I can’t believe I survived. Should I laugh? Cry?

Definitely both.

Full disclosure: I went into this book with a suspicion that I might not enjoy it after my bookish twin panned it. But since I requested this book and was sent a paper ARC from the publisher, I thought I’d try to go in with an open mind and try it out.

That was probably not the best decision I’ve ever made in life.

It goes without saying that this review will be long, contain spoilers and quotes that might possibly make your eyes bleed. RUN WHILE YOU STILL CAN.

There are two reasons why I felt I NEEDED to have this book. (1) Just look at that cover! (2) The blurb made it sound like a fun summer read. On both of those counts I was mislead, but especially when it came to the blurb.  If you think this book has romance, guess again.

1. Read books even though everyone else is getting ARCs from BEA

2. Rearrange your sock draw.  Fucking socks getting all unorganized.

3. Is that some lint?

4. Schedule enough blogposts for a whole month!

5. Half of them suck so… delete.

6. Have fun because BEA is probably so boring.

7. But that’s hard because you’re all by yourself.  Bet those people at BEA aren’t alone…

8. Wikipedia chain link reading until life doesn’t hurt so bad.

9. Drink.

10. Drink some more.

11. Where did all the drinks go?!

12. More lint?  Time to burn everything!

13. Hatereview a terrible book.

14. Feel bad.  No author deserves that kind of hatred.

15. Post it anyway.  THE WORLD MUST BURN!

16. Is it too late to go anyway?

17. Yes.

18. Where is all this lint coming from?! Goddamn it!

19. Ice cream.  Lots of it.

20. Reality TV.  My only hope.

I kind of just stumbled into reading this book. I happened upon it when browsing and found myself hooked by the intro. See, there’s this girl and she’s a mind reader, and her abilities cause her to accidentally discover her stepfather has committed murder.

With this information, both the girl and her mother have to go into hiding. She changes her name to Becca King and her mother, Laurel, sends her off to live temporarily with a close friend while Laurel goes and establishes a new life for them in BC. Their getaway seems to have gone off without a hitch until Becca is forced to make her way to her new destination by herself and upon doing so discovers that Laurel’s friend has just suffered a heart attack without having told anyone about Becca’s arrival.

Becca tries calling her mom, but the call never goes through. So Becca’s caught, parentless, and she might possibly be in danger of being caught by her stepfather.

This week on Buzz Worthy News: A high school teacher gets a book deal and lives the dream, A new list of frequently challenged books is out for you to go read, Adele turns down a biography deal, should sci-fi be compulsory, Divergent #3 gets a title, all this and more on this week’s Buzz Worthy News!

Buzz Worthy News is Cuddlebuggery’s weekly news post bringing you all the best information about the book and blogging world, particularly for the venn diagram of people who overlap between the two.  For new releases and cover reveals of all the best Young Adult fiction, check out our Sunday post: How New Titles.

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 Divergent #3 Gets a Title – People Would have Preferred Detergent

The third book of the Divergent series gets its title and it is not, as many people predicted, Detergent.  I iz disappointed.  After Divergent and Insurgent, I simply thought that was the next logical step!

Welcome to Hot New Titles. This week’s new releases include titles like Game, Taken, and The Symptoms of My Insanity. There weren’t many cover reveals this week, but we were treated to the redesign of Severed Heads, Broken Hearts now titled The Beginning of Everything, the new cover of the fantasy novel Outcast and for the Cuddlebuggery Fav of the Week: A Shard of Ice!

Hot New Titles is Cuddlebuggery’s weekly post for YA releases and cover reveals. Don’t forget you can follow us on Facebook for all the cover reveals throughout the week and more fun. Clicking the covers takes you to the book’s GoodReads page. As always, we thank Stories and Sweeties, who compiles great lists of new releases and hosts monthly New Releases Giveaways! And thank you to Christina from Reader of Fictions, for keeping us in the know for the newest cover reveals!