Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Monday Missions!


Shadows of the Forest
by Emma Michaels
Genre: YA

Everyone is dying to live in the Shadows of the Forest.
They gave me three rules to follow in exchange for my brother’s life:
1. Do not enter the West Wing;
2. Do not go outside after darkness falls; and
3. There is only one exit; The Gates.

This is what happened when I broke them…
GOODREADS: 

Friday, January 20, 2017

YA Freebies Friday!

Ripper
By Becca C. Smith | Young Adult
Chelsan and her friends are yet again thrown into peril in order to save the world from Elisha’s sinister plans. And Chelsan’s tentative relationship with her grandfather is put to the test as they once again have to work together against a common enemy. Chelsan must defeat Elisha once and for all in the third installment of the bestselling series the ... Read More
Free
  KINDLE  
Evanescent
By Eva Truesdale | Young Adult
Norah Bentley should be dead. Eli knows that. As the reaper assigned to her soul, he's spent the past few months getting intimately acquainted with her life, all in preparation to take it away. It was a job he was fully prepared to do. Then he fell in love with her. And he decided to save her instead. But can love really overcome death? And what happens to ... Read More
Free
  KINDLE  
Heart Song
By Desiree Williams | Young Adult
In Aldonnia, the evil of Varkadon overflows its borders. War ravages the lands…For as long as eighteen year-old Alanna can remember she’s lived in hiding, sealed off from the outside world. Despite a future built around a steadfast rule of seclusion, Alanna dreams of the impossible. Of a life outside of her parents’ cabin. A life with more for company ... Read More
Free
  KINDLE  
  NOOK  
Dragonfriend
By Marc Secchia | Young Adult
Stabbed. Burned by a dragon. Abandoned for the windrocs to pick over. The traitor Ra’aba tried to silence Hualiama forever. But he reckoned without the strength of a dragonet’s paw, and the courage of a girl who refused to die. Only an extraordinary friendship will save Hualiama’s beloved kingdom of Fra’anior and restore the King to the Onyx Throne. ... Read More
Free
  KINDLE  
Static
By Tawny Stokes | Young Adult
Confused and alone, Salem Vale wakes up in a dumpster with no memory of how she got there…She remembers spending the night partying with her favorite band, Malice, and being singled out by the lead singer, Thane. It had been a dream come true. But now Salem feels scared, humiliated…and hungry. Try as she might, she can’t quench the hunger, until she ... Read More
Free
  KINDLE  
Elixir Project
By Kary Oberbrunner | Young Adult
Will this fact set Sienna free or plunge her into an even bigger lie?Sienna Lewis lives in a world constantly threatened by a hacktivist group known as SWARM. After SWARM executes its deadliest attack yet, Sienna and her three college friends learn they have been chosen for the ELIXIR Project—a master plan designed to overthrow SWARM—and participation is ... Read More
Free
  KINDLE  
Visions
By Kimberly Readnour | Young Adult
Heather Reiner knows moving to a new town will not transform her into an ordinary teenager. But when Heather meets Barry Chandler, she learns secrets besides her own exist. As each mystical encounter unfolds, will Barry be like everyone else and run away? She wants his help, but getting Barry involved means exposing her “gifts” and potentially putting ... Read More
Free
  KINDLE  
  NOOK  
  APPLE  
The Book of Things to Come
By Aaron D. Gansky | Young Adult
Winner of the 2016 Selah award for Young Adult Fiction. At first, Lauren Knowles is thrilled to find she's "clicked" herself inside Alrujah, a fantasy game she created with her best friend, Oliver Shaw. But the exhilaration of serving as a magical princess fades when she senses a demonic force - one they did not create - lurking in the shadows. Though they ... Read More
Free
  KINDLE  
Divine: House of Oak (Book 2)
By Nichole Van | Young Adult
Time is a vast cosmic sea, where each life exists as rippling circles on its surface, past and future being eternally present. And occasionally, one expanding ring tangles with that of another, linking two lives together even though separated by centuries . . .Georgiana Knight—born in the nineteenth century, but now living in 2013—has certain standards ... Read More
Free
  KINDLE  
Strange Metamorphosis
By Paul C.R. Monk | Young Adult
Winner of the 2014 LITERARY CLASSICS Awards: The Eloquent Quill Youth Fiction Book Award & Best Fantasy Fiction YA. When a boy is faced with a life-changing decision, an unlikely source sends him on an incredible expedition—transmuting him into a tiny creature in the process. He soon finds he has to team up with creatures he once captured for sport. Forced ... Read More
Free
  KINDLE  

