Lament by Maggie Stiefvater

This is not the first book by this author that I have read.  She also wrote The Mercy Falls Series, Shiver, Linger, & Forever. That series was a different version about werewolves. Lament is the total other end of the spectrum!  Right now there are two books in the Books of Faeries Series.  Ballad is the sequel to Lament. This book was another amazing retelling of a modern version of The Fair Folk, or The Fey.  It had a lot of Irish culture and Fey culture mixed in with the story.  Ultimately it was a love story. ( A REALLY good one!) There's was a few choice words that dealt with bad language, but nothing no one's every heard before and it was in context.  Dierdre is an amazing girl that is perfect in her role.  Maggie chose to describe her characters perfectly and I absolutely love them!  Dierdre has a huge talent for playing the harp and has a beautiful voice. Once she performs at a competition things start to pick up.  She finds out that the women in her family are tied to The Fey in that The Fey have always wanted to carry them away because of their talents.  Luke shows up and its a mystery as to who or what he is until about halfway through.  His "job" is to kill Dierdre for the Queen but you'll see how that ends up!  The ending was bad per say but I didn't like how it ended!  I'm hoping it will amend itself in Ballad.  Luke and Dierdre are perfect for each other.  Who wouldn't like to be called "my pretty girl"??? Boys need to read this and take notes!!!!  Happy Reading!

Dead Beautiful by Yvonne Woon

Once again this was another book that I have no other book to compare to! The story was totally unique and I haven't read anything like it.  It is a take on life and death and what effect love has on both.  Renee found her parents dead on her seventeenth birthday, mysteriously in the woods with coins on their eyes & scattered on the ground along with gauze in their mouths.  The police said they died of heart attacks but Renee is skeptical.  Her parents were still too young to have heart attacks, and at the same exact moment?  And why were they in the woods?  With no one left her estranged grandfather comes to claim her.  He insists she come home with him from her home in California to the east coast in Maine.  She soon finds that the private academy she attends is no ordinary academy at all.  Adding to the mysterious death of her parents, there seem to be more and more mysterious happenings surrounding Gottfried Academy that somehow tie into her parents deaths.  Add into that Renee's supposed soul mate Dante who is also mysterious and handsome and this story is very good.  I won't give away anything, but I didn't put this down until I was done.  It's very good.  You can't help but feel some sympathy for Renee and route for her.  I'm going to immediately start the second book of this series called Life Eternal.  Happy Reading, this was a great one!

Incarceron by Catherine Fisher

This is a futuristic sci-fi thriller.  I will be honest, I didn't think I would last through it and I was frequently looking at the page number on my nook to see when it would end.  It was VERY hard to get into because the author throws you into the story without any pretext of what in the sam hill is going on.  So for about the first half of the book it's very confusing.  VERY.  After midway through though things were slowly explained a little bit and it started picking up and becoming more adventurous and thrilling.  There's also a lot of plotting and "game playing" as Claudia calls it.  I'll try to give a short summary without giving away too much.  The book takes place in the future after there was a big war.  Incarceron was made to be a "paradise experiment" of sorts.  Now time and space and all that physics stuff will play into this book big time.  On the outside of Incarceron there is now a monarchy and the court has decided that the world needs to go back in time so everything is more simple.  "Protocol" says that things should be specifically to a certain era back in time where servants wore powdered wigs and breeches, women wore extravagant dresses and technology was illegal.  But of course not everyone follows protocol.  Claudia lives in a turn of the century mansion filled with servants and has her own tutor, a Sapient as they're called, but yet there's a washer and dryer in the servants' quarters.  Claudia has never really known what her Dad actually does as Warden.  But the story starts to unfold as She and Jared, her Sapient tutor, discover some clues as to what Incarceron really is.  But what Claudia doesn't know is that Incarceron is nothing like a paradise but a prison.  Where food is scarce, it is survival of the fittest and nothing is happy.  The sunlight is not real, the animals are not completely real and it is the hardest life imaginable.  Finn, who does not remember anything beyond a certain time is focused on finding out who he really is.  Every now and then he gets "visions" that he begins to think are memories.  Once Claudia and Finn realize what is really going on, the journey just begins.....
After the story got better in the end, I'd want to read the second one (Saphique), but it's not on the top of my list right now....happy reading!

Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare

This is the second installment to the Clockwork series coming after Clockwork Angel.  I forgot how much I absolutely love Cassandra Clare.  She also wrote the City of Bones Series that is still going with the 5th book, City of Lost Souls, to be released soon.  This book was unimaginably good.  Her characters in her stories draw you in and you feel like you know them.  Tessa, Will, Jem and the gang are still looking for Mortmain.  There are adventurous journeys they go on to try and find clues as to what Mortmains next move will be.  They know he hates Nephilim and for some unknown reason he wants Tessa.  You are still left asking questions at the end of this book about a lot of that plot.  But Cassandra totally threw me off with a love triangle that SHOCKED me!  You will smile and then you will question why? and then you will feel like you want to cry for these characters!  There was more romance in this book than actual fighting and battles and what not, but this book was SO good.  I know I say that about quite a few books that I've read, but you should absolutely put this series to the top of your list!  So go get to reading Clockwork Angel and PLEASE let me know what you think!  I'd love to hear it!  Happy Reading!!!!!!!!!

silence by Becca Fitzpatrick

I'm using my phone to write this, so a picture will be coming later. This was the third book in this series. The first was Hush, Hush and the second was Crescendo. This book was SO awesome I read it in one day! Seriously! I was worried at first since it's been a while that I've read the first two but I picked it up pretty quick. Things really pick up right from the start. Nora wakes up to find herself in a cemetery not knowing how she got there or remembering anything leading up to her being there.  She soon discovers that she's lost 5 months of her life. She can't remember anything! She keeps seeing flashes of black and eventually remembers who patch was but not what he means to her. She slowly starts to figure everything out discovering some lies and secrets along the way. Hanke, her biological dad ends up building an army of Nephilum and plans on taking them into battle against the fallen angels and archangels. This was a pretty emotional book as Nora is practically starting from square one where her feelings for patch are concerned, but the end is great and it is left open for another book! This series is a must read! For cryin' out loud I read it in a day! Happy reading!

Book to Movies!!!! YAY!!!

Hey guys!  In the next two years there will be SO many movies made from some of my favorite books! So I thought I'd share a few with you.

• Hunger Games comes out in March
• Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
• The Mortal Instruments (City of Bones) YAY!
• Abraham Lincoln:Vampire Hunter ( haven't read this one yet but its on my list!)
• Incarceron (also on my list to read)
• Fallen (squeal! excited about this one too!)
• Divergent
• Wicked Lovely
• The Graveyard Book
• Vampire Academy
• Shiver
• Uglies

I tell you there are tons!  I'm so excited about all these up and coming projects!!!!!!!  A good website I found that has lots of movies being made into books is www.IMDb.com

Anna Dressed In Blood by Kendare Blake

Glad I'm finished with this one.  If you know me then you know that I have to finish a book I start.  I think there' been maybe one book that I had to close and just say no.  This was one I couldn't wait to get through so I could get on with the next on my list. The cover looked so good though!  It's about a line of ghost hunters, you know the usual story.  A Mom, Dad, and son scour the globe in search of ghosts that are killing people.  The Dad is the ghost hunter and the Mom is a white witch, or a Wicca witch.  A demon ends up killing the Dad and the son is left to inherit this bizarre job of killing ghosts.  A special knife that has been passed down through the family is left to him in order to complete this task.  He gets a tip of a ghost who is called "Anna dressed in blood" because she's always seen in a white dress that isn't really white because it's literally dripping with blood anytime she's seen.  So once the ghost hunting family comes to town to get rid of Anna, things start twisting and coming together all at once.  Anna starts getting into his head because something is actually controlling Anna and having her kill countless people.  It's all about them getting rid of her and finding the demon that killed his Dad.  Honestly I can't even remember the main characters name without having to look it up.  It was a typical "ghost" story.  Very predictable, not many surprises.  I will warn you it's kinda gory and there's some language.  I found it in the young adult section at the public library though.  The story didn't pick up steam until the end of the story.  The highlight of this book was the cover and the ink color was a deep red. Woohoo right?  I wouldn't recommend it, it was a waste of my time.  Unless ghost stories are your thing you might like it.  I love fantasy and supernatural and this just did not do it for me at all.  Even more disappointing was that Cassandra Clare was quoted on the front cover! Bleh.  Can't wait to finish the next book I've already started!

