Top Ten Books On My Spring 2013 TBR List

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Spring is right around the corner, and I have a TBR mountain to get through. These are the top books that I either want or desperately need to read. A lot of them are review books, but there are a few of my own sprinkled in there.

New Releases: March 12 - 18, 2013

There aren't as many great releases as last week, but there are a couple here that I'm looking forward to! All links go to Goodreads.

Weekly Wrap Up (10.03.13 - 16.03.13)

I've decided to start doing a weekly wrap up post to round up the posts and reviews I post each week. Hopefully this will give the people that have missed posts an easy way to catch up!

Reviews:

Between the Lines by Tammara Webber

The Nightmare Affair by Mindee Arnett

I posted about this week's new YA releases like I do every Monday (come back tomorrow to see next week's!), and Reviewer X posted their review of The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart. According to X, this book is AMAZING and everyone should read it. I was definitely convinced to add it to my TBR!

Coming up next week are more reviews, what I'm planning on reading this spring, and I am also introducing a new guest blogger! Exciting stuff!

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
Release Date: March 28,  2008
Publisher: Hyperion
Source: Bought

Frankie Landau-Banks at age 14:
Debate Club.
Her father’s “bunny rabbit.”
A mildly geeky girl attending a highly competitive boarding school.

Frankie Landau-Banks at age 15:
A knockout figure.
A sharp tongue.
A chip on her shoulder.
And a gorgeous new senior boyfriend: the supremely goofy, word-obsessed Matthew Livingston.

Frankie Laundau-Banks.
No longer the kind of girl to take “no” for an answer.
Especially when “no” means she’s excluded from her boyfriend’s all-male secret society.
Not when her ex boyfriend shows up in the strangest of places.
Not when she knows she’s smarter than any of them.
When she knows Matthew’s lying to her.
And when there are so many, many pranks to be done.

Frankie Landau-Banks, at age 16:
Possibly a criminal mastermind.

This is the story of how she got that way. - Goodreads

Have any of you ever felt frustrated by the world we live in? By the societal pressures; the limitations placed on us because of our genders; the undeniable inequality that still exists between men and women? Especially as young, teenage girls? Have you ever have had a boyfriend who patronised you, a family who undermined you and a schooling system which didn't challenge you? I ask these questions because these are the issues that are raised in The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks.

The Nightmare Affair by Mindee Arnett

The Nightmare Affair by Mindee Arnett
The Arkwell Academy #1
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Publisher: Tor Teen
Source: Publisher (NetGalley)
Goodreads Stars: 2
Rating: Bland

Sixteen-year-old Dusty Everhart breaks into houses late at night, but not because she’s a criminal. No, she’s a Nightmare.

Literally.

Being the only Nightmare at Arkwell Academy, a boarding school for magickind, and living in the shadow of her mother’s infamy, is hard enough. But when Dusty sneaks into Eli Booker’s house, things get a whole lot more complicated. He’s hot, which means sitting on his chest and invading his dreams couldn’t get much more embarrassing. But it does. Eli is dreaming of a murder.

Then Eli’s dream comes true.

Now Dusty has to follow the clues—both within Eli’s dreams and out of them—to stop the killer before more people turn up dead. And before the killer learns what she’s up to and marks her as the next target.

I was so excited to read The Nightmare Affair because, hello, boarding schools! Who doesn't like a good boarding school book? Better yet, this particular boarding school is full of magical folk, and the main character is a Nightmare! I've only seen one Nightmare in YA before, and that's a character in Rachel Vincent's Soul Screamers series - one of my favourite series to date. I had fairly high expectations, and The Nightmare Affair was one of my most anticipated debuts of the year. Unfortunately it feel very, very flat.