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Sorry about October, I was gone for two week. Here is a recap of October.

Books Read in October:


67: Torment - Kate Lauren (October 8th)
68: Caster Chronicle: Beautiful Darkness - Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl (October 11th)
69: Forever - Judy Blume (October 16th)
70: Crank Fallout - Ellen Hopkins (October 23th)
71: Personal Demon (October 25th)
72: Wicked Lovely Darkest Mercy - Melissa Marr (October 27th)
73: The Replacements - Brenna Yovanoff (October 28th)


My Review of Fallout, Darkest Mercy and The Replacements are on there way into cyberspace soon.

Okay something I havent done in a while. 5 books I want to read this month.

1) Sing me to Sleep
2) Angel Star
3) Kiss me Deadly
4) Kisses from hell
5) The Eternal Kiss

I need to read the Anthos

Personal Demon

Title: Personal Demon
Author: Lisa Desrochers
Publisher: Tor/Macmillan
Page Count: 365
Series: First book in Trilogy

"Frannie Cavanaugh is a good Catholic girl with a bit of a wicked streak. She's spent years keeping everyone at a distance—even her closest friends—and it seems her senior year will be more of the same...until Luc Cain enrolls in her class. No one knows where he came from, but Frannie can't seem to stay away from him. What she doesn't know is that Luc works in Acquisitions—for Hell—and she possesses a unique skill set that has the King of Hell tingling with anticipation. All Luc has to do is get her to sin, and he’s as tempting as they come. Frannie doesn’t stand a chance.

Unfortunately for Luc, Heaven has other plans, and the angel, Gabe, is going to do whatever it takes to make sure that Luc doesn’t get what he came for. And it isn't long before they find themselves fighting for more than just her soul.

But if Luc fails, there will be Hell to pay…for all of them.

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First of all. A-M-A-Z-I-N-G book. I don’t say that often and I don’t finish books when I am hanging out with my bestfriend. And I finished this while watching One Tree Hill. Because I could not put this down.

So in the begging I was bothered by the book there was a lot of characters, and I don’t think we needed to have all there names right away, it was just a lot of information thrown at you all at once. But just keep reading because it is worth the confusion.

This is a really easy read, I could understand what was going on, Lisa described things well, the book was sexy, funny, there are some lines where I would have to walk out of the room and read the paragraph to Tia, and taken out of context they are just as funny as in the book.

Characters. There Luc Cain which I love the name, we have his point of view in this novel along with Frannie’s I think they blance each other quite well. I love the way Frannies thinks.

-- Quote:

“Sorry you lost me at breast.”
“Your such a pig.”
“I’m not a pig. I’m a guy--- which, now that I think about it, is pretty much the same thing. Point taken.” page 231

Cover lust.
You know its bad when you stop a book every couple paragraphs to look at the amazing cover art. Which this really does have.

Mondays In Opposition

Ever read two books at once and the details blend together until you can't seperate them? Scribing Shadows, Twisted Fates Cafe and myself, Mondays in Opposition to solve that problem. Two or more contrasting books that work well to read simultaneously are Featured for those ravenous readers out ther

The Replacement Brenna Yovanoff

Mackie Doyle is not one of us. Though he lives in the small town of Gentry, he comes from a world of tunnels and black murky water, a world of living dead girls ruled by a little tattooed princess. He is a Replacement, left in the crib of a human baby sixteen years ago. Now, because of fatal allergies to iron, blood, and consecrated ground, Mackie is fighting to survive in the human world.

Mackie would give anything to live among us, to practice on his bass or spend time with his crush, Tate. But when Tate's baby sister goes missing, Mackie is drawn irrevocably into the underworld of Gentry, known as Mayhem. He must face the dark creatures of the Slag Heaps and find his rightful place, in our world, or theirs.

Crank By Ellen Hopkins.

Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina -- she's fearless.

Through a boy, Bree meets the monster: crank. And what begins as a wild, ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul -- her life.

These books not only do they have two totally different voices, but they are both heaver reads. So if your in the mood for something heavy these are two really good choices, I can not speak for the Replacements because I am not quite finished yet, but I am liking it so far.

Yes or No: E-Readers.