The Goddess Test by Aimee Carter

LOVED this book.  Katherine Winters' mom is dieing of cancer and wants to go to her hometown.  Upon arriving weird things happen and one night she's faced with a decision whether she should save someone drowning in the river while also facing her fear that she can't swim.  That decision sets into motion events that will change her life forever.  Once she drags her "friend" to the banks she's noticed the blood everywhere and figures out her "friend" hit her head on rocks when she dove in.  All of a sudden a handsome guy named Henry steps out and tells Katherine that he'll save her friends life if she'll come and live with him at Eden Manor for 6 months out of the year. Sound familiar?  This is such a good mixture of different elements though.  There's an underlying current of romance in the beginning that starts to be more bold towards the end.  There's constant speculation and mystery throughout the entire story and towards the end it turns into suspense!  You can't help but feel for Katherine in what she's going through.  Her character is presented in a modern way that I think a lot of girls can relate to even though they might not have ever gone through what she does in the story.  I was laughing out loud during some parts and almost crying in others.  Once you get to the end you can't help but rout for Katherine and Henry.  VERY good modern twist on a gods and goddess story.  It was recommended by Cassandra Clare, author of the City of Bones Series and Clockwork Angel Series.  I think this will end up being a trilogy also.  The second book, Goddess Interrupted will be published in March of this year.  Looking forward to it!  On to the next!!!!!!!!!!!

Possession by Elana Johnson

First off, you would like this book if you've read The Hunger Games Series, Divergent, or any other Dystopian Society novel.  I will say it wasn't as good as Hunger Games BUT Possession took a totally different approach.  So yes they're in the same realm of eachother but they're totally different at the same time.  The book is set in a dystopian society to where there are different regions.  There are also what are called "Goodies" and "Baddies".  Then there's the Association full of Thinkers and they are the ones that control society or brainwash them.  The story can get pretty complex at times so you really need to pay attention.  I'm finding it hard to explain actually!  The story is mainly centered around Violet, or Vi.  She is trying to find herself so to speak.  This society that she is in is full of advanced technology and people that have "special powers".  She turns out to be one of those people because she has a sensitivity to tech which means she can control anything pretty much.  She can also will anyone or anything to do whatever she wants them to do through thinking it.  This is why the association wants her, so she can control what the people do and think, a.k.a. brainwash them!  This story turns out to be a wild ride of who are the good guys, who are the bad guys, do i trust him or him?, it's crazy!  Of course there ends up being a love triangle between Vi, Jag, and Zenn.  What good book doesn't include a love triangle right?  But it was a very good story, very different, something totally new.  I loved Vi and Jag.  Vi is a little firecracker anyways and I think she's hilarious.  I'd love to be friends with her! But her and Jag together make the best couple EVER!  They feed off of eachother and their banter in the book is great.  It had me smiling and laughing sometimes.  They always seem to make such a dire situation to seem like nothing at all.  But I really enjoyed it and I know you will to!  I REALLY hope she comes out with a second one cause it leaves you asking questions without flat out saying there will be a continuation of the story.  PLEASE MAKE ANOTHER ONE!!!!  Happy Reading everyone=)

Tempestuous by Lesley Livingston

As usual, when a good series I've gotten so into ends, I'm sad!  This was such a great ending to the series.  Lesley did a great job of hooking in the reader throughout the whole series without making the reader fill bored or wanting it to end.  Everything culminates in the end with a big battle and there are some wammies that will leave you open mouthed saying, "whhaaaaattt".  But even as these wammies are thrown at you, the story is coming together for the close and all loose ends are being tied up.  The relationship between kelley and Sonny are tested big time in this last book of the trilogy and I'm not letting on to how they end up!  But their relationship wasn't all over each other and it left you wanting more and to keep reading to find out how it ends up.  There's even more mysteriousness amiss when King Auburon and Queen Mahb become ill and no one knows what is causing their illness.  A lot is left up to Kelley and Sonny to figure out and save the otherworld of the Fey and to protect the mortal world on top of that!  I thought this series was great, it wasn't too much of anything to limit the age although there are a few choice words that I wouldn't let a fifth or immature sixth grader read.  But then again, they've probably heard it before!  I would definitely recommend this book and wish everyone Happy Reading!

Darklight by Lesley Livingston

This is the second book to Wondrous Strange and it was just as good if not better than the first.  Kelley now knows her lineage and is still trying to figure out the new parts of her life.  Sonny has been sent to the otherworld to take care of remnants of The Hunt.  Things start to get heated though when a curse or charm is placed on her necklace that inhibits Kelley from using her faerie magick and she is practically mortal again.  I liked this book because you get to know King Auburon and Queen Mahb and the other back stories. It lets you get to know them a little more and maybe know why they act the way they do.  You get to know everyone on a deeper level than in the first book.  Kelley still has a lot of trust issues where the fey are concerned but she is learning how to deal with everything.  Her relationship with Sonny gets more complicated and the ending will surprise you and make you cry!  I won't give anything away but I'm starting on the third book and I'm hoping Lesley makes it a happy ending for Kelley and Sonny but I don't know that it will with the way this one ended!  I love books about the fey, I find them interesting and very intriguing.  So this second book in the series was up there in rankings and I can't wait to get through the third book, Tempestuous, to find out how they fair!  Happy Reading!