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Undone by Cat Clarke. Here's what Goodreads has to say: Jem Halliday is in love with her gay best friend. Not exactly ideal, but she's learning to live with it.

Then the unspeakable happens. Kai is outed online ... and he kills himself.

Jem knows nothing she can say or do will bring him back. But she wants to know who was responsible. And she wants to take them down.

A searing story of love, revenge and betrayal from a bestselling author.

City of Bones Trailer Release

The movie! It's coming! It's finally coming!

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The Gathering Dark by Christine Johnson. Here's what Goodreads has to say: Keira’s hallucinating. First it’s a door hovering above the road; then it’s a tree in her living room. But with her parents fighting and her best friend not speaking to her, Keira can’t tell anyone about her breakdown.

Until she meets Walker. They have an electric connection, and somehow he can see the same shadowy images plaguing Keira.

But trusting Walker may be more dangerous than Keira could have ever imagined. The more she confides in him, the more intense—and frightening—her visions become. Because Walker is not what he appears to be. And neither are her visions.


How awesome does that sound! What are you waiting on this Wednesday?

The Absolute Value of -1: Review

Title: The Absolute Value of -1
Author: Steve Brezenoff
Release Date: September 2010
Published By: Carolrhoda
Pages: 264
Goodreads Rating: 3.53 stars

Review: Noah, Lily, and Simon have been a trio forever. But as they enter high school, their relationships shift and their world starts to fall apart. Privately, each is dealing with a family crisis—divorce, abuse, and a parent's illness. Yet as they try to escape the pain and reach out for the connections they once counted on, they slip. Noah’s got it bad for Lily, but he knows too well Lily sees only Simon. Simon is indifferent, suddenly inscrutable to his friends. All stand alone in their heartache and grief.

THE ABSOLUTE VALUE OF -1 quite simply gutted me. Each character outwardly seems unlikable from their initial personality characteristics, but as the author delves deeper into each of their individual points of view, the "true" characters begin to emerge. Each has their own heartbreaking story to tell, and although they were very different from one another, the author managed to avoid a common pitfall of novels with changing perspectives: having one character favored over others. 

Of course, I would be remiss not to mention the writing. Every word written in these pages was phenomenal, to say the least. This book had the kind of quietly heartache-y writing that I love so much, so you can bet this is one huge factor for why I fell in love with this novel. The plot already had plenty of emotion infused in it, but this certainly brought it out even more to the point that I even cried while reading this.

There's not too much to say about THE ABSOLUTE VALUE OF -1 other than that you should absolutely  read it if you haven't already. This book pulls a massive emotional punch, but just the kind you want to receive. Everything is so heart-breaking and so authentic and so heart-breakingly authentic that you emerge from this book feeling almost changed. I can't recommend this enough.