New YA: January 2.

Hardbacks out today:

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight, by Jennifer E. Smith:

Maine winters require escape, preferably of the smoochy sort. So I was quite happy to find The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight. And yay you, Jennifer E. Smith, because it totally worked. Escape city. It's a sweet little book, and now, just looking at the cover makes me smile.

Darkness Falls: Immortal Beloved #2, by Cate Tiernan:

If you like paranormals, I'd definitely recommend that you give this series a try—Nastasya's got a great perspective (lots of flashbacks of different time periods and so on) and a snappy voice, and it's a much more thoughtful spin on immortality than you'll find in most other places.

The Queen of Kentucky, by Alecia Whitaker:

Ricki Jo, herself, is a likable, believable heroine who reads the Bible (almost) every night, but who makes mistakes and sees the sexiness in Song of Songs. When she makes mistakes, they're almost always especially cringeworthy because she knows that what she's doing is wrong, and so at times, it's a painful, painful read. In a good way.

Paperbacks out today:

The Mockingbirds, by Daisy Whitney:

The Mockingbirds made a HUGE splash when it first came out. Which is totally understandable, because there's a lot to like: Alex's emotional journey as she struggles to remember what happened, her difficulty in deciding how to proceed, the fact that she worries constantly that she's remembering things wrong, how she feels pushed and pulled by the opinions of her friends... all of that rings very, very true.

Immortal Beloved, by Cate Tiernan:

What surprised me was my ability to let go of the fact that Nastasya was 450+ years old and STILL, especially at the beginning of the book, acting like an idiot. That she hadn't (to use a somewhat inappropriate phrase, as she's an immortal) seen the light and matured a bit over her very long lifetime. But as her past history unfolded, her reactions and her behavior began to make more and more sense. Even though she's centuries old, the book is about her coming into her own and figuring out who she is—and so it totally works as a YA novel.