Review: Hold Still

Hold Still by Nina LaCour Series: Stand Alone Published by Speak on September 25th 2009 Genres: Young Adult-Contemporary Source: Bought Buy on Amazon Goodreads I am a girl ready to explode into nothing.That night Ingrid told Caitlin, I'll go wherever you go. But by dawn, Ingrid was dead and Caitlin was alone. Suddenly Caitlin has to deal with a completely unfamiliar life—a life without the art, the laughter, the music, and the joy she shared with her best friend. When she finds the journal Ingrid left behind, Caitlin gets a chance to learn about another side of her friend; and the journal becomes her guide as she deals with forging new friendships, finding a first love, and learning to live without the one person who knew her best. This is another book that I...

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Review: Confessions Of A Vampire’s Girlfriend

Confessions Of A Vampire's Girlfriend by Katie MacAlister on November 2nd 2010 Genres: Young Adult- Fantasy/ Paranormal Source: Bought Buy on Amazon Goodreads "Got Fangs?" Oregonian teenager Francesca Ghetti is six feet tall and reads minds by touching objects. Her divorced mother is a witch who has dragged Fran to Hungary on a traveling show filled with freaks and geeks. Fran is almost run over by a motorcycle. The driver is a hunk who is actually taller than her, which is what freaks her out. She does not blink when she learns he is Benedikt Czerny, a Moravian Dark One over three centuries old, who believes she will save his soul. When Benedikt demands Fran and his sister stay home while he fights a demon; his American Amazonian prepares to kick demon butt and...

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Review: Aces Up

Aces Up by Lauren Barnholdt Series: Stand Alone Published by Ember on August 10th 2010 Genres: Young Adult-Contemporary/Romance Source: Bought Buy on Amazon Goodreads Seventeen-year-old high school senior Shannon Card needs money. And lots of it. She's been admitted to Wellesley, but her dad just lost his job, and somehow she has to come up with a year of tuition herself. But Shannon's dream of making big bucks waitressing at the local casino, the Collosio, disappears faster than a gambler's lucky streak. Her boss is a tyrant, her coworker is nuts, and her chances of balancing a tray full of drinks while wearing high-heeled shoes are slim to none. Worse, time is running out, and Shannon hasn't made even half the money she'd hoped. When Shannon receives a...

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Review: Paper Covers Rock

This book may be unsuitable for people under 17 years of age due to its use of sexual content, drug and alcohol use, and/or violence.Paper Covers Rock by Jenny Hubbard Series: Stand Alone Published by Delacorte Press on June 14th 2011 Genres: Young Adult-Contemporary Source: Bought Buy on Amazon Goodreads At the beginning of his junior year at a boys' boarding school, 16-year-old Alex is devastated when he fails to save a drowning friend. When questioned, Alex and his friend Glenn, who was also at the river, begin weaving their web of lies. Plagued by guilt, Alex takes refuge in the library, telling his tale in a journal he hides behind Moby-Dick. Caught in the web with Alex and Glenn is their English teacher, Miss Dovecott, fresh out of Princeton, who suspects...

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Review: Body & Soul

Body & Soul by Stacey Kade Published by Hyperion Book CH on May 1st 2012 Genres: Young Adult- Fantasy/ Paranormal Source: Bought Buy on Amazon Goodreads The final book in The Ghost and the Goth Trilogy!The GhostI’ve been trapped in the body of Lily “Ally” Turner for a month now. Talk about a fashion crisis on an epic scale. What worries me more, though, is sometimes I catch Will looking at me like he thinks I’m Lily...or that he wishes I were. Without the good looks of my former self, I don’t know who I am, or if who that is is good enough. I need out of this mess. Now.Will and I have been looking for a solution, one that would separate me from Lily without killing her. But it’s not going well. Then, when it seems like things couldn’t get any worse, we run into...

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