Review of Let the Storm Break by Shannon Messenger

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Let the Storm Break (Let the Sky Fall, #2)

Let the Storm Break
By: Shannon Messenger
Release Date: March 4th 2014
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Source: Electronic ARC via Edelweiss

There will be spoilers for the first in the series, Let the Sky Fall

My Rating:
star

Summary:
Vane Weston is haunted. By the searing pull of his bond to Audra. By the lies he’s told to cover for her disappearance. By the treacherous winds that slip into his mind, trying to trap him in his worst nightmares. And as his enemies grow stronger, Vane doesn’t know how much longer he can last on his own.
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Review of Half Bad by Sally Green

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Half Bad (Half Life, #1)Half Bad
By: Sally Green
Release Date: March 4th 2014
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
Source: Borrowed from a friend. Thank you Kelly!

My Rating:
star

Summary:
In modern-day England, witches live alongside humans: White witches, who are good; Black witches, who are evil; and fifteen-year-old Nathan, who is both. Nathan’s father is the world’s most powerful and cruel Black witch, and his mother is dead. He is hunted from all sides. Trapped in a cage, beaten and handcuffed, Nathan must escape before his sixteenth birthday, at which point he will receive three gifts from his father and come into his own as a witch—or else he will die. But how can Nathan find his father when his every action is tracked, when there is no one safe to trust—not even family, not even the girl he loves?
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Review of Dangerous by Shannon Hale

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DangerousDangerous
By: Shannon Hale
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Source: Physical ARC

A copy was sent to me by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

My Rating:
star

Summary:
Maisie Danger Brown just wanted to get away from home for a bit, see something new. She never intended to fall in love. And she never imagined stumbling into a frightening plot that kills her friends and just might kill her, too. A plot that is already changing life on Earth as we know it. There’s no going back. She is the only thing standing between danger and annihilation.
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Review of Nil by Lynne Matson

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NilNil
By: Lynne Matson
Publisher: Henry Holt
Release Date: March 4, 2014

A copy was sent to me by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

My Rating:
star

Summary:
On the mysterious island of Nil, the rules are set. You have one year. Exactly 365 days–to escape, or you die.

Seventeen-year-old Charley doesn’t know the rules. She doesn’t even know where she is. The last thing she remembers is blacking out, and when she wakes up, she’s lying naked in an empty rock field.
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