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Publication Date: January 13, 2015
Publisher: Little Brown Books
Series: Stand Alone
Pages: 328
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: Children can have a cruel, absolute sense of justice. Children can kill a monster and feel quite proud of themselves. A girl can look at her brother and believe they’re destined to be a knight and a bard who battle evil. She can believe she’s found the thing she’s been made for.
Hazel lives with her brother, Ben, in the strange town of Fairfold where humans and fae exist side by side. The faeries’ seemingly harmless magic attracts tourists, but Hazel knows how dangerous they can be, and she knows how to stop them. Or she did, once.
At the center of it all, there is a glass coffin in the woods. It rests right on the ground and in it sleeps a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives. Hazel and Ben were both in love with him as children. The boy has slept there for generations, never waking.
Until one day, he does…
As the world turns upside down, Hazel tries to remember her years pretending to be a knight. But swept up in new love, shifting loyalties, and the fresh sting of betrayal, will it be enough?
I hate not completing series, finding out what happens in the end. But there are some series I just can't force myself to finish, no matter how hard I try.
1. Maze Runner
I read halfway through The Scorch Trials before I couldn't do it anymore. Simply put, I became so bored with the book that I stopped reading it altogether. I tried, so hard--harder than I should have--to push through and finish it, but watching paint dry would have been more entertaining.
2. Fallen
It was not fun in any way, reading these books. It got to the point that I was forcing myself to read these only because I wanted to know how it ended, not because I enjoyed the writing or characters or anything about this series.
3. House of Night
I was obsessed with this series a few years back. I really liked these books, despite the issues, but those problems just became worse as the series progressed. Mostly, there is just too many books left and I don't have enough interest to read them all.
4. Pretty Little Liars
This series dragged on, and on, and on, and I couldn't do it anymore. It became the same plot, the same mystery over and over again, and it started to feel like the author only kept the series going for money. There are too many books in this series, and it isn't worth it anymore.
5. Asylum
I actually did a review of Asylum a while back, and it was no very positive. I was disappointed by the writing, the plot, the characters--everything. Unless you are holding me at gunpoint, I will not continue with this series.
Publication Date: June 18, 2013
Publisher: William Morrow Books
Series: Stand Alone
Pages: 181
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: Sussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy.
Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie—magical, comforting, wise beyond her years—promised to protect him, no matter what.
Publication Date: August 14, 2014
Publisher: Dutton
Series: Anna and the French Kiss #3
Pages: 352
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Synopsis: Hopeless romantic Isla has had a crush on introspective cartoonist Josh since their first year at the School of America in Paris. And after a chance encounter in Manhattan over the summer, romance might be closer than Isla imagined. But as they begin their senior year back in France, Isla and Josh are forced to confront the challenges every young couple must face, including family drama, uncertainty about their college futures, and the very real possibility of being apart.
Publication Date: July 9, 2013
Publisher: Dutton
Series: Anna and the French Kiss #2
Pages: 338
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Synopsis: Lola Nolan is a budding costume designer, and for her, the more outrageous, sparkly, and fun the outfit, the better. And everything is pretty perfect in her life (right down to her hot rocker boyfriend) until the Bell twins, Calliope and Cricket, return to the neighborhood. When Cricket, a gifted inventor, steps out from his twin sister's shadow and back into Lola's life, she must finally reconcile a lifetime of feelings for the boy next door.
Publication Date: August 27, 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Series: Throne of Glass #2
Pages: 418
Genre: Fantasy
Synopsis: From the throne of glass rules a king with a fist of iron and a soul as black as pitch. Assassin Celaena Sardothien won a brutal contest to become his Champion. Yet Celaena is far from loyal to the crown. She hides her secret vigilantly; she knows that the man she serves is bent on evil.
Keeping up the deadly charade becomes increasingly difficult when Celaena realizes she is not the only one seeking justice. As she tries to untangle the mysteries buried deep within the glass castle, her closest relationships suffer. It seems no one is above questioning her allegiances—not the Crown Prince Dorian; not Chaol, the Captain of the Guard; not even her best friend, Nehemia, a foreign princess with a rebel heart.
Then one terrible night, the secrets they have all been keeping lead to an unspeakable tragedy. As Celaena's world shatters, she will be forced to give up the very thing most precious to her and decide once and for all where her true loyalties lie...and whom she is ultimately willing to fight for.
Publication Date: September 16, 2014
Publisher: Dial Books
Series: Stand Alone
Pages: 371
Genre: Contemporary
Synopsis: Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does the talking for both of them. But three years later, Jude and Noah are barely speaking. Something has happened to wreck the twins in different and dramatic ways . . . until Jude meets a cocky, broken, beautiful boy, as well as someone else—an even more unpredictable new force in her life. The early years are Noah's story to tell. The later years are Jude's. What the twins don't realize is that they each have only half the story, and if they could just find their way back to one another, they’d have a chance to remake their world.
