Wednesday, June 15, 2011 “Paranormalcy” (#1) by Kiersten White “Evie’s always thought of herself as a normal teenager, even though she works for the International Paranormal Containment Agency, her ex-boyfriend is a faerie, she’s falling for a shape-shifter, and she’s the only person who can see through paranormals’ glamours. But Evie’s about to realize that […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 “Hex Hall” by Rachel Hawkins “On her 12th birthday, Sophie Mercer discovered that she was a witch. Three bumpy years later, after a prom-night spell gone horribly wrong, she’s exiled to Hex Hall, an isolated reform school for wayward Prodigium, a.k.a. witches, faeries, and shapeshifters. By the end of her first […]
Friday, April 1, 2011 “Beastly” by Alex Flinn “I am a beast. A beast! Not quite wolf or bear, gorilla or dog but a horrible new creature who walks upright. I am a monster. You think I’m talking fairy tales? No way. The place is New York City. The time is now. It’s no deformity, […]
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 […]
Monday, December 21, 2009 Backwater by Joan Bauer She peered at me some more. I wasn’t used to such scrutiny. “I suppose at this moment you think I’m the craziest woman you’ve ever met,” she said quietly. I looked at her standing there with birds on her arms and head. “Fiona’s crazier,’ I assured her. […]
Monday, June 29, 2009 Lily’s Ghosts by Laura Ruby I liked this book, lots! 🙂 It was good, I give it 4 stars! I liked that it was perfectally descriptive enough, with some comedy, romance, horror, drama, and mystery. The wide cast of characters were great. I think it was written very well and the […]