So I am seriously debating getting an E-Reader. expect that I was totally lost using the one at Chapters. But I have been hearing good things about them. I made a remark about how huge of a hard cover Nightshade was HUGE. and if you have seen this thing you would understand that its Massive. (I have already read the thing, but still).

And I have heard, well I’ll just read it on my e-reader.

But my thing is, sure books will be cheeper!

at chapters, nightshade is: $17 (online) $22 (instore) and $12 (e-reader)

Thats a big difference. I will agree, its cheeper, and easier. But my issue, is right now I have 7 that i have for vacation. and I have finish ONE! and it was one of the three I bough while here. I am almost done another one I bough while I was here, but the 4 books I brought from home have been wasted. I am going to speed read the ones I am leaving for my friend.

A E-Reader I think just everything would get stacked up and I would NEVER read them. And I like having a physical book in my hand. I know e-readers save paper, but I like book books.

Now If i could try it out on my black berry (not I-phone, cause I hate TOUCH!)

So let me know what you think of e-readers, I hate reading things on my laptop. And I could do just that if need be.

I think a e-reader would be great for on-line arcs, cause I think thats an awesome idea, but I don’t think its right for me.

So let me know in the comments. Whats your take on the whole e-reader thing?

Canadian Music Monday: Down With Webster

So I am a music junkie, and I was thinking about this the other day, and why don't I blog about music. And for the last couple of weeks my friends Em from Twisted Fates and Catie from Twisted Fates and also Book Bound have gotten me to buy there Canadian music on I-tunes. Because they can't buy it. Also I have been watching nothing but MUCH MUSIC for the past month. Cause I love MMtop20 and MMCdown.

This week I chose Down With Webster, because there music makes me laugh.


This song is a perfect way to start of there CD. I love there music.

But the best song I think is Back Of My Hand. Check it out!

and HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Tia you are 19 baby girl!

Forever - Judy Blume

Title: Forever
Author: Judy Blume
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Page Count: 190

There's a first for everything.


When you build up something in your mind -- really imagine it, wish for it -- sometimes, when it actually happens, it doesn't live up to your expectations.


True love is nothing like that.


Especially not for Katherine and Michael, who can't get enough of each other. Their relationship is unique: sincere, intense, and fun all at the same time. Although they haven't been together that long, they know it's serious. A whole world opens up as young passion and sexuality bloom.

But it's senior year of high school, and there are big changes ahead. Michael and Katherine are in for another big "first": a decision. Is this the love of a lifetime or the beginning of a lifetime of love?

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So I have been looking at this book for a while. And I was in a used book store the other day and I just had to have it. I have heard a lot of good things about it. And there are always some reivews that just make you want to go read the book, that stick with you, Aine’s Realms review of forever was the one that did it for me.

I found this book shocking. Mainly because of the content. Now I have seen my fair share of things. I grew up in a fairly open house hold, but I am 19 and I have never had the sex talk with my parents, friends parents, sisters, sisters boyfriends but never my mother. I found this book was a good gift to your daughter.

This book was written in the mid-seventies and I think it would of been shocking. It is YA fiction, it does cover some touchy subjects such as some STI’s and pregnancy and steps to avoid unwanted pregnancy.

Today there would be more information put in this book, such as HIV/AIDS but I think this book is a good jumping off points to have a mother daughter book read. Its a cute, fast read. I read it in about four hours.

I don't think I will keep this book. It is going in the pile to give to the library but, I did enjoy it a lot and I think anyone who is thinking of having sex could get something out of it. there are .

Beautiful Darkness - Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

Title: Beautiful Darkness
Author: Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
Publisher: Little Brown
Page Count: 506 pages
Series: Caster Chronicles
Release Day: Oct 12th (today)


Ethan Wate used to think of Gatlin, the small Southern town he had always called home, as a place where nothing ever changed. Then he met mysterious newcomer Lena Duchannes, who revealed a secret world that had been hidden in plain sight all along. A Gatlin that harbored ancient secrets beneath its moss-covered oaks and cracked sidewalks. A Gatlin where a curse has marked Lena's family of powerful supernaturals for generations. A Gatlin where impossible, magical, life-altering events happen.

