Fragments Of Life

Product details :   Publisher : Simon Pulse. Hardcover, 464 pages. Release date : October 27th 2015. Rating : 3½ out of 5. Ages : 14+ Series : The Heirs of Watson Island #2. Other Books in Series : Compulsion . Source : Received from publisher for review.   Beautiful Creatures meets The Raven Boys in the spellbinding second novel in the Heirs of Watson Island trilogy that “skillfully blends rich magic and folklore with adventure, sweeping romance, and hidden treasure” ( Publishers Weekly , on Compulsion ). Grieving the death of her godfather and haunted by her cousin Cassie’s betrayal, Barrie returns from a trip to San Francisco to find the Watson plantation under siege. Ghost-hunters hope to glimpse the ancient spirit who sets the river on fire each night, and reporters chase rumors of a stolen shipment of Civil War gold that may be hidden at Colesworth Place. The chaos turns dangerous as Cassie hires a team of archeologists to excavate beneath the mansion ruins. B...

Product details :   Publishe r: Chicken House. Paperback, 368 pages. Release date : September 3rd 2015. Rating : 3½ out of 5. Ages : 14+ Reviewed by : Arianne. A sweeping tale of love, legacy, and wilderness set between the present day and 1866 in the dramatic landscape of modern-day and territorial Montana. While on a trip to Montana with her mom, British teen Hope meets local boy Cal Crow, a ranch hand. Caught in a freak accident, Hope and Cal take shelter in a cabin, where Hope makes a strange discovery in an abandoned diary. More than a hundred years earlier, another British girl -- Emily -- met a similar fate. Her rescuer, a horse trader named Nate. In this wild place, both girls learn what it means to survive and to fall in love, neither knowing that their fates are intimately entwined.  If there’s one thing I’ve really loved about YA this year, it’s the sheer wealth of originality and unexpected stories which have taken the book world by storm – and surprise. ...

Not After Everything by Michelle Levy || Release date: August 2015. A gritty but hopeful love story about two struggling teens—great for fans of  The Spectacular Now ,  Willow , and  Eleanor and Park Tyler has a football scholarship to Stanford, a hot girlfriend, and a reliable army of friends to party with. Then his mom kills herself. And Tyler lets it all go. Now he needs to dodge what his dad is offering (verbal tirades and abuse) and earn what his dad isn’t (money). Tyler finds a job that crashes him into Jordyn, his former childhood friend turned angry-loner goth-girl. She brings Tyler an unexpected reprieve from the never-ending pity party his life has become. How could he not fall for her? But with his dad more brutally unpredictable than ever, Tyler knows he can’t risk bringing Jordyn too deeply into the chaos. So when violence rocks his world again, will it be Jordyn who shows him the way to a hopeful future? Or after everything, will Tyler have to find it in him...

Stacking The Shelves is hosted at  Tynga's Reviews . Here's a round up of the books I've received for review in the past few weeks. Let me know your thoughts in comments! Click on Book Titles For More Info! Never Evers by Tom Ellen & Lucy Ivison - Romance. Mayhem. Hamsters. Not your average school trip... I loved Lobsters - the frank and funny debut from this writing duo, and Never Evers while aimed at a younger audiences (first kisses rather than first times!) sounds like a very cute read too! Dangerous Lies by Becca Fitzpatrick - She's not who she says she is. And he will be her undoing . New from Becca Fitzpatrick, Dangerous Lies centers around witness protection and an enigmatic guy called Chet Falconer. This is out next week in the UK! The Menagerie - Animal Portraits to Colour: Illustrated by Claire Scully and Richard Merritt - Adult colouring books seem to be having a moment right now! This one contains a host of animal portraits on perforated pages which...

Image via bbcwarandpeace.tumblr.com I can't wait to see this adaptation of Tolstoy's War and Peace, which comes to BBC 1 in early 2016 (I've heard it's January, but I'm not certain on that).  Starring Lily James, Paul Dano and my favorite, Aneurin Barnard (you might know him as Richard III from The White Queen ) this is sure to be a treat for those cold winter nights. War & Peace will air on A&E, Lifetime and The History Channel in the US. Take a look at the trailer below -and tell me what you think! If embed link doesn't work, go HERE to watch the trailer.

Product details : Publishe r: Hot Key Books. Paperback, 324 pages. Release date : September 3rd 2015. Rating : 3½ out of 5. Ages : 14+ Reviewed by : Arianne.   Big city, big dreams, no money, no problem... Six 'friends', one flat, big dreams... what could go wrong? When eighteen-year-old Anna leaves school and moves to Liverpool, she feels like her life is finally beginning. She's landed her dream job at a theatre, and she's moving into an exciting (if not slightly run-down) flat on a buzzing street lined with shops, bars, and buskers. Best of all, her new flatmates are kind, welcoming and a lot of fun - what more could she ask for? But although her new life is fun, it's also a little overwhelming. Anna's job quickly falls through, and then she realises that although her new friends are great, they're also a little mixed-up... and it's not long before Anna starts using her blog to talk about her experiences, from the hilarious to the ridiculo...

Product details : Publisher : Atom. Paperback, 613 pages. Release date : August 25th 2015. Rating : 4 out of 5. Ages : 14+ Series : The Diviners #2. Other Books in Series : The Diviners . Source : Received from publisher for review. Reviewed b y: Liz from Planet Print .   After a supernatural showdown with a serial killer, Evie O'Neill has outed herself as a Diviner. Now that the world knows of her ability to "read" objects, and therefore, read the past, she has become a media darling, earning the title, "America's Sweetheart Seer." But not everyone is so accepting of the Diviners' abilities... Meanwhile, mysterious deaths have been turning up in the city, victims of an unknown sleeping sickness. Can the Diviners descend into the dreamworld and catch a killer?   For so long, Diviners had kept themselves away from the public eye, hiding their abilities and pretending there was nothing different about them. Evie O’Neill changed all that by revealing...