Waiting on Wednesday // To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo

Wednesday, January 31, 2018


To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo
Publisher: Feiwel and Friends
Publication Date: March 6th, 2018
Pages: 384

Summary (from Goodreads):

Princess Lira is siren royalty and the most lethal of them all. With the hearts of seventeen princes in her collection, she is revered across the sea. Until a twist of fate forces her to kill one of her own. To punish her daughter, the Sea Queen transforms Lira into the one thing they loathe most—a human. Robbed of her song, Lira has until the winter solstice to deliver Prince Elian’s heart to the Sea Queen or remain a human forever.

The ocean is the only place Prince Elian calls home, even though he is heir to the most powerful kingdom in the world. Hunting sirens is more than an unsavory hobby—it’s his calling. When he rescues a drowning woman in the ocean, she’s more than what she appears. She promises to help him find the key to destroying all of sirenkind for good—But can he trust her? And just how many deals will Elian have to barter to eliminate mankind’s greatest enemy?

What books are you looking forward to this week?

Review // Reign of the Fallen by Sarah Glenn Marsh

Monday, January 29, 2018


Reign of the Fallen by Sarah Glenn Marsh
Reign of the Fallen #1
Publisher: Razorbill
Publication Date: January 23rd, 2018
Rating: 4 Stars
Source: ARC Tour (Thanks Bayy!)
Format: ARC
Pages: 384

Summary (from Goodreads):

Odessa is one of Karthia's master necromancers, catering to the kingdom's ruling Dead. Whenever a noble dies, it's Odessa's job to raise them by retrieving their souls from a dreamy and dangerous shadow world called the Deadlands. But there is a cost to being raised--the Dead must remain shrouded, or risk transforming into zombie-like monsters known as Shades. If even a hint of flesh is exposed, the grotesque transformation will begin.

A dramatic uptick in Shade attacks raises suspicions and fears among Odessa's necromancer community. Soon a crushing loss of one of their own reveals a disturbing conspiracy: someone is intentionally creating Shades by tearing shrouds from the Dead--and training them to attack. Odessa is faced with a terrifying question: What if her necromancer's magic is the weapon that brings Karthia to its knees?

I was super excited to be a part of an ARC tour for REIGN OF THE FALLEN after absolutely loving FEAR THE DROWNING DEEP last year! Fortunately, this book didn't disappoint like a lot of them have been doing lately.

Reign of the Fallen follows Odessa as she navigates the Deadlands and battles terrifying Shades. She is one of the most talented necromancers in Karthia. She has a sixth sense to navigate her way through the ever-changing Deadlands and is the chosen necromancer to repeatedly bring back the King of Karthia.

Something interesting about this book is the fact that it deals a lot with grief and addiction. Odessa is dealing with the loss of someone dear to her and overusing a numbing potion to deal with the grief. I feel like a good chunk of this book deals with this and I've never read anything like it that I can remember and I thought it was interesting.

I loved all the characters in this book. I even liked the "villain" in this book. I could see why they did what they did and felt how they did. I don't necessarily think they were bad and kind of wish they could have gotten what they wanted in a less awful fashion.

Also, I feel like in most kings in books are either evil or just not present and I thought it was interesting that the king of Karthia was present and decent. He was definitely set in his ways (and had been for like 200 years) and the conflict in this book could have been avoided if he would have yielded a bit, but he was an otherwise decent guy!

I liked the romance in this book as well! There's hate to love in this book. Odessa is bisexual and I liked both of the love interests she has in this book! There is also an m/m couple in this book and I really liked them!

I thought the magic system was interesting in this book. The type of magic you can practice is determined by the color of your eyes. Odessa and her fellow necromancers have blue eyes. I don't remember if there was an explanation for why this is or if I missed it because I was just blazing through this book due to a combination of 1) IT'S SO GOOD and 2) I got the book for an ARC Tour and was the lucky one to get it RIGHT during the holidays, but I think it would be interesting to know why type of magic affinity is based on eye color.

If I were going to say I didn't like something about this book, I think I would say the ending. Like, not the ending in general, but how Odessa leaves things at the end?? I don't really want to say much about it because it's the ending and that could be considered spoilery.

Oh! I also wonder why a person seeing even a tiny sliver of the flesh of the Dead turns the Dead person into a Shade? I feel like that's kind of a silly reason for them to turn into Shades.

