Review: Entangled

Entangled by Cat Clarke Series: Stand Alone Published by Quercus Publishing Plc on January 6, 2011 Genres: Young Adult-Contemporary/Thriller Source: Bought Buy on Amazon Goodreads The same questions whirl round and round in my head: What does he want from me? How could I have let this happen? AM I GOING TO DIE? 17-year-old Grace wakes up in a white room, with table, pens and paper - and no clue how she got there. As Grace pours her tangled life onto the page, she is forced to remember everything she's tried to forget. There's falling hopelessly in love with the gorgeous Nat, and the unravelling of her relationship with her best friend Sal. But there's something missing. As hard as she's trying to remember, is there something she just can't see? Grace must face...

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Review: Demonglass

Demonglass by Rachel Hawkins Published by Hyperion Book CH on March 22nd 2011 Genres: Young Adult- Fantasy/ Paranormal Source: Bought Buy on Amazon Goodreads "Sophie Mercer thought she was a witch.That was the whole reason she was sent to Hex Hall, a reform school for delinquent Prodigium (aka witches, shapeshifters, and fairies). But that was before she discovered the family secret, and that her hot crush, Archer Cross, is an agent for The Eye, a group bent on wiping Prodigium off the face of the earth. Turns out, Sophie’s a demon, one of only two in the world—the other being her father. What’s worse, she has powers that threaten the lives of everyone she loves. Which is precisely why Sophie decides she must go to London for the Removal, a dangerous procedure...

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Review: Bite Club

Bite Club by Rachel Caine Published by NAL Hardcover on May 3rd 2011 Genres: Young Adult- Fantasy/ Paranormal Source: Bought Goodreads "After discovering that vampires populate her town, college student Claire Danvers knows that the undead just want to live their lives. But someone else wants them to get ready to rumble. There's a new extreme sport getting picked up on the Internet: bare- knuckle fights pitting captured vampires against each other-or humans. Tracking the remote signal leads Claire- accompanied by her friends and frenemies-to discover that what started as an online brawl will soon threaten everyone in Morganville..."   The Morganville Vampire Series has always eluded me. Everytime I open up a page to this city, I am in it. Strolling at the...

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Review: Bloody Valentine

Bloody Valentine by Melissa de la Cruz Published by Hyperion Book CH on December 28th 2010 Genres: Young Adult- Fantasy/ Paranormal Source: Bought Goodreads "Vampires have powers beyond human comprehension: strength that defies logic, speed that cannot be captured on film, the ability to shapeshift and more. But in matters of the heart, no one, not even the strikingly beautiful and outrageously wealthy Blue Bloods, has total control. In Bloody Valentine, bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz offers readers a new story about the love lives of their favorite vamps - the passion and heartache, the hope and devastation, the lust and longing. Combined with all the glitz, glamour, and mystery fans have come to expect, this is sure to be another huge hit in the Blue...

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Review: But I Love Him

But I Love Him by Amanda Grace Series: Stand Alone Published by Flux on May 8th 2011 Genres: Young Adult-Contemporary Source: Bought Goodreads "Tonight was so much worse than anything before it. Tonight he didn't stop after the first slap. At the beginning of senior year, Ann was a smiling, straight-A student and track star with friends and a future. Then she met a haunted young man named Connor. Only she can heal his emotional scars; only he could make her feel so loved — and needed. Ann can't recall the pivotal moment it all changed, when she surrendered everything to be with him, but by graduation, her life has become a dangerous high wire act. Just one mistake could trigger Connor's rage, a senseless storm of cruel words and violence damaging everything — and...

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