Review: Unraveled

Title: UnraveledSeries: Intertwined #2Genre: Young Adult-FantasyAuthor: Gena ShowalterPublisher: Harlequin TeenRelease Date: August 31, 2010Book: Bought “For once, sixteen-year-old Aden Stone has everything he’s ever wanted: A home. Friends. The girl of his dreams. Too bad he’s going to die…Since coming to Crossroads, Oklahoma, former outcast Aden Stone has been living the good life. Never mind that one of his best friends is a werewolf, his girlfriend is a vampire princess who hungers for his blood, and he’s supposed to be crowned Vampire King – while still a human! Well, kind of. With four – oops, three now — human souls living inside his head, Aden has always been “different” himself. These souls can time travel, raise the dead, possess another’s...

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Review: iDrakula

Title: iDrakulaSeries: iMonsters # 1Genre: Young Adult-ParanormalAuthor: Bekka BlackPublisher: Sourcebooks FireRelease Date: October 1, 2010Book: Bought “18-year-old Jonathan Harker is diagnosed with a rare blood disorder after visiting a Romanian Count. His girlfriend Mina and a pre-med student named Van Helsing team up to investigate the source of the disease. The teenagers discover a horrifying truth: the Count is a vampire. The harrowing events unfold through emails, text messages, web pages, Twitter feeds, and instant messaging-the natural modernization of Bram Stoker’s original Dracula, which was written in letters, diary entries, and news clippings.” This book was a great and fun read. I enjoy looking at the different pictures and it is...

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Review: Vesper

Title: VesperSeries: A Deviants Novel # 1Genre: Young Adult-FantasyAuthor: Jeff SampsonPublisher: Balzer + BrayRelease Date: January 25, 2010Book: ARC sent by publisher “Emily Webb is a geek. And she’s happy that way. Content hiding under hoodies and curling up to watch old horror flicks, she’s never been the kind of girl who sneaks out for midnight parties. And she’s definitely not the kind of girl who starts fights or flirts with other girls’ boyfriends. Until one night Emily finds herself doing exactly that . . . the same night one of her classmates—also named Emily—is found mysteriously murdered. The thing is, Emily doesn’t know why she’s doing any of this. By day, she’s the same old boring Emily, but by night, she turns into a thrill seeker. With every...

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Review: Beautiful Darkness

Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl Published by Little Brown on October 12th 2010 Genres: Young Adult- Fantasy/ Paranormal Source: Bought Goodreads "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 plain sight all along. A Gatlin that harbored ancient secrets beneath its moss-covered oaks and cracked sidewalks. A Gatlin where a curse has marked Lena's family of powerful supernaturals for generations. A Gatlin where impossible, magical, life-altering events happen.  Sometimes life-ending. Together they can face anything Gatlin throws at them, but after suffering a tragic...

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Review: The Oracle Rebounds

Title: The Oracle ReboundsSeries: The Oracle Of Dating # 2Genre: Young Adult-ContemporaryAuthor: Allison van DiepenPublisher: Harlequin TeenRelease Date: Novermber 1, 2010Book:  Netgalley “As the “oracle of dating,” Kayla is supposed to have all the answers about love and relationships. She’s supposed to have the perfect relationship. But now that Jared is “taking a step back,” Kayla feels like a total fraud. So the expert on dating starts taking her own rebound advice—and some from her friends—and stops moping around. Yeah, there are other possibilities out there—including the beyond-cute French foreign exchange student she’s showing around town. But when controversy erupts about the Oracle’s advice, Kayla is sent reeling once again. Will anything work out...

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Review: Torment

Review: TormentSeries: Fallen # 2Genre: Young Adult- ParanormalAuthor: Lauren KatePublished: Delcorte PressRelease Date: September 28, 2010Book: Bought “How many lives do you need to live before you find someone worth dying for? In the aftermath of what happened at Sword & Cross, Luce has been hidden away by her cursed angelic boyfriend, Daniel, in a new school filled with Nephilim, the offspring of fallen angels and humans. Daniel promises she will be safe here, protected from those who would kill her. At the school Luce discovers what the Shadows that have followed her all her life mean – and how to manipulate them to see into her other lives. Yet the more Luce learns about herself, the more she realizes that the past is her only key to...

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