Overall, I would DEFINITELY recommend this book if you are looking for a darker fantasy or want some awesome necromancers in your life. This book is beautiful inside and out and I think you should pick this one up if you get the chance!

Have you read Reign of the Fallen yet? What did you think of it? Let me know in the comments!

Eighteen Anticipated Books of 2018

Thursday, January 25, 2018

          

1. To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo

2. The Queen's Rising by Rebecca Ross

3. Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

          

4. Pacifica by Kristen Simmons

5. Sea Witch by Sarah Henning

6. The Queens of Innis Lear by Tessa Gratton

          

7. These Rebel Waves by Sara Raasch

8. Sky in the Deep by Adrienne Young

9. Rage by Cora Carmack

          

10. The Defiant by Lesley Livingston

11. Furyborn by Claire Legrand

12. Beneath the Haunting Sea by Joanna Ruth Meyer

          

13. Dark of the West by Joanna Hathaway

14. The Unbinding of Mary Reade by Miriam McNamara

15. Whisper of the Tide by Sarah Tolcser

          

16. The Wicked Deep by Shea Ernshaw

17. The Forest Queen by Betsy Cornwell

18. Daughters of the Storm by Kim Wilkins

These are just a few of the books that I am looking forward to this year! There are so many more that sound absolutely amazing. At the moment, I especially can't wait for Whisper of the Tide to come out! I loved Song of the Current!

What books are you most excited for in 2018? Are any of them listed here?










Waiting on Wednesday // The Queen's Rising by Rebecca Ross

Wednesday, January 24, 2018


The Queen's Rising by Rebecca Ross
Untitled Trilogy #1
Publisher: HarperTeen
Publication Date: February 6th, 2018
Pages: 464

Summary (from Goodreads):

When her seventeenth summer solstice arrives, Brienna desires only two things: to master her passion and to be chosen by a patron.

Growing up in the southern Kingdom of Valenia at the renowned Magnalia House should have prepared her for such a life. While some are born with an innate talent for one of the five passions—art, music, dramatics, wit, and knowledge—Brienna struggled to find hers until she belatedly chose to study knowledge. However, despite all her preparations, Brienna’s greatest fear comes true—the solstice does not go according to plan and she is left without a patron.

Months later, her life takes an unexpected turn when a disgraced lord offers her patronage. Suspicious of his intent, and with no other choices, she accepts. But there is much more to his story, and Brienna soon discovers that he has sought her out for his own vengeful gain. For there is a dangerous plot being planned to overthrow the king of Maevana—the archrival kingdom of Valenia—and restore the rightful queen, and her magic, to the northern throne. And others are involved—some closer to Brienna than she realizes.

With war brewing between the two lands, Brienna must choose whose side she will remain loyal to—passion or blood. Because a queen is destined to rise and lead the battle to reclaim the crown. The ultimate decision Brienna must determine is: Who will be that queen?

What books are you looking forward to this week?

Review // Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijkamp

Monday, January 22, 2018


Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijkamp
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Publication Date: January 2nd, 2018
Rating: 3 Stars
Source: Netgalley
Format: eARC
Pages: 358

Summary (from Goodreads):

Best friends Corey and Kyra were inseparable in their snow-covered town of Lost Creek, Alaska. When Corey moves away, she makes Kyra promise to stay strong during the long, dark winter, and wait for her return.

Just days before Corey is to return home to visit, Kyra dies. Corey is devastated―and confused. The entire Lost community speaks in hushed tones about the town's lost daughter, saying her death was meant to be. And they push Corey away like she's a stranger.

Corey knows something is wrong. With every hour, her suspicion grows. Lost is keeping secrets―chilling secrets. But piecing together the truth about what happened to her best friend may prove as difficult as lighting the sky in an Alaskan winter...

**I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review**

I was excited to read BEFORE I LET GO because I really enjoyed Marieke's debut novel, THIS IS WHERE IT ENDS. Unfortunately, I didn't like this book as much as I liked her first one. It was okay, but I felt like it got repetitive and weird.

Corey and Kyra have been best friends forever. They grew up together in Lost Creek, Alaska and they always had each other. When Corey's mom accepts a job in Winnipeg, she has to move away. Corey promises to come back and Kyra promises to wait. But Kyra dies by apparent suicide just before Corey is to come back. Corey spends her trip trying to figure out why no one did anything to help Kyra when the signs were clearly there.

