Every so often, I'm going to do a large picture post with shiny new covers. They won't be every cover recently revealed, just some of my favorites or particularly "big" books. Let me know which you like or are particularly excited about!
I feel it my duty as an official member of the Rock Stars to share this with you, but I honestly just adore this cover!
Camp Boyfriend was a fantastic summer read for me this year, and I can't wait to read what comes next for these crazy campers!
Camp Payback
J.K. Rock
April 29, 2014
Spencer Hill Press
Summary:
Alex has big plans for
camp this year, starting with making it the best summer ever. Having fun
and breaking some rules will get her the payback she wants against her
parents and her ex-boyfriend. Because of his disgusting texts, she's
headed to a super strict all-girls school in the fall. Then she meets
Javier and revenge doesn't seem nearly as important as getting to know
the troubled loner determined to keep a low profile at camp. But Alex's
trouble-magnet personality and Javier's need to stay in the background
don't mix nearly as well as their irresistible chemistry. With her home
life eroding under her feet and her last year of summer camp speeding to
a close, Alex wants to make her mark on the world and squeeze every bit
of fun out of her time with Javier. Too bad her old plans for revenge
turn back on her just in time to ruin everything. Will she lose Javier
too?
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And one of the other series for which I'm a street team member released its cover this week too! *drools*
The Warrior
Victoria Scott
May 6, 2014
Entangled Teen
Summary:
War between heaven and hell is coming, but Dante Walker makes it look damn good.
Dante’s
girlfriend, Charlie, is fated to save the world. And Aspen, the girl
who feels like a sister, is an ordained soldier. In order to help both
fulfill their destiny and win the war, Dante must complete liberator
training at the Hive, rescue Aspen from hell, and uncover a message
hidden on an ancient scroll.
Dante is built for battle, but even
he can’t handle the nightmares where spiders crawl from Aspen’s eyes, or
the look on Charlie’s face that foretells of devastation. To make
matters worse, the enemy seizes every opportunity to break inside the
Hive and cripple the liberators. But the day of reckoning is fast
approaching, and to stand victorious, Dante will have to embrace
something inside himself he never has before—faith.
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I just read
The Program, and it was crazy good. I can't wait to get my hands on
The Treatment, which, by the way, is up on Edelweiss if you're interested.
The Treatment
Suzanne Young
April 29, 2014
Simon Pulse
Summary:
How do you stop an epidemic?
Sloane
and James are on the run after barely surviving the suicide epidemic
and The Program. But they’re not out of danger. Huge pieces of their
memories are still missing, and although Sloane and James have found
their way back to each other, The Program isn’t ready to let them go.
Escaping
with a group of troubled rebels, Sloane and James will have to figure
out who they can trust, and how to take down The Program. But for as far
as they’ve come, there’s still a lot Sloane and James can’t remember.
The key to unlocking their past lies with the Treatment—a pill that can
bring back forgotten memories, but at a high cost. And there’s only one
dose.
Ultimately when the stakes are at their highest, can Sloane
and James survive the many lies and secrets surrounding them, or will
The Program claim them in the end?
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Of Neptune
Anna Banks
May 14, 2014
Feiwel & Friends
Summary:
So far, no summary is available for Of Neptune, but it is the third book of the Syrena Legacy trilogy, the sequel to Of Triton and Of Poseidon. I have not read this series yet, but I am assured by several friends and bookstore employees that it's incredible. Sold!
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This next one sounds super original and awesome, and I'm really excited to read it!
The Break-Up Artist
Philip Siegel
February 4, 2014
Harlequin Teen
Summary:
Some sixteen-year-olds babysit for extra cash. Some work at the Gap. Becca Williamson breaks up couples.
After
watching her sister get left at the altar, Becca knows the true damage
that comes when people utter the dreaded L-word. For just $100 via
paypal, she can trick and manipulate any couple into smithereens. With
relationship zombies overrunning her school, and treating single girls
like second class citizens, business is unfortunately booming. Even her
best friend Val has resorted to outright lies to snag a boyfriend.
One
night, she receives a mysterious offer to break up the homecoming king
and queen, the one zombie couple to rule them all: Steve and Huxley.
They are a JFK and Jackie O in training, masters of sweeping faux-mantic
gestures, but if Becca can split them up, then school will be safe
again for singletons. To succeed, she'll have to plan her most elaborate
scheme to date and wiggle her way back into her former BFF Huxley’s
life – not to mention start a few rumors, sabotage some cell phones,
break into a car, and fend off the inappropriate feelings she’s having
about Val’s new boyfriend. All while avoiding a past victim out to
expose her true identity.
