Review: A Season of Eden by J.M Warick

Format Read: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 234Release Date: 20 October 2008Publisher: Grove Creek PublishingFormats Available: Paperback, EbookPurchasing Info:  Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon, Book Depository.com, Book Depository.co.uk

Book Blurb:

HE’S MY TEACHER. I SHOULDN’T BE ALONE WITH HIM. BUT I CAN’T HELP THAT HE’S IRRESISTIBLE.I let the door silently close at my back. He stared at me, and a taut quiet stretched between us.“I like hearing you play,” I said, moving toward him.He turned, in sync with my slow approach. He looked up at me but didn’t say anything. I rested my clammy hand on the cold, slick body of the baby grand. “May I?”The muscles in his throat shifted, then he swallowed. “Eden.”My knees weakened, like a soft tickling kiss had just been blown against …

Review: Tracking the Tempest by Nicole Peeler

Format Read: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 348Release Date: 1 July 2010Publisher: OrbitFormats Available: Paperback, EbookPurchasing Info:  Author’s Website, Goodreads, BookDepository.com,   BookDepository.co.uk, Amazon,

Book Blurb:

JANE TRUE HAS ALMOST COME TO TERMS WITH HER SUPERNATURAL HERITAGE…ALMOST.

Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and Ryu – Jane’s bloodsucking boyfriend – can’t let a major holiday go by without getting all gratuitous. An overwhelming dose of boyfriend interference and a last-minute ticket to Boston later, and Jane’s life is thrown off course.
Ryu’s well-intentioned plans create mayhem, and Jane winds up embroiled in an investigation involving a spree of gruesome killings. All the evidence points towards another Halfling, much to Jane’s surprise…

My Thoughts:

Back into the crazy world of Jane True, and the story is only getting better. Our story picks up about four months on since …

All YA Love: My Favourite YA Couples + a winner

Before I talk about this weeks topic we have a winner to proclaim. The winner of Birthmarked  by Caragh M. O’Brian is….
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Giada M
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When I think of my favourite couples in YA, it’s not because of their hotness, kick-ass status or sheer awesomeness. The perfect couple in YA is a mature one, and one that betters both parties. One sidedness in anything doesn’t work for me, and lack of growth or change doesn’t work either.

Which is why I have picked the following couples, they went in either broken or lost and came out whole with a partner that not only complimented them, but helped them to become a better person.

Alex and Brittany – Perfect Chemistry

A perfect example, and …

Review: Midnight Pearls by Debbie Viguie

Format Read: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 198Release Date: 24 October 2006Publisher: Simon PulseFormats Available: PaperbackPurchasing Info:  Author’s Website, Goodreads, BookDepository US, BookDepository UK, Amazon,

Book Blurb:

In a quiet fishing village, one lone fisherman rescued a child from the sea seventeen years ago. He and his wife raised the girl, Pearl, as their own daughter, never allowing themselves to wonder long about where she came from — or notice her silver hair, usually pale skin, and wide, dark blue eyes.

Pearl grows from a mysterious child into an unusual young woman, not always welcomed in the village. As all the other girls her age find husbands, …

Review: Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma

Format Read: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 418Release Date: 27 MayPublisher: DefinitionsFormats Available: PaperbackPurchasing Info:  Author’s Website, Goodreads, BookDepository US, BookDepository UK, Amazon,Book Blurb: 

“You’ve always been my best friend, my soul mate, and now I’ve fallen in love with you too. Why is that such a crime?”

She is pretty and talented – sweet sixteen and never been kissed.
He is seventeen, gorgeous and on the brink of a bright future.
And now they have fallen in love. But…
They are brother and sister.

My Thoughts:

Warning: This book is NOT suitable for younger teens.

That was possibly the most horrifyingly moving book I have ever read.

The Whitely kids don’t have it easy. …

Review: White Cat by Holly Black

Format Read: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 310Release Date: 4 MayPublisher: GollanczFormats Available: Hardcover, PaperbackPurchasing Info:  Author’s Website; Goodreads; BookDepository US, BookDepository UK, Amazon,

I purchased this book with my own funds

Book Blurb:

CASSEL IS CURSED

Cursed by the memory of the fourteen year old girl he murdered. Life at school is a constant trial. Life at home even worse. No-one at home is ever going to forget that Cassel is a killer. No-one at home is ever going to forget that he isn’t a magic worker. And now he is being haunted by a white cat…

Cassel’s family are magic workers. Ever since magic was prohibited in 1929 magic workers have been …

Review: Twilight: The Graphic Novel Vol1 by Stephanie Meyer, Young Kim

Format Read: HardcoverNumber of Pages: 224Release Date: 16 March 2010Publisher: Yen PressFormats Available: HardcoverPurchasing Info:  Author’s Website; Goodreads; BookDepository.com, BookDepository.co.uk, Amazon,

I purchased this book with my own funds Book Blurb:

I’ve never given much thought to how I would die – though I’d had reason to in the last few months…
Surely it was a good way to die…in the place of someone else, someone I love.

When Isabella Swan moves to the gloomy town of Forks and meets the mysterious, alluring Edward Cullen, her life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. With his porcelain skin, golden eyes, mesmerizing voice, and supernatural gifts, Edward is both irresistible and impenetrable. Up until now, he has managed to keep …

Review: Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

Format Read: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 326Release Date: 1st May 2001Publisher: GollanczFormats Available: Paperback, EbookPurchasing Info:  Author’s Website; Goodreads; BookDepository.com, BookDepository.co.uk, Amazon,

Book Blurb:

Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She’s quiet, keeps to herself, and doesn’t get out much. Not because she’s not pretty. She is. It’s just that, well, Sookie has this sort of ‘disability’. She can read minds. And that doesn’t make her too dateable. And then along comes Bill. He’s tall, dark, handsome – and Sookie can’t ‘hear’ a word he’s thinking. He’s exactly the kind of guy she’s been waiting for all her life.

But Bill has a disability of his own: He’s a vampire. Worse than that, hangs with a seriously creepy crowd, …

All YA Love: Why I love the Vampire Academy Series

Now I will be honest with you, I never really pictured myself as a YA reader, sure, I read Twilight a couple of years ago and it was ok with its whole high school love thing, but it was a little too teenagery for my tastes.
I was put off not only by YA but by reading after that, not Twilight but The Host (which isn’t YA, I know), I hadn’t picked up a book in 10 months and I was going through a pretty rough patch life wise until one relatively normal day, I was on a holiday in north Queensland for a few weeks and I walked into their smaller of only two newsagencies. This newsagency was a reseller for Angus and Robertson (Australia’s version of Barnes and Noble) and there on the shelf was a set of three …

Review: Stray by Rachel Vincent

Format Read: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 618Release Date: 1st June 2010Publisher: MiraFormats Available: Paperback, EbookPurchasing Info:  Author’s Website; Goodreads; BookDepository.com, BookDepository.co.uk, Amazon,Book Blurb:

I look like an all-American grad student. But I am a werecat, a shape-shifter, and I live in two worlds.

Despite reservations from my family and my Pride, I escaped the pressure to continue my species and carved out a normal life for myself. Until the night a Stray attacked.

I’d been warned about Strays – werecats without a Pride, constantly on the lookout for someone like me: attractive, female and fertile. I fought him off, but then learned two of my fellow tabbies had disappeared.
This brush with danger was all my Pride needed to summon me back… for my own protection. Yeah, right. But …