Candy Darlings - Christine Walde

The Brothers Grimm meet Mean Girls in Christine Walde s edgy YA debut novel, the story of a young girl and her friend, a mysterious misfit named Megan Chalmers, who join forces at an exclusive private school to combat a powerful trio of teen tyrants. United by their outsider status, the girls soon discover that they share an obsession with candy in all its addictive, sugary incarnations. During the course of an eventful school year, the two friends ward off grief, loneliness, and the spectacularly cruel tactics of their tormenters by consuming mind-boggling quantities of jawbreakers, tootsie pops, slime balls, and other sugary confections -- while Megan spins dark, disturbing stories that help them cope with the stresses in their lives. Strong language and adult themes may make this subversive little novel inappropriate for the youngest, most impressionable readers. However, we would not hesitate to recommend The Candy Darlings for older teens struggling to find their way in the emotional landscape of adolescence.

Title: Candy Darlings
Author: Christine Walde
Publisher: Graphia
Page Count:
Series: 310
Discloser: Bought

Goodreads: Link

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This book is unique how many books have the story told from a point of view where you don't know the main characters name. The entire book you are not told the MC name. Kinda like Fight Club. (or so I am told.) I like to call her Elizabeth because she feels like at some points she's and Eliza, other times she's a Beth, or a Liz, I am very glad that we never got a name for her because that makes the reader feel like they are engulfed into the story more then if we knew her name. But for this review, I am going to call her Elizabeth because it's just easier.

So Elizabeth doesn't eat candy, she use to love it, but it was something her father always brought her home from when he was away. And well it hurts to much to eat any. Megan is a candy lover, always has some in her mouth, and she and elizabeth bond over there common ground of Candy.

This book has stories from Megan about candy and This book will make you wonder, was that a ghost or were they just high. The last half of the book it mindblowing.

Empress of the World - Sarah Ryan

Nicola Lancaster is spending eight weeks at the Siegel Institute Summer Program for Gifted Youth, a hothouse of smart, articulate, intense teenagers. She soon falls in with Katrina (Manic Computer Chick), Isaac (Nice-Guy-Despite-Himself), Kevin (Inarticulate Composer) . . . and Battle. Battle Hall Davies is a beautiful blonde dancer, and everything Nic isn't. The two become friends-and then, startlingly, more than friends. What do you do when you think you're attracted to guys, and then you meet a girl who steals your heart?

Title: Empress of the World
Author: Sarah Ryan
Publisher: Puffin
Page Count: 224
Series: Companion
Discloser: Library

Goodreads: Link

This books so totally changed my point of view on gay lesbian fiction. It was the first book like this I read. Nic is a smart girl, but she's never really put much thought into liking girls, or guys for that matter, but when she sees Battle that changes, she has beautiful long blond hair and is the prettiest person Nic has ever seen.

Battle is strugling with her sexuality she has dated guys but doesn't really like them.But she would rather like them then girls. But there's something between her and Nic that she can't fight. but she tries damn hard to.

This book takes place in a summer camp, and there's a lot of fun characters. I love the boys in this book. Isaac is great. Josh is pretty cool too. This is a perfect book to read in the summer and a + is that the author reads the audio book on itunes podcast for free

Perfect Cut -

After the death of his tough, guitar-playing, much-loved sister, Michelle, Brian finds it increasingly difficult to care about anything. He doesn’t care about his parents. He doesn’t care about his friends. He doesn’t care about school. He just doesn’t care anymore. The only time Brian comes alive is in the few seconds it takes for the razor to slice through his skin. But he never cuts deep enough to cause any real damage. At least, not yet... In The Perfect Cut, Julie Burtinshaw has written an incredibly honest and perceptive novel about cutting, revealing why this dangerous practice has become an increasingly common form of stress relief among young adults. Told from the perspective of the grief-stricken Brian who, in his mind, has run out of options for coping, it’s clear that while he makes some bad choices, he’s not a bad person. The book ends on a grace note, reassuring young readers that even terrible obstacles can be overcome, and that where there’s life, there is hope.

Title: Perfect Cut
Author: Julie Burtinshaw
Publisher: Raincoast Books
Page Count: 308
Series: NA
Discloser: Bought

Goodreads: Link

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This book broke my heart. Brian has a story to tell, and he has a story to find out about his dead big sister. I read this book in 2days in I stayed up until 1am reading, and then I cried until 3am because I just lost it when I read this book. I don't cry during books, I didn't cry when I read I didn't cry during Sing Me To Sleep, nor Bridge to Terabithia, Before I Die, Thirteen Reasons Why, Speak. This book is the only book I ever remember crying over. And boy did I cry.

This book played with my emotions, Brian was such a great guy, he has his issues, he cuts because his sister did, he cuts his stomach which ow that would hurt, so you know he has his issues, his sister always wore jeans in summer "ripped for AC" and it took him a while to fuiger this all out.

