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Summer In Salem (Electi #1)  by Brina Courtney   Teagen’s summer has been turned upside down by a body, a pentagram necklace, and an old flame. Nine months ago, Teagan Matthews' boyfriend disappeared and took her sense of stability with him. But when the opportunity to live with her aging grandmother in Salem arises, she decides it's time to get on with her life. A new home, new job and new friends are adding up to a beautiful summer... ...until a young girl's body shows up one night in town, wearing a necklace exactly like Teagan's. Now a guy looking remarkably like her missing boyfriend has arrived in Salem along with a mysterious stranger who may have some answers that Teagan has desperately been searching for. Teagan must now decide who to trust. It's a matter of life... and her death. Reading Summer in Salem was like drinking a cup of hot cocoa on a drizzley winter morning ; A bit sad, but comforting.  I found myself relating well to the MC Teagan ( and also be...

Every Day written by David Levithan I have so many things to say about this book.  Let's just start off by saying that it is a unique premise and it is well worth your time to give this book a place on your YA bookshelf.  I think David Levithan finally succeeds in his idea of sculpting a book with a multitude of POVs.  Where his other books, mostly notably The Realm of Possibility with its 20 characters, had little tying all of the stories together cohesively, all of the lives here are tied together with A's soul. A few thoughts. While from the start, Levithan makes it pretty clear that A has reached a point of contentment with not knowing who or what he is, that still feels like a big mystery to me.  To uphold the realism of the story, it was necessary to leave it a mystery.  But unlike A, I'm a lot less comfortable with unknowns, and that's entirely a personal preference with no reflection on Levithan's writing, but I do wish we had gotten...something more. ...