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#1: YA Fantasy:
#2: YA Historical Fiction:
#3: YA Sci-Fi:
#4: YA Contemporary:
#5: YA Magical Realism:
#6: NovellyYours: Created by a fellow book-blogger, Brittany runs my favorite book-inspired candle store on Etsy. I’m addicted to the creative candles that she makes. They always smell so amazing and delicious.
#7: The Melting Library: This is another bookish-inspired candle store that creates some of the best scents, which is run by Raquel Nevarez. My favorite candle from this store is by far Bite and Sting, which is inspired by Marie Rutkoski’s The Winner’s Trilogy series.
#8: UppercaseBox: A monthly YA book subscription, which always includes a signed, recently released YA hardback book along with other bookish goodies including tea samples, candles, scarves, nailwraps, buttons, bookmarks, etc. Expert Plan is $23.00 per month plus shipping ($6.00).
#9: OwlCrate: A monthly YA book subscription box, which includes a newly released YA hardback book with other bookish inspired goodies, including tea, Funko Pops, jewelry, candles, and etc. A 1-Month Box costs $29.99 plus shipping.
#10: FierceReads GiftLit Subscription: This is one of my favorite subscriptions I discovered this year. You can choose between a 3, 6, or a 12-month subscription. For each month you subscribed, you will get a recently released YA Fierce Reads book (you can also pick and choose which books you want to receive). Along with the books, you will get one package filled with FierceReads goodies, which includes signed bookplates, posters, maps, nail polish, lip gloss, and tattoos.
Note: If you have any questions about any of these gift ideas, please feel free to comment below. I will try to answer you as soon as I can.
LINKS: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N
Because this is a young adult novel, and like many dystopian young adult novels, The Rift Uprising situates a select few (superhuman) adolescents to protect society. There are many government secrets that linger in small towns scattered around the world. And one of these secrets are portals to different variations of Earth, called the a Rift. The Rift serves as a gateway between different Earth realities, and you never know what will come through, thus creating children with super powers to protect each country that has an active Rift.
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I am almost done with this book. It’s weird, engaging, and sometimes off-putting.
I liked this book, but didn’t love it. However, I did like it enough that I’m going to be reading book two soon.
I know this book was on my “next to read” last week. I’m hoping to read it this weekend.
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Harry Potter will forever remain a series that I was able to share with my brother. It is also a series that I remember checking out from the library and staying up all night to finish, each time a new book was released.
Ilona Andrews, husband and wife writers, wrote the Kate Daniels series, and since the beginning, I cannot get enough of this series. It is by far my favorite paranormal/urban fantasy/romance series.
I read Uprooted a month before my mom passed away. It’s actually the last book I remember discussing with my mom. I read this book in one sitting and I wish that my mom would have been able to enjoy this story too.
This book became a deep part of my book life and my every day life for many reasons. I love the strong themes of feminism, female empowerment, and Victorian/Edwardian social struggles A Mad, Wicked Folly elaborates on. This book gave me hope for Young Adult Literature and the strong, passionate themes that will touch every reader that gets their hands on it.
The Night Circus is always the first book I recommend to people. I love the enchanting atmosphere Morgenstern creates in this book and I highly recommend it to readers that love a romantic story with a touch of magic.
I’ve always had a fascination with Lewis Carroll’s most notable novel. This book and even the movie remind me of my struggles I went through in life and in school.
Before I took a Shakespeare class in college, I always refused to read him. I never understood why people raved about his words. However, after taking a year of Shakespeare studies in college and attending numerous plays, I could not get enough of his works. “As You Like” is one of my favorite plays because of the mystery, intrigue, romance, cross-dressing, and humor scattered throughout it.
One of my favorite parts of studying Victorian Literature was discovering and and learning about novels and poems written by female writers. “Goblin Market” is one of my favorite poems rooted with fairy tale images mixed with social commentary and female empowerment. This poem also interested in the Pre-Raphaelites–their writings and artworks are beautiful.
Paradise Lost is one of favorite books/epic poems that comments on social and religious ideologies. This was one of the first pieces of literature that opened my eyes to new ways of thinking in regards to religion, society, morality, choice, injustice, and the idea that every story has more than one voice/one side.
As many of you might know, Jane Eyre is my all-time favorite novel. More importantly, it is one of the first books that my mom gifted to me. It was also one of the first books that we shared a common love for, and I’m so glad I got to enjoy that experience with her.
