Lots of cool books coming out this month (or already out for that matter) but still, these are the books that I’m putting on my wish list because I’m anxious to get my hands on them. Check it out:
1. Playing Hurt by Holly Schindler.
Star basketball player Chelsea “Nitro” Keyes had the promise of a full ride to college—and everyone’s admiration back home. Then she took a horrible fall during senior year. Now a metal plate holds her together and she feels like a stranger in her own family.
That summer, Chelsea’s dad hires Clint, a nineteen-year-old ex-hockey player and “boot camp” trainer, to work with her at a northern Minnesota lake resort. As they grow close, Chelsea finds that Clint’s haunted by his own tragedy. Will their romance end up hurting them all over again—or finally heal their heartbreak?
I’ve been itching to read this book for quite sometime now. I’m a big basketball fan and I’m very hopeful that my Brenna will play basketball in high school (and hopefully after high school too). It’d be interesting to read about a basketball player who gets hurt and then see her try to move on from there and then throw in a romance and I’m completely and utterly intrigued. I love me a good romance and this one sounds great so I’m in!
2. The Liar Society by Lisa and Laura Roecker.
Best friends don’t send emails once they’re dead. Kate Lowry may wear fake pearls and shorts so tiny that Nancy Drew would blush, but she’s on the trail to prove that Grace’s death was no accident. Along for the ride are a couple of knights in (not so) shining armor: the dangerously attractive bad boy, Liam, and her love-struck neighbor, Seth. Together they discover a secret lurking in the halls of their elite private school that threatens to destroy them all.
I’ve been seeing this book around blog land and I’m pretty curious about it. It sounds like a good read especially since we’ve got a Nancy Drew wannabe trying to find out what really happened during her best friend’s death. Sign me up!
“Hola, Jeni.”
J spun. His stomach clenched hard, as though he’d been hit. It was just the neighbor lady, Mercedes. J couldn’t muster a hello back, not now; he didn’t care that she’d tell his mom he’d been rude. She should know better. Nobody calls me Jeni anymore.
J always felt different. He was certain that eventually everyone would understand who he really was: a boy mistakenly born as a girl. Yet as he grew up, his body began to betray him; eventually J stopped praying to wake up a “real boy” and started covering up his body, keeping himself invisible – from his family, from his friends…from the world. But after being deserted by the best friend he thought would always be by his side, J decides that he’s done hiding – it’s time to be who he really is. And this time he is determined not to give up, no matter the cost.
An inspiring story of self-discovery, of choosing to stand up for yourself, and of finding your own path – readers will recognize a part of themselves in J’s struggle to love his true self.
When I first saw this book, I immediately thought I Am Number Four but after reading the blurb, it’s nothing like that book/movie but I’m mighty intrigued to see how this story all comes together so that’s why this book is on my wish list!
4. Evercrossed by Elizabeth Chandler.
It’s been a year since Ivy’s boyfriend, Tristan, died. They’ve both moved on—Tristan to the other side of the afterlife, and Ivy to sweet, dependable Will. Now Ivy’s heading to Cape Cod, hoping to leave the horror of last summer behind. She wants nothing more than to lie on the beach, sip lemonade, and hang out with her friends.
But then a car crash ends Ivy’s life.
As she floats to the beyond, looking down on the life she’s left behind, Tristan breathes life back into her with a passionate kiss. She wakes up in the hospital, surrounded by Will and her family, but all she can think about is the love that she lost.
But memories aren’t all that’s come back from the past. And this time, Ivy’s not sure love will be enough to save her.
I’ve actually read this book already but I enjoyed it so much that I think everyone reading this post should add this book to their wishlist because it was a definite YA paranormally treat! I
really enjoyed getting to know Ivy, Will, Guy and the rest of the folks that appeared in this book. I got this book for review but I will definitely be purchasing this book to add to my book collection.
5. Miles from Ordinary by Carol Lynch Williams.
Thirteen-year-old Lacey wakes to a beautiful summer morning excited to begin her new job at the library, just as her mother is supposed to start work at the grocery store. Lacey hopes that her mother’s ghosts have finally been laid to rest; after all, she seems so much better these days, and they really do need the money. But as the hours tick by and memories come flooding back, a day full of hope spins terrifyingly out of control….
“No one can get inside the head and heart of a 13-year-old girl better than Carol Lynch Williams, and I mean no one,” said James S. Jacobs, Professor of Children’s Literature at Brigham Young University, of her breakout novel, The Chosen One. Now this award-winning YA author brings us an equally gripping story of a girl who loves her mother, but must face the truth of what life with that mother means for both of them.
This book looks like all kinds of good. I love the cover, which is what first brought this book to my attention but the blurb sounds like it would be such a good read. I need to find out for myself and I can’t wait to get my hands on it.
6. Invincible by Sherrilyn Kenyon.
The second novel in the new teen series, The Chronicles of Nick, a spin-off from the blockbuster Dark-Hunter series–from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon.
This book is by Sherrilyn Kenyon and it features more from Nick Gautier in his younger days so even though I haven’t read the first book yet (I will), this book is still going on my wish list because the DH series by SK is my bookish crack and I don’t know if that’s ever going to change.