I liked the main characters. Corey very clearly cared deeply about Kyra. They seemed like they were super tight. I liked Kyra as well. I felt so bad for her. That town was so toxic for her. And for no one to help you when you're clearly calling out for help? I hate that town. I feel like I can't really say that much about them because I feel like you don't get to know them beyond their relationship with each other.

I feel like I was kind of invested in the mystery of what REALLY happened to Kyra for about half of the book. I get that this book is basically about Corey figuring out what happened to her best friend, but this book doesn't have A N Y T H I N G else going on in it. If it were shorter or there was something else happening in this book, maybe I would have liked it better. I mean, I wanted to know what the heck really happened to Kyra too, but having the same thought processes and types of conversations going on over and over throughout the whole book got old.

There isn't any romance in this book, but Corey is described as asexual in the book and Kyra as pansexual. There is also an m/m couple in the book.

I think the thing that I disliked the most about this book was the way the town was portrayed. In general, I hate the way small towns are portrayed in books. They're always either super creepy or literally everyone in the town needs to get a hobby.

This town was super creepy. Lost is a town far away from any other sort of civilization in Alaska. They are tight knit and don't take kindly to outsiders. They treated Kyra like an outsider because of her bipolar disorder. They treated her really crappily. When Corey comes back from being gone for seven months, she is treated like an outsider as well. She spent her WHOLE life there before she moved, which wasn't even something in her control, but apparently that was unforgivable.

But probably the weirdest thing about this town was they way they collectively reacted to Kyra after Corey left. They finally accepted her, but treated her like some kind of prophet. She painted to burn off energy during her manic episodes and started painting scenes that actually came to be. So when she ended up painting a picture that depicted her own death, the town didn't do anything about it. They said that it was meant to be, it was her time. They just LET it happen.

I don't understand why this book needed the whole magical paintings thing? Like I don't understand, there was no explanation for this or mentions of magical happenings in other parts of the world. I feel like there was enough going on with this town and what led up to Kyra's death without adding in this magical realism element.

This book is told mostly during present day from Corey's point of view. There are also flashbacks to before Kyra died and before Corey moved to bits and pieces of their friendship. There are also phone calls and then a few scenes in the book are written in almost like a play format. I didn't understand the point of this, I personally didn't think they added anything to the book. It felt like they were just ways to unnecessarily drag out scenes that could have been over much more quickly.

Overall, I feel kind of meh about this book. I liked the main characters and was curious to know what happened to Kyra. But it was just a little bit too weird for me. I didn't understand the magical realism elements and I felt like it was unnecessary. If you like thrillers or magical realism, you might like this. If you enjoyed Marieke's debut, this could be worth a read. It just wasn't for me.

Have you read BEFORE I LET GO yet? What did you think of it? Let me know in the comments!

A Glimpse Back in Time (#11) // Spy on History: Victor Dowd and the World War II Ghost Army by Enigma Alberti & Scott Wegener + Review

Friday, January 19, 2018


A Glimpse Back in Time is a feature where I talk about the interesting history behind the books that I read! If you want to see previous posts for this feature, look here!

So, it's been a hot minute since I did one of these posts! I have read a few really excellent books that I have post ideas for for this feature. Today, though, we are going to be talking about VICTOR DOWD AND THE WORLD WAR II GHOST ARMY! 


SPY ON HISTORY: VICTOR DOWD AND THE WORLD WAR II GHOST ARMY by Enigma Alberti & Scott Wegener
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Publication Date: January 23rd, 2018
Rating: 4 Stars
Source: Publisher
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 96

Summary (from Goodreads):

Your mission: Find Victor Dowd’s missing sketchbook. And discover one of the most unusual stories of World War II.

Meet the 603rd Camouflage Engineers, better known as the Ghost Army. This group of artists and sound engineers were trained to deceive the Germans in World War II with everything from fake tanks to loudspeakers broadcasting the sound of marching troops. And meet Victor Dowd, a real-life sergeant who with his fellow Ghost Army troops fought his way from Normandy, through France, and eventually across the Rhine.