Once night his sister dies in a car crash. And months afterwards this story takes place. It's a story about a family who is grieving. Told from a sons point of view through various flashbacks that tear into the future. This books will leave you heart broke.

Diary of an Anorexic Girl - Morgan Menzie

Morgan Menzie takes readers through a harrowing but ultimately hopeful and inspiring account of her eating disorder. Her amazing story is told through the journals she kept during her daily struggle with this addiction and disease. Her triumphs and tragedies all unfold together in this beautiful story of God's grace.

Features include: daily eating schedule, journal entries, prayers to God, poems, and what she wished she knew at the time. It's the true story of victory over a disease that is killing America's youth.

Title: Diary of an Anorexic Girl: a spirtual journy through eating disorders
Author: Morgan Menzie
Publisher: W publishing group
Page Count: 200
Discloser: Bought

Goodreads: Link

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This book was a fast read. I liked it, but it wasn't extremely deep. And the writing was sloppy. It was a diary more or less, in the begining Morgan Menzie points out that its fiction but if you would like you could just call Blythe Morgan if you so wished. I read this book four year ago and it didn't overly stick with you. I haven't been through what she has, but I thought that because this book was fiction the author changed things that shouldn't have been changed. This would of been better as a work of non-fiction rather then fiction. I felt a disconnect.

The Diaries, and how much she ate, and her prayers were, heart breaking, but at the same time this book was very God ornament. And it bugged me, but at the same time I don't think this book would of gotten published without the god, I like this book but it was pourly written and badly edited.

More then You Can Chew- Marnelle Tokio

Marty Black has retreated from a difficult family situation into the area she can best control, her own appetites. She may not be able to control her parents’ behavior, but she can decide what she will and will not eat. Eventually, she stops eating altogether. Marty is close to death when she finally asks for help and finds herself in a psychiatric institution. But recognizing her need for help is only the first tenuous step on a long road to recovery.

Marty’s ability to find a way to live, despite the powerful lure of anorexia, is the core of this fine, insightful novel.

Marnelle Tokio’s semi autobiographical story will resonate with every teenager who faces issues of family, body image, and self-confidence.

Title: More Then You Can Chew
Author: Marnelle Tokio
Publisher: Tundra Books

Page Count: 240
Series: NA
Discloser: Library

Goodreads: Link

One of the best books I read in High School I read so many books, but this was one that stuck with me. This is set mainly in a Rehab and it shows how hard Marty's will to survive, but how tainted her condition is. She want's help. She needs it. but there's a line they want us to have 5000 calories a day. And her reply is "I am not putting 5000 of anything into my body." She needs it but she can't seem to take her self out of the mind set. This book is haunting. I read this 6 years ago and I still have the ideas that it put in my head floating there. Every time I feel bad about eating something I shouldn't I some what think of this book, and how it's okay to eat. Well in moderation. How that extra scoop of ice cream wont mean that I lose my figure. It my be not perfect but what's attracted about being a double zero and 85pounds soaking wet at 5'3.

This book will change you if you haven't read it. I strongly erge you too. If you have teenage children and you think they may be strugling with it. Don't think that its a too dark of topic, just get them to read it, because from a one adult who read this as a teen to a parent, Let Them Read Whatever. Just talk about it.

Falling For Hamlet - Michelle Ray

Meet Ophelia: a blonde, beautiful high-school senior and long-time girlfriend of Prince Hamlet of Denmark. Her life is dominated not only by her boyfriend's fame and his overbearing family, but also by the paparazzi who hound them wherever they go. As the devastatingly handsome Hamlet spirals into madness after the mysterious death of his father, the King, Ophelia rides out his crazy roller coaster life, and lives to tell about it. In live television interviews, of course.

Passion, romance, drama, humor, and tragedy intertwine in this compulsively readable debut novel, told by a strong-willed, modern-day Ophelia.

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Title: Falling for Hamlet
Author: Michelle Ray
Publisher: Poppy
Page Count: 368
Series: N/A
Discloser: ARC TRADE

Goodreads: Link

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Where to start. It's Hamlet with texting. K that's a crap review. Scrap that.

It's everything you love about Hamlet, with coffee. There's something about this book that is missleading from what you see when you see the cover or read the back cover. Tag line is "First Come Love Then Comes Madness." And the cute cover. It looks like the book has a happy feel to it. Like when you see a passionet kiss on the cover you think romance.

Don't get me wrong, there was romance in it, but its one of Shakespeare's Tragedies meaning and sorry if I ruin a four hundred year play for you, but they all die in the end. In this re-telling Ophelia doesn't die, and maybe some other people. The Ending is fairly diffrent from the play, we have more of the aftermath of what happened. But we also have a lot more of the before. Which I loved.

In this we see The Dead King and how Michelle Ray thinks he was, and the characters are more alive. Yet I think they are fairly true to the play. That's the great thing about a 400year old play you can take things and change the context.

