Monday, February 19, 2018

It's Monday! What Are You Reading #350, February 19th

It's Monday! What Are You Reading is a weekly meme hosted by Book Date where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week...and anything in between! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well...you never know where that next "must read" book will come from!

What happened in the past week:

Weekly Memes:
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #349
Teaser Tuesday #357
WWW Wednesday #357
WOW #354
Will the Time Come #348
Third Sentence Thursday #339
Random Reads #325
First Lines Friday #353
The Reward Challenge Update #335
Book Blogger Hop #19
How Well I Stuck to It #187
Wrote that Review Update #184

Week 7 Reviews:
Illuminae
Gemina
Even White Trash Zombies Get the Blues
White Trash Zombie Apocalypse
How the White Trash Zombie Got Her Groove Back
White Trash Zombie Gone Wild
White Trash Zombie Unchained
The Dark Calling
When My Heart Joins the Thousand
Love Unchained
Enforcing the Paw

Random:
We Have the Cover of Constellation #2!!!!
We Have the Cover of The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein!!!!

OK, so I got  posts in 7 days, What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read All Out Anthology, Break Us, This Tiny Perfect World, The Tombs, and Where I Live.

Take a journey through time and genres and discover a past where queer figures live, love and shape the world around them. Seventeen of the best young adult authors across the queer spectrum have come together to create a collection of beautifully written diverse historical fiction for teens.

From a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood set in war-torn 1870s Mexico featuring a transgender soldier, to two girls falling in love while mourning the death of Kurt Cobain, forbidden love in a sixteenth-century Spanish convent or an asexual girl discovering her identity amid the 1970s roller-disco scene, All Out tells a diverse range of stories across cultures, time periods and identities, shedding light on an area of history often ignored or forgotten.
Nikki Kill doesn't see the world in black and white. Her synesthesia shades everything in view, transforming numbers, words, and emotions into colorful clues. Which means she's a dangerous commodity to anyone with something to hide.

Nikki has already taken on the Hollises—one of L.A.'s most powerful families—for murdering her half sister, Peyton. However, Nikki's next steps are clouded by the gray of uncertainty. Before she knows it, Nikki is on the trail of a cold case that couldn't be any more personal—the death of her mother.

But when the web of lies and secrets she uncovers leads back to the people who have tried to silence her, Nikki must pursue the sunbeam gold of justice, or everything—including her life—will be lost.
The big-hearted story of a small-town girl who discovers how wide the world really is during one transformative summer. Perfect for fans of Susane Colasanti and Sarah Dessen.

Penny loves her small-town Florida life, and she has her future mapped out. She's going to community college after graduation to stay close to home and her best friend, Faye. She'll take over the family diner that her dad has been managing since her mother died. And one day, she'll marry her high school sweetheart, Logan.

But when she unexpectedly lands a scholarship to a prestigious summer theater camp, she is thrust into a world of competition and self-doubt. And suddenly, her future gets a little hazy. As she meets new friends, including Chase, a talented young actor with big-city dreams, she begins to realize that maybe the life everyone (including her) expects her to lead is not the one she was meant to have.
Gangs of New York meets Cassandra Clare in this debut YA fantasy set in 1882 Brooklyn

New York, 1882. A dark, forbidding city, and no place for a girl with unexplainable powers.

Sixteen-year-old Avery Kohl pines for the life she had before her mother was taken. She fears the mysterious men in crow masks who locked her mother in the Tombs asylum for being able to see what others couldn't. Avery denies the signs in herself, focusing instead on her shifts at the ironworks factory and keeping her inventor father out of trouble. Other than secondhand tales of adventure from her best friend, Khan, an ex-slave, and caring for her falcon, Seraphine, Avery spends her days struggling to survive.

Like her mother's, Avery's powers refuse to be contained. When she causes a bizarre explosion at the factory, she has no choice but to run from her lies, straight into the darkest corners of the city. Avery must embrace her abilities and learn to wield their power—or join her mother in the cavernous horrors of the Tombs. And the Tombs has secrets of its own: strange experiments are being performed on "patients:"…and no one knows why.
From debut author Brenda Rufener comes a heart-wrenching and evocative story perfect for fans of Thirteen Reasons Why, Girl in Pieces, and All the Bright Places.

Linden Rose has a big secret--she is homeless and living in the halls of her small-town high school. Her position as school blog editor, her best friends, Ham and Seung, and the promise of a future far away are what keep Linden under the radar and moving forward.

But when cool-girl Bea comes to school with a bloody lip, the damage hits too close to home. Linden begins looking at Bea's life, and soon her investigation prompts people to pay more attention. And attention is the last thing she needs.

Linden knows the only way to put a stop to the violence is to tell Bea's story and come to terms with her own painful past. Even if that means breaking her rules for survival and jeopardizing the secrets she's worked so hard to keep.

10 comments:

  1. That's a lot of books that you are going to read this week. All of them are new to me. Where I Live looks good and is now in my TBR list.

    Have a great week ahead!

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    1. I tried to keep it down, but there's a lot of ARC's coming out shortly! And yeah! Thanks for stopping by! Happy reading!

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  2. I mostly enjoyed The Tombs. I hope you like it too. Come see my week here. Happy reading!

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    1. Yeah! I'm really excited to read it! Thanks for stopping by! Happy reading!

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  3. Break Us sounds like a good book and I'm totally digging the cover. I hope you enjoy your new reads this week.

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    1. I know! The whole series looks really great! And I do, too! Thanks for stopping by! Happy reading!

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    1. Yeah, I know! Can't wait to read it! Thanks for stopping by! Happy reading!

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  5. I have All Out on my TBR list. I hope we both like it!

    Aj @ Read All The Things!

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    1. Yeah, I hope we do, too! Thanks for stopping by! Happy reading!

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