Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi

Title: Emergency Contact
Author: Mary H. K. Choi
Date Read: May 6th 2018
Published: March 27th 2018 @ Simon & Schuster
Genre: YA Contemporary


Rating: ⭐⭐⭐

"It's piles and piles of emotional homework forever if you ever want to qualify as a grown-up."

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Devils & Thieves by Jennifer Rush

Title: Devils & Thieves (Devils & Thieves #1)

Author: Jennifer Rush

Date Read: March 15th 2018

Published: October 3rd 2017 @ Little, Brown

Genre: YA Urban Fantasy

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The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

Title: The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air #1)

Author: Holly Black

Date Read: January 20th 2017 

Published: January 2nd 2018 @ Little, Brown

Genre: YA Fantasy

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

"What could I become if I stopped worrying about death, about pain, about anything? What if I stopped trying to belong? Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear."

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The Madman's Daughter by Megan Shepard

Title: The Madman's Daughter (The Madman's Daughter #1)

Author: Megan Shepard

Date Read: December 29th, 2017
Published: January 29th 2013 @ Balzer + Bray
Genre: YA Horror/Historical Fiction

Rating: ⭐⭐

"Dead flesh and sharpened scalpels didn't bother me. I was my father's daughter, after all. My nightmares were made of darker things."

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This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab

Title: This Savage Song (Monsters of Verity #1) Author: Victoria Schwab  Date Read: August 23 2017 Published: July 5th 2016 @ Greenwillow Books Genre: YA Urban Fantasy Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “You wanted to feel alive, right? It doesn't matter if you're monster or human. Living hurts.”  Continue Reading...

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

Title: Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children #1)

Author: Seanan McGuire
Date Read: August 8 2017
Published: April 5 2017 @ Tor.com
Genre: YA Fantasy

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 

“Going back” had two distinct meanings at the school, depending on how it was said. It was the best thing in the world. It was also the worst thing that could happen to anybody. It was returning to a place that understood you so well that it had reached across realities to find you, claiming you as its own and only; it was being sent to a family that wanted to love you, wanted to keep you safe and sound, but didn’t know you well enough to do anything but hurt you.

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Days of Blood & Starlight by Laini Taylor

Title: Days of Blood & Starlight (Daughter of Smoke & Bone #2) 
Author: Laini Taylor
Date Read: June 12 2017

Published: November 6 2012 @ Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Genre: YA Fantasy

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

"I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to be other things someday and I will be free."

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Top Five Wednesday: Side Ships

Favourite Side Ships 

Top 5 Wednesday is a goodreads group created by Lainey from gingerreadslainey and run by Sam from ThoughtsOnTomes, where each week there is a different book-related topic to discuss. If you're interested in this topic or others, check out the goodreads page to see more answers.

So this week's Top Five Wednesday is about our favourite side ships, meaning relationships that don't involve the story's protagonist. I tend to read stories that don't have very much in the way of relationships just generally, so I had to stretch this out and cheat a little by adding characters that could arguably be called protagonists, as well as including a couple tv series. I tried my best. Obviously, there will be mild spoilers ahead.

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Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor

Title: Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone #1) 
Author: Laini Taylor
Date Read: June 7 2017

Published: September 27 2011 @ Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Genre: YA Fantasy

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

"Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well."

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Soundless by Richelle Mead

Title: Soundless  Author: Richelle Mead  Date Read: June 2 2017 Published: November 10 2015 @ Razorbill Genre: YA Fantasy Rating: ⭐⭐⭐

“For the first time since this phenomenon started happening to me, I begin to understand the power it could have and why our ancestors mourned its loss. Every sound around me - the renewed pattering of rain, the wind in the leaves - all of it suddenly has a new meaning. I can see how these sounds don't interfere with the world so much as enhance it. The scope and potential are huge. It's like having a new color to paint with.” 

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Thanks for the Trouble by Tommy Wallach

Title: Thanks for the Trouble
Author: Tommy Wallach
Date Read: March 12 2017

Published: February 23 2016 @ Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Genre: YA Contemporary/Magical Realism

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

"There’s a word in Portuguese that my dad wrote about in one of his books: saudade. 
It’s the sadness you feel for something that isn’t gone yet, but will be. The sadness of lost causes. The sadness of being alive."

Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake

Title: Three Dark Crowns (Three Dark Crowns #1)
Author: Kendare Blake  
Date Read:  January 29 2017

Published: September 20 2016
Genre: YA Fantasy

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐

Three dark queens
Are born in a glen,
Sweet little triplets
Will never be friends

Three dark sisters
All fair to be seen,
Two to devour
And one to be Queen

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

Title: Red Queen (Red Queen #1)
Author: Victoria Aveyard 
Date Read: 23 March 2016

Published: February 10 2015 @ HarperTeen 
Genre: YA Dystopian

Rating: ⭐⭐½

The gods rule us still. They have come down from the stars. And they are no longer kind.