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Earth by Jaymin Eve
Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA young adult paranormal romance series. An epic journey. If the Seventine are released, will anyone survive? With Brace back by her side and the melding bond again secure, Abigail should be happier than ever. Right? Well, there’s still that little rodent problem of hers. The Seventine...Categorized as:
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Nephilius by Jaymin Eve
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA paranormal romance series. An epic journey. If the Seventine are released, will anyone survive? Some days Abigail wonders why she gets out of bed and then she remembers; it’s her job to save seven worlds. No biggie, right? Not to mention the breaking of her melding bond with Brace seems to have destroyed more than just her heart. She’s hurting all the way to her soul... -
Cress by Marissa Meyer
In this third book in the Lunar Chronicles, Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, now with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they’re plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and her army. Their best hope lies with Cress, a girl imprisoned on a satellite since childhood who's only ever had her netscreens as company. All that screen time has made Cress an excellent hacker... -
Dronish by Jaymin Eve
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsWith the convergence date looming closer, Abigail’s in the final countdown to imprison the Seventine. It is do-or-die time, and she is determined that the Seventine will be the ones who die, figuratively speaking. Her current priorities: gather the Dronish half-Walker female and reform her melding bond with Brace...Categorized as:
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Catalyst by Shelly Crane
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the third installment of the Collide series, we start off with Sherry, taken prisoner in the enforcement facility. The little bunker family must now decide whether it's worth the risk to try to save her or if it would bring doom to them all. Lily has started showing signs of her gift progressing, which may not be a desirable thing... -
Talented by Alexandra Moody
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSeventeen-year-old Elle Winters gave up everything for one shot at saving her closest friend. But though she may have escaped the ARC and found her way to the surface, Elle is no closer to finding Sebastian and stranded in a world where she doesn’t belong... -
Invisible by Alycia Linwood
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMoira faces new challenges as she finds herself in the hands of the enemy. Determined to escape and keep everyone she cares about safe, she has to do things she's never even dreamed of doing, including trusting the one who betrayed her... Invisible is the second book in the Tainted Elements series... -
Unbreakable by Elizabeth Norris
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFour months after Ben disappeared through the portal to his home universe, Janelle believes she’ll never see him again. Her world is still devastated, but life is finally starting to resume some kind of normalcy. Until Interverse Agent Taylor Barclay shows up...Categorized as:
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Severed by Lizzy Ford, Julia Crane
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo sisters with special gifts and an unbreakable bond ... Cyena and Tyana were born to powerful parents who are among the ruling class on their planet. Their lives are pampered but isolated, constricted to the city walls in which they were born... -
Quanta by Lola Dodge
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the not-too-distant future, DNA determines a person’s place in the social hierarchy. The immortal Seligo rule while those branded as Red Helixes are killed at birth before their genetic instabilities can morph into destructive, uncontrollable powers. Quanta is the rare exception to the Red Helix curse... -
First World by Jaymin Eve
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA paranormal romance series. An epic journey. If the Seventine are released, will anyone survive? Abigail Swish might not love her life, living in gang-ridden New York in 2035 and training to fight and survive with Compound 23... -
Heaven's Queen by Rachel Bach
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom the moment she took a job on Captain Caldswell's doomed ship, Devi Morris' life has been one disaster after another: government conspiracies, two alien races out for her blood, an incurable virus that's eating her alive. Now, with the captain missing and everyone -- even her own government -- determined to hunt her down, things are going from bad to impossible... -
Honor's Knight by Rachel Bach
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe rollicking sequel to Fortune's Pawn -- an action packed science fiction novel. Devi Morris has a lot of problems. And not the fun, easy-to-shoot kind either. After a mysterious attack left her short several memories and one partner, she's determined to keep her head down, do her job, and get on with her life... -
The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsKeep your friends close and your enemies closer. Isn’t that what they say? But how close is too close when they may be one in the same? The Seven Stages War left much of the planet a charred wasteland. The future belongs to the next generation’s chosen few who must rebuild it...Categorized as:
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Red Handed by Gena Showalter
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsShe's been chosen to fight the elusive enemy among us.... Phoenix Germaine has been trying to earn back her mother's trust after going into rehab and kicking Onadyn -- the drug of choice for New Chicago teens. But when a party in the woods turns into an all-out battle with the most ferocious aliens Phoenix has never seen, she's brought home in what appears to be an Onadyn-induced state... -
The Rules by Stacey Kade
1. Never trust anyone. 2. Remember they are always searching. 3. Don’t get involved. 4. Keep your head down. 5. Don’t fall in love. Five simple rules. Ariane Tucker has followed them since the night she escaped from the genetics lab where she was created, the result of combining human and extraterrestrial DNA... -
Compliance by Maureen McGowan
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHaven Equals Safety. The slogan is emblazoned on the minds of every Haven employee. But for Glory, life inside the domed city is anything but safe. After rescuing her brother, Glory returns to Haven as a double agent to locate and save fellow Deviants... -
The One by Heather Self
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsStranded on Earth two thousand years they’ve waited for the arrival of the One: some to save her, others to kill her. With her birth, the ancient prophecy could at last be fulfilled and the doorway between the worlds would open. Those who know the prophecy believe this event occurred almost eighteen years ago, and now, they’ll stop at nothing to find her...Categorized as:
