Review: Touched

Title: TouchedSeries: NoGenre: Young Adult-FantasyAuthor: Cyn BalogPublisher: Delacorte PressRelease Date: August 14, 2012Book: Edelweiss “Nick Cross always listens to the voice in his head. Because if he doesn’t? Things can go really, really wrong. Like the day he decided to go off script and saved a girl from being run over . . . and let another one drown. Trying to change the future doesn’t work.But this summer at the Jersey Shore, something’s about to happen that Nick never could have predicted. He meets a girl named Taryn and finds out about the Book of Touch. Now the path that he thought he was on begins to shift . . . and there’s no way to stop things from happening. Or is there? In a life where there are no surprises, nothing...

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Review: Fairy Tale

Title: Fairy TaleSeries: NoGenre: Young Adult- FantasyAuthor: Cyn BalogPublisher: Delacorte Books for Young ReadersRelease Date: June 23, 2009Book: Bought “Morgan Sparks has always known that she and her boyfriend, Cam, are made for each other. But when Cam’s cousin Pip comes to stay with the family, Cam seems depressed. Finally Cam confesses to Morgan what’s going on: Cam is a fairy. The night he was born, fairies came down and switched him with a healthy human boy. Nobody expected Cam to live, and nobody expected his biological brother, heir to the fairy throne, to die. But both things happened, and now the fairies want Cam back to take his rightful place as Fairy King. Even as Cam physically changes, becoming more miserable each day, he and Morgan pledge...

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Review: Starstruck

Title: StarstruckSeries: NoGenre: Young Adult- SupernatauralAuthor: Cyn BalogPublisher: Delacorte Books For Young ReadersRelease Date: July 12, 2011Book: ARC sent by publisher “Gwendolyn “Dough” X doesn’t think she has much going for her—she carries a few extra pounds, her family struggles with their small bakery in a town full of millionaires, and the other kids at her New Jersey high school don’t seem to know that she exists. Thank the stars for her longtime boyfriend, Philip P. Wishman—or “Wish.” He moved away to California three years ago, when they were 13, but then professed his love for her via e-mail, and he’s been her long-distance BF ever since. At the beginning of her junior year, though, Wish e-mails...

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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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