Thursday, December 31, 2015

New to the TBR Pile (45) - December 2015



Freebie from Amazon.ca:
City In Embers (Collector #1)
by Stacey Marie Brown

Zoey Daniels has been tossed from foster home to foster home, where she grows up fast and tough. When she is placed in her “last-chance” home, she finds a reason to stay and turn her life around: her foster sister, Lexie, who is paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair. Zoey will do anything to keep her safe.

After high school, Zoey is hired by a special government agency, the Department of Molecular Genetics (DMG), where she meets the other reason to remain: Daniel, her co-worker. The man she loves.

But there is something unique about Zoey. She can see fae. Because of this, the DMG hires her to work as a Collector: catching, researching, testing, and using the fae to save human lives. The work never registers on her sympathy radar. She was raised to think of fae as beasts that feed on humans and want to destroy them.

When devastation hits Seattle, Zoey's whole world is turned upside down. The electric storm connects her to a ruthless fae, a Wanderer named Ryker, whose dealings expose them to even more trouble and danger. They embark on a journey, running and hiding from both the government and fae, both of which threaten their lives and those they love.

Clockwise (Clockwise #1)
by Elle Strauss

Casey Donovan has issues: hair, height and uncontrollable trips to the 19th century. She accidentally takes Nate Mackenzie, cutest boy in the school, to 1860. Protocol pressures her to dub Nate her brother. Does he spark with romance or protectiveness, when a handsome, rich, unwanted suitor intervenes?

Back in the present, the social ladder is as before: Casey at the bottom rung, Nate at the top. But now her heart is broken, her best friend is mad, her parents are split up, and police escort her younger brother home. The only thing worse would be taking Nate back to the past again.

Which of course, she does.

Girl Unseen
by Kate Ellison

Olivia Tithe has lost everything. Her best friend Lucas Stern, the boy she loved—murdered. Her mother, the woman accused of killing him—imprisoned. And now, she’s losing her mind—because she’s seeing Stern’s ghost, and he has a message: find his true killer, before it’s too late.

With her mother’s trial only days away, Olivia must follow her heart to the answer, no matter how painful—but can her mind survive being haunted by her past love, or will it unravel completely?

Gone (Parallel Trilogy #1)
by Christine Kersey

What if everything you knew was suddenly gone?

Sixteen-year-old Morgan Campbell runs away from home and when she returns the next day her world is turned upside-down. Not only is her family missing, but another family is living in her house and claims to have lived there for weeks. As Morgan desperately works to figure out what has happened, she finds society has become obsessed with weight in a way she has never seen before. The more she searches for answers, the more she begins to wonder if she has somehow ended up in another world—a world she doesn't want to be a part of.

Can she survive in this world until she can get home?

Never Never (Never Never #1)
by Colleen Hoover & Tarryn Fisher

Best friends since they could walk. In love since the age of fourteen.

Complete strangers since this morning.

He'll do anything to remember. She'll do anything to forget.

The Ripple Trilogy (Ripple #1-3)
by Cidney Swanson

Get all three books about a girl who can turn invisible, the boy she's crushing on, and the neo-Nazi geneticists after them both. Includes bonus content: Will's Killer Pizza Recipe and a sneak peak at Cidney Swanson's Saving Mars series.

Book One: Rippler When Samantha Ruiz turns invisible in front of team mates while rafting, she knows something's wrong. According to her knowledgeable friend Will, she's got a rare genetic disorder. Fearing a lifetime sentence as a lab-rat, Sam wants to keep her ability secret. But she also wants to know if there's a connection between dark Nazi experiments on others like her and her own mother's death eight years earlier. At the same time that Sam is sleuthing, she's falling hard for Will. And soon, she'll have to choose between keeping her secrets hidden and keeping Will safe.

Book Two: Chameleon Sam's troubles are growing. The crush who kissed her seems to have changed his mind. Her BFF thinks Sam is in an abusive relationship. And the evil geneticist who wanted Sam dead now wants her ALIVE. When Sam learns of Helmann's Nazi-like plan to re-establish a Thousand-Year Reign, she's determined to fight him. Along with Will and Mickie, Sam flees to France to meet Sir Walter--their best hope for stopping Helmann's brave new world. But someone invisible follows her to Paris, and now Sam must figure out how to hide from an enemy she can't even see.

Book Three: Unfurl Against all expectations, Sam has survived attacks by two of Helmann's deadliest assassins. She's alive, but she's far from safe. Helmann is planning a second Holocaust and wants Sam to play a starring role. Will, now separated from Sam by an ocean, seeks a way to prevent Helmann's apocalypse. Along with Sir Walter and Mickie, Will plays a deadly game sneaking into Geneses' facilities, discovering unsettling clues as to Helmann's plans. The clock ticks down as Will and Sam discover just how much they must be willing to sacrifice to stop Helmann. UNFURL, the powerful conclusion to The Ripple Series, will leave fans breathless.

Bought from Amazon.ca:
The Scorpio Races
by Maggie Stiefvater

It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. Some riders live. Others die.

At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the returning champion. He is a young man of few words, and if he has any fears, he keeps them buried deep, where no one else can see them.

Puck Connolly is different. She never meant to ride in the Scorpio Races. But fate hasn’t given her much of a chance. So she enters the competition — the first girl ever to do so. She is in no way prepared for what is going to happen.


What's new to your TBR pile this month?
Did you get any books you're really looking forward to reading?
Let me know in the comments!

4 comments:

  1. Ooh I'm curious to see what you think of Never Never! I've always wanted to try something by Colleen Hoover. And yay for Scorpio Races! I have that one and am planning on reading it once I finish with The Raven Boys series.

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    1. Yeah, I haven't read anything by Colleen Hoover yet, either. But I've heard good things. (Never Never is pretty short, so it's no big loss if I don't love it. But I might; it sounds intriguing!)

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  2. Everyone seems to be talking about the Scorpio Races, I'm excited to get to it! ALSO BECAUSE MAGGIE STEIFVATER. How is it 2016, and how have I still not read a single book by her?? Never Never's cover is gorgeous <3 *dies* I'm currently looking forward to getting to VE Schwab's books :')

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    1. I haven't read anything by Schwab yet, but I think I have one of her books in my TBR pile. Can't remember which one, though!

      Maggie Stiefvater's writing seems to be something people either love or hate. I quite enjoyed the first book I read by her (which was Shiver), so I went on to start The Raven Cycle. But I'm looking forward to The Scorpio Races because I enjoy a good stand-alone novel every now and then!

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