One thing I loved about this book was how some of the lines were changed so slightly, that it made everything make scene. And I would read it, and I would hear my grade 12 english teacher saying this is how we should understand it. If anything I would love to give this book to my Teacher, because she loved hamlet dearly, but I would terrified to see her reaction to how some things were changed. For the better I think.

One thing I love is how the book was broken up. Instead of Act's the story was told as if she was on a talk show telling her story of the fall of the crown of Denmark. I also loved the DDI and how the characters that were in the play the small ones made there way into the story.

I have read other Hamlet Retellings with Ophelia as the lead and this is by far one of the best.

Wicked Lovely - Melissa Marr

<---- look at that cover don't you have to have it?

All teenagers have problems, but few of them can match those of Aislinn, who has the power to see faeries. Quite understandably, she wishes that she could share her friends' obliviousness and tries hard to avoid these invisible intruders. But one faery in particular refuses to leave her alone. Keenan the Summer King is convinced beyond all reasoning that Aislinn is the queen he has been seeking for nine centuries. What's a 21st-century girl to do when she's stalked by a suitor nobody else can see? A debut fantasy romance for the ages; superlative summer read

Title: Wicked Lovely
Author: Melissa Marr
Publisher: Harper Teen
Page Count: , 328
Series: Book One.
Discloser: Bought

Goodreads: Link

Wow. I haven't reviewed my favourite book series. Yes this month I've reviewed Sloppy First and Secret Circle but they both have big events coming up. 10years still in print for Sloppy First and a T/V show for Secret Circle. But Wicked Lovely is a book that because I love it so much I figure everyone has seen it. But as I am rewatching Clueless for the umpteen time, I relize things that I love not everyone has seen or loved.

So what drew me to Wicked Lovely, was the cover, I saw it in the book store when it first came out. And I read the cover flap and I was laughing, The cover was gorgeous and the cover jacket was funny. I had to have this book. So when I was on vacation a week or so after that I bought it, along with a couple other books. and I wasn't dispointed about any of them, (Glass - Ellen Hopkins, A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libra Bray, Vampire Academy - Richelle Mead. To name a few) But Wicked Lovely was the best. I fell in love with the characters. I have to say it too me a while to get into the book. The cover-jacket made it seem to me at the time that was funny, and there were funny parts to it, but the majority was serious and dark and I loved it.

All the characters in this novel are great, this is one of the few books that I go to re-read and I find myself getting lost in the characters, I find myself picking up things that I never saw before. I don't re-read books often there are a few books that I crave to re-read and Wicked Lovely is one of them. Ash is real, she strong yet has weak moments. Seth is the bad boy turned good for Ash, Keenan is the bastard who is using people as means to an end. And Don's is the girl who was used by Keenan and has to live with not being what he needed.

There's folk-lore in this book out the who-ha. Melissa Marr grew up in the world of folk-lore, and it shows in her writing, that she enjoys it, it's not that she just got an idea and she had to find ways for it to work. But it flowed perfectly.

If you haven't read these I erge you to do so. All five books are very good. and I love them all for different reasons.

Insatiable - Meg Cabot

Sick of hearing about vampires? So is Meena Harper.

But her bosses are making her write about them anyway, even though Meena doesn't believe in them.

Not that Meena isn't familiar with the supernatural. See, Meena Harper knows how you're going to die. (Not that you're going to believe her. No one ever does.)

But not even Meena's precognition can prepare her for what happens when she meets—then makes the mistake of falling in love with—Lucien Antonescu, a modern-day prince with a bit of a dark side. It's a dark side a lot of people, like an ancient society of vampire hunters, would prefer to see him dead for.

The problem is, Lucien's already dead. Maybe that's why he's the first guy Meena's ever met whom she could see herself having a future with. See, while Meena's always been able to see everyone else's future, she's never been able look into her own.

And while Lucien seems like everything Meena has ever dreamed of in a boyfriend, he might turn out to be more like a nightmare.

Now might be a good time for Meena to start learning to predict her own future. . . .

If she even has one.

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Title: Insatiable
Author: Meg Cabot
Publisher: Harper Audio
Page Count: n/a
Series: book 1
Discloser: North Bay Public Library

Goodreads: Link

W-O-W my first Meg Cabot book. And it won't be the last. I enjoyed this book a lot. There's so many books of Meg Cabot's I wan't to read. Not more then ever. I remember in middle school how much I wanted to read The Princess Diaries because all the girls were reading it. And then after Alvon High the move came out and I wanted to read that. Then I hear about Abandon and I wanted to read it. And I was at the library and I grabbed the audio book of Insatiable, and I am so glad I did.

This book has so many vampire pop-culture refrances. So many that I don't think recognized them all. There were Buffy, Twilight, Vampire Dairies, Sookie, so many hits on how people reacts too vampires, and how stupid the people are who believe in or throw themselves at the actors who play vampires. I loved it.

