Mistress Mary is quite contrary until she helps her garden grow. Along the way, she manages to cure her sickly cousin Colin, who is every bit as imperious as she. These two are sullen little peas in a pod, closed up in a gloomy old manor on the Yorkshire moors of England, until a locked-up… Continue reading Book Eight of 2013: THE SECRET GARDEN by Frances Hodgson Burnett
If you are reading my reviews, you can probably see a trend in what I read the most. Yep, I read a lot of Young Adult Paranormal fiction. It might be because that's the field I want to write in, but let's be honest, it can sometimes be tiring not reading something else. And so,… Continue reading Something Fun and New
With Heartsick, Chelsea Cain took the crime world by storm, introducing two of the most compelling characters in decades: serial killer Gretchen Lowell and her obsessed pursuer Portland Detective Archie Sheridan. The book spent four weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and garnered rave reviews around the world. But the riveting story of Archie and Gretchen… Continue reading Book Six of 2013: SWEETHEART by Chelsea Cain
Just when she thought the dreams couldn't get any stranger, Ariel Donovan is transported in her sleep to Dark. A dog barks, and she knows she must heed his call. During the journey, she finds what she lost long ago, and discovers how important it is in her quest to outsmart the Thornhill Society...before it's… Continue reading Book Five of 2013: LUMINOSITY by Abigail Boyd
Last year, Ariel's life was ripped apart. She's finally started to put the pieces together again, and is looking forward to summer break. That's when a dream brings her back to the mysterious Dexter Orphanage. With the return of an unlikely person in her life, Ariel begins to find out answers to the secrets that plagued… Continue reading Book Four of 2013: UNCERTAINTY by Abigail Boyd
Haruhi holds the fate of the universe in her hands . . . lucky for you she doesn't know it. Meet Haruhi - a cute, determined girl, starting high school in a city where nothing exciting happens and absolutely no one understands her. Meet Kyon - the sarcastic guy who sits behind Haruhi in homeroom and the… Continue reading Book Three of 2013: THE MELANCHOLY OF HARUHI SUZUMIYA by Nagaru Tanigawa
Hopelessly crossed in love, a boy of half-fairy parentage leaves his mundane Victorian-English village on a quest for a fallen star in the magical realm. The star proves to be an attractive woman with a hot temper, who plunges with our hero into adventures featuring witches, the lion and the unicorn, plotting elf-lords, ships… Continue reading Book Two of 2013: STARDUST by Neil Gaiman
Kate Winters has won immortality. But if she wants a life with Henry in the Underworld, she'll have to fight for it.Becoming immortal wasn't supposed to be the easy part. Though Kate is about to be crowned Queen of the Underworld, she's as isolated as ever. And despite her growing love for Henry, ruler of… Continue reading Book One of 2013: GODDESS INTERRUPTED by Aimee Carter
War with their archrival, the evil Ansara clan, is unavoidable. For Mercy Raintree, a war means she must assume her position as guardian of the Sanctuary--the sacred Raintree home place deep in the Smoky Mountains. But doing so threatens to disclose her most prized secret--one Mercy has kept to herself for six years. As… Continue reading Book Twenty-five of 2012: SANCTUARY by Beverly Barton
THEIR NAME IS RAINTREE. It's more than a last name; more than a notation on a family tree. It's a mark of destiny. Each family member has a special gift, an otherworldly talent. Gideon Raintree, a homicide detective, can harness electricity and talk to ghosts. He will need to wield gifts he's kept hidden to solve his… Continue reading Book Twenty-four of 2012: HAUNTED by Linda Winstead Jones
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