Daisy Chain Book Reviews

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine spotlighting upcoming releases we're eagerly anticipating.   Release Date: July 26, 2016 Publisher: Point ADD TO GOODREADS SUMMARY   Signed, sealed, delivered... While spacing out in Chemistry class, Lily scribbles some of her favorite song lyrics onto her desk. The next day, she finds that someone has continued the lyrics on the desk, and added a message to her. Intrigue! Soon, Lily and her anonymous pen pal are exchanging full-on letters -- sharing secrets, recommending bands, and opening up to each other. Lily realizes she's kind of falling for this letter writer. Only who is he? As Lily attempts to unravel the mystery, and juggle school, friends, crushes, and her crazy family, she discovers that matters of the heart can't always be spelled out... Kasie West brings irresistible wit, warmth, and sparkle to this swoon-worthy story of love showing up when you least expect it. Summer is coming... ...

Title: Tell the Wind and Fire Author: Sarah Rees Brennan Release Date: April 5, 2016 Publisher: Clarion Books Pages: 368 Source: ARC provided by Raincoast Books Add to Goodreads | Amazon.ca | Indigo Overall: 4 STARS SUMMARY "Sarah Rees Brennan writes with fine control and wit, and I suspect that word of this magical thriller will pass through the populace with the energy of wind, of fire." —Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and Egg and Spoon In a city divided between opulent luxury in the Light and fierce privations in the Dark, a determined young woman survives by guarding her secrets. Lucie Manette was born in the Dark half of the city, but careful manipulations won her a home in the Light, celebrity status, and a rich, loving boyfriend. Now she just wants to keep her head down, but her boyfriend has a dark secret of his own-one involving an apparent stranger who is destitute and despised. Lucie alone knows the young men's deadly connection, and even as the knowled...

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine spotlighting upcoming releases we're eagerly anticipating.   Release Date: June 7, 2016 Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers ADD TO GOODREADS SUMMARY   For fans of We Were Liars and The Girl on the Train comes a chilling, addictive psychological thriller about a teenage girl who cannot remember the last six weeks of her life. Eighteen-year-old Jill Charron's senior trip to Italy was supposed to be the adventure of a lifetime. And then the accident happened. Waking up in a hospital room, her leg in a cast, stitches in her face, and a big blank canvas where the last 6 weeks should be, Jill comes to discover she was involved in a fatal accident in her travels abroad. She was jetted home by her affluent father in order to receive quality care. Care that includes a lawyer. And a press team. Because maybe the accident...wasn't an accident. Wondering not just what happened but what she did, Jill tr...

Title: Titans Author: Victoria Scott Release Date: February 23, 2016 Publisher: Scholastic Press Pages: 320 Source: Bought Add to Goodreads | Amazon.ca | Indigo Overall: 4 STARS SUMMARY Ever since the Titans appeared in her Detroit neighborhood, Astrid Sullivan's world has revolved around the mechanical horses. It's not just the thrill of the race. It's the engineering of the horses themselves and the way they're programmed to seem so lifelike. The Titans are everything that fascinates Astrid, and nothing she'll ever touch. She hates them a little, too. Her dad lost everything betting on the Titans. And the races are a reminder of the gap between the rich jockeys who can afford the expensive machines and the working class friends and neighbors of Astrid's who wager on them. But when Astrid's offered a chance to enter an early model Titan in this year's derby, well, she decides to risk it all. Because for a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, it...

Title: These Vicious Masks (These Vicious Masks #1) Author: Tarun Shanker & Kelly Zekas Release Date: February 9, 2016 Publisher: Swoon Reads Pages: 320 Source: Bought Add to Goodreads | Amazon.ca | Indigo Overall: 4 STARS SUMMARY   England, 1882. Evelyn is bored with society and its expectations. So when her beloved sister, Rose, mysteriously vanishes. she ignores her parents and travels to London to find her, accompanied by the dashing Mr. Kent. But they're not the only ones looking for Rose. The reclusive young gentleman Sebastian Braddock is also searching for her, claiming that both sisters have special healing powers. Evelyn is convinced that Sebastian must be mad, until she discovers that his strange tales of extraordinary people are true—and that her sister is in graver danger than she feared. Jane Austen meets X-Men in These Vicious Masks , the thrilling Victorian adventure from debut authors Tarun Shanker and Kelly Zekas!   MY THOUGHTS   When Evelyn's be...

I have a very special treat for you today! To celebr ate the upcoming release of Chanel Cleeton's FLY WITH ME , the first book in the Wil d Aces series, I'm helping to give away a signed ARC of the romance novel to one lucky US re ad er! The Wild Aces trilogy will be centered around sexy fighter pilots and the ladies who steal their hearts. I've been counting down th e day s until I can read Fly With Me , and I hope you're just as excited to read the book a s I am ! I haven't encounte red a novel by Chanel Cleeton yet that I haven't fall in love with yet. I'm sure Fly With Me will be no exception. If you have a US mailing address , just scroll down a little more and fill out the Raffle copter form to enter the contest!   Release Date: May 3, 2016 Publisher: Penguin/Berkley Add to Goodreads Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Google Play | iBooks | Kobo From the author of the Capital Confessions Novels comes the first in the steamy Wild Aces Roman...

Title: Shimmer (The Rephaim #3) Author: Paula Weston Release Date: March 8, 2016 Publisher: Tundra Books Pages: 418 Source: Paperback provided by Penguin Random House Canada Add to Goodreads | Amazon.ca | Indigo Overall: 5 STARS SUMMARY Gaby thought her life couldn't get more complicated. She's almost used to the idea that she's not the teenage backpacker she thought she was. She can just about cope with being one of the Rephaim--a 139-year-old half-angel--whose memories have been stolen. She's even coming to grips with the fact that Jude, the brother she's mourned for a year, didn't die at all. But now Rafa--sexy, infuriating Rafa--is being held, and hurt, by Gatekeeper demons. And Gaby has to get the bitterly divided Rephaim to work together, or Rafa has no chance at all.    MY THOUGHTS It has not been an easy wait for the North American release of Paula Weston's Shimmer . After th e thrilling events in Haze , and a shocking cliffhanger that left me r...

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine spotlighting upcoming releases we're eagerly anticipating.   Release Date: June 28, 2016 Publisher: Delacorte Press ADD TO GOODREADS SUMMARY NO ONE EXPECTS A PRINCESS TO BE BRUTAL. And Lada Dragwlya likes it that way. Ever since she and her gentle younger brother, Radu, were wrenched from their homeland of Wallachia and abandoned by their father to be raised in the Ottoman courts, Lada has known that being ruthless is the key to survival. She and Radu are doomed to act as pawns in a vicious game, an unseen sword hovering over their every move. For the lineage that makes them special also makes them targets. Lada despises the Ottomans and bides her time, planning her vengeance for the day when she can return to Wallachia and claim her birthright. Radu longs only for a place where he feels safe. And when they meet Mehmed, the defiant and lonely son of the sultan, who’s expected to rule a nation, Radu feels...