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Hey guys welcome to Under-Hyped Book of The Week, Week 10... This week I'm here to talk about… Unwind by Neal Shusterman Connor, Risa, and Lev are running for their lives. The Second Civil War was fought over reproductive rights. The chilling resolution: Life is inviolable from the moment of conception until age thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, parents can have their child "unwound," whereby all of the child's organs are transplanted into different donors, so life doesn't technically end. Connor is too difficult for his parents to control. Risa, a ward of the state, is not enough to be kept alive. And Lev is a tithe, a child conceived and raised to be unwound. Together, they may have a chance to escape and to survive.  –goodreads.com summery Now any of you that have followed me for a while now know that I love this series! But if you’re new here... Hi! I'm Meagan and Unwind if one of my favorite books! There, now you...

Hey guys welcome to Under-Hyped Book of The Week, Week 11... This week I'm here to talk about… The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes! Seventeen-year-old Cassie is a natural at reading people. Piecing together the tiniest details, she can tell you who you are and what you want. But it’s not a skill that she’s ever taken seriously. That is, until the FBI come knocking: they’ve begun a classified program that uses exceptional teenagers to crack infamous cold cases, and they need Cassie. What Cassie doesn’t realize is that there’s more at risk than a few unsolved homicides—especially when she’s sent to live with a group of teens whose gifts are as unusual as her own. Sarcastic, privileged Michael has a knack for reading emotions, which he uses to get inside Cassie’s head—and under her skin. Brooding Dean shares Cassie’s gift for profiling, but keeps her at arm’s length. Soon, it becomes clear that no one in the Naturals program is what they seem. And when a new killer s...

Hey guys welcome to Under-Hyped Book of The Week, Week 10... This week I'm here to talk about… We Were Liars by E. Lockhart A beautiful and distinguished family. A private island. A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy. A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive. A revolution. An accident. A secret. Lies upon lies. True love. The truth. We Were Liars is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel from National Book Award finalist and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart. Read it. And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE. - goodreads.com summery This book got mildly popular after its release so you might have heard of it, but you don’t understand how mind-blowing this book is unless you’ve read it! But that’s all I’m going to say about this book since part of the mind-blowingness is surprises in the plot! Just read it… :) Check it out on Goodreads! Keep Reading… Meagan!

Hey guys welcome to Under-Hyped Book of The Week, Week 9... This week I'm here to talk about… The Archived by Victoria Schwab! Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books. Each body has a story to tell, a life seen in pictures only Librarians can read. The dead are called Histories, and the vast realm in which they rest is the Archive. Da first brought Mackenzie Bishop here four years ago, when she was twelve years old, frightened but determined to prove herself. Now Da is dead, and Mac has grown into what he once was: a ruthless Keeper, tasked with stopping often violent Histories from waking up and getting out. Because of her job, she lies to the people she loves, and she knows fear for what it is: a useful tool for staying alive. Being a Keeper isn't just dangerous—it's a constant reminder of those Mac has lost, Da's death was hard enough, but now that her little brother is gone too, Mac starts to wonder about the boundary between living...

Hey guys welcome to Under-Hyped Book of The Week, Week 8... This week I'm here to talk about… A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray! Marguerite Caine’s physicist parents are known for their radical scientific achievements. Their most astonishing invention: the Firebird, which allows users to jump into parallel universes, some vastly altered from our own. But when Marguerite’s father is murdered, the killer—her parent’s handsome and enigmatic assistant Paul—escapes into another dimension before the law can touch him. Marguerite can’t let the man who destroyed her family go free, and she races after Paul through different universes, where their lives entangle in increasingly familiar ways. With each encounter she begins to question Paul’s guilt—and her own heart. Soon she discovers the truth behind her father’s death is more sinister than she ever could have imagined. A Thousand Pieces of You explores a reality where we witness the countless other lives we might lead...

