my fantastical world

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