by Lauren Myracle
by Sydney Salter / love Salter!
by Tricia Boone and Melissa Thomas
by Sharon Dogar
by Marjetta Geerling
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Cammie is back for a new session of school yet one teacher is missing. This teacher is a double agent who is working for The Circle. The Circle recruits young spies in training from schools like The Gallagher School for Exceptional Women. Cammie does not know what to do anymore after this new information except for maybe...spying. She and the gang will use their skills to uncover the truth.One thing that I love about Ally Carter is her consistency. She releases a book a year and each time the novel leaves a sense of satisfaction yet leaving with a small cliffhanger. However it is quite frustrating because the novels are so small and inches the plot slowly.
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Lenah is one of the oldest vampires with a coven at her beck and whim. But Lenah is slowly losing herself, her sanity, to age. She has just one wish...to turn human. She wants to live again: touch, taste, smell again. Rhode, her lover and the one who turned her, is going to help fulfill her wish at the cost of his own life.SPOILERS MAY BE BELOW (because when I rant I tend to let things slip)
A hundred years later Lenah finds herself waking up in an environment and a completely new society, but a ultimately a new school. With less than a day left with Rhoda prefer he parish, he teaches Lenah what he could about the new place and its expectations.
But the coven knows that Lenah is now human and they will track her then kill her. And they will not hesitate to use Justin, a guy that makes Lenah feel alive, to lure her.
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Have you ever lived on the edge? Where your highs reached the peaks of the mountains and your lows reached the depths of the ocean? That sums up Charlie quite nicely. Charlie's isn't what you could call the "best" customer service because his mouth gets the best of him at times—always speaking more than needed, and most of the time, more than he should. That's why when Charlie spots the most beautiful girl that he has ever seen, he just has to tell her that. Even if that means chasing her down the street and around the corner screaming at the top of his lungs "GIRL!"Freak Magnet starts out with a high: energetic, loud, in your face. Downhill it goes. The further the novel is read, the higher the peak reaches until the inevitable happens. Gravity finally takes over and things begin to fall down. This course narration reveals the depth of inner insanity. Self denial: I am fine, I am okay. But that denial crumbles with various shocks: the progression of the disease, or the meeting of Charlie. Pieces are hard to pick up—jagged, sharp pieces—that requires a careful touch. Something that only family that can pick up the first piece. Saddening, tender, and fitting so well with the general storyline, these two past and current stories brought a further depth into the tale.
Gloria should be used to this after all she's just a magnet for strangers. Strangers who come to her and hand her random things or just saying the oddest things. She likes to call them freaks. And Charlie is the next freak drawn to this magnet.
But things aren't as they appear. Charlie loves astronomy as a means of escaping reality. A reality where his mother has been diagnosed with Huntington's disease since he was the age of 7. And Gloria who continues to mark down her memories in poetry, cooping with her brother's death, and a mother who just does not understand her.
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There's only one way out of the mainland and that's to X Isle.Originally published in the UK, X Isle has crossed the small pond and into the hands of US readers. (However, the novel is still quite in its original format so there is still British slang and humor as well as single quotation marks rather than double.) Told in third-person limited narrative, X Isle tells of a dystopic world where the modern world has transcended backwards to the days without the Internet or electricity at that.
A flood overtook the world, killing both Baz's mother and sister, and billions of others in the world. It left towns, cities, and humans submerged underwater cutting the remaining few left alive with basic of basics. Now with just his father, Baz struggles to get by each day where everything has become scarce and pasta has become the newest form of currency. But the stench of the surrounding death and the harsh environment of thievery is too much to take care not only yourself, but a child at that. Now families send their sons to X Isle, a shortened name from Eck Island, where it is promised to a land of sanctuary compared to the mainland. The only way to get to X Isle is by boat when the crew stops every so often to trade goods.
The boys need to be small and thin and most barter for their voyage for the crew only picks up one, but usually none. They barter with rare items: fresh meat, cartridges, cornflakes, chocolate. The crew this time has asked to allot two boys for this trip to X Isle. The chosen two: Baz and Ray.
Now Baz takes this trip where he hopes will give him a brighter future. That is, before he dies. X Isle is not the land of the promising as Baz slowly realizes when the group of young boys on X Isle show him the ropes and the truth.
, Holes
(ironic in comparison with X Isle isn't it).
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It's a gorgeous, spacious mansion, and four handsome, fifteen-year-old friends are allowed to live in it for free! There's only one condition - that within three years the guys must transform the owner's wallflower niece into a lady befitting the palace in which they all live! How hard can it be?This series is being dragged to the pits of hell. It starts out promising, very extreme with the characters with the comedy hitting the right notes, but it's never-ending. The same scenario is used over and over again and it feels like the plot is going absolutely nowhere. With the same scenario, how does one expect any characters to develop? It doesn't happen is what! I made it to volume 18 or so, I am guessing, and had to call it quits. I am not seeing an ending in sight and there is nothing interesting to make me want to continue reading.
