Month: March 2015

Waiting on Wednesday: Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone

March 25, 2015 / 1 Comment / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Book Memes, Uncategorized, Waiting on Wednesday
Waiting on Wednesday: Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone

Every Last Word Author: Tamara Ireland Stone Publisher: Disney-Hyperion (HBG Canada) Expected publication date: June 16th 2015 If you could read my mind, you wouldn’t be smiling. Samantha McAllister looks just like the rest of the popular girls in her junior class. But hidden beneath the straightened hair and expertly applied makeup is a secret that her friends would never understand: Sam has Purely-Obsessional OCD and is consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can’t turn off. Second-guessing every move, thought, and word makes daily life a struggle, and it doesn’t help that her lifelong friends will […]

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“The Last Day on Earth” Early Review: We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach

March 23, 2015 / 8 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review, Uncategorized
“The Last Day on Earth” Early Review: We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach

We All Looked Up Author: Tommy Wallach (website | twitter) Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (Simon & Schuster Canada) Source/Format: eARC from publisher on Edelweiss (thank you!)Expected publication: March 24th 2015  My rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars.  Buy It: Indigo.ca | Amazon.ca | Amazon.com | B&N | IndieBound | iTunes | The Book Depository | Audible Four high school seniors put their hopes, hearts, and humanity on the line as an asteroid hurtles toward Earth in this contemporary novel. They always say that high school is the best time of your life. Peter, the star basketball player at his […]

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Review: 6 Things You Need To Know About The Last Time We Say Goodbye by Cynthia Hand

March 16, 2015 / 6 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review, Uncategorized
Review: 6 Things You Need To Know About The Last Time We Say Goodbye by Cynthia Hand

The Last Time We Say Goodbye Author: Cynthia Hand (website | twitter) Publisher: Harper Teen Source/Format: ARC from Harper Collins Canada (thank you!) Publication date: February 10, 2015 My rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars Buy It:  Indigo.ca | Amazon.ca | Amazon.com | B&N | IndieBound | iTunes | The Book Depository | Audible There’s death all around us. We just don’t pay attention. Until we do. The last time Lex was happy, it was before. When she had a family that was whole. A boyfriend she loved. Friends who didn’t look at her like she might break down at any moment. […]

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Waiting on Wednesday: Tonight the Streets Are Ours by Leila Sales

March 11, 2015 / 5 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Book Memes, Uncategorized, Waiting on Wednesday
Waiting on Wednesday: Tonight the Streets Are Ours by Leila Sales

Tonight the Streets Are Ours Author: Leila Sales Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) (Raincoast Books) Expected publication: September 15th 2015 From the author of This Song Will Save Your Life comes a funny and relatable book about the hazards of falling for a person you haven’t met yet. Seventeen-year-old Arden Huntley is recklessly loyal. Taking care of her loved ones is what gives Arden purpose in her life and makes her feel like she matters. But she’s tired of being loyal to people who don’t appreciate her—including her needy best friend and her absent mom. Arden finds comfort in a blog she […]

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“Handle With Care” Review: Mosquitoland by David Arnold

March 9, 2015 / 6 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review, Uncategorized
“Handle With Care” Review: Mosquitoland by David Arnold

Mosquitoland Author: David Arnold (website | twitter) Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers (Penguin Canada) Source/Format: ARC from publisher in exchange for an honest review (thank you!) Publication date: March 3, 2015  My rating: 5 out of 5 stars.  “I am a collection of oddities, a circus of neurons and electrons: my heart is the ringmaster, my soul is the trapeze artist, and the world is my audience. It sounds strange because it is, and it is, because I am strange.”  After the sudden collapse of her family, Mim Malone is dragged from her home in northern Ohio to the “wastelands” of […]

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BLOG TOUR + Review: Losing at Love by Jennifer Iacopelli

March 5, 2015 / 1 Comment / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review, Uncategorized
BLOG TOUR + Review: Losing at Love by Jennifer Iacopelli

Hi all, today I’m part of the blog tour for Jennifer Iacopelli’s Losing at Love – the second book in her Outer Banks Tennis Academy series. Check out my thoughts on Game. Set. Match, the first book, and scroll down for my review of LaL! Losing at Love (Outer Banks Tennis Academy #2) Author: Jennifer Iacopelli (website | twitter) Publisher: Coliloquy Source/Format: eARC provided by author in exchange for an honest review (thank you!) Publication date: February 24, 2015 My rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars.  Grass courts, tennis whites and the fiercest competition in the world. Wimbledon. After two crazy […]

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Waiting on Wednesday: 5 to 1 by Holly Bodger

March 4, 2015 / 8 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Book Memes, Uncategorized, Waiting on Wednesday
Waiting on Wednesday: 5 to 1 by Holly Bodger

5 to 1 Author: Holly Bodger  Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Expected publication: May 12th 2015  In the year 2054, after decades of gender selection, India now has a ratio of five boys for every girl, making women an incredibly valuable commodity. Tired of marrying off their daughters to the highest bidder and determined to finally make marriage fair, the women who form the country of Koyanagar have instituted a series of tests so that every boy has the chance to win a wife. Sudasa, though, doesn’t want to be a wife, and Kiran, a boy forced to compete in […]

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