Review: Looking For Alaska

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.Looking for Alaska by John Green Series: Stand Alone Published by Speak on December 28th 2006 Genres: Young Adult-Contemporary/Romance Source: Bought Buy on Amazon Goodreads Before. Miles "Pudge" Halter's whole existence has been one big nonevent, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave the "Great Perhaps" (François Rabelais, poet) even more. He heads off to the sometimes crazy, possibly unstable, and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed-up, and...

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Review: My Life Next Door

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.My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick Published by Dial Books for Young Readers on June 14th 2012 Genres: Young Adult-Contemporary/Romance Source: Bought Buy on Amazon Goodreads "One thing my mother never knew, and would disapprove of most of all, was that I watched the Garretts. All the time." The Garretts are everything the Reeds are not. Loud, messy, affectionate. And every day from her rooftop perch, Samantha Reed wishes she was one of them . . . until one summer evening, Jase Garrett climbs up next to her and changes everything. As the two fall fiercely for each other, stumbling through the awkwardness and awesomeness of...

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Review: Betrayal

Betrayal by Gillian Shields Published by Katherine Tegen Books on August 3rd 2010 Genres: Young Adult- Supernatural/Paranormal Source: Bought Buy on Amazon Goodreads There are the small betrayals: the unkind word, the petty lies. And there are the betrayals that break hearts, destroy worlds, and turn the strong sweet light of day into bitter dust. When Evie Johnson started at Wyldcliffe Abbey School for Young Ladies, her life changed in ways she couldn't possibly have envisioned: the discovery of her link with Lady Agnes, her special bond with Helen and Sarah, and their sisterhood in the astonishing secrets of the Mystic Way. Above all, Evie's love for Sebastian has turned her world upside down. Now Evie returns to Wyldcliffe for another term and more danger....

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Review: Clockwork Princess

Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare Published by Margaret K. McElderry Books on March 19th 2013 Genres: Young Adult- Historical/Fantasy, Young Adult- Supernatural Source: Bought Goodreads London 1873 shape-shifter Tessa Gray 16 is engaged to Jem Carstairs 17, dying of addiction to demon drug, all bought up by evil Mortmain. The "clockwork prince" controls an army of automatons to abduct Tess, kill the Shadowhunters, and blackmail Charlotte Branwell, head of London Institute. Will and Tessa hide their love, for love of Jem. I think this will be one of my few shorts reviews. Because I could say more but I think less is better. Plot: The plot pretty much follows as the other books have. There is lots of action and fighting with the shadow hunters. They made grave...

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Review: The Circle

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.The Circle by Mats Strandberg, Sara Bergmark Elfgren Published by Overlook Juvenile on May 2nd 2013 Genres: Young Adult- Fantasy/ Paranormal Source: Bought Buy on Amazon Goodreads On a night after the apparent suicide of high school student Elias Malmgren, a blood-red moon fills the night sky. Minoo wakes up outside her house, still in her pajamas, and is drawn by an invisible force to an abandoned theme park on the outskirts of town. Soon five of her classmates--Vanessa, Linnea, Anna-Karin, Rebecka and Ida--arrive, compelled the same force. A mystical being takes over Ida's body and tells them they are fated to fight an ancient...

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