Retrospective and stuff.

Things that happened on the blog this week:

• Interviewed Jillian, the Penguin publist who no longer works at Penguin. D:
  
• Reviewed Love You Hate You Miss You; Audrey, Wait!; and Peace, Love, and Baby Ducks.
  
• I, along with a bunch of other people, am waiting on Hush, Hush.
  
• I vlogged.
• Aaaand I posted a sort of YA book blogger panel.

This week, you should be on the lookout for:

Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler, which releases officially on June 1. [from amazon:]

"Don't worry, Anna. I'll tell her, okay? Just let me think about the best way to do it."
"Okay."
"Promise me? Promise you won't say anything?"
"Don't worry." I laughed. "It's our secret, right?"

According to her best friend Frankie, twenty days in ZanzibarBay is the perfect opportunity to have a summer fling, and if they meet one boy ever day, there's a pretty good chance Anna will find her first summer romance. Anna lightheartedly agrees to the game, but there's something she hasn't told Frankie---she's already had that kind of romance, and it was with Frankie's older brother, Matt, just before his tragic death one year ago.

Beautifully written and emotionally honest, this is a debut novel that explores what it truly means to love someone and what it means to grieve, and ultimately, how to make the most of every single moment this world has to offer.

---Love this book. So much.

Also, you should look for The Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan, which releases on June 2. [from B&N]

Nick and his brother, Alan, have spent their lives on the run from magic. Their father was murdered, and their mother was driven mad by magicians and the demons who give them power. The magicians are hunting the Ryves family for a charm that Nick's mother stole — a charm that keeps her alive — and they want it badly enough to kill again.

Danger draws even closer when a brother and sister come to the Ryves family for help. The boy wears a demon's mark, a sign of death that almost nothing can erase...and when Alan also gets marked by a demon, Nick is des-perate to save him. The only way to do that is to kill one of the magicians they have been hiding from for so long.

Ensnared in a deadly game of cat and mouse, Nick starts to suspect that his brother is telling him lie after lie about their past. As the magicians' Circle closes in on their family, Nick uncovers the secret that could destroy them all.

This is the Demon's Lexicon. Turn the page.

---This one is pretty darn good as well.

In other news, I have no idea how I'm going to blog this week since I am super busying studying for finals. Ugh.