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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Waiting on Wednesday: Ten Thousand Skies Above You by Claudia Gray

February 25, 2015 / 5 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Book Memes, Uncategorized, Waiting on Wednesday
Waiting on Wednesday: Ten Thousand Skies Above You by Claudia Gray

Ten Thousand Skies Above You (Firebird #2)Author:  Claudia Gray  Publisher: Harper Teen Expected publication date: November 3, 2015 Marguerite Caine has done the impossible, traveling to alternate dimensions with the Firebird—the brilliant invention of her parents, her boyfriend, Paul, and their friend Theo. But she has also caught the attention of enemies willing to kidnap, blackmail, and even kill to use the Firebird for themselves. When Paul’s soul is splintered into four pieces—pieces that are trapped within Pauls in other dimensions—Marguerite will do anything, and travel anywhere, to save him. But the price of his safe return is steep. If […]

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Book Blogger Love-a-Thon 2015: High Fives

February 23, 2015 / 4 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Uncategorized
Book Blogger Love-a-Thon 2015: High Fives

For my last post for the Book Blogger Love-a-Thon 2015, I’m sharing some of my current faves – please leave me a link if you’ve done this and I’ll come check out yours! And thanks so much to Alexa from Alexa Loves Books for organizing this wonderful two-day blogging event! Book? My current fave is I Was Here by Gayle Forman – it was one of those books that was really important to me. Genre? Please. Do you even have to ask? CONTEMPORARY Author? I have two right now: Gayle Forman is my ultimate “I love everything she writes and […]

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Book Blogger Love-A-Thon: Book Spine Poetry!

February 22, 2015 / 1 Comment / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Uncategorized
Book Blogger Love-A-Thon: Book Spine Poetry!

Hi guys, as part of the Book Blogger Love-A-Thon hosted by Alexa Loves Books, I’m coming at you with a little bit of book spine poetry! Leave comments if you’ve done this as well and I’ll stop by!  when it happens / just one year / i’ll meet you there what waits in the woods / dreambirds / let’s get lost / like it never happened Have you done book spine poetry before? What’s your favourite fun thing to do with books? Let me know in the comments! And head over to Alexa’s blog if you want to participate or learn […]

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Book Blogger Love-A-Thon 2015: The Questionnaire

February 22, 2015 / 5 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Uncategorized
Book Blogger Love-A-Thon 2015: The Questionnaire

Hi guys, for the next two days, I’m (selectively) participating in the Book Blogger Love-A-Thon hosted by Alexa Loves Books. This is an event to help spread the love and positivity in our book blogging community.  First off, a questionnaire so that you can get to know me (and vice-versa! I’ll be going to comment on some blogs tomorrow – please leave links if you can!) What’s your name? Tiffanie – or Tiff Where in the world are you blogging from? Toronto, Ontario, Canada How did you get into blogging in the first place? I’ve been reading YA for years, […]

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Waiting on Wednesday: The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness

February 18, 2015 / 5 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Book Memes, Waiting on Wednesday
Waiting on Wednesday: The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness

The Rest of Us Just Live Here Author: Patrick Ness Publisher: Walker Books / Harper Teen Expected publication date: August 27, 2015 / October 6, 2015 What if you weren’t the Chosen One? What if you’re not the one who’s so often the hero in YA fiction; who’s supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death? What if you were like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes and blows […]

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