XY by Shanta Everington

 

Fifteen year old Jesse lives in a world where babies are born neither male nor female - Compulsory Gender Assignment is carried out at birth. Will the secret she closely guards be found out? Boyfriend Zeus, mother Ana's Natural Souls, and new friend Ork, leader of We Are One, pull Jesse in different directions, forcing her to make her own mind up about who she really is.  

“A highly original and thought-provoking dystopian novel. I don’t think I’ve ever read anything like it!”

Luisa Plaja, Chicklish, the UK’s Teen Fiction Site

Shanta Everington is the author of seven books, including three young adult novels – Give Me a Sign, Boy Red and latest release XY (joint winner of the Red Telephone Books YA Novel Competition). She has had all sorts of jobs in the past, from baking vegan muffins and working as a private tutor to appearing as a guest agony aunt and running a teen sexual health helpline. With an MA in Creative Writing with distinction, Shanta currently teaches Creative Writing with The Open University. She lives in London, UK, with her husband and two children.

XY is available at Amazon. Go get a copy!

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Split Second by Kasie West

Synopsis taken from Goodreads:
Life can change in a split second.

Addie hardly recognizes her life since her parents divorced. Her boyfriend used her. Her best friend betrayed her. She can’t believe this is the future she chose. On top of that, her ability is acting up. She’s always been able to Search the future when presented with a choice. Now she can manipulate and slow down time, too . . . but not without a price.

When Addie’s dad invites her to spend her winter break with him, she jumps at the chance to escape into the Norm world of Dallas, Texas. There she meets the handsome and achingly familiar Trevor. He’s a virtual stranger to her, so why does her heart do a funny flip every time she sees him? But after witnessing secrets that were supposed to stay hidden, Trevor quickly seems more suspicious of Addie than interested in her. And she has an inexplicable desire to change that.

Meanwhile, her best friend, Laila, has a secret of her own: she can restore Addie’s memories . . . once she learns how. But there are powerful people who don’t want to see this happen. Desperate, Laila tries to manipulate Connor, a brooding bad boy from school—but he seems to be the only boy in the Compound immune to her charms. And the only one who can help her.

As Addie and Laila frantically attempt to retrieve the lost memories, Addie must piece together a world she thought she knew before she loses the love she nearly forgot . . . and a future that could change everything.

Christina's Review: I loved the first book Pivot Point. I was so excited to hear that a sequel was being written. . . and I WAS NOT disappointed!! I loved this book. It was awesome, amazing, just great! It was clean, entertaining, intriguing, captivating and more. It was a great book! The characters are great. The storyline was intriguing. The book picks up after Addie lives out the path she chose after her search. I was hooked from page 1 and read it through in a day! Read Pivot Point and Split Second and you will be a big fan of Kasie West!!

Elf Tears by Kimberly Stoddard

In a world where elves and humans fear each other, where magic and technology never mix, one elf started a war to break the status quo. In doing so he made many enemies, and now Princesses Éadra and Learé fight to keep their forest free from his rule and to avenge the death of their mother.


Nothing goes as planned. Éadra finds herself a slave in Erron's fortress, and Learé gets entangled in the affairs of flarefoxes, unicorns, and even dragons. Before they can hope to end this war, they must learn the hardest lesson of all: to let go of the past, and forgive.

Check it out on Amazon.

Elf Tears is Kimberly's first book. She loves to read and write fantasy, and her goal as an author is to provide people with clean, fun fantasy that the whole family can enjoy. You can catch up with Kimberly Stoddard on Facebook or check out an excerpt of Elf Tears on her blog.

Summer at Paradise Ranch by R. Barri Flowers

Four months shy of turning sixteen, Lexi Montoya was still trying to come to terms with her parents’ divorce and her mom's marriage to a man she met online, relocating to Maui, Hawaii.

Choosing to remain with her dad in Seattle, Lexi had planned to spend her first summer since the divorce hanging out with her boyfriend, Matt, and her best friend, Robin. But her dad had other plans, insisting she spend the summer visiting her mom and stepdad at his ranch called Paradise Ranch in Wailuku, in west Maui.

