Reviews to come #2

I got new books. Here is a list of more books and reviews to come. Tell me what you think of the list. Does any of these books interest you?


Stray Souls by Kate Griffin

'Don’t look back. It wants you to look back.’
London’s soul has gone missing. Lost? Kidnapped? Murdered? Nobody knows – but when Sharon Li unexpectedly discovers she’s a shaman, she is immediately called upon to use her newfound powers of oneness with the City to rescue it from a slow but inevitable demise.
The problem is, while everyone expects Sharon to have all the answers – from the Midnight Mayor to Sharon’s magically-challenged self-help group – she doesn’t have a clue where to start.
But with London’s soul missing and the Gate open, there are creatures loose that won’t wait for her to catch up before they go hunting.
Stray Souls is the first novel in the Magicals Anonymous series, set in the same fantastical London as the Matthew Swift novels


Minion by L.A. Banks

There is one woman who is all that stands between us and the eternal night. Here is an account of her legend...
Minion
All Damali Richards ever wanted to do was create music and bring it to the people. Now she is a spoken word artist and the top act for Warriors of Light Records. But come nightfall, she hunts vampires and demons - predators that people tend to dismiss as myth or fantasy. Damali and her Guardian team cannot afford such delusions, especially now, when a group of rogue vampires has been killing the artists of Warriors of Light and their rival, Blood Music.
When strange attacks erupt within the club drug-trafficking network and draw the attention of the police, Damali realizes these killings are a bit out of the ordinary, even for vampires. Instead of neat puncture marks in the neck showing where the blood has been drained from the body, these corpses are mutilated beyond recognition, indicating a blood lust and thirst for destruction that surpasses any Damali has encountered before. Soon she discovers that behind these brutal murders is the most powerful vampire Damali has ever met - a seductive beast who is coming for her next...

Dealing with Dragons
Cimorene is everything a princess is not supposed to be: headstrong, tomboyish, smart - and bored. So bored that she runs away to live with a dragon - and finds the family and excitement she's been looking for










Searching for Dragons

Cimorene, the princess who refuses to be proper, meets her match in the not-quite-kingly Mendanbar. With the aid of a broken-down magic carpet and a leaky magical sword, the two tackle a series of dragon-nappings.












Illuminate

Haven Terra is a brainy, shy high school outcast. But everything begins to change when she turns sixteen. Along with her best friend Dante and their quiet and brilliant classmate Lance, she is awarded a prestigious internship in the big city— Chicago—and is sent to live and work at a swanky and stylish hotel under the watchful eyes of a group of gorgeous and shockingly young-looking strangers: powerful and alluring hotel owner Aurelia Brown; her second-in-command, the dashing Lucian Grove; and their stunning but aloof staff of glamazons called The Outfit.
As Haven begins falling for Lucian, she discovers that these beautiful people are not quite what they seem. With the help of a mysterious book, she uncovers a network of secret passageways from the hotel’s jazz-age past that leads her to the heart of the evil agenda of Aurelia and company: they’re in the business of buying souls. Will they succeed in wooing Haven to join them in their recruitment efforts, or will she be able to thwart this devilish set’s plans to take the souls of her classmates on prom night at the hotel?
Illuminate is an exciting saga of a teen’s first taste of independence, her experience in the lap of luxury, and her discovery she may possess strength greater than she ever knew

Alice in Zombieland by Gena Showalter

If you are thinking this is a twisted version of Alice in Wonderland then you are 50% right. There are a few differences between Alice in Wonderland and Alice in Zombieland.

1. Alice in Zombieland likes to be called Ali, especially after what happened to her, you will make sure to remember because too many people in this book forget.
2. Ali doesn’t travel down a hole while following a white rabbit. The zombies, in this story, are in our world; hidden in the spirit realm. The white rabbit, in this story, is a cloud and there is no hole.
3. Ali has a protective, violet-eyed, toned, sexy, male co-star. I’ve not yet read the story where Alice from Alice in Wonderland has any kind of human male co-star besides the Mad-hater, who doesn’t count.
4. Ali has special “talents”

 

One thing is for sure, like Alice, Ali is here to kick some butt and take some names.

