*Book Review* The Witch Hunter by Virginia Boecker (YA Fantasy)

Series: The Witch Hunter # 1
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Source: NetGalley
Format: E-book, 368 pages
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy

The magic and suspense of Graceling meet the political intrigue and unrest of Game of Thrones in this riveting fantasy debut.

Your greatest enemy isn't what you fight, but what you fear.

Elizabeth Grey is one of the king's best witch hunters, devoted to rooting out witchcraft and doling out justice. But when she's accused of being a witch herself, Elizabeth is arrested and sentenced to burn at the stake.

Salvation comes from a man she thought was her enemy. Nicholas Perevil, the most powerful and dangerous wizard in the kingdom, offers her a deal: he will save her from execution if she can break the deadly curse that's been laid upon him.

But Nicholas and his followers know nothing of Elizabeth's witch hunting past--if they find out, the stake will be the least of her worries. And as she's thrust into the magical world of witches, ghosts, pirates, and one all-too-handsome healer, Elizabeth is forced to redefine her ideas of right and wrong, of friends and enemies, and of love and hate.

Virginia Boecker weaves a riveting tale of magic, betrayal, and sacrifice in this unforgettable fantasy debut.

The Witch Hunter is set in 16th century England (1558) where Magic has been banned, and those caught using it are burned at the stake. 16 year old Elizabeth Grey is one of the best witch hunters in all of Anglia. She's been trained, along with her best friend Caleb, to hate witches and wizards because they were responsible for unleashing a Plague that killed her parents, leaving her alone at the tender age of Nine.

But, after she is caught with magical herbs, she is quickly accused of treason and witchcraft and told she will burn at the stake by the person who trained her, Lord Blackwell. The only thing that stops this from happening is the appearance of the most wanted Warlock in all of Anglia; Nicholas Perevil. Elizabeth is suddenly surrounded by the criminal element that she is supposed to bring to justice. Yet, not all witches, or wizards are evil, and Elizabeth finds herself helping Nicholas and his group of Reformers find a away to remove a curse placed on Nicholas before his time runs out.

Elizabeth has a difficult journey ahead of her. Who does she belong with now that a whole bunch of secrets have been revealed, and she's been betrayed and abandoned? Reviewers have been scratching their head over her actions. But, let's really break down why I don't believe Elizabeth is all that bad, and that people should give her an opportunity to prove it. Think about following your best friend into being a witch hunter because he is the only family you have left alive, and what he does, you do, no matter how dangerous or crazy.

Older brother, younger sister. Happens all the time. Think about the older fatherly figure who tells you that Magic is bad and that Witches, Wizards, and Necromancers are pure evil and need to be done away with. Then, let's take into consideration that Elizabeth is the only female to pass the rugged trials that Blackwell puts them through in order to become the best witch hunter she can be. So, yes, Elizabeth is pretty damn badass, and nearly indestructible. Sure, she makes mistakes, especially when it comes to Caleb.

Who doesn't make mistakes when they're 16? So, why wouldn't Elizabeth believe everything that she's been told? The fact that the most powerful wizard around, her enemy, saved her life, and not her best friend who left her to die, goes along way of shaking Elizabeth's thought process. Wizards and Witches saving a witch hunters life? Blasphemy! So, yes, Elizabeth is forced to rethink years of ingrained training and pick a side to fight alongside.

She even finds herself becoming friends with a small group of Nicholas's people, especially John, the healer, witch Fifer, wizard George, pirate Peter, and revenant Schuyler. They take her in, and slowly but surely they become her family, and they work with her to find a way to break Nicolas's curse, and THEY don't abandon her when shit hits the fan.   

Per the author's response on Goodreads, "The Witch Hunter is the first of two planned books in this duology. The sequel will come out June 2016, and there are also a few novellas in the works. The first to be released August 2015 (told from John's POV) and the second the author is working on now, a dual POV between Schuyler and Fifer."

**I received this book for free from (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) via (NetGalley) in exchange for an honest review. Thank you!! This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

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*Book Review* The Fearless by Emma Pass (YA Dystopian)

Series:  Unknown
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Released: April 14, 2015
Source: NetGalley
Format: E-Book, 368 pages
Genre: Young Adult

This fast-paced futuristic thriller tells the story of seventeen-year-old Cass and her fight to protect her younger brother from an unimaginably terrifying enemy.

The Deadliest Enemy feels no fear.

