Waiting on Wednesday | Vengeance Road

Feb 4

Waiting on Wednesday

 Vengeance Road • Erin Bowman

Book cover Vengeance Road Erin Bowman

When her father is killed by the notorious Rose Riders for a mysterious journal that reveals the secret location of a gold mine, eighteen year-old Kate Thompson disguises herself as a boy and takes to the gritty plains looking for answers–and justice. In the spirit of True Grit, acclaimed young adult novelist Erin Bowman brings to life the unpredictable and cutthroat days of the Wild West.

Friends, I’ve had VENGEANCE ROAD on my TBR for months now, but THE COVER IS OMG. I’m completely fascinated with the Old West. I’m not as well-read in it, but I love it. I love cowboys and wagon trains and the frontier. This book has all of that going on AND MORE. A secret journal and a hidden gold mine? STOP. JUST…I CAN’T. My body is ready.

VENGEANCE ROAD comes out on September 1, 2015 from HMH Kids

Vengeance Road Erin Bowman

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Tripping Over December

Dec 3

December

HOW IS IT DECEMBER ALREADY? What happened to 2014? Regardless of where 2014 went, I think that going out with these three books is a pretty great end to a mostly good year.

Book cover Princess of Thorns Stacey Jay

 December 9 • Delacorte Press

So a retelling of Sleeping Beauty where the daughter of the famous fairy princess is a badass warrior who needs to fight to get back her throne? YUP. ALL IN.

Book cover Zodiac Romina Russell

 December 9 • Razorbill

I’m kind of obsessed with this book based on the zodiac signs and that alleged 13th sign. I’m totally intrigued by this premise.

Book cover This Shattered World Amie Kaufman and Megan Spooner

December 23 • Disney Hyperion

THESE BROKEN STARS was one of my favorite books last year. I’ve already read THIS SHATTERED WORLD, and it lives up to the promise of action and romance and conspiracy. SO SO GOOD.

What books are you guys looking forward to this month?

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Top Ten Tuesday | 2015 Reads I Can’t Wait For

Dec 2

Top Ten TuesdayTop Ten 2015 Reads I Can’t Wait For

Friends, I had a very hard time stopping myself from letting this list get a little out of hand. I can’t lie. Ah, well. Not a bad thing, right? That just means that 2015 is going to be LEGIT for books. CANNOT WAIT. In no particular order except the one I wrote them down in on my little note today at work!

A Court of Thorns and Roses: A Court of Thorns and Roses #1 | Sarah J. Maas

May 5, 2015 • Bloomsbury Children’s

DUH. I about died when I saw these ARCs floating around, and the buzz I’m hearing from those lucky people who’ve read it already is only making me die more. Kind of need this one nowish.

I Was Here | Gayle Forman

January 27, 2015 • Viking Juvenile

I will perpetually look forward to Gayle Forman’s books. They’re contemps with romance and intense emotions and deep insights into basically life.

Six of Crows: The Dregs #1 | Leigh Bardugo

October 8, 2015 • Henry Holt & Co.

More books in the Grisha world? Well, don’t mind if I do. Also, the blurb says that this is Ocean’s 11 meets Game of Thrones. The Game of Thrones comparisons with every fantasy rarely seem to live up to that specific hype, but that’s not bad. I like books to be their own thing! That being said, YES TO THOSE TWO THINGS.

The Penderwicks in Spring: Penderwicks #4 | Jeanne Birdsall

March 24, 2015 • Knopf Books for Young Readers

I LOVE THE PENDERWICKS. It takes Jeanne Birdsall a few years to write each one, which makes each new release that much more of a gift. Plus, this one takes place five years in the future and is told from Batty’s point of view. BATTY. ADORBS. Also, I believe there is a war veteran in it. STAHP.

The Sword of Summer: Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard #1 | Rick Riordan

October 6, 2015 • Disney Hyperion

Listen. All you have to say to me is “Rick Riordan” and “Asgard” and someone is going to have to resuscitate me. I am salivating for this.