When your world comes tumbling down what’s left to do except… FIGHT.

Ali and Kat

Ali – “Uh, I think low maintenance is what’s desirable.”

Kat- “Low maintenance is what’s forgettable. You might want to write that down, underline it, circle it, and put a star by it. It’s golden.”

Kat

“Here’s a life lesson for you. Boys always cover for other boys.”

“Life lesson number two. Spying is the best- and only- way to learn the truth.”

“Time to enact Operation Boys Will Cry. Stage one – make them notice us.”

“We can’t really spy on them if they’re not spying on us, now can we?”

 

Operation Boys Will Cry

Stage 1

part A: Beer

part B: A bump and grind on the dance floor

Stage 2

Fanning the flames of jealousy

 

Ali

“I never should have doubted Kat.”

 

Ali’s dad’s Fight Rules

• If you fall, go down swinging
• Never lose sight of your enemy. You’ll regret it.

 

Ali is funny. Not the “ha ha” funny but the “OMG you didn’t” kind of funny. “Questions, questions, questions” is her unsaid motto but you will learn to love it along with her co-stars

 

Cole- This is the violet-eyed male co-star. Worth all dream-drooling because he’s even a gentleman. You’ll fall for him probably faster then Ali and she fell fast.

Kat- Newly made BFF. Who knows nothing and everything. She’s funny also. She’s the rude type of funny, the type that shouldn’t be funny but is.

Frosty- On again, off again boyfriend to Kat. Only they know where their relationship is, well them and EVERYONE around them.

I’d tell you more but there are so many characters you’d want to learn for yourself. Some things are better learned the hard way… the READING WAY

If you don’t read this book… the world just might end. This is Zombie Survival 101. Plus romance, action, friendship, and the meaning of family love.

 

 

Return to Paradise by Simone Elkeles

 

I love these 2!!! Seriously, they’re fun, exciting. They know they love each other but neither will admit it.

8 months after Caleb left, Caleb and Ellie meet again. And instantly sparks start FLYING. They meet on this trip for students to share their story on drunk driving. 4 weeks, it took them 4 weeks in-closed together for them to stop pretending. Caleb broke first. Then Maggie. Yet after the 4 weeks they still break apart. But love will always find you. Follow Caleb and Maggie in another love story.

Caleb and Maggie moments

“If it wasn’t for her, you probably wouldn’t be here lying in wood chips with an ex-con running from the law. You’d be in a warm bed back in the dorm.”

“I like it here with you better.”

He shakes his head. “You’re crazy, you know that?”

“Being with you was never a mistake.” He gives a short laugh. “Hell, being with you kept me sane while I was home. You and Mrs. Reynolds made being in Paradise bearable.”

Julio

“I hear you loud and clear. No regrets anymore, okay? Live every day like it’s your last. ? Comprende?”

Caleb

Maggie needs to get wet. And, to use a Damonism: right now.

Caleb to Maggie

“I’m saying that I love you, Maggie. “ He looks at me through crystal clear eyes. “I was holding back and didn’t want to say it, because I didn’t want you to think I said it as some ploy to make you not date other guys while you’re in Spain.”

“Trust me,” he whispers against my lips. “Maggie, you’re my paradise.”

Now, I’m just a lot confused by then ending so if someone could explain it to me that’d be great.

Anyway this is a MUST READ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This story really needs no explanation because it is just that good. So I’d advise you to go to your nearest bookstore or library and find this book because it will be worth it.

WARNING: If you haven’t read Leaving Paradise some scenes in here will not make any sense.

Reviews To Come

 

I just went to the library and got a huge stack of books

This stack includes 8 books

5/8 are first in a series

2/8 are second in a series

1/8 is 7th in a series

 

The Following are the book I found at my library (which isn’t a very good one. It’s organized badly and doesn’t have many of the recent published books but I’ll get over it…. NOT

Books in  the list are from right to left                                                                                                                                                      KEY

1st in series

2nd in series

7th in series

1. Across The Universe by Beth Revis
2. A Wrinkle in Time: The Graphic Novel by Madeleine L’engle/ Adapted and Illustrated by Hope Larson
3. Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi
4. Once in a Full Moon by Ellen Schreiber
5. Magic of the Moonlight by Ellen Schreiber
6. The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
8. The Girl in the Steel Corset by Kady Cross

Keep a look out for my reviews

You Against Me by Jenny Downham

Hey folks...... I'm back with a new review.

