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5-Star Review: The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli

April 17, 2017 / 4 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review
5-Star Review: The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli

Review: The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli The Upside of Unrequited is my favorite read of 2017 so far. You know how all the rest of you felt about Simon Vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda? That it was perfect and wonderful and so so cute? So, bookish confession here: I really liked Simon, but it didn’t completely blow me away. I know, I know. I loved Simon and Blue, and it was really fun. But it wasn’t like, completely and totally my book. This book, though. The Upside of Unrequited is MY Simon Vs. For me, it was utterly […]

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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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“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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“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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“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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Review: The Theory of Everything by Kari Luna

August 8, 2013 / 5 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review, Uncategorized
Review: The Theory of Everything by Kari Luna

The Theory of Everything Author: Kari Luna Publisher: Philomel Publication date: July 11, 2013 Source: eARC received from publisher on Netgalley My rating: 4 out of 5 stars Goodreads synopsis:  One part Libba Bray’s GOING BOVINE, two parts String Theory, and three parts love story equals a whimsical novel that will change the way you think about the world. Sophie Sophia is obsessed with music from the late eighties. She also has an eccentric physicist father who sometimes vanishes for days and sees things other people don’t see. But when he disappears for good and Sophie’s mom moves them from Brooklyn, […]

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