★★★★ We should manage joy in the exact opposite way that we manage money. We should spend it all, at every chance we get. Ever look around a room - a doctor's office, a school hallway, the dentist lobby - and think, something is missing here? Spoiler alert: It's the joy. Ingrid Fetell Lee takes a close… Continue reading Joyful – Ingrid Fetell Lee

★★★★★ Faith in humanity Young Adult Lit restored “Blue,” he warned, but his voice was chaotic. This close, his throat was scented with mint and wool sweater and vinyl car seat, and Gansey, just Gansey. She said, “I just want to pretend. I want to pretend that I could.” I would normally poke fun at YA for… Continue reading Blue Lily, Lily Blue – Maggie Stiefvater

★★★★ "I promised I would never see you again." "So this is good-bye, then?" "No." Elisa Perez, daughter of a sugar baron in Cuba, lived a vastly different life from her granddaughter, Marisol Ferrera. Elisa's world is of wealth, and intrigue. Tabloid newspapers and quiet, refined lives. She knows what to expect in her life - courtship, marriage and then… Continue reading Next Year in Havana – Chanel Cleeton

★★★★ "A crime is being committed. If we are able but unwilling to stop it, are we not condoning it?" Cedric of Flandars and Piece of England are of two different worlds whose fates intertwined thanks to one, ravenous vampiress. Cedric should have burned the bodies. His task might have been easier if he had... Cedric,… Continue reading The Hover – C. A. Lear

★★★★★ Absolutely brilliant!  There's something special about a series that you can read time and time again, and always come away with a new interpretation and sense of wonder. One thing that hasn't changed (despite how many times I've read this series) is my complete and utter love for the world of Alegaesia. We follow Eragon, once a simple… Continue reading Brisingr – Christopher Paolini

★★★★★ After that ending only one quote can adequately sum up my feelings:  Something thumped in front of me. A bottle of wine. “It’s fine if you drink directly from it,” was all Mor said. This book ensnared me - body and soul - and the last hundred pages? Whew. Talk about stress - like actual heart-pounding stress.  For those who don't… Continue reading A Court of Wings and Ruin – Sarah J. Maas

★★★★★ Look, we'd love to stay and talk but we have to run. There's more where he came from. Heartwarming, heartwrenching and heartbreaking - this book has it all. Mike Scardino, a young pre-med college student, takes up a summer job as St. John's Queens Hospital ambulance attendant (at the insistence of his parents). They… Continue reading Bad Call – Mike Scardino

★★★★★ I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. Hole. Lee. Shh. This sequel is stunning. I have not been this entertained and enthralled with a series since my high school Twilight craze. And I realized—I realized how badly I'd been treated before, if my standards had become so low. If the… Continue reading A Court of Mist and Fury – Sarah J. Maas

★★ Great premise, lukeworm execution I loved the concept! Rebecca Cordeaux, an undergraduate working in a research lab, lives in a world where robots have taken over just about everything. On purpose Robots do the menial tasks, the high precision tasks and all of the tasks humans just don't want to do...only there's nothing really left for humans… Continue reading Uncanny Valley – C.A. Gray