Shadow Scale: Seraphina #2 | Rachel Hartman

March 10, 2015 • Random House Children’s

WORD I’ve been waiting for this one for so long! I’m going to need to reread SERAPHINA, but that’s no chore. I’m so excited to see what’s up with Seraphina and the dragons!

Fairest: The Lunar Chronicles #3.5 | Marissa Meyer

January 27, 2015 • Feiwel & Friends

Another DUH. It’s really hard–no, probably impossible–to like Queen Levana, but I’ll give her a chance.

Crimson Bound | Rosamund Hodge

May 5, 2015 • Balzer + Bray

Whoa, whoa, Little Red Riding Hood? Well, I just can’t say no to that ever. I really enjoyed CRUEL BEAUTY, so I’m excited to see what Rosamund Hodge has in store in this one.

The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate: Calpurnia Tate #2 | Jacqueline Kelley

July 7, 2015 • Henry Holt & Co.

OMG GUYSSSSS. I know I’ve mentioned before my love for Calpurnia Tate. I’ve been wishing and hoping that Jacqueline Kelley was going to write another book, and lo! IT’S HAPPENING! *happy dances*

The Young Elites #2 | Marie Lu

Pub date TBA • Putnam 

I promise I’m going to post my review of THE YOUNG ELITES soon. Preview: I really, really enjoyed it and am full of THOUGHTS about what might be in store. It goes without saying that I’ll read whatever Marie Lu writes, and this is no exception.

Throne of Glass #4 | Sarah J. Maas

September 10, 2015 • Bloomsbury Children’s

That’s the UK pub date according to Goodreads, so let’s hope that the US pub date is earlier because I can’t even fathom the depth of awesomeness that is in store in this series. It’s no joke that Sarah J. Maas is on this list twice: She’s fabulous. I want all of her words.

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Top Ten Tuesday | Winter TBR

Nov 25

Top Ten Tuesday

 

Top Ten Books on my Winter TBR

These seasonal TBRs are honestly some of my favorite Top Ten Tuesdays. You know why? No matter how hard I try, and no matter how awesome the Broke and Bookish girls are at keeping the topics coming after sooooo many Top Ten Tuesdays, I feel like I repeat myself. And that bugs me just on a personal level. I like to keep it fresh! Enter these awesome lists that HAVE to change, and Amy is a super happy girl. I’m SO EXCITED FOR THESE BOOKS! Obvs I have more than ten. I didn’t even try to rein myself in.

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Save Me | Jenny Elliott • January 6, 2015 (Swoon Reads)

Oooh, guys. So much going on in this debut. Witchcraft, forbidden love, whales. Also, I kind of can’t stop looking at the cover, with the girl floating in midair. It’s mysterious and magical and beautiful.

All the Bright Places | Jennifer Niven • January 6, 2015 (Knopf)

I have to say, I’m not really a fan of all these “THE FAULT IN OUR STARS meets whatever” descriptions just because a book has death in it. But a debut (another one! Yay!) about two sad, broken kids learning how to not be so sad anymore together is something I will ALWAYS enjoy.

The Darkest Part of the Forest | Holly Black • January 13, 2015 (Little Brown BFYR)

Holly Black is a new-to-me author, friends. I only really started reading her books this year, and I really enjoyed them. This story about siblings and faeries and a horned boy in the woods in a glass casket sounds FAB.

Fairest: The Lunar Chronicles #3.5 | Marissa Meyer • January 27, 2015 (Feiwel & Friends)

DUH.

In Some Other World, Maybe | Shari Goldhagen • January 13, 2015 (St. Martin’s Press)

Really looking forward to this one. Sure, it’s kind of adult-ish because it follows a group of young people into adulthood, but hey. Sometimes you have to see what the fictional people you own age are up to.

I Was Here | Gayle Forman • January 27, 2015 (Viking Juvenile)

DUH 2.0

I’ll Meet You There | Heather Demetrios • February 3, 2015 (Henry Holt & Co.)

