I love Buzz Book's biannual releases, and I am really looking forward to some of these YA titles that are to be released in Spring/Summer 2018. There are a lot of interesting YA fantasy books that are being released in the coming months, and I the following titles have been successfully added to my TBR list...

-Fawkes: by Nadine Brandes
-Legendary (Caraval, #2): by Stephanie Garber
-Furyborn (The Empirium Trilogy, #1): by Claire Legrand
-Sky in the Deep: by Adrienne Young

Thank you, Publishers Lunch, for putting together this collection!

What a brilliant way to expose the reader to a genre they normally wouldn't look at. When ever I see that a new Buzz Books is available I drop everything to see what new books are coming out! The icing on the cake is that there is a link at the end of each sample that takes you directly to Netgalley where you can request the ARC! It doesn't get any better than that does it?

Another great Buzz Books Young Adult. Great for getting the new books of 2018.

Thank you to publisher and Netgalley for the chance to read.
While I got the book for free, it had no bearing on the rating I gave it.

Once again, Publishers Lunch has put together a great collection of excerpts for upcoming YA titles for Spring/Summer. I always manage to find a new book to look forward to from Buzz Books!

While this wasn't my favorite Buzz Books, there were a few good samples in here. The highlights were: Sky in the Deep, Brightly Burning, Twelve Steps to Normal and a few others that I will be reading once they come out like Boy From Tomorrow. I do want to see more first installments or standalones in these compilations. Putting too many sequels in here can be a bit off putting, since some people just skip them if they haven't read the first one in that series. But it's worth checking out and I'm awaiting the Fall/Winter one later this year.

Great excerpts as always; a few books I recognised that I had already been interested in (Frat Girl, Furyborn, Sky In The Deep) and a few I hadn't heard of but am now interested in (Brightly Burning, Fawkes).

Once again a wonderful selection of different sub-genres within the YA-category - this time around (thankfully..) only featuring a few that caught my eye, but those that did I am very excited about. A few of the others seem like they might be worth a short, too, depending on reviews. We shall see. Thanks!

Another fantastic mix of samples! I'm particularly looking forward to the new Caraval book, Legendary and the intriguing debut by Matt Killeen, Orphan Monster Spy!

Fawkes by Nadine Brandes: The son of Guy Fawkes attends a school where you're trained in colour magic, or something. Stone, or something, is slowly taking over his body yet he hopes he'll be granted the one colour that may help stop the stone taking over. A bit confusing in part, but otherwise well written, and good to have YA from a male perspective.

The Boy From Tomorrow by Camille DeAngelis: A girl and boy begin to be able to communicate despite the 100 years that separate them. Josie is from 1915, and Alec is in 2015, yet they share the same house, and become friends. Middle Grade, and not entirely wonderful so probably won't be one I track down, sadly.

Brightly Burning by Alexa Donne: Earth has fallen into another ice age, so part of the population have escaped to ships that now orbit earth (and have been doing so for 210 years so far), waiting until they can safely return to ground. The ship Stella is on is mostly farming, and it's certainly going to fail quite soon... so she's trying to get off, even if her engineering skills are lacking, and no one really needs a teacher. Still, she applies, and she finally gets a response to her job seeking right after she perhaps ruins things with the one boy she cares about. Will totally get this, as it's being advertised as 'Jane Eyre in space'.

Unbreakable by Sara Ella: Skipped as I haven't read the previous two in this series.

Legendary by Stephanie Garber: Skipped as I've read the first in this series, but not quite interested enough to continue.

Chemistry Lessons by Meredith Goldstein: Jerk guy breaks up with a girl who's too smart for him - well, no, that's not entirely fair. He meets someone else who 'gets him' and they can chat easier. Maya is devastated, but has a great set of friends and an understanding father, and is just about to go on an excellent trip, so... could have been worse. From the synopsis: 'Maya is miserable until she discovers that her scientist mother, before she died, was conducting research on manipulating pheromones to enhance human attraction. If Maya can finish her mother’s work, maybe she can get Whit back.' - except maybe she shouldn't want him back? She's in her first year of college, stuff him. At this point in time in my personal life where I'm also trying to get over someone, I don't really have the emotional space to read about someone doing unhealthy things.