When the Fearless invaded, they injected everyone in their path with the same serum that stripped them of humanity.

Life became a waking nightmare.

Cass has the invasion seared in her memory. Seven years later, she and her brother, Jori, are living on Hope Island in a community of survivors. No one can enter, and no one can leave.

It's the only way to stay safe.

But when Hope Island's security is breeched and Jori is taken by the Fearless, Cass will risk everything to get him back.

Sometime in a not too far away future, scientists were paid by governments from around the world to came up with a drug to combat the effects of PTSD which affects a large group of returning soldiers. It worked really well. Perhaps too well since the soldiers taking the serum lost their ability to fear, or feel any sort of emotions. Soon, however, things went to hell in a hand basket after the bad guys got hold of the serum, and started tweaking it.

By tweaking the serum, they created a whole new breed of living called the Fearless, who tore through country after country without anyone being able to stop them. The Fearless are strong, quick, and can see in the dark. The last country to fall to the Fearless, was England where the story takes place.  

17-year old Cassandra *Cass* Hollencourt is one of a group of people who escaped the Fearless onslaught, but lost her father and later her mother. Now, Cass and her 7 year old brother Jori live on Hope Island which was created for just this situation. Cass and the rest of the survivors, including her best friend Solomon, live by rules such as not allowing anyone to leave the island, and not allowing anyone to come to the island except barterers who bring much needed supplies to Hope. 

But when a mysterious boy arrives (Myo), and the Fearless break in and kidnap her brother Jori, Cass tosses all the rules aside and puts her trust into a boy she barely knows. Cass & Myo must search for Jori before the Fearless injects him with a new serum that will forever alter and change him into a Fearless. But, Myo has his own secrets, and struggles. He too is searching for someone important and won't stop until he finds her. The question is whether or not HIS secret will cause Cass to lose faith in him, or whether she can put aside his lies and trust him to do what's right.

As a main character, Cass is a likable heroine who makes plenty of mistakes but never gives up on her desire to find Jori. By the end of the story, Cass is a very different person from the one at the beginning of the book. Then again, when you are constantly running and hiding and fighting for your life and finding out even more secrets about who created the serum and how it got out, it tends to change the way you look at people, or trust those who claim they are only trying to help, or even the boy who holds his own secrets that may rip their friendship apart. 

The Fearless is a Post-Apocalyptic novel since the story starts in the real world, and then falls apart. The Fearless is told not only from Cass's POV, but from Myo and Sol's as well. This in turn allows Pass to switch to another characters POV at an important time in the story, whereas if she remained just with Cass, readers would have no understanding about what Myo and Sol were thinking. Readers really DO need to understand why Sol and Myo are important not only to the story, but to Cass as well. 

You know there are just some things that irk me like nobody's business, and I need to vent just a bit. Feel free to skip over this part. I won't take it personally. 

1. Not knowing if this is a standalone, a duology, or part of a series. If you're going to add this book to Goodreads, or Amazon or any place else, how about double checking with the author, or publisher to ensure that you get all the facts straight first, including the ISBN? How utterly annoying is it that you can't find anything on possible sequels for The Fearless on Goodreads, Amazon, or the authors web page? Are we supposed to PRESUME that that's the end of the series, or are we are supposed to make up our own ending to the story? 

2. Male characters who treat women like property. Cass's best friend Sol is a bit over-possessive of Cass. When she doesn't return his affection, he slowly but surely turns surly. Let's consider that Cass lost nearly her entire family, while Sol still has his father. Men who have anger issues don't appeal to me at all. I don't care if you are friends with someone. It doesn't give you the right to punch a hole in the wall, or to threaten the girl who has known you for years. Sol, needless to say, was not my favorite character of this story. 

3. PLEASE. STOP. COMPARING. BOOKS. to The Hunger Games, Matched, Divergent, and The Fifth Wave!! It has absolutely no bearing on this book. Did The Hunger Games have zombie like human beings? Nope. The Fifth Wave was about Aliens. Are their aliens in The Fearless? Nope. So, reviewers, and publishers alike, just because you say something compares to another book, doesn't make it reality.

The Fearless was my first travels into Emma Pass's world building and story telling. I can actually see this particular situation happening with all the wars that we have been experiencing for the past 14 years. I also don't trust any government to do what's in the best interest of its citizens. Too many politicians and scientists answer to Big Money, and not the little person.

