Last month I had the opportunity to go to my first ever book convention, TLA. It was a lot of fun and I had promised myself that I’d not go crazy and pick up things I didn’t desperately want to read. Well, that plan only worked so far because I ran across some books I’d not heard of BUT the covers looked awesome. I had to pick them up. I thought I’d include them this week since the prompt is
Ten Books I Picked Up On A Whim (however you decide to interpret that (bought or read or something else) — I know most people read based on recommendation but we want to know those books you picked up without really hearing about or knowing much about!)
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Top Books I Picked Up on a Whim at a Book Conference (plus one)
Everyone We’ve Been
By: Sarah Everett
October 4th 2016 by Knopf Books for Young Readers
Summary:
Addison Sullivan has been in an accident. In its aftermath, she has memory lapses and starts talking to a boy that no one else can see. It gets so bad that she’s worried she’s going crazy.
Addie takes drastic measures to fill in the blanks and visits a shadowy medical facility that promises to “help with your memory.” But at the clinic, Addie unwittingly discovers it is not her first visit. And when she presses, she finds out that she had certain memories erased. She had a boy erased.
But why? Who was that boy, and what happened that was too devastating to live with? And even if she gets the answers she’s looking for, will she ever be able to feel like a whole person again?
Never Missing, Never Found
By: Amanda Panitch
June 28th 2016 by Random House Books for Young Readers
Summary:
A juicy thriller about a girl who returned from the missing. . . . Hand to fans of We Were Liars, Bone Gap, and Vanishing Girls.
Some choices change everything. Scarlett chose to run. And the consequences will be deadly.
Stolen from her family as a young girl, Scarlett was lucky enough to eventually escape her captor. Now a teen, she’s starting a summer job at an amusement park. There are cute boys, new friends, and the chance to finally have a normal life.
Her first day on the job, Scarlett is shocked to discover that a girl from the park has gone missing. Old memories come rushing back. And now as she meets her new coworkers, one of the girls seems strangely familiar. When Scarlett chose to run all those years ago, what did she set into motion? And when push comes to shove, how far will she go to uncover the truth . . . before it’s too late?
This Is Our Story
By: Ashley Elston
November 15th 2016 by Disney-Hyperion
Summary:
No one knows what happened that morning at River Point. Five boys went hunting. Four came back. The boys won’t say who fired the shot that killed their friend; the evidence shows it could have been any one of them.
Kate Marino’s senior year internship at the District Attorney’s Office isn’t exactly glamorous—more like an excuse to leave school early that looks good on college applications. Then the DA hands her boss, Mr. Stone, the biggest case her small town of Belle Terre has ever seen. The River Point Boys are all anyone can talk about. Despite their damning toxicology reports the morning of the accident, the DA wants the boys’ case swept under the rug. He owes his political office to their powerful families.
Kate won’t let that happen. Digging up secrets without revealing her own is a dangerous line to walk; Kate has her own reasons for seeking justice for Grant. As she and Stone investigate—the ageing prosecutor relying on Kate to see and hear what he cannot—she realizes that nothing about the case—or the boys—is what it seems. Grant wasn’t who she thought he was, and neither is Stone’s prime suspect. As Kate gets dangerously close to the truth, it becomes clear that the early morning accident might not have been an accident at all—and if Kate doesn’t uncover the true killer, more than one life could be on the line…including her own.
The Telling
By: Alexandra Sirowy
August 2nd 2016 by Simon & Schuster Books for Young
Summary:
Lana used to know what was real.
That was before when her life was small and quiet.
Her golden step-brother, Ben, was alive, she could only dream about bonfiring with the populars, their wooded island home was idyllic, she could tell the truth from lies, and Ben’s childhood stories were firmly in her imagination.
Then came after.
After has Lana boldly kissing her crush, jumping into the water from too high up, and living with nerve and mischief. But after also has horrors, deaths that only make sense in fairy tales, and terrors from a past Lana thought long forgotten: Love, blood, and murder.
And this last book was sent to me unsolicited but I’ve added it to my TBR pile because I love this cover. I’m counting it as a whim.
Dreamers Often Lie
By: Jacqueline West
April 5th 2016 by Dial Books
Summary:
Jaye wakes up from a skiing accident with a fractured skull, a blinding headache, and her grip on reality sliding into delusion. Determined to get back to her starring role in the school production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Jaye lies to her sister, her mom, her doctors. She’s fine, she says. She’s fine. If anyone knew the truth – that hallucinations of Shakespeare and his characters have followed her from her hospital bed to the high school halls – it would all be over. She’s almost managing to pull off the act when Romeo shows up in her anatomy class. And it turns out that he’s 100% real. Suddenly Jaye has to choose between lying to everyone else and lying to herself.
Troubled by the magnetic new kid, a long-lost friend turned recent love interest, and the darkest parts of her family’s past, Jaye’s life tangles with Shakespeare’s most famous plays until she can’t tell where truth ends and pretending begins. Soon, secret meetings and dizzying first kisses give way to more dangerous things. How much is real, how much is in Jaye’s head, and how much does it matter as she flies toward a fate over which she seems to have no control?
I really want to read This Is Our Story, it looks right up my alley!! And Never Missing, Never Found looks great too.
Oh I love the sound of Dreamers Often Lie!
Never missing never found looks awesome!
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I haven’t heard of most of these but I can see why you would pick them up! I love the first two covers and This Is Our Story sounds striking
I haven’t heard of these but they all sound interesting and the covers would make me want to pick them up on a whim too. I am definitely going to add Dreams Often Lie to my TBR.
ooo these all look very intense!!! 🙂 My TTT
Oh nice! SO excited for The Telling! I enjoyed Alexandra’s first book, so yay!!
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I love the cover to This Is Our Story. The cover, title, and synopsis of Dreamers Often Lie are fabulous. I am going to be checking that one out. 🙂
Ooh, the first and last books on your list look really, really good! If you had to pick just one, which one would it be?
Hmm..
My Whim Grabs.
Everyone We’ve Been has really gorgeous cover, but This is Our Story and Dreamers Often Lie really intrigue me!
Oooh! I’m very curious about The Telling since I recently heard about it. How did you like it? ^_^
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The Telling sounds good, but I wasn’t a huge fan of The Creeping, so I probably won’t pick it up. Great list!
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This all sounds really good! I can’t wait for This is Our Story!
Yay 😀 Lovely post sweetie. <3 Thank you for sharing about these books that you just had to pick up, hih 🙂 Not heard of them before.. but yeah. Those covers are awesome 😀 If I had the chance to just pick ARCs too, hih, I probably would have gotten them too 🙂 So pretty. Crossing my fingers you will end up loving them too 😀 Happy reading Kristen. <3
Ashley sent me a copy of This is Our Story a while back and I devoured it. I loved her other two books, so I was really eager to read the new one too. I have The Telling and Dreamers Often Lie, but I haven’t gotten a chance to read either of them yet.
I hope you enjoy all of them!!
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That cover for Dreamers Often Lie is a good one. I really like the one before it, too.
I haven’t read any of these books but I’ve been lucky enough to with books I’ve just picked up on a whim. The Selection and The Beautiful and the Cursed are two that come to mind. I picked up Illuminae on a whim too. I’d only heard that it was good but didn’t know much about it.
Wow! The last 3 books look so good! I would’ve probably do the same thing in your situation XD
Jade xo