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