Second in the Spy on History series, it’s a compelling story of a little-known chapter from the war—and a mystery to solve. Using spycraft materials included in a sealed envelope, readers will discover and unravel the clues embedded in the book’s text and illustrations, and uncover the mystery of Victor Dowd’s missing sketchbook.

Buy

Workman Publishing // Amazon // Barnes and Noble // Books-A-Million // Indiebound

Review

VICTOR DOWD AND THE WWII GHOST ARMY was a super interesting read! I had never heard about the Ghost Army before I received the email asking if I'd like a copy of this book! So obviously I had to say yes!

This book is super informative and interesting with clues for a spy mission hidden throughout the book. I read the book through and then went back and looked for the clues and ultimately failed the spy mission. I guess I didn't pay close enough attention to detail.

The book tells the story of the Ghost Army and who they were and what their jobs were. It talks about some of the missions that they were assigned and what it was like for them.

I absolutely loved this book. If you like WWII history or little known history, you should check this book out! Or keep it in mind for when you are scrambling to finish your GR goal at the end of the year since it's only 96 pages!

A Glimpse Back in Time

The Ghost Army was a tactical deception unit whose job was to fool the Germans into thinking they were a real army (and often a much bigger one) with inflatable tanks and special effects.

The 23rd Headquarters Special Troops were made up of several units with different specialties, all used to make the Germans believe that the Allies were in fake locations.

The 603rd Engineer Camouflage Battalion Special were tasked with visual deception. They had inflatable tanks, trucks, guns, airfields and airplanes, etc that they set up to make the Germans believe there were many forces somewhere.

Men in this group weren't drafted by traditional means. They were usually hand selected from art schools around the country for their skills.


^^Victor Dowd^^

The Signal Company Special handled radio transmissions. They impersonated radio operators from real units, mimicking their methods of tapping out Morse code so the Germans would never know the real unit was long gone. The Germans listened to enough radio transmissions that they knew the names of men in different units and could tell Morse code operators apart based on how they tapped it out.

So the Signal Company had to be really good at their jobs.

The 3132 Signal Service Company Special were the sonic deception specialists. They recorded the sounds of armored and infantry units with wire recorders. The sounds could be mixed and matched to create whatever scenario was needed at the time. They were played from speakers on the backs of halftracks that could be heard from 15 miles away.


^^Aforementioned halftrack^^

There were also a few weathermen in this unit because weather could affect how sound travels and that was something that they needed to keep in mind. 

And finally the 406th Engineer Combat Company Special were the only ones trained in combat in the group. They were tasked with security and also with digging tank and artillery positions and setting up explosives to make it look like their dummy guns could really fire.

The Ghost Army carried out about 20 operations from 1944-1945. One of the riskiest deceptions they pulled off was in September 1944. General George Patton swept across France so fast that a seventy mile hole opened up in his line. The Ghost Army was called in to plug the hole until someone else could make it there to replace them.

They'd never tried to impersonate an entire division at once. But they did everything they could think of to imitate an infantry battalion. They played tracks of tanks and soldiers moving in. They set up their inflatable tanks and started on their "special effects". They gathered firewood and hung out around fires. They washed and hung up laundry. They sewed Sixth Armored patches onto their uniforms and painted markings on their vehicles and went into town so that everyone would see them there.

The operation was only intended to last for three days, but it ended up lasting a week. The Germans were fooled though because they blew their bridges and retreated back across the river.

The final, and most dramatic, performance of the Ghost Army was in March of 1945. The Ninth Army was preparing to cross the Rhine into Germany and the Ghost Army was tasked with faking a crossing ten miles South of where it was really going down.

The one thousand men of the Ghost Army had to impersonate two full divisions of the Ninth Army, which was about thirty thousand men.

They did a lot to build this deception. They sent radio transmissions from different locations and made it sound like major forces were on the move. 

They set up hundreds of inflatable tanks. They even had some real tanks that they would set up with the fake ones obscured behind it to look more believable. At night they played the sounds of tanks rolling in.


^^Inflatable tanks^^

During the day they played sounds of orders being shouted and bridges being built. They had an actual crew along to build bridges to support the deception.

They set up fake artillery and used flash canisters to make it look like they were actually firing. They also had real firepower from some of the Ninth Army.

They used smokescreen after smokescreen to hide their numbers and equipment. 

