I had eyed the Plain Kate cover for quite a while before I bought it. Every time, I’d pick it up, think “Ooooo, pretty” and then decide that it wasn’t what I was in the mood for right then (read: angsty teenage romances). Because I’m an idiot. And then when I finally bought it, I…

I will fully fess up to buying Heather Dixon’s Entwined because this is by far one of the prettiest covers I’ve ever seen. As soon as I saw it, I knew that I wanted to read this book. I really think this cover captures the whimsy of Entwined while still seeming a little foreboding. Foreboding…

Eron De Marchelle isn’t supposed to feel a connection. He is a Sandman, a supernatural being whose purpose is to seduce human charges to sleep. While he can communicate with his charges in their dreams, he isn’t encouraged to–after all, getting too involved in one human’s life would prevent him helping his other charges get…

**Just a brief warning, that while this review holds no spoilers for The Last Little BLue Envelope, it does have spoilers for 13 Little Blue Envelopes. Proceed with caution.** So, 13 Little Blue Envelopes was my very first Maureen Johnson book. It is what made me fall in love with her writing. It was such…

For 500 years Lenah Beaudonte has been a vampire. 500 years of seduction, blood and destruction. But she is sickened by her dark powers – and longs to feel the sun on her skin, grass under her bare feet, and share the breath of a human kiss. She wants to be mortal again. But is…

Continuing my hot streak, I got lucky and managed to find a book I was trembling in anticipation for well before its release date. And we won’t talk about how many times a week I visit how many bookstores to make that luck happen, because it’s embarrassing. Let’s just say I work hard for this…

My relationship with this book is long and sordid. Reading through the advance copy was not the first time I’ve read the story of orphan Max Quick, his lost memory and the day time stopped. Or, well, technically it was the first time I’d read it. Max Quick – The Pocket and the Pendant was,…

Clara’s relationship with Christian is intense from the start, and like nothing she’s ever experienced before. But what starts as devotion quickly becomes obsession, and it’s almost too late before Clara realizes how far gone Christian is—and what he’s willing to do to make her stay. Now Clara has left the city—and Christian—behind. No one…

On one side of the border lies the modern world: the internet, homecoming dances, cell phones. On the other side dwell the ancient monsters who spark humanity’s deepest fears: dragons. Seventeen-year-old Kay Wyatt knows she’s breaking the law by rock climbing near the border, but she’d rather have an adventure than follow the rules. When…

Last year, Katie (I think I should start going by Brumhilda to avoid confusion because our names on this site are ridiculous) reviewed Kimberly Derting’s The Body Finder, which, by the way, I had recommended to her. Because I managed to buy Desires of the Dead first (another early shelf find), I laid first claim…