Hey guys welcome to Under-Hyped Book of The Week, Week 7... This week I'm here to talk about ... The Diviners by Libba Bray. Evie O’Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City—and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It’s 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession with the occult. Evie worries he’ll discover her darkest secret: a supernatural power that has only brought her trouble so far. But when the police find a murdered girl branded with a cryptic symbol and Will is called to the scene, Evie realizes her gift could help catch a serial killer. As Evie jumps headlong into a dance with a murderer, other stories unfold in the city that never sleeps. A young man named Memphis is caught between two worlds. A chorus girl named Theta is running from her past. A student named Jericho hi...

Hey guys welcome to Under-Hyped Book of The Week, Week 6... This week I'm here to talk about Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld... Prince Aleksander, would-be heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, is on the run. His own people have turned on him. His title is worthless. All he has is a battletorn war machine and a loyal crew of men. Deryn Sharp is a commoner, disguised as a boy in the British Air Service. She's a brilliant airman. But her secret is in constant danger of being discovered. With World War I brewing, Alek and Deryn's paths cross in the most unexpected way…taking them on a fantastical, around-the-world adventure that will change both their lives forever. –goodreads.com summery This book does a very unique thing when it comes to storytelling; it uses pictures! That’s right; this book has beautifully illustrated pictures that help you more fully understand each picture (who doesn’t a pretty picture? :). The plot itself is also very unique and interesting...

Hey guys welcome to Under-Hyped Book of The Week, Week 5... This week I'm here to talk about Vicious by V. E. Schwab... Victor and Eli started out as college roommates—brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in each other. In their senior year, a shared research interest in adrenaline, near-death experiences, and seemingly supernatural events reveals an intriguing possibility: that under the right conditions, someone could develop extraordinary abilities. But when their thesis moves from the academic to the experimental, things go horribly wrong. Ten years later, Victor breaks out of prison, determined to catch up to his old friend (now foe), aided by a young girl whose reserved nature obscures a stunning ability. Meanwhile, Eli is on a mission to eradicate every other super-powered person that he can find—aside from his sidekick, an enigmatic woman with an unbreakable will. Armed with terrible power on both sides, driven by the memory o...

Hey guys welcome to Under-Hyped Book of The Week, Week 4... This week I'm here to talk about The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvator... Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue never sees them--until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks to her. · His name is Gansey, a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble. · But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can't entirely explain. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul whose emotions range from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher who notices many things but says very little. · For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She doesn't believe in true love, ...

Hey guys and welcome to u nder-hyped book of the week ... week 3! The weekly post where I talk about some of my favorite underrated books This week I'm gonna talk about The Midnighters by Scott Westerfeld ...  A few nights after Jessica Day arrives in Bixby, Oklahoma, she wakes up at midnight to  find   the entire world frozen, except for her and a few others who   call   themselves 'midnighters'. Dark things haunt this midnight hour – dark things with a mysterious interest in Jessica. The question   is; why? - Amazon.com summery I read this series about a year ago because my cousin gave it to my brother. Both my brother and I hadn't heard of the series so we gave it a shot, and I'm  glad  I did! It was interesting, fast paced, and different! It also introduced me to  Scott  Westerfeld; a great author who has also written Leviathan and The Uglies ! If you have never read this series I definitely recommend it! Books i...

Hey guys and welcome to Under-hyped book of the week... week 2! The weekly post where I talk about some of my favorite underrated books This week I'm gonna talk about Slated by Teri Terry...  Kyla’s memory has been erased, her  personality  wiped blank, her memories lost forever. She’s been slated. The  government claims  that she was a terrorist and they are giving her a second chance—if she plays by their rules. But scenes from the past haunt her as she tries to adjust to a new life, family, and school, leaving her  unsettled . Who is she really? And if only criminals are meant to be slated, why are so many other teens disappearing? As she and her friend Ben seek answers, Kyla is torn between the need to know more and her  instinct  for self-preservation. - Amazon.com summary This is a great series for anyone who loves Dystopian! It's a very different and more realistic Dystopian. It also has lots of Dystopian elements for anyone ...