Jenuine Cupcakes

Author: C.J. Redwine Publication: August 28, 2012 By: Balzer & Bray (Harper Teen) 5 STARS! (A MUST READ) This cover is fierce!   *stares in awe* Thank you to Edelweiss and Balzar & Bray (Harper Teen) for this ARC!   I've been dying to read this for a long time now and I literally cried when I found out I was getting my chance. This book had me laughing, crying, and chain chewing (gum) because it was so intense at times. It's a thrilling adventure of love, loyalty and hope that will suck you in from the first page. While most girls within the walled city of Baalboden were learning the importance of how to cook, sew and behave properly in public, sixteen year old Rachel Adams was also learning how to take care of herself with sharp objects. (She can gut you like a fish!) Her father Jared, Baalboden's top courier made sure she knew how to wield a sword and what to do in order to survive the Wastelands. He taught her well, so well in fact, that when he fail...

DEFIANCE by C.J. Redwine Cover Reveal!   I think I sucked all the air out of the room when I saw this. SO.VERY.SPARKLY!! YABC had the EXCLUSIVE Cover Reveal for DEFIANCE (coming in August)! For more info and to read a note from C.J.  click here. Within the walls of Baalboden, beneath the shadow of the city’s brutal leader, Rachel Adams has a secret. While other girls sew dresses, host dinner parties, and obey their male Protectors, Rachel knows how to survive in the wilderness and deftly wield a sword. When her father, Jared, fails to return from a courier mission and is declared dead, the Commander assigns Rachel a new Protector, her father’s apprentice, Logan—the same boy Rachel declared her love for two years ago, and the same boy who handed her heart right back to her. Left with nothing but fierce belief in her father’s survival, Rachel decides to escape and find him herself. But treason against the Commander carries a heavy price, and wha...