Sometimes life-ending.

Together they can face anything Gatlin throws at them, but after suffering a tragic loss, Lena starts to pull away, keeping secrets that test their relationship. And now that Ethan's eyes have been opened to the darker side of Gatlin, there's no going back. Haunted by strange visions only he can see, Ethan is pulled deeper into his town's tangled history and finds himself caught up in the dangerous network of underground passageways endlessly crisscrossing the South, where nothing is as it seems.


I really don't know what to say about this book.

I LOVED LOVED! Beautiful Creatures, with such a passion, it was good, fast paced. And it keeps me guessing.

The plot is good! I loved the plot. I loved the new and old characters. There is nothing about this book I don't love expect the pacing.

So I got this book September 25th, and it is now October 10th and I am just finishing it. I loved it. It's just I could put it down. Anytime I did read it I read at least 100 pages, so i read it in 5 real sitting. I don't know if it was the book or if it was my life. But I am not saying that thats a bad thing. I had to have time to process everything.

So new characters. John Breed, who is amazing, such a mystery there's nothing that I like more in a book then mystery. And Olivia (Liv) she was cool, it's great she is extremely needed to this story.

And old characters that you will love even more. Ridley is amazing in this! She does things that you won't see coming. I think she is my favorite bad girl. Besides Faith from Buffy.

And Ethan is amazing, I love him to death. There is so much that you learn about him in this book it will make you go aww.

Canadian Music Monday: Mtrench

So I am a music junkie, and I was thinking about this the other day, and why don't I blog about music. And for the last couple of weeks my friends Em from Twisted Fates and Catie from Twisted Fates and also Book Bound have gotten me to buy there Canadian music on I-tunes. Because they can't buy it. Also I have been watching nothing but MUCH MUSIC for the past month. Cause I love MMtop20 and MMCdown.


But lately I can not get enough of Josh Ramsay. The lead singer of Marianna's Trench.

They are a Canadian band who I think are amazing. Right now they are my obsession. They are in Vancover, and signed to 604 records you should check them out.

All To Myself


they are amazing. There videos are funny and sweet. and totally goes with whatever song they are doing.

And Just for fun.

He is funny! Watch this clip from VoT (another canadian show on much)
Video On Trial - Shake Tramp

In My Backpack

So instead of doing and In My Mailbox this Week I am going to do an In My Backpack, because I am going away for the month of October for my best friends 19th birthday! (I am her present.)

So anyways. Because I am going away I will not have my to be read pile. (which has gotten odly large again. I was down to 6 now I have 16 on the shelf plus my backpack.

So I am not bringing a lot of books with me. But here is what I am bringing for me at least. And I love how none of these are coming back with me. Linger and Crescendo are two books I am picking up there. And that's that.

1)Beautiful Darkness By Kami & Marg

Ethan Wate used to think of Gatlin, the small Southern town he had always called home, as a place where nothing ever changed. Then he met mysterious newcomer Lena Duchannes, who revealed a secret world that had been hidden in plain sight all along. A Gatlin that harbored ancient secrets beneath its moss-covered oaks and cracked sidewalks. A Gatlin where a curse has marked Lena's family of powerful supernaturals for generations. A Gatlin where impossible, magical, life-altering events happen.

Sometimes life-ending.

Together they can face anything Gatlin throws at them, but after suffering a tragic loss, Lena starts to pull away, keeping secrets that test their relationship. And now that Ethan's eyes have been opened to the darker side of Gatlin, there's no going back. Haunted by strange visions only he can see, Ethan is pulled deeper into his town's tangled history and finds himself caught up in the dangerous network of underground passageways endlessly crisscrossing the South, where nothing is as it seems


2)The Replacements Brenna Yovanoff

Mackie Doyle seems like everyone else in the perfect little town of Gentry, but he is living with a fatal secret - he is a Replacement, left in the crib of a human baby sixteen years ago. Now the creatures under the hill want him back, and Mackie must decide where he really belongs and what he really wants.

A month ago, Mackie might have told them to buzz off. But now, with a budding relationship with tough, wounded, beautiful Tate, Mackie has too much to lose. Will love finally make him worthy of the human world?









