Review: Blood Fever

Blood Fever by Veronica Wolff Published by NAL Trade on August 7th 2012 Genres: Young Adult- Fantasy/ Paranormal Source: FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Publisher Goodreads "THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME—EVEN IF HOME IS WHERE THE DEAD LIVE... It’s the start of the fall semester, and a new crop of Acari and Trainees have descended on the Isle of Night. Watcher training has intensified, and Drew has a new roommate named Mei-Ling. But Mei-Ling harbors a dangerous secret that drove the vampires to abduct her against her will. Drew knows she shouldn’t get involved, but she can’t seem to leave her roommate to fend for herself. Luckily, Drew has other things on her mind—like vampire Carden. A blood bond to a brawny, eighteenth-century Scottish bad boy tends to preoccupy...

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Review: Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick

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.Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick by Joe Schreiber Series: Perry & Gobi # 1 Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on October 25, 2011 Genres: Young Adult-Adventure/Thriller Source: FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads "Ferris Bueller meets La Femme Nikita in this funny, action-packed young adult novel. It’s prom night—and Perry just wants to stick to his own plan and finally play a much-anticipated gig with his band in the Big Apple. But when his mother makes him take Gobija Zaksauskas—their quiet, geeky Lithuanian exchange student—to the prom, he...

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Review: Ashes Of Twilight

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.Ashes Of Twilight by Kassy Tyler Series: Ashes Trilogy # 1 Published by St. Martin's Griffin on November 13, 2012 Genres: Young Adult- Dystopian Source: FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads "Wren MacAvoy works as a coal miner for a domed city that was constructed in the mid-nineteenth century to protect the royal blood line of England when astronomers spotted a comet on a collision course with Earth. Humanity would be saved by the most groundbreaking technology of the time. But after nearly 200 years of life beneath the dome, society has become...

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Review: Altered

I received this book for free from FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Altered Series: Altered # 1 Published by Little Brown on January 1, 2013 Genres: Young Adult-Science Fiction/Fantasy Source: FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads "When you can’t trust yourself, who can you believe? Everything about Anna’s life is a secret. Her father works for the Branch at the helm of its latest project: monitoring and administering treatments to the four genetically altered boys in the lab below their farmhouse. There’s Nick, Cas, Trev . . . and Sam, who’s stolen Anna’s heart. When the Branch decides it’s time to take the boys, Sam...

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Review: City of a Thousand Dolls

Cit Of A Thousand Dolls by Miriam Forster Published by HarperTeen on February 5th 2013 Genres: Young Adult -Fantasy Source: FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Publisher Goodreads An exotic treat set in an entirely original, fantastical world brimming with deadly mystery, forbidden romance, and heart-stopping adventure. Nisha was abandoned at the gates of the City of a Thousand Dolls when she was just a child. Now sixteen, she lives on the grounds of the isolated estate, where orphan girls apprentice as musicians, healers, courtesans, and, if the rumors are true, assassins. Nisha makes her way as Matron’s assistant, her closest companions the mysterious cats that trail her shadow. Only when she begins a forbidden flirtation with the city’s handsome young courier...

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