Title: The Cage Author: Megan Shepherd Genre: Young Adult Science Fiction/Dystopia Publisher: Balzer+Bray/HarperCollins Publication Date: May 26, 2015 Hardcover: 400 pages Series: The Cage #1 Where’d I Get It: Purchased from BN.com Synopsis (From Goodreads): When Cora Mason wakes in a desert, she doesn’t know where she is or who put her there. As she explores, […]
Strange Girl by Christopher Pike
February 4, 2016 by ·
Title: Strange Girl Author: Christopher Pike Genre: Young Adult Paranormal Publisher: Simon Pulse Publication Date: November 17, 2015 Paperback: 413 pages Series: Standalone Where’d I Get It: Purchased from Barnes & Noble Synopsis (From Goodreads): From the moment Fred meets Aja, he knows she’s different. She’s pretty, soft-spoken, shy—yet seems to radiate an unusual peace. Fred quickly finds himself falling in […]
The Undying: Shades by Ethan Reid
January 28, 2016 by ·
Title: The Undying: Shades Author: Ethan Reid Genre: Post Apocalyptic Thriller Publisher: Simon & Schuster Publication Date: May 12, 2015 eBook: 312 pages Series: The Undying #2 Where’d I Get It: Barnes & Noble Synopsis (From Goodreads): The Undying: SHADES finds American student Jeanie and her young charge, Ren, fifteen years after the EMP that wiped out Paris and sent them […]
Hunter by Mercedes Lackey
January 21, 2016 by ·
Title: Hunter Author: Mercedes Lackey Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Publisher: Disney Hyperion Publication Date: September 01, 2015 Nook Book: 289 pages Series: Hunter #1 Where’d I Get It: Purchased from Barnes & Noble Synopsis (From Goodreads): They came after the Diseray. Some were terrors ripped from our collective imaginations, remnants of every mythology across the world. And some were […]
Cleaning My Shelves Giveaway
January 20, 2016 by ·
Heeeey, folks! Long freaking time no see, yeah? So, I’m way pregnant and way nesting and that means it’s time to clean up everything. And everything includes my bookshelves. The books I’m listing below as available for the giveaway are all “used” in that they’re pre-owned. Some have never been opened. Some are on their […]
Top Ten Tuesday #1, 2016
January 19, 2016 by ·
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. I haven’t been participating in any memes, and I don’t want to commit (well, that’s probably the wrong word. It isn’t as if you HAVE to do these every week… no one’s making you… anyway..) to many of them, so this […]
Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige
October 22, 2014 by ·
Synopsis (From Goodreads): I didn’t ask for any of this. I didn’t ask to be some kind of hero.
But when your whole life gets swept up by a tornado—taking you with it—you have no choice but to go along, you know?
Sure, I’ve read the books. I’ve seen the movies. I know the song about the rainbow and the happy little blue birds. But I never expected Oz to look like this. To be a place where Good Witches can’t be trusted, Wicked Witches may just be the good guys, and winged monkeys can be executed for acts of rebellion. There’s still the yellow brick road, though—but even that’s crumbling…
Top Ten Tuesday #4
October 20, 2014 by ·
Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created over at The Broke and the Bookish.
They created the feature out of a love of lists and, well, the rest is history. Here at Literary Obsession, we’re hit or miss on whether we particular in that week’s list, but we do love lists just as much as the next list-loving person, so it is a regular enough feature on the blog. If you’re curious about this week’s topic… head on in!
