How to Write a Bestselling YA Book

This is an easy list of how to write one of the most popular YA books, and is completely, definitely, and utterly not sarcastic at al...

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Witchstruck (The Tudor Witch Trilogy #1) by: Victoria Lamb

Three-point-five stars rounded up to four ARC received from Netgalley. This review is not biased in any way. There was no money, gifts, discounts, or favors exchanged for this review. Meg Lytton has always known of her dark and powerful gift. Raised a student of the old magick by her Aunt Jane, casting the circle to see visions of the future and concocting spells from herbs and bones has always been as natural to Meg as breathing....

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Unravel the Mysteries of Unhinged: Giveaways

Unravel the Mysteries of Unhinged: Giveaways: Welcome to Amulet's official Campaign! Starting today and over the next couple of months, we'll be sharing reveals, giveaways....

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{Mini Review} Heartbeat by Elizabeth Scott

Three-point-Five Stars, Rounded up to Four ARC received from Netgalley. This review is not biased in any way. There was no money, gifts, discounts, or favors exchanged for this review. Life. Death. And...Love? Emma would give anything to talk to her mother one last time. Tell her about her slipping grades, her anger with her stepfather, and the boy with the bad reputation who might be the only one Emma can be herself with. But...

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Unchained (Nephilim Rising #1) by J. Lynn (a.k.a. Jennifer L. Armentrout)

Four Stars ARC received from Entangled Publishing. This review is not biased in any way. There was no money, gifts, discounts, or favors exchanged for this review. Between the pissed off creatures that want demon-hunter Lily Marks dead and the fallen angel who just...wants her, Lily is about ready to trade in forever for a comfy job in a cubicle farm. The fact that she and Julian are civil to one another is enough to have...

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol

Three Stars Weary of her storybook, one "without pictures or conversations," the young and imaginative Alice follows a hasty hare underground--to come face-to-face with some of the strangest adventures and most fantastic characters in all of literature.  The Ugly Duchess, the Mad Hatter, the weeping Mock Turtle, the diabolical Queen of Hearts, the Cheshire Cat--each more eccentric than the last--could only have come...

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Fire and Flood Excerpt and Giveaway

There's a little over five months before the release date of Fire and Flood, by Victoria Scott, so the author decided to give us an excerpt...

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Deeper by: Blue Ashcroft

One Star ARC received from Netgalley. This review is not biased in any way. There was no money, gifts, discounts, or favors exchanged for this review. Rain Wilson isn’t ever going to love again.  It’s a promise she made the day her boyfriend died in a water park accident, one she still blames herself for. Now she’s a senior lifeguard in a new town with a new pool and she’s just going to keep her head down and everyone...

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The Sea of Tranquility by: Katja Millay

Five Stars ARC received from Netgalley. This review is not biased in any way. There was no money, gifts, discounts, or favors exchanged for this review. I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifters, no angels or superhuman boys to save you. A place where people die and music disintegrates and things suck. I am pressed so hard against the earth by the weight of reality...

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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by April Genevieve Tucholke

Two Stars You stop fearing the devil when you’re holding his hand… Nothing much exciting rolls through Violet White’s sleepy, seaside town… until River West comes along. River rents the guest house behind Violet’s crumbling estate, and as eerie, grim things start to happen, Violet begins to wonder about the boy living in her backyard.  Is River just a crooked-smiling liar with pretty eyes and a mysterious past? Or...

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What Not to Do Around Me When I'm Reading

My friend dragged me to some social place, so I was doing my usual thing and was curled up in a corner with an amazing book when people begin to interupt me. This is what you should never do when you're near an Alisa with a book. 1.  Try and involve me in an intense philosophical debate about homosexual rights. They should be able to do whatever and whomever they want. End of discussion. Go away now. 2. Eat annoyingly...

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