In the end, while the story was entertaining, and had plenty of action, I can't help but wonder why we're not being told if there is a sequel to the story or not. You can not expect readers not to have issues with the not knowing. Also, the beginning really hooked me, and then let me go for awhile. Then, the ending once again picked up and left a major hole wondering what's going to happen next. Let's hope Pass and the author have plans for a sequel. 

**I received this book for free from (Delacorte Books for Young Readers) via (NetGalley) in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.**

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*Book Review* Dragons Are People, Too by Sarah Nichols (YA Fantasy)

Series: Dragons are People, Two # 1
Publisher: Entangled Teen
Released: April 28, 2015
Source: NetGalley
Format: E-Book, 255 pages
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy

Never judge a dragon by her human cover...

Sixteen-year-old Kitty Lung has everyone convinced she’s a normal teen—not a secret government operative, not the one charged with protecting the president’s son, and certainly not a were-dragon. The only one she trusts with the truth is her best friend—and secret crush—the über-hot Bulisani Mathe.

Then a junior operative breaks Rule Number One by changing into his dragon form in public—on Kitty’s watch—and suddenly, the world knows. About dragons. About the Draconic Intelligence Command (DIC) Kitty works for. About Kitty herself.

Now the government is hunting down and incarcerating dragons to stop a public panic, and a new shape-shifting enemy has kidnapped the president’s son. Kitty and Bulisani are the last free dragons, wanted by both their allies and their enemies. If they can’t rescue the president’s son and liberate their fellow dragons before getting caught themselves, dragons might never live free again.

Dragons Are People, Too centers around 16-year old Katherine "Kitty" Lung who works for a secretive government agency called Draconic Intelligence Command (DIC). Think covert spies if you will but with weredragons. Kitty is a Chinese dragon with a purple stripe in her hair who can not only manipulate the earth’s magnetic fields in order to fly, but she can also make herself invisible. She is the daughter of two covert spies, one of which is her boss. She can speak 4 different languages, and has been training since she was 4 years old. While not on missions, Kitty also works for the Secret Service in protecting Jacob, the President's son while he is at school. 

DIC's main rule is to never let anyone know what you are. Thus, the idea of being covert. But, when Kitty's trainee partner Wallace panics and is caught on camera shifting from human to dragon, it sets in motion a path from which Kitty and her partner and love interest Bulisani "Sani" Mathe, an African dragon from Uganda, are forced to hide from the very same people they have supported most of their lives. The CIA rounds up her family and friends as being dangerous to the public welfare, but misses Kitty and Sani after Jacob is kidnapped by a rogue kitsune and unknown persons. 

Kitty is a character that made me scratch my head many times over. Here is a girl who is supposedly a badass operative, but she acts more like a 6 year old. At times, she made me forget that she's supposedly a heroine, and not a sniveling, bratty little kid who wasn't given enough breast milk when she was in her diapers. Kitty is one of the most self-absorbed characters I've read about. She spends a majority of her time lusting after her best friend Sani, while stumbling and bumbling her way into finding a way to save Jacob and her family. I won't say that Kitty is entirely over the top. At times her abilities and training do actually come in handy. Plus, the romance between Sani and Kitty isn't love at first sight, nor is there any triangle involved. 

Apparently, this isn't just a standalone novel. According to the author's response on Goodreads, there will be at least one more book in the unnamed series. Good. I totally hate when authors leave a story hanging like that. There are a whole bunch of unanswered questions, while only (1) storyline was apparently wrapped up. That leaves a whole lot of room for Nicolas to explore in any sequel. Let's hope the sequel is a bit longer! People complain about the lack of diversity in Young Adult novels. Perhaps if they choose to look a bit closer, they will find books like this right under their eyes.

**I received this book for free from (Entangled Teen) via (NetGalley) in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.**

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*Book Review* A School for Unusual Girls by Kathleen Baldwin (YA Historical)

Series: Stranje House # 1
Publisher: Tor Teen
Released: May 19, 2015
Source: NetGalley
Format: E-Book, 352 pages
Genre: YA, Historical, Alt. History

It’s 1814. Napoleon is exiled on Elba. Europe is in shambles. Britain is at war on four fronts. And Stranje House, a School for Unusual Girls, has become one of Regency England’s dark little secrets. The daughters of the beau monde who don't fit high society’s constrictive mold are banished to Stranje House to be reformed into marriageable young ladies. Or so their parents think. In truth, Headmistress Emma Stranje, the original unusual girl, has plans for the young ladies—plans that entangle the girls in the dangerous world of spies, diplomacy, and war.

