Shadow and Bone (****)

Shadow and Bone is a compelling first person utopia about a girl named Alina who is the only one who has the power to destroy the Shadow Fold.  The Shadow Fold is a dark creation created by the Darkling, a powerful being, who when he finds Alina, seduces her with evil intentions to harness her powers to make the Shadow Fold larger and more powerful then ever.  Alina has to face many challenges, including her own feelings, and has to choose what is right, even if it is hard.  The book is beautifully written and creates wonderful imagery and blew me away.  I've never read anything like it!

Shadow And Bone
By, Leigh Bardugo

This book is 368 pages.
Like most utopias, this is not by any means a light or happy read.  Probably from grades 8 to adult.
I'll give it four out of five stars (****)

Seraphina (*** 1/2)

A very interesting and compelling book about the life of a half dragon named Seraphina.  Her life is made up of secrets and of dodging questions about her strangely conservative clothing habits.  Her uncle Orma, also her teacher is her dragon.  A problem arises, a member or the royal family is murdered  while on a hunting trip, his head torn off, and a rouge dragon is said to be sighted in the countryside, in his natural form.  Orma has an idea of  just what dragon it is.  The Prince in the royal family and Seraphina strike up an unexpected friendship that will be tested and tryed.  Orma suspects that someone, closer then they think, is hiding in the court.  Maybe impersonating somebody close to the royal family..  Can Seraphina solve a murder,  uncover an undercover dragon, and keep her friendship with the prince without revealing what she is.

This book is 251 pages.  I'll give it three and a half stars (*** 1/2).

SERAPHINA

By, Rachel Hartman

Gone (***)

Gone is a about Perido Beach, California.  It focuses on one boy, Sam, a girl, Astrid the genius, and another girl, Lana during a odd phenominon, where everyone fifteen and older disappear.  Soon after everyone disappears, the bullies take over the town.  They call it the FAYZ and they get what they want.  People begin to find that they have talents.. But not ordinary talents, very dangerous talents.  Sam finds that he can shoot fire out of his hands, Lana finds that she can heal wounds, and Astrid's power.. Well no one really knows... Some stuck-up kids from Coates, a school for very smart, but troublesome kids, show up in the FAYZ, and take over.  Their leader is Caine, a handsome and dangerous fourteen year old.  He and the bullies join, and his sidekicks cause uprisings every other day.  His most dangerous is Drake, a merciless fourteen year old with a liking for watching people in pain.  Caine figures out some information about Sam that gets him on the bad side of the FAYZ's leaders.  Astrid, Quinn, Edilo, Sam, and Little Pete, Astrid's brother,  are wanted dead by the FAYZ.  They find that Perido Beach has a barrier, and that animals are changing-rapidly-coyotes are huge and can speak, rattle snakes can fly, cats can disappear, seagulls have tallens, and there is a force called the Darkness that the coyotes take orders from.  Can the band of outcasts save the town from being mercilessly led by Caine and his followers?  Or are they doomed by a certain death from Drake or Caine himself?
This book is 576 pages long.  I'll give it a three out of four stars (***).
GONE
by, Michael Grant

Tigers Desinty (*** 1/2)

The fourth book in the series. After the tragic capture of Kelsey, made by Lokesh, the two brothers, Ren and Kishan, centuries old princes kept alive by a curse, motorcycled around the country trying to find where the evil sorcerer had hidden Kelsey. They travel to a remote Island in search of a fabled fire world where trees feed on fire and strange creatures dwell.  They face unimaginable circumstances, a Phoenix, and travel back in time to battle Lokesh, who has taken on the form of a huge demon.  They face many challenges and many opponents, lose friends, and gain friends. But above all of those their love, loyalty, and friendship will be tested, bended and will take on new shapes. But most importantly they will find their destinies.

This book is 464 pages long. I'll give it three and a half stars (***1/2).

TIGERS DESTINY
COLLEEN HOUCKS

A Discovery Of Witches (**** 1/2)

This book is about Diana, a witch who refuses to use her powers ever since her mother died.  Matthew is a powerful vampire who seems to turn up everywhere Diana is.  Falling in love with a vampire is strictly forbidden.  It raises attention in humans, even though they have no idea.  Diana doesn't want to at first give in to her feelings for him, but she slowly succumbs to them.  They unknowingly start a war.