No but stop. Wounded veteran? Literally, you don’t have to say anything else. Nothing. I’m in.

Better When He’s Bold: Welcome to the Point #2 | Jay Crownover • February 3, 2015 (William Morrow)

Guys, Jay Crownover is so legit. Her Marked Men series is one of my favorites, and I enjoyed the first book in her Welcome to the Point series, too. BRING IT, GIRL.

Red Queen: Red Queen Trilogy #1 | Victoria Aveyard • February 10, 2015 (Harper Teen)

First of all, THIS COVER. So provocative. But I like the sound of the story too, obviously, with it’s blood divisions and secrets.

Seeker: Seeker #1 | Arwen Elys Dayton • February 10, 2015 (Delacorte BFYR)

So, a Game of Thrones meets Hunger Games comparison. Ok, I can dig it. Although seekers remind me of nothing ever aside from Harry Potter. Also, I’m very interested in this whole “her best friend and the boy she loves isn’t who she thinks” business.

A Wicked Thing | Rhiannon Thomas • February 24, 2015 (Harper Teen)

WHOA WHOA WHOA. A Sleeping Beauty retelling about what happens AFTER the marriage? STAHPPPPP.

The Winner’s Crime: The Winner’s Trilogy #2 | Marie Rutkoski • March 3, 2015 (Farrar Straus Giroux)

DUH 3.0

The Storyspinner: The Keeper’s Chronicles #1 | Becky Wallace • March 3, 2015 (Margaret K. McElderry)

Ooh, so this story kind of has shades of Kvothe for me somehow: a fantasy about a performer with no troupe…actually that’s kind of where it stops. But there’s murder and a missing princess and magical beings and scheming dukes. *nods head*

The Orphan Queen: The Orphan Queen #1 | Jodi Meadows • March 10, 2015 (Katherine Tegen Books)

I’ve never read anything by Jodi Meadows. I KNOW. This sounds like a more Amy place to start than her previous series, so I’m really looking forward to it. There’s lots of fantasies on this list! YAY!

What books are you guys looking forward to this winter?

 

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Waiting on Wednesday | Tangled Webs

Nov 19

Waiting on WednesdayTangled Webs: Tangled Webs #1 • Lee Bross

Book cover Tangled Webs Lee Bross

London, 1725. Everybody has a secret. Lady A will keep yours-for a price. This sumptuous, scandalous YA novel is wickedly addictive.

Lady A is the most notorious blackmailer in the city. With just a mask and a gown to disguise her, she sweeps into lavish balls and exclusive events collecting the most valuable currency in 1725 London-secrets.

But leading a double life isn’t easy. By day Lady A is just a sixteen-year-old girl named Arista who lives in fear of her abusive master, Bones, and passes herself off as a boy to move safely through the squalor of London’s slums. When Bones attempts to dispose of his pawn forever, Arista is rescued by the last person she expects: Jonathan Wild, an infamous thief who moves seamlessly between the city’s criminal underworld and its most elite circles. Arista partners with Wild on her own terms in the hopes of saving enough money to buy passage out of London.

Everything changes when she meets Grae Sinclair, the son of a wealthy merchant. Grae has traveled the world, seen the exotic lands Arista has longed to escape to her whole life, and he loves Arista for who she is-not for what she can do for him. Being with Grae gives something Arista something precious that she swore off long ago: hope. He has promised to help Arista escape the life of crime that has claimed her since she was a child. But can you ever truly escape the past?

First of all, guys, THIS COVER. I CANNOT IT’S GORGEOUS. Second–and more important–of all, I basically love the sound of this entire book. I love this time period, I love that it’s historical fiction, which I’m pledging to read more of, it has a thief, a girl dressing as a boy…I don’t think I need to say more. TANGLED WEBS sounds excellent.

I’m only slightly intrigued slash anxious about these two guys here–the thief and the rich boy. I’m hoping that this triangle isn’t weird. WHATEVS I already preordered it.

