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Title: The Wrath and The Dawn Author: Renee Ahdieh Publication Date:  May 12, 2015 Genre: Fantasy Format: Hardcover Rating: ★★★★★ Goodreads  |   Amazon One Life to One Dawn. In a land ruled by a murderous boy-king, each dawn brings heartache to a new family. Khalid, the eighteen-year-old Caliph of Khorasan, is a monster. Each night he takes a new bride only to have a silk cord wrapped around her throat come morning. When sixteen-year-old Shahrzad's dearest friend falls victim to Khalid, Shahrzad vows vengeance and volunteers to be his next bride. Shahrzad is determined not only to stay alive, but to end the caliph's reign of terror once and for all. Night after night, Shahrzad beguiles Khalid, weaving stories that enchant, ensuring her survival, though she knows each dawn could be her last. But something she never expected begins to happen: Khalid is nothing like what she'd imagined him to be. This monster is a boy with a tormented heart. Incredibly, Shahrzad finds

Title: The Fill-in Boyfriend Author: Kasie West Publication Date: May 5, 2015 Genre: Contemporary, YA Format: Ebook Rating: ★★★★★ Goodreads   |  Amazon When Gia Montgomery's boyfriend, Bradley, dumps her in the parking lot of her high school prom, she has to think fast. After all, she'd been telling her friends about him for months now. This was supposed to be the night she proved he existed. So when she sees a cute guy waiting to pick up his sister, she enlists his help. The task is simple: be her fill-in boyfriend—two hours, zero commitment, a few white lies. After that, she can win back the real Bradley. The problem is that days after prom, it's not the real Bradley she's thinking about, but the stand-in. The one whose name she doesn't even know. But tracking him down doesn't mean they're done faking a relationship. Gia owes him a favor and his sister intends to see that he collects: his ex-girlfriend's graduation party—three hours, zero comm

Title: Lying Out Loud Author: Kody   Keplinger Publication Date: April 28, 2015 Genre: Contemporary, YA Format: Ebook Rating: ★★★★★ Goodreads  |  Amazon Sonny Ardmore is an excellent liar. She lies about her dad being in prison. She lies about her mom kicking her out. And she lies about sneaking into her best friend's house every night because she has nowhere else to go. Amy Rush might be the only person Sonny shares everything with— secrets, clothes, even a nemesis named Ryder Cross. Ryder's the new kid at Hamilton High and everything Sonny and Amy can't stand—a prep-school snob. But Ryder has a weakness: Amy. So when Ryder emails Amy asking her out, the friends see it as a prank opportunity not to be missed. But without meaning to, Sonny ends up talking to Ryder all night online. And to her horror, she realises that she might actually like him. Only there's one small catch: he thinks he's been talking to Amy. So Sonny comes up with an elaborate scheme to

Title: The Bargain Author: Lisa Cardiff Publication Date: March 17, 2015 Genre: New Adult Source: NetGalley Rating: ★★★★☆ Goodreads  |  Amazon Three weeks, twenty-one days, or five hundred and four hours… That’s all it took to derail my life and twist it into something unrecognisable  One moment I had Evan, the man I thought I’d marry. The next moment shattered the illusion. Now I have no one. Except him.  Ryker Vargas, and I don’t really have him. He’d never belong to any one but himself. He sucked me into a web of lies and now it’s too late. I took the bait. I’m a prisoner of the Vargas Cartel. I never thought I’d be another statistic, another girl abducted in a foreign country, my entire future washed away by an impulsive, split second in time. But it’s true.  My name is Hattie Covington and I’m a statistic, but statistics never tell the whole story. Hattie Covington takes a break from her cheating boyfriend and controlling parents by going to Mexico for a vacation.

Title: My Heart and Other Black Holes Author: Jasmine Warga  Publication Date: February 10, 2015  Genre: Contemporary, YA  Format: Hardcover  Pages: 320 Rating: ★★★★★ Goodreads  |  Amazon Sixteen-year-old physics nerd Aysel is obsessed with plotting her own death. With a mother who can barely look at her without wincing, classmates who whisper behind her back, and a father whose violent crime rocked her small town, Aysel is ready to turn her potential energy into nothingness. There’s only one problem: she’s not sure she has the courage to do it alone. But once she discovers a website with a section called Suicide Partners, Aysel’s convinced she’s found her solution: a teen boy with the username FrozenRobot (aka Roman) who’s haunted by a family tragedy is looking for a partner.  Even though Aysel and Roman have nothing in common, they slowly start to fill in each other’s broken lives. But as their suicide pact becomes more concrete, Aysel begins to question whether she really

Title: The winner's curse Author: Marie Rutkoski Publication date: March 4, 2014 Genre: Fantasy Rating: ★★★★★ Goodreads  |  Amazon   Winning what you want may cost you everything you love...   As a general’s daughter in a vast empire that revels in war and enslaves those it conquers, seventeen-year-old Kestrel has two choices: she can join the military or get married. But Kestrel has other intentions.  One day, she is startled to find a kindred spirit in a young slave up for auction. Arin’s eyes seem to defy everything and everyone. Following her instinct, Kestrel buys him—with unexpected consequences. It’s not long before she has to hide her growing love for Arin.  But he, too, has a secret, and Kestrel quickly learns that the price she paid for a fellow human is much higher than she ever could have imagined.  Set in a richly imagined new world,  The Winner’s Curse  by Marie Rutkoski is a story of deadly games where everything is at stake, and th

Title:  Ugly Love A uthor: Colleen Hoover Publication date: August 5, 2014  Genre: NA Format: Paperback   pages:   322 Rating: ★★★★★ Goodreads  |  Amazon When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she knows it isn’t love at first sight. They wouldn’t even go so far as to consider themselves friends. The only thing Tate and Miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction. Once their desires are out in the open, they realise they have the perfect set-up. He doesn’t want love, she doesn’t have time for love, so that just leaves the sex. Their arrangement could be surprisingly seamless, as long as Tate can stick to the only two rules Miles has for her. Never ask about the past. Don’t expect a future. They think they can handle it, but realise almost immediately they can’t handle it at all. Hearts get infiltrated. Promises get broken. Rules get shattered. Love gets ugly.  This was my first Colleen Hoover and since it was my first i didn't know wh

Title: Truly, Madly, Deadly Author: Hannah Jayne Publication Date: July 2, 2013 Genre: Young Adult (Mystery/Thriller) Format: Finished Copy Pages: 262 Rating: ★★★★★ Goodreads  |  Amazon    They Said It Was An Accident... Sawyer Dodd is a star athlete, a straight-A student, and the envy of every other girl who wants to date Kevin Anderson. When Kevin dies in a tragic car crash, Sawyer is stunned. Then she opens her locker to find a note: You're welcome. Someone saw what he did to her. Someone knows that Sawyer and Kevin weren't the perfect couple they seemed to be. And that someone—a killer—is now shadowing Sawyer's every move... Sawyer's boyfriend died of a presumed drunk driving accident, until she finds a note that opens up questions on his death, and now that someone will do anything even kill more people, to keep Sawyer from getting hurt again. As you can imagine this book is very creepy and would make you want to keep reading to find out the answers y