And now we bring ourselves to the third book in the Penguin Five. I must say, I’m loving the Penguin Five. In fact, I’m just loving Penguin. They’ve done such awesome things with the marketing for these books. I hope we get a Penguin Five 2011. I loved so many things about this book that…

Cross Academy is attended by two groups of students: the Day Class and the Night Class. Yuki Cross and Zero Kiryu are the Guardians of the school, protecting the Academy’s biggest secret – the Night Class is comprised fully of Vampires! Yuki believes vampires and humans can coexist peacefully, but her partner, Zero, has different…

As You Wish is a story about Viola, a girl who has lost her place in the world since her boyfriend broke up with her, and Jinn, a genie whose only purpose on our world is to grant Viola three wishes. But Viola fears choosing the wrong wish, so Jinn is stuck here until she…

Before I even talk about these books, I just have to say that Sarah  Rees Brennan is 1) Completely adorable and 2) so funny I almost peed my pants listening to her stories on the Smart Chicks tour stop in Jackson, Mississippi (yes, I drove seven hours round trip to be able to meet some…

Monsters of Men is the kind of series closer you hope for. It’s raw and real and answers questions but doesn’t leave things so definite that you can’t use your imagination. It grows the characters and the world and the plot without wrapping everything up in a neat little bow, and when you get to…

If ever there was a book that left me completely gutted, it was the second installment of Patrick Ness’s Chaos Walking trilogy, The Ask and The Answer. I read this book in one sitting because I couldn’t bear to put it down. I felt every emotion I could imagine – fear, joy, anger, love, loss…and…

I was recommended Patrick Ness’s The Knife of Never Letting Go by a librarian friend. She told me it was by far the best book she’d read that year. She said it gave Hunger Games a run for it’s money. I didn’t believe her. I couldn’t. Sure, the cover was amazing, but…how could we have…

Macy’s summer isn’t looking too hot. For one, her boyfriend, Jason, is going to be away at ‘Brain Camp’. For another, she’s agreed to take over his job at the library working the information desk. Her free time will most likely be spent either studying for the SATs or hanging with her mother, who has…

When I started reading this book I honestly had no idea what it was about. I’d read the flap and it struck me as a little…odd…a girl finds a mirror that belongs to a mermaid and she likes to surf? But I like mermaids, so I thought, “why not?” Lena lives in a small(ish) town…

It is a well known and well established fact that I don’t like to be scared. No horror movies. No R.L. Stein books as a kid and certainly no Stephen King. Yet the bulk of the appeal of Kimberly Derting’s The Body Finder to me was that it gave me the creeps. As in it…