3)Sing Me To Sleep - Angela Morrison

THE TRANSFORMATION

Beth has always been “The Beast”—that’s what everyone at school calls her because of her awkward height, facial scars, and thick glasses. Beth’s only friend is geeky, golden-haired Scott. That is, until she’s selected to be her choir’s soprano soloist, and receives the makeover that will change her life forever.

THE LOVE AFFAIR

When Beth’s choir travels to Switzerland, she meets Derek: pale, brooding, totally dreamy. Derek’s untethered passion—for music, and for Beth—leaves her breathless. Because in Derek’s eyes? She’s not The Beast, she’s The Beauty.

THE IMPOSSIBLE CHOICE

When Beth comes home, Scott, her best friend in the world, makes a confession that leaves her completely torn. Should she stand by sweet, steady Scott or follow the dangerous, intense new feelings she has for Derek?

THE HEARTBREAK

The closer Beth gets to Derek, the further away he seems. Then Beth discovers that Derek’s been hiding a dark secret from her …one that could shatter everything.

4) Raised By Wolves - Jenna Lynn Barnes



Adopted by the Alpha of a werewolf pack after a rogue wolf brutally killed her parents right before her eyes, fifteen-year-old Bryn knows only pack life, and the rigid social hierarchy that controls it. That doesn't mean that she's averse to breaking a rule or two.

But when her curiosity gets the better of her and she discovers Chase, a new teen locked in a cage in her guardian's basement, and witnesses him turn into a wolf before her eyes, the horrific memories of her parents' murders return. Bryn becomes obsessed with getting her questions answered, and Chase is the only one who can provide the information she needs.

But in her drive to find the truth, will Bryn push too far beyond the constraints of the pack, forcing her to leave behind her friends, her family, and the identity that she's shaped?





5)The Clockwork Angel - Cassandra Clare

Magic is dangerous--but love is more dangerous still.When sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray crosses the ocean to find her brother, her destination is England, the time is the reign of Queen Victoria, and something terrifying is waiting for her in London's Downworld, where vampires, warlocks and other supernatural folk stalk the gaslit streets. Only the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the world of demons, keep order amidst the chaos.Kidnapped by the mysterious Dark Sisters, members of a secret organization called The Pandemonium Club, Tessa soon learns that she herself is a Downworlder with a rare ability: the power to transform, at will, into another person. What's more, the Magister, the shadowy figure who runs the Club, will stop at nothing to claim Tessa's power for his own.

Friendless and hunted, Tessa takes refuge with the Shadowhunters of the London Institute, who swear to find her brother if she will use her power to help them. She soon finds herself fascinated by--and torn between--two best friends: James, whose fragile beauty hides a deadly secret, and blue-eyed Will, whose caustic wit and volatile moods keep everyone in his life at arm's length...everyone, that is, but Tessa. As their search draws them deep into the heart of an arcane plot that threatens to destroy the Shadowhunters, Tessa realizes that she may need to choose between saving her brother and helping her new friends save the world...and that love may be the most dangerous magic of all.

Torment - Lauren Kate

Sorry I haven't posted a review in a while. I have been beyond busy and stressed out to the max so there hasn't been a lot of time to read. By enough of my junk you read the blog for the books.


Title: Torment
Author: Lauren Kate
Publisher: Delacorte (imprint of Random House)
Page Count: 453 pages
Series: Fallen
Review of Fallen

How many lives do you need to live before you find someone worth dying for? In the aftermath of what happened at Sword & Cross, Luce has been hidden away by her cursed angelic boyfriend, Daniel, in a new school filled with Nephilim, the offspring of fallen angels and humans. Daniel promises she will be safe here, protected from those who would kill her. At the school Luce discovers what the Shadows that have followed her all her life mean - and how to manipulate them to see into her other lives. Yet the more Luce learns about herself, the more she realizes that the past is her only key to unlocking her future...and that Daniel hasn't told her everything. What if his version of the past isn't actually the way things happened...what if Luce was really meant to be with someone else? - Good Reads

I have read some bad reviews of this, which makes me want to give it more stars! I Love this book. I don't know why I love this series so much. It's so good. I said in my Fallen review that I kept wanting to compare it to Twilight and Hush, Hush because of the insta-love but this book I feel like they did it right. And I agree with this still. I feel like Kate did this properly, there was reason why Daniel loved Luce so much.

