What started off as “Harry Potter goes bad girl” jumps ahead from Magical Reform School drama to Major Magical Uprising in this second book from Rachel Hawkins. In Hex Hall, main character Sophie Mercer learned she wasn’t really a witch, but a demon, when she had to battle her own summoned grandmother. In Demonglass, Sophie […]
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Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins
September 27, 2013Sophie 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
September 25, 2013If 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 […]
Gates of Paradise by Melissa de la Cruz
September 6, 2013Okay, are you ready for the last one? Spoilers ahoy, because there is no way, at all, that I can talk about this without talking about everything. So below the cut… Tweet
Lost in Time by Melissa de la Cruz
September 4, 2013If 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 […]
Sweetblood by Pete Hautman
June 5, 2013Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, June, 2003 ISBN: 0689850484 Available: New and Used Lucy was diagnosed with diabetes as a child and is dependent on insulin to keep her condition in check. Lucy has always had an interest in vampires and spends her time on vampire message boards looking to talk with the mysterious person […]
Review: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Predators and Prey
May 31, 2013This volume of BtVS season eight is for fans, not newcomers. It’s not really a book that pushes forward the drama of Twilight, the secret anti-Slayer group that’s trying to destroy every Slayer on the streets. This collection of comics serves as housekeeping, as well as character and world building asides. Perhaps channeling the modern […]
Thicker than Water by Carla Jablonski
May 29, 2013Razorbill, February 16, 2006 ISBN: 1595140239 Available: New Seventeen year old Kia feels powerless. Her mother is dying of cancer and she is living with her father who is uninvolved with her life and often absent. Her friends have problems of their own and can’t provide the support she needs, and she is cutting herself […]
Review: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Time of Your Life
May 24, 2013Despite the last three volumes having different writers they’ve all held deliciously true to the Buffy-verse while not letting the storyline becoming dull or repetitive. With this addition the story moves the focus back to Buffy and to the large story arc, Buffy vs the mysterious Twilight. Except it moves at this plot from a […]
Bloodline by Kate Cary
May 22, 2013Razorbill, 2005 ISBN: 1595140123 Available: New and Used Set in World War I, Bloodline tells the tale of the descendants of the the characters from Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The story follows John Shaw, a British soldier fighting under the mysterious Captain Quincy Harker. Sent home after he is wounded, Nursed back to health by the […]