Happy Monday everyone! And also happy #ARCstravaganza day! This week I’ll be featuring the ARC for a book coming out in December. I’m really excited to read it, since the synopsis sounds very intriguing, especially combined with the genres listed for it on Goodreads! It’s also the kind of genre that I don’t usually go for, but something about the cover really drew me to this book.
For those of you coming across this meme for this first time, it was originally created by Krysti at YA and Wine, and hosted by her, and Sarah at The Clever Reader. Due to personal circumstances, however, they have had to let it go. We were all very sad to see the meme go, but then Krysti asked me if I wanted to take it over, and I said yes!
For those of you unfamiliar with #ARCstravaganza, it’s a meme meant to encourage book bloggers to show off and discuss their ARCs (advanced reader copies)! If this sounds like something for you, please check out the info page about the meme here. Another change is that #ARCstravaganza participants can share their posts on their blogs, Instagram, or Twitter (or all three)! Please just be sure to tag your social media posts with the hashtag, or share a link to your blog post on my blog post for each week, so that we can find it!
– My ARC Choice –
Shadow Girl by Liana Liu
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– About the Book –
Title: Shadow Girl
Author: Liana Liu
Type: Fiction
Genre: YA, Contemporary, Fantasy, Paranormal, Mystery
Imprint: HarperTeen
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: December 19, 2017
Format: Paperback
Page Count: 336
Source: Publisher
Review: November/December
The house on Arrow Island is full of mystery.
Yet when Mei arrives, she can’t help feeling relieved. She’s happy to spend the summer in an actual mansion tutoring a rich man’s daughter if it means a break from her normal life—her needy mother, her delinquent brother, their tiny apartment in the city. And Ella Morison seems like an easy charge, sweet and well behaved.
What Mei doesn’t know is that something is very wrong in the Morison household.
Though she tries to focus on her duties, Mei becomes increasingly distracted by the family’s problems and her own complicated feelings for Ella’s brother, Henry. But most disturbing of all are the unexplained noises she hears at night—the howling and thumping and cries.
Mei is a sensible girl. She isn’t superstitious; she doesn’t believe in ghosts. Yet she can’t shake her fear that there is danger lurking in the shadows of this beautiful house, a darkness that could destroy the family inside and out… and Mei along with them.
THANKS SO MUCH FOR READING MY #ARCSTRAVAGANZA POST! HAVE YOU READ THIS BOOK? OR, IF YOU HAVEN’T YET, ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO READING IT OR NOT? WHICH UPCOMING RELEASES ARE YOU EXCITED FOR? AND WHICH PAST 2017 WERE YOUR FAVOURITES? LET ME KNOW IN THE COMMENTS BELOW!
Hmm…sounds interesting. The whole thriller/mystery part of it isn’t something that I tend to read, but if I didn’t have such a massive TBR I’d probably consider this one.
Awesome! And right? I used to read ONLY thrillers, then stopped entirely. Now I getting back into them KIND OF. I think that they were becoming too predictable? I don’t remember.
I will watch mystery/thriller, but I just don’t generally enjoy reading them. I spend more time trying to figure out what is going to happen or who is guilty or whatever, than I do actually just going along for the ride and enjoying the story.
Aweee that makes sense!
Sounds intriguing!
Right??