Review: The DUFF by Kody Keplinger

Format Read: HardcoverNumber of Pages: Pages: 288 pagesRelease Date: September 7th 2010 Publisher:  Little Brown/PoppyFormat Available: Hardcover, Ebook, Audio BookPurchasing Info: Goodreads, Book Depository UK, Book Depository US, Amazon, Chapters Indigo

Book Blurb:

Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper is cynical and loyal, and she doesn’t think she’s the prettiest of her friends by a long shot. She’s also way too smart to fall for the charms of man-slut and slimy school hottie Wesley Rush. In fact, Bianca hates him. And when he nicknames her “Duffy,” she throws her Coke in his face.

But things aren’t so great at home right now. Desperate for a distraction, Bianca ends up kissing Wesley. And likes it. Eager for escape, she throws herself into a closeted enemies-with-benefits relationship with Wesley.

Until it all goes horribly awry. It turns out that Wesley …

Review: Frostbite by Richelle Mead

Format Read: Paperback
Number of Pages: 336 pages 
Release Date: 16 August 2007
Publisher: Razorbill Publishing
Formats Available: Hardback, Paperback, eBook
Source: my personal library
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Razorbill Publishing, Amazon, Book Depository US, Book Depository UK

Book Blurb: Rose Hathaway’s got serious guy trouble. Her gorgeous tutor Dimitri has his eye on someone else, her friend Mason has a huge crush on her, she keeps getting stuck in her best friend Lissa’s head while she’s making out with her boyfriend, Christian.

Then a massive Strigoi attack puts St. Vladmir’s on high alert, and the Academy crawls with Guardians-including the legendary Janine Hathaway… Rose’s formidable, long-absent mother. The Strigoi are closing in, and the Academy’s not taking any risks. This year, St. Vladmir’s holiday ski trip is mandatory.

But the glittering winter landscape and the posh Idaho resort only provide the illusion of safety. When three students run …

Review: Butterfly Swords by Jeannie Lin

Format Read: eARC from NetgalleyRelease Date: October 1st 2010Publisher: HarlequinFormats Available: eBook, Mass Market PaperbackPages: 288 pagesPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, GoodReads, Amazon, Book Depository UK, Book Depository US

Book Blurb:

Journey to the very edge of honor, loyalty . . . and love
During China’s infamous Tang Dynasty, a time awash with luxury, yet littered with deadly intrigues and fallen royalty, betrayed Princess Ai Li flees before her wedding.
Miles from home, with only her delicate butterfly swords for a defense, she enlists the reluctant protection of a blue-eyed warrior…
Battle-scarred, embittered Ryam has always held his own life at cheap value. Ai Li’s innocent trust in him and honorable, stubborn nature make him desperate to protect her – which means not seducing the first woman he has ever truly wanted….

My Thoughts:

This is a good example of why …

Review: Double Cross by Carolyn Crane

Format Read: ARC from the author for reviewNumber of Pages: 384 pages Release Date: September 28th 2010 Publisher: SpectraFormats Available: Paperback, ebook Purchasing Info: Author’s website, GoodReads, Amazon, Book Depository UK, Book Depository USBook Blurb:

SOME SECRETS COME BACK TO HAUNT. OTHERS COME TO KILL…

Justine Jones has lived her life as a fearful hypochondriac until she’s lured into the web of a mysterious mastermind named Packard. He gifts her with extraordinary mental powers-dooming her to fight Midcity’s shadowy war on paranormal crime in order to find the peace she so desperately craves.

But now, serial killers with unheard-of skills are terrorizing the most powerful beings in Midcity, including mastermind Packard – and his oldest friend and worst enemy, Midcity’s new mayor, who has the ability to bend matter itself to his will.

As the body …

Review: Breaking Chance by Kim Knox

Format Read: E-bookNumber of Pages: 103 pages Release Date: January 6th, 2010 Publisher: Samhain PublishingFormats Available: eBookPurchasing Info: Author Website,  Amazon, BooksOnBoard, Book Depository UK,

Book Blurb: 

What a girl wants and what a girl needs are sometimes two different things… For Melissa “Lucky” Chance, another stretch in Ganymede’s ice prison is nothing new. The flash-freeze that’s supposed to destroy her will only leaves her with an insatiable desire for the first hot body she lays eyes on. Except this time, she faces a death sentence. Her only hope of escape lies with the man known as The Butcher. John Ramius understands the logic behind his conviction as a criminally insane mass murderer. No man should have been able to slaughter over fifty men in as many minutes, but no one sees the underlying curse that compels him to …

