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Review: Cinder by Marissa Meyer

February 11, 2014 / 25 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review, Uncategorized
Review: Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Cinder  Author: Marissa Meyer (website | twitter) Publisher: Feiwel & Friends (Raincoast Books in Canada) Source/Format: ARC from ALAN Conference 2011 Publication date: January 3, 2012 My rating: 4.25 out of 5 stars Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl.Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with […]

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Top Ten Tuesday #14: Sequels I Can’t Wait To Get My Hands On

November 5, 2013 / 14 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Top Ten Tuesday, Uncategorized
Top Ten Tuesday #14: Sequels I Can’t Wait To Get My Hands On

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at The Broke and the Bookish to highlight a top ten list related to book blogging, and to get to know fellow book bloggers. Anticipated Sequels is a hard category for me this fall, because so many of my favourite sequels/series enders came out in the last two months….But I’ll give it a go: The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven Cycle #2) – yes, I know it’s out already, but I haven’t gotten to it yet…And you know that if I had, I would just be putting book #3 on […]

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Review: Allegiant by Veronica Roth [NO SPOILERS]

November 4, 2013 / 13 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review, Uncategorized
Review: Allegiant by Veronica Roth [NO SPOILERS]

Allegiant (Divergent #3) Author: Veronica Roth (website | twitter) Publisher: Katherine Tegan Books/Harper Collins  Source: Pre-ordered from Chapters/Indigo Format: Hardcover, 526 pages Publication date: October 22, 2013 My rating: 4 out of 5 stars Goodreads synopsis: One choice will define you. What if your whole world was a lie? What if a single revelation—like a single choice—changed everything? What if love and loyalty made you do things you never expected? The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered—fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past […]

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Early Review: Time After Time by Tamara Ireland Stone

October 7, 2013 / 3 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review, Uncategorized
Early Review: Time After Time by Tamara Ireland Stone

Time After Time (Time Between Us #2) Author: Tamara Ireland Stone (website | twitter) Publisher: Disney-Hyperion Source: eARC provided by publisher on Netgalley in exchange for an honest review Publication date: October 8, 2013 (tomorrow!) My rating: 4.25 out of 5 stars Calling Anna and Bennett’s romance long distance is an understatement: she’s from 1995 Chicago and he’s a time traveler from 2012 San Francisco. The two of them never should have met, but they did. They fell in love, even though they knew they shouldn’t. And they found a way to stay together, against all odds. It’s not a perfect arrangement, […]

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Waiting on Wednesday: The One by Kiera Cass

October 2, 2013 / 21 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Book Memes, Uncategorized, Waiting on Wednesday
Waiting on Wednesday: The One by Kiera Cass

Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that book bloggers are eagerly anticipating. The One (The Selection #3)Author: Kiera Cass  Publisher: HarperTeen Expected publication date: May 6th 2014 The Selection changed the lives of thirty-five girls forever. And now, the time has come for one winner to be chosen. America never dreamed she would find herself anywhere close to the crown—or to Prince Maxon’s heart. But as the competition approaches its end and the threats outside the palace walls grow more vicious, America realizes just how much she stands to lose—and how […]

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Review: United We Spy by Ally Carter

September 30, 2013 / 9 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review, Uncategorized
Review: United We Spy by Ally Carter

United We Spy (Gallagher Girls #6) Author: Ally Carter (website | twitter) Publisher: Disney-Hyperion Books Source: Pre-ordered from Chapters-Indigo Format: Hardcover, 296 pages Publication Date: September 17, 2013 My rating: 4.25 out of 5 stars Cammie Morgan has lost her father and her memory, but in the heart-pounding conclusion to the best-selling Gallagher Girls series, she finds her greatest mission yet. Cammie and her friends finally know why the terrorist organization called the Circle of Cavan has been hunting her. Now the spy girls and Zach must track down the Circle’s elite members to stop them before they implement a master plan […]

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Guest Review: The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

September 26, 2013 / 9 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review, Uncategorized
Guest Review: The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

Hi everyone! Today I have another awesome guest review from my husband, Evan! In case you don’t know the background…Evan is a very smart sci-fi, film, and comic book aficionado who usually reads literary stuff like Michael Chabon and Salman Rushdie. Sometimes he reads and reviews YA sci-fi and dystopian books for my blog. Today, he’s looking at an older, but very popular YA series by Patrick Ness, which will soon be a movie. All gifs courtesy of him! The Knife of Never Letting Go (Book #1 in the Chaos Walking series) Author: Patrick Ness (website | twitter) Publisher: Candlewick Press Format: […]

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Top Ten Tuesday #12: Best Sequels

September 24, 2013 / 11 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Top Ten Tuesday, Uncategorized
Top Ten Tuesday #12: Best Sequels

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at The Broke and the Bookish to highlight a top ten list related to book blogging, and to get to know fellow book bloggers. This week’s topic was suggested by me awhile back! To me, a really good sequel should take the themes and characters from the first book and advance them so much that you’re sort of knocked off your seats.  In no particular order: Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins – I can’t think of a better companion to Anna and the French Kiss – not only […]

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Top Ten Tuesday: Books On My Fall 2013 To Be Read List!

September 16, 2013 / 21 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Top Ten Tuesday, Uncategorized
Top Ten Tuesday: Books On My Fall 2013 To Be Read List!

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at The Broke and the Bookish to highlight a top ten list related to book blogging, and to get to know fellow book bloggers. SO many awesome books on my list this fall! In no particular order… Upcoming Releases:  Just One Year by Gayle Forman. Release date: Oct 10 – My most anticipated book of the year. I haven’t had that much time to re-read this year, but I’ve made time for Just One Day because it affected me THAT deeply. I need the conclusion NOW.  Across a Star-Swept Sea by Diana […]

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Why, Eh? Burning Questions About: Just One Day, Unearthly, Gallagher Girls

August 23, 2013 / 1 Comment / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Uncategorized
Why, Eh? Burning Questions About: Just One Day, Unearthly, Gallagher Girls

Most of the reviews that I write for MYL are non-spoilery. I never give away the ending, and thus, I often never get a chance to really talk about some of the questions I have at the end of books or between a series. And sometimes, those questions haunt me for a really long time. Inspired by TVLine’s 20 Questions/Burning Questions series, “Why, Eh?” is my new, sporadic discussion series about YA books. Questions will range from speculation on future plots of series, to analysis of writing, plot, and world-building to…basically anything I can’t get out of my head! Warning: […]

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