There were a lot of Dracula references as well. I loved it, Mina and John Harper. There was a lot of the historical notes about Dracula and I love it. There's been a huge about of my grade 10 english class where I spent most of my days with my nose in Bram Stoker/Vlad the Impaler / What people thought of how the myth of Dracula came about. And I was excited to see it all in a novel.

This book had twists and turns and I can not wait until I get my hands on Overbite. if you haven't picked this one up yet. I think you should

Second Helpings

Knowing that I’ve just done something that will take decades off my parents’ lives with worry, you’ll excuse me for not getting into the fa-la-la-la-la Yuletide spirit this year. . . . The only difference between Christmas 2001 and Christmas 2000 is that I don’t have a visit from Hope to look forward to. And Bethany has already packed on some major fetal flab. Oh, and now Gladdie doesn’t need to ask a bizillion questions about my boyfriend, because she’s already gotten the dirt from you know who.”

Jessica Darling is up in arms again in this much-anticipated, hilarious sequel to Sloppy Firsts. This time, the hyperobservant, angst-ridden teenager is going through the social and emotional ordeal of her senior year at Pineville High. Not only does the mysterious and oh-so-compelling Marcus Flutie continue to distract Jessica, but her best friend, Hope, still lives in another state, and she can’t seem to escape the clutches of the Clueless Crew, her annoying so-called friends. To top it off, Jessica’s parents won’t get off her butt about choosing a college, and her sister Bethany’s pregnancy is causing a big stir in the Darling household.

With keen intelligence, sardonic wit, and ingenious comedic timing, Megan McCafferty again re-creates the tumultuous world of today’s fast-moving and sophisticated teens. Fans of Sloppy Firsts will be reunited with their favorite characters and also introduced to the fresh new faces that have entered Jess’s life, including the hot creative writing teacher at her summer college prep program and her feisty, tell-it-like-it-is grandmother Gladdie. But most of all, readers will finally have the answers to all of their burgeoning questions, and then some: Will Jessica crack under the pressure of senioritis? Will her unresolved feelings for Marcus wreak havoc on her love life? Will Hope ever come back to Pineville? Fall in love with saucy, irreverent Jessica all over again in this wonderful sequel to a book that critics and readers alike hailed as the best high school novel in years

Title: Second Helpings

Author: Megan McCafferty

Publisher: Crown Publishing Group

Page Count: 357

Series: Second in the Jessica Darling Series

Discloser: Bought

Goodreads: Link

This is the second book, so there will be spoillers for the first book.

S0 earlier this week you saw my review of Sloppy Firsts. So I don’t need to gush about it.

After the events in the end of sloppy first. Jessica is furious with Marcus. She only calls him as “he-who-shall-remain-nameless” Jess is at a camp for Students in advance placements. SPECIAL (don’t ask me what it stands for.) She goes to creative writing rather then go to running camp where as her father wants her to go, and it creates tension between the family.

On top of the tension between her father, Jessica’s sister is expecting, and her husband is out of town on business so she is spending most of her time in Jessica’s home. (her sister is 7 years older then Jessica.)

Jessica’s life is up in ruins. She is dealing with a hormonal sister, a pissed off father, a mother who wants to be closer to her. And she is dealing with her feelings for Marcus, which is not so nice, and she thinks she’s falling for him. She wishes all her warm fuzzy feeling for him would just vanish.

After summer camp she starts school and it’s clear that Marcus wants nothing to do with her. And Jessica starts seeing a different guy, and she is trying to move on with her life, but Marcus keeps screwing with her head. Or is he, maybe there’s just more attraction between them. This book plays those heart strings well. It is my favorite in the series.

Sloppy First - Megan McCafferty

“My parents suck ass. Banning me from the phone and restricting my computer privileges are the most tyrannical parental gestures I can think of. Don’t they realize that Hope’s the only one who keeps me sane? . . . I don’t see how things could get any worse.”

When her best friend, Hope Weaver, moves away from Pineville, New Jersey, hyperobservant sixteen-year-old Jessica Darling is devastated. A fish out of water at school and a stranger at home, Jessica feels more lost than ever now that the only person with whom she could really communicate has gone. How is she supposed to deal with the boy- and shopping-crazy girls at school, her dad’s obsession with her track meets, her mother salivating over big sister Bethany’s lavish wedding, and her nonexistent love life?

A fresh, funny, utterly compelling fiction debut by first-time novelist Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts is an insightful, true-to-life look at Jessica’s predicament as she embarks on another year of teenage torment--from the dark days of Hope’s departure through her months as a type-A personality turned insomniac to her completely mixed-up feelings about Marcus Flutie, the intelligent and mysterious “Dreg” who works his way into her heart. Like a John Hughes for the twenty-first century, Megan McCafferty taps into the inherent humor and drama of the teen experience. This poignant, hilarious novel is sure to appeal to readers who are still going through it, as well as those who are grateful that they don’t have to go back and grow up all over again.