TANGLED WEBS comes out on June 23, 2015 from Disney Hyperion

Tangled Webs Lee Bross

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Top Ten Tuesday | Top Ten Sequels I Can’t Wait to Read

Nov 18

Top Ten TuesdayTop Ten Sequels I Can’t Wait to Read

Friends, my computer is being lame and it’s almost past my bedtime, so I’m going to just have to leave this graphic here as my YAY SEQUELS list. WAHH! I has a sad about it! I’m going to try and update with some more words tomorrow. But in the meantime, THESE. GIVE ME ALL OF THESE. I tried to keep this list to what I think of as actual sequels–number 2 in a series. But, well, I gave in a bit at the end there. Oops slash not oops.

EDIT: Just realized I misnumbered my Throne of Glass sequel! I mean obvs I want to read number 6, but I’d like number 4 first.

Top Ten Tuesday Sequels

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Waiting on Wednesday | A Court of Thorns and Roses

Nov 12

Waiting on Wednesday

A Court of Thorns and Roses: A Court of Thorns and Roses #1 • Sarah J. Maas

Book cover A Court of Thorns and Roses Sarah J. Maas

 

A thrilling, seductive new series from New York Times bestselling author Sarah J. Maas, blending Beauty and the Beast with faerie lore.

When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand retribution for it. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin—one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled their world.

As she dwells on his estate, her feelings for Tamlin transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every lie and warning she’s been told about the beautiful, dangerous world of the Fae. But an ancient, wicked shadow grows over the faerie lands, and Feyre must find a way to stop it . . . or doom Tamlin—and his world—forever.

Perfect for fans of Kristen Cashore and George R. R. Martin, this first book in a sexy and action-packed new series is impossible to put down!

I am a full-blown Sarah J. Maas fangirl. Her Throne of Glass series has become a true favorite of mine because of its complexity and darkness. When I first found out that a new series from Sarah would be starting next year, I possibly died. I just love the way she writes and imbues everything with emotions and consequences, and I LOVE LOVE LOVE her characters. I will read anything she writes. That is all.

It’s a bonus, then, that A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES sounds so fabulous. First of all, Feyre is a huntress. LOVE. Second of all, there’s a “fiery passion” and an “ancient, wicked shadow.” Third of all, two of my best favorite authors are in the blurb–Kristin Cashore and GRRM. My body is ready. I’ve already preordered this book.

A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES comes out on May 5, 2015 from Bloomsbury Children’s

A Court of Thorns and Roses Sarah J. Maas

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Tripping Over November

Nov 3

Tripping Over November

It’s actually a good thing that I’m not dying for a lot of books this month, guys, because I have a MAJOR review backlog right now. But THESE THREE. I DIE.

Tripping Over NovemberBook cover A Thousand Pieces of You Claudia GrayA Thousand Pieces of You: Firebird #1 | Claudia Gray {Goodreads}

Sometimes parallel universes make my brain smoke, but this one sounds really good. I like the murder mystery angle, though, and the fact that the alleged killer can escape to alternate universes sounds fabulous. Also, gorgeous cover, amirite?

Book cover Mortal Heart Robin LaFeversMortal Heart: His Fair Assassin #3 | Robin LaFevers {Goodreads}

THIS BOOK I CANNOT. I’ve actually already read it, but that in no way dampens my excitement to have a finished copy of Annith’s story in my hands. Guys? It was AMAZING.

Book cover The Walled City Ryan GraudinThe Walled City | Ryan Graudin {Goodreads}

I’m really intrigued by this book, set in the walled city of Kowloon, which is a real place. It sounds dangerous and fast-paced and full of action. I LIKE.

