New YA: May 1-7.
Holy cow, I haven't read ANY of these yet. How embarrassing.
New hardbacks:
The Peculiars, by Maureen McQuerry:
I suspect that Lena will give some readers trouble, as she's got a bad case of self-loathing (understandably, given her upbringing), and she has a tendency to ignore her gut instinct (also understandable, given her insecurity) which leads her to make some big, big mistakes. Like I said, both of those aspects of her personality make sense, but they also make her company a bit difficult to enjoy wholeheartedly.
The Good Braider, by Terry Farish
Wrecked, by Anna Davies
When You Were Mine, by Rebecca Serle
Wentworth Hall, by Abby Grahame
Welcome, Caller, This Is Chloe, by Shelley Coriell
Silence (Queen of the Dead), by Michelle Sagara
Stone Mage Wars, Book 1: Journey To the Fringe, by Kelli Swofford Nielsen
This Is So Not Happening (He's So/She's So Trilogy), by Kieran Scott
The Vicious Deep, by Zoraida Cordova
Waiting (Paula Wiseman Books), by Carol Lynch Williams
Wanted, by Heidi Ayarbe
Monster High 4: Back and Deader Than Ever, by Lisi Harrison
Numbers Book 3: Infinity, by Rachel Ward
Revived, by Cat Patrick
The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles, Book 3), by Rick Riordan
Shine, by Jeri Smith-Ready
Insurgent (Divergent), by Veronica Roth
The Last Princess, by Galaxy Craze
The Letter Q: Queer Writers' Notes to their Younger Selves, by Sarah Moon and James Lecesne
Crazy Dangerous, by Andrew Klavan
Destined (Wings), by Aprilynne Pike
The Drowned Cities, by Paolo Bacigalupi
Being Friends with Boys, by Terra Elan McVoy
Bitterblue (Graceling), by Kristin Cashore
Black Dawn: The Morganville Vampires, by Rachel Caine
Body & Soul (A Ghost and the Goth Novel), by Stacey Kade
New paperbacks (that I've reviewed):
Starcrossed, by Josephine Angelini:
Would I recommend this wholeheartedly to Twilight fans? Yes. It's got the similarity in set-up, of course, with a girl and her single dad, a beauteous family moving in and the "Oh noes! We want to be together but we can't! storyline, though in this case, SPOILER it's more a "Oh noes! We want to be together but we can't A) because we want to kill each other, and B) because it would End the World, and C) because of a twist that fans of Cassandra Clare will be familiar with!" END SPOILER storyline, and so on.
New Girl, by Paige Harbison:
Ultimately, she did make some big changes. BIG changes. One of the most major (that I can mention without Huge Spoilers) is that the narrative follows both girls, the narrator and Becca. That’s fun on two levels. First, because mysteries that alternate between past and present views are Good Stuff, and second, because it forces the reader to think about du Maurier’s Rebecca as a real person with actual feelings, rather than purely as a sociopathic hell-beast.