Review: Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

Format Read: Paperback
Number of Pages: 336 pages 
Release Date: 16 August 2007
Publisher: Razorbill Publishing
Formats Available: Hardback, Paperback, eBook
Source: I won my copy at a blog contest
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Razorbill Publishing, Amazon, Book Depository US, Book Depository UK

Book Blurb: St. Vladimir’s Academy isn’t just any boarding school—it’s a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a Moroi Vampire Princess. They’ve been on the run, but now they’re being dragged back to St. Vladimir’s—the very place where they’re most in danger…


Rose and Lissa become enmeshed in forbidden romance, the Academy’s ruthless social scene, and unspeakable nighttime rituals. But they must be careful lest the Strigoi—the world’s fiercest and most dangerous vampires—make Lissa one of them forever.

My Thoughts: I kept hearing everywhere how everyone loves …

Review: Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord by Sarah MacLean

Format Read: E-ARC from NetGalley Number of Pages: 384 pages Release Date: October 26th 2010 Publisher: Avon Formats Available: Paperback, ebook Purchasing Info: Author’s website, GoodReads, Amazon, Book Depository UK, Book Depository US

Book Blurb:

Since being named on of London’s “Lords to Land” by a popular ladies’ magazine, Nicholas St. John has been relentlessly pursued by every matrimony-minded female in the ton. So when an opportunity to escape fashionable society presents itself, he eagerly jumps—only to land in the path of the most determined, damnably delicious woman he’s ever met!
The daughter of a titled wastrel, Lady Isabel Townsend has too many secrets and too little money. Though used to taking care of herself quite handily, her father’s recent passing has left Isabel at sea and in need of outside help to protect her …

Dual Review: Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone Parker

Author: Leanna Renee Hieber (sorry, didn’t fit in the title O_o)Format Read: Paperback received from teh author for reviewNumber of Pages: 320Release Date: May 27, 2010Publisher: Leisure BooksFormats Available: Paperback, ebookPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Amazon, Book Depository US, Book Depository UK, Goodreads

Book Blurb:

With radiant, snow white skin and hair, Percy Parker was a beacon for Fate. True love had found her, in the tempestuous form of Professor Alexi Rychman. But her mythic destiny was not complete. Accompanying the ghosts with which she alone could converse, new and terrifying omens loomed. A war was coming, a desperate ploy of a spectral host. Victorian London would be overrun. Yet, Percy kept faith. Within the mighty bastion of Athens Academy, alongside The Guard whose magic shielded mortals from the agents of the Underworld, she counted herself among …

Review. Where the Rain is Made by Keta Diablo

Format Read: eARC from the authorRelease Date: August 20, 2010 Publisher: Decadent PublishingFormats Available: eBookLength: 236 pagesPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, GoodReads, Amazon

Book Blurb:
A decadent-looking savage has captured Francesca DuVall and her brother, Marsh. Now she must spend every waking moment planning an escape. She didn’t count on the powerful draw of desire interfering with her scheme in the camp of the brutal Cheyenne dog soldiers.

Ethan Gray is a curator at a national museum…most of the time, but when he travels through time to help his beloved People he becomes Meko, leader of the most revered and feared tribe of the plains. Although their worlds are decades apart Meko can’t resist the dark beauty he kidnapped during a raid. He has many battles to fight but none he wants to win more than the one that will capture …

Review: Guardian of the Gate by Michelle Zink

Format Read: HardcoverNumber of Pages: 340Release Date: August 1, 2010Publisher: Little Brown Books for Young ReadersFormats Available: HardcoverPurchasing Info: Amazon, Book Depository US, Book Depository UK, Chapters Indigo Canada, Goodreads

Book Blurb:

The ultimate battle between sisters is nearing, and its outcome could have catastrophic consequences. As sixteen year-old Lia Milthorpe searches for a way to end the prophecy, her twin sister Alice hones the skills she’ll need to defeat Lia. Alice will stop at nothing to reclaim her sister’s role in the prophecy, and that’s not the only thing she wants: There’s also Lia’s boyfriend James.

Lia and Alice always knew the Prophecy would turn those closest to them against them. But they didn’t know what betrayal could lead them to do. In the end, only one sister will be left standing.

My thoughts:

This …