TBR Thursday {7}

TBR Thursday is a weekly post where I draw attention to books by sharing with you the last book I purchased, a book I've received for review (new feature), and 10 books on my TBR list.

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Last Book Purchased:

Jumping off Swings, Jo Knowles

(8/11/2009 / Candlewick Press)

Buy It:   Amazon  /  Barnes & Noble

Synposis from Goodreads:  Ellie remembers how the boys kissed her. Touched her. How they begged for more. And when she gave it to them, she felt loved. For a while anyway. So when Josh, an eager virgin with a troubled home life, leads her from a party to the backseat of his van, Ellie follows.

But their -one-time thing- is far from perfect: Ellie gets pregnant. Josh reacts with shame and heartbreak, while their confidantes, Caleb and Corinne, deal with their own complex swirl of emotions. No matter what Ellie chooses, all four teenagers will be forced to grow up a little faster as a result.

Told alternately from each character-s point of view, this deeply insightful novel explores the aftershocks of the biggest decision of one fragile girl-s life-and the realities of leaving innocence behind.

Received for Review:

 

 

Demon Lover, Juliet Dark

(12/27/2011 / Random House)

 

Synopsis from Goodreads: I gasped . . . or tried to. My mouth opened, but I couldn’t draw breath. . . His lips, pearly wet, parted and he blew into my mouth. My lungs expanded beneath his weight. When I exhaled he sucked in my breath and his weight turned from cold marble into warm living flesh.

Since accepting a teaching position at remote Fairwick College in upstate New York, Callie McFay has experienced the same disturbingly erotic dream every night: A mist enters her bedroom, then takes the shape of a virile, seductive stranger who proceeds to ravish her in the most toe-curling, wholly satisfying ways possible. Perhaps these dreams are the result of writing her bestselling book, The Sex Lives of Demon Lovers. After all, Callie’s lifelong passion is the intersection of lurid fairy tales and Gothic literature—which is why she finds herself at Fairwick’s renowned folklore department, living in a once-stately Victorian house that, at first sight, seemed to call her name.

 

But Callie soon realizes that her dreams are alarmingly real. She has a demon lover—an incubus—and he will seduce her, pleasure her, and eventually suck the very life from her. Then Callie makes another startling discovery: He’s not the only mythical creature in Fairwick. As the tenured witches of the college and the resident fairies in the surrounding woods prepare to cast out the incubus, Callie must accomplish something infinitely more difficult—banishing this demon lover from her heart.

 

To Be Read Books:

 

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 1. Someone Else's Life, Katie Dale

 

 2. Burnout, Adrienne Maria Vrettos

 

 3. The World As We Know It, Joseph Monninger

 

 4. Partials, Dan Wells

 

 5. What My Mother Doesn't Know, Sonya Sones

 

 6. Cracked, K.M. Walton

 

 7. Breaking Beautiful, Jennifer Shaw Wolf

 

 8. Invincible Summer, Hannah Moskowitz

 

 9. Beautiful Creatures, Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl

 

 10. The Body Finder, Kimberly Derting

 

 

 

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