7. Withered by Lauren DeStefano.
By age sixteen, Rhine Ellery has four years left to live. She can thank modern science for this genetic time bomb. A botched effort to create a perfect race has left all males with a lifespan of 25 years, and females with a lifespan of 20 years. Geneticists are seeking a miracle antidote to restore the human race, desperate orphans crowd the population, crime and poverty have skyrocketed, and young girls are being kidnapped and sold as polygamous brides to bear more children.
When Rhine is kidnapped and sold as a bride, she vows to do all she can to escape. Her husband, Linden, is hopelessly in love with her, and Rhine can’t bring herself to hate him as much as she’d like to. He opens her to a magical world of wealth and illusion she never thought existed, and it almost makes it possible to ignore the clock ticking away her short life. But Rhine quickly learns that not everything in her new husband’s strange world is what it seems. Her father-in-law, an eccentric doctor bent on finding the antidote, is hoarding corpses in the basement. Her fellow sister wives are to be trusted one day and feared the next, and Rhine is desperate to communicate to her twin brother that she is safe and alive. Will Rhine be able to escape–before her time runs out?
This is another book that I got for review and I’m actually going to start it directly following the book that I’m reading now (Mad Love by Suzanne Selfors). I’ve been really curious to see how this take on another dystopian world would work for me. I’m pretty easy to please and aside from the cover being gorgeous and the blurb compelling, I’m totally amped up to read this book and which is why it landed on my wish list all those many months ago.
8. Ten Miles Past Normal by Frances O’Roark Dowell.
Janie Gorman wants to be normal. The problem with that: she’s not. She’s smart and creative and a little bit funky. She’s also an unwilling player in her parents’ modern-hippy, let’s-live-on-a-goat-farm experiment (regretfully, instigated by a younger, much more enthusiastic Janie). This, to put it simply, is not helping Janie reach that “normal target.” She has to milk goats every day…and endure her mother’s pseudo celebrity in the homemade-life, crunchy mom blogosphere. Goodbye the days of frozen lasagna and suburban living, hello crazy long bus ride to high school and total isolation–and hovering embarrassments of all kinds. The fresh baked bread is good…the threat of homemade jeans, not so much.
It would be nice to go back to that old suburban life…or some grown up, high school version of it, complete with nice, normal boyfriends who wear crew neck sweaters and like social studies. So, what’s wrong with normal? Well, kind of everything. She knows that, of course, why else would she learn bass and join Jam Band, how else would she know to idolize infamous wild-child and high school senior Emma (her best friend Sarah’s older sister), why else would she get arrested while doing a school project on a local freedom school (jail was not part of the assignment). And, why else would she kind of be falling in “like” with a boy named Monster—yes, that is his real name. Janie was going for normal, but she missed her mark by about ten miles…and we mean that as a compliment.
Alright, the thing that caught my eye with this book was that the love interests name, Monster. Really? That’s his real name? The cover is great, the blurb is cute but this book went on my wish list because she likes a boy named Monster. I have to know what that’s about.
9. Sweet Valley Confidential: Ten Years Later by Francine Pascal.
Iconic and beloved identical twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield are all grown up, and navigating the very complicated world of work, love and betrayal in Francine Pascal’s long-awaited return to Sweet Valley.
I have to read this book, my inner middle school/high school self is demanding that I read this book to find out what Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield made of themselves after all of these years. Man, if there’s a book that I’m most anxious for, it’s this one.
10. Entwined by Heather Dixon.
Azalea is trapped. Just when she should feel that everything is before her . . . beautiful gowns, dashing suitors, balls filled with dancing . . . it’s taken away. All of it. The Keeper understands. He’s trapped, too, held for centuries within the walls of the palace. And so he extends an invitation. Every night, Azalea and her eleven sisters may step through the enchanted passage in their room to dance in his silver forest. But there is a cost. The Keeper likes to keep things. Azalea may not realize how tangled she is in his web until it is too late.
For this book, I’ve been seeing a lot of promo type posts around blog land for a while now, I haven’t read any reviews of the book but after reading the blurb, I’m pretty interested in seeing how this all unfolds and that is why this one made the cut.
There are so many other books that are coming out this month that I must have but this was the top 10…what about you? What books are you looking forward to this month?
..and that’s your scoop!
Book cover and blurb credit: http://barnesandnoble.com
Wither is AMAZING!! I loved it, and I generally hate dystopians. But it was so well written. I am sooooooo curious about Entwined, the cover is pretty and the blurb catches my attention.
Thanks for sharing your wishlist.
Wither, Entwined and Sweet Valley Confidential are all on my TBR list! So many great books coming out this month!
I never read any Sweet Valley High, but did read quite a few Sweet Valley Twins. I’ll probably pick up Sweet Valley Confidential. Hope it’s dishy and fun! 🙂
Diana
@Sara: I’m actually reading Wither right now and you’re right, it’s well written. I’m anxious to get back to it!
@Jayme: I wish I was rich so that I could get all of these books right when they come out because my dang book budget just isn’t big enough to suit my needs.
@Diana: Same here, aren’t you curious to see how everyone is doing?