They set up two fake airfields with fake airplanes. The fake airfields were so believable that a pilot from their own side landed at it!

They set up field hospitals to make it look like they were prepared to deal with casualties.

The mission was very successful. The Germans sent the bulk of their forces to where the deception was and when the two divisions being impersonated actually attacked, they were met with a very disorganized and confused resistance. There were less than fifty casualties and the war was over soon after.

The Ghost Army wasn't declassified until 1996.

Sources

SPY ON HISTORY: VICTOR DOWD AND THE WWII GHOST ARMY by Enigma Alberti and Scott Wegener

(All pictures from here)

Had you heard about the Ghost Army before now? Let me know in the comments!

Biggest Disappointments of 2017

Thursday, January 18, 2018

As much as we wish that we could love every book we pick up, that isn't always the case. I definitely read some books in 2017 that just weren't for me. But this is a post for books that REALLY let me down.

I was super excited for the books on this list. They sounded amazing. They have beautiful covers. But they were just raging disappointments for me.


1. The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

This book sounded dark and creepy and generally fantastic. But I didn't really love the characters and the book as a whole was mostly unmemorable for me.


2. An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson

I think that this book would have been so amazing if there had been explanations or explorations of
----->A N Y T H I N G<-----
in it. Anything at all. I had like 9,000 questions when I finished this book.


3. The Goblins of Bellwater by Molly Ringle

I requested this one because it was NA and I wanted some smut in my life. There was a lot of sex.
...
...
...
But it was all off the page.


4. Empress of a Thousand Skies by Rhoda Belleza

How beautiful is this purple cover? Why couldn't I love the insides as much as the outside?
I felt like a lot of the action in this book that would have been interesting to read about happened off the page.


5. Wintersong by S. Jae-Jones

Now for the book that disappointed me the most last year...

Why, Wintersong? You were so promising. 

I absolutely hated Liesel. I hated the romance. I hated the way sex was used in this book as a way to make the protagonist feel like she has worth.

Why did I request Shadowsong? And why did they approve me?

I'm probably going to end up hate reading it, but maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised.

Did you have any major disappointments last year? Did you dislike any of the same books as me?

Waiting on Wednesday // The Defiant by Lesley Livingston

Wednesday, January 17, 2018


The Defiant by Lesley Livingston
The Valiant #2
Publisher: Razorbill
Publication Date: January 23rd, 2018
Pages: 336

Summary (from Goodreads):

The darling of the Roman Empire is in for the fight of her life.

Be brave, gladiatrix… And be wary. Once you win Caesar’s love, you’ll earn his enemies’ hate.

Fallon was warned.

Now she is about to pay the price for winning the love of the Roman people as Caesar’s victorious gladiatrix.

In this highly anticipated sequel to THE VALIANT, Fallon and her warrior sisters find themselves thrust into a vicious conflict with a rival gladiator academy, one that will threaten not only Fallon’s heart – and her love for Roman soldier Cai – but the very heart of the ancient Roman Empire.

When dark treachery and vicious power struggles threaten her hard-won freedom, the only thing that might help the girl known as Victrix save herself and her sisters is a tribe of long-forgotten mythic Amazon warriors.

The only trouble is, they might just kill her themselves first.

What books are you looking forward to this week?

Review // Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo

Monday, January 15, 2018


Wonder Woman: Warbringer by Leigh Bardugo
DC Icons #1
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Publication Date: August 28th, 2017
Rating: 4 Stars
Source: Purchase
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 376

Summary (from Goodreads):

Daughter of immortals.

Princess Diana longs to prove herself to her legendary warrior sisters. But when the opportunity finally comes, she throws away her chance at glory and breaks Amazon law—risking exile—to save a mortal. Diana will soon learn that she has rescued no ordinary girl, and that with this single brave act, she may have doomed the world.

Daughter of death.

Alia Keralis just wanted to escape her overprotective brother with a semester at sea. She doesn’t know she is being hunted by people who think her very existence could spark a world war. When a bomb detonates aboard her ship, Alia is rescued by a mysterious girl of extraordinary strength and forced to confront a horrible truth: Alia is a Warbringer—a direct descendant of the infamous Helen of Troy, fated to bring about an age of bloodshed and misery.

Together.