This book is 592 pages long. I give it 4 1/2 out of 5 Stars.
A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES
By, Deborah Harkness

The Help (****)

In Jackson, Missisippi, segregation is very strong.  Unfair wages.  Extreme civil rights differences for the African Americans and Whites.  Skeeter has been different most of her life.  She had a very close friendship with Constentene, her nanny, and African American.  She didn't agree with the unfair treatment.  So with the help of 12 negro women they write a book of the best and the worst times with their employers.

This book is 531 pages long.  I'll give it a four out of five. (****)
THE HELP
by, Kathryn Stokkett

Masque of Red Death (***)

This book takes place in a futuristic society in a city where a sickness epidemic ruined everything. Araby, the main character's father developed a mask that could filter the infected air. Her friend, April goes missing, so her brother, Elliott goes to meet Araby. Elliott falls in love with Araby, but tells her never to trust him. Araby thinks she's falling for Will, a worker at Elliott's uncle's club. She doesn't know who to trust, and both men are fighting for her. I'll give this book three out of five stars. This book is 320 pages long.

MASQUE OF RED DEATH
By Bethany Griffin

The Selection (**)

Selection is about a girl named America who is picked to run for Queen. She does not want to leave her home. She’s in love with a boy named Aspen who leaves her because he doesn’t want her to have to support his family. Long dresses are worn, which I would absolutely despise because I hate skirts and dresses. She forms a friendship with the Prince, who loves her, but she does not love him. This book is two out of five stars. **/***** I didn’t like it because it was extremely boring and too girly for me. It was too poufy and princess and had and extremely predictable plot line that I have seen in many books. 327 pages long.
THE SELECTION
By Kiera Cass

Partials (***)

Partials is about a futuristic society in the US where a viris called RM has wiped out most of the human population. It takes place in Manhattin, (New York City), and focuses on the studies about a nurse studying the RM virus looking for a cure. She wants to bring in a Partial, a super-human robot the US made to win the war for them against China. She and a couple friends bring in a Partial spy from Manhattin into the hospital where the government allows her to have 5 reasearch days before the Partial in exterminated. Kira finds and unlikely friendship in a machine trained to kill humans, and finds out a few new things about herself. She decides she needs to set the Partial free, thinking he has all good intentions... Some things are sugar-coated...

This book is 472 pages long. I'll give it a three out of four stars.

PARTIALS
by, Dan Wells

The Age of Miracles (****)

The age of miracles is about Julia, a girl growing up in a suburb in California in America's near future when Earth's rotation begins to slow. She goes to school in a small public school and has one close friend, Hanna. Hanna moves to Utah with her family to live in a religious community to wait out the end of the world. Julia is left friendless and lonely. The birds begin dropping dead out of the sky, it gets to the point where teams are established to clean up dead birds from the roads and public areas. Then the magnetic field begins to weakon. Julia finds an unlikely companion in Seth Moreno, a boy in her grade, who's mother died of cancer. They help to throw salt water on the beached whales and wait for the spaceship to streak across the sky, which ended up exploding a few thousand miles from earth's surface. Then Julia's mom gets sick with an unidentified illness that the scientists call 'gravity sickness.' She finds her father is cheating on her old piano teacher, Sylvia. Life seems like too much. Then Seth gets the 'gravity sickness' after being exposed to radiation. The world's days lengthen into almost 40 hours. Plants can no longer survive without artifical sunlight. Most of the world lives on the old 24 hour schedule, but some, the rare, called 'real timers' go to sleep when the sun goes down and wake up when the sun rises. They are hated on, laws are suggested, and Sylvia happens to be one. Someone knocks down her tree, breaking her beloved piano, and tearing a hole in her roof, someone graffities her garage, another person tee-pees her front yard. Seth soon moves away to Mexico, where rumors say the radiation is less strong. Seth sends her one email. Julia never hears from him again. She can only hope and hope, but what good is that? She knows in her heart he's gone for good. This book is truly something, through the eyes of a growing-up girl in the heart of a crisis for the whole world.

This book is 288 pages long. I'll give it four out of five stars (****.)

