FRIDAY STARS–Your Weekly Must Knows 10/24/14

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★✩★Just Finished & Loved ★✩★
Avow (The Archers of Avalon Book 3) by Chelsea Fine – Jen fell head over heels for this series and said – From the very first page, this series enraptured me. I have found a heroine I respect, a book boyfriend that I can obsess over, and a storyline that left me enchanted. After finishing this series, I still can’t stop thinking about every moment that made my breath catch and then had me smiling.
(Jen’s Review)

The Raven Cycle #3: Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater – This was one of Chelsea’s most anticipated books of the year! She said – My final exclamation, true story, as the final page was withering away before me: “Oh, my God. Oh no.”
(Chelsea’s Review)

Friday Night Bites (Chicagoland Vampires #2) by Chloe Neill – Chelsea is loving this series and had to say – Well, in book two, I found that not only did the intensity increase in the severity with which Merit and her vampire brethren were threatened, but also, her attraction to the head vampire, Ethan, became such a tangible thing I choked on it.
(Chelsea’s Review)

Twice Bitten (Chicagoland Vampires, Book 3) by Chloe Neill – The sexual tension, the angst, the battles, the jealousy-boy oh boy was I in my element.
(Chelsea’s Review)

★✩★Reading Next★✩★

When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that gets her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government “rehabilitation camp.” She might have survived the mysterious disease that’s killed most of America’s children, but she and the others have emerged with something far worse: frightening abilities they cannot control.
Now sixteen, Ruby is one of the dangerous ones.
When the truth comes out, Ruby barely escapes Thurmond with her life. Now she’s on the run, desperate to find the one safe haven left for kids like her—East River. She joins a group of kids who escaped their own camp. Liam, their brave leader, is falling hard for Ruby. But no matter how much she aches for him, Ruby can’t risk getting close. Not after what happened to her parents.

★✩★New Releases in the Next Week★✩★

★✩★Freebies★✩★

The Boys of Summer (The Summer Series #1) by C.J. Duggan – Tess’s summer of working expands her world with a series of first times with new friends, forbidden love and heartbreaking chaos.

Finding Cinderella: A Novella by Colleen Hoover – A chance encounter in the dark leads eighteen-year-old Daniel and the girl who stumbles across him to profess their love for each other. But this love has conditions: they agree it will only last one hour and it will only be make-believe.

Obsidian (A Lux Nove #1l) by Jennifer L. Armentrout – One of our favorite series! Whether it’s the infuriating smug sexiness that is Daemon, or the strong-willed won’t take crap Katy, or the energetic loveable Dee or the annoying duo that is Ash and Andrew, we LOVED all of the characters in this book.
(Jen’s Review) (Chelsea’s Review)

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Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days #1) by Susan Ee – One of our favorite series! It’s been six weeks since angels of the apocalypse descended to demolish the modern world. Street gangs rule the day while fear and superstition rule the night. When warrior angels fly away with a helpless little girl, her seventeen-year-old sister Penryn will do anything to get her back. Anything, including making a deal with Raffe, an injured enemy angel. (Harriet’s review) (Chelsea’s Review)

Beautifully Damaged (Beautifully Damaged #1) by L.A. Fiore – Still damaged from her last disastrous relationship and warned off the bad boy by friends, Ember fights the smoldering heat that Trace sparks in her when he begins shadowing her like a dark angel.

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Shine Not Burn (Shine Not Burn #1) by Elle Casey – Holy hot cowboys, I love this book! I laughed A LOT, Mack is sooo sexy, Andie is a hysterical drunk, the chemistry between the two of them is HOT and the story reads as though you are watching a movie.
(Jen’s review)

Whatever Life Throws at You by Julie Cross – Seventeen-year-old Annie Lucas’s life is completely upended the moment her dad returns to the major leagues as the new pitching coach for the Kansas City Royals. Now she’s living in Missouri (too cold), attending an all-girls school (no boys), and navigating the strange world of professional sports. But Annie has dreams of her own—most of which involve placing first at every track meet…and one starring the Royals’ super-hot rookie pitcher.

Anna Dressed in Blood (Anna #1) by Kendare Blake – Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead. So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father’s mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. Together they follow legends and local lore, trying to keep up with the murderous dead. (Chelsea’s Review)

Marked (House of Night #1) by P.C. Cast – The House of Night series is set in a world very much like our own, except in 16-year-old Zoey Redbird’s world, vampyres have always existed. Zoey enters the House of Night, a school where, after having undergone the Change, she will train to become an adult vampire–that is, if she makes it through the Change. Not all of those who are chosen do. It’s tough to begin a new life, away from her parents and friends, and on top of that, Zoey finds she is no average fledgling. She has been Marked as special by the vampyre Goddess, Nyx.

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