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Waiting on Wednesday | In Some Other World, Maybe

Oct 8

Waiting on Wednesday

In Some Other World, Maybe • Shari Goldhagen

Book cover In Some Other World, Maybe Shari Goldhagen

 

In December 1992, three groups of teenagers head to the theater to see the movie version of the famed Eons & Empires comic books. For Adam it’s a last ditch effort to connect with something (actually, someone, the girl he’s had a crush on for years) in his sleepy Florida town before he leaves for good. Passionate fan Sharon skips school in Cincinnati so she can fully appreciate the flick without interruption from her vapid almost-friends—a seemingly silly indiscretion with shocking consequences. And in suburban Chicago, Phoebe and Ollie simply want to have a nice first date and maybe fool around in the dark, if everyone they know could just stop getting in the way.Over the next two decades, these unforgettable characters criss-cross the globe, becoming entwined by friendship, sex, ambition, fame and tragedy. A razor-sharp, darkly comic page-turner, In Some Other World, Maybe sheds light on what it means to grow up in modern America.

 

 

 

Getting all GROWN-UP on y’all! I love the sound of this book. I love that it starts with a movie based on comic books, because that appeals to my nerdiness. But I’m also completely intrigued by the span of time IN SOME OTHER WORLD, MAYBE covers. I haven’t even read a single page of this book but I’m already curious about how things turn out for these crazy kids-who-turn-into-adults. BRING IT, SHARI!!

IN SOME OTHER WORLD, MAYBE comes out January 13, 2015 from St. Martin’s Press

In Some Other World, Maybe Shari Goldhagen

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Tripping Over October

Oct 2

October

GUYSSSSS LOOK AT ALL THESE AWESOME BOOKSSSS!!! October is going to be great. Great for the reader in me, but bad for my wallet. I’ve preordered LITERALLY all of these books.

October

Book cover Stray Elisa SussmanStray: Four Sisters #1 by Elissa Sussman {Goodreads}

There is not really anything at all about STRAY that doesn’t sound amazing. The combination of the vaguely creepy looking cover with the story of fairy godmothers gets me all excited. Also, DEBUT! (Greenwillow)

tripping over date-Oct 14

Book cover Snow Like Ashes Sara RaaschSnow Like Ashes: Snow Like Ashes #1 by Sara Raasch {Goodreads}

Another debut! HUZZAH! Fantasies are always going to make my radar, especially when they sound like SNOW LIKE ASHES: a kingdom of winter that has lost its magic (which reminds me of Game of Thrones just a little bit but that’s never bad to me), and a refugee girl who can save everything she knows. STAHHP! (Balzer + Bray)

Book cover Every Breath Ellie MarneyEvery Breath: Every #1 by Ellie Marney {Goodreads}

I CANNOT with this Aussie contemporary retelling of Sherlock Holmes. I have not heard anything bad about this series from people whose opinions never steer me wrong. (Tundra Books)

tripping over date-Oct 21

Book cover Rowdy Jay CrownoverRowdy: Marked Men #5 by Jay Crownover {Goodreads}

Ok, so Rowdy…first of all, let’s just be superficial for a sec: The hottest cover model in this series is Nash. I’ve literally tried to google who he is. But character-wise, Rowdy has always been so charming and unique. It’s amazing how quickly and permanently Jay Crownover has lept onto my must-read author list. I know she’ll do Rowdy proud (and smokin’ hot). (William Morrow)

Book cover blue lily lily blue Maggie StiefvaterBlue Lily, Lily Blue: The Raven Cycle #3 by Maggie Stiefvater {Goodreads}

OMG so I just finished an audio reread of THE DREAM THIEVES and I am READY for this book. The cover is gorgeous, and the story is no doubt full of the slow unfolding of the search for the ancient Welsh king, Glendower, as well a the delish slow burn romance between Gansey and Blue. One of my most anticipated books of the year. (Scholastic)

tripping over date-Oct 28

Book cover The Slow Regard of Silent Things Patrick RothfussThe Slow Regard of Silent Things: Tales From Temerant #1 by Patrick Rothfuss {Goodreads}

I don’t make any secrets about my undying, for always love for Patrick Rothfuss. No, this isn’t the third book in the Kingkiller Chronicle, but it IS about one of my favorite secondary characters, Auri. Also, Patrick Rothfuss himself is narrating the audiobook! WORD! (DAW)

What books are you looking forward to this month?

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