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Touch by Jus Accardo
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsWhen a strange boy tumbles down a river embankment and lands at her feet, seventeen-year-old adrenaline junkie Deznee Cross snatches the opportunity to piss off her father by bringing the mysterious hottie with ice blue eyes home. Except there’s something off with Kale... -
Generation by Heather Hildenbrand
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter months of pretending to be Raven Rogen, Ven feels less like a clone and more like a human than ever. But when Raven’s father, Titus—the same man who engineered Ven—discovers her plan to escape, everything she’s worked so hard for is taken away in one explosive moment. Now she’s imprisoned in Twig City, the secret warehouse where she grew up... -
Ultraviolet by R.J. Anderson
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 22 ratingsOnce upon a time there was a girl who was special. This is not her story. Unless you count the part where I killed her. Sixteen-year-old Alison has been sectioned in a mental institute for teens, having murdered the most perfect and popular girl at school. But the case is a mystery: no body has been found, and Alison's condition is proving difficult to diagnose... -
Glitches by Marissa Meyer
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsCinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. In Glitches, a short prequel story to Cinder, we see the results of that illness play out, and the emotional toll that takes on Cinder. Something that may, or may not, be a glitch… http://www.wattpad... -
False Sight by Dan Krokos
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsAll Miranda wants is a normal life. She's determined to move past the horrible truth of her origin as a clone so she can enjoy time with her boyfriend, Peter, and the rest of her friends at school. But Miranda quickly learns that there's no such thing as normal - not for a girl who was raised to be a weapon. When one of her teammates turns rogue, it begins a war that puts the world in jeopardy...Categorized as:
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The Wicked We Have Done by Sarah Harian
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEvalyn Ibarra never expected to be an accused killer and experimental prison test subject. A year ago, she was a normal college student. Now she’s been sentenced to a month in the compass room—an advanced prison obstacle course designed by the government to execute justice. If she survives, the world will know she’s innocent...Categorized as:
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Undertow by Michael Buckley
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsSixteen-year-old Lyric Walker’s life is forever changed when she witnesses the arrival of 30,000 Alpha, a five-nation race of ocean-dwelling warriors, on her beach in Coney Island. The world’s initial wonder and awe over the Alpha quickly turns ugly and paranoid and violent, and Lyric’s small town transforms into a military zone with humans on one side and Alpha on the other...Categorized as:
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Unraveling by Elizabeth Norris
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsSixteen-year-old Janelle Tenner is used to having a lot of responsibility. She balances working as a lifeguard in San Diego with an intense academic schedule. Janelle's mother is bipolar, and her dad is a workaholic FBI agent, which means Janelle also has to look out for her younger brother, Jared. And that was before she died.. -
Anomaly by Tonya Kuper
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsReality is only an illusion.Except for those who can control it… Worst. Birthday. Ever. My first boyfriend dumped me—happy birthday, Josie!—my dad is who knows where, I have some weird virus that makes me want to hurl, and now my ex is licking another girl’s tonsils. Oh, and I’m officially the same age as my brother was when he died...Categorized as:
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The First Star to Fall by Diana Peterfreund
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDiscover how it all began… New Pacifica was designed to be a tropical paradise, a refuge for humanity filled with natural wonders and technological marvels. A place of perfect peace, where “war” was only a war out of ancient history–or so the privileged teenage aristocrat Persis Blake had always been taught... -
iBoy by Kevin Brooks
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhat can he do with his new powers — and what are they doing to him? Before the attack, Tom Harvey was just an average teen. But a head-on collision with high technology has turned him into an actualized App. Fragments of a shattered iPhone are embedded in his brain. And they're having an extraordinary effect on his every thought...Categorized as:
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I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 55 ratingsNine of us came here. We look like you. We talk like you. We live among you. But we are not you. We can do things you dream of doing. We have powers you dream of having. We are stronger and faster than anything you have ever seen. We are the superheroes you worship in movies and comic books--but we are real. Our plan was to grow, and train, and become strong, and become one, and fight them... -
The Elites by Natasha Ngan
Rated: 3.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratings‘There is a rumour that the Elites don’t bleed.’ Hundreds of years into the future, wars, riots, resource crises and rising sea-levels have destroyed the old civilisations. Only one city has survived: Neo-Babel, a city full of cultures – and racial tension. Fifteen-year-old Silver is an Elite, a citizen of Neo-Babel chosen to guard the city due to her superior DNA... -
The Future of Us by Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler
Rated: 3.52 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsIt's 1996, and Josh and Emma have been neighbors their whole lives. They've been best friends almost as long - at least, up until last November, when Josh did something that changed everything. Things have been weird between them ever since, but when Josh's family gets a free AOL CD in the mail, his mom makes him bring it over so that Emma can install it on her new computer...Categorized as:
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Wyrd Girl by Jon Jacks
Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe’s in an Otherworld I’m the weird girl. You know; the one every kid in class avoids, just in case what I’ve got is catching. Not that I care. See, there are worlds other than this one. Worlds we pass on to when we die. Worlds, even, where we exist before we’re even born. They’re the worlds of the Nyxt. And, if I don’t handle things right, they’re about to declare war on the living...Categorized as:
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