Tag: 2015 releases

“All of The Sadness I Cannot Live With” Review: I Was Here by Gayle Forman

February 2, 2015 / 6 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review, Uncategorized
“All of The Sadness I Cannot Live With” Review: I Was Here by Gayle Forman

I Was Here Author: Gayle Forman (website | twitter) Publisher: Viking Juvenile (Penguin) Source/Format: Hardcover purchased from Chapters/Indigo.ca  Publication date: January 27th 2015  My rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars.  Buy It: Indigo.ca | Amazon.ca | Amazon.com | B&N | IndieBound | iTunes | Google Books | The Book Depository | Audible Cody and Meg were inseparable. Two peas in a pod. Until . . . they weren’t anymore. When her best friend Meg drinks a bottle of industrial-strength cleaner alone in a motel room, Cody is understandably shocked and devastated. She and Meg shared everything—so how was there no warning? But when Cody travels […]

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$50 Gift Card GIVEAWAY + Cover Reveal/Excerpt: Losing at Love by Jennifer Iacopelli (OBX #2)

January 30, 2015 / 1 Comment / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Book Extras, Uncategorized
$50 Gift Card GIVEAWAY + Cover Reveal/Excerpt: Losing at Love by Jennifer Iacopelli (OBX #2)

Hi guys! Today I’m hosting a cover reveal for Jennifer Iacopelli’s Losing at Love, the second book in a fantastic new adult series about professional tennis players. If you haven’t read the first book in the Outer Banks Tennis Academy series, Game. Set. Match – trust me when I say you’re in for a treat! It’s super sexy and full of your favourite sports-y moments. And—bonus!— I’m also revealing athe new redesign for the first book in the series AND there’s a giveaway, so read on! Losing at Love Author: Jennifer Iacopelli (website | twitter) Genre: Contemporary Romance Release Date: February 24, 2015 Pre order now […]

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“What Do I Stand For?” Early Review: I’ll Meet You There by Heather Demetrios

January 29, 2015 / 2 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review, Uncategorized
“What Do I Stand For?” Early Review: I’ll Meet You There by Heather Demetrios

I’ll Meet You There Author: Heather Demetrios (website | twitter) Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Books for Young Readers (Macmillan) Source/Format: ARC from Raincoast Books in exchange for an honest review (thank you!) Expected publication date: February 3, 2015 My rating: 4 out of 5 stars.  Buy It: Indigo.ca | Amazon.ca | Amazon.com | B&N | IndieBound | iTunes | The Book Depository  If seventeen-year-old Skylar Evans were a typical Creek View girl, her future would involve a double-wide trailer, a baby on her hip, and the graveyard shift at Taco Bell. But after graduation, the only thing standing between straightedge Skylar and […]

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Waiting on Wednesday: The Epic Adventures of Lydia Bennet by Kate Rorick and Rachel Kiley

January 28, 2015 / 8 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Book Memes, Uncategorized, Waiting on Wednesday
Waiting on Wednesday: The Epic Adventures of Lydia Bennet by Kate Rorick and Rachel Kiley

The Epic Adventures of Lydia Bennet: A Novel Authors: Kate Rorick & Rachel KileyPublisher: Touchstone (Simon & Schuster) Expected publication: September 29, 2015 Based on the Emmy Award-winning & “genius” (The Guardian) web series, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, this is a new novel starring Lizzie’s spunky sister Lydia as she navigates the joys and pitfalls of becoming an adult in the digital age. Before her older sister, Lizzie, started her wildly popular vlog, Lydia was just a normal twenty-year-old plotting the many ways she could get away with skipping her community college classes and finding the perfect fake ID. She may not have […]

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“Make Your Own Kind of Music” Early Review: I’m Glad I Did by Cynthia Weil

January 23, 2015 / 2 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review, Uncategorized
“Make Your Own Kind of Music” Early Review: I’m Glad I Did by Cynthia Weil

I’m Glad I Did Author: Cynthia Weil (website | twitter) Publisher: Soho Teen Source/Format: eARC provided by publisher via Edelweiss (thank you!) Publication date: January 27, 2015 (next week!) My rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars. Buy It: Indigo.ca | Amazon.ca | Amazon.com | B&N | IndieBound | iTunes | The Book Depository | Audible Mad Men meets Nashville in this debut mystery set in 1963, written by Grammy winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Cynthia Weil. It’s the summer of 1963 and JJ Green is a born songwriter—which is a major problem, considering that her family considers the music business a […]

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“Not Till We Are Lost Do We Begin To Find Ourselves” Mini-Review & Blitz: Island Esc..

