Review: Across a Star-Swept Sea by Diana Peterfreund

Series: For Darkness Shows the Stars, #2 Publisher:  Balzer + Bray Publish Date: October 15th, 2013 Source: ARC Goodreads Rating: 4/5 Stars – A fantastic continuation of this wonderfully imagined future-Earth. About the book: Centuries after wars nearly destroyed civilization, the two islands of New Pacifica stand alone, a terraformed paradise where even the Reduction—the devastating […]

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Review: Dualed by Elsie Chapman

Series: Dualed, #1 Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Publish Date: February 26th, 2013 Source: Purchased Goodreads Rating: 4/5 Clones Synopsis: The city of Kersh is a safe haven, but the price of safety is high. Everyone has a genetic Alternate—a twin raised by another family—and citizens must prove their worth by eliminating their Alts before […]

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Review: XVI by Julia Karr

Series: XVI, #1 Publisher: Puffin/Speak Publish Date: January 6th, 2011 Source: Book Swap Goodreads Rating: 3.5/5 Wrist Tattoos Synopsis: Every girl gets one. An XVI tattoo on the wrist–sixteen. Some girls can’t wait to be sixteen, to be legal. Nina is not one of them. Even though she has no choice in the matter, she knows […]

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Review: Scored by Lauren McLaughlin

Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Publish Date: October 25, 2011 Source: Library Goodreads Rating: 5/5 College Acceptance Letters Synopsis: Set in the future when teenagers are monitored via camera and their recorded actions and confessions plugged into a computer program that determines their ability to succeed. All kids given a “score” that determines their […]

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Review: Promised by Caragh O’Brien

Publisher: Roaring Brook Press Publish Date: October 2nd, 2012 Source: ARC Goodreads Rating: 3/5 Birthmarks Synopsis: After defying the ruthless Enclave, surviving the wasteland, and upending the rigid matriarchy of Sylum, Gaia Stone now faces her biggest challenge ever.  She must lead the people of Sylum back to the Enclave and persuade the Protectorat to grant them […]

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Review: What’s Left of Me by Kat Zhang

Publisher: HarperCollins Publish Date: September 18th, 2012 Source: Purchased Goodreads Rating: 4/5 Secret Twins Synopsis: What’s Left of Me tells the story of a fifteen-year-old girl fighting for her right to survive in a world where two souls are born into each body and one is doomed to disappear. Pitched as The Golden Compass meets Girl, Interrupted.  Eva and Addie started […]

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The Giver- Lois Lowry

Synopsis: Jonas’s world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear or pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the Community. When Jonas turns twelve, he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true pain and […]

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Prized- Caragh M. O’Brien

Synopsis: Striking out into the wasteland with nothing but her baby sister, a handful of supplies, and a rumor to guide her, sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone survives only to be captured by the people of Sylum, a dystopian society where women rule the men who drastically outnumber them, and a kiss is a crime. In […]

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Safekeeping- Karen Hesse

ARC provided by the publisher in exchange for a fair and honest review. Synopsis: Radley just wants to get home to her parents in Vermont. While she was volunteering abroad, the American People’s Party took power; the new president was assassinated; and the government cracked down on citizens. Travel restrictions are worse than ever, and […]

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Starters- Lissa Price

This ARC was provided by the publisher VIA NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review. Synopsis: Callie lost her parents when the Spore Wars wiped out everyone between the ages of twenty and sixty. She and her little brother, Tyler, go on the run, living as squatters with their friend Michael and fighting […]

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