Title: The State of Us
Author: Shaun David Hutchinson
Rating: ★★★★☆
Publisher: HarperTeen
Release Date: June 2, 2020
“So that’s the kind of guy you like?” I asked, “Nerdy and cute?”
“Brave and honest. Kind of like you.”
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ARC Review | The How & The Why by Cynthia Hand
Title: The How & THe Why
Author: Cynthia Hand
Rating: ★★★★☆
Publisher: HarperTeen
Release Date: November 5, 2019
“The point is, I hope you get it – the why of the whole thing. I hope you have a good life- a boring, no-drama, no-real-problems kind of life.
Good luck, X. I wish you the best.”
ARC Review | I Hope You Get This Message by Farah Naz Rishi
Title: I Hope You Get This Message
Author: Farah Naz Rishi
Rating: ★★★★☆
Publisher: HarperTeen
Release Date: October 22, 2019
“But the thing about the end of the world was this: either everything mattered, or nothing did.”
ARC Review | Our Year in Love and Parties by Karen Hattrup
Title: Our Year in Love and Parties
Author: Karen Hattrup
Rating: ★★★★☆
Publisher: HarperTeen
Release Date: October 8, 2019
“Fine,” she said, with the biggest eye roll she could manage. “Bring on the star-crossed bullshit.”
ARC Review | Serpent & Dove by Shelby Mahurin
Title: Serpent & Dove (Serpent & Dove #1)
Author: Shelby Mahurin
Rating: ★★★☆☆ (3.5 Stars)
Publisher: HarperTeen
Release Date: September 3, 2019
There are some things that can’t be changed with words. Some things have to be seen. They have to be felt.”
ARC REVIEW | The Arrival of Someday by Jen Malone
Title: The Arrival of Someday
Author: Jen Malone
Rating: ★★★★☆
Publisher: Harper Teen
Release Date: July 23, 2019
“I wish it didn’t have to be like this: all or nothing. I wish I didn’t have to chase highs to try and banish the lows. I wish normal could be good enough.”
ARC Review | Through the White Wood by Jessica Leake
Title: Through the White Wood
Author: Jessica Leake
Rating: ★★★☆☆ (3.25 Stars)
Publisher: HarperTeen
Release Date: April 9. 2019
“THERE ARE COUNTLESS MONSTERS IN THIS world. Some with fangs, some who skitter in the darkness just out of sight, some who wear human skin but whose hearts have turned dark as forest shadows….I knew that these men and women I’d grown up with—they thought of me as a monster, too. I wasn’t sure they were wrong.”
ARC Review | The Queen’s Resistance by Rebecca Ross
Title: The Queen’s Resistance (The Queen’s Rising #2)
Author: Rebecca Ross
Rating: ★★★☆☆ (3.5 stars)
Publisher: HarperTeen
Release Date: March , 5 2019
“Is it only blood that makes a House? Or is it beliefs? What holds people together more?”
ARC Review | A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi
Title: A Very Large Expanse of Sea
Author: Tahere Mafi
Rating: ★★★★★
Publisher: HarperTeen
Release Date: October 16, 2018
“I was stuck in another small town, trapped in another universe populated by the kind of people who’d only ever seen faces like mine on their evening news, and I hated it.”
ARC Review | What If It’s Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
Title: What If It’s Us
Authors: Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera
Rating: ★★★★★
Publisher: HarperTeen
Release Date: October 9, 2018
“I believe in love at first sight. Fate, the universe, all of it. But not how you’re thinking. I don’t mean it in the our souls were split and you’re my other half forever and ever sort of way. I just think you’re meant to meet some people. I think the universe nudges them into your path.”
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