I was very excited about this book after reading The Ghost & the Goth, which I reviewed on Monday. I wanted more Will and to see if Alona matured at all from hanging out with him. And then my mind was blown! But more on that later. Alona and Will spend their summer vacation doing…
Theia Alderson has always led a sheltered life in the small California town of Serendipity Falls. But when a devastatingly handsome boy appears in the halls of her school, Theia knows she’s seen Haden before- not around town, but in her dreams. As the Haden of both the night and the day beckons her closer…
It’s probably obvious but I really wanted to read this book mostly due to it’s cover. It’s so simple yet beautiful. I went into the reading of with very little idea of what was actually going to happen. Though I did know it was about teenagers with special abilities, and that always makes me excited…
Remember when I met Stacey Kade? It was a pretty magical day. Anyway, I was withholding writing a review for this until I’d read Queen of the Dead, the follow-up book in the series. Now that I have, behold my review for The Ghost & the Goth! *plays triumphant music* After a close encounter with…
We’re trying a bit of a different format with the Pile of Shame posts starting today. We’re going to rotate through all the reviewers here on the blog, so we can all share our shame. I volunteered to go first, as I started this, and…well, I need to incur some public shame in the hopes…
I first read The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster way back in middle school. (And, for everyone not lucky enough to have grown up in Texas, middle school doesn’t mean junior high. It’s usually 5th and 6th though sometimes 4th grades). At least, I’m pretty sure that’s when I read it. But when isn’t so…
In preparation for What Happened to Goodbye, which recently came out, I decided to try to catch up on my Sarah Dessen reading. And this book was classic Dessen, which is the biggest compliment I can give a contemporary YA. It’s been so long since Auden slept at night. Ever since her parents’ divorce—or since…
I would tell you about the latest installment of Rachel Caine’s Morganville Vampire series, but the first rule of Fight Club is do not talk about Fight Club…er… I mean Bite Club. Error aside, Caine managed to add into the already bizarre and twisted town of Morganville, a vampire fight club. Now skeptics who feel…
When I reviewed Michelle Cooper’s A Brief History of Montmaray, I hadn’t yet read the follow-up. In fact, I hadn’t even realized there was going to be a follow-up until right before I wrote my review. And then no bookstores had a copy of The FitzOsbornes in Exile. I know, because I went to six…
When the opportunity arose, I grabbed at the chance to read Ripple early (thanks to Around the World ARC Tours). The cover wasn’t the greatest thing ever, but the summary intrigued me as it sounded similar to an adult series that I read, Jane True by Nicole Peeler. Lexi is cursed with a dark secret….