Review: Hunger

Title: Hunger Series: Riders of the Apocalypse # 1 Genre: Young Adult- Paranormal/Fantasy Author: Jackie Morse Kessler Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Release Date: October 18, 2010 Book: Netgalley   “Lisabeth Lewis has a black steed, a set of scales, and a new job: she’s been appointed Famine. How will an anorexic seventeen-year-old girl from the suburbs fare as one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?   A wildly original approach to the issue of eating disorders, Hunger is about the struggle to find balance in a world of extremes, and uses fantastic tropes to explore a difficult topic that touches the lives of many teens.”          “Thou art famine, yo.” With a line like that who could not like...

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Review: Sleepless

Title: Sleepless Series: No Genre: Young Adult- Paranormal/Sandman Author: Cyn Balog Publisher: Delacorte Press Release Date: July 13, 2010 Book: Bought “Eron De Marchelle isn’t supposed to feel a connection. He is a Sandman, a supernatural being whose purpose is to seduce human charges to sleep. While he can communicate with his charges in their dreams, he isn’t encouraged to–after all, getting too involved in one human’s life would prevent him helping his other charges get their needed rest.   But he can’t deny that he feels something for Julia. Julia, with her fiery red hair and her sad dreams. Just weeks ago, her boyfriend died in a car accident, and Eron can tell that she feels more alone than ever. Eron was human once too, many years ago, and he...

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Review: 13 To Life

13 To Life by Shannon Delany Published by St. Martin's Griffin on June 22nd 2010 Genres: Young Adult- Fantasy/ Paranormal Source: Bought Goodreads Everything about Jessie Gillmansen’s life changed when her mother died. Now even her hometown of Junction is changing.  Mysterious dark things are happening. All Jessie wants is to avoid more change. But showing a hot new guy around Junction High, she’s about to discover a whole new type of change. Pietr Rusakova is more than good looks and a fascinating accent—he’s a guy with a dangerous secret. And his very existence is sure to bring big trouble to Jessie’s small town. It seems change is the one thing Jessie can’t avoid. Now this book had me intrigued from the very beginning. This werewolves story was not at all...

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Review: Manifest

I received this book for free from FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Netgalley, Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Manifest by Artist Arthur Published by Harlequin Teen on August 1st 2010 Genres: Young Adult -Fantasy Source: FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Netgalley, Publisher Goodreads When fifteen-year-old Krystal Bentley moves to Lincoln, Connecticut, her mom's hometown, she assumes her biggest drama will be adjusting to the burbs after living in New York City. But Lincoln is nothing like Krystal imagined. The weirdness begins when Ricky Watson starts confiding in her. He's cute, funny, a good listener—and everything she'd ever want—except that he was killed...

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Review: Linger

Linger by Maggie Stiefvater Published by Scholastic Press on July 13th 2010 Genres: Young Adult- Fantasy/ Paranormal Source: Bought Goodreads The astonishing #1 New York Times bestseller. In Maggie Stiefvater's Shiver, Grace and Sam found each other. Now, in Linger, they must fight to be together. For Grace, this means defying her parents and keeping a very dangerous secret about her own well-being. For Sam, this means grappling with his werewolf past . . . and figuring out a way to survive into the future. Add into the mix a new wolf named Cole, whose own past has the potential to destroy the whole pack. And Isabelle, who already lost her brother to the wolves . . . and is nonetheless drawn to Cole. Dangerous things begin to lurk in Linger. People are starting...

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Review: Shiver

Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater Published by Scholastic Press on August 1st 2009 Genres: Young Adult- Fantasy/ Paranormal Source: Bought Goodreads For years, Grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf—her wolf—is a chilling presence she can't seem to live without. Meanwhile, Sam has lived two lives: In winter, the frozen woods, the protection of the pack, and the silent company of a fearless girl. In summer, a few precious months of being human… until the cold makes him shift back again. Now, Grace meets a yellow-eyed boy whose familiarity takes her breath away. It's her wolf. It has to be. But as winter nears, Sam must fight to stay human—or risk losing himself, and Grace, forever. This is such an amazing love story. Here we...

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