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Title: Sloppy First

Author: Megan McCafferty

Publisher: Crown Publishing Group

Page Count:298

Series: First in the Jessica Darling Series

Discloser: Bought

Goodreads: Link

So Sloppy First turns TEN this year! It’s almost as shocking as the twins turning 2 this month. Ah everyone is growing up! So this is one of my favorite series I don’t know why I haven’t reviews this, I’ve done a quick review on a guest post on A Simple Love Of Reading, but I haven’t actually reviewed the whole thing.

So There’s a story, It was the fall of grade nine (2006), and my best friend was reading this book, and she was laughing, very hard and I am wondering what the hell is wrong with her. I didn’t really read much, that changed the next summer. I didn’t read Sloppy First until the summer before grade 10 (that summer I also read Twilight, Blue Bloods and I really got into the ya section)

(This book though adult book/series is more likely to be found in the YA Section of your library.)

When I started this book I was going through a rough patch, my best friend for the last five years was moving out of the city, how were we going to survive, what was I going to do for fun? Cause honestly this thing called small town blues, is really something. There is nothing to do, I haven’t really made friends at high school, I had people that I hung out with but that was only in school, T was out of school, she was late night phone calls she was who I laughed the most with. What was I going to do.

I remember a book that she was reading the fall before, it had a green cover and a girls legs. Umm. It sounded good, and it was funny. But I had No idea what it was about. When I picked it up, how shocked was I when I found out that it was about a girl, like me who’s best friend (her other half) had moved away. And she was starting a diary about life without her.

Now this was a painful book, it was beautifully written, it’s so easy to read. It was honest and funny. Just the idea that her best friend was leaving and she was just turned an insomniac (which gladly I didn’t get but my other half did) and just seeing how she dealt with that. And oh boy do I love how she dealt with that. She ran at first, she is one of the track team stars, but running on the team was for her father, not her, running at night, was for her, and it tired her out. So she could get a couple of hours of sleep.

The book starts to turn when she is “pushed” in to peeing in a cup so a guy can pass a drug test. And then this guy keeps flirting with her. And One thing leads to the next. I love this book so much I don't want to ruin anything for you but its great.

And on top of it all she is dealing with her sisters upcoming wedding and her period is missing in action.

Quick Characters:

Jess - Funny, lovable, heart broken by Hope leaving

Hope - We don’t see her. We hear about her. Her parents are leaving town because her brother OD and they just want to be rid of all the bad memories of him.

Scotty- is in love with Jess. And She doesn’t like him. One bit.

Marcus - Uh! There’s not enough words in the english language.

The Clueless Crew - Three Girls that go to Jessica’s school. Who she hangs out with, but for the most part she doesn’t like them.

Spider Bones - Kathy Rechie (Temperance Brennan #13)

Kathy Reichs—#1 New York Times bestselling author and producer of the FOX television hit Bones—returns with the thirteenth riveting novel featuring forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan.

John Lowery was declared dead in 1968—the victim of a Huey crash in Vietnam, his body buried long ago in North Carolina. Four decades later, Temperance Brennan is called to the scene of a drowning in Hemmingford, Quebec. The victim appears to have died while in the midst of a bizarre sexual practice. The corpse is later identified as John Lowery. But how could Lowery have died twice, and how did an American soldier end up in Canada?

Tempe sets off for the answer, exhuming Lowery’s grave in North Carolina and taking the remains to Hawaii for reanalysis—to the headquarters of JPAC, the U.S. military’s Joint POW/ MIA Accounting Command, which strives to recover Americans who have died in past conflicts. In Hawaii, Tempe is joined by her colleague and ex-lover Detective Andrew Ryan (how “ex” is he?) and by her daughter, who is recovering from her own tragic loss. Soon another set of remains is located, with Lowery’s dog tags tangled among them. Three bodies—all identified as Lowery.

And then Tempe is contacted by Hadley Perry, Honolulu’s flamboyant medical examiner, who needs help identifying the remains of an adolescent boy found offshore. Was he the victim of a shark attack? Or something much more sinister?

A complex and riveting tale of deceit and murder unfolds in this, the thirteenth thrilling novel in Reichs’s “cleverly plotted and expertly maintained series” (The New York Times Book Review). With the smash hit Bones now in its fifth season and in full syndication—and her most recent novel, 206 Bones, an instant New York Times bestseller—Kathy Reichs is at the top of her game.

Title: Spider Bones

Author: Kathy Reichy

Publisher: Simon and Schusture

Page Count: (Audio book about 9 hours feels like less)

Series: Temperance Brennan 13#

Discloser: North Bay Public Library

Goodreads: Link

Once again Tempy has herself in trouble. Though this is the first book that I can remember where she doesn’t almost get herself killed. This is the 13th book in the series (I am pretty sure) and I haven’t read them all, but I’ve read most, and I am shocked at how different they all are. And how different they are from the show, Bones.

