Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins

Sophie knows she’s a witch, but that’s about all she knows. She’s never met her warlock father. Her human mother tries, but can help her very little. When Sophie tries to help a classmate with a love spell–and it goes horribly wrong–she is sent to Hex Hall by the Council that rules the Prodigium, which […]

Untamed by P.C. Cast & Kristen Cast

If Chosen is one of my favorite books in the House of Night series Untamed is my other favorite. In the last book original mean girl Aphrodite not only became the only safe person for super chosen one Zoey to be close to, she also gave up the one thing she probably loved more than […]

Pretties by Scott Westerfeld

When we last left Tally she valiantly volunteered to surrender herself to the Specials and undergo the process of becoming Pretty. See the big secret of the first book is that becoming Pretty is not just a physical thing, they also burn away bits of your brain that encourage free thought and independence. So Tally […]

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

When Tally turns sixteen she’ll go under the knife, a tradition that will initiate her into the life of a Pretty where everything is possible, most of all acceptance and approval. But then she meets Shay, who lets it spill that she doesn’t want to be Pretty. She doesn’t want some committee deciding how she […]

Lost in Time by Melissa de la Cruz

If you’ve been following my reviews of de la Cruz’s Blood Bloods series so far you know that they’re either completely irritating or completely lovely to me. The decision to split the point of view and the story into different facets is probably what kept me reading the series. Lost in Time is a perfect […]

September 2013 Book Releases

  Frozen (Heart of Dread #1) by Melissa de la Cruz Welcome to New Vegas, a city once covered in bling, now blanketed in ice. Like much of the destroyed planet, the place knows only one temperature—freezing. But some things never change. The diamond in the ice desert is still a 24-hour hedonistic playground and […]