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BOOK REVIEW: FEAR UNIVERSITY BY MEG COLLET

Bestselling author Meg Collett retells the ancient Filipino legend of the aswang in this sexy, bone-chilling new series. I’ve always known I was a monster, and I don’t mean some teenage vampire shit either. My mother abandoned me when I was ten years old because I have a freakish mutant disease that makes me incap…

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BOOK REVIEW: ON THE FENCE BY KASIE WEST

For sixteen-year-old Charlotte Reynolds, aka Charlie, being raised by a single dad and three older brothers has its perks. She can outrun, outscore, and outwit every boy she knows—including her longtime neighbor and honorary fourth brother, Braden. But when it comes to being a girl, Charlie doesn't know the …

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BOOK REVIEW: WHO'S THAT GIRL? BY MHAIRI MCFARLANE

What’s the one thing you DON’T do at a wedding? When Edie is caught in a compromising position at her colleagues’ wedding, all the blame falls on her – turns out that personal popularity in the office is not that different from your schooldays. Shamed online and ostracised by everyone she knows, her boss suggest…

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BOOK REVIEW: THE NATURALS BY JENNIFER LYNN BARNES

Seventeen-year-old Cassie is a natural at reading people. Piecing together the tiniest details, she can tell you who you are and what you want. But it’s not a skill that she’s ever taken seriously. That is, until the FBI come knocking: they’ve begun a classified program that uses exceptional teenagers to crack in…

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BOOK REVIEW: SPLINTERED BY A.G. HOWARD

This stunning debut captures the grotesque madness of a mystical under-land, as well as a girl’s pangs of first love and independence. Alyssa Gardner hears the whispers of bugs and flowers—precisely the affliction that landed her mother in a mental hospital years before. This family curse stretches back to her anc…

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BOOK REVIEW: ABOUT A BOY BY NICK HORNBY

'How cool was Will Freeman?' Too cool! At thirty-six, he's as hip as a teenager. He's single, child-free, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He's also found a great way to score with women: attend single parents' groups full of available (and grateful) mothers, all h…

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BOOK REVIEW: HOW TO FALL IN LOVE BY CECELIA AHERN

She has just two weeks. Two weeks to teach him how to fall in love – with his own life. Adam Basil and Christine Rose are thrown together late one night, when Christine is crossing the Halfpenny Bridge in Dublin. Adam is there, poised, threatening to jump. Adam is desperate – but Christine makes a crazy deal wit…

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BOOK REVIEW: OBLIVION BY JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT

I knew the moment Katy Swartz moved in next door, there was going to be trouble. Lots of it. And trouble’s the last thing I need, since I’m not exactly from around here. My people arrived on Earth from Lux, a planet thirteen billion light years away. Plus, if there’s one thing I know, it’s that humans can’t be …

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BOOK REVIEW: NIGHT OWLS BY JENN BENNETT

Feeling alive is always worth the risk. Meeting Jack on the Owl—San Francisco's night bus—turns Beatrix's world upside down. Jack is charming, wildly attractive...and possibly one of San Francisco's most notorious graffiti artists. But Jack is hiding a piece of himself. On midnight rides and city …

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BOOK REVIEW: DEAD RINGER BY JESSIE ROSEN

From the moment Laura Rivers steps foot into Englewood High, she notices the stares—and they aren’t the typical once-overs every pretty new girl endures. The students seem confused and… spooked. Whispers echoing through the halls confirm that something is seriously off. “That new girl looks just like her,” they sa…

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BOOK REVIEW: REBEL SPRING BY MORGAN RHODES

The road to power... is paved with blood and magic. Cleo   is now a prisoner in her own palace, forced to be an ambassador for Mytica as the evil King Gaius lies to her people. Magnus   stands to eventually inherit the new kingdom but is still obsessed with his feelings for his adopted sister, Lucia. Lucia   is …

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BOOK REVIEW: FALLING KINGDOMS BY MORGAN RHODES

In the three kingdoms of Mytica, magic has long been forgotten. And while hard-won peace has reigned for centuries, a deadly unrest now simmers below the surface. As the rulers of each kingdom grapple for power, the lives of their subjects are brutally transformed... and four key players, royals and rebels alik…

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BOOK REVIEW: SHUT OUT BY KODY KEPLINGER

Most high school sports teams have rivalries with other schools. At Hamilton High, it's a civil war: the football team versus the soccer team. And for her part, Lissa is sick of it. Her quarterback boyfriend, Randy, is always ditching her to go pick a fight with the soccer team or to prank their locker room…

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BOOK REVIEW: P.S. I STILL LOVE YOU BY JENNY HAN

Lara Jean didn’t expect to  really  fall for Peter. She and Peter were just pretending. Except suddenly they weren’t. Now Lara Jean is more confused than ever. When another boy from her past returns to her life, Lara Jean’s feelings for him return too. Can a girl be in love with two boys at once? I…

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BOOK REVIEW: IF I STAY BY GAYLE FORMAN

Just listen, Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel.  I open my eyes wide now. I sit up as much as I can. And I listen.  Stay, he says. Choices. Seventeen-year-old Mia is faced with some tough ones: Stay true to her first love—music—even if it means losing her boyfriend and leaving her family…

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BOOK REVIEW: DEAREST CLEMENTINE BY LEX MARTIN

Twenty-year-old Clementine Avery doesn't mind being called bitchy and closed off. It's safe, and after being burned by her high school sweetheart and stalked by a professor her freshman year of college, safe sounds pretty damn good. Her number one rule for survival? No dating. That is until she accidental…

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BOOK REVIEW: DEMONGLASS BY RACHEL HAWKINS

Sophie Mercer thought she was a witch. That was the whole reason she was sent to Hex Hall, a reform school for delinquent Prodigium (a.k.a. witches, shape-shifters, and faeries). But then she discovered the family secret, and the fact that her hot crush, Archer Cross, is an agent for The Eye, a group bent on wipi…

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BOOK REVIEW: HEX HALL BY RACHEL HAWKINS

Three years ago, Sophie Mercer discovered that she was a witch. It's gotten her into a few scrapes. Her non-gifted mother has been as supportive as possible, consulting Sophie's estranged father—an elusive European warlock—only when necessary. But when Sophie attracts too much human attention for a pro…

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