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“When you’re no longer afraid of death, there are a lot of things you’re not afraid of anymore”
– Jolene B. Perry, The Next Door Boys
I received Jolene B. Perry’s Next Door Boys from NetGalley. I choose it because the name jumped out at me and the cover art reminded me of a Sarah Dessen novel. Within a few minutes of reading the book, I realized this is a LDS novel. Something I didn’t quite expect
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Each week Books and Sensibility participates in Waiting on Wednesday, a meme hosted by Breaking The Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating.
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“You can’t change laws without first changing human nature.”
-Nurse Greta
“You can’t change human nature without first changing the law.”
-Nurse Yvonne”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind
For me, Unwind is the perfect book to fit into the dystopian triangle of Suzanne Collin’s Hunger Games and Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies series. The novel is about a horrific norm that develops in a society where teenagers can be unwound and a group that decides to fight against it.
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Books & Sensibility is taking part in the In My Mailbox meme started by The Story Siren. Each week bloggers post books that have arrived in their mailbox, picked up from the bookstore or purchased. Here are some books I’m getting ready to read.
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I die a little inside when I see teen paranormal romances dominating the young adult bookshelves. I’m not hating on paranormal romances (okay, actually I am) but, I believe other YA genres deserve some recognition.
I put together 8 awesome teen/YA books that aren’t paranormal romances or dystopian novels.
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“Everyone has choices to make; no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love.”
–Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
Synopsis : Clary Fray just wishes that her life would go back to normal. But what’s normal when you’re a demon-slaying Shadowhunter, your mother is in a magically induced coma, and you can suddenly see Downworlders like werewolves, vampires, and faeries?. . .Clary’s only chance to help her mother is to track down rogue Shadowhunter Valentine. . . To complicate matters, someone in New York City is murdering Downworlder children.
Ahh, The Mortal Instruments Series . . . we meet again. As I have already said, I am not the biggest fan of this series. The plot isn’t terrible, but some of the writing drives me up the wall. Still, I keep reading them because I hate stopping in the middle of things and I did get City of Glass signedso I might as well stick around.
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