Razorbill, 2009 ISBN: 9781595142511 Available: trade paperback and multi format ebook I didn’t expect to like Strange Angels. It’s another book about a super special girl, with super powers, who doesn’t want it, but has to bravely accept it to save the world. And there’ll be a boy, I thought. A hot one. I wasn’t […]
Category: vampires
The Vampire Diaries: Episode 2 “Night of the Comet”
August 10, 2012A super rare comet passing over Mystic Falls and a killer vampire on the loose–what could possibly go wrong? Immediately we get emotionally invested. Jeremy, Elena’s younger brother can’t seem to do anything right, except fall for a girl who can’t return his feelings because she’s in an abusive relationship. Did I mention she also […]
Review: Blood Drunk: Faded Blue by Angela Lovell
May 8, 2012Blood Drunk: Faded Blue by Angela Lovell*New Review Ticking Boxes, 2011 ISBN-13: 978-1466308282 Available: New Blood Drunk: Faded Blue is the first in a new YA vampire series from writer Angela Lovell. It tells the story of ‘Blue’ Knightly, a young man from the South who has to travel to New York to identify the […]
Vampire Diaries: Episode One, “Pilot”
April 11, 2012I’m not entirely behind on the times here. I knew there was a series. And I even watched the first few episodes before life hiccuped and I fell behind. So for your reading entertainment I’m watching the first season and will be reviewing squeeing rambling about them here. Feel free to chime in! So, the […]
Night World #8: Witchlight by L.J. Smith
February 23, 2012Keller is a werepanther born in half form who never really knew a loving family. She was rescued by Circle Daybreak and their cause. Now as teen she’s thrown herself into trying to be the perfect Circle Daybreak field agent. She has little room for anything else, which is probably why she’s rather annoyed that […]
Night World #7: Black Dawn by L.J. Smith
February 21, 2012Smith tries to keep her Night World books interesting, despite the presence of the soulmate principle as a major plot point in each one. In Black Dawn things get shaky (for me). Maggie, an ordinary-type teen who adores her older brother, knows something’s wrong when her brother goes missing with only his girlfriend’s word detailing […]
Night World #6: Soulmate by L.J. Smith
February 3, 2012By six books in readers should be familiar with the Night World M.O. by now. In the stifling, anachronistic world of vampires, witches and shape shifters old powers are rising and the monsters are finding new ties to the world of the mortals. Soulmate takes a slightly different path and ups the power level. Theirry has been […]
Blood Feud: The Saga of Pandora Zwieback by Steven A Roman
February 1, 2012StarWarp Concepts, 2011 ISBN: 978-0-9841741-0-2 Available: Paperback Pandora Zwieback is a perfectly normal goth/punk teenage schizophrenic. Since she was six years old, therapists have been telling her two things: “Take your pills”, and “There’s no such thing as monsters.” Then one day, a thrilling series of intertwining events leads her to save the life of a gorgeous boy, […]
Night World #5: The Chosen by L.J. Smith
January 27, 2012So far I think I’ve been enjoying rereading the Night World series more than I enjoyed reading them as a teen. What were enjoyable stories before are now much more because I can pick out how layered the stories are. I think though, #5 The Chosen is the exception. I remember this being my favorite […]
Night World Girls and Why I Love Them
January 23, 2012Sometimes I feel like I’m the last person in the world to discover LJ Smith. Ten years ago I was surrounded by her works – working in a bookshop during my gap year – but I was very firmly a high fantasy and horror reader back then, and Smith’s books just didn’t hit my radar. […]