Review: Reason to Breathe (Breathing #1) by Rebecca Donovan

Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance

Publisher: - (Indie) / Wood Street Publishing

Publication: May 9th, 2011

Pages: 377 (Kindle Edition)
            386 (Paperback)
            374 (eBook)
Editions: Kindle Edition, Paperback, eBook

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"No one tried to get involved with me, and I kept to myself. This was the place where everything was supposed to be safe and easy. How could Evan Mathews unravel my constant universe in just one day?"

In the affluent town of Weslyn, Connecticut, where most people worry about what to be seen in and who to be seen with, Emma Thomas would rather not be seen at all. She’s more concerned with feigning perfection while pulling down her sleeves to conceal the bruises - not wanting anyone to know how far from perfect her life truly is. Without expecting it, she finds love. It challenges her to recognize her own worth - but at the risk of revealing the terrible secret she’s desperate to hide. 

Reason to Breathe is an electrifying page turner from start to finish, a unique tale of life-changing love, unspeakable cruelty, and one girl’s fragile grasp of hope.

Review: The Scorch Trials & The Death Cure by James Dashner

Genre: Young Adult, Dystopia
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Publication: October 12th, 2010
Series: The Maze Runner
Pages: 360 (Hardcover, Paperback)
       368(Kindle Edition)
       321 (eBook)


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Solving the Maze was supposed to be the end.

Thomas was sure that escape from the Maze would mean freedom for him and the Gladers. But WICKED isn’t done yet. Phase Two has just begun. The Scorch.

There are no rules. There is no help. You either make it or you die.

The Gladers have two weeks to cross through the Scorch—the most burned-out section of the world. And WICKED has made sure to adjust the variables and stack the odds against them.

Friendships will be tested. Loyalties will be broken. All bets are off.

There are others now. Their survival depends on the Gladers’ destruction—and they’re determined to survive.

Review: Shatter Me (Shatter Me #1) by Tahereh Mafi

Genre: Young Adult, Dystopia
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication:  November 15th, 2011
Series: Shatter Me
Pages: 338 (Paperback, Hardcover)
              357 (Kindle Edition)
              368 (eBook)


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"You can't touch me," I whisper.

I'm lying, is what I don't tell him.

He can touch me, is what I'll never tell him.

But things happen when people touch me.

Strange things.

Bad things.

No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal, but The Reestablishment has plans for her. Plans to use her as a weapon.

But Juliette has plans on her own.

After a lifetime without freedom, she's finally discovering a strength to fight back for the very first time—and to find a future with the one boy she thought she'd lost forever.


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Review: Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days #1) by Susan Ee

After Panic, I was starving for a splendid paranormal story, something that is well-written, and thrilling, so thus I picked out a few books from my to-read list and put them into a read-next order. Apparently this ended up being the first, and it turned out to be a good choice.

Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal
Series: Penryn & the End of Days series
Publisher: Feral Dream
Published: May 21st, 2011
Pages: 286 (Kindle Edition and Paperback)
              255 (eBook)


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It's been six weeks since angels of the apocalypse descended to demolish the modern world. Street gangs rule the day while fear and superstition rule the night. When warrior angels fly away with a helpless little girl, her seventeen-year-old sister Penryn will do anything to get her back.

Anything, including making a deal with an enemy angel.

Raffe is a warrior who lies broken and wingless on the street. After eons of fighting his own battles, he finds himself being rescued from a desperate situation by a half-starved teenage girl.

Traveling through a dark and twisted Northern California, they have only each other to rely on for survival. Together, they journey toward the angels' stronghold in San Francisco where she'll risk everything to rescue her sister and he'll put himself at the mercy of his greatest enemies for the chance to be made whole again.