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Book Review: Through Her Eyes
Media Type: Print Book Title: Through Her Eyes Author: Jennifer Archer Publisher: HarperTeen Pages: Hardcover; 384 Release Date: April 5, 2011 Source: Received for promotional book tour. ———————————————— Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Just Kissing! ———————————————— HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love a good ghost story mixed with some sweet romance. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Sixteen-year-old Tansy Piper moves with her grandfather and her mother, a horror writer, to the setting of her mother’s next book–a secluded house outside of a tiny, desolate West Texas town. Lonely and upset over the move,…
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Book Review: Love Ya Like A Sister
If you want something done right, then do it yourself. At least, that’s what people say. But does that include having three girlfriends at the same time–and stealing a car? Life is simple for Randy: 1) he loves his girlfriend and 2) he likes his motorcycle. And even if he really likes his motorcycle and only thinks he’s pretty sure he loves his girlfriend, it’s still the same difference. Easy to know, easy to think about. Then Randy’s life gets complicated. In one week he makes friends with a senior girl and her five-year-old sister, his girlfriend dumps him, and…
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Book Review: Chasing Alliecat
Each comment on this review raises $1 for charity, courtesy of Rebecca Fjelland Davis. For further information, and to enter the giveaway, see this post. Sadie Lester has been dumped with relatives for the summer. Boredom seems inevitable in her small Minnesota town until she meets Allie—a spiky-haired off-road biker with incredible grace and speed. Training for the upcoming bike race, Allie leads Sadie and cute fellow cyclist Joe up and down Mount Kato—an exhilarating rush that pushes their limits. The fun ends abruptly when they stray off the trail and find a priest, badly beaten and near death. After…
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Book Review: When Colors Bleed
WHEN COLORS BLEED is a collection of short stories by the author of ARSON. This collection features three unique stories with universal themes of love, loss, and regret. Watch the colors bleed. –See more at Goodreads Intended Reading Group: Upper YA/Adult Content Screening: Adult themes like death, love and loss. However there is no inappropriate language or anything that is outrightly graphic. *** Cover Inspection: Totally dark and brooding. I thought it matched the title perfectly. First Thoughts: I didn’t glance long enough to see this wasn’t YA so when the character in the first story was 23 I did…
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Book Review: Kat, Incorrigible
Twelve-year-old Kat Stephenson may be the despair of her social-climbing Step-Mama, but she was born to be a magical Guardian and protector of Society–if she can ever find true acceptance in the secret Order that expelled her own mother. She’s ready to turn the hidebound Order of the Guardians inside-out, whether the older members like it or not. And in a society where magic is the greatest scandal of all, Kat is determined to use all her powers to help her three older siblings–saintly Elissa, practicing-witch Angeline, and hopelessly foolish Charles–find their own true loves, even if she has to…
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Book Review: Nickel Plated
Nickel is a survivor. He has to be. For as long as he can remember, his life has hinged on the flip of a coin. Or, rather, the scribble of a social worker’s pen. He’s been through the system, even had a good dad for a few years, until he was gone, too. But Nickel remembers everything he taught him, and since the day he escaped from foster-care hell, he’s put that knowledge to good use. Just twelve years old, he makes a steady living by selling marijuana to high schoolers, blackmailing pedophiles he ferrets out online, and working as…
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Book Review: In the Storm
Abandoned by the world around her, Carly believes she is fated to a life of torment at the hands of her stepfather and is desperate for an escape. When she can bear the abuse no longer and gives in to a thunderous rage, she suddenly finds herself in an unfamiliar, yet beautiful, storm world. This limbo between dimensions appears to be her private sanctuary, but it may just be her purgatory. No one escapes fate without sacrifice, but is the price more than Carly is willing to pay? –From Goodreads Cover Inspection: This cover actually drew me in right away…
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Book Review: The Opposite of Amber
They found the fifth girl right after the snow melted …the place where he left her was winter water, crazed with ice-feathers and dusted with snow. The traces from her body were gone, the ones that said his name, but she had an extra skin of ice that protected her and she looked perfect, like Snow White’. Ruby and her older sister Jinn live together on their own, just about making ends meet. Jinn is beautiful, with glittering blonde hair, and makes it her business to look after Ruby. They are horrified by, but try to ignore, the local newspaper…
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Book Review: Angelology
Media Type: Print Book Title: Angelology Author: Danielle Trussoni Publisher: Penguin Pages: Paperback; 480 Release Date: February 22, 2011 Source: TLC Book Tours ————————————- Intended Reading Group: Adult Genre: Historical Fiction ————————————- HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy biblical themes. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Librarything / Amazon / B&N When Sister Evangeline of the St. Rose Convent stumbles across a mysterious correspondence with Abigail Rockefeller in the archive, it reveals that angels once walked among us…and might still. This discovery plunges Evangeline into the hidden and dangerous world of the Angelologists – a secret society that…
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Book Review: I Am J
“Hola, Jeni.” J spun. His stomach clenched hard, as though he’d been hit. It was just the neighbor lady, Mercedes. J couldn’t muster a hello back, not now; he didn’t care that she’d tell his mom he’d been rude. She should know better. Nobody calls me Jeni anymore. J always felt different. He was certain that eventually everyone would understand who he really was: a boy mistakenly born as a girl. Yet as he grew up, his body began to betray him; eventually J stopped praying to wake up a “real boy” and started covering up his body, keeping himself…