Shift by Jeri Smith-Ready (Shade #2) YA Paranormal May 3, 2011 Hardcover Simon Pulse Reviewed by Mandi Note: Spoilers for book one, Shade. Aura was born one minutes after the “Shift” occurred almost 18 years ago. The shift brought about the ability to see ghosts, if you were born after it. Otherwise, those born before the shift, like her love interest Zachary (who was born one minute before the shift) can not see ghosts. In book one, we watched as Aura’s rock n’ roll boyfriend Continue Reading
Review: Enclave by Ann Aguirre
Enclave (Razorland #1) by Ann Aguirre YA April 12, 2011 Hardcover Feiwell & Friends Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “Girl15 was dead. Long live Deuce.” Set in a post apocalyptic world, this dystopian novel takes us on a tense and mesmerizing journey through the eyes of a 15 year old girl- Deuce. Deuce, formerly known as Girl15, was born during the second Holocaust. She has survived her first 15 years of life and has earned the right to be named and to hunt. Born and Continue Reading
Review: The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter
The Goddess Test (Goddess Test #1) by Aimee Carter Paranormal YA April 19, 2011 Paperback Harlequin Teen Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “It was too late for happy endings. I was already dead.” In The Goddess Test, Aimee Carter takes Greek Mythology and the story of Persephone and revamps them into a modern day tale appropriate for teens. In here, Hades (Henry) is an immortal teenager who did not steal or trick Persephone into staying with him. It was an arranged marriage. Continue Reading
Review: Die For Me by Amy Plum
Die For Me (Revenants #1) by Amy Plum Paranormal YA May 10, 2011 Hardcover HarperTeen Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “You’re the one who took a bite of the apple Kate. Although with a serpent that handsome, I can’t say I blame you.” I was very surprised and pleased by how much I enjoyed Die For Me by Amy Plum. A very romantic and intriguing YA that captures the youthful voice of her characters exceptionally well without miring it down with the often present emo angst and ‘woe is Continue Reading
Review: Stay by Deb Caletti
Stay by Deb Caletti YA April 5, 2011 Hardcover Simon Pulse Reviewed by Tori BLURB: Clara’s relationship with Christian is intense from the start, and like nothing she’s ever experienced before. But what starts as devotion quickly becomes obsession, and it’s almost too late before Clara realizes how far gone Christian is—and what he’s willing to do to make her stay. Now Clara has left the city—and Christian—behind. No one back home has any idea where she is, but she still Continue Reading
Feature: Enclave by Ann Aguirre
I’m a big fan of Ann Aguirre’s work - both her Sirantha Jax series and the Skin series under her pen name Ava Gray. Today Ann Aguirre breaks into the YA world with her new release, Enclave. (Book one of her new Razorland series.) This book looks pretty awesome and I look forward to reading it! The Blurb: In Deuce’s world, people earn the right to a name only if they survive their first fifteen years. By that point, each unnamed ‘brat’ has trained into one of three Continue Reading
Review: Falling Under by Gwen Hayes
Falling Under by Gwen Hayes (Falling Under #1) Paranormal YA March 1, 2011 Trade Paperback New American Library Reviewed by Mandi When Theia Alderson sees a burning man falling from the sky into her yard one night, her life as she knows it is over. Theia is seventeen, and lives a very sheltered life. Her mother died at her birth and her father is not only extremely strict, but makes her live a very oppressed, careful lifestyle – blaming her mother’s reckless carefree ways for her Continue Reading
Review: Dark Mirror by M.J. Putney
Dark Mirror (Dark Passage #1) by M.J. Putney YA Paranormal March 1, 2011 Paperback St. Martin’s Griffin Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “That is the definition of true courage. Being frightened, yet still doing what is right.” Lady Victoria (Tory) Mansfield has an enviable life as the youngest daughter of the Earl and Countess of Fairmount. But when a twist of fate reveals Tory has magical abilities she is exiled to Lackland Abbey; a reform school for those like her. At Continue Reading
Review: Darkness Becomes Her by Kelly Keaton
Darkness Becomes Her (Gods & Monsters #1) by Kelly Keaton YA Paranormal February 22, 2011 Hardcover, 288 Pages Simon Pulse Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “I want vengeance.” Ari has always felt alone and different; be it her strange colored eyes or her long silver hair that cannot be be cut or changed. When she sets out to find out about her birth mother, she discovers a whole new world filled with vampires, a vengeful goddesses, and a prophesy that changes her life Continue Reading
Review: Angelfire by Courtney Allison Moulton
Angelfire (Angelfire, #1) by Courtney Allison Moulton Paranormal YA February 15, 2011 Hardcover, 464 Pages Katherine Tegen Books Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “I guess true love does make you blind.” “No...true love doesn’t make you blind. It paralyzes you until you can’t breathe or run away from it.” Ellie is your average teenager; hanging with her friends, despairing about school, and waiting for her 17th birthday to arrive. But when the monsters in Ellie’s nightmares Continue Reading