Title: The Kiss of Deception
By: Mary E. Pearson
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Genres: Fiction, Young Adult, Romance, Fantasy
Pages: 489 (Hardcover)
Format: Hardcover
Source: Purchased
About The Kiss of Deception
A princess must find her place in a reborn world.
She flees on her wedding day.
She steals ancient documents from the Chancellor’s secret collection.
She is pursued by bounty hunters sent by her own father.
She is Princess Lia, seventeen, First Daughter of the House of Morrighan.
The Kingdom of Morrighan is steeped in tradition and the stories of a bygone world, but some traditions Lia can’t abide. Like having to marry someone she’s never met to secure a political alliance.
Fed up and ready for a new life, Lia flees to a distant village on the morning of her wedding. She settles in among the common folk, intrigued when two mysterious and handsome strangers arrive—and unaware that one is the jilted prince and the other an assassin sent to kill her. Deceptions swirl and Lia finds herself on the brink of unlocking perilous secrets—secrets that may unravel her world—even as she feels herself falling in love.
LINKS: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N | The Book Depository
I am on the fence on how to rate The Kiss of Deception. I keep going back and forth between a rating of 2.5 stars and 3.5 stars, but I think I’m going to settle for a 3-star rating right now. Overall, I enjoyed reading The Kiss of Deception, but there were parts of the book that rubbed me the wrong way.
RANTS: The Kiss of Deception contains many young adult literature tropes that I’m not too fond of: Instant-love, a love triangle, scattered multiple points of view, and pages of useless or dragged out scenes. Additionally, I had a love/hate relationship with the main character.
I really had a hard time connecting and sympathizing with the MC heroine, Lia. Yes, she has very little say in her love life and future, but even when she is separated from her royal obligations, Lia was off-putting to me. It’s odd that she fails to see that her actions have consequences, and oftentimes, these consequences are shocking or oblivious to her. Lia was a hot and cold heroine for me to root for, but after reading the last few chapters, I am on board to see her progress into a more confident and courageous character. She has the yearning and potential to be a fierce heroine, and I look forward to hopefully seeing her develop in the series.
RAVES: I am a sucker for mysteries, royal characters, deception, deciphering dead languages, and discovering prophecies. So ideally this book was screaming my name. And in the end, these were the topics that kept me interested in the plot and finishing the book. This book ends in a twist and cliffhanger, and I look forward to uncovering more about Lia’s fate, the prophecies that surround her, and the mysteries that will unfold. Because The Kiss of Deception is part of a series, yes, I have decided to adventure into the next book.
My Rating: 3 out of 5 Stars
NOTE: I bought this book with my own funds. I was not provided a copy of this book by the author or the publisher in an exchange for a review; I reviewed it at my own discretion. All statements and opinions in this review are mine.
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The Gilded Cage
Sherry D. Ficklin
(A Canary Club Novella)
Publication date: December 1st 2016
Genres: Historical, Young Adult
Masie, the flaxen-haired daughter of notorious boot-legger Dutch Schultz, returns home from boarding school to find her family in crisis. Her mother is dangerously unstable, her father’s empire is on the brink of ruin, and the boy she once loved has become a ruthless killer for hire. To keep her family’s dangerous secrets Masie is forced into a lie that will change the course of her future—and leave her trapped in a gilded cage of her own making. As she watches her world fall apart, Masie must decide whether to take her place in the hierarchy, or spread her wings, leaving the people she loves, and the life she despises, far behind her.
Two worlds collide in Gatsby era New York, in a time of dazzling speakeasies and vicious shoot-outs, of gritty gangsters and iridescent ingénues, where not everything that sparkles is gold.
*This is the first of the Canary Club series and is a short story introduction into the forthcoming novels.
Author Bio:
Sherry is a full time writer from Colorado and the author of over a dozen novels for teens and young adults including the best selling Stolen Empire series. She can often be found browsing her local bookstore with a large white hot chocolate in one hand and a towering stack of books in the other. That is, unless she’s on deadline at which time she, like the Loch Ness monster, is only seen in blurry photographs.
Sherry also writes New Adult fiction under the pen name Ranae Glass and is a contributing writer for fangirlish.com. You can find her at her official website, http://www.sherryficklin.com, or stalk her on her Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/sherry.ficklin.
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Soulmated (Joining of Souls #1) by Shaila Patel
rants and raves of a bibliophile 