Today's post is filled with the wonderful scent of new book smell!
There are a TON of awesome new releases that I can't wait to share with
you! So instead of blathering on I'll just wish a Happy Book Birthday to
the following sweet authors and their books:
Cover blurb:
Camden
Pike has been grief-stricken since his girlfriend, Viv, died. Viv was
the last good thing in his life: helping him rebuild his identity after a
career-ending football injury, picking up the pieces when his home life
shattered, and healing his pain long after the meds wore off. And now,
he’d give anything for one more glimpse of her. But when Cam makes a
visit to the site of Viv’s deadly car accident, he sees some kind of
apparition. And it isn’t Viv.
The apparition’s name is Nina, and
she’s not a ghost. She’s a girl from a parallel world, and in this
world, Viv is still alive. Cam can’t believe his wildest dreams have
come true. All he can focus on is getting his girlfriend back, no matter
the cost. But things are different in this other world: Viv and Cam
have both made very different choices, things between them have changed
in unexpected ways, and Viv isn’t the same girl he remembers. Nina is
keeping some dangerous secrets, too, and the window between the worlds
is shrinking every day. As Cam comes to terms with who this Viv has
become and the part Nina played in his parallel story, he’s forced to
choose—stay with Viv or let her go—before the window closes between them
once and for all.
Cover blurb:
Twelve-year-old
Sophie Foster has a secret. She’s a Telepath—someone who hears the
thoughts of everyone around her. It’s a talent she’s never known how to
explain.
Everything changes the day she meets Fitz, a mysterious
boy who appears out of nowhere and also reads minds. She discovers
there’s a place she does belong, and that staying with her family will
place her in grave danger. In the blink of an eye, Sophie is forced to
leave behind everything and start a new life in a place that is vastly
different from anything she has ever known.
Sophie has new rules
to learn and new skills to master, and not everyone is thrilled that she
has come “home.” There are secrets buried deep in Sophie’s
memory—secrets about who she really is and why she was hidden among
humans—that other people desperately want. Would even kill for.
In
this page-turning debut, Shannon Messenger creates a riveting story
where one girl must figure out why she is the key to her brand-new
world, before the wrong person finds the answer first.
Cover blurb:
Ricki’s
dad has never been there for her. He’s a bounty hunter who spends his
time chasing parole evaders—also known as “skips”—all over the country.
But now since Ricki’s mom ran off, Ricki finds herself an unwilling
passenger in a front-row seat to her father’s dangerous lifestyle.
Ricki’s
feelings get even more confused when her dad starts chasing
seventeen-year-old Ian Burnham. She finds herself unavoidably attracted
to the dark-eyed felon who seems eager to get acquainted. But Ricki
thinks she’s ever in control—the perfect manipulator. Little does she
know that Ian isn’t playing their game by her rules.
Cover blurb:
Mia
is always looking for signs. A sign that she should get serious with
her soccer-captain boyfriend. A sign that she’ll get the grades to make
it into an Ivy-league school. One sign she
didn’t expect to
look for was: “Will I survive cancer?” It’s a question her friends would
never understand, prompting Mia to keep her illness a secret. The only
one who knows is her lifelong best friend, Gyver, who is poised to be so
much more. Mia is determined to survive, but when you have so much
going your way, there is so much more to lose. From debut author Tiffany
Schmidt comes a heart-wrenching and ultimately uplifting story of one
girl’s search for signs of life in the face of death.
And my personal favorite:
Cover blurb:
Jane Eliot wears an iron mask.
It’s
the only way to contain the fey curse that scars her cheek. The Great
War is five years gone, but its scattered victims remain—the ironskin.
When
a carefully worded listing appears for a governess to assist with a
"delicate situation"—a child born during the Great War—Jane is certain
the child is fey-cursed, and that she can help.
Teaching the
unruly Dorie to suppress her curse is hard enough; she certainly didn’t
expect to fall for the girl’s father, the enigmatic artist Edward
Rochart. But her blossoming crush is stifled by her own scars, and by
his parade of women. Ugly women, who enter his closed studio...and come
out as beautiful as the fey.
Jane knows Rochart cannot love her,
just as she knows that she must wear iron for the rest of her life. But
what if neither of these things is true? Step by step Jane unlocks the
secrets of her new life—and discovers just how far she will go to become
whole again.
