Fragile Eternity is the third book in Melissa Marr’s Wicked Lovely YA fairy series. While it follows Ink Exchange, it returns to the unresolved threads of the first book in the series and revisits Wicked Lovely’s heroine (Aislinn) who was made into a Summer Queen at the end of the first installment. After discovering that she is the true Summer […]
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Review: Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr
November 25, 2014Ink Exchange is the second book in Melissa Marr’s YA Wicked Lovely series. The first book in the series told the story of Aislinn, an ‘ordinary’ high school girl who is stalked by fairies that no-one else can see. Ink Exchange tells the story of Leslie, one of Aislinn’s school friends, who also becomes ensnared in the world of the […]
Review: Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr
November 20, 2014Aislinn has the Sight. She sees faeries everywhere, and faeries are terrifying enough that she spends most of her life trying to make sure faeries don’t notice her. Unfortunately, she comes to the attention of the Summer King, Keenan, who must convince her to become his queen. Keenan is bound to play out a scenario set […]
Review: Made for You by Melissa Marr
November 18, 2014Melissa Marr’s latest is the magic-light tale of Eva, a southern princess (child of the elite in the tiny town of Jessup, NC) who after being struck by a car and left for dead finds herself with the unpredictable ability to read the deaths of people who touch her. Even more disturbing is how many […]
Review: My Soul to Save by Rachel Vincent
October 30, 2014For a book all about death, demons and soul selling, My Soul to Save isn’t that dark of a book. The second book in the Soul Screamers series by Rachel Vincent, it again follows Kaylee, a bean sidhe (banshee) by birth who is quite new to her powers. Still sensitive to her habits of screaming […]
Review: Runaways volume 2
October 28, 2014On the run from their murderous parents (who framed them for the murder) teens Alex, Chase, Gert, Karolina, Molly and Nico have tons to learn. They aren’t exactly close friends, they have pretty…,um, classic views of superheros and villains, no clue about their own abilities and there are dangers other than The Pride out in […]
Review: New Mutants volume 2
October 24, 2014Poor New Mutants. Professor X just “rescued” them from their homes to train them to control their mutant powers and their first field trip finds them lost in the Amazon, taken captive by a secret city modelling itself after Rome and battling it out in the Colosseum. All alone, with no adults to depend on they […]
Review: My Soul to Take by Rachel Vincent
October 21, 2014Kaylee is a bean sidhe (read “banshee”), a herald of death, though she learns this on the edge of a mental breakdown over her mysterious panic attacks that come when she is close to someone who is about to die. If it wasn’t for class hottie Nash, she would still think she’s crazy, since even […]
Review: Zombie Youth: Book 2: Borrowed Time by H.E.Goodhue
October 17, 2014Zombie Youth: Borrowed Time is a masterful example of the way a work can defy target audience and genre: a true crossover for fans of horror, armageddon, and coming of age (with zombies). By intertwining several survival factions, each with a predictable agenda and hierarchy, Goodhue realistically emphasizes the strengths and shortcomings of several generations. Thus, […]
Review: Any Witch Way by Annastaysia Savage
October 14, 2014Sadie has spent the last three years of her life in foster care due to her mother’s death in a car wreck. However, Sadie doesn’t believe her mom is dead….and has suffered the ridicule of her classmates over it. Now, on her thirteenth birthday, Sadie has a very strange dream and awakens to find magical […]