The Winter People ~ Rebekah L. Purdy

Source of Pic: GoodReads The Winter People by Rebekah L. Purdy My rating: 2 out of 5 stars Average rating on GoodReads: 3.61 out of 5 stars Pages: 320 Synopsis: An engrossing, complex, romantic fantasy perfect for fans of Kristin Cashore or Maggie Stiefvater, set in a wholly unique world. Salome Montgomery fears winter—the cold, the snow, the ice, but most of all, the frozen pond she fell through as a child. Haunted by the voices and images of the strange beings that pulled her to safety, she hasn't forgotten their warning to "stay...

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Blood Red Road by Moira Young

Blood Red Road by Moira Young Page Count: 459 Series. (#1) My Rating: ★★★★ Average Rating on Goodreads: 4.00 Synopsis: Saba lives in Silverlake, a wasteland ravaged by constant sandstorms where her family scavenge from landfills left by the long-gone Wrecker civilization. After four cloaked horsemen kidnap her beloved twin brother Lugh, she teams up with daredevil Jack and the Free Hawks, a girl gang of Revolutionaries.  Saba learns that she is a fierce fighter, an unbeatable survivor, and a cunning opponent. And she has the power to...

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The Innocent Assassins by Pema Donyo

The Innocent Assassins by Pema Donyo My rating: 4 of 5 stars Current Rating on Goodreads: 3.80 of 5 stars Pages: 344 Synopsis (via Goodreads): There are three rules to staying an assassin at the corporation of Covert Operatives: (1) your parents must be deceased, (2) your contracts must remain confidential, and (3) you must be under the age of eighteen.After a murder mission goes awry a month before her eighteenth birthday, Covert Operatives assassin Jane Lu finds herself caught by the federal government and forced to spy for the CIA while remaining...

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By Any Other Name by Laura Jarratt

By Any Other Name by Laura Jarratt  Page Count: 368 Stand Alone. My Rating: ★ ★ ★ Average Rating on Goodreads: 3.81 Synopsis: Nobody can know the truth—her life depends on it. A tale of family, identity, and trust, about a girl struggling with life in the witness protection program. I picked up the book and thumbed through the pages. Names in alphabetical order, names with meanings, names I knew, names I'd never heard of. How to pick? Nothing that would stand out, nothing that would link me to the past—those were the instructions. The...

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A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness :D

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness (Author) Jim Kay (Illustrator) Siobhan Dowd (Original Idea (R.I.P)) Page Count: 205 Stand Alone. My Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Average Rating on Goodreads: 4.25 Synopsis: The monster showed up after midnight. As they do.But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting. He's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming...This monster is something different, though. Something...

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Also Known As by Robin Benway

Also Known As by Robin Benway Page Count: 318 Series. My Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ Average Rating on Goodreads: 3.82 Synopsis: Which is more dangerous: being an international spy... or surviving high school?Maggie Silver has never minded her unusual life. Cracking safes for the world's premier spy organization and traveling the world with her insanely cool parents definitely beat high school and the accompanying cliques, bad lunches, and frustratingly simple locker combinations. (If it's three digits, why bother locking it at all?)But when Maggie...

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Puddle Jumping by Amber L. Johnson

Puddle Jumping by Amber L. Johnson Page Count: 126 Stand Alone. My Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ Average Rating on Goodreads: 4.48 Synopsis: When it comes to love there’s no such thing as conventional. Everyone thinks Colton Neely is special. Lilly Evans just thinks he’s fascinating. Once friends when they were younger, their bond is cut short due to her accident prone nature and they go their separate ways. Years later, they meet again and Lilly learns that there is something special about the boy she once knew, but she has no idea what it all...

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Louder Than Words by Lauren Jarratt

Louder Than Words by Lauren Jarratt Page Count: 416. Stand Alone. My Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ Average Rating on Goodreads: 3.86 Synopsis:  Rafi hasn't spoken for eight years. It's up to her to tell her brother's story now that he can't speak either ... Rafi idolises her seventeen-year-old brother, who is popular, generous and a borderline genius. Ever protective, Silas always includes her when he's with his friends, so Rafi gets to hear all sorts of things that younger sisters wouldn't normally be a part of. Like the time Silas hacks a gaming site...

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Chocolate Book Tag

Tagged by Rachel at APerfectionCalledBooks We tag: Sandee @Book Ramblings of A Whimsical Reader Fran @Bella's Shelf Anna @Enchanted by YA Bee @LetBooksBee Laura @BlueEyeBooks Heyy sorry for the delay.. there are loads of us and a few new members that wanted to join the choco partay XD Without further ado *blows trumpet*: Dark Chocolate ~ A book that covers a dark topic (domestic violence, abuse, rape, loneliness, death, ect) Tia's Pick: THE COINCIDENCE OF CALLIE AND KAYDEN Domestic violence, abuse, rape, and a close...

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