THE AGE OF MIRACLES
by,
Karen Thompson Walker
Expected publication: June 26th 2012 by Random House

*This is an adult book!! (I know! My 1st one!!)

Grave Mercy (***1/2)

This book is a book about a seventeen-year-old assasin, trained at the hand of the Convent's sisters, who in in turn work for St. Mortain, the patron god of death.

This book is 549 pages long. I'll give it a 3.5 out of five stars.

GRAVE MERCY
by,
Robin Lafevers

Legend (****)

June is a high-ranking citizen in the Republic, a prodigy at 15. Day is the most wanted criminal in the Republic at 15. Day supposedly kills June's brother at a hospital while looking for plague cures. June makes it her mission to capture Day, when she finds him, he isn't all she thought he would be....

This book is 8 hours on discs. I'll give it four out of five stars (****.)

LEGEND
by, Marie Lu

The Scorpio Races (****)

Puck Conolly is the first girl to ride in the Scorpio Races. She is also the first rider to enter on a Island horse, Dove. All the other horses are capall uisce. Water horses. Vicious ones that come from the sea. Sean Kendrick loves the dangerous water horses. He is the fourth time race winner on his borrowed horse, Corr. They both want to win. Sean? He wants to buy his favorite water horse. Puck? She wants to keep her house and horse and make sure her brother, Gabe can stay on the Island.

This book is 404 pages long. I'll give it four out of five stars (****.)

THE SCORPIO RACES
by, Maggie Stiefvater

Hades (***)

Hades is the sequel to Halo, a book about Bethany, an angel whom is cast down form earth to tiny little venus cove to solve a problem including a troubling demon and some brain-washed people. Bethany is back again and this time she is kidnapped by Jake, the demon who she thought her brother, Gabriel had killed to make her his wife in the underworld. Can Bethany escape this time? Will her brother and sister come to save her? Read the book to find out.
This book is 424 pages long. I'll give it three out of four stars (***). *Recommended for 7th grade & up as there is mature content*

HADES
by, Alexandra Adornetto

Shimmer (***)

Shimmer is the second book in the Riley Bloom serious, the first book, Radiance is about how Riley dies in a car crash with her parents and he dog, Buttercup. She is appointed the job of Soul Catcher, to catch and lead wandering or lost souls over the bridge into Here & Now. Now she is on vacation with her dog when she meets Rebecca, a sweet girl who died in a slave revolt on her father's plantation. But Rebecca is not as sweet as she seems and she soon drags Riley, Bodhi, and Buttercup into her world of nightmares and terrible memories. In her own little world she captured all of the slave's souls and kept them trapped in their worst memories, can Riley save Rebecca and her friends or will she have to leave them there inside their worst nightmares-or worse, will she be caught up in them too? Read the book to find out.

This book is 196 pages long. I'll give this book three out of four stars (***.)

SHIMMER
by, Alyson Noel

If I Stay (***)

If I Stay is a haunting story of 17 year old Mia who finds herself caught in a coma. Her family is dead and she thinks she has nothing to live for. Then she begins to think about Adam, her devoted and loving boyfriend, and her passion, music. She then thinks about the family she is leaving behind, her grandpa and grandma, her aunts, uncles, and cousins that she would be leaving behind. She sees everything as if she is a ghost, no one can hear her, no one can see her, she cannot go through walls, and no one seems to hear anything she says. Then she begins to think about her brother, Teddy, whom has died in the car crash too, and her parents, who were punk-rockers in their younger years. She thinks about the ups and down about both sides, what will happen if I stay, and if I leave?

This book is 196 pages long. I'll give it three out of five stars (***).

IF I STAY
by, Gayle Forman

Milkweed (*)

This book is about a thief who is a gypsy and his journey from a dirt poor boy on the streets to a grandfather with a family.

This book was 208 pages long. I'll give this book one out of five stars, I did not like it very much, it was very depressing and sad.

MILKWEED
by, Jerry Spinelli

Breadcrumbs (**)

This book is about a girl whose friend is captured by the ice queen. She has to go on a quest in an odd world to find him.

This book is 313 pages long. I'll give it two out of five stars, (**) I did not like it.

BREADCRUMBS
by, Ann Ursu