May!

Anya @ On Starships and Dragonwings: “While The Falconer stumbled a bit at the end, it is an addictive read and I’m dying a bit for the sequel.”

Kelly @ The Belle of the Literati: “…I just want ALL the info about the history of the fae, what really happened to them, A BIOGRAPHY OF KIARAN’S LIFE! I need so much more! When is 2015?”

Filed Under: Reviews, Young Adult Tagged With: 2014 debut, Chronicle Books, Elizabeth May, faeries, fantasy YA, historical fiction YA, scotland, series

Waiting on Wednesday (54) | The Accidental Highwayman

Jun 11

The Accidental Highwayman: Being the Tale of Kit Bristol, His Horse Midnight, a Mysterious Princess, and Sundry Magical Persons Besides by Ben Tripp

The Accidental Highwayman is the first swashbuckling adventure for young adults by talented author and illustrator, Ben Tripp. This thrilling tale of dark magic and true love is the perfect story for fans of William Goldman’s The Princess Bride.

In eighteenth-century England, young Christopher “Kit” Bristol is the unwitting servant of notorious highwayman Whistling Jack. notorious highwayman Whistling Jack. One dark night, Kit finds his master bleeding from a mortal wound, dons the man’s riding cloak to seek help, and changes the course of his life forever. Mistaken for Whistling Jack and on the run from redcoats, Kit is catapulted into a world of magic and wonders he thought the stuff of fairy tales.

Bound by magical law, Kit takes up his master’s quest to rescue a rebellious fairy princess from an arranged marriage to King George III of England. But his task is not an easy one, for Kit must contend with the feisty Princess Morgana, goblin attacks, and a magical map that portends his destiny: as a hanged man upon the gallows….

Fans of classic fairy-tale fantasies such as Stardust by Neil Gaiman and will find much to love in this irresistible YA debut by Ben Tripp, the son of one of America’s most beloved illustrators, Wallace Tripp (Amelia Bedelia). Following in his father’s footsteps, Ben has woven illustrations throughout the story.

I LOVE ALL THE THINGS about THE ACCIDENTAL HIGHWAYMAN. Look at it! A magical highwayman! Redcoats! Fairy princesses named Morgana! MAGICAL MAPS! And I can’t even with how much this reminds me of the Dread Pirate Roberts, with the way Kit dons his former master’s cloak and unwittingly becomes Whistling Jack. YES PLEASE.

Also, this cover is amazing. I love the red so much. I’m very much ecstatic about the illustrations as well. You don’t encounter many YA books with artwork inside, but the few I know of all feature outstanding images (I’m thinking right now of the Leviathan series by Scott Westerfeld and illustrated by Keith Thompson). But Ben Tripp illustrated this one himself and that just sounds perfect.

I’ll never, ever turn down a historical fantasy, friends. NEVER. I’m certainly not going to start with THE ACCIDENTAL HIGHWAYMAN.

THE ACCIDENTAL HIGHWAYMAN comes out October 14, 2014 from Tor Teen.

Filed Under: Waiting on Wednesday Tagged With: anticipation!, Ben Tripp, fantasy YA, historical fiction YA, series, Tor Teen, waiting on wednesday, WANT

Top Ten Tuesday (119) | Favorite Reads of 2014…So Far

Jun 10

Book Review | Deep Blue | Jennifer Donnelly

Jun 9

Title: Deep Blue
Author: Jennifer Donnelly (web | twitter)
Series: Waterfire Saga #1
Genre: Fantasy YA, Paranormal YA, mermaids
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Publisher: Disney Press
Release date: May 6, 2014
Source: ARC from the Publisher (thanks, Disney!)

The first in a series of four epic tales set in the depths of the ocean, where six mermaids seek to protect and save their hidden world.

Deep in the ocean, in a world not so different from our own, live the merpeople. Their communities are spread throughout the oceans, seas, and freshwaters all over the globe.

When Serafina, a mermaid of the Mediterranean Sea, awakens on the morning of her betrothal, her biggest worry should be winning the love of handsome Prince Mahdi. And yet Sera finds herself haunted by strange dreams that foretell the return of an ancient evil. Her dark premonitions are confirmed when an assassin’s arrow poisons Sera’s mother. Now, Serafina must embark on a quest to find the assassin’s master and prevent a war between the Mer nations. Led only by her shadowy dreams, Sera searches for five other mermaid heroines who are scattered across the six seas. Together, they will form an unbreakable bond of sisterhood and uncover a conspiracy that threatens their world’s very existence.

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Filed Under: Reviews, Young Adult Tagged With: Disney Press, fantasy YA, Jennifer Donnelly, mermaids, paranormal YA, series

Book Review | Open Road Summer | Emery Lord

Waiting on Wednesday (56) | The Slow Regard of Silent Things

The Slow Regard of Silent Things: The Kingkiller Chronicle #2.5 • Patrick Rothfuss

Top Ten Tuesday (121) | Book Cover Trends