Review: Bleeding Violet

Bleeding Violet by Dia Reeves Series: Stand Alone Published by Simon Pulse on January 5, 2010 Genres: Young Adult -Fantasy Source: Bought Goodreads "Love can be a dangerous thing....   Hanna simply wants to be loved. With a head plagued by hallucinations, a medicine cabinet full of pills, and a closet stuffed with frilly, violet dresses, Hanna's tired of being the outcast, the weird girl, the freak. So she runs away to Portero, Texas in search of a new home.   But Portero is a stranger town than Hanna expects. As she tries to make a place for herself, she discovers dark secrets that would terrify any normal soul. Good thing for Hanna, she's far from normal. As this crazy girl meets an even crazier town, only two things are certain: Anything can happen and no one...

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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: White Cat

White Cat by Holly Black Published by Margaret K. McElderry Books on May 4th 2010 Genres: Fantasy & Magic, Young Adult -Fantasy Source: Bought Goodreads Cassel comes from a shady, magical family of con artists and grifters. He doesn't fit in at home or at school, so he's used to feeling like an outsider. He's also used to feeling guilty; he killed his best friend, Lila, years ago. But when Cassel begins to have strange dreams about a white cat, and people around him are losing their memories, he starts to wonder what really happened to Lila. In his search for answers, he discovers a wicked plot for power that seems certain to succeed. But Cassel has other ideas and a plan to con the conmen. First off, I want to give my props to Holly Black because White Cat...

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Review: The Ice Hotel

I received this book for free from Author, FTC: Exchange for honest opinion in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.The Ice Hotel by M.C. Foley Series: Stand Alone Published by Self-Published on January 1st 2012 Genres: Young Adult -Fantasy Source: Author, FTC: Exchange for honest opinion Goodreads To twin siblings Izzie and Poe McGarity, big brother Rossa is not just the eldest of three children. He is a hero, a leader, a king. Or rather... he was a king. Before his mistake. Before he died. Haunted by visions of Rossa wherever they turn, the twins and their parents accept an invitation to the legendary Ice Hotel, an enormous structure built entirely from snow and ice, thousands of miles to the...

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Review: Infinity

Infinity by Sherrilyn Kenyon Published by St. Martin's Griffin on May 25th 2010 Genres: Young Adult -Fantasy Source: Bought Goodreads At fourteen, Nick Gautier thinks he knows everything about the world around him. Streetwise, tough and savvy, his quick sarcasm is the stuff of legends. . .until the night when his best friends try to kill him. Saved by a mysterious warrior who has more fighting skills than Chuck Norris, Nick is sucked into the realm of the Dark-Hunters: immortal vampire slayers who risk everything to save humanity. Nick quickly learns that the human world is only a veil for a much larger and more dangerous one: a world where the captain of the football team is a werewolf and the girl he has a crush on goes out at night to stake the undead. But...

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