After accidentally setting her father’s stables on fire while performing a scientific experiment, Miss Georgiana Fitzwilliam is sent to Stranje House. But Georgie has no intention of being turned into a simpering, pudding-headed, marriageable miss. She plans to escape as soon as possible—until she meets Lord Sebastian Wyatt. Thrust together in a desperate mission to invent a new invisible ink for the English war effort, Georgie and Sebastian must find a way to work together without losing their heads—or their hearts.

A School for Unusual Girls is the first book in the Stranje House series by new to me author Kathleen Baldwin. Baldwin's story is set to the backdrop of 1814 Regency England. It is a rather tumultuous time for England, France, and the rest of Europe. Napoleon has been exiled to Elba, but not for long. France is on the brink Louis XVIII's return. Britain's war (War of 1812) with United States over captured US Sailors and other things, is winding down just in time for Napoleon to once again try to regain power. (100 Days War)

In Baldwin's fictitious world, 16 year old Georgina Fitzwilliam is about to have her life changed after she accidentally sets fire to her father’s stables while performing a scientific experiment. Sent away by her parents who wash their hands of her acting out against their desires, Georgina finds herself at Stranje House where she is to be reeducated into a fine young lady with something to offer potential suitors. Something she has no intentions of doing. But, what Georgina doesn't know, is that Emma Stranje's House is not one where girls are made to fit into high society’s constrictive molds so that they can find suitable husbands.

In fact, it's not a school in the true sense of the word. Rather, it is a place where girls of unique abilities are trained in various crafts that will one day come in handy. After failing to escape, Georgina encounters Lord Sebastian Wyatt and Captain Ethan Grey. Georgina soon finds herself working closely with Sebastian in an effort to finally invent new invisible ink that will save hundreds of lives. Georgina finds unexpected challenges when she is targeted by the villain of the story Lady Daneska who was once one of Emma's Stranje girls, and now wants what Georgina has created.

Georgina has never been taken seriously by her family. In turn, she doesn't care about the frivolities of society. She doesn't consider herself to be beautiful, or fashionable. She has red, raging hair that stands out. She prefers her books, and scientific theories rather than impressing an old sodden male suitor who may want to get his kicks off by marrying someone younger. Georgina is brilliant with chemicals and equations, and truly believes she can invent invisible ink that can change the world. 

Georgina is one of five extraordinary girls at the Stranje House. The rest are Tess Aubreyson (can see what will be), Maya Burrington (voice can sooth the savage beast), Lady Jane, and Seraphina Wyndham (sees what is.) There is a bit of a romance angle to this story between Georgina and Sebastian. Let's just say it takes time to get used to because there is a whole lot of give and take between them. I do think that the romance could have been left out, and this story still would have hit its mark with me. 

Baldwin stated that she was attempting to create an alternative world based on the What IF factors. What if America lost the War of Independence? Would America be like Canada now? What if Napoleon never abdicated his crown? This isn't the first what if historical, or alternative history novel I've read. There is also a hint of a trigger point. What happens when that trigger point is removed, and history changes entirely? Book 2 should be rather intriguing.

Per the preview of the next installment called Exile for Dreamers, the narrative will be switching to Tess Aubreyson. Tess has her own unique challenges, and it will be fun to get inside her thoughts to see how she thinks about the other girls, her possible suitor, and Ms Emma.

**I received this book for free from (Tor Teen) via (NetGalley) in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.**

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*Book Review* Eighth Grave After Dark by Darynda Jones (Paranormal Romance)

Series: Charley Davidson # 8
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Source: Publisher via NetGalley
Format: E-Book, 352 pages
Genre: Paranormal Romance

With twelve hellhounds after her, pregnant Charley Davidson takes refuge at the only place she thinks they can’t get to her: the grounds of an abandoned convent. But after months of being cooped up there, Charley is ready to pop. Both metaphorically and literally since she is now roughly the size of a beached whale. Fortunately, a new case has captured her attention, one that involves a murder on the very grounds the team has taken shelter upon. A decades-old murder of the newly-vowed nun she keeps seeing in the shadows is almost enough to pull her out of her doldrums.

