This year so many YouTubers published books…which is no surprise considering the audience YouTube has enabled content creators to grow. Here are six YouTubers I’d like to see get book deals next!
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Archives for 2015
Fairest ( Lunar Chronicles #3.5) by Marissa Meyer
- Release Date: January 27th 2015
- Genre: Sci-Fi/Space Drama
- Audiobook Hours: 6 hours and 36 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
I’ve never DNFed an audiobook, but let me tell you Fairest came *this close*. It wasn’t so much that the book was bad it just didn’t have the heart or fun I’ve come to expect in this series. The plot threads and world-building elements that hold the series together started to unravel for me.
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Unboxing Book Riot YA Quaterly Box #02
Last week I sat down and opened up my YA Quarterly Box from Book Riot.com. This box featured a set of YA contemporaries with female leads as well as some fun bookish accessories. I’ll reveal the items below and you can watch me unbox it here
Books
Chasing Shadows Swati Avasthi
I did a quick flip through this book sand it looks like a combination of prose and images. I’ve been wanting to get into graphic and visual novels so this might be a great combo for me.
Everything Leads To You by Nina LaCour
First of all I like the lightness on this cover and the font is very dynamic. I’ve seen the cover online but it looks better IRL. In this novel a girl gets carried away by a mysterious letter writer.
A Sense of The Infinite by Hilary T Smith
Released earlier this summer this book is about a girl dealing with the tough stuff in life. It’s been a while since I’ve jumped into the contemporary boat, so this could fill that gap.
Bookish Items.
- LED Clip Light by French Bull (I’m totally clipping this to my Kindle for nighttime reading)
- 50 Assorted Library Cards by Knot and Bow
- Hilary T. Smith Signed Book Plate
- A Sense Of The Infinite Postcards (3)
Final Thoughts
Once again, I was happy that these were books I wasn’t overly familiar with and didn’t already own. I see myself using the library cards as bookmarks or to take notes for reviews. Over all this box appealed to me more than the last box.
Audiobook Review: Fake ID by Lamar Giles
- Release Date: January 21, 2014
- Genre: Contemporary/Thriller/Mystery
- Length: 7 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: Harper Audio
In Lamar Giles debut novel, new kid in town Nick Pearson finds himself mixed up in a murder with a side of corruption. As Nick searches for answers to a murder that could upend all his secrets he dodges bullies, crashes a party and tries to keep his parents together. Move over Veronica Mars, Nick Pearson is on the case.
Lamar Giles writing is clever. He lays out tension, plot and conflict in front of you while still sneaking in a bit of misdirection. He has a great way of ending chapters on mini cliffhangers and you just HAVE to know what happens next. I totally did not see the ending coming. I was like “what !?” This isn’t really a spoiler but. . .literally anyone can die. Which takes the tension up to eleven
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Audiobook Review: Glory O’ Brien’s History of The Future by A.S. King
- Release Date: October 14th 2014
- Genre: Magic Realism
- Audiobook Hours: 7 hours and 15 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Audio
I picked this up from my library’s Overdrive because A.S. King is pretty much an auto-buy for me. Plus Jenn and Preeti at The Bookrageous Podcast gushed about this book in their interview with King.
King’s books tend to be near impossible to describe, so I’ll just give the premise that is in the prologue of the book. After drinking a petrified bat (stick with me here) Glory O’Brien is able to see people’s infinities–the lives of their ancestors and their descendants. As she starts putting the pieces of these visions together she realizes the near future isn’t looking so great…especially for women.
King strikes a great balance between the surreal and the real. I like how she gives her characters conflicts with small personal stakes and giant stakes. In this book there is Glory’s fear of committing suicide like her mother and uncertainty about her post high school life paired with visions of a coming war.
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Sisters of Blood and Spirit by Kady Cross
- Release Date:March 31st 2015
- Pages:288
- Genre:Paranormal YA
- Publisher:Harlequin Teen
I picked this book up at the Harlequin Teen signing at BEA and knew nothing about .I knew Cross vaugeley from steampunk series that starts with The Girl in the Steel Corset, but I’d never heard of this series. I think I chose this as my first post-BEA books because this is the first time in a long time I’ve read something with no information about it. It felt like the old days when every book I read was a new discovery.
Sister of Blood and Spiritis a paranormal YA with a bit of a horror twist.Twin sisters Wren and Lark (wink, wink) are near identical with two key differences; 1. Wren’s hair is a bright red and Lark’s is white and 2. Wren was born a ghost and only Lark can see her.
Yeah, this cover is very on the nose.
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