Lexi goes there with an attitude. Then she meet a cute Hawaiian guy named Mitsuo, is thrown into a love triangle, becomes friends with a teen girl named April who lives on a ranch next door; rides her first horse--an Arabian mare named Poppy--learns to hula dance and surf, and finds herself embroiled in a dangerous rescue mission when Poppy and another horse named Casper are stolen from her stepfather’s ranch.

By the time her tropical summer adventure comes to an end, Lexi hates to leave Maui and say goodbye to Mitsuo. But can she stay when Matt is waiting for her back at home to pick up where they left off? Or will he lose her to a summer romance?

Excerpt:

The notion of being an ocean way from Matt for an entire summer annoyed Lexi. But she had no choice in the matter.

It didn't set well with Matt either. "That sucks!" he complained as she broke the news to him, gazing down at her with deep blue eyes.

"I know, right," Lexi told him, flipping her long brown hair over her shoulder.

"What am I going to do without my best friend?" Robin complained, her forehead creasing above thin brows.

Dirk rolled his eyes. "Are you kidding me? Who wouldn't want to go to Hawaii for an all-expense paid trip to paradise?"

"Uh me," Lexi said. "Especially when my life is right here."

"And it'll be here when you get back," he said. "But going to Maui...wow. Maybe my mom should try to hook up with someone there. My dad probably wouldn't care too much, since she's always complaining that he never pays attention to her anyway."

Robin frowned. "That's not very nice."

Dirk shrugged. "Hey, I'm just saying."

"Maybe I should give you the ticket then," Lexi suggested. "You can go in my place and I'll stay at your house, with my dad totally clueless."

Dirk laughed. "I think Matt would probably have a problem with that."

Matt ran a hand through his thick brown hair. "I'd have more of a problem if she met some surfer dude in Hawaii and decided to kick me to the curb and never come back."

Lexi met his eyes in earnest. "That's not going to happen," she promised. "No surfer dude could ever take your place with me."

"You sure about that?"

"Positive. I'll just be going through the motions and putting up with my mom until the summer ends and then I'm back here where I belong."

That seemed to pacify him. "Cool," he said, grinning, before giving her a kiss.

Lexi was only too happy to kiss him back, loving the feel of his lips on hers. Besides, she wanted the kiss to be enough for both of them to last through the entire summer.

"Get a room," Robin joked.

Blushing, Lexi broke the lip lock. "We'll pick it up later," she promised Matt.

"Sounds good to me," he said.

"I just hope that in between all that fun in the sun you find the time to text your best friend and boyfriend—like every day!" Robin said.

"Definitely," Lexi promised, even though the last thing she expected was much fun while on the island, where she was headed against her wishes.

 Summer at Paradise Ranch is available at Amazon.

R. Barri Flowers is an award winning, bestselling author of mystery, thriller, suspense, young adult, and romance novels, along with true crime and criminology books.
Thrillers by the author include MURDER IN MAUI, MURDER IN HONOLULU, DARK STREETS OF WHITECHAPEL, STATE'S EVIDENCE, JUSTICE SERVED, and PERSUASIVE EVIDENCE. Flowers is the editor of several anthologies, including MASTERS OF TRUE CRIME, and mysteries, MURDER HERE, MURDER THERE and MURDER PAST, MURDER PRESENT.
Bestselling young adult fiction includes GHOST GIRL IN SHADOW BAY and DANGER IN TIME.
As an award winning criminologist, the author's latest true crime and criminology books include THE DYNAMICS OF MURDER, THE SEX SLAVE MURDERS, SERIAL KILLER COUPLES, PROSTITUTION IN THE DIGITAL AGE.
Under the pseudonym, Devon Vaughn Archer, the author has also penned several bestselling mainstream and romance novels, including FOREVER SWEETHEARTS, ALOHA FANTASY, THE SECRETS OF PARADISE BAY, CHRISTMAS HEAT, and THE HITMAN'S WOMAN.
Visit R. Barri's websites at:
http://www.rbarriflowers.com