In Torment Luce is questioning her relationship with Daniel. Why if they have been falling in love for basically all of time. Why has this happened. Why her? and why does everyone want her dead.

Luce is not the dumb blond you find in so many other books. When someone tells her not to do something she almost always does it. Because she doesnt want to be weighted down. Sure its annoying and could get her killed. But what fun is the story if noting life threatening happens if she doesnt leave the school she is in.

Its no shock that I am a huge fan of boarding schools novels. Shadows Hills is amazing! One vampire book that I can stand is The Vampire Academy. One thing about Shoreline is that its a change from the dark and dank Sword and Cross. I like the changes I like the teachers. Its a good change.

Another great thing about this book is the gang is all back. You see Mr. Cole, Callie, Cam, Arriane, Roland, and there are new characters who you will love, Miles and Shelby.

One thing about this book is you see things coming. and its rather annoying that so many things I saw coming, but I had to keep reading to make sure I was right.


Teaser Quote:

"If you two were going to be that obvious about it, why didn't you come down stairs in your Team Daniel and Team Miles T-Shirts?"
"We should order those," Shelby said.
"Mine's in the laundry," Arriane said. page 396

Okay heres another one:

"Holy hell." Callie
"More or less"

Changing Covers (7)

So I am going to try and post a changing cover every week. The idea is inspired buy the wonderful book publishers that decide that a book cover isn't good enough. Sometimes this is for the better, and sometimes for the worst. Find out my take on the changing of covers every week here.

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This is the first Anthology in what I like to call the Harper Hell series.

And They re did the cover for the Prom Nights cover.

Prom Nights from Hell.
I almost like the new cover better for once. But I dont like how now they all dont match.

Other Covers in the series are:

I like how Prom and Kisses Match and Love and Vacations match. Though I think it would of been better to keep things matching

Mondays In Opposition (4)

Ever read two books at once and the details blend together until you can't seperate them? Scribing Shadows, Twisted Fates Cafe and myself, Mondays in Opposition to solve that problem. Two or more contrasting books that work well to read simultaneously are Featured for those ravenous readers out there.

So This week I bring you. On The Edge and Blue Bloods.


Schuyler Van Alen, 15, the last of the line in a distinguished family, is being raised by her distant and forbidding grandmother. Schuyler, her friend Oliver, and their new friend Dylan are treated like outsiders by the clique of popular, athletic, and beautiful teens made up of Mimi Force, her twin brother, and her best friend. What they have in common is the fact that they are all Blue Bloods, or vampires. They don't realize that they aren't normal until they reach age 15. Then the symptoms manifest themselves and they begin to crave raw meat, have nightmares about events in history, and get prominent blue veins in their arms. Their immortality and way of life are threatened after Blue Blood teens start getting murdered by a splinter group called the Silver Bloods.

Rose Drayton and her two young brothers, Jack and Georgie, live in the Edge, an area where two dimensions known as the Weird and the Broken overlap. In the Weird, people have magical abilities and magical creatures exist there as well. The Broken is our world, where no one possesses magic.

Rose and her brothers do have special abilities, and in Rose’s case, hers are powerful enough that men from both the Edge and the Weird want to marry her in order to make use of her gene pool. Rose has refused all these offers in no uncertain terms.

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These books are both supernatural but there is nothing that you will confuse in these books the names that cross over are nothing to worry about they are both totally different in my books!

Both are amazing reads and books I will hold on to dearly.

TOP TEN - Literary Crushes

So Here is my top ten YA literary crushes

1. Ethan Wate - Caster Chronicles
   
2. Jace Wayland - The Mortal Instruments
   
3. Conner - Impulse
   
4. Jack Forces - Blue Bloods
   
5. Marcus Fluite - Jessica Darling
   
6. Rabbit - Wicked Lovely
   
7. Gabriel - Blood & Chocolate
   
8. Adrian Ivashkov - Vampire Academy
   
9. Shane Collins - Morganville
10. Daniel - Fallen