Charley’s been forbidden to step foot off the sacred grounds. While the angry hellhounds can’t traverse the consecrated soil, they can lurk just beyond its borders. They have the entire team on edge, especially Reyes. And if Charley didn’t know better, she would swear Reyes is getting sick. He grows hotter with every moment that passes, his heat scorching across her skin every time he’s near, but naturally he swears he’s fine.

While the team searches for clues on the Twelve, Charley just wants answers and is powerless to get them. But the mass of friends they’ve accrued helps. They convince her even more that everyone in her recent life has somehow been drawn to her, as though they were a part of a bigger picture all along. But the good feelings don’t last for long because Charley is about to get the surprise of her crazy, mixed-up, supernatural life.

"Some days I look back on my life and I'm extremely impressed I'm still alive." 

Eighth Grave After Dark, Charley Davidson # 8, takes the series to an entirely different level. This is the book that answers a whole lot of questions, while leaving readers with even more after a brutal turn of events that one could call a cliffhanger, or a bridge to the next step in Charley's evolution as a character. Charley is on the brink of giving birth to Beep, the baby prophesied to change everything.

She and Reyes have moved to a convent where the ground is sacred, and the hounds of hell can't get to her, or Beep. On top of being pregnant and spending quality time with her sexy son of Satan spouse, Charley is also maid of honor for her best friend Cookie's wedding to Uncle Ubie. You would think that being constrained to the convents grounds would put a crimp in Charley's style. Have you met Charley?

If THAT weren't enough stress, FBI Special Agent Kit Carson arrives asking Charley for assistance in finding a missing girl; there is strangeness found in and around the convent itself; and, there are more than enough secrets and revelations to spread around from here until Independence Day. The most thought provoking secrets are about Charley, which most of us have been waiting for since the beginning. But, the most shocking reveal is Mr. WONG who has been hanging around in Charley's apartment refusing to answer anyone's questions.

If you've read this series from the beginning, you know that Charley is not one to say no to anyone. She's usually the one chomping at the bit, or storming into dangerous situations without engaging all her facilities. She uses sarcasm and Cookie to keep her sane, and Reyes to keep her motor revved up. She doesn't even care that she isn't supposed to leave the convent. IF a friend needs help, she'll find a way to get the job done even if it pisses Reyes off.

Charley's cast of supporting friends and allies include Cookie's 13-year old daughter Amber, who is something special, Resident Daeva demon Osh, who knows Charley's true name, Private Investigator Garrett Swopes, who has been trying to unravel the truth behind the prophecy, Charley's investigator & ghost Angel, and the usual ghosts from Rocket, Blue, and Strawberry. Let's not forget the surprising guest appearance of Donovan the Biker that Charley once had a crush on. 

Apparently, the next installment "The Dirt on Ninth Grave" won't release until January 5, 2016. If you don't want to be spoiled by what happens in THIS book, please revert your eyes from reading the synopsis for book # 9.

**I received this book for free from (St. Martin's Press) in exchange for an honest review. Thank you!! This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.**

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*Book Review* Alien Separation by Gini Koch (Science Fiction)

Series: Katherine "Kitty" Katt # 11
Published by Penguin/DAW
Released: May 5, 2015
Format: Paperback, 524 pages
Source: Publisher
Genre: Science Fiction

Life's never easy . . .

The Mastermind has finally been identified, but before Jeff and Kitty Katt-Martini can take him down, they, their daughter Jamie, Charles Reynolds, Paul Gower, Christopher White, and several others are zapped out of their solar system and into another.

Landing in scattered groups on various areas of Beta Eight in the Alpha Centauri system means getting the team back together will be a major issue. But it's only one of the challenges they'll face. Kitty and Company have to forge alliances with the wide variety of sentient natives on the planet while plotting to create a civil war and overthrow the king - who just may be a clone of one of their bitterest enemies, Ronaldo Al Dejahl.

Of course, to do this, they have to overcome an assortment of dangerous obstacles, protect a group of refugees, take mind reading lessons, and seek out unexpected new allies as they journey to the Centerpoint of the world.

And once they reach the All Seeing Mountain, new issues and surprises await. Because there's more than a small war going on - they're in the midst of the Alpha Centauri Civil War! 

Alien Separation is the Eleventh installment in the Katherine "Kitty" Katt series. The story picks up right where the previous installment, Universal Alien, left off. After being sent to another universe and returning after kicking ass and taking names, again, all Kitty wants to do is have a little sexy time with her husband Jeff Martini, and some mommy time with daughter Jamie, the hybrid alien baby who has abilities nobody has seen before.