Scarlet and the Queen of the New World
By Brandon Charles West | Young Adult
"The world building is superb...dwarfs, magical assassins, light-wielding winged people, talking kick a$$ animals, evil magical princes, and more.” In the long-awaited third volume of the Scarlet series, Scarlet struggles with her role as leader. Free only this once ... Read More
Free
  KINDLE  
Undermountain
By Eric Kent Edstrom | Young Adult
Six teens embark on a backpacking excursion that turns into an intergalactic adventure when they are kidnapped by a creature of legend and taken to the high-tech subterranean world of Undermountain ... Read More
Free
  KINDLE  
  NOOK  
  APPLE  
Not Quite Eden
By Dominique Kyle | Young Adult
The one word you could never use to describe sixteen-year-old Eve is 'passive.' But the one thing she could never have envisaged was her having to step in to save the life of that annoying idiot next door, Adam Quinn. And she only did it because she's reserving the right to kill him herself ... Read More
Free
  KINDLE  
Scarlet and the Keepers of Light
By Brandon Charles West | Young Adult
Scarlet has been dreaming about a tiny castle under an ancient oak tree, where dogs talk and winged creatures sculpt with light. But lately her dreams have been getting darker and more vivid. Now the barrier between the dream world and her own has cracked—and only Scarlet can decide the fate of both ... Read More
Free
  KINDLE  
Moorigad: Complete Age of the Hybrid Series
By Debra Kristi | Young Adult
When Kyra, the Moorigad dragon-shifter, unwittingly finds herself at Mystic's Carnival, a supernatural world between realms, she believes her runaway days are finished. Amidst the carnies and never-ending magic, she begins falling for her all-too-secretive best friend, Sebastian. And as she delves deeper into his mysteries, her goodwill sabotages their ... Read More
Free
  KINDLE  


Wednesday, January 11, 2017

2017 Winter Biannual Bibliothon

I (admin Lisa) am doing another readathon! If you'd like to see my TBR, go check it out on my personal blog. And if you want, please feel free to follow! I'm going to try to make more of an effort to keep this blog going, but I'll be doing more reviews and my own stuff over on my personal blog. 

Link: http://lisalikesreviews.blogspot.com/2017/01/2017-winter-biannual-bibliothon.html

See you there! 😊

Monday, January 2, 2017

Review ~ Duality by J Kowallis



Duality by J Kowallis
Genre: YA/New Adult, Scifi, Dystopian
Published November 18th 2016



Trust No One.
In this world, nothing is as it seems . . .

Reggie’s visions turn to horrifying hallucinations. For weeks she’s tortured with starvation and nightmares that vex her resolve. Her only companion is a mysterious shadow—a figure with no shape, no substance—that seems to have a mind of its own. It’s a presence that prickles her memories and plants a feeling of familiar dread in her mind.
Where she is, she doesn’t know, and the organization delving into her mind is more threatening than ever before.

With the help of shady contacts from his past, Nate struggles to travel half way around the world, facing his own demons and dreadful revelations. But when a stranger joins the team, the duality of this newcomer's actions sets everyone on edge, leading them through a trial one of them . . . will not survive.



Terrific third book for the series! I have just one criticism... it had been so long since I read the first two books that it took me a long time, and a lot of confusion the first fourth of the book, before I began to piece together what happened from my memories. More flashbacks, more recaps of what happened previously would have been helpful. Other than that.... 

Just as captivating as the first two... but far more heartbreaking.



Please tell me the end events aren't permanent, that a certain character comes back in the next book! The preview for Dominion kinda seemed like it features this character, oh please tell me they come back! Please! 




This character was the glue... for both the story and for many of the relationships... they can't be dead for good... can they?



I NEEED the next book!



GOODREADS:

AMAZON:

B&N:




J. Kowallis, the only girl of four children, grew up in northern Utah with a head full of wild stories (most often unreal). At the age of 9, she wrote her first poem, a dedication to E.B. White's Charlotte's Web. It was so intriguing, her Third Grade teacher requested to keep the original (THAT is a true story!). Between living in fictional worlds, she managed to graduate from Weber State University’s creative writing program. She now lives in Utah with her Mini Schnauzer, Etta, and spends most of her time still bouncing between this world and the fantastical while enjoying delectable über-dark chocolate and lavender baths. She enjoys dreaming about, flying to, and writing about distant lands (real or unreal).