ARC Review: The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee

This review will be spoiler free!

The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee

Series: The Thousandth Floor #1

Genre: YA Science Fiction

Publication: August 30th 2016 by HarperCollins

Length: 448 pages

Format: eARC

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New York City as you’ve never seen it before. A thousand-story tower stretching into the sky. A glittering vision of the future, where anything is possible—if you want it enough.

Welcome to Manhattan, 2118.

A hundred years in the future, New York is a city of innovation and dreams. But people never change: everyone here wants something…and everyone has something to lose.

Leda Cole’s flawless exterior belies a secret addiction—to a drug she never should have tried and a boy she never should have touched.

Eris Dodd-Radson’s beautiful, carefree life falls to pieces when a heartbreaking betrayal tears her family apart.

Rylin Myers’s job on one of the highest floors sweeps her into a world—and a romance—she never imagined…but will her new life cost Rylin her old one?

Watt Bakradi is a tech genius with a secret: he knows everything about everyone. But when he’s hired to spy by an upper-floor girl, he finds himself caught up in a complicated web of lies.

And living above everyone else on the thousandth floor is Avery Fuller, the girl genetically designed to be perfect. The girl who seems to have it all—yet is tormented by the one thing she can never have.

Debut author Katharine McGee has created a breathtakingly original series filled with high-tech luxury and futuristic glamour, where the impossible feels just within reach. But in this world, the higher you go, the farther there is to fall….

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Review: Tell Me Something Real by Calla Devlin | Blog Tour + Giveaway

Tell Me Something Real by Calla Devlin

Series: n/a
Genre: YA Contemporary, Family

Publication: August 30th 2016 by S&S/Atheneum

Length: 304 pages

Format: ARC

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Three sisters struggle with the bonds that hold their family together as they face a darkness settling over their lives in this masterfully written debut novel.

There are three beautiful blond Babcock sisters: gorgeous and foul-mouthed Adrienne, observant and shy Vanessa, and the youngest and best-loved, Marie. Their mother is ill with leukemia and the girls spend a lot of time with her at a Mexican clinic across the border from their San Diego home so she can receive alternative treatments.

Vanessa is the middle child, a talented pianist who is trying to hold her family together despite the painful loss that they all know is inevitable. As she and her sisters navigate first loves and college dreams, they are completely unaware that an illness far more insidious than cancer poisons their home. Their world is about to shatter under the weight of an incomprehensible betrayal…

Mini-Reviews: All We Have Is Now & Fans of the Impossible Life

Today I’m reviewing a few more backlist books I didn’t have a chance to read earlier, including ALL WE HAVE IS NOW and FANS OF THE IMPOSSIBLE LIFE, both contemporaries. For both of these books, they didn’t match my expectations.

Stranger Things Book Tag!

I recently started watching an original Netflix series called STRANGER THINGS and it’s amazing! I’m going to be doing a series review sooooon so keep your eye out for that ;), but I wanted to do this tag first!

Huge thanks to Nisha @ A Running Commentary for creating this tag and tagging me! Let’s get started!

ARC Review: The Reader by Traci Chee

The Reader by Traci Chee

Series: Sea of Ink and Gold #1

Genre: YA Fantasy

Publication: September 13th 2016 by Putnam

Length: 448 pages

Format: eARC

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Sefia knows what it means to survive. After her father is brutally murdered, she flees into the wilderness with her aunt Nin, who teaches her to hunt, track, and steal. But when Nin is kidnapped, leaving Sefia completely alone, none of her survival skills can help her discover where Nin’s been taken, or if she’s even alive. The only clue to both her aunt’s disappearance and her father’s murder is the odd rectangular object her father left behind, an object she comes to realize is a book—a marvelous item unheard of in her otherwise illiterate society. With the help of this book, and the aid of a mysterious stranger with dark secrets of his own, Sefia sets out to rescue her aunt and find out what really happened the day her father was killed—and punish the people responsible.

Reasons to Read Stalking Jack the Ripper + Moodboards

Hi everyone! Welcome to my stop on the STALKING JACK THE RIPPER blog tour hosted by the Knights of Whitechapel, or the SJTR street team, led by Ava @ Bookishness and Tea! Today, I’ll be giving you all a few reasons to read this unique book as well as give a little taste of the setting in which this book is set!

Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco

Series: Untitled #1

Genre: YA Historical Fiction, Mystery

Publication: September 20th 2016 by Jimmy Patterson

Length: 335 pages

Format: ARC

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Presented by James Patterson’s new children’s imprint, this deliciously creepy horror novel has a storyline inspired by the Ripper murders and an unexpected, blood-chilling conclusion…

Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord’s daughter, with a life of wealth and privilege stretched out before her. But between the social teas and silk dress fittings, she leads a forbidden secret life.

Against her stern father’s wishes and society’s expectations, Audrey often slips away to her uncle’s laboratory to study the gruesome practice of forensic medicine. When her work on a string of savagely killed corpses drags Audrey into the investigation of a serial murderer, her search for answers brings her close to her own sheltered world.

The story’s shocking twists and turns, augmented with real, sinister period photos, will make this dazzling debut from author Kerri Maniscalco impossible to forget.

Authors Whose Books I’ve Never Read

This is a shameful post. Just saying.

Today I’m listing out the authors whose books I’ve never read. This post is not to offend or publicly denounce authors but to bring together bookish people so we can all laugh at/with me (whatever floats your boat). With that being said, please don’t feel offended if I don’t read your favorite author’s books. (However, you’re welcome to persuade me to do so. Sell it to me.)

Who Doesn’t Love a Good Road Trip? | Snapshot Series #1

Today, I’m here with a new feature called SNAPSHOT SERIES. This feature, inspired by Rachel from Hello, Chelly’s Life Lately, is basically showing all of you what my personal life has been through pictures.

This month, I visited Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was a very long drive, so our family alternated driving between my dad and myself. We visited the campus of the University of Pittsburgh as well as the city of Pittsburgh over the course of two days.

ARC Review: Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco

This review, along with my other reviews, will be spoiler-free!

Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco

Series: Untitled #1

Genre: YA Historical Fiction, Mystery

Publication: September 20th 2016 by Jimmy Patterson

Length: 335 pages

Format: ARC

Goodreads

Presented by James Patterson’s new children’s imprint, this deliciously creepy horror novel has a storyline inspired by the Ripper murders and an unexpected, blood-chilling conclusion…

Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord’s daughter, with a life of wealth and privilege stretched out before her. But between the social teas and silk dress fittings, she leads a forbidden secret life.

Against her stern father’s wishes and society’s expectations, Audrey often slips away to her uncle’s laboratory to study the gruesome practice of forensic medicine. When her work on a string of savagely killed corpses drags Audrey into the investigation of a serial murderer, her search for answers brings her close to her own sheltered world.

The story’s shocking twists and turns, augmented with real, sinister period photos, will make this dazzling debut from author Kerri Maniscalco impossible to forget.

Books with a School Trope | TTT

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. You can find it more information here.

This week’s topic is Top Ten Books Set in X Setting, and I chose a school setting because I adore school-tropes!