The Mastermind has been identified after Kitty's travel to a multi-verse where there are different versions of her, and Jamie. But, what happens when Kitty has to reveal the identity of the Mastermind to her best friend Charlies Reynolds who has been the target of many of THIS persons actions? Will he lose his mind and go on a rampage? Or, will he remain calm, cool, and collective until all the pieces of the puzzle are in front of him?

In epic Gini Koch fashion, Kitty, Jeff, Jamie, Charles and 18 others who are part of Team Kitty, are spirited away to Beta Eight in the Alpha Centauri system not long after Kitty returns. So much for a break! Kitty guesses pretty quickly who beamed the group to this planet, but not why since the Mastermind was at the top of Team Kitty's agenda. The team is spread out across the planet, and along the way, Kitty ends up making new friends, and becoming the Namer of All Things. 

This is what Koch is really good at and why I continue to rave about this series and encourage others to read it. Koch creates unusual worlds, and strange and unusual new beings. She puts Kitty in her element which is to gather everyone around her together, gain new allies, and fight like her very life depends on it. 9 times out of 10, it really does. This time around, a familiar adversary (the Z'porrah) appears and it is up to Kitty and her collection of eclectic beings from across the universe to do all they can to stop a Civil War from tearing apart the Alpha Centauri system and in turn, Earth.   

I still have some minor questions about the real identity of the Mastermind. I'm wondering if Ms Gini is playing a game of shells with us. You know, giving us a three choices, and asking us which shell is the ball under? I still say it "might" be someone else who will shock us when his/her identity is revealed in all its glory. Hopefully not though. I like the idea that Kitty has a solid group of loyal people who even though they roll their eyes at her Kitty-ism, they stand beside her knowing that she will be the one who comes up with ways to defeat their enemies. And, Kitty is HARDLY a cowering flower. She takes center stage, and that's where she belongs.

I think you know by know, that I am a huge fan of Gini Koch, and this series. I adore the world building. I love the sarcasm, banter, romance, mystery, action, and a slew of superhero like characters that stand up against evil where ever they go. Koch really did throw me for a loop. I was expecting the next step in the war against the Mastermind and THIS persons's allies. Instead, Koch pushes Kitty and her team into defending a planet against hostile forces, and saving the universe. Then twists and turns the story into revealing even more surprises waiting for Team Kitty. 

What, I ask respectfully, was with that ending? Not that I am actually complaining. I am just surprised that Koch has decided to go in that direction. We haven't discovered all there is to know about Jamie's abilities, now we get another element to add to the equation. Team Kitty is at war, but now Koch is going to add yet another surprise to the series. Of course the sneak peak at the end of the book has whet my desire to find out what happens next. Thankfully, Alien in Chief (Katherine "Kitty" Katt #12), releases this December so the wait isn't that long at all!

**I received this book for free from (Publisher) via (NetGalley) in exchange for an honest review. Thank you!! This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.**

Other Books in Series can be found here:

Katherine "Kitty" Katt series

https://www.goodreads.com/series/47928-katherine-kitty-katt

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*Stacking MY Shelves/Weekly Wrap-up* 05/16/2015

Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course eBooks!

WELCOME BACK!

I know a whole lot of bloggers went to RT2015 this week, so, things have been mighty slow.  Has anyone else but ME, never been to a major book convention like RT, or BEA, or ALA? If so, lets commiserate. Does anyone else feel scared about contacting a publisher directly and asking them for a copy of a book you really, really want? I was actually surprised by how easily one particular publisher was to work with. In fact, within 2 hours, I had a copy of the book I asked for on my Kindle! Yay me! 

~Shelley~

The Week in Reviews:

Saturday - Daughter of Deep Silence by Carrie Ryan (YA Contemporary)

Monday - Perfect Ruin by Lauren DeStefano (YA Dystopia)

Tuesday - Burning Kingdoms by Lauren DeStefano (YA Dystopia)

Wednesday - Prudence by Gail Garriger (YA Steampunk)

Thursday - Boundary Crossed by Melissa F. Olson (Urban Fantasy)

Friday - Catch Me by Parker Blue (YA Urban Fantasy)

The Orphan Queen by Jodi Meadows (YA Fantasy)<--Talk Supe Blog

Received via Publishers:

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Received via NetGalley & Edelweiss

    

    

     

Borrowed via Library