Review: Earth

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.Earth by Shauna Granger Series: Elemental # 1 Published by Self-Published on May 1, 2011 Genres: Young Adult -Fantasy Source: Author, FTC: Exchange for honest opinion Buy on Amazon Goodreads Shayna and her two best friends have the abilities to manipulate and control the four elements, earth, air, water and fire. While learning to hone their growing powers, they discover a new and malicious presence in their sleepy beach town. Someone is performing blood magic and threatens to expose their small magical community. So far only small animals have been slaughtered, but then the...

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Review: Dead Spell

Dead Spell by Belinda Frisch Series: Stand Alone Published by Self-Published on April 28th 2011 Genres: Young Adult- Fantasy/ Paranormal Source: Author, FTC: Exchange for honest opinion Goodreads "17-year-old Harmony Wolcott is slowly succumbing to the haunting darkness of a forgotten memory. Afraid to ask for help or admit what's happening to her and around her, Harmony looks for the truth while trying to escape what it's done to her family. Dead Spell is about a ghost with a past and a girl that would die to forget it." This book automatically started with a punch. Opening scene of a crazy girl was just grabbing at you. As  I continued to read I saw the world in a whole new way. I think the craziness of this book it was got me hooked. Seeing ghost, going crazy,...

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Review: Element Keepers

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.Element Keepers: Whispers of the Wind by E.P. Marcellin Series: Stand Alone Published by Self-Published on November 9, 2010 Genres: Young Adult -Fantasy Source: Author, FTC: Exchange for honest opinion Buy on Amazon Goodreads Rhet guts fish for a living, content in obscurity until the day he is plucked from the wharves by nine exotic strangers and carted across the continent to a life-sentence of imprisonment. Though he has done nothing (as far as he knows) to warrant such capture, his captors are certain he will one day destroy the world if they do not prevent him. Though it is true...

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Review: Anna Dressed in Blood

I received this book for free from Blog Tour, 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.Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake Series: Anna Dressed in Blood # 1 Published by Tor Teen on August 30, 2011 Genres: Young Adult- Supernatural/Paranormal Source: Blog Tour, FTC: Exchange for honest opinion Buy on Amazon Goodreads Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead. So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. Together they follow legends and local lore, trying...

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Review: Eden

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.Eden by Keary Taylor Series: Eden # 1 Published by Self-Published on June 6, 2011 Genres: Young Adult- Dystopian/Post Apocalyptic Source: Author, FTC: Exchange for honest opinion Buy on Amazon Goodreads Before the Evolution there was TorBane: technology that infused human DNA with cybernetic matter.  It had the ability to grow new organs and limbs, to heal the world.  Until it evolved out of control and spread like the common cold.  The machine took over, the soul vanished, and the Bane were born.  The Bane won't stop until every last person has been infected. With less than two...

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