The 5th Wave, Book 1
Published by Putnam Juvenile
Release Date: Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Available in Hardcover and Kindle editions
In Short: Cassie must question everything she knows about the invading alien force after she and her brother are separated, leaving Cassie to navigate a war-torn America to get him back.
Recommended: Yes. Kind of…
There’s no way to know for sure, but I bet the Others knew about the human aliens we’d imagined. And I bet they thought it was funny as hell. They must have laughed their asses off. If they have a …

Based on the novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
Written by: Richard LaGravenese
Directed by: Richard LaGravenese
Starring: Alden Ehrenreich, Alice Englert, Emmy Rossum, Emma Thompson
US Release Date: February 14th, 2013
In Short: Ethan Wate’s quaint southern lifestyle is forever changed when a new girl with mysterious powers moves to town.
Recommended: Not really.
LENA: You don’t know anything about me. You don’t know who I really am inside. I don’t know who I’ll be.
As much as I love the growing trend of Young Adult novels making it to the big screen, Beautiful Creatures didn’t …

Published by Del Rey
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Available in Hardcover and Kindle editions
In Short: The unprovoked destruction of their homeworld leads a stoic alien race to seek refuge with a neighboring planet of distant relatives, where the struggle begins to preserve their heritage.
Recommended: Yes,
“A lot of people act like misfortune is contagious. They don’t want to be exposed to it for too long. They’ll take you in and make all the right gestures and noises, but when the months wear on and you’re still in their house or their town …

Published by Simon Pulse
Release Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Available in Hardcover, Audio, and Kindle editions
In Short: Another simultaneously intriguing yet much-too-convoluted time-travel-y story
Recommended: Kind of.
     “So what changed his mind?” asked Umbo.
     “The knife he tried to kill me with,” said Rigg. “The facemask helped me take it from his hand, and then I went back in time and killed him. In preemptive self-defense.”
As I have now taken over the duties of reviewing this book series from our own Rachel Hyland (who is still trying to map out …

Seraphina, Book 1
2012
Published by Random House
Available in Hardcover, Audio CD and Kindle editions
In the Stacks: Best of 2012
In Short: Dragons, exciting and new.
Recommended: HELL YES!
“Only your elders remember the war, but it is not the old who join the Sons of St. Ogdo or riot in the streets. How can there be deep-seated distrust in people who’ve never been through the fires of war? My own father fell to your knights and their insidious drachomachia. All saarantrai remember those days; all of us lost family. We’ve let that go, as …

Queen of the Dead, Book 1
2012
Published by DAW
Available in Hardcover and Kindle editions
In the Stacks: Best of 2012
In Short: Excellent. Just… excellent.
Recommended: Hell, yes!
“Had he been anyone else, she would have lied, and it would have come cleanly and naturally. Lies were something you told other people to make things easier, somehow – hopefully, for them, but often more selfishly for yourself.”
Or
“And oddly enough, there are very few dead in the graveyards of the world. It’s not where they lived,” he added, “and it’s not where they died… I like …

Based on the novel by Stephenie Meyer
Written by: Melissa Rosenberg
Directed by: Bill Condon
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Billy Burke, Jackson Rathbone, Ashley Greene, Kellan Lutz, Nikki Reed, Peter Facinelli, Elisabeth Reaser, Lee Pace,
US Release Date: November 16th, 2012
In Short: The Twilight phenomenon comes to a conclusion after the birth of Bella and Edward’s daughter sparks a battle between covens.
Recommended: Yes!
BELLA: After eighteen years of being utterly ordinary, I finally found that I could shine.
One day after seeing Breaking Dawn, Part 2, and I’m still not entirely sure …

Published by Cedar Fort
Release Date: Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Available in Hardcover
In Short: Another retelling of the Snow White story.
Recommended: Yes, if you are housewife in a book club (or have the tastes of such a person).
“That’s awful,” Katiyana said. “I can’t believe anyone would want to kill such cute little men.”
Jalb let out a grunt, and Kurz glared at Katiyana. “Don’t be calling us cute,” he warned.
“Or little,” added Jalb.
With two Snow White themed movies and Once Upon a Time, what we need more of are fairytale retellings. And thus …

Published by The Writer’s Coffee Shop Publishing House
Release Date: Thursday, October 4, 2012
Available in Paperback, Trade Paperback, and Kindle editions
In Short: YA romance where a college student discovers that feeling she’s had all her life, that she’s somehow different—something “more”—is, in fact, true. Classic Padawan coming into her own story, but the politics are more multi-polar.
Recommended: Yes. It’s rather charming. Easy beach (or flopping by the fire) read.
“His lips parted, a soft snore escaping with every exhale. And in that moment, Ava knew she was lost.”
Maybe it’s just …

Published by Knopf Books for Young Readers
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Available in Hardcover, Audio CD and Kindle editions
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In Short: A has no home, no friends, no family, nothing personal. Every day, A wakes up in a different body and must make it through the day without disrupting the host’s life. Then one day, A falls in love.
Recommended: Yes
“I have learned how to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present, because that is where …