Saturday, June 4, 2011 “Nevermore” by Kelly Creagh “At once an homage to one of America’s greatest writers and a page-turning psychological mystery that is equal parts horror, humor, and romance, NEVERMORE is the story of Varen — a Poe-fan and goth — and Isobel — a cheerleader and unlikely heroine. When a Lit. project […]
Friday, May 27, 2011 “Shadowed Summer” by Saundra Mitchell “Iris is ready for another hot, routine summer in her small Louisiana town, hanging around the Red Stripe grocery with her best friend, Collette, and traipsing through the cemetery telling each other spooky stories and pretending to cast spells. Except this summer, Iris doesn’t have to […]
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 […]
Monday, May 16, 2011 “Beautiful Darkness” (Caster Chronicles, #2) by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl “Ethan Wate used to think of Gatlin, the small Southern town he had always called home, as a place where nothing ever changed. Then he met mysterious newcomer Lena Duchannes, who revealed a secret world that had been hidden in […]
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) […]
Monday, March 14, 2011 “Those That Wake” by Jesse Karp March 21st, 2011 “New York City’s spirit has been crushed. People walk the streets with their heads down, withdrawing from one another and into the cold comfort of technology. Teenagers Mal and Laura have grown up in this reality. They’ve never met. Seemingly, they never […]