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It's New Year's Eve and I've got my list all ready. It contains 15 titles this year, one up from last year and one down from the year before if memory serves. Best of 2012 (in the order in which I read them) The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight   by  Jennifer E. Smith Scarlet   by  A.C. Gaughen For Darkness Shows the Stars   by  Diana Peterfreund The Fault in Our Stars   by  John Green I've Got Your Number   by  Sophie Kinsella Grave Mercy   by  Robin LaFevers Nightshifted   by  Cassie Alexander Bitterblue   by  Kristin Cashore Easy   by  Tammara Webber Magic Dreams   by  Ilona Andrews Her Best Worst Mistake   by  Sarah Mayberry Fair Game   by  Patricia Briggs The Raven Boys   by  Maggie Stiefvater The Governess Affair   by  Courtney Milan Moonshifted   by  Cassie Alexander FYI, that's 4 urban fantasies, 4 contemporaries, 3 fantasies, 2 romances, 1 historical, and 1 post-apocalyptic.  Interestingly, 3 of t

All right. I've officially waited as long as I could. The thing is--you need to know about this book. This sequel. Because it's coming in less than two months and I want you to be ready and not sitting around, twiddling your thumbs, wondering whether or not it'll be worth your time. Hint: it is so beyond worth your time. For those of you wondering,  Scarlet   is the sequel to Cinder , the first book in Marissa Meyer's Lunar Chronicles. Each installment is also its own fairy tale retelling. First we had Cinderella, now Little Red Riding Hood, with Rapunzel and Snow White yet to come. Ask me how much I love quartets? Go on. Ask me! But I'll be honest. At first I was skeptical with the fairy tale hopping and the completely new protagonists taking up valuable page time with no resolution in sight. I was a bit not okay with where  Cinder   left off, but the early word on Meyer's take on Little Red Riding Hood was extremely good. And, really, how long have you been

What's that you say? You love a good dissenting opinion? Well, that's works out well. Because here I am. Not thrilled, but certainly prepared, to be the lone voice of dissent on this one. I went ahead and read an ARC of Katja Millay's The Sea of Tranquility after sifting through the seemingly universal ecstatic reviews that have been pouring in from all and sundry. And when I say universal, I mean universal . Readers across the board are going out of their ever loving minds over this book. Yeah. I kind of had to get in on that action, especially when a review copy floated my way. This is Millay's debut novel. She self-published it a couple of months ago, and it has (as has become the way of things) since been acquired by Atria Books for paperback publication this summer. A change of cover went along with the acquisition (as is usually the case), and I have to say I'm likely in the minority on this subject as well. I much prefer the self-pub cover. But as the ove

Psst. You guys. It's December 1st! I'll meet you over by the usual palm tree , aka Book Smugglers Central, where I will be holding court with my annual awards for the best of 2012. From Meet-Cutes and Mid-Series Game Changers to Declarations and Comfort Reads, we'll be hashing it out. Stop by and weigh in. I'll see you there!