Bianca, whose parents are both vampires, goes to Evernight Academy - a school for vampires and a carefully selected handful of humans. This is Bianca's second year at the school. The year previous she fell in love with a boy named Lucas. Co...
4¾ StarsThis book did not have the impact I expected it to have. I think it is for the younger young adult audience. The story has wonderful characters and great scene building but it did not have the spark that makes me sit on the edge of my seat...
4 StarsKelly Louise's life has been turned around when her mother decides to move back to Heaven, Iowa. She is staying with her neat-freak and obsessive grandmother and cousin. All anyone in Heaven can talk about is the baby girl Grace found dead...
4 StarsAs a young girl I read a lot of the 'classics'. All of Jane Austen, most of the Bronte sisters and a fair deal of Louisa May Alcott. Little Women wasn't my favorite Alcott book, Jo's Boys was, but I did read the unabridged versi...
3½ StarsMadison Avery doesn't believe in fate—until a combination of fate and free will brings her to live with her dad (which her mom thinks is a good thing for her since she can't stay out of trouble at home), gets her a pity-date ("yo...
4 StarsQuinn is the perfect teenager that any parent would die to have. She gets good grades, never gets in trouble, and does everything her mother asks her to do. That is, until Quinn finds out that her mom did something very bad that got her fir...
4 StarsAlex has just been transferred to Glenarvon Academy after an accident at his old school. One night soon after his arrival he decides to take a walk when he hears a scream, which he follows to a freshly dead body. Alex sees a woman running o...
5 StarsMaya has a mother who died when she was eight and her dad is a conman. After her father is arrested Maya is sent to foster care where she meets Nicole. Talking to her dad she finds out that her mother had a sister. So Maya runs away from th...
4 StarsDevlin is the Fairie Queen’s Bloodied Hands or assassin. He was created by the High Queen, Sorcha and her twin sister, Bananach, the Queen of War. He needs the blood of both to survive but he serves Sorcha. Never since...
4¾ StarsIt all starts in Paradise when Jena, Dakota, Skye, and Owen all meet. Jena met Dakota and thought he liked her until he ditched her for Skye, which upsets Jena and makes her mad. When in the hot tub she discovers a suicide note, which worri...
3½ StarsLily is just more than just a High School girl. She's a mermaid and to boot, the princess of Thalassinia, the undersea world where all merpeople reside. She's also half-human and because of that, for the past several months she's been...
4½ StarsAubrey begged her parents to allow her to add an extra week to her spring break so that she could go to Vermont with her best friend Christie. They allow it in exchange for a few things on her end that she is more than willing to do.&...
3½ StarsThis book is a must-have for up-coming high school students. It talks about how you should act at BBQs to banquets; cellphone etiquette, including when and where not to use them; how to prepare for graduation, including throwing a graduatio...
4 StarsBefore I Fall by Lauren Oliver starts out with Samantha Kingston going about her everyday life like normal. She wakes up late to her little sister telling her to hurry and is picked up by her friends on their way to school. They talk about...
4½ StarsHaving never been in contact with the Department of Corrections any where except on the TV screen, I have no idea how accurate this is. I'm sure Myers did all his research, and he apparently works with the DoC now and then. It's...
3¼ StarsAfter reading the first book, Evernight and then reading the second one in rapid succession, Stargazer, I was hoping that Bianca and Lucas got a break from their tragic love story lives in Hourlgass. The allusion to Romeo and Juliet...
4½ StarsAllie is a vinyl junkie. She has almost every LP imaginable! She works at a record store called Bob & Bob's, where a lot of people come to sell their old LP's since almost everyone has turned to downloading all of their music. Allie doe...
4 StarsWhen Emily Bronte wrote Wuthering Heights, she created a timeless couple whose doomed romance would live forever. Heathcliff and Catherine's passions destroy not only themselves but almost everyone they come in contact with. The best thing...
4 StarsKira is a dead. She is also a vampire. She now lives with a "family" of vampires who created her when they found her dying. When Kira and her family move to Massachusetts, Kira finds herself in a predicament. One day when they pul...
4½ StarsJane Austen's Pride and Prejudice has been a classic for years due to it's wonderful writing, richly developed characters and engrossing romance, but now enjoys a surge in its fanbase due to Twilight. Edward and Bella bring to mind Mis...
5 StarsWilliam Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is retold by Jaqueline Ritten in an easy to understand manner that did not take away from Shakespeare’s original wording or meaning in any way. She even uses some of his phrases in her writ...
5 StarsIf you are looking for a cute paranormal YA read check out Heather Davis’s Never Cry Werewolf. This is a fun teen read that will have you routing big time for the heroine. Shelby, the heroine, is going through some very emotional times. Her...
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