Two girls will face an army of enemies—mortal and divine—determined to either destroy or possess the Warbringer. Tested beyond the bounds of their abilities, Diana and Alia must find a way to unleash hidden strengths and forge an unlikely alliance. Because if they have any hope of saving both their worlds, they will have to stand side by side against the tide of war.

So Wonder Woman: Warbringer was a book that I only bought because:

1. I like the author and I want all of her books.
2. I went to a tour stop and wanted to bring all the books.

Like, since I bought it, I figured I would read it eventually. But I have never been super into DC or Marvel or superheroes in general so it definitely wasn't a priority. But I needed a book for the superhero prompt for #ReadersCrossing and I bumped it way to the top of my TBR.

And I am actually glad that I did. I quite liked this book.

Also, I just recently bought and watched the movie Wonder Woman and I was pretty impressed with it. I figured I would be because Wonder WOMAN, but like I said, never been a fan of superheroes.

Wonder Woman: Warbringer starts off on the island of Themyscira with Diana saving a mortal from the World of Man and bringing her to safety. It is against the rules and there are fairly prompt consequences. It turns out that the girl that Diana saved is a Warbringer, if she is allowed to live past seventeen, war will surely come. The oracle's suggestion is to let her die, but Diana can't do it, so she sets off on a journey to cleanse her of this curse.

So, this is one of those books that takes place partially in a fantasy-esque setting and partially in a modern day setting. I don't generally like things like that. Fantasy settings are infinitely more interesting to me than anything modern day. This was no exception. I really liked the parts on Themyscira or in Greece (not that Greece is a fantasy location) better than in NYC.

I love love love Diana. She was brought up on an island full of immortal women, only reading about modern day things and people. I loved when Diana interacted with literally anyone outside of Themyscira. She is so bold and sassy and hilarious.

I don't know exactly how I felt about Alia. I didn't dislike her, but I didn't like.. love her. I don't know, maybe it was just because I liked Diana so much and no one in this book was as cool as her. I was totally rooting for Alia and was invested in her journey and all that, but I don't know, I didn't actively like her that much.

I feel like none of the characters are super duper memorable when compared to Diana. I don't know, I just really really loved Diana. I thought Jason was mostly boring. I liked Theo. And if I was going to pick a next favorite character, it would definitely be Nim.

I think all of the mortal characters were just so meh for me because the fantastical elements of this book were so much more interesting and the immortal women were so much more interesting and memorable to me and I feel like I wanted more of that. But I definitely gravitate more towards fantasy elements than real life ones.

This book isn't heavily focused on romance. The main focus of this story is ridding the world of the Warbringer curse, but there is a little bit of romance here and there. I liked Alia's romance a lot more so than Diana's.

The plot twist at the end where you find out who the villain actually is really surprised me. I wasn't expecting that to come about and I really thought someone else was going to be the shady one.

Overall, I really enjoyed this book. If you are a fan of DC, Wonder Woman, or super heroes in general, you may enjoy this book as well. If you're looking for a book low on romance and high on action, you should read this one.

Have you read this book yet? What are your thoughts on it? Let me know in the comments!

Seventeen 2017 Releases That I Haven't Gotten to Read Yet

Thursday, January 11, 2018

We, as bookworms, know that there simply aren't enough hours in the day to get around to reading all of the amazing sounding books that come out every year. I'm pretty sure with my massive reading slump in 2017, I didn't even make a dent in my 2017 TBR. It's a shame because so many wonderful sounding books came out last year!

Here are a few of the books that I still need to get around to reading!

          

1. This Darkness Mine by Mindy McGinnis

2. All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater

3. Beasts Made of Night by Tochi Onyebuchi

          

4. Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff

5. The Girl with the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke

6. Blacksouls by Nicole Castroman

          

7. Defy the Stars by Claudia Gray

8. After the Fall by Kate Hart

9. Given to the Sea by Mindy McGinnis

          

10. The Last Namsara by Kristen Ciccarelli

11. The Rattled Bones by S.M. Parker

12. The Hollow Girl by Hillary Monahan

          

13. The Nowhere Girls by Amy Reed

14. Daughter of the Burning City by Amanda Foody

15. The Pearl Thief by Elizabeth Wein

     

16. The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty

17. Remember Me Always by Renee Collins

What are some 2017 releases that you meant to get to, but just couldn't? Did we miss any of the same books?




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