Orphan Monster Spy by Matt Killeen: Sarah is orphaned when her mother is shot at a checkpoint, leaving her daughter to scramble through brambles and a broken gate, and run and hide for her life. This takes up the majority of the snippet we get to see in this sampler, however the synopsis goes on to say (and what we can also figure from the title), that Sarah becomes a spy. She must infiltrate a boarding school attended by the daughters of top Nazi brass, befriend the daughter of a key scientist, and steal the blueprints to a bomb that could destroy the cities of Western Europe. I've requested the full ARC of this one, and wait with crossed fingers!

Furyborn by Claire Legrand: Part of this I really liked. Part seemed well written... and then it jumped into a confusing jumble.

We see a Queen (who we learn had to kill her King), give birth to a child in the witness of a man and his son, who have part angel blood, which grants them powers. The father and son are hiding from someone who's getting closer to finding them, which is why (once the baby is born) the father throws himself from the tower. The Queen shoves the newborn into the boy's arms, and tells him to use his magic to travel to a certain somewhere... and from there I didn't really get what was going on.

Although I'm highly sceptical about angel stories (yet to read a good one yet), that part was actually decent. When it jumps into the future it gets quite a bit different, and despite liking the teacher in it that's as far as I got. I might pick this one up, and I might not...

Twelve Steps to Normal by Farrah Penn: So far I'm yet to enjoy anything James Patterson does or steps near to. However... this wasn't terrible. A girl is returning home now that her father is out of an alcoholics rehabilitation program, and though she prefers her hometown to where she was sent to stay with an aunt, she's understandably apprehensive about returning to her friends and her now ex-boyfriend who she had to suddenly leave months beforehand. It was a short excerpt, but I'll be picking this one up later.

Frat Girl by Kiley Roache: Cassie is down to the final two people vying for a scholarship into her dream university - all she has to do is pitch a killer research project. She's up against a tech-head, a mini-me to the millionaire offering the scholarship, so she knows her chances are slim... so, she pitches something crazy. Delta Tau Chi is on probation with one year to clean up their act before they're closed for good. Their crimes are misogynistic behaviour, so feminist Cassie reckons her project can be to sort that out one way or another. 

I'll be picking this one up, too. I like Cassie and her tattoo'd best friend (though I'm getting rather tired of every female YA lead having a gay male best friend, too. Make them the main character for once!)

Reclaiming Shilo Snow by Mary Weber: Haven't read the first in this series, and going off other reviews it seems like there's little point to try.

Sky in the Deep by Adrienne Young: Warrior women - hell yeah, I'm so here for this! Eelyn is seventeen, and has worked hard to be a warrior on the front line when her clan take on the Riki. They fight with sword and axe, have partly shorn heads with the rest braided, and fight even when (for instance) their ribs are still healing. 

I don't quite believe such a calm conversation can happen in the middle of a battle, but eh. I've already preordered this one, so let's see where it goes.

This is my first time reading a Buzz Books and I wonder why I didn't do it sooner. It had great excerpts to choose from, in a variety of genres (fantasy, sci-fi, romance, contemporary and historical fiction) for all tastes, stand alone and series. I'm specially interested in Fawkes and Sky in the Deep now. Legendary and Furyborn as well plus I loved their covers.
It was also great to check the list of upcoming titles. Specially interested in Philippa Gregory's Dark Tracks, Sarah J. Maas' A court of Frost and Starlight, Marissa Meyer's Heartless and Jenna Evans Welch's Love & Luck.
Non-fiction books that caught my attention were: Jeremy Daldry's The Teenage Guy's Survival Guide and Mackenzie Ziegler's Kenzie's Rules for Life

I didn't even find one preview to dowload. I was disappointed that several of the titles were sequels.

