Charlotte Usher is friendless. She wants to be noticed, but her classmates, including handsome, popular Damen Dylan, don’t know she’s alive. And then she chokes to death. Charlotte has unfinished business, though, and she ends up in Dead Ed with other teenage ghosts. She is sure that going to the Harvest Ball with Damen will […]
Category: book reviews
Review: Demon Queen by Richard Lewis
May 19, 2016Jesse has grown up in the foster care system, never knowing his real parents. Unfairly seized by Homeland Security, he is released to the Mindells, a foster family living in the town of Longview. As Jesse begins to settle into his new community, Honor Clarke moves to town, dealing with the death of her father […]
Review: Birds of Prey volume 2 by Chuck Dixon
May 17, 2016ISBN: 9781401260958 Still hunting down the sleaze of the world Black Canary (with Oracle at the assist) stumbles into a slave ring with a twist. These slaves are also kidnapped heiresses, business moguls and other member of the One Percent. The scheme is a good one (forced labor and ransom? Score!) Also included in this […]
Tor Teen, 2007 ISBN: 0765316412 Available: New Lily Willison and her friends Nikki, Arielle, and Grazia start up a girls’ soccer club at her school called the Weregirls. When the new girl, Andra Hewlit, senses that Lily has supernatural powers, she seeks to co-opt them and creates her own soccer club. Lily finds out from […]
Review: The Outliers by Kimberly McCreight
May 3, 2016The Outliers by Kimberly McCreight HarperCollins, May 2016 ISBN-13: 978-0062359094 Available for pre-order: Hardcover, Audible, Audio CD, Kindle edition High school junior Wylie has always had anxiety issues, but since her mother’s death four months earlier she is unable to even leave the house. Her father, a researcher in emotional intelligence, unsure of how […]
Review: City of Legends by Cheyanne Young
March 31, 2016Where to start with this one. Maci Knight lives in a world where there are superheroes (they all pretty much have the same powers, speed, healing, strength, etc) and normal people. She’s not just from a superhero race, she’s the prized daughter of the Mayor of the Superheroes. She, like all members of her genetic […]
Book Review: Suspicion by Alexandra Monir
February 25, 2016From ML’s Circulation Desk Delacorte Press, December 2014 ISBN: 978-0385743891 Available: hardcover and Kindle editions Hot on the heels of her two previous books (Timeless, Timekeeper), author Alexandra Monir gives us Suspicion, a tale of secrets and suspense that lurk behind the iron gates of a modern day “Downton Abbey,” the magnificent and mysterious Rockford […]
Book Review: Man Made Boy by Jon Skovron
February 23, 2016From ML’s Circulation Desk Viking Penguin, 2013 ISBN-13: 978-0670786206 Available: Hardcover, Kindle edition, audiobook I don’t read a lot of YA fiction, as I tend to enjoy a harder, darker horror in general, but I have enjoyed it from time to time, and the concept of Man Made Boy intrigued me. It is indeed an […]
Book Review: Water Vamps by G.L. Giles
February 18, 2016From ML’s Circulation Desk BlackWyrm Publishing, June 2013 (Second Printing) ISBN-13: 978-1-61318-147-8 Available: Paperback, Kindle Psychic vampire Setiana and her partner, a shape-shifter, stop at an inn for a good day’s sleep. While there, Setiana enters a dream state, and visits a young girl, Robyn, in Charleston, South Carolina. It is Robyn’s 11th birthday, and […]
Review: BloodRealms by Aurora Whittet
February 11, 2016Werewolf Princess, chosen one of the legends and eligible bachelorette is back. This is the second book in a series, and…I tried to like it. I really did. I love the cover. The back blurb frames the Chosen One story in a way that makes it sound like Ashling is trying to fight for some […]