Review: Dark Parties

Dark Parties by Sara Grant Series: Stand Alone Published by Brown For Young Readers, Little Brown on August 3rd 2011 Genres: Young Adult- Fantasy/Dystopian Source: FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads "Sixteen-year-old Neva has been trapped since birth. She was born and raised under the Protectosphere, in an isolated nation ruled by fear, lies, and xenophobia. A shield "protects" them from the outside world, but also locks the citizens inside. But there's nothing left on the outside, ever since the world collapsed from violent warfare. Or so the government says... Neva and her best friend Sanna believe the government is lying and stage a "dark party" to recruit members for their underground rebellion. But as Neva begins to uncover...

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Review: Always A Witch

I received this book for free from FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Always A Witch by Carolyn MacCullough Series: Once A Witch # 2 Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on August 1, 2011 Genres: Young Adult -Fantasy Source: FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads  The adventures of Tam and Gabriel continue with more time travel, Talents, spy work, and of course, the evil Knights. Since the gripping conclusion of Once A Witch, Tamsin Greene has been haunted by her grandmother's prophecy that she will soon be forced to make a crucial decision—one so terrible that it could harm her family forever. When she discovers that...

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Review: Anathema

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.Anathema by Megg Jensen Series: Cloud Prophet Trilogy # 1 Published by Createspace on February 5, 2011 Genres: Young Adult- Fantasy/ Paranormal Source: Author, FTC: Exchange for honest opinion Buy on Amazon Goodreads Forget prophecy. Make your own destiny. Sheltered from the outside world with no hope for escape, slave girl Reychel dreads her fifteenth birthday - when her master’s symbol is burned on the back of her bald scalp. Her best friend disappears the night before, leaving her to face the branding ceremony alone. She soon discovers nothing is as it seems when people desperate...

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Review: Bone Dressing

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.Bone Dressing by Michelle I. Brooks Published by Savage Enterprises on April 20th 2011 Genres: Young Adult- Fantasy/ Paranormal Source: Author, FTC: Exchange for honest opinion Goodreads Time is running out … the Dark that's been chasing Syd for many lifetimes has finally caught up with her … Sydney Roberdeau lost her parents as a young girl. Waiting for her life to start and the freedom that will come with her eighteenth birthday, Syd spends much of her time haunting the local cemetery. It is there, stretched out among the dead, that she feels most alive, most at home. Until one...

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Review: Cold Kiss

Cold Kiss by Amy Garvey Published by HarperTeen on September 20th 2011 Genres: Young Adult- Fantasy/ Paranormal Source: FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Netgalley Goodreads “It seemed so right. Danny was mine, I was his, and that wasn’t going to work if he was dead. So I would make him not dead, not anymore. I didn’t think any further than what it would feel like to kiss him again, to wrap my arms around him and bury my head against his shoulder.  That was my first mistake. It also turned out to be the biggest.”  When her boyfriend, Danny, is killed in a car accident, Wren can’t imagine living without him. Wild with grief, she uses the untamed powers she’s inherited to bring him back. But the Danny who returns is just a shell of the boy she once loved.  Wren has...

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