There was a reference to Bones in Spider Bones. I laughed at that.

This is an adult book. It’s also a very smart book, I don’t think I would be able to read them, the Audio Books gives you everything without struggling in the words of it. It’s a good read, but it plays out so well hearing it. The books are too smart for me to read.

But man would struggle through the actual text just for Andrew Ryan. And and when I found out that this book was taking place in Hawaii unlike to Montreal where most of the other books take place and Ryan lives, I was fairly upset, but you Ryan fans, he will be in this book a fair amount. And I have high hopes for the next one.

In this book Brennan finds the bones of a dead guy who drown himself in a river in Montreal. And she is thrown into a mystery that only she could solve of who is the real “Spider.” This case has its twist and turns. That will keep you guessing until almost the very last page.

Ripple - Mandy Hubbard

Lexi is cursed with a dark secret. Each day she goes to school like a normal teenager, and each night she must swim, or the pain will be unbearable. She is a siren - a deadly mermaid destined to lure men to their watery deaths. After a terrible tragedy, Lexi shut herself off from the world, vowing to protect the ones she loves. But she soon finds herself caught between a new boy at school who may have the power to melt her icy exterior, and a handsome water spirit who says he can break Lexi's curse if she gives up everything else. Lexi is faced with the hardest decision she's ever had to make: the life she's always longed for - or the love she can't live without?

Title: Ripple

Author: Mandy Hubbard

Publisher: Razorbill

Page Count:

Series: None (sadly)

Discloser: Penquin Canada

Goodreads: Link

Lexi is cursed, her family has been cursed for the last 250 years, but only she doesn’t know it. On the night of her sixteenth birthday she kills, she kills her boyfriend, her best friends brother. It’s been two years, and since then and she has tried very hard not to kill again. But she is called to the water, and any male who can hear her sing is lured into the water and dies.

She found a lake, which isn’t on any maps. And one night, a boy is skipping stones and she can’t get into her lake. Because she doesn’t want to kill Cole. A boy from her school.

So she goes without her lake for the night, and the next day at school. Which just happens to be the first-day of school for the year, she is sick, she craves the water, and she can only swim at night. Cole the boy who was at the lake is in her english class, and part of her old gang. After killing Steven, Lexi stopped hanging out with them, Serrina (her old best friend) can’t under stand what happened, and doesn’t know how to deal, so she and her friends bully Lexi. And today Cole, stands up, just a little bit. And that’s all it takes for her to see him more and more.

There are so many issues in Lexi’s life that she is dealing with, being a Siren, her mother had died, And her father had her. She is living with her only remaning family, who is a Grandmother, who elderly, and has health issues. On top of that she starts seeing Cole (some what) only to have it torn soon after. And her friendship or lack there of with Serina is getting more complicated.

This book is so good, fast passed and I wanted more and more! I need there to be more, the story is wrapped up well but, and there is no need for another book other then I want one and Cole and Lexi story is great.

The Initiation (The Secret Circle #1)

The Circle's Power has Lured Her Home...

Cassie must confront a shattering challenge: an ordeal that could cost her life or gain her more than she's ever imagined...

Charmed by the Secret Circle, she's initiated into the mysterious "in crowd," a coven of young witches whose power has controlled New Salem for three hundred years.
Hopelessly in love with the coven leader's boyfriend, Cassie risks falling prey to dark powers in order to have him. But if she does, her endless love could destroy the coven, New Salem, and her!

...And She Will Emerge the Leader or Perish!

Title: The Secret Circle
Author: L.J Smith
Publisher: Harper Teen (now)
Page Count: 272
Series: 1st in the Secret Circle
Discloser: Bought
Goodreads: Link

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This is one of the best witch series I have ever read. I haven't read many, but that's because I am picky with them.

I have re-read this book three times. It's great. Cassie is smart sassy and pretty sexy if I can say so. She's a great character to have this story told by.

The novel starts and Cassie is on vacation in Cape Cod with her mother, and her mother gets a call from Cassie's Grandmother, who is sick and needs her mother to come back home.

Cassie's mother left home as soon as she could, and had never been back. So Cassie has never met her Grandmother, so she is moving from sunny California, to cold and damn New Salem Massachusetts. And she's not happy about that.

Oh wait how twilight is that? Oh wait. . . its from 1992. K that was my shot, the L.J Smith books are all amazing and they are a lot like twilight, (or so people say, I think they are 100times better) Just because a book is like another one doesn't make it worth less, some idea's can take off, others can't. It's the luck of the draw.

But Cassie is starting a new school. She misses home, she misses her friends, which is understandable. Thrown in to a new place, Cassie has the feeling that not everything is right here. There is a group of 11 students that seem to rule the school and Cassie doesn't think that is right that they get away with everything. It turns out that everyone who lives on Cassie's street is part of this group.

