Dusty Books #04: To Save A Life by Jim & Rachel Britts

Dusty Reads is a weekly post featuring a book that has been sitting unread on your home shelf for some time. To participate, add your name to the linky and try to visit a few of the others. Books don't have to be 'x' years old. If you've had the book for a few months without reading it, it's dusty! This meme is hosted by the lovely Giselle @ Xpresso Reads.

Dusty Reads #03
featuring To Save A Life by Jim & Rachel Britts

But I Love Him
Author: Jim and Rachel Britts
Publisher: Outreach Publishing
Published: October 1, 2009

Based on the movie (in theaters January 22, 2010), the novel is a story about the real-life challenges of teens and their choices. For anyone who has struggled with regret, loneliness or pain, it is a story of hope. For all of us, To Save A Life is a story about living a life of significance. Through Jake's journey, readers are challenged to answer the question: what's your life going to be about?

Jake and Roger grew up as best friends. But in high school, Jake becomes a star athlete who has it all: a college scholarship and the perfect girl, an ideal life that comes at the exclusion of his childhood friend. Meanwhile, Roger no longer fits in anywhere and becomes tired of always being pushed aside. He makes a tragic move that spins Jake's world out of control. As Jake searches for answers, he begins a journey that will change his life forever.

More resources at ToSaveALifeMovie.com.

Summary taken from: Goodreads.

It was a late Friday night and I had just gotten off work and decided to pop into the local bookstore on my way home. I had just gotten paid that week and I wanted a couple of new books. I spotted this one sitting on a YA table in a center aisle and picked it up, because I thought it looked interesting. I had seen the movie and wanted to read the book. I also ended up buying a copy of Nightshade by Andrea Cremer with the original prettier cover.

Tell me, what's your dusty read?

Dusty Reads #03: But I Love Him by Amanda Grace

Dusty Reads is a weekly post featuring a book that has been sitting unread on your home shelf for some time. To participate, add your name to the linky and try to visit a few of the others. Books don't have to be 'x' years old. If you've had the book for a few months without reading it, it's dusty! This meme is hosted by the lovely Giselle @ Xpresso Reads.

Dusty Reads #03
featuring But I Love Him by Amanda Grace

But I Love Him
Author: Amanda Grace
Publisher: Flux
Published: May 8, 2011

Tonight was so much worse than anything before it.
Tonight he didn't stop after the first slap.

At the beginning of senior year, Ann was a smiling, straight-A student and track star with friends and a future. Then she met a haunted young man named Connor. Only she can heal his emotional scars; only he could make her feel so loved-and needed. Ann can't recall the pivotal moment it all changed, when she surrendered everything to be with him, but by graduation, her life has become a dangerous high wire act. Just one mistake could trigger Connor's rage, a senseless storm of cruel words and violence damaging everything-and everyone-in its path.

This evocative slideshow of flashbacks reveals a heartbreaking story of love gone terribly wrong.

Summary taken from: Goodreads.

I had just read Bitter End by Jennifer Brown for an ARC Tour that I was a part of and was just really moved by the scary reality of teen abusive relationships. It was right around the time when I think I actually started getting more and more into YA Contemps and so when I saw this book sitting on the shelf, I decided that I needed to have it and read it. I was originally going to get around to it back then, but other things sort of kept me from it. So, now I'm definitely planning on reading it this summer. I've heard some really fantastic things about how good it is and how emotionally moving it was, so I want to find out for myself now.

Tell me, what's your dusty read?

Dusty Reads #02: She's So Dead To Us by Kieran Scott

Dusty Reads is a weekly post featuring a book that has been sitting unread on your home shelf for some time. To participate, add your name to the linky and try to visit a few of the others. Books don't have to be 'x' years old. If you've had the book for a few months without reading it, it's dusty! This meme is hosted by the lovely Giselle @ Xpresso Reads.

Dusty Reads #02
featuring She's So Dead To Us by Kieran Scott

She's So Dead To Us
Author: Kieran Scott
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Published: Reprint ;; April 26, 2011

Ally Ryan would rather be in Maryland. She would rather be anywhere, in fact, than Orchard Hill, site of her downfall. Well, not hers exactly—but when your father’s hedge fund goes south and all your friends lose their trust funds, things don’t look so sunny for you.

Her mother moved her to Maryland to flee the shame, but now they’re moving back. Back to the country-club, new-car-every-year, my-family-came-over-on-the-Mayflower lifestyle that Ally has outgrown. One bright spot, however, is gorgeous, intense Jake Graydon. But it won’t be easy for the two of them to be together—not if his friends (her former friends) have anything to say about it.

Is Ally ready to get thrown back into the drama of the life she left behind?

Summary taken from: Goodreads.

Funny thing about this book, I originally read the second book in the series He's So Not Worth It first through a galleygrab, because at the time I didn't know that it was part of a series. I actually really enjoyed it enough that I finished it in one day and was surprised that it was so easy to read and I was able to really connect with the character's and their stories, even though I had yet to read the first book. So, a few months ago I found a copy of the She's So Dead To Us on the bargain table in my local bookstore and had to have it immediately. I'm definitely planning on reading this one and also This Is So Not Happening at some point this summer. I think they'll make the perfect summer reads for sure.

Tell me, what's your dusty read?

Dusty Reads #01: The Iron King by Julie Kagawa

Dusty Reads is a weekly post featuring a book that has been sitting unread on your home shelf for some time. To participate, add your name to the linky and try to visit a few of the others. Books don't have to be 'x' years old. If you've had the book for a few months without reading it, it's dusty! This meme is hosted by the lovely Giselle @ Xpresso Reads.

Dusty Reads #01
feat. The Iron King by Julie Kagawa

The Iron King
Author: Julie Kagawa
Publisher: HarlequinTEEN
Published: February 1, 2010

Meghan Chase has a secret destiny; one she could never have imagined.

Something has always felt slightly off in Meghan's life, ever since her father disappeared before her eyes when she was six. She has never quite fit in at school or at home.

When a dark stranger begins watching her from afar, and her prankster best friend becomes strangely protective of her, Meghan senses that everything she's known is about to change.

But she could never have guessed the truth - that she is the daughter of a mythical faery king and is a pawn in a deadly war. Now Meghan will learn just how far she'll go to save someone she cares about, to stop a mysterious evil no faery creature dare face; and to find love with a young prince who might rather see her dead than let her touch his icy heart.

Summary taken from: Goodreads.

I bought the first three books in the IRON FEY series last summer, when they had them all on sale. They've been sitting on my shelves getting "dusty" for almost a year now and I definitely plan on getting around to reading all of them sometime this summer, because I've heard such good things about how amazing they are.

Tell me, what's your dusty read?