Review: Blind Spot

Blind Spot by Laura Ellen Series: Stand Alone Published by Harcourt Children's Books on October 23rd 2012 Genres: Young Adult-Contemporary/Thriller Source: FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Publisher Goodreads "There’s none so blind as they that won’t see. Seventeen-year-old Tricia Farni’s body floated to the surface of Alaska’s Birch River six months after the night she disappeared. The night Roz Hart had a fight with her. The night Roz can’t remember. Roz, who struggles with macular degeneration, is used to assembling fragments to make sense of the world around her. But this time it’s her memory that needs piecing together—to clear her name . . . to find a murderer. This unflinchingly emotional novel is written in the powerful first-person voice of a legally...

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Review: Blood Wounds

Blood Wounds by Susan Beth Pfeffer Series: Stand Alone Published by Harcourt Children's Books on September 13th 2011 Genres: Young Adult-Contemporary Source: Blog Tour, FTC: Exchange for honest opinion Goodreads "Willa is lucky: She has a loving blended family that gets along. Not all families are so fortunate. But when a bloody crime takes place hundreds of miles away, it has an explosive effect on Willa’s peaceful life. The estranged father she hardly remembers has murdered his new wife and children, and is headed east toward Willa and her mother. Under police protection, Willa discovers that her mother has harbored secrets that are threatening to boil over. Has everything Willa believed about herself been a lie? As Willa sets out to untangle the mysteries of...

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Review: Dark of the Moon

Dark of the Moon by Tracy Barrett Series: Stand Alone Published by Harcourt Children's Books on September 20th 2011 Genres: Young Adult- Fantasy/ Paranormal Source: FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads "Ariadne is destined to become a goddess of the moon. She leads a lonely life, filled with hours of rigorous training by stern priestesses. Her former friends no longer dare to look at her, much less speak to her. All that she has left are her mother and her beloved, misshapen brother Asterion, who must be held captive below the palace for his own safety. So when a ship arrives one spring day, bearing a tribute of slaves from Athens, Ariadne sneaks out to meet it. These newcomers don’t know the ways of Krete; perhaps they won’t be...

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Review: Jekel Loves Hyde

Jekel Loves Hyde by Beth Fantaskey Series: Stand Alone Published by Harcourt Children's Books on May 3rd 2010 Genres: Young Adult-Science Fiction Source: Bought Goodreads Jill Jekel has always obeyed her parents’ rules – especially the one about never opening the mysterious, old box in her father’s office. But when her dad is murdered, and her college savings disappear, she's tempted to peek inside, as the contents might be key to a lucrative chemistry scholarship. To better her odds, Jill enlists the help of gorgeous, brooding Tristen Hyde, who has his own dark secrets locked away. As the team of Jekel and Hyde, they recreate experiments based on the classic novel, hoping not only to win a prize, but to save Tristen’s sanity. Maybe his life. But Jill’s...

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Review: Jessica’s Guide to Dating on the Dark Side

Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side by Beth Fantaskey Published by Harcourt Children's Books on February 1st 2009 Genres: Young Adult- Fantasy/ Paranormal Source: Bought Goodreads The undead can really screw up your senior year ... Marrying a vampire definitely doesn’t fit into Jessica Packwood’s senior year “get-a-life” plan. But then a bizarre (and incredibly hot) new exchange student named Lucius Vladescu shows up, claiming that Jessica is a Romanian vampire princess by birth—and he’s her long-lost fiancé. Armed with newfound confidence and a copy of Growing Up Undead: A Teen Vampire’s Guide to Dating, Health, and Emotions, Jessica makes a dramatic transition from average American teenager to glam European vampire princess. But when a devious...

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