No one said being the Break-Up Artist was easy.
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Finally, the rest of this edition of Cover Love goes to some new Harper Collins titles. Last week's Epic Reads Tea Time was all about covers, and I wanted to share some of my favorites from that with you.
I haven't read
Arclight yet, even though I've had it checked out from the library for AGES, but I love how this cover looks like the negative to a photograph. Also, it somehow manages to be white and colorful all at the same time, and I like that. Lovely!
Meridian
Josin L. McQuein
April 22, 2014
Greenwillow Books
Summary:
Marina thought that she
had solved all of the Arclight’s mysteries. She had found her own
history—that she was one of the Fade, that she never should have been
human. She knows that the Fade who surround the Arclight don’t want to
be the humans' enemies at all. She knows that the leader of those inside
the Arc, Honoria Whit, never told the whole truth. But there is so much
more that Marina is just discovering. There are more survivors out
there. Only Marina—and her friends, all of whom have connections to the
Fade they'd never known about—can lead her people to them. But there are
also darker dangers, things that even the Fade fear. And Marina slowly
realizes she may never have been “cured,” after all. The sequel to
Arclight, Meridian is an intense, action-packed page-turner about the
lines we draw between right and wrong, light and dark . . . and the way
nothing is ever that black and white.
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This book only has a one-sentence summary, but it's a good one. When combined with a cover as adorable as this, you can be sure it's one I will love.
Guy in Real Life
Steve Brezenoff
May 27, 2014
Balzer + Bray
Summary:
An achingly real and
profoundly moving love story about two Minnesota teens whose lives
become intertwined through role playing games.
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Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes! WANT.
On the Fence
Kasie West
July 1, 2014
HarperTeen
Summary:
For sixteen-year-old
Charlotte Reynolds, aka Charlie, being raised by a single dad and three
older brothers has its perks. She can out-run, out-score, and outwit
every boy she knows--including her long-time neighbor, and honorary
fourth brother, Braden.
But when it comes to being a girl,
Charlie doesn't know the first thing about anything. So when she starts
working at a chi-chi boutique to pay off a speeding ticket, she finds
herself in a strange new world of makeup, lacy skirts, and bedazzlers.
Even stranger, she's spending time with a boy who has never seen her
tear it up in a pick-up game.
To cope with the stress of faking
her way through this new reality, Charlie seeks late night refuge in her
backyard, talking out her problems with Braden by the fence that
separates them. But their Fence Chats can't solve Charlie's biggest
problem: she's falling for Braden. Hard. She knows what it means to go
for the win, but if spilling her secret means losing him for good, the
stakes just got too high.
First, this cover just pulled me in. I instantly wanted to know what it was about. Now that I know, I think this is going to be an important book, just really huge and socially impactful. Really excited to read it!
Say What You Will
Cammie McGovern
June 1, 2014
HarperTeen
Summary:
I want someone who will
talk to me honestly about things. You're the only person who ever has.
Maybe you don't know this, but when you're disabled almost no one tells
you the truth. They feel too awkward because the truth seems too sad, I
guess. You were very brave to walk up to the crippled girl and say,
essentially, wipe that sunny expression off your face and look at
reality. That's what I want you to do next year. Tell me the truth.
That's all.
Amy and Matthew didn't know each other, really. They
weren't friends. Matthew remembered her, sure, but he remembered a lot
of people from elementary school that he wasn't friends with now.
Matthew
never planned to tell Amy what he thought of her cheerful facade, but
after he does, Amy realizes she needs someone like him in her life.
As
they begin to spend more time with each other, Amy learns that Matthew
has his own secrets and she decides to try to help him in the same way
he's helped her. And when what started out as a friendship turns into
something neither of them expected, they realize that they tell each
other everything—except the one thing that matters most.
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Aprilynne Pike is a trooper. I have absolutely no idea how she finds the time to be a wife, a mom, and a writer who manages to publish several books a year covering vastly different stories and characters across the spectrum of fiction. I am in awe.
Sleep No More
Aprilynne Pike
April 29, 2014
HarperTeen
Summary:
Charlotte Westing is an
Oracle. For all the good that does her. These days, instead of using
their powers, the Oracles fight them. And Charlotte knows the price of
breaking the rules: she sees it every day in her mother's wheelchair and
the absence of her father. But when a vision of a classmate's death
overcomes her defenses, Charlotte is torn. Follow the rules? Or risk
everything--even her sanity--to fight the serial killer who has set up
residence in her town.
