I have to say, I am being a little bit generous with the rating. The only reason why I am giving the book three stars is because there were certain scenes throughout the book (mainly, toward the end) that were actually well-written, and even pretty creepy.I had high expectations for the book, whi...
I had a lot of issues conserning this book. The first and most obvious one is the insta friendship around which the whole plot rolls around. If there weren't Lindsay's irritating desire to protect her new best friend Julie, who is really mean towards Lindsay most of the time, this book wouldn't h...
As a huge fan of the show, I was eager to read this novel and I wanted nothing more than to love it because Teen Wolf has been one of my favourite shows for a long time. I'll be honest, I liked it, but I didn't LOVE it. Maybe I had exceedingly high expectations for this book because of my love fo...
This is most certainly a tie-in novel. By which I mean, it's hampered by the need to fit seamlessly between episodes of the TV show without altering the status quo of any characters, and it has to rely on the tidbits of information the author has been given about the characters' back stories tha...
Didn't like this one as much as the first. How someone freshly off a breakdown could survive the wacked out world she was inhabiting on NO sleep and be any sort of functional blows my mind. It seemed she spent a lot of time crying and screaming and acting screwy, but she still seemed to attract...
Okay, well I finally finished this trilogy and I do not know where to begin. Crusader was really good and had so much promise in it, that I was determined to read the other installments. Damned lower the star rating by a lot, it was simply a hot mess. Now, Vanquished. Vanquished was more than a h...
In May 1756 war is formally declared between the British and the French. During this highly dangerous time, Isabella Sevens is travelling with her father to the British stronghold Fort William Henry. In the forest, Wusamequin, the young and handsome medicine man, looks to avenge the death of his ...
Pretty Little DevilsBy Nancy Holder256 pp. New York, New York. Razorbill, $14.99ISBN: 1-59514-030-1ttMost realistic fiction novels, such as The Clique, are the same; they have the same boring plot. You can tell how the story is going to end and the characters are boring and dull. If you’re intere...
"ONCE UPON A TIME" IS TIMELESSWhen Rose's mother dies, her only comfort is the exquisite rose garden her mother left behind. The purple blossoms serve as an assurance of her mother's love. But Rose is dealt a second blow when her father dies and his greedy widow, Ombrine, and her daughter, Desiré...
They drove in his truck, taking great pains to make sure they weren’t followed by going offroad, doubling back, and never moving in a straight line toward the Madre Vena silver mine. It didn’t matter too much if they were being followed. The lair of the Hellhound was where they would convene shor...
Trick asked when he showed up on the front porch in the morning. His long-sleeved black T-shirt was pushed up to his elbows, and his forearms were muscled and heavily veined, like an athlete’s. Trick was not some malnourished romantic poet. A solid guy stood before her, with great shoulders and a...
Something skittered across her cheek. There was a growl. I’m alive. Morgan’s lids fluttered as she forced them open. Shadows, darkness. She was a ball of pain. She heard another growl, low and menacing, and by some miracle she rolled onto her side; from there, very slowly, she forced herself onto...
With my deepest admiration and gratitude. Love is a given, hatred is acquired. —--DANIEL H ORTON CHAPTER ONE “"Fight,”" Grace told the boy, as he slipped further and further away from her. Definite drive-by. Probable DOA. Dead on arrival. Sixteen, maybe, and his life was nearly ov...
The handsome captain had visited Ruth hours ago. They had talked about her harrowing experience, and about Stephen, though she hadn’t meant to. Most embarrassing, she must have dozed off in his presence. Cool breezes had washed over her from the open porthole when she awakened to the night, with ...
Heather was angry, too, which Cat could understand, except that Cat was angry with her. “I told you to go home,” Cat yelled at her. “And not only did you not listen to me, you brought a felon with you!” “He’s not a felon,” Heather shot back. Then she flushed. “Well, okay, except for murdering two...
Jer was dead. His father had evidently escaped, and his brother . . . who knew where Eli had gone, in the grasp of that enormous bird? Now the members of Jer’s circle, together with Holly’s, had come to empty ashes into Eliott Bay. They had no idea if they were his ashes; the entire theater had b...
Fingertips brushed my hair off my forehead and cupped my cheek. It was Memmy. As soon as she knew I was awake, she’d bring me chicken noodle soup and a turkey sandwich with the crusts cut off. She’d read aloud to me: “The woods are lovely, dark, and deep . . . ” We’d listen to Beethoven’s “Ode to...
The two fell over each other’s sentences as each attempted to one-up the other, currying Anatoly’s favor. One was his nephew and one was his protégée. Svetlana was much smarter than Ilya, but Ilya was blood. On the other hand, Svetlana had talents that extended beyond murder and mayhem.Anatoly wa...
In an even voice Patty told them about the weird guy who had stopped by her window to tell her that the Fourth Cataclysm was coming, and then about the graffiti artist she chased off, the sparks in the tunnel, the device that exploded, and then she finally got around to the ghost. The latter sent...
Dinner at Cushing Manor was to be a grand affair. The fragrant scents of meat and wine tantalized Thomas’s senses as he and Lucille prepared to enter the dining room. The atmosphere was charged with the same excitement that had accompanied his demonstration this afternoon, and he knew that, at la...
Mumbai: Eli Fantasme, the exquisite falcon familiar that had served House Deveraux for nearly a thousand years, wheeled above the Tower of Silence, where the corpse of a young girl rotted in the sun. Eli had watched the pallbearers carrying it into the stone structure. Hanging vines and brilliant...
Then again, it was so hard to tell. Her eyes were bright... she could have a fever, or one of the hell-beasts in her could be ascendant . She wasn’t drooling on herself … maybe she’s dehydrated. She had actually managed to eat some food on her own … she got more on her face than in her mouth. He ...
I SAID, and opened my eyes. Across the desk, Dr. Morehouse gave me a concerned-therapist face. “Better?” he asked. I paused, and checked. Celia’s frenzy was over. So was mine. I felt calm and relaxed. Safe. And not quite so wounded. &nbs...
The tension was thick; Ham was still angry that she’d taken Butch with her last night, and she just wasn’t going to go there. She’d apologized even though she didn’t really think she needed to. She and Butch had run into each other, period, the end. Ham wouldn’t be half this bent out of shape if ...
She groaned, turned over, and covered her head with her pillow, but it was no good. Her brain was engaged, puzzling the few clues she and Tess had gathered about Angelo DeMarco’s disappearance, then shifting to pondering her father’s. Her heart thudded as if it were revving up to normal speed thr...
His lips pressed against hers and he gasped, then he eased his tongue into her mouth. Pleasurable explosions burst at the small of her back and fanned out everywhere — her toes, her cheeks, the top of her head. She couldn’t believe how good it felt, but it went beyond physical sensation to a swee...
Search parties traced the coach’s route from the castle to the château. Then he purified himself in the baths, receiving absolution from the priests of Zeus for the death of his enemy. Perfumed and oiled, he dressed in his robes of state and stole away to the mausoleum, where the effigy of Lucien...
We cast down the scourge of humanity, and inherit the earth. This is our holy calling, and our crusade.—from the diary of the Unnamed,sire of the Vampire KingdomPAMPLONA, SPAIN TEAM SALAMANCA: JENN AND ANTONIO, SKYE AND HOLGAR, AND JAMIE AND ERIKO“Prepare for battle! Spare all innocents!” Jenn sh...