Review: Whisper by Chelsea M. Cameron, Prophecy Girl (Lacuna Valley) by Faith McKay, Heir to the Underworld by ED Walker

Posted by bkristin on Nov 14th, 2012 in reviews | 0 comments Review: Whisper by Chelsea M. Cameron Anna can hear the dead and finds that she needs to help them on their way. When a new dead guy named Jack comes along, he does not want to be helped on his way and instead makes plan to stick around for a long time. Unfortunately for Anna, there is the problem that Jack becomes more and more appealing the longer he stays. When she is found talking to thin air, her parents medicate and threaten to institutionalize her. There were several plot lines threaded together in this story. First off is the relationship between Anna and Jack and learning the truth of her...

Review: Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore

Posted by bkristin on Nov 9th, 2012 in reviews | 0 comments Review: Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore Bitterblue is now eighteen and queen.  Unfortunately she is left a great mess to clean up by her dead father, crazy King Leck. To make matters worse, she is kept busy in her office from morning to night will all the new orders she must go over and sign. Can she pull her kingdom back together before her own people start to revolt like the kingdoms around her? I like the style of Cashore’s writing. I find it easy to read even when thing diverge into information that is not completely relevant to the plot. It is still fun to read all the side details.  The plot...

Review : Winter’s Awakening by Karen Luellen

Posted by bkristin on Nov 7th, 2012 in reviews | 0 comments Review: Winter’s Awakening by Karen Luellen Meg, along with her brother’s find out the reason they were homeschooled and kept from the world. For their entire lives, they have been hunted by a lab that created them to be super humans. Their mother saved them, yet now it is time to return the favor. This book was different in that all the chapters jumped around from different points of view. There was the view point of Margo, Meg, Mr. Williams and they switched between first person with Meg to third person with everyone else. I was a very different style book that took some reading to get...

Review: Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

Posted by bkristin on Oct 19th, 2012 in reviews | 0 comments Review: Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater Grace had been watching the wolves behind her house for years. When a naked boy with a gunshot wound arrives on her steps, her suspicions are confirmed. She recognized one set of eyes through all of the years. Her wolf was really an eighteen year old boy. And now that they met, they want to find  a way to make him human, as this is the last time he will shift to a human form. In book 2 Sam is cured and life would be good for Grace and Sam, but there are now a lot of new wolves in the forest. Sam and Grace wait as spring approaches to meet the new wolves in their...

Review : All Hallows’ Moon, Long Night Moon, and Grey Moon Rising by SM Reine

Posted by bkristin on Oct 17th, 2012 in reviews | 0 comments Review: All Hallows’ Moon, Long Night Moon, and Grey Moon Rising by SM Reine Starting over after becoming a werewolf is hard to do if your hunter boyfriend and his family move to town. Rylie tries to make things work, but Seth’s mother is too set to destroy the wolf in town no matter what her son thinks or wants. Reines style again was an easy read. I enjoy a book that is easy to follow and the author answers all your questions as they come up. In this story Seth’s mother is the villain and to some extent his brother Abel. We are introduced to the villain at the beginning of the...

Review: Midnight City by J. Barton Mitchell

Posted by bkristin on Oct 12th, 2012 in reviews | 0 comments Review: Midnight City by J. Barton Mitchell In this sci-fi dystopian world, all of the adults are gone and the children are left to run the world. Holt is a bounty hunter with a price on his head but with a way out- if he can actually catch and keep the wanted Mira. Unfortunately, along the way, Holt and Mira find a child that changes everything. Now can they actually accomplish their goals to be free and keep the child safe at the same time. This book is a well thought out world. The author piles down layer after layer in this future world filled with aliens and children. There are complicated...