These catalogs never disappoint My TBR is ever growing and I just added a whole bunch of books just now, thanks to this! I'm super excited for all of these novels, especially Sky in the Deep, Furyborn, and Brightly Burning. Cannot wait to get my hands on them!

This collection from Publishers Lunch contained 12 books. I had 2 of the books on my TBR, I added 5 more, 2 were meh, and I skipped 3 because they were sequels.

Fawkes by Nadine Brandes [4 stars]: Son of Guy Fawkes? Sold. I don't read enough stories from a male POV. I really enjoyed what I read. Added to my TBR.

The Boy From Tomorrow by Camille DeAngelis [3 stars]: This is a MG book. I was kind of meh about it. I think my daughter would really love it and I wouldn't be surprised if this comes in an Owlcrate Jr box. I may or may not read it if it does :)

Brightly Burning by Alexa Donne [5 stars]: Loved this couple chapters of sci fi goodness. I like the sci fi trope of the spaceship failing. Added to my TBR.

Unbreakable by Sara Ella [skipped]: Third book in a trilogy I haven't read.

Legendary by Stephanie Garber [skipped]: Sequel to a book I didn't like.

Chemistry Lessons by Meredith Goldstein [5 stars]: Chemistry/science-y nerd stuff - YASSSSSSSSS! Added to my TBR.

Orphan Monster Spy by Matt Killeen [4 stars]: Younger kid me enjoyed any stories about WW2, the Titanic, and the Oregon Trail, so I'm not sure why this wasn't on my radar. I enjoyed the short bit I read :) Added to my TBR.

Furyborn by Claire Legrand [5 stars]: I already had this book on my TBR and now I am even more excited for its release. This is what I wanted Roar to be like and was disappointed when it wasn't!

Twelve Steps to Normal by Farrah Penn [4 stars]: I have to say that I was weary with it being a Patterson presents book and written by a Buzzfeed writer but don't judge a book by its cover (and by that I mean its publisher/author's resume?). I liked what I read so far even though it was the shortest excerpt so far - or at least it certainly seemed that way. Added to my TBR.

Frat Girl by Kiley Roache [3 stars]: Not sure how to feel about the little bit that I read. Depending on the reviews it gets when it's released, I may decided to give it a go. It wasn't awful or anything.

Reclaiming Shilo Snow by Mary Weber [skipped]: Sequel to a book I haven't read.

Sky in the Deep by Adrienne Young [5 stars]: HOLY CRAP! As if I couldn't get more hyped to read this novel, I get surprised with it being the last excerpt in this collection from Buzz Books. My heritage is Norwegian and I was raised celebrating Norwegian culture, so my obsession with Vikings will always be a thing. I have an ARC of this book on my desk. MUST READ ASAP. Easily my fave excerpt.

I really enjoyed this sample of upcoming YA books. I think I'm most excited for Brightly Burning by Alexa Donne and Furyborn by Claire Legrand, but Chemistry Lessons by Meredith Goldstein and Sky in the Deep by Adrienne Young all look incredibly good as well. I will probably be picking some of these up when they release.

Buzz Books 2018: Young Adult Spring/Summer has provided such amazing excerpts for many upcoming releases. I can say, with certainty, that my TBR has grown larger today.

Great pick for the best news, excerpts, links, and more for upcoming YA titles! You're TBR pile will not thank you :)

I find the compilation of excerpts of upcoming books to be released from buzz books extremely helpful and informative.

I always love receiving these! I was especially excited to read a sample of the Caraval sequel and wasn't disappointed. I can feel my TBR pile growing...

I love these previews of novels about to be published! The excerpts were all awesome and I can't wait till I can buy them in bookstores!!

I love when they release a new one! So many books to add. This one had TONS of Fantasy, which is my personal favorite so I had to give it 5 stars.