Buy on Amazon City of Ashes (Mortal Instruments) By: Cassandra Clare Published by: Margaret K. McElderry ISBN: 1416972242 Genre: YA Pages: 496 Author’s Website: http://cassandraclare.com Author’s Twitter: http://twitter.com/cassieclare Series website: www.mortalinstruments.com Recommendable for people who: people who like fantasy, action, angels, demons, vampires, etc Synopsis(from mortalinstruments.com ): Clary Fray just wishes that her life would go back to normal. But what’s normal when you’re a demon-slaying Shadowhunter, your mother is in a magically induced coma, and you can suddenly see Downworlders like werewolves, vampires, and faeries? If Clary left the…
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Priest | Viewing and Movie Review
Last night I snuck off with my bff after dinner and headed to the movies. Something we haven’t done in FOREVER. We had both seen the trailer for Priest and were dying to see it. So we ditched the kids with my Mr and headed off for some theatrical excitement. =D We got our tickets, and the bff got her popcorn (which she later dumped in her purse, haha), and the little usher guy that shows you to your theater THANKED us for picking something different. I guess everyone else…
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Bunny’s book review of City of Bones by Cassandra Clare Buy on Amazon City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, Book 1) By: Cassandra Clare Published by: Margaret K. McElderry Books Released On: 2008-02-19 ISBN: 9781416955078 Pages: 485 Genre: YA Author’s Website: http://cassandraclare.com Author’s Twitter: http://twitter.com/cassieclare Series website: www.mortalinstruments.com Format of Review Copy: Paperback Source: Purchase Recommendable for people who enjoy: people who like fantasy, action, angels, demons, vampires, etc BUY IT USED Synopsis (from mortalinstruments.com ): When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she…
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Buy on Amazon Sisters Red By: Jackson Pearce Published by: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers ISBN: 9780316068673 Genre: fiction, ya Pages: 352 Author’s Website: www.jackson-pearce.com Author’s Twitter: http://twitter.com/JacksonPearce/ Author’s Facebook: HERE Recommendable for people who: enjoy action, paranormal, werewolves, fairytales Visit the SISTERS RED microsite! Read the first 40 pages! Synopsis: Scarlett March lives to hunt the Fenris– the werewolves that took her eye when she was defending her sister Rosie from a brutal attack. Armed with a razor-sharp hatchet and blood-red cloak, Scarlett is an expert at luring…
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Buy on Amazon Living Dead Girl By: Elizabeth Scott Published by: Simon Pulse ISBN: 1416960600 Genre: fiction Pages: 176 Author’s Website: http://elizabethwrites.com/ Author’s Twitter: http://twitter.com/escottwrites Author’s Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/elizabethwrites Recommendable for people who: Enjoy drama, thriller, “realistic horror” if that makes sense… *not for younger teens* Browse Inside this book: HERE Awards and Nominations ALA Best Books For Young Adults , ALA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, CCBC Choices (Cooperative Children’s Book Council) Garden State Teen Book Award Nominee (NJ) Iowa High School Book Award Master List IRA Young…
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Buy on Amazon Before I Fall By: Lauren Oliver Published by: HarperCollins ISBN: 006172680X Genre: YA, Fiction Pages: 480 Author’s Website: http://laurenoliverbooks.blogspot.com Author’s Twitter: http://twitter.com/OliverBooks Author on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/laurenoliverbooks Recommendable for people who: want to cry! lol Awards won: Goodreads Choice Award for Young Adult Fiction, Debut Author, Nominee for Goodreads Author, Favorite Heroine (2010), YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults (2011), RT Reviewers’ Choice Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Paranormal/Fantasy Novel (2010), Publishers Weekly’s Best Children’s Books of the Year for Fiction (2010) Synopsis (from authors site):…
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Buy on Amazon Grave Secret (Harper Connelly Mysteries, Book 4) By: Charlaine Harris Published by: Berkley Hardcover ISBN: 9780425230152 Genre: Mystery, Paranormal Pages: 320 Author’s Website: http://www.charlaineharris.com/ Recommendable for people who: Enjoy suspense, mystery, paranormal, and/or ghost stories. Synopsis: Lightning-struck sleuth Harper Connelly and her stepbrother Tolliver take a break from looking for the dead to visit the two little girls they both think of as sisters. But, as always happens when they travel to Texas, memories of their horrible childhood resurface. To make matters worse, Tolliver learns from…
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Get Yours on Amazon An Ice Cold Grave (Harper Connelly Mysteries, Book 3) By: Charlaine Harris ISBN: 0425217299 Published by: Berkley Prime Crime Genre: Mystery, Paranormal Pages: 280 Author’s Website: http://www.charlaineharris.com/ Recommendable for people who: Enjoy suspense, mystery, paranormal, and/or ghost stories. Synopsis {from Penguin’s website}: Hired to find a boy gene missing in Doraville, North Carolina, Harper Connelly and her brother Tolliver head there, only to discover that the boy was the only one left of several who had disappeared over the previous five years. All of them…
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Buy on Amazon The Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer By: Lucy Weston Published by: Gallery ISBN: 143919033X Genre: fiction Pages: 320 Author’s Website: Author’s Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lucy.weston.vampire FAQ: Lucy Weston was a character in Bram Stokers Dracula. Synopsis: Sovereign Power. Eternal Pleasure. Revealed at last in this new vampire saga for the ages: the true, untold story of the "Virgin Queen" and her secret war against the Vampire King of England. . . . On the eve of her coronation, Elizabeth Tudor is summoned to the tomb of her…
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Grave Sight (Harper Connelly Mysteries, Book 1) By: Charlaine Harris 0425212890 Published by: Berkley Genre: Pages: 310 Author’s Website: http://www.charlaineharris.com Recommendable for people who like: Supernatural, Murder, Mystery, Thriller Synopsis: Harper Connelly has what you might call a strange job: she finds dead people. She can sense the final location of a person who’s passed, and share their very last moment. The way Harper sees it, she’s providing a service to the dead while bringing some closure to the living – but she’s used to most people treating her…
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