Review: Everbound by Brodi Ashton

Everbound

Author: Brodi Ashton

Release: Janury 22nd 2013

Genre: Mythology, Supernatural, YA

#2 in the Everneath trilogy

Series: Everneath (#1), Evertrue (#3)

Plot:

Nikki Beckett could only watch as her boyfriend, Jack, sacrificed himself to save her, taking her place in the Tunnels of the Everneath for eternity — a debt that should’ve been hers. She’s living a borrowed life, and she doesn’t know what to do with the guilt. And every night Jack appears in her dreams, lost and confused and wasting away.

Desperate for answers, Nikki turns to Cole, the immortal bad boy who wants to make her his queen — and the one person least likely to help. But his heart has been touched by everything about Nikki, and he agrees to assist her in the only way he can: by taking her to the Everneath himself.

Nikki and Cole descend into the Everneath, only to discover that their journey will be more difficult than they’d anticipated — and more deadly. But Nikki vows to stop at nothing to save Jack — even if it means making an incredible sacrifice of her own.

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Review: Everneath by Brodi Ashton

Everneath

Author: Brodi Ashton

Release: January 24th 2012

Genre: Mythology, Supernatural, YA

#1 in the Everneath trilogy

Sequels: Everbound (#2), Evertrue (#3)

Plot:

Last spring, Nikki Beckett vanished, sucked into an underworld known as the Everneath. Now she’s returned—to her old life, her family, her boyfriend—before she’s banished back to the underworld . . . this time forever. She has six months before the Everneath comes to claim her, six months for good-byes she can’t find the words for, six months to find redemption, if it exists.

Nikki longs to spend these precious months forgetting the Everneath and trying to reconnect with her boyfriend, Jack, the person most devastated by her disappearance—and the one person she loves more than anything. But there’s just one problem: Cole, the smoldering immortal who enticed her to the Everneath in the first place, has followed Nikki home. Cole wants to take over the throne in the underworld and is convinced Nikki is the key to making it happen. And he’ll do whatever it takes to bring her back, this time as his queen.

As Nikki’s time on the Surface draws to a close and her relationships begin slipping from her grasp, she is forced to make the hardest decision of her life: find a way to cheat fate and remain on the Surface with Jack or return to the Everneath and become Cole’s queen.

Everneath is a captivating story of love, loss, and immortality from debut author Brodi Ashton.

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Review: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Book Thief

Author: Markus Zusak

Release: March 14th 2006

Genre: Historical, YA

Plot:

Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak’s groundbreaking novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau. 

The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still.

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Review: Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles

Perfect Chemistry

Author: Simone Elkeles

Release: December 23rd 2008

Genre: Contemporary Romance, YA

Companion novels: Rules of Attraction, Chain Reaction

Plot:

A fresh, urban twist on the classic tale of star-crossed lovers.

When Brittany Ellis walks into chemistry class on the first day of senior year, she has no clue that her carefully created 'perfect' life is about to unravel before her eyes. She's forced to be lab partners with Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, and he is about to threaten everything she's worked so hard for: her flawless reputation, her relationship with her boyfriend, and the secret that her home life is anything but perfect. 

Alex is a bad boy and he knows it. So when he makes a bet with his friends to lure Brittany into his life, he thinks nothing of it. But soon Alex realizes Brittany is a real person with real problems, and suddenly the bet he made in arrogance turns into something much more.

In a passionate story about looking beneath the surface, Simone Elkeles breaks through the stereotypes and barriers that threaten to keep Brittany and Alex apart.

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Review: The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson

The Girl of Fire and Thorns

Author: Rae Carson

Release: 20th September 2011

Genre: High Fantasy, YA

#1 in the Fire and Thorns trilogy

Sequels: The Crown of Embers (#2), The Bitter Kingdom (#3)

Plot:

Once a century, one person is chosen for greatness.

Elisa is the chosen one. 

But she is also the younger of two princesses, the one who has never done anything remarkable. She can't see how she ever will. 

Now, on her sixteenth birthday, she has become the secret wife of a handsome and worldly king—a king whose country is in turmoil. A king who needs the chosen one, not a failure of a princess.

And he's not the only one who seeks her. Savage enemies seething with dark magic are hunting her. A daring, determined revolutionary thinks she could be his people's savior. And he looks at her in a way that no man has ever looked at her before. Soon it is not just her life, but her very heart that is at stake.

Elisa could be everything to those who need her most. If the prophecy is fulfilled. If she finds the power deep within herself. If she doesn’t die young.

Most of the chosen do.

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Review: Ashes and Ice by Rochelle Maya Callen

Ashes and Ice

Author: Rochelle Maya Callen

Release: February 4th 2013

Genre: Supernatural, Romance, YA

#1 in the Ashes & Ice series

Sequels: Fire & Shadows (#2)

Plot:

She is desperate to remember.

He is aching to forget.

Together, they are not broken.

But together, one may not survive.

​Jade wakes up with no memory of her past and blood on her hands. 

Plagued by wicked thoughts, she searches for answers. Instead, she finds a boy who doesn't offer her answers, but hope. But sometimes, when nightmares turn into reality and death follows you everywhere, hope is not enough. 

LUST. LOVE. LOSS. Sometimes, all that is left are Ashes and Ice.

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Review: Sweet Evil by Wendy Higgins

Sweet Evil

Author: Wendy Higgins

Release: May 1st 2012

Genre: Supernatural, Paranormal, YA

#1 in the Sweet trilogy

Sequels: Sweet Peril (#2), Sweet Reckoning (#3)

Plot:

Embrace the Forbidden

What if there were teens whose lives literally depended on being bad influences?

This is the reality for sons and daughters of fallen angels.

Tenderhearted Southern girl Anna Whitt was born with the sixth sense to see and feel emotions of other people. She's aware of a struggle within herself, an inexplicable pull toward danger, but it isn't until she turns sixteen and meets the alluring Kaidan Rowe that she discovers her terrifying heritage and her willpower is put to the test. He's the boy your daddy warned you about. If only someone had warned Anna.

Forced to face her destiny, will Anna embrace her halo or her horns?

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Review: The Selection by Kiera Cass

The Selection

Author: Kiera Cass

Release: April 24th 2012

Genre: Dystopia, Romance, YA

#1 in the Selection series

Sequels: The Elite (#2), The One (#3), The Heir (#4), The Crown (#5)

Plot:

For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape the life laid out for them since birth. To be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels. To live in a palace and compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon.

But for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. It means turning her back on her secret love with Aspen, who is a caste below her. Leaving her home to enter a fierce competition for a crown she doesn't want. Living in a palace that is constantly threatened by violent rebel attacks.

Then America meets Prince Maxon. Gradually, she starts to question all the plans she's made for herself—and realizes that the life she's always dreamed of may not compare to a future she never imagined.

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June Wrap-Up / July TBR

Read in June

Those are all the books I have read this month. It's 15 in total, plus I have re-read three books:

Divergent, Insurgent and Under The Never Sky.

I have also read three novellas this month:

July To Be Read

 

I hope I can read many books this month again. I think this is possible, since this week is my last week of school and I have summer vacation for six weeks after that. Although I probably won't have much time to read during the first week, but oh well. We'll see.

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