January 20, 2015 / 0 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Mini-Reviews, Review, Uncategorized
“Not Till We Are Lost Do We Begin To Find Ourselves” Mini-Review & Blitz: Island Escape by Viv Daniels

Covers created by Vania Stoyanova of VLC Productions Island Escape Author: Viv Daniels (website | facebook | twitter) Source/Format: ARC provided by Mark My Words Publicity as part of release day blitz (thank you!) My rating: 4.25 out of 5 stars Buy It: Amazon | iBooks | B&N Add it on Goodreads ADAM Luxury yacht, tropical seas, babes in bikinis…dream job, right? Wrong. The passengers are rich jerks who treat the crew like garbage, when they aren’t pretending we’re their whores. The best day was when that cokehead heiress Kalina tried to fire me just for doing my job. I swore I’d never […]

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“Say You’ll Remember Me” Early Review: Love, Lucy by April Lindner

January 19, 2015 / 3 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review, Uncategorized
“Say You’ll Remember Me” Early Review: Love, Lucy by April Lindner

Love, Lucy Author: April Lindner (website | twitter) Publisher: Poppy (Hachette Book Group/Little, Brown) Source/Format: ARC provided by HBG Canada in exchange for an honest review (thank you!) Publication date: January 27, 2015 (next week!) My rating: 3 out of 5 stars Buy It: Indigo.ca | Amazon.ca | Amazon.com | B&N | IndieBound | iTunes | Google Books | The Book Depository While backpacking through Florence, Italy, during the summer before she heads off to college, Lucy Sommersworth finds herself falling in love with the culture, the architecture, the food…and Jesse Palladino, a handsome street musician. After a whirlwind romance, Lucy returns […]

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GIVEAWAY + Early Review: We Can Work It Out by Elizabeth Eulberg

January 15, 2015 / 1 Comment / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review, Uncategorized
GIVEAWAY + Early Review: We Can Work It Out by Elizabeth Eulberg

We Can Work It Out (The Lonely Hearts Club #2) Author: Elizabeth Eulberg (website | twitter) Publisher: Scholastic Point Source/Format: ARC provided by Scholastic Canada in exchange for an honest review (thank you so much!) My rating: 4 out of 5 stars. Buy It: Indigo.ca | Amazon.ca | Amazon.com | B&N | IndieBound | iTunes | Google Books When Penny Lane started The Lonely Hearts Club, the goal was simple: to show that girls didn’t need to define themselves by how guys look at them, and didn’t have to value boyfriends over everything else. Penny thought she’d be an outcast for life…but then the club […]

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Waiting on Wednesday: More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera

January 14, 2015 / 3 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Book Memes, Waiting on Wednesday
Waiting on Wednesday: More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera

“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that book bloggers are eagerly anticipating. More Happy Than Not Author: Adam Silvera  Publisher: Soho Teen Expected publication date: June 16, 2015 Happiness shouldn’t be this hard… The Leteo Institute’s revolutionary memory-relief procedure seems too good to be true to Aaron Soto — miracle cure-alls don’t tend to pop up in the Bronx projects. But Aaron can’t forget how he’s grown up poor or how his friends aren’t always there for him. Like after his father committed suicide in their one bedroom apartment. Aaron has the support […]

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“Where Do We Begin/The Rubble or Our Sins?” GIVEAWAY + Early Review: All Fall Down by Al..

January 12, 2015 / 18 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review, Uncategorized
“Where Do We Begin/The Rubble or Our Sins?” GIVEAWAY + Early Review: All Fall Down by Ally Carter

All Fall Down (Embassy Row #1) Author: Ally Carter (website | twitter) Publisher: Scholastic Press Source/Format: ARC gifted to me by the lovely Sarah from You Should Read This! (thank you!) My rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars. Expected publication date: January 27th 2015 Buy It: Indigo.ca | Amazon.ca | Amazon.com | B&N | IndieBound | iTunes | Audible  Grace Blakely is absolutely certain of three things: 1. She is not crazy. 2. Her mother was murdered. 3. Someday she is going to find the killer and make him pay. As certain as Grace is about these facts, nobody else believes her–so there’s […]

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