Review: The Replacement

Review: The Replacement
Aug 29
2010

Title: The ReplacementSeries: NoGenre: Young Adult-FantasyAuthor: Brenna YovanoffPublisher: RazorbillRelease Date: Sept 21, 2010Book: Received from Joni at Paragraphs “Mackie Doyle seems like everyone else in the perfect little town of Gentry, but he is living with a fatal secret – he is a Replacement, left in the crib of a human baby sixteen years ago. Now the creatures under the hill want him back, and Mackie must decide where he really belongs and what he really wants. A month ago, Mackie might have told them to buzz off. But now, with a budding relationship with tough, wounded, beautiful Tate, Mackie has too much to lose. Will love finally make him worthy of the human world?” Mackie is not normal. And he know this. His family has been force...

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Review: Mockingjay

Review: Mockingjay
Aug 28
2010

Title: MockingjaySeries: The Hunger Games # 3Genre: Young Adult- DystopianAuthor: Suzanna CollinsPublisher: ScholasticRelease Date:  August 24, 2010Book: Bought “Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she’s made it out of the bloody arena alive, she’s still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. And what’s worse, President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe either. Not Katniss’s family, not her friends, not the people of District 12. Powerful and haunting, this thrilling final installment of Suzanne Collins’s groundbreaking The Hunger Games trilogy promises to be one of the most talked about books of the year.” Katniss...

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Review: Mieradome

Review: Mieradome
Aug 26
2010

Title: MieradomeSeries: NoGenre: Young Adult- FantasyAuthor: Kate O’HegartyPublisher: Author HouseRelease Date: November 20, 2010Book:  Book sent by Author “Mieradome, revolves around a young girl named Amavia, who believes she is a human girl, but slowly comes to find she is a faery in the world of Mieradome. Amavia’s mother, Anastasica, had taken her out of the faery realm and hidden her away here in our human realm, so that she may be protected from her parents’ past mistakes. But that was not enough, the forces that be found Amavia, and brought her back into the cosmos of the Grandmother Tree. There she meets other faeries, goblins, Telkar dragons, and Utopisols. Slowly who Amavia really was began to unravel to show the truth. The...

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Review: Love Sucks

Review: Love Sucks
Aug 23
2010

Tile: Love SucksSeries: NoGenre: Young Adult-Paranormal Author: Lauren Hammond Publisher: Punkin House Release: August 3, 2010Book: Bought “In England during the seventeen hundreds, Cara Jones had her human life ended for her and she became a creature of the night. One moment she’s an adolescent young woman living her life, the next she’s lurking in the streets at night looking for her next meal. The vampire slayings in England became so brutal the whole race was nearly wiped out. So Cara and the clan she called her extended family fled to the U.S. to make a home. They kept to themselves and stayed out of trouble by feeding on recently deceased corpses and cleaning out blood supplies at local hospitals. When one of the clan members makes a...

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Review: Matched

Review: Matched
Aug 22
2010

Title: MatchedSeries: Matched # 1Genre: Young Adult-DystopianAuthor: Ally CondiePublisher: DuttonRelease Date: November 30, 2010Book: ARC sent by publisher “In the Society, Officials decide. Who you love. Where you work. When you die. Cassia has always trusted their choices. It’s barely any pr …more In the Society, Officials decide. Who you love. Where you work. When you die. Cassia has always trusted their choices. It’s barely any price to pay for a long life, the perfect job, the ideal mate. So when her best friend appears on the Matching screen, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is the one . . . until she sees another face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. Now Cassia is faced with impossible choices: between Xander...

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Review: Early to Death, Early to Rise

Review: Early to Death, Early to Rise
Aug 19
2010

Early To Death, Early To Rise by Kim Harrison Published by HarperCollins on May 25th 2010 Genres: Young Adult- Fantasy/ Paranormal Source: Bought Buy on Amazon Goodreads "Seventeen, dead, and in charge of heaven's dark angels—all itching to kill someone.   Madison Avery's dreams of ever fitting in at her new school died when she did. Especially since she was able to maintain the illusion of a body, deal with a pesky guardian angel, and oh yeah, bring the reaper who killed her to his untimely end. Not exactly in-crowd material. It's amazing that her crush, Josh, doesn't think she's totally nuts.   Now Madison has learned that she's the dark timekeeper, in charge of angels who follow the murky guidelines of fate. Never one to abide by the rules, she decides it's...

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