I've read a book that I didn't know I would like... this book changed my outlook on somethings and what I think "being strong". This book will go down in my records as LIFE CHANGING!

This book is weird.To me, the title doesn't match the book. This book is about a guy, with a sister, who fell for a girl, with a brother. This guy is named Mikey and this girl is named Ellie. Mikey has a sister named Karyn who was raped by Ellie's brother, Tom. At least that's how the story is told. On second thought, the title does make sense. This story has you hooked from the first Mikey/Ellie encounter until the last. This story seems to have 2 stories entwined and only one gets truly solved by the end.

Character Corner

MIKEY

Mikey is a family man. On the outside he doesn't seem like it but inside he cares about his family and friends more than life.

ELLIE

Ellie cares for her family and doesn't want her brother to go to jail. But spending time with Mikey makes her realize she is missing something from that night. (And yes she was there)

As Mikey and Ellie's life clash together the saying "The heart wants what it wants." starts to make a whole lot of more sense. Mikey and Ellie's relationship is fun sometimes but most of the time they each have to battle their family demons and sacarfice what they want above all - which is each other.

QUOTES:

MIKEY'S MOM AND MIKEY

She shook her head at him, "You know what's wrong with you, Mikey?"
"No, Mum, but I bet you're about to tell me."
She took up her fag, knocked off the ash and took a last deep drag, blowing the smoke right at him. "You're not as tough as you think you are."

ELLIE

She felt alive. Not a mermaid. Not someone who combed their hair all day and sat on a frigging rock. She mentally torched that image, watched all the scales catch fire and shimmer silver before sinking beneath the water.
She'd emerged as Phoenix from the X-men movie - the one with the red eyes, so angry that she's off the scale, able to destroy the universe with the power of her mind.
And if she was Phoenix, then anything could happen next.

MIKEY & ELLIE

"I'll tell you my little sister's favorite joke," he said
"Go on then."
"Ok, what do you call a sheep with no legs?"
[...]
"I give up."
"A cloud"

MIKEY'S MOM AND MIKEY

She smiled wearily at him "I think someone finally stole your heart, didn't they, Mikey?"
He rolled his eyes "Go to bed, Mum."
"I always said you weren't as tough as you made out."
"Serious, go to bed."

MIKEY TO ELLIE

"Listen," he said, "Karyn's out of the flat loads, she has tons of support, and yes, I know your brother's pleading not guilty and yes, the court case will be a nightmare, and yes, your dad's a tosser and yes, my mom still drinks sherry for breakfast and hides it in the airing cupboard and hopes non of us notice. Miracles don't happen overnight, Ellie, and we don't have to fling it in Karyn's face, but maybe we can grab something good out of this while we can?"

MIKEY

He felt perfectly happy as he walked side by side with Ellie, their fingers occasionally brushing, electricity building between them. It was the first time for days; maybe the first time in all his life, that he didn't want to change anything

I love these two

And you will 2

READ and DON'T REGRET

You Against Me by Jenny Downham

Leaving Paradise by Simone Elkeles

WOW! Simone Elkeles has done it once again. This book was actually, made in 2007 but I’m just now reading it and like I said Simone Elekles has done it AGAIN!! This lady has a serious gift from the angels. She has once again pulled you in from the beginning.

This is the cover of the book I read.

This cover looks better

 

Our characters this time are Caleb and Maggie. Once again the story is told in both of their points of view.

 

We start our story with Caleb. Caleb is going to a meeting for his “Get out of jail free card.” Yep, the story starts at the end of a story, only to start a new one. His life is balancing on whether or not these people-judges- believe him or not. (You’re probably wondering what they need to believe Caleb on… I’d tell you but it like a MAJOR MAJOR detail in the story. It would be rude on my part if I told you what happened- and didn’t happen). 