Enter Sunako Nakahara, the agoraphobic, horror-movie-loving, pockmark-faced, frizzy-haired, fashion-illiterate recluse who tends to break into explosive nosebleeds whenever she sees anyone attractive. This project is going to take more than our four heroes ever expected: it needs a miracle!"--from Del Ray
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by Naomi Rich
by Tanya Landman
by Bennett Madison
by Andy BehrensThe bright neon;Hazardous;Both design and font.Osculate
Bethany along with her sister Ivy and her brother Gabriel are sent from Heaven to the small town of Venus Core. It is their job to counteract the negativity, evil, and chaos in Venus Core that seemed to have increased over the years. However, both Gabriel and Ivy has had century’s worth of experience as a human and developed a more stoic, detached approach to the townspeople. Beth, on the other hand, is new to the confinements of the environment and its strange sights, textures, and tastes, becoming easily attached to companionship as well as relationships.Imagine a hatchling you are not allowed to dote on, but merely allowed to observe. You witness its naivety, its all consuming thoughts, and its curiosity. You will feel confused, irritated, and annoyed by this hatching, but it is young so a lot can be forgiven. This what I feel towards Bethany. Halo is the life of the hatchling just experiencing life and its mundane (to us at least) affairs. Alexandra Adornetto goes over the beyond when writing each scene, scrutinizing every detail. Like light, it shines throughout the room creating a fresh experience.
Xavier has faced a great deal of hardship over the past years leaving him an emotional barrier that cannot be pierced despite the many girls who tried. On the day Beth and Xavier meet at the beach, neither can get the other out of their mind. Beth starts to loose focus on her mission and plans to risk it all. But there’s an even bigger risk lurking in the shadows.
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Lori finally landed herself her dream Vader brother. But this new romance seems to be in jeopardy when their family believes that their minds are out of focus and their actions lean towards the foolish side. If asking them to give each other a little breathing room doesn’t work then the threat of military school will do the trick. But Lori will do anything to get back together even if it means that she will pretend to date the other Vader brother. Déjà vu anyone? And you know how the last one turned out!
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Faithful by Janet Fox tells of Maggie’s story as she travels halfway across the country to find her mother. A mother that disappeared one day that left both her father and her different. She is taken out of her comfort zone despite many of the townspeople not liking her mother therefore not her as well because she was not like the others—impulsive or somewhat sane. But Maggie wants to change all that with her debut, which is why she needs to find her mother and be back by August.Faithful was a book that took me quite a while to finish. Never a good sign. My main problem was Maggie, the novel’s protagonist and focal point. Another bad sign. She reminded me of someone I knew; constantly whining, moaning, or groaning about something or another. I typically am the listener to these “pity” stories and it just grates on your nerves sometime. Maggie or this person did not know what they truly wanted. If they did then they would have not complained about not having something and then complaining about it when they do eventually get it. There is no win-win situation for these types of personalities. Did Maggie mature? Some might say, ‘sure’. To me, it’s pushing it. Give anyone a big enough scare and they are bound to change.
However Maggie is in her a surprise because she may not be leaving Yellowstone after all. Her father’s business is in ruins and her grandparents have pretty much cut him off so he hopes to make a new life here. Maggie doesn’t want and the only way she can leave to return home is to marry her way out. Or will she make a name of herself by herself? And Tom—a man really who captured Maggie’s attention since the first time.
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Alona Dare died in her gym uniform. Tragic isn’t it? To top it all off she was killed by a bus—a bus of band geeks. Now she wakes up in the middle of the road where she died with cars and people stepping through her and around her (rude much?), but at least she will forever remembered at her peak in her high school life and stop worrying about the “what ifs” and “whens” she can ruin her life. That and the fact that almost everyone at school showed up to her funeral wearing black armbands with her name on it helps. But soon after waking up on the road again Alona realizes that no one is wearing the armbands…except for her best friend, Misty. Thank goodness for best friend. Not! Misty may be wearing her name but that is Alona’s boyfriend (ex now?) she’s sticking her tongue in. It turns out they have been doing this behind Alona’s back much longer than Alona realized. Now that she’s dead she cannot do anything about, no matter how much Alona wants to. Her life is now completely and utterly miserable.The Ghost and the Goth is told through alternating points of view, which adds to the level of awkwardness to the two people that I find sadistically satisfying. The novel is energetic and bubbly with enough sass and trauma to cut through the sweetness. The Ghost and the Goth may be cliché, but it is an addicting novel that I inhaled in 3 hours top.
With nothing stopping her she cries—snots and big lobs of tears and all; no one is going to see her now anyway. Except maybe Will Killian—the school’s gothic freak. But appearances are definitely not what they appear to be.
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Kujou Shin is the king of pessimist somehow relating anything said to him to him not be worthy of living. Kujou is unwillingly dragged into a war against an opposing rival who wants to become the next leader of Verde, a secret organization that controls the world. He is the successor of the white king as shown by an implemented eye with an ability called X-ray—able to see within the future and turning back time. It becomes a battle of chess, white king against black king with rooks, knights, and pawns to defend and fight them.I thought it was eventually high time that I review a Shounen manga. En Passant is a new manga so I have only read the first volume. So far it shows promise. There is a lot of fighting scenes, which is always fun to look at, and plenty of humorous scenes. I have little to go on though with the characters and plotline, and everything gets a bit confusing with the artwork not happening at times.
An alien life form on a mission to find the perfect book.
