Hey guys! I’m officially on Spring Break (FINALLY!!) which means I’ll be doing a lot more posting in the next week or so! I’ve already got a few reviews lined up to start coming out and I’m currently reading a few goodies. 🙂 We’re in for some fun!
Forged (Taken, #3) by Erin Bowman
Release Date: April 14, 2015
*Potential Series Spoilers Ahead*
Summary (from Goodreads):
Gray Weathersby and his group of rebels must make their final stand in the epic conclusion to the Taken trilogy, which New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu called “an action-packed thrill ride from beginning to end.”
The Order is building an unstoppable army, with every generation of Forgeries harder to detect and deadlier than the one before. It’s time for Gray and his fellow rebels to end the Order’s world of lies. But when the most familiar faces—and even the girl he loves—can’t be trusted, Gray will have to tread carefully if he wants to succeed. Or survive.
What’s To Like: I remember thinking the first book in this series just smoked its competition out of the water. It was an original tale, one that had action and intrigue from beginning to end. The second book I didn’t like as much. It was still a good story, but not as good as the first. So I’m curious to see how this rounds out the trilogy. Is it going to be action packed and mysterious like the first? Or is it going to be more psychological and dangerous like the second? I guess we’ll see.
Play On by Michelle Smith
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Summary (from Goodreads):
In the small town of Lewis Creek, baseball is everything. Especially for all-star pitcher Austin Braxton, who has a one-way ticket out of town with his scholarship to a top university. All that stands between him and a new start is one final season. But when Austin starts flunking Chemistry, his picture-perfect future is in jeopardy. A failing grade means zero playing time, and zero playing time means no scholarship.
Enter Marisa Marlowe, the new girl in town who gets a job at his momma’s flower shop. Not only is Marisa some home-schooled super-genius; she’s also a baseball fanatic and more than willing to help Austin study. As the two grow closer, there’s something about Marisa that makes Austin want more than just baseball and out of Lewis Creek — he wants a future with her. But Marisa has a past that still haunts her, one that she ran all the way to South Carolina to escape.
As Austin starts to peel back the layers of Marisa’s pain, it forces him to look beyond the façade of himself and everyone he thought he knew in his town. What he sees instead is that in a small town like Lewis Creek, maybe baseball isn’t everything—maybe it is just the thing that ties them all together.
What’s To Like: I grew up in a sporty family, and I played softball for 12 years myself. So I love when books cover sports like baseball or football (which are really the only two sports that I feel I completely understand backwards and forwards). I’m really excited because this sounds like not just a sports story, but a love story. A story about real people in a real small town that may be hiding a few secrets. I love this concept. I’m so excited to try it out!
Conspiracy of Blood and Smoke (Prisoner of Night and Fog, #2) by Anne Blankman
Release Date: April 21, 2015
*Potential Series Spoilers Ahead*
Summary (from Goodreads):
The girl known as Gretchen Whitestone has a secret: She used to be part of Adolf Hitler’s inner circle. More than a year after she made an enemy of her old family friend and fled Munich, she lives with a kindly English family, posing as an ordinary German immigrant, and is preparing to graduate from high school. Her love, Daniel Cohen, is a reporter in town. For the first time in her life, Gretchen is content.
But then, Daniel gets a telegram that sends him back to Germany, and Gretchen’s world turns upside-down. And when she receives word that Daniel is wanted for murder, she has to face the danger she thought she’d escaped-and return to her homeland.
Gretchen must do everything she can to avoid capture and recognition, even though saving Daniel will mean consorting with her former friends, the Nazi elite. And as they work to clear Daniel’s name, Gretchen and Daniel discover a deadly conspiracy stretching from the slums of Berlin to the Reichstag itself. Can they dig up the explosive truth and get out in time-or will Hitler discover them first?
What’s To Like: Even now, I can’t escape the Holocaust books! But that’s ok because I love them. And this series in particular is super interesting. Gretchen used to be a girl who saw Hitler as a kindly uncle figure until she fell in love with a Jew. It’s so fascinating because this series focuses more on the German side of the story, but also on the German history that goes largely ignored in the face of their atrocities. Like the Beer Hall Pusch, which helped make Hitler famous and featured heavily in the previous book. My history nerd side is showing…
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