 

Then we meet Maggie while she is in her physical therapy meeting. The thing is, she messed up her leg. Actually, she was ran over by a car driven by … Caleb. Okay, close your mouth, you know Caleb and Maggie had to connect somehow.

 

Then, for their senior year Caleb and Maggie meet again. Caleb’s out of jail and Maggie is going back to school. Then fate puts them in the same room. Literally. Then fate starts playing a serious game of puppets, pulling Caleb and Maggie’s strings for enjoyment.Not that I'm complaining or anything, I just think the fact should be mentioned.

Now I don't usually do this, but the back cover of this book was just.....

 What happens when

The person who damaged

You for life...

Becomes the person you

Trust the most?

 

If that doesn't give you any hints I really don't know what will. Elkeke, steps away from gangs but is still into troubled teens. Then again, troubled teens make for interesting books, movies, and life. And AWARD WINNING ONES- just saying ;D

 

This story was strange in a good way. It started off one way; then too-many-things-to-report happened in the middle, and the end was just like "WHOA!!! that did not just happen!"

SERIOUSLY!!! I mean, COME and ON, but in some ways it was just what the book needed- a SERIOUSLY DRAMATIC ENDING.

 

At first, I didn't think I was going to like this book, but this one of those times I'm glad I was wrong.(And I'm not usually nor do I like being wrong)

 

 

Now the part I love like the next normal human being quotes

 

The Following quotes are found in Maggie's POV

 

All I know is that I have more nails and plastic inside me than the average tool box.

 

She nods her head, let's out a long breath, then leans back in the booth. "I see. Well, dearie, maybe one day your luck will change."

Yeah, right. All I need is a little magic dust and a fairy godmother. I'm not holding my breath for either of those.

 

"I went to jail for hitting Maggie with my car while I was drunk," Caleb says, reappearing in the doorway.

Mrs. Reynolds makes tsking noises, then says, "My, my, we are in a pickle aren't we?"

 

(I <3 Mrs. Reynolds... this old lady is just awesome!)

 

The following quote is found in Caleb's POV and is the <3 MOMENT

 

"Are you following me?" she asks, but doesn't meet my gaze

"Yeah," I say

"Why?"

"Honestly?"

She looks at me, her eyebrows raised.

I give her the only honest and true answer I have. "You're where I want to be."

 

 

That is truly a heart moment... Caleb is so awesome and Maggie is so strong. These two together makes for a whole lot of GREAT BOOK. Don't believe me- fine I'm not hurt *WEEP* ;D - read it for yourself. Oh, and when I turn out right... DON'T doubt me AGAIN!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





Meridian by Amber Kizer

Meridian by Amber Kizer


Meridian by Amber Kizer is an interesting read. I mean, it starts off with a girl named Meridian always being near when the dead showed up. Then, she is almost run over by a car. Next thing anyone knows, she’s being shipped off to her Great Aunt’s without her parents or adorable little baby brother. She runs into a wolf, some strangely friendly people, a jerk, and a show. As the story progress the characters grow as people. There are deaths, confusion, and hauntings as Meridian grows and becomes what she is. I’d tell you what it is but  its more fun finding out by yourself. Anyway, Tens is the male interest in this semi-action packed/ romance/ fantasy book. He’s the Protector and I mean that as literal as it can get. But he’s not exactly a hero; he is a jerk to Meridian. This causes very funny and eventful conversations.

“Uh-huh, and am I human, or from Mars?”
Auntie giggled like a school girl. “Mars?”
“You’re from Venus, Supergirl, or haven’t you heard?” Tens tossed out
“Shut up,” I snapped “Just stop teasing me.”

Now don’t get me wrong
Tens isn’t all that bad but Meridian is like super sensitive and I like Meridian more than Tens therefore I’m siding with her; which makes him a jerk.

There is drama but not the High School kind. And that's really all I’m going to say. But be warned this book it’s not for everyone and it is kinda boring at some points but the author makes it up in other parts. And the second book of this series is 2x better than the first but you have to read the first to understand the second.
Okay that’s really all I have to say. It’s not a Must Read but it is a SHOULD READ.
Okay, really BYE!!!!!!!!!!