Friday, June 24, 2011 “Red Glove” (Curseworkers, #2) by Holly Black **I will not be including a summary with this review. The official one, as well as any I can think to make up are very SPOILER-Y for those who have not read “White Cat”. This review will also be slightly spoiler-y as many sequel […]
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 […]
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 “The Adoration of Jenna Fox” by Mary E. Pearson “Seventeen-year-old Jenna Fox has just awoken from a year-long coma — so she’s been told — and she is still recovering from the terrible accident that caused it. But what happened before that? She’s been given home movies chronicling her entire life, […]
Monday, May 2, 2011 “My Father’s Son” by Terri Fields She tells us that we will need to understand and abide by the rules.“I hate rules,” Tattoo Tom says. Kevin Windor, 17 years old, is pretty average. He’s taking AP classes, lives with his mom but spends weekends with his dad. He has a best […]
Monday, April 25, 2011 “White Cat” (Curseworkers, #1) by Holly Black “Cassel comes from a family of curse workers — people who have the power to change your emotions, your memories, your luck, by the slightest touch of their hands. And since curse work is illegal, they’re all mobsters, or con artists. Except for Cassel. […]
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 “Beautiful Creatures” by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl “Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she’s struggling to conceal her power, and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of […]
Saturday, April 16, 2011 “Clockwork Angel” by Cassandra Clare (Infernal Devices, #1) Tessa Gray’s parents are dead. She lives with her Aunt in New York. Her brother, Nathaniel, went away a while ago to London for work. Her aunt has died and she’s going to travel across the seas to her brother so they can […]
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 “The Morgue and Me” by John C. Ford “Christopher just needed a job to kill time the summer after high school graduation. He didn’t expect it to be in the morgue. Or that he would accidentally discover a murder cover-up. Or that his discovery would lead him to a full-blown investigation […]
Monday, March 7, 2011 “The Forest of Hands and Teeth” by Carrie Ryan “In Mary’s world, there are simple truths. The Sisterhood always knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve. The Unconsecrated will never relent. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village. The fence that protects the village from the […]
Wednesday, February 2, 2011 The Falconer’s Knot by Mary Hoffman ‘What a lout!’ whispered Sister Veronica. ‘You’d think a man who can afford clothes and a horse like that would have better manners.’It was not the sort of thing that nuns were supposed to say and Chiara was delighted to discover that Sister Veronica had […]