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  Publication Date:  June 28, 2022 Format:  Audio Genre:   YA Fantasty Narrators:  Chloe Cannon/Emma Galvin Publisher:  Macmillan Audio Length:  9 hours 51 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis The suburbs, right now . . . Seventeen-year-old Ivy’s summer break kicks off with an accident, a punishment, and a mystery: a stranger whose appearance in the middle of the road, in the middle of the night, heralds a string of increasingly unsettling events. As the days pass, Ivy grapples with eerie offerings, corroded memories, and a secret she’s always known—that there's more to her mother than meets the eye. The city, back then . . . Dana has always been perceptive. And the summer she turns sixteen, with the help of her best friend and an ambitious older girl, her gifts bloom into a heady fling with the supernatural. As the trio’s aspirations darken, they find themselves speeding toward a violent breaking point. Years after it began, Ivy and...

Advanced Healing Spells L.C. Mawson (Ember Academy for Young Witches, #3) Publication date: April 15th 2020 Genres: Urban Fantasy, Young Adult Keeping my head down shouldn’t be too hard… Right? Unhappy with how everything with the Amazons went down, the Slayers are now investigating Ember Academy. But not me. Not as long as I keep my head down. Which would have been a hell of a lot easier if students hadn’t started dropping unconscious. No one knows how to wake them, but I have ways to find answers that they don’t The question is if I risk it with the Slayers watching me so closely… Especially when it would mean reaching out to the very criminal the Slayers are trying to find. ADVANCED HEALING SPELLS is the third book in the Ember Academy for Young Witches YA Urban Fantasy Academy series. If you love kick-ass heroines, Sapphic slow-burn romances, and magical boarding schools, you’ll love this latest fast-paced series in L.C. Mawson’s Snowverse. Goodreads / Amazon —...

Title:   Graduation Day: The Testing, Book 3 by Joelle Charbonneau Publisher:  Recorder Books Format: Audio book Length:  9 hours 17 minutes Narrator: Elizabeth Horton Genre: Dystopian YA Synopsis:  She wants to put an end to the Testing. In a scarred and brutal future, The United Commonwealth teeters on the brink of all-out civil war. The rebel resistance plots against a government that rules with cruelty and cunning. Gifted student and Testing survivor Cia Vale vows to fight. But she can't do it alone. This is the chance to lead that Cia has trained for - but who will follow? Plunging through layers of danger and deception, Cia must risk the lives of those she loves - and gamble on the loyalty of her lethal classmates. Who can Cia trust? (53)Review: I actually liked this book the best out of the whole trilogy. While Cia still seems perfect in many ways, this book starts to show her humanity and her flaws and how this whole thing is aff...

Title:   The Rise of Nine (Lorien Legacies) by Pittacus Lore Publisher: Harper Audio Format: Audio Book Narrator: Neil Kaplan, Devon Sorvari, Marisol Ramirez Time: 10 hours 8 minutes Genre: YA / Fantasy Synopsis:  The Mogadorians who destroyed the planet Lorien continue to hunt down the Garde, the small group of Loric survivors who have taken refuge on Earth. The Garde must come together. They are Lorien and Earth’s only hope. During the dangerous mission at the Mogadorian base in West Virginia, John found and rescued Nine. But even with their combined powers, special abilities known as Legacies, the pair barely escaped with their lives—and they lost Sam in the process. In order to save our world and their own, John and Nine must join forces with Six, and Seven who have been battling the Mogadorians in Spain, and who are now trying to locate Number Eight in India. Power in numbers will save us all. Review: This book didn't hold my attention as much as The Po...