We're an Open Book
Release Date: 5/31/2016
Pages: 391 pages
Genre: Suspense
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Ten people step onto a plane. Eighteen minutes later the plane drops out of the sky leaving only two survivors.
And one of those survivors, artist Scott Burroughs, wasn’t supposed to be on there. Who is Scott and more importantly. . . why did a perfectly operational plane fall into the ocean?
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Between Black Friday Deals and Christmas sales here are the last few books I got to round out 2016
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Release Date: 6/2/16
Audiobook Length : 8 Hours 25 minutes
Genre: Contemporary
Publisher: Soho Press
The expectation to be happy can be overwhelming, but Aaron Soto is going to try. He is going to happily spend the summer hanging with his friends, nerding out over comics and finally telling his girlfriend he loves her. He won’t think about the things that threaten his happiness like his father’s suicide or Tomas, a neighborhood boy whose friendship could spark something more. Looming in the background of this happy summer is the divisive Leteo Institute, a facility that claims that can make memories go away.
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The Countdown is on to 2017 and here are the books we can’t wait to read in 2017 !
JANUARY
1. Seconds To Sunrise by Nico Rosso
Book three in Nico Rosso’s romantic suspense undercover operator series. This time an Automatik operative’s mission is to protect a war widow from cyber terrorist. – Jess
2. The Book of Mirrors by E. O. Chirovici
An investigative journalist is hired by a literary agent to use a posthumous partial manuscript to solve a murder from twenty years earlier. Crime and a journalist protagonist ? Yes, please. – Jess
3. Caraval by Stephanie Garber
During the BEA Buzz panel the editor of this book said she had a sit-on-the-floor-couldn’t-get-up moment when reading this. If that’s endorsement enough this book has also been compared to The Night Circus. – Jess
4. Breathless by Beverly Jenkins
A follow up to Forbidden, this installment seems to have a bit of a time jump and features the niece of the heroine from the first novel. – Jess
5. History Is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera
Based on his debut novel Adam Silvera knows how to pack an emotional punch and make a contemporary settings come to life. – Jess
MARCH
6. Stealing Mr. Right by Tamara Morgan.
Um, jewel thief married to an FBI agent ? Yes, please – Jess
7. An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole
Two Civil War spies;one a former slave the other a private detective begin a mission together in Richmond, VA. Not sure if this is going to be an easy book to read considering some the power dynamics but. . . I’m open. -Jess
8. Radio Silence by Alice Oseman
Published last year in the UK, this YA book tells the story of two teenagers who start a podcast that goes viral. Interestingly enough, this is Oseman’s third book and she’s only 21. -Kat
APRIL
9. Back To Your Love by Kianna Alexander
This second chance romance is the first in a series following the brothers of a the fictional Black fraternity Theta Delta Theta. – Kat
10. To Me I Wed by K.M. Jackson
This is the second book in KM Jackson’s Unconventional Bride’s series and starts with a woman who is throwing a big wedding where she’s going to marry…herself ? I just have to see how this plays out.
11. Gem & Dixie by Sara Zarr
Sara Dessen was raving about this on Twitter and it instantly went on my TBR. It tells the story of two sisters from a broken home. – Kat
MAY
12. When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon
I can’t wait to read this YA romantic comedy about two Indian American teens – Kat
13. One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus
A YA murder mystery where 5 students walk into a detention room and only four walk out alive. The questions is, which one of them is the killer ? – Kat
14. From Duke Till Dawn (The London Underground) by Eva Leigh
I read Leigh’s debut last year and really liked her style. This is the first book in a new series and features a con artist heroine who needs the help of a duke to get back her stolen money. – Kat
June
15. Royal Bastards by Andrew Shvarts
Okay, first of all I’m super surprised Barnes and Noble let a YA book get a title like this. This looks like a Games of Thrones-y type book about a group of literal royal bastards who group together to try and stop a civil war. Shvarts is a videogame designer so I’ll be curious how videogame storytelling will influence the story. – Kat
July
16. Unraveled by Lauren Dane
The first book in a new series about a vintage style barbershop and whiskey bar in Seattle(because of course). From the hipster setting to the heroine being a punk rock drummer this romance feels fresh and doesn’t sound like anything I’ve read before. – Kat
September
17. They Both Die At The End by Adam Silvera
Okay, I have been unamused by “end of the world” books but Silvera is a promising YA authors so I’ll give this one a chance. Set in the near future this novel follows two teens who meet on their End Day. – Jess
Katherine Pinkerton knows better than dream of owning her own bakery baker, she knows her destiny lies in becoming the queen of a wacky, quirky, surreal little Kingdom of Hearts. On the night she is to be betrothed she sets eyes on the handsome court joker, who has more than cards up his sleeves.
Unlike the Lunar Chronicles where the fairytale aspects are subtext and set in a modern world, Heartless is an overt-played-straight prequel to Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Meyer digs into the Kingdom of Hearts and all its little oddities. It’s a place where animals talk, playing cards are courtier and if one bring something back from a dream. . . well then so be it.
What we don’t really get to dig into in this novel is the plot. Plot points in the novel are hung like painting with no nails, there are a lot of them, you want to see them. . . but they have a tendency to fall off. One of the many plot in this book is about a forbidden romance that never really started for me. There is also a beta romance, a monster, intrigue, war and magic. . . but we never get fully invested in any of it.
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The only reason this book is on my radar is because it was a part of theTumblr’s Reblog Book Club. Vivian Apple is set in a modern day America where a corporate leaning evangelistic church, The Church Of America, has taken over the country.
One morning dutiful daughter and all around good girl Vivian Apple wakes up to find her Church Of America believing parents missing and two holes in their bedroom ceiling. The rapture has happened and Vivian is all alone. But is it all real ?
Now Vivian Apple is breaking all the rules to find the truth, She’s not the old Vivian Apple anymore; shes’ Vivian Apple at the end of the world.
With her best friend and the knowledge that there has to be something more, Apple embarks on a cross country road tip to figure of what she believes. This book has an odd tone about religion that both questions and accepts the idea of belief,
This is my first Julia Whelan audiobook, Whelan has a broad range and a knack for teenage voices. I can’t wait to check out her other YA audiobooks.
Vivian Apple At The End of The World is one of the weird YAs where your not sure what’s going to happen next and like the characters you will question what’s is and isn’t real and what it means to believe.
