Wednesday, June 8, 2011 “Never Slow Dance with a Zombie” by E. Van Lowe “Principal Taft’s 3 Simple Rules for Surviving a Zombie Uprising: Rule #1: While in the halls, walk slowly and wear a vacant expression on your face. Zombies won’t attack other zombies. Rule #2: Never travel alone. Move in packs. Follow the […]
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 “Runaway” by Wendelin Van Draanen Well. Stupid me. You should see them now. They’re all huddled up arguing like crazy. Maybe they think I’m going to put a curse on them. I can’t believe it. They’re coming up here? Oh, crud. Frankie’s got a stick. Holly has gone from one foster […]
Wednesday, May 4, 2011 “Scorpia Rising” (Alex Rider, #9) by Anthony Horowitz “Scorpia has dogged Alex Rider for most of his life. They killed his parents, they did their best to con Alex into turning traitor, and they just keep coming back with more power. Now the world’s most dangerous terrorist organization is playing with […]
Thursday, April 14, 2011 “The Vespertine” by Saundra Mitchell “It’s the summer of 1889, and Amelia van den Broek is new to Baltimore and eager to take in all the pleasures the city has to offer. But her gaiety is interrupted by disturbing, dreamlike visions she has only at sunset—visions that offer glimpses of the […]
Sunday, April 10, 2011 “Birth of a Killer” by Darren Shan (Larten Crepsley, #1) “Before Cirque Du Freak… Before the war with the vampaneze… Before he was a vampire. Larten Crepsley was a boy. As a child laborer many centuries ago, Larten Crepsley did his job well and without complaint, until the day the foreman […]
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 “Cloaked” by Alex Flinn “I’m not your average hero. I actually wasn’t your average anything. Just a poor guy working an after-school job at a South Beach shoe repair shop to help his mom make ends meet. But a little magic changed it all. It all started with a curse. And […]
Friday, April 8, 2011 “Deadly” by Julie Chibbaro “A mysterious outbreak of typhoid fever is sweeping New York. Could the city’s future rest with its most unlikely scientist? Every week more people fall ill, and despite thorough investigation, there’s no cause in sight. It’s not until sixteen-year-old Prudence Galewski takes a job as an assistant […]
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 “Heist Society” by Ally Carter “When Katarina Bishop was three, her parents took her on a trip to the Louvre…to case it. For her seventh birthday, Katarina and her Uncle Eddie traveled to Austria…to steal the crown jewels. When Kat turned fifteen, she planned a con of her own—scamming her way […]
Sunday, March 27, 2011 “Sapphique” by Catherine Fisher Note: I’m going to try and make this review as spoiler free as possible! If you haven’t read “Incarceron” though, you might just want to check out that (admittedly to short to do it justice, but I just… couldn’t put my thoughts into words for it properly) […]
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 “The Dark City” (Relic Master #1) by Catherine Fisher May 17, 2011 “Enter the world of RELIC MASTER. Dark, dangerous and deadly-welcome to Anara, a world mysteriously crumbling to devastation, where nothing is what it seems: ancient relics emit technologically advanced powers, members of the old Order are revered by the […]