The other people in the novel I love almost everyone. Diane is great, she and Cassie have this instant closeness, Cassie feels like she's her sister, there's just this bond. And Diane is the leader of this group. Fay is the other leader of this group, and she's pretty evil. there are 4 other girls two on Diane's and 2 on Fay's. They are pretty much the flat characters that we know there's a lot of story behind them, but we don't know them.

The Guys. Nick is great, I love him, he has the best lines. "Hell hath no fury like a women scorned. . . Hey I'm not saying they did it, but they could have!" is one of my fav lines in this book. Adam is the sweet and sexy person, Like Diane Cassie feels something towards him. And She is trying to fight it. (I don't want to ruin anything by telling you why.)

This book has it all Murder, Love, Lust, Laughter, Back-Stabing, Dark Magic vs Light Magic.

You should pick this up because the CW has made a tv show that comes out in september and I can not wait!

Wolfsbane - Andrea Cremer

When Calla Tor wakes up in the lair of the Searchers, her sworn enemies, she’s certain her days are numbered. But then the Searchers make her an offer—one that gives her the chance to destroy her former masters and save the pack—and the man—she left behind. Is Ren worth the price of her freedom? And will Shay stand by her side no matter what? Now in control of her own destiny, Calla must decide which battles are worth fighting and how many trials true love can endure and still survive.

Title: Wolfsbane
Author: Andrea Cremer
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers
Page Count: 390
Series: second book in the Nightshade Trilogy
Discloser: ARC from Penguin Canada

Goodreads: Link

When I got the chance to review this I jumped at it. It took me a little longer to read then I would of liked it was 10th on my review pile and I only read 10 book in the last two months. I am way behind. But once I started Wolfsbane I could not put it down.

One of the reason's I was in dyer need to read this book was because of Ren. I needed to find out what was going on with Ren. Now where we find out a lot about Ren in this book, Now there is a lack of Ren in this book there is a lot going on that makes up for this.

Shay. Oh. My. Lord. I can not stand that boy. There are some things about him I really which were changed. But then he wouldn't be who he is, And this book would never of happened. Because Shay is such an important character. I am amazed by how much is going on, and was plotted for these books. So much of the plot lines are lined up for this book in Nightshade.

I love Calla, she is the perfect Alpha, she is so strong willed, and is so loyal to her pack. And she is heart broken when she is betrayed by some members of her pact but she's still loyal to them. I love her horribly. And I can't wait to see more of her and hopefully Ren in the last book of the series Bloodrose February 21st 2012!

Original Sin - Lisa Desrochers

Luc Cain was born and raised in Hell, but he isn’t feeling as demonic as usual lately—thanks to Frannie Cavanaugh and the unique power she never realized she had. But you can’t desert Hell without consequences, and suddenly Frannie and Luc find themselves targeted by the same demons who used to be Luc’s allies.

Left with few options, Frannie and Luc accept the protection of Heaven and one of its most powerful angels, Gabe. Unfortunately, Luc isn’t the only one affected by Frannie, and it isn’t long before Gabe realizes that being around her is too…tempting. Rather than risk losing his wings, he leaves Frannie and Luc under the protection of her recently-acquired guardian angel.

Which would be fine, but Gabe is barely out the door before an assortment of demons appears—and they’re not leaving without dragging Luc back to Hell with them. Hell won’t give up and Heaven won’t give in. Frannie’s guardian exercises all the power he has to keep them away, but the demons are willing to hurt anyone close to Frannie in order to get what they want. It will take everything she has and then some to stay out of Hell’s grasp.

And not everyone will get out of it alive

Title:Original Sin

Author: Lisa Desrochers
Publisher: Tor Teen
Page Count:400
Series: Book Two (Personal Demons)
Discloser: Bought

Goodreads: Link

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Wow how many books match the first book in how good funny and amazing plot driven books. I love Personal Demons (Link to Review)

This is the second book so there will be spoilers for the first book. I'll try to keep it on the down side but somethings are just come out. BUT NO Spoilers for the ORIGINAL SIN

So I don't read books aloud. I really don't my best friend was up for the week when I got this book and I read the first chapter out loud to her. It was funny as was the most of the book. If I would have read the entire book in front of someone (in my head) I would have to repeat line after line aloud because this book made me laugh. I do not read aloud, kids books are one things but actual novels I have to have read the book at least once before I attempt too and this book I was reading aloud on the dry run. It is pure amazing.

What bugged me about the first book was the rush of characters that we got in the beginning, in this book there are only a handful of new characters and by god I love them all. Lili was one of the new characters and she is great, she is this sexy girl that moves in next door to Luc and she is a little bit on the bad side, but Frannie's likes her, and she tries to make her feel like she's part of the in crowd. And Matt, falls for her as well. The other new characters are mostly demon's and we see them through Luc or Matt so we know they are demons.

The Plot kept me reading it wasn't great, but it is mostly about Frannie and Luc and how demons are after Luc. If you are team Gabe there is not a lot of him in this book so sorry for you guys. But he is in a good 150 pages, which is better then nothing. I am Team Luc and he is in it a whole lot and I love it, because its mostly his plot. Other parts of the plot is Frannie's friends Taylor and Lili, and Matt. All in all the plot is intresting and it is the perfect length.

There isn't really anything I would change in this book. And I am waiting on the edge of my seat for Last Rite, which is due out May 2012.

Witches of East End

From the author of the highly addictive and bestselling Blue Bloods series, with almost 3 million copies sold, comes a new novel, Melissa de la Cruz's first for adults, featuring a family of formidable and beguiling witches.

The three Beauchamp women--Joanna and her daughters Freya and Ingrid--live in North Hampton, out on the tip of Long Island. Their beautiful, mist-shrouded town seems almost stuck in time, and all three women lead seemingly quiet, uneventful existences. But they are harbouring a mighty secret--they are powerful witches banned from using their magic. Joanna can resurrect people from the dead and heal the most serious of injuries. Ingrid, her bookish daughter, has the ability to predict the future and weave knots that can solve anything from infertility to infidelity. And finally, there's Freya, the wild child, who has a charm or a potion that can cure most any heartache.

For centuries, all three women have been forced to suppress their abilities. But then Freya, who is about to get married to the wealthy and mysterious Bran Gardiner, finds that her increasingly complicated romantic life makes it more difficult than ever to hide her secret. Soon Ingrid and Joanna confront similar dilemmas, and the Beauchamp women realize they can no longer conceal their true selves. They unearth their wands from the attic, dust off their broomsticks, and begin casting spells on the townspeople. It all seems like a bit of good-natured, innocent magic, but then mysterious, violent attacks begin to plague the town. When a young girl disappears over the Fourth of July weekend, they realize it's time to uncover who and what dark forces are working against them.

With a brand-new cast of characters, a fascinating and fresh world to discover, and a few surprise appearances from some of the Blue Blood fan favorites, this is a page-turning, deliciously fun, magical summer read fraught with love affairs, witchcraft, and an unforgettable battle between good and evil.

Title: Witches of East End
Author: Melissa De La Cruz
Publisher: Disney Hyperion (Adult)
Page Count: 272
Series: Book One
Discloser: North Bay Public Library

Goodreads: Link

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So If you have been reading my blog for a while you know I am a huge Melissa De La Cruz fan. I love her Blue Bloods books. They were one of the first series I have ever read. (I was a late bloomer when it came to reading.) I've reviewed all of the Blue Bloods Books, and The First Au-pair's Novel (I am savouring them and once I'm done reading The Ashley's ) but reading her first adult novel that is set in the world of blue bloods, and having characters that you know and love show up in a novel and learn that they play a big roll is kinda surreal.

NOTE! THIS IS AN ADULT BOOK! +18

(and there are Blue Bloods Characters in this book, but what you learn from them in this isn't important to the main story line arc.)

OMG I love this! love love love it. (sorry this is going to be fan girly) I savoured this novel, I read it bit by bit, and seriously it's not just because its Melissa, its because the writing is amazing.

There are three Beauchamp women and I love them all. They all are witches who are not aloud to use there powers. They are all are having issues with this thought its been centuries. And They are just starting to use there magic again, be damned with the consequences.

Joanna is the mother, she has been there mothers for there entire lives. In every cycle she becomes pregnant, as much as she loves her children (unlike Blue Bloods the children are actually hers) Along with her daughter her son is missing. That is the hardest part of being pregnant over and over again, because she keeps wishing that her son will come back to her, and he never does.

Ingrid, is the Librarian, who's can somewhat see into the future she also does knot work charms. And she just starts buy losing up one of her friends, and then word spread and she is soon the witch (new age) for all the town's wants and needs, straying husbands, child bearing issues, the list goes on and on.) Ingrid is also doesn't feel like she has a love life, and she's getting lonely fixing everyone's else's love lives mostly.

Freya: the local barmaid, and she loves it. She is also the "youngest." of the Beauchamp. And she makes tonic's, mostly love tonic's but tonic's none the less. She is also engaged to be married, and on the night of the engagement party she meets her fiancé's brother, and there is an instant physical reaction that ends in up leading into the bathroom. And she is having conflicted feelings for brothers.

The girls stories are woven together in a way that not many authors can do as elegantly as Melissa does. There are a lot of mythology in this. I like the Norwegian myth's in contrast to the mainly christian in the origins of the blue bloods books. All in all this is an amazing book, and I can not wait for reading the next book. And last week Melissa announced the title of the next book in the series which is:

Serpents Kiss